Portal 2 discussion thread, now with PERPETUAL TESTING INITIATIVE

[Erebus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avgJtLf3tEc

Around the 1 minute mark. I swear she orgasmed from the testing possibilities.

[Berzerk]

Beat Singleplayer and co-op, only 5 more achievements to get!

[Hazzy]

Finished Coop with Jon a few hours ago. Crazy.... I just hope there's some sort of customization to coop, because redoing those levels with the 3-5 people I know who want to coop is going to get repetitive very, very fast.

Yeah, we really spent way too much time on that last puzzle... :x

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So yeah, just finished single player. Absolutely loved the whole game. Only parts I was annoyed by were mostly in "The Fall", where it was sorta confusing about where to go next. And then the gel puzzles were annoying too for the same reason. After that, everything was wonderful again.

Also: will SPAAAAAAAACE be this one's meme? :p

That last puzzle was reaaaaaaally annoying. Jon and I ran around in circles for who knows how long trying to finish it.

I never thought that gel puzzles were really bad. Except for that one with the white-gel. I hated that level so much. So freaking much.

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I think I ended up beating it by spraying the gel over the first solid platform I found and then portal-loop boosted myself into the air and onto the exit ramp. No freaking idea how it's 'suppose' to be done. Should go look that up now....

One last question:

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Why was there no cake in this game? I remember maybe one or two references to it...

[CommanderJinn]

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Why would there be a cake reference. We all already knew it was a lie =p

[Mute]

inb4 cake was a lie.

[Kojo]

One last question:

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Why was there no cake in this game? I remember maybe one or two references to it...

Because

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potatoes are better

[Erebus]

There's a hidden cake FYI.

[Jedward]

Erebus, pineappleing keep your spoilers in spoiler tags.
Thanks.

[Erebus]

Erebus, pineappleing keep your spoilers in spoiler tags.
Thanks.

The cake is a lie.

[Hazzy]

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Why would there be a cake reference. We all already knew it was a lie =p

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Because it's a trade mark and one of the reasons the first game was so popular.

Seconding the "spoiler your spoilers" request, Erebus.

[Mira]

The ending was one of the best. I'm very, very happy with it. Glados <3

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Anyone else spot P-body in single player? :3 How about how the "I'm different" turret tells you that "She is Caroline"? Also, one of the potato projects has "By Chell" on it. I didn't see that until I saw a screenshot of it and I went to see if it was shopped or what. Some of the little easter eggs really are quite profound.

What really annoyed me the most about the game was probably the very first part of "The Fall." I got stuck before even making it to Alpha station in that huge room. >:( Trying to catch that blue gel covered box made me rage a bit, too. I ended up getting all the single player achievements, though.

[Hazzy]

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Anyone else spot P-body in single player? :3 How about how the "I'm different" turret tells you that "She is Caroline"? Also, one of the potato projects has "By Chell" on it. I didn't see that until I saw a screenshot of it and I went to see if it was shopped or what. Some of the little easter eggs really are quite profound.

More mind-pineappleing and spoilers in this thread. They go off of what you just mentioned.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Portal/comme...ers_of_course/

[Erebus]

More mind-pineappleing and spoilers in this thread. They go off of what you just mentioned.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Portal/comme...ers_of_course/

Hole in the Logic

For that to be true Caroline would have had to be installed on the same day as bring your daughter to work day and GLaDOS was in production for a long time. Granted it's plausible because, let's face it, this isn't based on real world logic and they could have ripped and uploaded her brain in one day... but still.

As well Chell has an "Adult" picture in the Folder at the end of the ratman comic, which means either "A" (assuming the file at the end is the same one he got in the "past") she was an adult when Glados first went crazy on "bring your daughter to work day" or "B" it was updated (with the assumption it's the same file as in the past) but no one had access to it except ratman.

[Kojo]

Another easter egg:

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Caroline means "free man." The protagonist of Half Life's last name is Freeman.

[Jon]

Another easter egg:

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Caroline means "free man." The protagonist of Half Life's last name is Freeman.

Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait WHAT? My mind is on the wall over there --->. Holy sh'it.

[Secun]

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Suddenly, GLaDOS. Thousands of her.

[Hazzy]

Hole in the Logic

For that to be true Caroline would have had to be installed on the same day as bring your daughter to work day and GLaDOS was in production for a long time. Granted it's plausible because, let's face it, this isn't based on real world logic and they could have ripped and uploaded her brain in one day... but still.

As well Chell has an "Adult" picture in the Folder at the end of the ratman comic, which means either "A" (assuming the file at the end is the same one he got in the "past") she was an adult when Glados first went crazy on "bring your daughter to work day" or "B" it was updated (with the assumption it's the same file as in the past) but no one had access to it except ratman.

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GlaDOS was launched on Bring Your Daughter to Work Day. The brain could have been ripped years before when Cave died and the scientist forced her into taking the head of the company, against her wishes. This would orphan young Chell who could have grown up with an adopted family or otherwise next-of-kin.

Not sure about that last page in the Rat Man comic. GlaDOS could have set up a system for deciding whether to use people to test or to not or something.

About the boss....

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Everyone remembers the bit with the moon, right? Shortly after that GlaDOS describes Chell as a "lunatic". A lunatic. Moon. Luna. That was amazing word choice of Valve's part.

[Erebus]

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GlaDOS was launched on Bring Your Daughter to Work Day. The brain could have been ripped years before when Cave died and the scientist forced her into taking the head of the company, against her wishes. This would orphan young Chell who could have grown up with an adopted family or otherwise next-of-kin.

Not sure about that last page in the Rat Man comic. GlaDOS could have set up a system for deciding whether to use people to test or to not or something.

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Wouldn't that mean Chell would had to come back to aperture science AFTER her parents were killed? It's possible but I don't see most children doing that... unless she was forced to and her adopted parents worked for Aperture...

The problem is that the file existed before Chell would have been an adult (maybe it's an oversight on the artist) meaning either the first or second time GLaDOS went crazy Chell, at one point, would have been an adult... which doesn't really make sense, because the time before those two incidents occurred is not that long (we can assume the data in her chart wasn't verified, as in, someone just knew her and marked her not to be tested considering she may very well be the bosses daughter) but that doesn't explain the picture.

There's always the pseudo science that chell died during the first incident, got cloned and grew up super fast to the point her data was recorded for the second incident (in the comic Chell got moved up the line for cloning by Ratman). But it's not exactly clear what the "rules" of clones are in that universe.

[Erich]

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We already know they sampled DNA of every tester. If you noticed all the humans you freed in the co-op campaign, they all had a job. A very science-y job, or something nautical related, meaning they were employed at the actual facility or on the ice breaker/research vessel Borealis. That would also backup why Chell had clone(s).

[Mute]

Finding a random partner online sucks. Either their connection's pomegranate or they disconnect.