Portal 2 and the Portal Updates

[Hebes24]

I want to know what happens next.

Personally, I'm hoping that

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Chell meets up with Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance in HL2:EP3. But then again, I think I remember Valve stating that a Portal-HL2 crossover wouldn't happen. Oh well.

[Moving_Target]

I want to know what happens next.

Personally, I'm hoping that

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Chell meets up with Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance in HL2:EP3. But then again, I think I remember Valve stating that a Portal-HL2 crossover wouldn't happen. Oh well.

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That and Portal 2 is like 200 years in the future. So the adventures of Alyx and Freeman would already have happened.

Or maybe not

"It has been stated by Gabe Newell in an October 2007 interview that Chell has importance in the overall Half-Life universe, and will eventually have a fairly significant relationship with some of the other characters that we are already familiar with"

[Fluffy_the_ic]

I want to know what happens next.

Personally, I'm hoping that

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Chell meets up with Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance in HL2:EP3. But then again, I think I remember Valve stating that a Portal-HL2 crossover wouldn't happen. Oh well.

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That and Portal 2 is like 200 years in the future. So the adventures of Alyx and Freeman would already have happened.

Or maybe not

"It has been stated by Gabe Newell in an October 2007 interview that Chell has importance in the overall Half-Life universe, and will eventually have a fairly significant relationship with some of the other characters that we are already familiar with"

Considering the achievement Ship Overboard,

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Didn't the Borealis involve Time Travel? If it did, then maybe that could explain how they could meet.

[Moving_Target]

Maybe. I know the half life wiki has an article about it. Didn't focus read on it though.

[Fusion]

I wouldn't take the Chell/Half-life thing too seriously. That was written in 2007, and at that point Portal 2 didn't involve portals, was set in the 1950s, and was about Cave Johnson turning into a robot/losing his humanity, starting a robot uprising, and trying to kill you because of all the Turrets you had unjustly destroyed.

[Moving_Target]

Haha. Really? That's awesome. I'd play that. I saw articles about what Portal 2 was to be, just never read them.

Haha ya. I'm not taking the vague parts of Valve's story telling seriously. It's just fun to talk about and try to see how it fits together. Like the L4D franchise.

[Nihillo]

Considering the achievement Ship Overboard,

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Didn't the Borealis involve Time Travel? If it did, then maybe that could explain how they could meet.

No,

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it appears to have involved teleportation. By the looks of it, Aperture Science was working in a device capable of teleporting large vehicles (such as an icebreaker ship).

This would be a valuable asset to the Combine, since they can only teleport from one dimension to another, and from then on they have to use conventional means of travel to reach their intended destination, if they could get that sort of tech working, they would be able to teleport whole armies wherever they wanted, and it wouldn't require as much energy as their inter-dimensional wormhole technique.

So I guess that's pretty much what is at stake in Episode 3.

[GangsterJawa]

On a vaguely off-topic note, this is actually the first thread ever where I've avoided reading the hide tags.

[Nihillo]

By the way, did you guys get the Final Transmission achievement? It's related to yet another one of those gimmicky radios transmitting a signal, just like in the first Portal ARG, it can be used to produce a SSTV picture, here's the image contained in the signal:

WARNING MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD

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Now you know where Ratman went. There must be some sort of installation up there, where they collected moon rocks to be used in the conversion gel.

[Moving_Target]

Cool.

[Grev]

I want to know what happens next.

Personally, I'm hoping that

Hidden/Spoiler:

Chell meets up with Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance in HL2:EP3. But then again, I think I remember Valve stating that a Portal-HL2 crossover wouldn't happen. Oh well.

Hidden/Spoiler:

That and Portal 2 is like 200 years in the future. So the adventures of Alyx and Freeman would already have happened.

Or maybe not

"It has been stated by Gabe Newell in an October 2007 interview that Chell has importance in the overall Half-Life universe, and will eventually have a fairly significant relationship with some of the other characters that we are already familiar with"

Is it really that far in the future? I thought I had read somewhere that Portal 2 was between Half Life 1 and 2?

[Moving_Target]

Portal 1 is between the Half Lifes.

[Teancum]

What if Portal 2 were an awesome movie?

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[Twilight_Warrior]

Want. Want so bad...

They could do it, too, provided they don't focus too much on puzzle solving and more on GLaDOS/Wheatley's dialogue in the chambers.

[Nihillo]

What if Portal 2 were an awesome movie?

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Yep, saw it on Kotaku, awesome poster.

They could do it, too, provided they don't focus too much on puzzle solving and more on GLaDOS/Wheatley's dialogue in the chambers.

So basically you are proposing a movie where Wheatley and GLaDOS bicker at each other for a hour and a half while Cave Johnson plays pre-recorded messages?

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I demand that Twilight Warrior be given a job as a film producer immediately!

[Twilight_Warrior]

I didn't say completely cut Chell out, I just meant do it like the Boots trailer, show some simple action moves inside the chambers while the story plays out. Just don't make it where nothing is really going on except music playing as Chell tried to figure out how to solve each individual chamber.

[Thire]

I think the Co-Op Story would function pretty well as a feature presentation. Atlas and Pebody are very love-able imo.

[Moving_Target]

Awesome. That'd be pretty sweet. I'd go see it. Well since Portal 2 was more story than puzzles it's quite possible.

[Ping]

Have been playing Portal 2 and loving it. The puzzles I've found to be more difficult than Portal 1, and alot of times I found myself overthinking about what to do. Currently going through the gel chambers. Also,

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I kind of wish they elaborated more on the Borealis, but can't have everything, I guess. Episode 3 of Half-Life 2 needs to come.

[The_Emperor]

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I kind of wish they elaborated more on the Borealis, but can't have everything, I guess. Episode 3 of Half-Life 2 needs to come.

IMO that's actually one of the strongest parts of Portal 1 and 2, not knowing everything, a bit of mystery I guess.

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Plus, in this case, we'll find out when EP3 comes out. After Duke Nukem Forever.