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By: Killed in a Smiling Accident. » Blog Archive » All along this countryside, he opened a many a door

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:27:39 +0000

[...] Portal in 15 minute chunks every few days, so I s’pose I should’ve finished after 1.2 sessions, but I just completed it last night, and am therefore now singing that song, which really is [...]

By: yo

yo — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:24:51 +0000

this guy is polish. He just had to bo polish , man! Respect.

By: Finishing Portal in twenty minutes « Anxious Mo-Fo

Finishing Portal in twenty minutes « Anxious Mo-Fo — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:03:55 +0000

[...] Stolen from Rock, Paper, Shotgun. [...]

By: cubie

cubie — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:39:52 +0000

@Wow:

It’s probably to prove that he does the whole game in one go.
If he was standing still, people could say that he did each level on its own, then edited together the parts…

By: Wow

Wow — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:10:54 +0000

Very nice, why does the guy have to spas out and have a fit when waiting for each level though, it gets annoying.

By: Crispy

Crispy — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:15:13 +0000

@Mr Pink

Yeah I misread “P.T.:” as “P.S.”.

By: Mr Pink

Mr Pink — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:00:54 +0000

Crispy, I think it’s possible that Andrew’s comment may have contained some sarcasm.

By: Crispy

Crispy — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:05:41 +0000

Doubtful. Speedruns have been part of gaming history since the dawn of Quake. There are speedruns for all of Valve’s singleplayer games. Half-Life has been done in 30 minutes!!! In fact there are achievements where you race against the clock, so I think it’s highly likely the level designers were anticipating speedruns.

I’ve seen a lot of the individual sections done 25-75% faster, but what’s most impressive about this run is that it’s a single run with only the loading times edited out. It can be done faster, but it would take an equally impressive display of skill and concentration.

By: Andrew Farrell

Andrew Farrell — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:20:47 +0000

P.T.: I’m sure the level designers would be shocked (shocked!) to think that people were speed running their maps.

By: Zephyrtron

Zephyrtron — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:40:32 +0000

Well, I guess that solves the ‘Chair and vent’ argument then…

By: P.T.

P.T. — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:30:12 +0000

OMG, that was insane. I’m amazed the game doesn’t crash after this abuse.

I’m really curious what the level designers think of this.

By: B

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:10:10 +0000

Good show