Portal Developers React to Multiple Speedruns (Valve Software)

Portal was released 14 years ago, and to this day, speedrunners are still finding new ways to get through the game as fast as possible. Ride along with original members of the Portal development team from Valve Software as they watch their game get completely broken by speedrunner CantEven.

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Participating in the commentary from Valve are: Erik Wolpaw (writer), Jeep Barnett (programmer), and Garret Rickey (programmer).

Check out more from speedrunner CantEven here:

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[laroid]

writer: "he's skipping a lot of dialogue tho"
to be fair, he's skipping a lot of programming too

[themcnaughty]

When he save/loads, you'll notice he's always next to a portal. This is because the game gets confused thinking he's through the portal, whilst the camera stays in the same place, allowing them to clip through the walls. Basically, his body and camera are in two different places at the same time

[s.p..smdness]

Don't worry Eric, I'm sure he listened your beautiful dialogues a few dozen times before doing this speedrun.

[harrifongostudios]

It’s hilarious having Eric act like a wounded puppy every time he skips the great dialogue. Hilarious.

[EpicGamer]

It's 2021 and IGN is making portal content.

What a time to be alive

[ksalieri]

Feel like they needed a speed runner or someone with them to explain what was going on.

[figgusx]

Imagine finding out half of your game can be skipped because you defined what walls cant be portaled onto instead of what walls can

[annson]

*Out of bounds starting in:*

Me: Oh man, these devs are in for a ride.

[Viking]

These would be more gripping if they had a speed runner on commentary to answer questions about how things are done

[jadenpeterson]

It's crazy how they have no idea the portal gun and the camera can be separated. It's impossible to guess that's happening.

[gorgeousfreeman]

Eric trying to praise the dialog is just perfect

[infrabread]

"He looks pretty calm". Yeah, that's just how Red Man be.

[BaldMancTwat]

To be fair, when you're in the elevator you can totally tell thats it's actually moving, so it's still a nice touch.

[RexusprimeIX]

My favourite part was "Ah, so this is gonna be interesting, cus there are a lot of elevators that you just has to walk on, so to speed this up it's gonna be... oh, or you just skip the whole section that's fine too"

[rmeng]

Every writer during the Speedruns: Look how they massacred my boy

[magma]

we need a “Half-Life: Alyx Devs Reacting to VR Speedruns”

[MrBruh]

It would be really cool if we could see devs react to portal 3 speedruns

[Telruin]

Speedrunning. Playing the game for a long time, in order to be able to play it as little as possible.

[gloveman]

It's cool seeing Valve react to cool speedruns. Would love to see them react to Half-Life 21. Surprised they got Jeep after he left Valve.

[slowen]

Glados : *makes a serie of puzzles for testing*
Chell : *zoomin in the walls*