Valve updates Portal end sequence

By Tom Bramwell Published 4 March, 2010

We're already in the party position.

Not content with teasing us last night with something potentially Apple-related, Valve has also added more tease to Portal.

The latest PC patch for the developer's excellent first-person puzzle game claims it has "Added valuable asset retrieval" - another cryptic description following on from last week's transmission business, which left players scrambling around the game with a radio listening for information.

Following some lightning internet detective work (collated by Rock, Paper, Shotgun - thanks chaps!), fans have uncovered a new end sequence, already on YouTube. It's worth having a watch and listen. What does it all mean? The obvious conclusion is that it's the long-awaited Portal 2, but Valve is likely to keep on teasing until we can't bear it any longer.

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Comments (21) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • davisorle #1 2 years ago

    Portal 2 is something I'm going to get for sure since it was and will be just a gaming experience that up till now you don't get from anything else. And the first portal was so damn good that I dont know if thats why it felt such a short game :/

  • Eraysor #2 2 years ago

    Has any other game ever done this? I know things like Broken Steel extended Fallout 3, but I've never seen it done like this. I could be forgetting some other obvious game though.

  • seasidebaz #3 2 years ago

    The first Portal was 90 minutes long, that's why it felt like a short game...

  • RobotRocker #4 2 years ago

    They are going to tease till E3 and it will be excruciating/awesome

  • TeaFiend #5 2 years ago

    I was hoping for more cake.

  • BigE0n #6 2 years ago

    So no chance of some Xbox updates too?

  • ryn.x #7 2 years ago

    Viral style marketing at it's very best.

  • clearblue #8 2 years ago

    More games, less tease please!

  • FogHeart #9 2 years ago

    Nice to see, but it takes some of the sting out of the ending song (surely one of the best endings ever done). It sounded like an ex trying to lay a guilt trip on the person who just left her. Crazy, heartbroken, crazy-because-heartbroken, heartbroken-because-crazy. But if it turns out that if a smashed up GlaDOS wasn't going to spend a long time 'staying inside' having snuffed out the candle on a cake for a cancelled party, that the game is just going to continue exactly from the point we left it, it's a bit of a shame.

  • Ryboy #10 2 years ago

    Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!

  • jonfon #11 2 years ago

    Valve : "Dance my puppets, dance"

    *Starts dancing*

  • ChthonicEcho #12 2 years ago

    @FogHeart

    The cake at the end was just a joke and a symbol of an end. It was hardly significant. There is no party, and the 'party escort submission position' is simply lying face-down on the ground in preparation of being dragged back to your cell or worse.

    It's not unreasonable to assume that Chell sustained injuries and couldn't stand. Either GLaDOS sent the android, or the android was nearby and mistook her prone position for... well, the 'party escort submission position'.

  • TeaFiend #13 2 years ago

    German robot is awesome. I wonder if it is all shiny like a turret?

  • Ryboy #14 2 years ago

    *Also starts dancing...*

  • raion #15 2 years ago

    This is the most awesome way to promote a sequel (speculation) that I've ever seen.
    PR? Bah! Viral marketing? Puah!
    Use of DLC/updates in a new, imaginative way? MOAR PUHLEAZE!

    Edit: also, coupled with the teaser trailer and the game itself, this goes to show how the people behind Portal have style and imagination beyond all others. Kudos to Valve for scouting them out.
    Edited by 1 at 04/03/10 @ 12:39

  • Bulbatron #16 2 years ago

    Will the Xbox 360 version not be updated in a similar way? If it is Portal 2, then maybe that means it isn't coming out on the Xbox 360. I hope that isn't the case.

  • ChthonicEcho #17 2 years ago

    @Bulbatron

    It's much easier to do this on the PC. Valve owns Steam, and they can patch the games they developed at any time, and with whatever it is they wish. I imagine it's harder to accomplish on the 360, considering Microsoft's draconian regulations.

  • Rubarack #18 2 years ago

    That is absolute brilliance. It seems incredible no-one else has thought of something like this.

  • darleysam #19 2 years ago

    Squeeeeeee!

  • geeza2020 #20 2 years ago

    please let this be true, and please let portal 2 come out on the 360..... please?

  • monkfishjoe #21 2 years ago

    Portal was very good (and Portal 2 will hopefully be both Ace and on the 360), but where's Half Life Episode 3? Gordon Freeman must be getting bored waiting