After nearly two years of working at his speedrun, a guy by the name of DemonStrate has completed Portal with a time of -- by his count -- 9:25.567. Impressive, especially if you aren't aware of some of the glitches that exist within the game and allow for such quick progression.
For the majority of this video, it's hard to keep track of what exactly he's doing. The rest is, well, waiting in elevators. Thankfully, DemonStrate says he is working on a commentary video, which is exactly what this needs. Regardless, it's a fun watch.
Also, this video confirms that you cannot play Portal without putting something in the toilet.
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I'm sorry but that was disappointing. I guess I had something different in mind before I watched it. THATS NOT REALLY PLAYING YOU ARE JUST AHGASIFH-
woooh, almost lost my composure for a second.
I don't care if he broke the game- it was crazy interesting. And still took a lot of skill to shoot exactly where he wanted to on the giant grid-based out-of-context maps in that amount of time.
I don't understand why eighty percent of what I just saw worked, but it did. Neat.
How is this less impressive? What part of it took two years to do this do you guys not understand? A lot of speed runs use glitches, this isn't anything new.
That was impressive. The time it must have took to get that right is just crazy to think about. How he had the patience to play portal that much is beyond me.
Wow, tons of assholes in here that obviously did not play the game on the PC, if at all. Exploiting games to do speedruns is a time honored PC tradition... goddamn kids and their ex bawkses.
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5:20 PM on 12.09.2010 | 
woooh, almost lost my composure for a second.
Getting to the cake room AND placing the Companion Cube on the cake's just overkill.
But damn if that's not an epic portrayal of how people can break a game.
And nice singing, mate.
This was a crazy video, but shit like this doesn't really impress me.
I don't understand why eighty percent of what I just saw worked, but it did. Neat.
The very first words of the article are: "After nearly two years..." You try playing any game for two years and see what you find out about it ^^
8:58 to 9:25 pretty much just breaks the game. It's like using the flute in
super mario 3 but on crack.
Then I showed the video to two of my friends, and they are currently in a complete state of disbelief.
Needless to say, this video was a success.