Portal is a Timeless Masterpiece

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  • @barbecuedwaffle3795
    @barbecuedwaffle3795 Před 2 lety +3013

    I love how it says a side effect of testing is seeing inaminate objects as alive, while Dan is murdering the radios because he thinks they are evil.

    • @Jenna-hg4uh
      @Jenna-hg4uh Před rokem +158

      and superstition, in which his superstition is every radio must die.

    • @CoolKid-qk7tl
      @CoolKid-qk7tl Před rokem +64

      Isn’t it canonical all of the electronics at Aperture are sentient? Including the radios?

    • @HungerGamesFan88
      @HungerGamesFan88 Před rokem +43

      @@CoolKid-qk7tl i feel like in this case glados is just trying to fuck with rattman

    • @askredditnow7033
      @askredditnow7033 Před měsícem +6

      @@HungerGamesFan88 when you kill the radios they scream 'she lied to me' in reverse so they are def alive

  • @ilshail153
    @ilshail153 Před 2 lety +4371

    well now we know that RT was short for "Radio Terminator" this whole time

    • @kaksspl
      @kaksspl Před 2 lety +115

      Radio Tumbler.

    • @ArturFlintchannel
      @ArturFlintchannel Před 2 lety +108

      They called him the "Radio Terminator" in school :D

    • @aidanyelsma7762
      @aidanyelsma7762 Před 2 lety +65

      It’s not Raniel Taniel?

    • @420roachdoggjr
      @420roachdoggjr Před 2 lety +51

      It's like Dumbledore's middle names.
      Rumble Tumble Rachel Tracey Arty Radio Terminator RTGame "Drift King" Game

    • @atlasllm
      @atlasllm Před 2 lety +8

      👑 you dropped this for that banger pun

  • @possiblyabear451
    @possiblyabear451 Před 2 lety +5611

    Fun Fact: The radios in each room were part of an ARG called The Potato Sack, in which the strange noises they make when the light turns green are actually images with codes that eventually led up to the announcement of Portal 2

    • @Awfulfeature
      @Awfulfeature Před 2 lety +144

      Oh interesting

    • @ckorp666
      @ckorp666 Před 2 lety +243

      ngl, kinda upsetting that they spammed the cute radio prop from the starting room all over the game for a marketing thing and then just left em there forever (same w/the change to the ending), esp since the original project lead (from the team of students that valve hired after seeing narbacular drop) left valve pretty soon after the game released, it just seems inconsiderate idk
      glad ppl have fun with em tho

    • @alexsiemers7898
      @alexsiemers7898 Před 2 lety +595

      @@ckorp666 considering most of the radios are hard to just find, let alone decipher, I don’t think it’s that bad they stayed in.

    • @bluegreenmagenta
      @bluegreenmagenta Před 2 lety +172

      @@ckorp666 I've also always felt a little conflicted about it, but I do like that finding them adds a bit of an extra layer of puzzles to the game, at least

    • @AceFuzzLord
      @AceFuzzLord Před 2 lety +47

      @@ckorp666 I never knew about the radios on PC version, so I definitely agree about them. It feels wrong to have them spammed about since I only ever played the Orange Box version on 360

  • @GeorgeCowsert
    @GeorgeCowsert Před 2 lety +2037

    Fun fact: Aperture Science was so obsessed with technology they literally crammed sentience into everything that can fit a processor.
    Every single cube, radio, button, door, camera, and even the portal gun is sentient.

    • @insaincaldo
      @insaincaldo Před rokem +191

      And Aperture has some harsh policies for getting rid of employees.

    • @Java_Protogen
      @Java_Protogen Před rokem +113

      @@insaincaldo not really, just GLaDOS. Being stuck in a facility where all you can do is create puzzles to experiment with while the outside world forgets you or the facility you're in even exist, will take a toll on your morality, especially when the literal physical object that gave you morality gets ripped from your body and incinerated.

    • @insaincaldo
      @insaincaldo Před rokem +47

      @@Java_Protogen Cave wasn't any better, also she practically is Apeture, so yeah really.

    • @NerfPlayeR135
      @NerfPlayeR135 Před rokem +81

      If you bring the Companion Cube past the broken emancipation grid in Chapter 2 Chamber 7 of Portal 2, GLaDOS will remotely destroy it and claim, "I think that one was about to say 'I love you.' They ARE sentient, of course. We just have a LOT of them." If you get close enough to one in that game, you can hear it humming an excerpt of Cara Mia.

    • @ZekromAndYugiAndDrago123
      @ZekromAndYugiAndDrago123 Před rokem +14

      @@NerfPlayeR135 that why I never understood why the tie in comic portrayed Rattmann as insane for talking to the Companion Cube. Who knows, maybe it was actually talking to him.

  • @ethanlivemere1162
    @ethanlivemere1162 Před 2 lety +5297

    Fun fact: in the cutscene where you're outside among the wreckage, there is a silent radio just off-screen. If you use noclip to go there and shoot it, it bleeds.

    • @kkachi560
      @kkachi560 Před 2 lety +297

      is there a video of this? i'd love to see it lmao

    • @thewayfayer3268
      @thewayfayer3268 Před 2 lety +664

      The radio is actually what plays the ending sfx with the party escort bot, and I believe you can kill it and the game crashes when you trigger the ending

    • @stinkylizard
      @stinkylizard Před 2 lety +255

      @@kkachi560 I'm sure there's tons of it on CZcams, but the only one I know of that shows it off is Grayfruit's portal """"""""speedrun"""""""".

    • @spencerrud3745
      @spencerrud3745 Před 2 lety +106

      @@stinkylizard yoooo got another fruitman fan in the comments

    • @davidknapp7199
      @davidknapp7199 Před 2 lety +85

      @@kkachi560 There is actually, search up "shesez boundary break portal", I'll go rewatch it now and check, but it should be in there!

  • @reagansido5823
    @reagansido5823 Před 2 lety +11216

    Credit where credit is due, I've never seen someone go on a radio killing spree before. As old as Portal is, you still managed to shake things up a bit.

    • @lutz
      @lutz Před 2 lety +368

      @@thst1guy414 he streamed an old game and was able to make it interesting to new audiences by introducing a funny bit.

    • @_Aidelweiss_
      @_Aidelweiss_ Před 2 lety +179

      @@lutz he did it on undertale, he damn right he can did something similar.

    • @nintendude7cubed
      @nintendude7cubed Před 2 lety +257

      Theres a hidden achievement you get in steam by finding every radio then finding the spot that cuts to the static... rather than killing it.. all that work!

    • @dizzymoosic
      @dizzymoosic Před 2 lety +7

      is the last sentence a portal 2 reference?

    • @zachlaiscool
      @zachlaiscool Před 2 lety +10

      @@thst1guy414 calm down

  • @hellofend4734
    @hellofend4734 Před 2 lety +1140

    at the start of the video I was thinking"NO! RT! THE RADIOS DO CANONICALLY HAVE FEELINGS" but by the end I had the same vendetta he has

    • @idioticed4379
      @idioticed4379 Před 2 lety +124

      You are not immune to propaganda

    • @nicestpancake
      @nicestpancake Před 2 lety +76

      @@idioticed4379 :sparkles: You are not immune to propaganda. :sparkles:
      A weird place for the reminder to apply but a necessary reminder all the same

  • @waluigiisgod3978
    @waluigiisgod3978 Před 2 lety +2428

    Rt just casually destroying all the pieces of a puzzle people spent years trying to solve without a second thought is just perfection

    • @toreq1127
      @toreq1127 Před 2 lety +35

      Or he's played portal before

    • @idioticed4379
      @idioticed4379 Před 2 lety +176

      @@toreq1127 I think they meant the arg radios

    • @Johncw87
      @Johncw87 Před 2 lety +99

      Years is definitely the wrong timescale. I don't recall how long it took, but hours or days seems more appropriate.

    • @Nat_the_Chicken
      @Nat_the_Chicken Před 2 lety +120

      @@Johncw87 They're not talking about getting the achievement for making them all light up green. They're talking about deciphering the codes hidden in the images you make from the beeping patterns they make when they turn green. Or so I hear, I haven't really researched it, but it was some sort of Valve ARG.

    • @Johncw87
      @Johncw87 Před 2 lety +54

      @@Nat_the_Chicken I'm also not talking about the achievement. I'm talking about the very same ARG. The time it took for people to decode the sounds to images is more appropriately measured in hours/days than in years.

  • @mightykingwario
    @mightykingwario Před 2 lety +2866

    Widely-believed theory about Portal is that almost everything is sentient including the walls, turrets and weighted cubes which is why a lot of things scream when they’re destroyed.
    Which potentially means every radio Dan destroys is probably afraid of death.

    • @kasbakgaming
      @kasbakgaming Před 2 lety +270

      Well, they are NOW

    • @endernightblade1958
      @endernightblade1958 Před 2 lety +154

      they should be

    • @tydshiin5783
      @tydshiin5783 Před 2 lety +117

      Who would not be afraid of android hell?

    • @alexsiemers7898
      @alexsiemers7898 Před 2 lety +132

      And if Desk Job is canon, it’s possible that they all gained sentience by a combination of the mantis core and moyai Cave Johnson.

    • @hannahfbr
      @hannahfbr Před 2 lety +54

      Android hell is a real place

  • @Nythdrn
    @Nythdrn Před 2 lety +5748

    I hope that the "Destroy all Radios" run becomes an actual portal speedrun, if it isn't already.

    • @appointmenteer
      @appointmenteer Před 2 lety +497

      totally it seems perfect for speedruns

    • @Goatfooted
      @Goatfooted Před 2 lety +110

      pretty sure it is

    • @thefreddyfazter781
      @thefreddyfazter781 Před 2 lety +432

      Radiocide%

    • @alexsiemers7898
      @alexsiemers7898 Před 2 lety +160

      Isn’t there also an achievement for the radios? On steam it says it’s out of 26, so idk if that has to do with destroying them or something else.

    • @zanosfire7940
      @zanosfire7940 Před 2 lety +349

      @@alexsiemers7898 you have to take the radios to certain spots in each test to get a hidden message, it was part of portal 2s release

  • @realkekz
    @realkekz Před 2 lety +386

    GLaDOS calling you out for your violent behavior at the end of the game hits so different in this playthrough

    • @emblemblade9245
      @emblemblade9245 Před rokem +14

      The only thing you’ve managed to break so far is my heart…and dozens of radios

  • @kireitonsi
    @kireitonsi Před 2 lety +556

    For everyone who is freaking out about missing the radios, they only show up after beating the game. Only the relaxation chamber radio exists on a first playthrough.

    • @nedlooker9954
      @nedlooker9954 Před rokem +44

      And the turret chamber one

    • @NotOnLand
      @NotOnLand Před rokem +35

      Thank you, I was so confused that nobody was saying he had spawned them in

  • @susalina.
    @susalina. Před 2 lety +5061

    Never have I seen someone so dedicated to killing all those radios. It's funny and hurts every time xd

    • @Frostbyte501
      @Frostbyte501 Před 2 lety +182

      The radios literally scream "SHE LIED TO ME" on death. THEY ARE SENTIENT AND HES EVAPORATING THEM WITHOUT MERCY!

    • @thehumanmachine6121
      @thehumanmachine6121 Před 2 lety +1

      Spoilers

    • @honque2490
      @honque2490 Před 2 lety +97

      Coupled with the fact that many of them seemed to attack or try to escape makes this hilarious.

    • @mr.stuffdoer8483
      @mr.stuffdoer8483 Před 2 lety +132

      @@Frostbyte501 He’s RT, knowing they’re sentient would make him want to do it more.

    • @ineedahandlemam
      @ineedahandlemam Před 2 lety +38

      Should have been an achievement

  • @temphlosion3950
    @temphlosion3950 Před 2 lety +722

    Taking "video killed the radio star" to another level.

    • @thoronbar
      @thoronbar Před 2 lety +13

      you made me laugh. take a like.

    • @LostSwiftpaw
      @LostSwiftpaw Před 2 lety +9

      I was thinking that the entire time

    • @ikebirchum6591
      @ikebirchum6591 Před 2 lety +4

      That should be an achievement

    • @eveakane6563
      @eveakane6563 Před 2 lety +10

      "Killing Me Softly" and "All By Myself"
      Now don't turn off that radio.

    • @silversonome5360
      @silversonome5360 Před 2 lety

      @@eveakane6563 Including my own, that makes three DBZ Abridged references I've found in this video... Huh.

  • @msp654
    @msp654 Před 2 lety +3422

    As someone who used to speedrun the game, watching rt take his time destroying all the radios is VERY satisfying. Thanks Dan

    • @dylanmonstrum1538
      @dylanmonstrum1538 Před 2 lety +6

      Wow look at Mr. BigBrain over here!

    • @Mandarinoooooo
      @Mandarinoooooo Před 2 lety +80

      @@dylanmonstrum1538 In comparison to yours, definitely

    • @dylanmonstrum1538
      @dylanmonstrum1538 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Mandarinoooooo Ironic, you upload 2 second videos of "drawings" in Microsoft paint LMFAO

    • @Mandarinoooooo
      @Mandarinoooooo Před 2 lety +70

      @@dylanmonstrum1538 You didn‘t even look long enough at a two second video to see the FlipaClip watermark

    • @christopherdopfel6514
      @christopherdopfel6514 Před 2 lety +25

      @@dylanmonstrum1538 Says the one who can't spell "beats" correctly

  • @AdamGlory
    @AdamGlory Před 2 lety +425

    I think android hell might just be an enclosed space where you’re surrounded by all the radios you killed, with no way to make them stop.

    • @quantumblur_3145
      @quantumblur_3145 Před 2 lety +46

      In portal 2 Glados mentions a 'chamber I built where all the robots scream at you' so you might not be far off

    • @NerfPlayeR135
      @NerfPlayeR135 Před rokem +9

      I always thought "android hell" was the giant room with the turret ambush, at least as a kid.

    • @jeffmoo9235
      @jeffmoo9235 Před rokem +1

      I’m pretty sure we actually see android hell at some point during portal 2, I think around the turret factory part

  • @BloomBlanche
    @BloomBlanche Před 2 lety +2931

    Alternate title: RT loses his mind over radios for nearly half an hour

    • @dpray96
      @dpray96 Před 2 lety +24

      Another title: RT becomes the next Rat Man.

    • @thefreddyfazter781
      @thefreddyfazter781 Před 2 lety +33

      Alternate Alternate title: RT commits radiocide.

    • @proxy1035
      @proxy1035 Před 2 lety +10

      i mean there is that whole radio transmission achievement so makes sense to mess with them

    • @relei
      @relei Před 2 lety +3

      The absolute radio spotting king

    • @texamurai
      @texamurai Před 2 lety +9

      The Telltale Heart, reproduced by an Irish man

  • @yesty3473
    @yesty3473 Před 2 lety +511

    This feels like I’m watching a man do a genocide run of portal

    • @Skorpeonismyrealname
      @Skorpeonismyrealname Před rokem +9

      New achievements: Genocider and Pacifizer.
      Genocide; destroy all turrets, cameras, and radios throughout the tests.
      Pacifist: don't knock over any turret, decode all the radios, leave the cameras be.

  • @trixenpeak2088
    @trixenpeak2088 Před 2 lety +617

    4:12 “One day a radio will destroy you” literally 4 seconds later “Today is not that day” AS THE RADIO HURTS HIM

    • @Pogchamp889
      @Pogchamp889 Před rokem +7

      At 5:18, the prophecy comes true

  • @jackychen4825
    @jackychen4825 Před 2 lety +151

    say, remember when glados said aperture technology can withstand temperatures up to 4000 degrees kelvin? It is very possible that the radio Dan threw in the incinerator is, in fact, intact. This could further be proven by the fact that in the ending of portal 2(spoiler) the companion cube that should be incinerated is still alive, albeit with some burn marks.

    • @Chloedasher
      @Chloedasher Před rokem

      It was proven
      But wait! The cores are also apature science technology! And they get burned by the intelligence incinerator

    • @silversonome5360
      @silversonome5360 Před rokem +9

      Well, guess he's gotta play Portal 2 now!

    • @Nikko_no_Tabi
      @Nikko_no_Tabi Před 5 měsíci +7

      Which means that the radio that survived is on a villain story arc, planning its revenge

  • @grfrjiglstan
    @grfrjiglstan Před 2 lety +393

    If the one radio could survive in the cake pit, that means the one he put in the cube incinerator survived. It got away.

    • @sbsftw4232
      @sbsftw4232 Před 2 lety +53

      It's kinda weird that incinerators are used in a place that has material emancipation grids.

    • @northpenguins
      @northpenguins Před 2 lety +87

      The cube survives the incinerator as seen at the end of portal 2 too, practically confirming the possibility that the radio survived too.

    • @nicestpancake
      @nicestpancake Před 2 lety +37

      @@sbsftw4232 material emancipation grids don't emancipate organic material. Now, they probably _could,_ (haven't read the lore page to check) but gameplay and story wise it would kinda suck if the first time you entered one you died. (Unless Glad0s played it as a joke with the robots in co-op or smth. Actually that should have happened. Now that I know that should have happened I'm sad it didn't.)

    • @icemasterpro
      @icemasterpro Před 2 lety +46

      @@northpenguins "All Aperture technologies remain safely operational up to 4000 degrees Kelvin"

    • @TheMasterUnity
      @TheMasterUnity Před 2 lety +32

      It’s even better. It’s trapped in a horrible fire tube for eternity, it will suffer everyday of its miserable life

  • @SirPembertonS.Crevalius
    @SirPembertonS.Crevalius Před 2 lety +2029

    The concept and execution of Portal was truly perfect. It's still to this day incredibly fun and by far the best and most unique puzzle game ever made.

    • @whoisanarnb
      @whoisanarnb Před 2 lety +67

      And the workshop support of the second game makes it infinitely better because the content you can get is practically endless.

    • @AutTheWizard
      @AutTheWizard Před 2 lety +23

      Best and most unique is definitely debatable. But it is definitely high up on my list!

    • @meee_5155
      @meee_5155 Před 2 lety +48

      Best? No. That goes to portal 2

    • @harrypootis9519
      @harrypootis9519 Před 2 lety +18

      So is the execution of the radios.

    • @_-Lx-_
      @_-Lx-_ Před 2 lety +8

      Portal is legendary, but best/most-unique puzzle game goes to BabaIsYou

  • @ninjajack6457
    @ninjajack6457 Před 2 lety +109

    I like how he snaps into his Walter White voice as he goes on about radios
    “JESSE, THE RADIO”

  • @zoroarkking18
    @zoroarkking18 Před 2 lety +65

    I'm not sure what's more impressive: that Portal's designers went out of their way to put a radio and a way to get it on every level, or that Dan was the first person I've heard of stream himself taking the "Kill All Radios" challenge.

  • @trygveplaustrum4634
    @trygveplaustrum4634 Před 2 lety +621

    17:30 *The radios should in theory be in sync.*
    *That means that at least one of them is defective.*
    *Just to make sure, we should destroy them both.*

    • @gamespender8605
      @gamespender8605 Před 2 lety +92

      funnily enough, the "green" signals are presumably when the radio is actually picking something up over the antenna. I like to imagine that the catchy tune is just an "on hold" sort of beat, as it constantly repeats and loops relatively poorly

  • @nelgoose9972
    @nelgoose9972 Před 2 lety +1671

    I've never been so offended over the destruction of multiple virtual radios.
    It's horrible to watch yet I can't stop watching lol

  • @reninparker9822
    @reninparker9822 Před 2 lety +67

    Portal 2 making it canon that all objects within Aperture like the cubes and the radios, are sentient, makes Dan a serial killer lol.

  • @jokre9188
    @jokre9188 Před 2 lety +366

    I really love how RT gives every game he plays a certain twist, be it a funny one, a wholesome one, or a....traumatizing one...
    it definitely adds just the right amount of personality so that each lets play of his has its right to exist.
    And it also keeps the psychiatrist industry alive, because OH BOI I have to see one after watching one of these videos.

  • @NintendoBlackCrisis
    @NintendoBlackCrisis Před 2 lety +5347

    Absolutely loved this game. Especially the sequel!
    Also speedruns of these games are insane to watch.
    EDIT: wait...there's a hidden radio in each level? what??

    • @Lord-of-The-Crabs
      @Lord-of-The-Crabs Před 2 lety +37

      yeah i agree

    • @eldiaz3527
      @eldiaz3527 Před 2 lety +325

      I believe the radios were part of the portal 2 release

    • @danboy12342
      @danboy12342 Před 2 lety +55

      Part of stay alive

    • @coryman125
      @coryman125 Před 2 lety +408

      If you bring the radios to a specific place, they start making really eerie noises, and people have converted those to pictures (which are also quite unsettling iirc). Very subtle but very cool Easter egg, really shows how much love and attention went into this game. Worth a Google if you're curious!

    • @ErinKatzee
      @ErinKatzee Před 2 lety +269

      yeah, as people said parts of, the radios were part of an ARG designed to market portal 2, they were added in post release and if you did a buncha shit with em you'd get hints towards portal 2 coming out

  • @ASP4wesome
    @ASP4wesome Před 2 lety +754

    Is there such a thing as a Radio% speedrun?
    That would actually be kinda cool.

    • @JimPickensCultist
      @JimPickensCultist Před 2 lety +7

      If there is I'd like to get PB of 5:19:00

    • @theonlymrcat638
      @theonlymrcat638 Před 2 lety +55

      There's a category extension called "Transmissionshy", which involves beating the game getting both the "Transmission Received" and "Camera Shy" achievements. There are 6 runs, the fastest of which is 18m 35s without loads.

    • @14o1chan
      @14o1chan Před 2 lety +2

      That's what I was thinking while watching Dan go and murder all these radios.

    • @portal6347
      @portal6347 Před 2 lety

      @@JimPickensCultist LMFAOO

    • @farlado5459
      @farlado5459 Před 2 lety +9

      @@theonlymrcat638 two days after your comment was posted, the WR dropped two minutes. It's now ~15m

  • @Signedcentaur
    @Signedcentaur Před 2 lety +78

    Tfw RT never got attached to the Companion Cube since he just got attached to the goddamn radio

  • @Burgerwing
    @Burgerwing Před 2 lety +375

    Editing for the radio dialogues was top tier. The one that got sucked into the companion cube tube got me to spill my drink

    • @godyfoolf
      @godyfoolf Před rokem +10

      20:38 btw for anyone wondering

  • @giftinggeezer3149
    @giftinggeezer3149 Před 2 lety +689

    There is a mod for Portal or Portal 2 that adds a third “time portal” that truly makes Portal a…. _timeless_ masterpiece
    Edit: Guys I know now that it’s called Portal Reloaded, please you’re scaring my family

    • @naso4265
      @naso4265 Před 2 lety +28

      Its called portal reloaded, and its incredible

    • @coolminecrafthdminecraft1627
      @coolminecrafthdminecraft1627 Před 2 lety +13

      Portal: Reloaded

    • @giftinggeezer3149
      @giftinggeezer3149 Před 2 lety +11

      Thanks you two, couldn’t remember the name. But you’re right it is fantastic

    • @jlco
      @jlco Před 2 lety +22

      Portal Reloaded is a mod for Portal 2. It's fairly well made, and roughly the same length as the first Portal game. The difficulty is appropriate for players that have already completed Portal and Portal 2.

    • @PlayerCraft
      @PlayerCraft Před 2 lety +7

      Iirc it's called portal reloaded

  • @Ari-8449
    @Ari-8449 Před 2 lety +189

    "a timeless Masterpiece"
    ...and to RT, a radioless one as well

    • @AntonsVoice
      @AntonsVoice Před 2 lety +3

      Until the radio demon comes for his soul

    • @Ari-8449
      @Ari-8449 Před rokem

      Sick line past me by 9 months

    • @Ari-8449
      @Ari-8449 Před 2 měsíci

      Thanks past me of 11 months

  • @Jorpda
    @Jorpda Před 2 lety +125

    I love how Dan is so proud of his stupid as hell ideas working, like killing every radio

  • @nicestpancake
    @nicestpancake Před 2 lety +106

    If anything, I'm glad for the fact that RT destroyed all those radios for the sole fact of how that samba edition of 'Still Alive' is legitimately ingrained in my memory. I could get amnesia and that song would still exist by some sheer magic of the universe due to the fact that it can never leave my brain.
    So thank you, Dan.

  • @strangedudee
    @strangedudee Před 2 lety +176

    He's gone so mad to the point of personifying all radios as pure evil

  • @Inkyink
    @Inkyink Před 2 lety +37

    When I first played through Portal, rather than seeing the Radio as annoying or a source of comfort, I legitimately thought it was going to be a twist villain (probably because I had heard of wheatley and thought he was in the first one). I named him Vlad and was terrified whenever he showed up

  • @CrimsonOpinion
    @CrimsonOpinion Před 2 lety +40

    RT hears a radio playing softly in the background, "so you've chosen death".

  • @leastlikelysuspect5122
    @leastlikelysuspect5122 Před 2 lety +23

    13:16
    I love that Android Hell was mentioned to RT the moment RT killed the one Radio who helped him defeat a robot

  • @mothum9851
    @mothum9851 Před 2 lety +36

    I genuinely started hallucinating during this, I would tab out half way through and all I could hear was dada dada da

  • @KitomiKotiri
    @KitomiKotiri Před 2 lety +156

    Imagine if the makers of Portal and Stanley Parable collaborated to make a game

    • @sentrygunnyan5109
      @sentrygunnyan5109 Před rokem +26

      I would kill for a Crows Crows Crows + Valve game.
      "The Portal Parable"

    • @rambbler
      @rambbler Před rokem +16

      @@sentrygunnyan5109 Half-Life: Stanley

    • @silversonome5360
      @silversonome5360 Před rokem +8

      ​@@rambbler wasn't the original Stanley Parable a Half-Life mod?

    • @whilenya4714
      @whilenya4714 Před rokem +5

      ​@@silversonome5360 It was a Half-Life _2_ mod, but yeah.

  • @Caloph
    @Caloph Před 2 lety +36

    I will never forget the genuine fear I felt playing portal for the first time as a teenager. I went in completely blind. The build-up was so well done, and I distinctly remember getting to the live-fire chamber and seeing the bloody messages left by past subjects and just thinking “whatthefuckwhatthefuckwhatthefuuuuccccckkk”

  • @Devyno
    @Devyno Před rokem +24

    Whoever said Video killed the Radio Star was sorely mistaken.

  • @BlazeMakesGames
    @BlazeMakesGames Před 2 lety +89

    I still remember when the radios were added to each level as part of the potato ARG for portal 2. Good times lol.

  • @Satherian
    @Satherian Před 2 lety +81

    Alternate Title: Committing homicide against innocent radios
    Edit: Dan brute-forcing the robots was incredible

  • @OurJynx
    @OurJynx Před 2 lety +48

    Only Dan would spend a whole stream making it his mission to see every single radio evaporated.

  • @stensoft
    @stensoft Před 2 lety +20

    Fun fact: there's was quite a few people who thought that the baking was the actual end of the game and never tried to escape

  • @cicidrawsalot5674
    @cicidrawsalot5674 Před 2 lety +85

    Only RT game could turn Portal into a completely different game then intended.

  • @michalipinski887
    @michalipinski887 Před 2 lety +330

    portal is a well designed game with an interesting storyline and plot twist of sorsts. If you really try, you can find a hidden storyline behind the test chambers and even a secret transmission from the radio.
    but i guess RT found the joy in destroing the objects emitting a funny sound. How courious.

    • @idkidk7087
      @idkidk7087 Před 2 lety +7

      The secret transmission is in portal 2, portal 1 radios were just part of an arg for portal 2’s release.

    • @BethesdaCakeDelivery
      @BethesdaCakeDelivery Před 2 lety +1

      @@idkidk7087 they're both using the same technology of transcoding images into sound that the radios in both games use

    • @idkidk7087
      @idkidk7087 Před 2 lety +5

      @@BethesdaCakeDelivery yes, but again portal 1 has it literally just as an arg for the launch of portal 2. Portal 2 has actual hidden storyline secret transmissions.

    • @michalipinski887
      @michalipinski887 Před 2 lety +4

      @@idkidk7087 still, radio in portal 1 had a secret use, either as a secret transmission or an arg but my point is that rt turned a secret mechanic into "destroy them all, nothing will be left" witch is something I can respect

    • @silversonome5360
      @silversonome5360 Před 2 lety +3

      To be fair, the entirety of the final boss is destroying objects with funny sounds. It was all practice.

  • @StevangarCronox
    @StevangarCronox Před 2 lety +31

    This video is yet another example of how RT’s editor is freaking hilarious. Every radio thought text made me smile when it popped up on screen

  • @based1195
    @based1195 Před 2 lety +24

    When me and my cousin played through the game, we nicknamed the radio “Clocky” (to be fair, it does have a clock) and we took every possible opportunity to destroy it as much as possible.

  • @trygveplaustrum4634
    @trygveplaustrum4634 Před 2 lety +146

    *RT has gone full conspiracy mode: "The government is spying on us with the radios!"*

    • @Myne1001
      @Myne1001 Před 2 lety +1

      If only the government still existed in Portal

  • @runespar
    @runespar Před 2 lety +49

    The radio changing from red to green was part of a puzzle that Valve put into the game before Portal 2 was released that when solved gave hints of content in the sequel.

  • @jasonmendelsohn6316
    @jasonmendelsohn6316 Před 2 lety +40

    Literally everything in Aperture science is sentient. This gets confirmed in portal 2 with some offhand comments by GLaDOS

  • @sam8119
    @sam8119 Před 2 lety +88

    I haven't laughed this hard in a long time, RT's dedication to killing every radio in the game has to be commended

  • @misirtere9836
    @misirtere9836 Před 2 lety +202

    Just the incredible editing of picking up the portal gun within the first 5 seconds of the video. The parts of the game before that really just do not matter.

    • @PokeshadowYT
      @PokeshadowYT Před 2 lety +6

      *squints*

    • @blah40000
      @blah40000 Před 2 lety +28

      If you think those parts of the game don't matter then you have no concept of the medium.

    • @misirtere9836
      @misirtere9836 Před 2 lety +5

      @@PokeshadowYT Hello there.

    • @misirtere9836
      @misirtere9836 Před 2 lety

      @@blah40000 It's called hyperbole, numbnuts. Obviously there's importance in ensuring the mechanics are understood before giving the player full access to them. That's why the proper portal gun isn't accessible until chamber 11. But let's be real here. The game's called Portal. It doesn't REALLY start until you can place portals.

    • @0x5DA
      @0x5DA Před 2 lety +38

      i think the first few levels are some of the most important, they provide a really excpetional and unobtrusive tutorial. tho i doubt they make for good content

  • @CrispyShroom
    @CrispyShroom Před 2 lety +71

    RT going on a scavenger hunt to destroy all radios while ignoring the plot was hilarious

  • @superexplosion5985
    @superexplosion5985 Před 2 lety +32

    This is the day Dan put fear into radios, by showing them what he's capable of

  • @Kilborns
    @Kilborns Před 2 lety +13

    This is the first time I noticed that Glados mentions being the only thing keeping the combine away when she is dying

  • @oni-linkle4880
    @oni-linkle4880 Před 2 lety +496

    This is one of the first games I ever played. I was a dumb kid back then but I loved the concept so much and was sad to learn it wasn't real. Really glad to see rt play it!

    • @edoneill6138
      @edoneill6138 Před 2 lety +1

      This game came out 5 years ago you’re like ten.

    • @Shazam1998
      @Shazam1998 Před 2 lety +115

      @@edoneill6138 Portal released 15 years ago, not 5. But nice try

    • @edoneill6138
      @edoneill6138 Před 2 lety +9

      @@Shazam1998 oh wow. My bad.

    • @harrypootis9519
      @harrypootis9519 Před 2 lety +43

      Even portal 2 was around 11 years ago isnt that weird.

    • @genthefrog18
      @genthefrog18 Před 2 lety +9

      @@harrypootis9519 wait what, how is it that old already

  • @CivillianNumber86
    @CivillianNumber86 Před 2 lety +55

    That was a good practice attempt at radio%, once you start an actual run you'll be ready in no time!

  • @mrtoast244
    @mrtoast244 Před 2 lety +22

    The Portal series is definitely a masterpiece, it's what every puzzle game should strive to be. It has interesting mechanics, an interesting level system and also combines it's sort of "cracks in the system" vibe with a deep story which builds on the already established half life universe

  • @Thewaterspirit57
    @Thewaterspirit57 Před 2 lety +19

    One thing about RTs “Timeless Masterpiece” series…. Is sometimes it would be full on ironic. But this game *IS. A TIMELESS MASTERPIECE.*
    I LOVE this game, and surprisingly because of how super light source engine 2 is, I could even play this game on a laptop from that same year, but said laptop *is* a lower end machine. (It was an old core duo, 2GHZ, decent cache, 1GBs of ram, and an old nvidia GeForce 8400M GS)
    That game was also perfect for my HD graphics PC. And it was all sorts of fun.

  • @solarisastro5741
    @solarisastro5741 Před 2 lety +319

    Such a classic masterpiece, nobody would ever be the same if this game was never created! Thanks for this incredible video rt!

    • @dylanmonstrum1538
      @dylanmonstrum1538 Před 2 lety

      I never played it, I didn't have a PC the time that they came out, so... I'm pretty much still the same.
      Oh damn, maybe if be BETTRR than what I am now if I did play it!

  • @styfen
    @styfen Před 2 lety +33

    To this day, RT still cannot sleep due to the knowledge that he missed one radio.

  • @JollySpider
    @JollySpider Před 2 lety +20

    RT personally going out of his way to destroy EVERY radio in Portal actually made my day

  • @PkPumpkin
    @PkPumpkin Před 2 lety +10

    I never realize how much Dan has been a comfort streamer and content creator to me until i realized that this is my fourth time watching the highlights and vod of him playing portal. This highlight video was uploaded like 4 days ago.
    Goes to show that Rt's content is very rewatchable

  • @Professor_Sex
    @Professor_Sex Před 2 lety +16

    Portal was one of my first introductions to valve and source at a young age. Loved every minute.

  • @mr.clasyy7903
    @mr.clasyy7903 Před 2 lety +24

    nice portal gun ya got there

  • @JimPickensCultist
    @JimPickensCultist Před 2 lety +13

    Portal radio music is so good, I found a 10 hour loop and I've been listening to it so much that I'm currently 5 hours and 18 minutes in, I hope nothing weird happens when I resume listening after I finish this video.

  • @johnsonbaroncaveler6634
    @johnsonbaroncaveler6634 Před 2 lety +6

    12:24
    "That cake looks SUS!!"
    A generation gap of ubiquitously used game memes.

  • @liberalcitydweller
    @liberalcitydweller Před 2 lety +86

    This is taking “radio is a dying industry” to another level…

  • @jazepol
    @jazepol Před 2 lety +16

    i'm pretty sure everyone knows they want an achievement for killing every radio

  • @toetruck1589
    @toetruck1589 Před 2 lety +3

    the fact that radios go from right in your face to getting more and more difficult to find and get to the gate proves that this is genuinely an intended route

  • @ShayTheValiant
    @ShayTheValiant Před 2 lety +14

    I wonder what went through Dan's mind that made him decide to destroy every radio in the game.

  • @Aidswayz
    @Aidswayz Před 2 lety +126

    I didn’t even know there was a completion "bonus" for killing all the radio. Thankfully Dan’s homicidal rage of bloodlust for radios helped me realize that.
    Although he doesn’t need to worry about radios anymore. They’ve been dead for a while now because of phones
    Edit: Didn’t know there wasn’t a completion bonus. Dan just hates radios

    • @omega2876
      @omega2876 Před 2 lety +14

      There isn't

    • @LittleCart
      @LittleCart Před 2 lety +33

      me when i spread misinformation

    • @walkingglasses6264
      @walkingglasses6264 Před 2 lety +15

      There is a bonus for radio mass murder in our hearts

    • @runed0s86
      @runed0s86 Před 2 lety +21

      There isn't any bonus for killing all the radios, but there is hidden lore when you activate them all. Did you hear some of them do morse code when the light on them turned green? The more radios you get, the more lore you get.

    • @Aidswayz
      @Aidswayz Před 2 lety +8

      @@omega2876 Oh I didn’t know that. I saw there was a completion time for howlongtobeat, I assumed this was that. So Dan is just a radio serial killer

  • @Xandanriet
    @Xandanriet Před 2 lety +3

    Can we give Dan props for solving puzzles that weren't actually there. He killed all the radios, and that wasn't necessarily intended to be possible. It definitely wasn't easy.

  • @GMilkMan
    @GMilkMan Před 2 lety +10

    If I remember correctly more radios were added as part of an ARG type game to announce Portal 2 and when brought to certain spots they play a code that can be decoded into images

  • @usonohoshi6165
    @usonohoshi6165 Před 2 lety +8

    Dan actually got us to feel sympathy to something other than the companion cube.

  • @c0rn651
    @c0rn651 Před 2 lety +13

    damn i was today years old when i found out theres that many radios, ive never heard them

    • @michaelweiske702
      @michaelweiske702 Před 2 lety

      More than likely modded gameplay.

    • @Blaze23124
      @Blaze23124 Před 2 lety +7

      @@michaelweiske702 they were added just before portal 2 released

    • @michaelweiske702
      @michaelweiske702 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Blaze23124 I only played the orange box version, so that might be true.

    • @sbsftw4232
      @sbsftw4232 Před 2 lety +2

      @@michaelweiske702 it was part of an arg that was implemented as part of the marketing for the second game. Actually pretty cool if you're into that kinda thing.

  • @darkbuilde
    @darkbuilde Před 2 lety +11

    "SEBBY, Rtgame just posted something other then stardew valley! He hasn't given up on the farm yet has he Sebby!?"
    "No Mr. White, he is just playing another game. He has not given up yet, you just got to be patient-"
    "YOU DONT UNDERSTAND SEBBY! How else will we get our blueberries!?"
    "Mr. White... Its winter..."
    "BUT THE GREENHOUSE SEBBY!"
    "Mr. White, You need to lay off the blueberries."
    "(Cartoon Running Noises)"
    "MR. WHITE! WHERE ARE YOU GOING?!"
    "IMMA STEAL THAT PORTAL GUN SEBBY!"
    "NO MR. WHITE!"

  • @anthonyroper73
    @anthonyroper73 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Fun Fact: Since aperture science tech such as the radio can operate at high temperatures as Glados stated at test 19, meaning that the radio he put in the incinerator most likely survived.

  • @TinyDeskEngineer
    @TinyDeskEngineer Před 2 lety +5

    I feel like "RadioGenocide%" is going to become a new speedrun category.

  • @Morgan-hg2fr
    @Morgan-hg2fr Před 2 lety +10

    The reveal of the 3rd radio was hilarious

  • @daandanx
    @daandanx Před 2 lety +46

    "Mom, let's rip a hole through spacetime!!"
    "No honey, let's rip two."

  • @iron_Will
    @iron_Will Před 2 lety +6

    RT never fails to impress with the way he always somehow manages to find a way to play a game in a patently incorrect manner. Portal is one of the most tightly designed gaming experiences of all time, and he still managed to come as close to breaking it as I've ever seen, at least without glitches.

  • @doeeyedsage
    @doeeyedsage Před 2 lety +4

    I can't believe there was a moment in this stream where the radio killed the video star and not the other way around 🤣

  • @TheGamingDelphox
    @TheGamingDelphox Před 2 lety +26

    The portal series has to be one of the best ever made.

  • @remitsu9715
    @remitsu9715 Před 2 lety +62

    Daniel out here playing some nostalgic games
    so glad to see this game being played again, feels like
    Forever sense i saw someone play Portal again, :D

  • @FerretsForever94
    @FerretsForever94 Před rokem +2

    12:38 "But now we're old. :)"
    *Emotional damage.*

  • @sagecarruthers3637
    @sagecarruthers3637 Před 2 lety +3

    i remember being there for this stream, i have been waiting for the highlights. During one part, about half of twitch chat started gaslighting him to make him believe he wasn't hearing the radios

  • @quinn8996
    @quinn8996 Před 2 lety +12

    I played Portal for the first time about a year ago, it's amazing how it felt both nostalgic and innovative at the same time. Truly just a great game.

  • @Shadowxx98
    @Shadowxx98 Před 2 lety +26

    alternative title:
    "Killing the radio industry so everyone has to listen to the asmRT podcast"

  • @leopardbunny
    @leopardbunny Před 2 lety +3

    My favorite challenge run I've done is what I like to refer to as the "pacifist run", where all turrets have to remain active that by any possibility can.

  • @dumpylump
    @dumpylump Před 6 měsíci +2

    I like how the end card is just Dan fumbling the radios and falling into the acid water stuff

  • @GwenShep
    @GwenShep Před 2 lety +45

    I'm glad you replayed this or I literally never would have known about the radio update XD

    • @ohyes5479
      @ohyes5479 Před 2 lety +3

      Same, I was very surprised

    • @justchill1617
      @justchill1617 Před 2 lety +2

      Was it an update? I played portal but cant remember a radio on every chamber

    • @DoctorSmashman
      @DoctorSmashman Před 2 lety +21

      @@justchill1617 It's been in the game a long time now, but they weren't there at the start. The radios were added in the lead-up to Portal 2, but I can't remember if it was announced yet. The radios are a teaser. When you hear them making those strange beeping noises, it's actually machine code that can be translated into an image. That image depicts the surface of the moon with some Aperture equipment on it.

    • @Catsrules1
      @Catsrules1 Před 2 lety +8

      I had to look it up because I was sure I would have found a few Radios but I never did. Apparently they got added in 2010 update.

    • @ckorp666
      @ckorp666 Před 2 lety +5

      @@DoctorSmashman every radio has a unique hidden message, some of them translate to images but others are just morse code. a lot of the images were low res pictures of numbers for clues. the real climactic part was a BBS server (basically an ancient forum system, its how ppl in the 90s talked about video games online), discovered through the clues, which had to be *dialed into* with an old school modem that still used phone numbers. someone happened to have one lying around, got everything set up, dialed in, and (iirc) the server had ASCII art of atlas and p-body. valve officially announced portal 2 after they shared the results

  • @matangoldstien5922
    @matangoldstien5922 Před 2 lety +16

    This stream was so amusing, People entered my room to see why I am laughing

  • @cockmaster314
    @cockmaster314 Před rokem +5

    Dan is a radio-killing genius

  • @marmo20
    @marmo20 Před rokem +2

    The fact that this is genuinely REALLY impressive gameplay. Yet the focus is 100% on the radios