Portal 2

Maybe aperture became somewhat actually sustainable after he died because Caroline was far better at running a company than him (she likely wasn't uploaded until years after he died, since if the GLaDOS technology was available when he died he would have been the one uploaded).

It's likely that GLaDOS herself turned the facility into its more modern appearance. We see that she's capable of freely moving walls and structures around.

However, there were live humans staffing the facility, and notionally in charge of it, until she killed them all with neurotoxin. So it can't be all her doing, and there would have had to have been a huge amount of technological investment to get it to the point where it could be self-sustaining, as it apparently is during the games.

Robots only need raw materials and energy. I'm pretty sure there's either a cold fusion generator at Aperture or they actually are using portals for a perpetual motion generator. And with the ludicrous levels of magical technology they have going on, they probably came up with a way to transmute salt into the necessary parts for building robot parts.

edited 19th Jun '16 12:56:10 PM by thebandragoness

Anyone still playing portal2? I'm looking for someone to play coop with.

edited 22nd Jul '16 11:34:27 PM by Kindle4Light

What in the world? That's some badass music, but more importantly, the rendering is stellar, almost AAA quality. Who is that guy?

The problem with Portal 2 co-op is what Yahtzee Croshaw said in his Zero Punctuation review: it only works if both people haven't (or have) played through it. Mixing it up just results in both people being frustrated.

If you do play, having voice chat helps a ton. Got Ventrilo or Discord or something equivalent?

edited 23rd Jul '16 6:18:09 AM by Fighteer

No idea, I just found him on Youtube one day. Maybe it's easier to make the animation look high quality because it mostly involves robots? I'm sure it's a lot harder to animate a human without falling into the Uncanny Valley and whatnot.

The guy's channel is full of fanworks for Portal 2.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUJXm3LMFLSEe_A2IBf8GwQ

Lots of music videos too.

edited 23rd Jul '16 8:06:39 AM by TobiasDrake

This was a really good one.

Honestly, the strongest sign Valve isn't seriously working on Portal 3 is the fact that Harry 101 UK is still making fanworks. They need to hire him and a lot of the other people in the Portal Stories and Aperture Tag teams.

What's your opinion on Steam Voice Chat? I played some co-op with in-game voice enabled and it cut us off while loading levels, which wasn't ideal, but we launched a Steam voice call separately from the game and it was everything it needed to be without installing anything but the minimum you need to play the game.

edited 23rd Jul '16 4:22:50 PM by TParadox

I remember trying Steam voice chat with my friend when we were playing, giving up, and having him join my WoW guild's Ventrilo server instead.

So I installed Portal 2 on my main steam running computer. I used a cheat code to turn off pixel shaders so it wouldn't just show a black screen, turned the graphics all the way down to reduce lag (there was still about a minute of lag in the manual override segment though), but it crashed every time I tried to load the first faith plate level. This PC is shit.

Um, you guys remember how there was apparently going to be a Portal movie?

J.J. Abrams has got something to say about it.

I hope it's good. It ought to be a prequel about Gla DOS's creation or something, since a straight up adaptation of the games would be kinda weird and boring.

Holy Shit

That's amazing.

Batman and GLA Dos are friends. This is canon to me now.

New spinoff.

You also have Master Chief, Samus, and Snake there. Everything in the song? It's a lie. It's about GlaDOS wishing Chell had never left, and is trying to get her back because she's lonely. So, it's sort of a sequel and/or Answer Song "Want You Gone".

edited 13th Dec '17 4:15:55 AM by AnotherGuy

Alright, I've decided on adding a video for Portal 2, which is the scene where Wheatley is called a moron and goes crazy.

This was recorded with Game DVR, but I want to know, are Game DVR videos formatted for TV Tropes?

I had a dream last night that there was an announcement trailer for Portal 3. Chell had longer hair and slightly tanner skin, dreadlocks, tattoos, still a mute. The game's events took place on some kind of moon base testing facility. Glados was there, but she wasn't quite there. I didn't hear her speak or mock Chell. I was in a first-person view and Chell had a portal gun... except this thing was on rapid-fire and you could launch dozens of portals at once. This somehow allowed Chell to catapult herself across the installation.

She also had weapons. Actual weapons, but her aim was terrible and the guns only had like 10-12 round magazines. Some kind of AI voice was explaining that she had to fix something on the moon base in order to begin "proper testing." There were a few Borderlands-style enemies scattered around but not too many, and combat wasn't advised.

And somehow while playing this hypothetical Portal 3 I was fully aware that this was a beta build and that not everything here was going to make it to the final game.

The weird thing is... I haven't thought about Portal in about a year, maybe more.

Woof, already dropped it on the Half-Life thread because I was having a hard time finding this thread, but BEHOLD!

The Portal games are coming to Nintendo Switch via Portal: Companion Collection!

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Feb 9th 2022 at 7:00:21 AM

The name got me a bit more excited than I should have been. Especially since the first game is so short, a two-game "collection" feels a bit light. I was hoping there would be something in there like the Portal version of Bridge Constructor, some small release game I didn't know about, or, you know, that Sixaxis level pack. I think you could technically, with a Labo headset, port the Aperture VR demos. The thought flitted through that they could've had a sudden return to the Valve of old and hired up everyone who made a really good mod game like Portal Stories: Mel and put that in the set.

Still, interesting that they decided to start putting their games on Switch, especially with the Steam Deck launching this month. I wonder if something about the architecture of the Steam Deck made converting games already adapted for it significantly easier to port to Switch.

Isn't the Steam Deck basically using an existing PC architecture, just condensed into a Switch form factor? I feel like not a lot of work would have actually been required to port anything to it. Plus I don't think the Switch is particularly hard to port to in the first place, especially since the Portal games were running on the 360 and PS3.

While I don't think the Steam Deck is actually competing with the Switch directly (they have different target audiences), it is a tad weird to see these.