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Numberwang: Portal 2 Part 2. And 3.

By Alec Meer on June 29th, 2010 at 10:00 pm.

Drip, drip, drip. There’s going to be seven parts of this in total, so you might want to wait until next March, or whenever they’re finished, to watch the whole lot in one go. S’pretty though. Don’t think we need to worry that Portal 2 will be a) brief or b) just another collection of levels. They’re really going for it, as my second great-great-grandma three times removed used to say about the local goat-herders.

First up, Excursion Funnels. No, not the Eurostar, but a way to turn portals into a sort of anti-gravity conveyor belt. Includes a companion cube-alike, but without the love:

Next, Faith Plates. Or “jump-pads”, as good ol’ uncle Quake used to say. Looks like they’ll lead to plenty of exhilarated, death-defying panic:

Jumpy mega-fun, but… these clips are far too short, yes? From hereon in, better to do a round-up once it’s all finished, I suspect.

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  1. 29/06/2010 at 22:02 Doug says:

    Let’s rotate the board!

  2. 29/06/2010 at 22:16 Antsy says:

    That’s Numberwang!

  3. 29/06/2010 at 22:18 Meat Circus says:

    Bless you, Plates. BLATES.

  4. 29/06/2010 at 22:19 Meat Circus says:

    Was that Noel Fielding’s voice playing the mockney companion sphere in Part 1?

  5. 29/06/2010 at 22:19 Tyshalle says:

    Kinda makes me nauseous just watching the video.

    • 29/06/2010 at 22:38 Bureaucrat says:

      Those levels look fine from a nausea perspective. My problem with Portal was the momentary “which way is up?” feeling when passing through a portal on a different plane/orientation than the one you entered. Fortunately, I could usually play for 45 minutes or so before beginning to feel actually ill, and the game was short enough to completable in small bites.

  6. 29/06/2010 at 22:21 Björn says:

    Numberbounce!

  7. 29/06/2010 at 22:21 Stijn says:

    Anyone else getting a CANYON.MID vibe on the beginning of each video?

  8. 29/06/2010 at 22:21 Serenegoose says:

    Thirty-one?

  9. 29/06/2010 at 22:29 noxxit says:

    *want*

  11. 29/06/2010 at 22:36 Samuel Bass says:

    I have to say, that looks quite lovely.

  12. 29/06/2010 at 22:41 The_B says:

    Jumpy mega-fun, but… these clips are far too short, yes? Like heroin

    Fixed.

  13. 29/06/2010 at 22:42 westyfield says:

    Das ist nummerwang!
    Rotieren das brett!

  14. 29/06/2010 at 22:55 FernandoDante says:

    Yeah, pretty sure these videos have all been up on Gamespot since E3…

  15. 29/06/2010 at 23:01 Name (required) says:

    These two clips are small cuts of a larger video right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5THiN8szSKM

    This Youtube video is itself part one of three videos, all of which are already online.

  16. 29/06/2010 at 23:02 Decimae says:

    Still releasing known footage(look for the IGN E3 Portal 2 demo), but in better quality, though. It would be cool if they were to release at least one new video(They’ll likely release another 4 videos about old content; lasers, excursion funnel and the 2 gels).

  17. 29/06/2010 at 23:41 Spinoza says:

    Game about goat-herders on heroin going for it , now kindly please.

  18. 29/06/2010 at 23:44 bleeding_gums says:

    I’m not going to watch these videos or any other Portal 2 footage because I know its going to be good and I want to experience it for the first time when I actually play the game.

    • 29/06/2010 at 23:50 Pmeie says:

      I was going to do that, but then I watched these, but now you’ve strengthened my resolve.

      (Until the next ones come out.)

  19. 30/06/2010 at 00:02 Freud says:

    I fear they are trying to bring in too many new gimmicks. Portal gun + gravity is plenty enough if puzzle design is good enough.

  20. 30/06/2010 at 00:05 Skinlo says:

    I’ve seen this plus all the rest already =/ I was hoping for some new stuff, but I guess most people haven’t.

  21. 30/06/2010 at 00:06 Arthur Barnhouse says:

    I still don’t get that sketch.

  22. 30/06/2010 at 00:13 LOS BUMBLEROS says:

    YES! THAT IS A NUMBER.

  23. 30/06/2010 at 00:22 CaptainHairy says:

    Shinty-six?

  24. 30/06/2010 at 00:45 DJ Phantoon says:

    Uncle Quake was a very very very very very violent man. I think he would disapprove any type of jumping without dangerous rockets.

    • 30/06/2010 at 13:34 Rane2k says:

      Uncle Quake likes them, especially when they transport enemies in a nice straight line upwards, to be held there with a lightning gun. He also remembers them from when they were still called “wind tunnels”. :-)

      On topic:
      This looks great, I think I have to check out the first game!
      (Yes, I lived under a rock the last few years and have not played it yet. ^^)

  25. 30/06/2010 at 00:45 karthik says:

    My self-enforced Portal 2 blackout will not allow me to watch these videos. Those Youtube embeds are tempting as hell, though.

  26. 30/06/2010 at 01:01 wiper says:

    Is sickened by the referencing of Numberwang over Quizzlestick. /SICKENED/

    *never reads RPS again*

  27. 30/06/2010 at 01:11 rocketman71 says:

    Awesome, but the surprise still was a fucking lie.

  28. 30/06/2010 at 02:43 Benjamin Finkel says:

    Hey! Foot-Pounds are energy, not force!

    Ben

  29. 30/06/2010 at 02:47 Free Microsoft Points Codes says:

    Ever since I beat it on the orange box I’ve been waiting for a new one!

  30. 30/06/2010 at 04:25 Tyler says:

    This isn’t brave. It’s murder.

  31. 30/06/2010 at 05:11 Veret says:

    “…discover whether the capacity for trust is effected by being catapulted into space.”

    Am I the only one who cares about this? I am? Good, that means the rest of you are sane.

    The only reason I brought this up is because, while “affected” should be used in 99.9% of phrases like this, “effected” is also grammatically correct. It just means the exact opposite thing. Which makes me wonder whether they did that on purpose, Valve being what they are.

    • 30/06/2010 at 15:01 OptionalJoystick says:

      I could understand effecting trust, but effecting the capacity for trust sounds wrong to me. The original Portal trailer said “Aperture Labratories”, so they do have previous.

    • 30/06/2010 at 18:46 D says:

      Surely the opposite of affected would be, not affected.

  32. 30/06/2010 at 06:50 Ben says:

    This looks so awesome, so going to get it :)

  33. 30/06/2010 at 08:30 DJ Phantoon says:

    Hey, was thing dragging you away at the end given a voice before or is that recent?

  34. 30/06/2010 at 08:43 elFarto says:

    These ones are slightly better as you can here some guy from Valve talking about it:

    Part 1
    Part 2
    Part 3

  35. 30/06/2010 at 09:22 itsallcrap says:

    Obviously, this will be mind-blowingly astounding.

    I just hope they make a shed-load of levels this time – was a little disappointed when I completed the first one in one night.

    • 30/06/2010 at 09:42 Dominic White says:

      It’s confirmed that Portal 2 will be around (or at least, I forget) twice the length of the first game. That’s just for singleplayer – there’s a whole seperate co-op campaign as well, which is the same length again.

    • 30/06/2010 at 09:51 itsallcrap says:

      Hurrah!

  36. 30/06/2010 at 11:21 Hmm-Hmm. says:

    You know, you could have opted to wait until all of these are released and then make one big post about ‘em.

    Yeah, I know, Valve is considered awesome around these parts. The special treatment of all things Valve bugs me a bit, is all. Carry on.

  37. 30/06/2010 at 14:16 Arnulf says:

    I wish I hadn’t watched these trailers. While they’re wonderful, I’d like to discover the solutions to the puzzles myself. Well, either I forget how it’s done when the game is released, or the riddles will be slightly different.

    Anyway, the personality sphere with glottal-stop-Lily-Allen-accent is a bad idea. Especially contrasted with that GlaDOS voice.

    Bad idea.

  38. 30/06/2010 at 19:39 superking208 says:

    …what about cucumberwang?

  39. 01/07/2010 at 13:23 jsdn says:

    I’m afraid to watch these videos, because looking at the length of Portal tells me I’ll see a good portion of what Portal 2 has to offer (even if they say it’ll be twice as long, that’s still only a few hours). It’s not like I don’t plan to get the game on release day anyway.

  40. 05/07/2010 at 02:24 pupsikaso says:

    That heartless companion cube broke my heart the instant I saw it =(

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