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Portal: defeat GLaDOS in less than a minute

We have to admit that mastering the intricacies of Portal made us feel pretty skilled. Hell, we've even managed to clear a few advanced maps. Yup, we're that good. No sooner did our egos reach this gigantic state than we found the video embedded above, like so many shiny needles waiting to burst our inflated craniums. This player found a way to defeat GLaDOS (the game's female computer antagonist) in less than a minute. We've watched the video a few times now and, frankly, we're still not quite sure what's happening. All we know is that it involves a turret and making lots of portals very quickly.

Now if you'll excuse us, we have to pick up the pieces of our shattered pride.

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tycho8121

11-08-2007 @ 11:54PM

tycho81 said...

haha.
yeah I agree with some of the people here. It's been a month since orange box came out and if you bought it and haven't played portal yet, well, you've probably seen more meaningful spoilers from reading about the companion cube.
It's only a 4 hour play through. I work and don't get much playtime, but I made a point to play portal.

The title is a dead give away. if you read that and STILL watched the video. then no sympathy.

It still doesn't spoil ANYTHING! it doesn't show you how to beat it. It's fricken hard.
It doesn't show you the ending.
It doesn't tell you ANYTHING about the plot.
seriously. Who didn't figure that's who would be the end boss. really.

You'll still be fresh to the ending. so stop complaining.

I haven't finished Bioshock yet. and if I didn't want to know the ending, I WOULDN'T watch these types of vids about it.
it's that simple.

but that's some serious skill there. and some pretty precise portals... PC. yes?

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MDJ201022

11-09-2007 @ 6:25AM

MDJ2010 said...

Yeah the titles kind of a giveaway, and if you havnt played the game yet don't watch any videos. As for this video - very impressive, but personally Im still more amazed at some of the videos Ive seen for the speed runs on the challenge chambers, some peoples brains must be working sooo fast the amount of portals they are shooting off. I'm gold on least portals and least steps but still have a couple of time ones to go and I'm losing faith that I will ever get them. Good thing it's such fun that I dont mind trying!!!

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decompiler23

11-09-2007 @ 8:32AM

decompiler said...

while #20 makes a good point, and some of you are crying *way* more than necessary, the overall feeling of the thread is right. there should've been a "[SPOILER]" at the beginning of the post title. lucky for me i beat GLaDOS a while ago.

now, x3f, if you guys spoil hl2, episodes 1 and/or 2 for me, i'll be ticked! :)

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Richard Mitchell24

11-09-2007 @ 11:27AM

Richard Mitchell said...

[Major complaint detected.]

[Apology Administered.]

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John25

11-09-2007 @ 3:48PM

John said...

SPOILER ALERT:

There is no cake.

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FiddilyDee26

11-09-2007 @ 4:52PM

FiddilyDee said...

I dont really see what the big deal is. I can do it the regular way in only a little over a minute. I could probably break the mark if I tried real hard.

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Justin27

11-09-2007 @ 11:19PM

Justin said...

And to all who are whining about the game being ruined: if you can't tell from the title that the article is going to contain spoilers then blame your incompetence, not X3F.

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Justin28

11-09-2007 @ 11:24PM

Justin said...

@20

Nice job calling yourself an idiot, idiot.

And telling me "defeat GLaDOS in less than a minute" doesn't inform me of anything relevant.

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