Portal 2

[Viridis]

Clone or they put Chell in deep-freeze. It's what the extra ending seems to indicate. There's no reason for the robot to be dragging a part back, by the way. A) They wouldn't suddenly POV from Chell in that scene to something random without telling you and B) a robot wouldn't tell a piece of junk thanks for assuming the party escort submission position.

Portal almost seems like TF2 for the fact that they started with minimal plot, just enough there to let you play**WARNING, TVTROPES, but it snowballed into something big and awesome, except Portal was meant to do that, probably from early on in their development. With TF2 is sort of happened by accident.

Anyway, we'll just have to wait and see.

[Jagos]

Why do I have the feeling that Half Life 3 is going to be somehow involved with this game?

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Yeah I think it's already been established that Chell was taken and put back into stasis, and Portal 2 is taking place years later. Also it must be the same Chell, because GLaDOS talks about how YOU killed her, so this is her vengence time. How many years and why now that GLaDOS is suddenly re-awakening is the real question.

Originally Posted by Jagos

Why do I have the feeling that Half Life 3 is going to be somehow involved with this game?

It will be, at least tenously. The Aurora (I think that was the name of the ship from Ep 2) is an Aperture Science vessel, which at the least means that both games do take place in the same universe. Of course Half Life 2 takes place what, 20 years in the future? Which might explain why Portal 2 is going to take place years after the first, so that both games coincide.

[Viridis]

Jagos: If you mean Episode 3, the games are said to take place in the same universe, with Black Mesa and Aperture Science being direct competitors (Portal screenshot).

Hawk: Close. It was called the Borealis. Portal 2 is hundreds of years

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

In Portal 2 the player returns as Chell, having been in stasis for several hundred years while GLaDOS and the rest of the Aperture Science facility has fallen into disrepair.

after the first, while the first is sort of assumed to be happening at the same time as HL2

Originally Posted by GLaDOS

- Are you trying to escape? *chuckle* Things have changed since the last time you left the building. What's going on out there will make you wish you were back in here.
- I have an infinite capacity for knowledge and even I'm not sure what's going on outside.
- All I know is I'm the only thing standing between us and them. Well, I was.
- Unless you have a plan for building some supercomputer parts in a big hurry, this place isn't going to be safe much longer.
- Good job on that, by the way. Sarcasm sphere self-test complete.

, so I'm not sure what you're thinking matches up quite so neatly.


TL,DR: Damn, I'm such a Portal nerd.

[Jagos]

I would think that they blew up the Borealis, but if it's so much later, that's another story.

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Viridis

Slight tangent: I think it's an offshoot of the weird and refreshing corporate philosophy at Valve where they'd probably set up a program to give free hugs because they knew it would make customers love them more and become more loyal.

From an interview with Robin Walker about TF2:



Basically Valve is a freak of a company that shouldn't logically exist, much like Pixar, and should be cherished/analyzed to figure what they're doing to make this happen.

If anyone ever analyzed it, they'd collapse the likeable people / successful company waveform.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Originally Posted by Viridis

Jagos: If you mean Episode 3, the games are said to take place in the same universe, with Black Mesa and Aperture Science being direct competitors (Portal screenshot).

Hawk: Close. It was called the Borealis. Portal 2 is after the first, while the first is sort of assumed to be , so I'm not sure what you're thinking matches up quite so neatly.


TL,DR: Damn, I'm such a Portal nerd.

My thinking was that Portal 1 might've taken place shortly after HL1, after the 7 hour war, and so maybe Portal 2 was set during Half Life 2. But yeah, the hundreds of years things kinda blows that idea out of the water now.

Still, least we know know that Earth at least survives a couple hundred years after Half Life ends, though whether there's any life outside the facility is another question.

[Viridis]

New co-op footage. "Work together for science. Also hugs."

The two bots are pretty adorable together. They hug in part 4 and Blue seems starved for affection in an adorable, Woobie sort of way.

I don't think I'll be able to resist killing my partner with the Thermal Discouragement Beam at least once, if it is possible.



Edit: Another video of the same thing, but on Gametrailers and from the point of view of Blue.

[Aerozord]

I'm abit worried about some of the new features as they seem to be twitch focused, which I dont like in my puzzle games.

Co-op I love, but I'd wanna play it with another co-op virgin. And someone with roughly my skill level. Wont be much fun if one person already knows all you have to do

[Aldurin]

I didn't know shit about Portal before this, but the concept is absolutely awesome. I'll probably get this. What platforms is it supposed to be available for?