A fan made mod.
Not to take anything away from them but other than not being on an official YouTube channel I did think this was a brand new game given it says ‘official’. A bit deceiving.
It also uses the name “Portal” in a way that feels official, too. If it said “Revolution: A Portal mod” it’d be fine.
How does it “feel official”? It’s just what a lot of mods do:
- Portal: Prelude
- Portal: The Flash Version (though this one is a standalone game)
- Half-Life: Echoes
- Half-Life: Caged
These are just a few I can think of, you can find more on Steam and ModDB.
Without any prior knowledge if a trailer for Portal: Prelude were released today it would be equally as confusing. The flash version wouldn’t be since it would be strange for Valve to make a flash version of anything officially, so that’d set off flags, the Half-Life ones likely would be confusing as well, purely from a “released a trailer with a very clean logo and the word official in the title” standpoint, not really a general product naming standpoint, but that series is more dormant, so maybe it’s less likely to be confusing.
Thanks for the heads up.
@nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works please remove the word ‘official’ from the title. Even though the video uses it, that use is wrong.
What about this is ‘official’ in any way? It makes me not want to play the mod for their manipulative use of the word in their advertising.
Edit: thinking back on it, I doubt there was any intention of manipulation. Most likely just ignorance on the implications of using the word.
Edit 2: The developer changed the video and removed the word ‘official’ from the title. The video also includes the text ‘Portal: Revolution is an unofficial, fan-made modification for Portal 2 and is not with or endorsed by Valve Software.’
It having official in the title has nothing to do with whether it’s a Valve game or a mod, though. It just means that it’s a trailer released by the developer themselves and not some random person, that’s all that official means.
The developer of Portal is Valve, so saying ‘official’ makes it seem like it’s from Valve.
Yes, ‘Official’ in itself does not mean ‘made by Valve’. The meaning is contextual. In the case of games, ‘official’ denotes it was released by the creator of the title itself. So, in this case Portal was made by Valve. Anything using ‘Portal’ and ‘official’ together means Valve.
It makes me not want to play the mod for their manipulative use of the word in their advertising.
You think they’re trying to trick you into
check notes
playing a free mod?
I like how you made notes and checked them without actually reading the whole comment. You’re an observant one.
This is all you failing to understand something very simple.
It’s the official trailer for the mod, that’s all it means.
No, I understood it fine as soon as I found out it was a fan-made mod.
I never heard of this project before and had no idea it was a mod when I clicked on the video that says both ‘Portal’ and ‘official’ in the title and on the thumbnail.
If you need context first then it’s misleading. The context of “fan mod” is not explicit from an outside perspective.
The fact that this thread has more up votes on the “remove the official from official trailer” posts baffles me. The first line of the description says it’s a mod.
Because the title and thumbnail both say ‘official’ and to someone who has not heard of this before would reasonably assume it’s an official addition to Portal made by Valve. Not until after you click on the video are you able to learn it’s not actually official.
You are led to click on the video thinking it’s something it is not.
That is the epitome of misleading.
This is not made by (or in association with) valve.
It’s effectively a mod built on portal2
I’m always amazed of what passionate people can achieve. It happens that i also love this game. Nice !
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in
