@lordofsword: On PC, yeah, but what about XBox? With the heavy DLC focus of XBL there's a lot of room there for some user-created content in games just like this. Farcry supplied a rudimentary level editor, which would've been more than sufficient for most of what you see in Portal... and the ability to hop into a user-created level/puzzle would've been HAWT.

HeadspaceCools

Since this isn't an official add-on, is anyone else worried about the voice acting?

I mean, 400 lines of dialogue is cool and all, but I shudder to think of some amateur VA attempting to mimic the original GlaDOS.

I can respect the amount of work put in here, but the use of Linkin Park in the trailer makes me wonder if this is going to be a huge, steaming pile of terrible voice acting and LOL COMPANION CUBE CAKE IS A LIE XD.

j00s

@kicking222: @SAKY:

Ok, I really like portal and probably put too many hours into it so my opinion on difficulty is more biased than a ninja gaiden master... but

I mean I know that those tricks look fancy, but once you understand the idea, they dont really take much skill or dexterity. Not only that, theres always save-state, which makes all things manageable. In my opinion, figuring out what to do is much harder than actually doing it. Which I think is the key to the funnitude of it all. Also you had to chain 4 or 5 portals together in the original a few times.

WhaleMenace

Here's hoping that they have the blessings of Valve. All it takes one letter from a lawyer to ruin all their work.

Jezner

I LOVE the soundtrack

IntelSilver

I hope this shows the part that has GLaDOS becoming sentient and gassing everybody.

Kenny

I officially declare this to be rad. That is all.

AlreadyDead

This is kinda what I expected from Valve with Portal 2 :/ (the whole prequel thing). Kinda disappointed that it's just a 3rd-party mod.

Seinosuke

Looks SWEET!!! I just hope it has a good portion of GlaDOS in it. Judging by the shot of the guys in a monitor room, I'd guess this is like the move Cube 3, where you find out about the people behind the project.

Poison

Bring it on. I'd love to see the facility in full operational swing...and of course hopefully GLaDOS's breakdown from research machine to psychopathic queen of the empty hallways...

Mattz

@Platypus Man: It's an actual mod, that you get for free, just like map packs.

Agnates

I agree that as awesome as some of the moves you can do in Portal are, it's a little unnecessary to make a super complex prequel. Virgin Portal required just as much thinking outside of the box and lateral thinking as it did twitch shooting. Of course, PC FPSers who tore the game to fucking shreds with insane speed runs and exploiting the game's rules and level designs might be the intended audience.

I would assume that (this being a prelude and all) that this takes place during or before she flooded the Aperture Science labs with deadly neurotoxin. Would that make it less or more dangerous?

Solaricide

@Melee Is Best: Oh well, achievement additions are not worth paying for to me, and there are many ways to keep connected with friends on PCs :)

Agnates

So, wait, is it a map pack like The Flash Version (which I loved) or an actual mod I have to buy? I mean, I didn't exactly buy my copy of Portal...

Platypus Man

I hope Valve one day bundles together all the best user-made mods and levels and releases them for console.

jeangrae

@Agnates: Nice, but I don't feel comfertable playing games on a PC or my Mac. I like having a game downloaded on my 360 so I can get achievements and stay connected to all my gaming friends.

Melee Is Best

While this, obviously, looks awesome, my one and only concern from watching that trailer (aside from not being able to play it, since I own The Orange Box for 360) is that some of the tricks pulled off look extremely complex. Now, if that's just to show off in the trailer, fine, but if some of the chambers actually require you to chain four or five portals together on the move, it might simply be too difficult for all but the most skilled of players. Now, if such skill is not required (or maybe required, y'know, once or twice at most), but can be used to traverse a level more easily, then that's A-OK. Either way, I certainly wish I could get my hands on this.

kicking222

The guy who is playing for the latter half of the trailer is amazing. Given there are a lot of quick cuts, but still. Way faster than I've ever done anything in portal

zdevex

I was excited for this this morning when it appeared on Gametrailers podcast feed on iTunes...said it was for PS3! No such luck i guess!

Stu1981

@Malthius: What? Mock you?

I thought everybody loved Portal? (Except those "it's cool to hate popular stuff" guys)

hamandcheeseUK

If Linkin Park isn't your thing, try watching the trailer without sound. I'd be interested in a prequel.
Just a general idea, multiplayer Portal. It wouldn't be deathmatch, it would have multiplayer races to the end. And co-op levels could be even crazier. As for the fan-made mod, good luck, hope it's well recieved. I'm not a PC gamer, so I likely won't play it.

AllegraStreit

@WhaleMenace: one or two of the "advanced" versions were hard enough for me. Of course that's me.....I struggled with Zak and Wiki.

SAKY

Ahhhhhhhhh, I wants it!

Talryyn

So, um, why would you need a copy of Counter Strike Source to run this? Using a lot of CS resources is it?

What I would like to see in a good Portal prequel:

* Test chambers that are recognizable as chambers from the original game, but in a different configuration

* You get to be the one that breaks some of the equipment/leaves some of the graffiti that you find in the original game

* Get to watch GLaDOS first go insane, or at watch the techs deal with what we know will snowball into such?

Just some thoughts.

ReverendLoki

@Monsoon77: It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.

I love Portal. All my Steam friends mock me when they see me on it, but I have a soft spot for physics games. First the Flash game map pack, and now this?!?! And new dialog? Even the Flash pack used recycled lines. I can't wait.

Malthius

The items from the other mods was left out because they're not allowed to extract content from the gcf files and republish them with their own mod. I'm pretty sure they can only reference the original materials from their original location(s).

Sentientv2

Two things excite me about this trailer:
1. Anything Portal related is worth taking a look at.
2. The use of Linkin Park in the trailer.

trunks651

@HeadspaceCools: AMEN!!!!

ALT

I felt a bulge in my crotch. I smiled. I watched the trailer and I cried with tears of joy.

Tho not an official release, this is ecstasy. :)

~19

Black_Ops_19

@Melee Is Best: Why not play it on PC right now? It's alredy available, for free.
[wecreatestuff.com]

Agnates

Considering Portal is one of my all time favorite games of this generation, I'd love to see a sequel. Perhaps after Valve ships out Left 4 Dead...

B33

@SAKY:

I don't necessarily want stupid hard, but hopefully much harder than the original portal which, now that we understand the concept and mechanics looks like childs play compared to some of the user created stuff out there.

WhaleMenace

I'm going to have to purchase the orange box now, even though I already played it on console. Oh well i will probably enjoy so much that the cost wont matter. Can't wait for this.

lurkingsalt

:( no PC to run this. Here's hoping, for the sake of many of you, that the mod team doesn't make this stupid hard because it would be easy to do in a game like this.

SAKY

Looks awesum, can't wait till release.

MoOsEBoT88

Looks both delicious and moist, I'll finally have a reason to use BOOTCAMP for the first time since the original release of Portal.

WhaleMenace

Waiting for Portal: Still Alive (XBLA)...

Melee Is Best

This is great. Thank God I purchased the PC version and only rented the 360 version.

SilentAssassn87

But it's not canon is it?

Tehman

@VixDiesel:

Because it's a mod, not an official release from Valve.

bkchurch

Awesome. Anything to make me play more Portal.

Ryumeka

That's a mod!??

Some one has a lot of free time..

CockroachMan

@Monsoon77:
Even bigger LOL

@kickass solo:
By the use of the Linkin Park song, most likely fan-made.

Benjammn

Badass. The Portal: Flash Edition (in real Portal) was freaking amazing. From the looks of this, this should be as well. I think Portal is still installed...*looks through Steam*

@VixDiesel:
lol

Benjammn

Im making a note, here huge success.

Monsoon77

is this official or just fan-made?

kickass solo

@HeadspaceCools: they did release the tools to make levels, as they have with all their games. It's the same level editor as all other Source games, which is difficult to use if you've never created levels before, but there's no way to simplify it.

lordofsword

@MOP88: If anyone is bashing valve it's because they haven't played Portal, or because they're narrowminded fucktards who were predisposed to hating it based on the initial release-platforms (or whatever other reason they could come up with), and either way I am happy to note that their opinion is one I can disregard completely.

HeadspaceCools

I love that song
it's Session(may not be spelt right)by Linkin Park and was made for The Matrix Reloaded. Anyway it looks amazing, if only my laptop could run the source engine

VenomIreland

aww man, why pc only. oh well.

VixDiesel

I expect top-dollars professionalism. For free. And to the VALVe bashers: shut the fuck up. We heard it all before.

MOP88

This is a triumph

Squamden

It's portal... only bigger, better and more baddass (copywrite 2008, Dude Huge)? SIGN ME UP!

I still think they would've had a LOT of traction, considering how short Portal was, if they'd released the tools to create new portal levels and had contests and DLC packages based around user-created puzzles.

HeadspaceCools

@j00s: I'm not really sure I'll play it. I want the next "Portal game" I play to be actually from Valve, whether or not it's a "Sequel". I understand it's technically a mod, but it's not advertising itself as such. It's actually trying to market as "a copy of Portal, for those who thought it was too short."

I'm not saying it won't be fun - I am saying it won't be Portal. This is also why I don't read fanfiction.... which is essentially what this is. One big, giant, playble fanfic.

Count me out.

antialias02

"Still pining for it is friendly, rounded corners?"

/pet peeve

Derd

More portal goodness but stop with the awful Likin Park Drum and Bass.

aphexmalus

@HueyFreeman: j00s = Juice.

Yes. Juice. I've been using this name for years and only recently was introduced to the other pronunciation.

j00s

Can't wait to get my hands on this... plus I have a four day weekend to waste >;3

Kaizuden

@j00s:
how do you pronounce your name??

On-topic: i never played Portal before, looks boring, and i hate puzzle games.

HueyFreeman

PC gamers win again :D

malio

sweet now I have a reason to install portal again been waiting for some good user content.

Retorrent

Wow.

Just .. wow.

AndrewDB

@kicking222:

that way my concern too. i mean, portal wasn't a super hard game, but i don't normally play fps style games, so just navigating was a learning experience in and of itself for me.

joeloliol

@CockroachMan:

why do people say stupid things like that. oh hey desert combat mod for bf1942 was awesome. "they sure had a lot of free time on their hands" but guess what they went on to make bf2 and frontlines!

people make mods because they love the game, and they have a chance to get noticed. i bet you buy alot of xbox live games, same frakkin' thing!

cihx

damn now I wish I had a better pc so I could play this

DespisedMC

@j00s:
really? NEVER would i have thought it would be Juice..

HueyFreeman

hat@hatedinamerica: its is a possessive pronoun that means of it or belonging to it.

notjasonlee

@hatedinamerica: However, "it" is a special case.

"Its" is the possessive form. "It's" is always "it is".

j00s

@Derd:

actually apostrophes are also used to signify ownership and not just for creating contractions.

"Danny's car is cool."
"Danny's a douche bag."

both are grammatically corret.

hatedinamerica

Awesome. I've barely touched Portal in a long while. I can't wait to download this when it's released.

Quilt

@j00s:
there is no glados. this is a prelude, b4 glados kills everyone. so you'll get humans narrating the tests.

imo, one of the major selling points of Portal was the narration. since this has more, it's awesome.

if you could play the original portal on pc, you can play this.

console users, suck it.

k.ong

@Melee Is Best: same here

_Ted_

Damnit, that's such a good track. I wish LP put out more things like this.

serotoninzero

@Melee Is Best: we all are, man.

TheIrishNinja

REALLY looking forward to this. I mean Portal's been out for how long now and there's only been like three good user made maps.

Korey

This looks really really really awesome.

Anyways, if this turns out good, Valve should hire these guys.

LastFace

It has CSS files in it. Ughh, I hate when they do that i have CSS but i dont play it so why the hell would i want it installed just sitting on my HD taking up bytes that could be used for other games or movies or something. But kudos for using my favorite Linkin Park track- Session.

Thanatos

I just hope they maintained a similar challenge curve to the original. Some of the fan-made stuff was incredibly frustrating with obtuse solutions intended for those speed runner type twitch-tards, a pretty niche fanbase at the best of times.

Calhoun

@j00s: If it's going to posessive, it's just I-T-S, but if it's a contraction then it's I-T-Apostraphe-S... Scallawag.

bobtheduck

@Akin: Hope so!

Dont wanna buy CS Source.

Altima NEO

For those who thought you would need CS:S, here's something from their FAQ:
"What do i need to be able to play Portal: Prelude?

In order to play Portal: Prelude you need to have Steam installed on your system, of course. You also need to be the owner of Portal and probably either Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike Source, Day of Defeat Source or the Source SDK Base (which can be downloaded for free in the tools tab of Steam). In fact, I'm not really sure you need anything else than Portal, so I advise you to try and see, because there's no way I'm going to uninstall every Source game of my computer until it doesn't work anymore. Steam will notify you if something goes wrong..."

So it looks like you shouldn't...

Akin

@VixDiesel:
Clearly, you know nothing of Valve. For them, the PC is everything.

@Chewbenator:
HL mods were most of the reason to buy Half-Life! Did you ever play Natural Selection??

Akin

@Platypus Man: You're going to hell for that.

skullpanda

@ReverendLoki: Looks like those scientists are from CSS. I don't have it, though, so I'm not sure.

But I am getting this mod. Looks amazing.

Mink_Car

Thing I don't like about most user made mods of Valve games is that the team at Valve is so good that you really can't make anything that is as good as the original. The custom portal levels, and subsequently the levels in this mod seem too cluttered and too hard to appeal to the amount of people that Portal did.

Chewbenator

I still have to get the Flash Portal levels... but nice to see great mods being released while we wait for the official sequel to Portal...

Had lots of fun playing the original one.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

@VenomIreland:

Actually I'm pretty sure it was just used for The Matrix. It originates off their Meteora album.

Sai-kun

Knowing all the modders who made this, I know it'll be nothing short of superb and I can't wait for it :)

Furyo

i want this on my 360! =(

btw, what is this song? i know i've heard it somewhere...

kokiri-kid

Oh ho...
somebody used Vegas Video for those effects...

Seems interesting though.

DavidFU

here's hoping Portal Prelude will be more awesome than my Honda Prelude.

it most likely will.
because my honda prelude sucks.

Capt Castellanos

@skullpanda: Seeing as how I don't believe in Hell, I think I'm alright.

Platypus Man

@bobtheduck: That's...what I said...

j00s

@hatedinamerica: Actually in this case Derd is correct. It should be "still pining for its rounded corners?"

H0PLITE

It's hard to overstate my satisfaction

lollercoaster

@WhaleMenace: Agreed! My bootcamp served its purpose as platform for TF2 and Portal, nothing more.

wiriamou

For me, Portal was one of the most profound gaming experiences. The story is so incredibly deep if you stop to analyze it. ([www.game-ism.com])

I can't wait for this!

Mobus

They've done what they must because they could, for the good of all of us - except the ones who are braindead. ;)

Ceiling_Cat