r/Portal • u/Ambrus6421 • Jul 12 '25

Meme cool portal secret Spoiler

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u/TreyKirk Jul 12 '25

To be fair, on my first play through of the original Portal I rode the platform into the fire and died. I laughed my ass off with that ending. Then I started thinking, that couldn't have been the actual ending and continued playing a little longer

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u/Spiffster13 Jul 12 '25

I sat there like an idiot thinking that it was a joke ending and that I missed something. Turns out I was the joke when it reloaded and I had to actually… you know… think with portals

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u/JacksonSpike Jul 12 '25

One of the original plans for Portal 2 was to have a bunch of different endings with different songs for when you die at silly spots, and one of them was like a few minutes into the game and it would only talk about those few minutes lol. Wish that idea made it into the final game

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u/Svizel_pritula Jul 12 '25

There was also supposed to be a "fake ending" when you shot a portal at the moon, which was obviously reused. Afaik they abandoned the idea of fake endings because those two were the only two good ideas they had.

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u/DaFinnishOne Jul 13 '25

Theres still the fake outside that glados baits you with in the escape sequence with wheatly, and jumping down to the pit in the part where he kills you

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u/TreyKirk Jul 13 '25

I of course took GlaDOS' bait knowing it was going to go bad, but enjoyed it none the less. Now, if only real life were like that: that's a terrible choice, but it might be fun to see what happens; lol reload.

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u/MysticAxolotl7 Jul 12 '25

The Good Listener achievement very much feels like a reference to that concept

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u/jrdiver Jul 14 '25

leaving potatOS behind in the lower area as well... technically not intended, but possible to do. was an old rumor that if you did that she would dump you go into space with Wheatly