New Video Brings Portal To Life

NaklsonofNakkl writes "The Portal series was an amazing blend of gameplay, storytelling and puzzles, which left players wishing there was a portal gun they could use in real life. A recent YouTube video brings a cinematic view on what it would look like."

Comments

Good thing

[Superken7]

Good thing for her that the "landscape wall" is positioned on the building she jumps to, and is not the building itself :)

Re:Good thing

[Opportunist]

Yeah. In every shooter I know she'd just have hit the skybox.

Totally Rad Show

[ChocNut]

Dan Trachtenberg from TRS was responsible for this. It just goes to show that just because you're a critic/fan of movies and games doesn't mean you can't create great stuff yourself! Kudos

One word

[Nialin]

Nerdgasm

That is seven kinds of awesome

[bobetov]

I agree with the YouTube commenter who said "Get this up on Kickstarter and make a full length movie".

I'd chip in $50 easy. Congrats to the people involved!

Re:That is seven kinds of awesome

[somersault]

and yet the plot made little sense. I can think of explanations, but unfortunately one of them is that the writer was an idiot. It would be nice to have more plot and action (though the last scene was pretty breathtaking - I would have chosen a far safer way off of the building).

Re:That is seven kinds of awesome

[somersault]

The bit where she "finds" the portal gun made no sense, if she really had no idea what was happening to her. Like I said, I can think of explanations (it was just a test, maybe they'd inserted the memories into her, or the explanation was in the numbers (very unlikely), blah blah), but that part just seemed so lazy from a plot writing perspective.

Outside Aperture

[Ironix]

There's another portal video from earlier this year that I also found to be rather enjoying. Watching this new video reminded me of the one I saw earlier in the year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NorZUFfpvC0

That was brilliant

[Haedrian]

Wasn't expecting that ending. At all.

Brilliant

[Tomahawk]

Created cinematography. Cinema quality, no doubt.

I want to see the full feature length movie of this now...

Typical comment

[jolyonr]

That's all we need here. Gamma nazis

Re:Thanks for the trailer, when is the movie due?

[C0R1D4N]

Homely? She may not have been the usual supermodel actress but she certainly wasn't homely. I thought she was a good choice for Chess. An everyday woman.

Re:elements from HL universe

[Jozza The Wick]

I liked the companion cube at the end, though. And I agree with other posters, would have been nice to see *how* she figured out where the portal gun was from the writing on the wall. Maybe that comes in the full-length release...

Re:Thanks for the trailer, when is the movie due?

[CFBMoo1]

I like her too, she actually looks believable. unlike most other glamor choices of lead actresses. She looks like she could fit the role perfectly.

Re:Thanks for the trailer, when is the movie due?

[dasunt]

Why are you so quick to discount the actress's physical fitness? Not all measures of attractiveness are skin-deep.

Re:Thanks for the trailer, when is the movie due?

[hawkinspeter]

What second and third part of the Matrix? That film was really cool, I always wondered why they didn't do a sequel.

Who did the Soundtrack?

[scorp1us]

Seems very Nine Inch Nails-y, a la Ghosts.

Re:Thanks for the trailer, when is the movie due?

[Andreas Mayer]

Take somebody like the actress who played Trinity in the Matrix. She wasn't a classic beauty or a glam girl, but she was still attractive.

I disagree. I find this actor a lot more attractive than Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity).

It seems you are making your preference of women into a standard. It's not.

Re:elements from HL universe

[hairyfeet]

What I'd like to know is Why the fuck Hollywood don't hire these guys to make game movies instead of the shitheads that made Doom and Uwe fricking Boll? Have you seen "Escape from City 17"? those guys had NO money yet made more engaging cinema than Uwe Boll has done in his entire fricking life!

Quite being morons Hollywood, hire guys like this that KNOW the material to do game movies. just cut them a check and let them loose. hell I bet that for half of what a Uwe boll flick costs they will make movies that are actually good!