Created: 12 May 2016
Originally titled: T O O L A S S I S T E D
Well, I watched a tool-assisted speedrun of Portal, and suddenly had the idea to present it as a straightforward Let’s Play. Simple enough.
Which is why I guess I felt the need to add another layer of irony to this cake. So I presented it as a Let’s Play from 2007. It might go over some people’s heads when they watch the video, I didn’t actually do a good job communicating it, but I think the description sells it.
Please read description bellow =)
And spoilers a little bellow.
________________________________Hello and thank you for clicking this link.
If you found this video, maybe you already know what Portal is.
For those that don’t know… where have you been?This is overall a quick video I decided to make because of Portal is made from pure awesome awesomeness.
I’ll
try not to tell you the plot, since it’s better a person experience
slowly by watching this video or just play by themselves.What I can do, however, is to explain WHAT kind of game is it:
Basically, it’s a puzzle game with portals (wait, ain’t the name of the game Portal?)
It
haves a nice learning curve. For me, since I pasted this game and know
the puzzles, it ain’t hard at all now (if I play slowly and actually
listen and re-live things slowly, the game is quick… 1 hour long).
Still, the first time, without a single clue… it took me 4 hours.But now since you read all of this (hopes, probably not fulfilled), I’ll keep you in mind with a few rules:
–
This ain’t about skill, I didn’t made this to show off my skills
because if I did, I would cut most of the plot and that ain’t fun for no
one… Valve wasted time making a great game and story, passing it like
it was nothing and complain that the game is short ain’t my style.
– Do not reveal major plot on the comment section.
– Don’t forget to rate 5 stars and well, if you have nothing nice to say… you know the rest.
– Have fun and thank you for watching this video.
Unfortunately, I’m not great at commentary. Once I ran out of stuff to say (about a minute and thirty seconds in) I tried to pad it out, but quickly gave up and decided to stick a very unnecessary and jarring montage in. I think my idea was to showcase all the crazy bullcrap that happens in a tool-assisted speedrun, without having to come up with stuff to say about it. I really should have just hard cut through a few highlights and passed it off in my commentary as an “editing glitch” or something. It’s a shame, because I think the ending is very strong even though I improv’d it about a month after everything else in the video.
I capped it all off with a classic line that I will never let people forget they thought was funny.
Interesting note: I was originally going to overlay other tool-assisted speedruns during the montage, like this one, but it was a heckin’ mess.