Portal 2

[Taskmage]

Re: Portal 2

If you've heard the song Still Alive then you know all the necessary plot information from the original. Portal 2 starts out with the same test chambers as Portal so it makes sure you're up to speed with the old mechanics before introducing new stuff.

Spoilers

I missed several achievements on the first playthrough as well. Some of them involve doing things you would absolutely never do like actually coming back and jumping in the giant death pit when Wheatley asks you to, and some others like Final Transmission are quite well hidden.

The part where you're climbing up the shaft with all the pipes after the gel tests was a bit disorienting but not all that bad. I didn't get legitimately frustrated with the game until I played through in developer commentary mode, because there are no checkpoints, so if you screw up and die you get kicked back to the last loading screen which might be as many as three test chambers ago. Prior to that any frustration was due to me making solutions way harder than they needed to be.

Re Wheatley: When he mentioned how small I looked I went eeeeyyup. My only disappointment was the low amount of tie-in to the comic or exposition about the rat man. I really wanted to find out where that was going.

[Taskmage]

Re: Portal 2

Do you need to have played the first one?

Oh, and if you pick it up on Steam you get the original for free.

[Malacite]

Re: Portal 2

Damn the luck, no one on my F list has the game yet and I only rented it so I gotta go with randoms for Co-Op


Also, anyone else pissed the fuck off that they at no point in the game, or in any kind of press release (AFAIK) explain how Chell got back inside the facility? Did she not make out to the surface entrance at the end of Portal 1?

Also, WTF where's my cake?

[Raydeus]

Re: Portal 2

I want to play Portal 2. (T-T )

But I want Abysites and Atmas too. (T-T )




/whyislifesocomplicated?





/mwahahagottalovebeingsingle

[Taskmage]

Re: Portal 2

Also, anyone else pissed the fuck off that they at no point in the game, or in any kind of press release (AFAIK) explain how Chell got back inside the facility? Did she not make out to the surface entrance at the end of Portal 1?

This actually was explained, but depending on when you played, the explanation was easy to miss. Some time after the announcement of Portal 2, the ending of P1 was extended. While you're lying on the ground outside you hear some mechanical scraping and a robot voice says "Thank you for assuming the party escort submission position." As the scene fades out you're being dragged away.

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/53...tion-Continues

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It doesn't explain how GLaDOS got back inside, but it also doesn't explain how the interior of her room is about twice as big as the exterior. Meh. I'll just leave this disbelief floating over here.

[Malacite]

Re: Portal 2

Ah ty. I saw the original ending where it just cuts out after she's outside.

[Armando]

Re: Portal 2

This actually was explained, but depending on when you played, the explanation was easy to miss.

It was also in the Lab Rat comic, which I posted in page 1.

[Taskmage]

Re: Portal 2

On another note,

[Taskmage]

Re: Portal 2

Huge image, huge spoiler

Well, it depends on how you look at it I guess, but this is as close to an origin story for Chell as we may ever get. This is from the "bring your daughter to work day" science experiments, which Wheatley remembers ended badly. Above and to the right of the reticule in the materials list you can see a vat with an Aperture logo on it labeled "special ingredient from dad's work" but more importantly right below the reticule is a name.



Furthermore, and this is highly speculative, the lyrics for the turret opera repeatedly say "my daughter, my dear daughter" and we know from out of game knowledge that the singer is GLaDOS/Carolyn, so does that imply that she is Chell's mother?