The endless spree of cake based jokes will not die.

Either way, Id prefer more levels rather than another game, I dont want any disapointments if they cant come up with a decent storyline.

LaughingCrow

@Ehardergardens:

"(such as only applicable to certain materials and surfaces)"

That's the way it is in Portal 1, and nobody's calling it "severely limited" in Portal 1...

Paviel

I'm hoping they can do a successful full game of portal 2 , but I'd almost rather have a cross-over series of levels and the portal gun added to episode 3(which i highly suspect from ep 2 will be the case) with puzzles through out the game.. The problem is that i can also imagine that the portal gun unless severely limited (such as only applicable to certain materials and surfaces) would tend to break a lot of play mechanics in the hl world very quickly.

Ehardergardens

let me get this straight... girls speaking about a fps game ?

Kaedex

@Spiffyness:

Thats exactly what I mean :-) Lots of games have tried time-travel hooks but I reckon Valve could pull it off really well in the world of Aperture Science.

PirateGrum

@PirateGrum: Wait, so it's a time-travelling portal.... HOLY CRAP. My mind just exploded. I, for one, welcome our new portaling, time-traveling overlords!

Spiffyness

As the Portal Gun from 1 can fold two points of space into one then surely the Portal Gun from 2 will be able to fold two different points of time (and space) into one point. THAT would be something truely special and also very confusing.

PirateGrum

@108:
I finished the game in an hour,
afterwards feeling amazingly empty over how short it was.

tehFluffz

TWO WORDS: BLACK MESA

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btw.. thanks KIM :D

joelface

Ill be looking forward to what they will include in Portal 2.

Although Id assume the experience might not be as great as the original since it was the being caught off guard that made all of us fall in love with the game so.

Still yet totally do want a 2nd expansion to the game please.

Witzbold

Heee... How?, the history arc whas closed, how can you retale this in a interesting way?

tei

jolly good..i woulndt be surprised if more developers start packaging these mini game sorta things with their big budget releases, as a bonus to those who buy their products.

bighit006

@Thassodar: Huzzah! You sir, speak what i have been thinking forever!

Ra on the Moon.

I still say I came up with the idea for portal a few years ago. "A game where there's this portals and you can got through them and come out somewhere else". Of course my idea was you can shoot through them and stuff. I didn't think computers could do it at the time.

Still, this is an interesting leak. I think they shouldn't do it. Portal 1 was fun, and didn't overstay it's welcome. A second Portal game will only ruin it. but if they want to port it to a game engine that doesn't look like crap, that's fine by me.

Codexx

@Thassodar: I have nothing to say here, you just nailed it on the head.
The hype is a lie.

kuzuboshii

@nintendude: oh wow! i had no idea you could do that!

(lol)

108

I love shooting a portal at the ceiling and one directly underneath it on the floor and jumping in and falling and falling and falling and falling.........

nintendude

Increased length and boss 'battles' are basically givens for any sequel.

More than 2 portals per person/gun would be cool to see, but might be too difficult to implement.

Co-op puzzles would blow my mind, as would some sort of combo portal/grav gun. Or perhaps that's the co-op - one person has the portal gun, the other the grav gun.

brutalus7

Poor Kim. :(

WaterMedia

@108: I mean't "wouldn't even need complicated graphics".

Yep.

108

@phnord: o.o

badlylit

@Shaneman: No, I definitely don't want 20 or 30 hours of Portal. I don't want 20 or 30 hours of anything, to be honest. I'm an adult, seriously. I enjoy shaving my face -- I like the feeling of accomplishment -- though I can just barely stand five minutes of that every other morning.

Then again, I know people who actually took twenty hours to beat Portal. I will not name them.

Took me about two hours!

That was a great two hours!

If they're going to sell the sequel for $20, I'd have no qualms about it being two to four hours again; if they're going to charge $50, make it eight hours or so.

That sounds about right.

Also, I think "more" "bosses" are in order.

Though yeah, if the whole game is a "chase" -- with gun-toting "agents" following you, and you only have the Portal gun, which you must use to deflect them off your trail / trap them -- they could work a great deal of replay value into the experience. Length of the campaign wouldn't matter as much, and if the level design was great, it, uhh, would even need complicated graphics!

There could even be a multiplayer mode, in which one player has the Portal gun and needs to checkmate all the agents, and the other players play as agents, who have pistols and need to kill the Portaler.

108

So many triumphs today.

idkmybffgreg

Now I'm hungry for sammiches. But yeah, cannot wait for this. Portal was easily one of the finest games of 2007, and thank GOD for user-created content - it only keeps the cake fresh and moist.

GwennBlackfeather

EXTREME WANT

Aveoon

Nice... looking forward to it. Everybody loves slip-ups, but since she's the lead designer, I assume she won't be grilled for this too much.

DigiMish

@godrifle:

I did! That was one HOT cube! I will never forgive myself for burning it...

almattitude_v1

She's pretty cute apparently!

And here's hoping Portal 2 will actually last a little while, or be more encouraging of user created content in some way, anything to give us some form of replayability, multiplayer might even be neat.

Coldbrand

Whoo! I hope it's harder this time.
Most anticipated game is now Portal 2: Son of Companion Cube

Erwin

This game will be the GoTY again if it is just as witty as Portal 1, I don't see how you can go wrong. :)

KEITH1437

@godrifle: Agreed.

How much will this be? A stand alone game $40, $50, $60? Or an Arcade game $15, $20?

Luis

This makes me sad. I'd rather they were making expansions or DLC than a sequel (basically professionally developed maps only).

The story is over :-\

RPGZero

This is on my shame list, I really need to play Portal, I just bought TF2 seperate, I should have bought the whole box, I was cheap :(

Nice to see they announcing a sequel, I can't wait to play the first :)

Irenicus-the one and only

@StevenRafael: All right! Here's to hoping it's way meatier than it's predecessor.

Die in a fire.

Gannoc

I just beat Portal a couple days ago. That last level is mind-bending to the point of torture. But the closing credits make it all worth while. I'm definitely interested in playing a sequel.

Wow, some visual changes here at Kotaku. Looks good!

Sloopydrew

@Dirty Mongrel: Nintendo announce WiiHD ----CAKE!!!---- Microsoft cancel Xbox line ----CAKE!!!-----

:P

Anyways looking forward to it because I quite laughed at the first one (in a good way).

Candlejack

cool. hopefully it is a stand alone game for like 20 dollars.

Koneesha

Now I understand why the first portal was so incredibly short and loaded with redundant puzzles...

they were saving for the sequel. thanks vAlve.

magic_envelope

If this journalist was any good, she would have kept the interview going and tried to get more information out of Ms. Swift. You can film retrospectives any time, but this would have been a sweet exclusive.

GOOR

Tight.

RSGun

@108:

I'm pretty sure he was just saying, like MORE of it. I mean, Portal was SMALL. It was really a little more than a taste. An experience like that that would last 20-30 hours? Now THAT would be GOTY material.

Shaneman

@Jim Reilly: yes, play it. Great game. Probably like #4 fav game compared to HL2 and Bioshock and Super Mario World.

jmote

@Thassodar: Clearly Thassodar has failed us...

Nickatiah

@Crab_Botherer: Forgot 'Portal 2: Revenge of the Cube.'

Rurik

@Thassodar: Don't you mean sliced cake?

SFLegend

The big question now is: when?

hawkerm

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jmote

@Crab_Botherer:

you forgot

Portal 2: electric boogaloo

demonknightinuyasha

@Thassodar: How about that companion cube then?...I'm fucking with you dude, but I understand what you mean, i was one of the lucky ones to get it the day off and play Portal before all the cool kids started playing it and making references at any chance they could get...still can't wait

Pancho_Villasan

I need this and cake.

Allen750

YES

OH GOD YES

Bernard McGraw

@syl1985: Ah, m'kay. I should start saying that; it's a fun word :P

Here's hoping for co-op!

Spiffyness

@Crab_Botherer: I kinda like Electric Boogalou myself. Cake Harder as well :-p

GordieHoweHatTrick

So... what's moist, tasty, and begs to be eaten? (don't worry - it's not a cake joke)

phnord

Looking forward to it. Hopefully it will come out sooner than in three years.

darthmole12

Valve is trying to take more money! But, it will be totally worth it if it maintains the quality of the first Portal.

Lstormy10

yess! awesome news! Can't wait :D

Here's hoping the sequel will be a slightly longer play length (but I wasn't all that opposed to the 2 hour completion time of Portal for the reason that I thought the concept could get annoying if stretched out into a typical 10+ hour time frame), and multiplayer!!

@Thassodar: yeah you do have a point. I hope that Valve realizes while making Portal 2 that the cake and companion cube jokes have kind of overstayed their welcomes.

either way, I can't wait for some new GLaDOS one-liners :D

Sandbox_Emperor

@tsbaron: Well, in essence, but I just said that to make a point that I don't think guns fit within the experience. Half-Life covers the FPS genre in the HL universe, Portal the puzzle genre.

Barob

@Spiffyness: Or a game like, you know, BioShock.. or Half-Life 2.. Or even a game like Okami. I'm not paying full price for Portal.. In the Orange Box it's great.. But it's a really, really short puzzle game that's cool for what it is. It's not a full game, and I'm not faulting it for that.. but try stretching Portal out to a full length game and it gets tiresome.. I don't know many people who even played through multiple times..

Voteforme2020

Outstanding. Beyond outstanding.

kingclip

Whoops!

I certainly hope she doesn't get fired for that slip-up because I'd like to see her stick around and design Portal 2.

BTW, is the announcing of Portal 2 really surprising? You don't just make the best game of the year and then not turn it into a franchise. Well, at least I wouldn't.

RandalGraves

@Spiffyness: hehehe... just wanted to be condescending :D

*listens to still alive and pisses off everyone in the office*

I am Melbourne, Australia by the by...

syl1985

*dances*

Good news all around!

2NinjasTapedTogether

YOAR REH-TAWR-DID

Cheezburgerz

Two Portal announcements in one day! WOOT. Woot, gentlemen.

awwyeadatsright

With a song like "Still Alive", I'm not surprised that there's going to be a Portal 2.

On the other hand, I was expecting the events of Portal to have more of an effect on Half-Life 2 Episode 3... And who knows? Maybe it will...

Paviel

A sequel to a successful franchise? Shocking!

*puts money into a sock so that I can buy this day one*

baberg

@Kcet:
Portal 2: Portal Harder.
Portal 2 - Judgement Day
Portal 2 : The Wrath of GlaDOS

...and so forth.

However, it might be too soon for a sequel - but, hey, if the cash cow needs milking, milk it? Right?

Crab_Botherer

@Barob: But isn't the full title of the game "Half-life 2: Portal"? It's a part of the Half-Life 2 canon, so a gun in the game wouldn't be out of place...

However, I'm certain that portal's success is owed to the fact that it only had one gun, and the one gun was fascinating enough to carry the entire game. It was, in GLaDOS's words, "a neat gun". A sequel would only need this neat gun, maybe a minor upgrade to set it apart, but one gun is all it needs.

tsbaron

@syl1985: Cheers

Garro

Portal forever!

JN64Lover

I would complain, but it's Valve we're talking about. It's going to be great!

vanderblade

@Voteforme2020: So what exactly defines an A game? A 40-hour RPG with gameplay from 10 years ago?

Spiffyness

Yay. Comments are back up. And Portal 2 is announced. The day just keeps getting better! Huzzah!

@BPM IIDX 8th style: Don't bother. It's the same exact thing. I dled it long before Portal came out. It's the same exact puzzles that Portal has. Seriously, about 1/3 of every level in Portal is a straight rip from Narbacular.

@Thassodar: The cake is a lie.
*mwuhahaha!*

Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB

This is more than a triumph.

Now bring back GLaDOS and Old Man Murray's writing.

blackadvent

@Spiffyness: Ah, nevermind. Yay Wikipedia.

Spiffyness

@syl1985: Boyo? lol, you're the first person I've ever heard say that other than Fontaine. Where are you from? (in other words, where do people say "boyo?" Just curious)

Oh yeah, and yay Portal 2.

Spiffyness

She's so fired. J/K :)

Tylahedras

Is this going to be a full game? Not just a couple of hours.. if so=fail. It's not Half-Life 2, it's just a fun B game at best.. sorry.

Voteforme2020

Awesome, I hope for a stand-alone, longer game this time.

DesmondHume

That's kind of funny. I mean, Portal 2, duh... But this article is fun in that she seemed oblivious to whether he actually announced it but just decided to go for it.

BobbyMcPresscott

Is anyone honestly surprised by this? Still kicks ass, though.

ShaggE

@Garro: I was mucking around boyo... :P

syl1985

She either just lost her job....

or she's my new fucking nerd fantasy.

Lain

@demonknightinuyasha: Finish the game, play the advanced stages and come back.

syl1985

I am apprehensive. Portal is a perfect game, and honestly doesn't need a true sequel. Added missions? Sure. Added plot? No, it's great as it is.

But I'm sure they'll pull it off.

onidavin

@syl1985: I think rampant fanboyism for a one-trick-pony of a video game is worse than not slavering over it.

Garro

Woot! Good news!

B33

I basically did this face ":O" when i saw that cause I hadn't heard anything reported up to that point, but at the same time it was kinda obvious it would be coming.

That's cool but I really don't see how portal won game of the year at GDC. It did some neat things and all but it was way too easy (though for the record I'm only on like level 13 so potentially it will go from ridiculously easy to ridiculously hard in the blink of an eye but so far the most difficult part was when I thought there was an option to throw stuff held by the portal gun and me trying to figure out what the key was.

I'm not saying it's terrible or anything, I've absolutely enjoyed playing it so far and am definately looking forward to finishing it, but even my friend who's a much more casual gamer than I am, beat it in an hour and a half. So I'm looking forward to Portal 2 and I'm hoping its more challenging as well as longer.

demonknightinuyasha

@108: I think I might actually prefer that model, though the difficulty in that would be making it work technically- Portal 1's physics and graphics processing when looking through a portal did a number on lower-end systems (it would literally crash my computer until I upgraded my video card)and having larger levels might only add to that problem.

Heh, I'm a designer-in-training, personally.

TalKeaton: Game Design Major

@BPM IIDX 8th style: A sammich...

syl1985

now, will this be coming as a DLC add on to Orange Box? Is it coming as an XBLA / PSN / Steam title? Or are we talking full blown retail release with a picture of cake on the cover? Tell me more... please! inquiring minds want to know!

withaneight

@Thassodar:
No, the best thing since sliced bread was TWO slices of bread to make a sandwich.

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I still need to check out Narbacular Drop, though...

BPM IIDX 8th style

@108: Agreed. But I feel they left themselves with an amazing opprotunity for Portal 2. I mean the ending to the first means they can do absolutely anything.

Running from whats left of Apeture's team in the real world with a portal gun...pretty intense.

StopTheOncoming

I still have to play this.

Jim Reilly

@godrifle: No guns please. Then it would be Half-Life 2: Portal. It needs to remain a puzzle game, just a tad longer.

Not like we all didn't see a sequel in Portal's future, with its huge commercial and cult success. Some people are even creepily attached to it.

*stares at picture*

Barob

@Thassodar: Reported. Saying anything bad about Portal at Kotaku is a bannable offence.

syl1985

@StevenRafael: here's hoping it's just as meaty as its predecessor you mean.

seriously, the last thing we need is "more content" from a brilliant videogame. games like portal are meant to be played, put away, and then recommended / loaned to everyone you know. the videogame equivalent of a paperback novel.

as a videogame designer myself, i have to say that the only way to truly expand on portal would be to set it in a "restrictive sandbox" "city". maybe with government officials chasing after you.

in other words -- scale the puzzles up to katamari-size. that'd be ballsy.

consider that an official prediction!

108

YAY!

syl1985

@Thassodar: I'm still excited, but you have a point.

Nex Antonius

Hopefully the storyline and whatnot is just as funny as portal one. That was really what made the game.

hampig

And not to mention the portal gun in episode 3...keeping fingers crossed.

set89

I don't think she was supposed to announce Portal 2 before Doug did, but that hardly matters. Portal 2 is on its way!

SolInvictus

Hooray!

For slip-ups.

HotFootMcCook

Portal 2: electric GLaDOS Boogaloo!

Kcet

btw I didn't fall in love with that cube.

godrifle

Maybe they'll give us guns this time. I'm betting probably not since the game is so easily playable to people that don't play FPS's regularly.

godrifle

I'd be excited if I weren't BOMBARDED with CAKE jokes all FUCKING day! That ALONE ruined how much I liked this game. Go ahead and add on all the FUCKING companion cube shit and I really don't give a crap about Portal anymore.

Good game, yes. Best thing since sliced bread: NO!

Thassodar

Cake jokes aside, humanity has benefited this day.

Dirty Mongrel

All right! Here's to hoping it's way meatier than it's predecessor.

StevenRafael

WANT

johnnylineup

"And not to mention the portal gun in episode 3...keeping fingers crossed."

Mos def

demonsystem (xbl)

Can anyone confirm what she says in this interview other than from this video?
Cause if you listen, right after she says "had" and right before "announced Portal 2," the audio stops for a split second then resumes, indicating that it's POSSIBLE that the audio was edited. She could have been saying "Portal, too." And since her face was not visible during this part, there's no way to be sure. Also, the music in the background resumes abruptly as well.

I want Portal 2 to come out, and I'm sure it will, but I wouldn't really rely on this video to confirm it.

lvletallica88