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On April 21 2011 15:32 Morfildur wrote:
Took me 7 Hours to complete it, mostly because i got stuck on some levels because i was thinking far too complicated (hell, i got stuck for 5 minutes on the broken bridge where you just had to press jump on the blue goo because i thought the distance would be too far, so i tried to jump on the blue goo on the wall to bounce over, etc.), so i think 5 Hours is possible.
Oh yea, I was stuck on that bridge also... actually tried to jump over it twice and failed... then I tried to get some air before going over, but that lost me too much momentum...
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On April 20 2011 11:53 furymonkey wrote:
I know it's fiction, but aren't any of you surprised with size of the facility? Big underground space with moving rooms. The cost of constructing this would be astronomical, this puts Black Mesa facility into shame, even thought Black Mesa actually won Aperture over contracts, it just doesn't fit well with the lore.
I found the over the top size of the facility to add to the humor. The first game establishes that the Aperture Science facility is huge, but this one really one ups the first. The way the facility gets older as you go further down was pretty cool and with how massive the place is, the first thing that came to mind was Dexter's Lab.
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On April 21 2011 09:53 eduh wrote:Show nested quote +On April 21 2011 09:37 Tercotta wrote:On April 21 2011 07:30 Fruscainte wrote:Some speculation... + Show Spoiler +I think GLaDOS is Chell's mother
Turret Opera at the end.
(Translations a bit rough)
cara bel, cara mia bella mia bambina(my pretty dear, my pretty dear child )
Que lastima(not italian. maybe is "che la stima" - that she admire. but if is spanish is "what a pity")
Que lastima
oh cara mia addio...la mia bambina, cara perche non passi lontana, si lontana da scienza
(oh my dear farewell, my child, dear why dont you stay away, yes away, from science)
cara oh mia bambina (dear, oh my child)
oh mia cara
oh mia cara (oh my dear)
oh mia bambina (oh my child)
cara (dear)
cara
My reply to the above spoiler. + Show Spoiler +While I thought so too at first I don't think the timeline works out for that to be true. GLaDOS was based on a woman who was working for Aperture back in the sixties. Chell was in grade school when GLaDOS took over the facility in the following millenium, (one of the potato battery science projects is by a girl named Chell). Caroline/GLaDOS would have been too old at that point to be her mother as she would be in her 50s at least. + Show Spoiler +not sure what kind of calculations you are making, but im pretty sure glados was indeed chell's mother and Cave Johnson the father.
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My calculations are fine. The first era of retro tests date to 1968. Caroline/GLaDOS was already working at Aperture. Let's say she is 18, we'll be generous. That would mean she would was born about 1950.
Now GLaDOS took over Aperture some time in the 2000s and locked people getting in or out. That actually happened on Aperture's take your daughter to work day and early in Portal 2 you can see the science experiments of the school girls. If you look carefully one of the projects is by Chell, and the handwriting suggests she is about the age 6-7.
Assuming GLaDOS took over as early as possible (2000) that would mean Chell was born around 1994. Caroline would have been 44. Late but not impossible. And that's with the most generous of calculations. Caroline was likely older than that and GLaDOS's takeover was later in the decade. Which would push Caroline into her 50s when Chell was born.
Also the fact Chell was even at take your daughter to work day means she has a dad working at aperture. And Cave Johnson died back in the eighties sue to the inhalation of poisonous moon rocks.
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I just bought the game! So excited to play it! Anyone want to do a co-op game with me? My steam name should be: AKidNamedOmni
Edit: Just played like 2 hours worth of Portal. Such a good game! Loved every bit of it so far! Def worth the $50~
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On April 21 2011 10:01 Highways wrote:Show nested quote +On April 21 2011 08:53 fishbowl wrote:On April 21 2011 08:38 Ramong wrote:
Greatest game ever!
Loved it, took me 8 hours and I don't for 1 sec. believe those who claim that it took them 4-5 hours.
Great voices, humor and puzzles. Clearly everyone is lying. Much like cake. The Steam timer is actually wrong. Can't remember where I read it but some people took 10+ hours to complete Portal 2, but the steam timer stated only about 4-5 hours was played.
This is true. My fallout 3 says i spent 4 hours on the game, when in reality it was closer to 100
Apparently there is also a bug which makes people miss a chunk of the game.
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On April 21 2011 18:26 Tercotta wrote:Show nested quote +On April 21 2011 09:53 eduh wrote:On April 21 2011 09:37 Tercotta wrote:On April 21 2011 07:30 Fruscainte wrote:Some speculation... + Show Spoiler +I think GLaDOS is Chell's mother
Turret Opera at the end.
(Translations a bit rough)
cara bel, cara mia bella mia bambina(my pretty dear, my pretty dear child )
Que lastima(not italian. maybe is "che la stima" - that she admire. but if is spanish is "what a pity")
Que lastima
oh cara mia addio...la mia bambina, cara perche non passi lontana, si lontana da scienza
(oh my dear farewell, my child, dear why dont you stay away, yes away, from science)
cara oh mia bambina (dear, oh my child)
oh mia cara
oh mia cara (oh my dear)
oh mia bambina (oh my child)
cara (dear)
cara
My reply to the above spoiler. + Show Spoiler +While I thought so too at first I don't think the timeline works out for that to be true. GLaDOS was based on a woman who was working for Aperture back in the sixties. Chell was in grade school when GLaDOS took over the facility in the following millenium, (one of the potato battery science projects is by a girl named Chell). Caroline/GLaDOS would have been too old at that point to be her mother as she would be in her 50s at least. + Show Spoiler +not sure what kind of calculations you are making, but im pretty sure glados was indeed chell's mother and Cave Johnson the father. + Show Spoiler +
My calculations are fine. The first era of retro tests date to 1968. Caroline/GLaDOS was already working at Aperture. Let's say she is 18, we'll be generous. That would mean she would was born about 1950.
Now GLaDOS took over Aperture some time in the 2000s and locked people getting in or out. That actually happened on Aperture's take your daughter to work day and early in Portal 2 you can see the science experiments of the school girls. If you look carefully one of the projects is by Chell, and the handwriting suggests she is about the age 6-7.
Assuming GLaDOS took over as early as possible (2000) that would mean Chell was born around 1994. Caroline would have been 44. Late but not impossible. And that's with the most generous of calculations. Caroline was likely older than that and GLaDOS's takeover was later in the decade. Which would push Caroline into her 50s when Chell was born.
Also the fact Chell was even at take your daughter to work day means she has a dad working at aperture. And Cave Johnson died back in the eighties sue to the inhalation of poisonous moon rocks.
+ Show Spoiler +Chell is barely even a character so who the f- cares?
I like the game, but seriously...
On April 21 2011 12:23 R3m3mb3rM3 wrote:wow that ending was worth every fucking cent really great game, little easy and short though and the white fluid was fucking annoying and not fun at all :D now heading to coop + Show Spoiler +is it possible to survive 10 seconds in space? i wonderd that often since "event horizon" movie where someone also survives a moment in space. i thought the lungs would explode immediatly
+ Show Spoiler +In space, no, but she was in the airstream from the facility so there was still some pressure.
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Just finished this last night(single player)....and, sooooo good. An instant favorite.
My only beef is I want some really ludicrous chambers now. 90% of them were WAAYYY too easy, as in, instant solve easy, and that's even some of the later ones. I seriously was only stumped on two chambers, and then only for about 15 minutes max.
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On April 21 2011 20:28 hugman wrote:Show nested quote +On April 21 2011 18:26 Tercotta wrote:On April 21 2011 09:53 eduh wrote:On April 21 2011 09:37 Tercotta wrote:On April 21 2011 07:30 Fruscainte wrote:Some speculation... + Show Spoiler +I think GLaDOS is Chell's mother
Turret Opera at the end.
(Translations a bit rough)
cara bel, cara mia bella mia bambina(my pretty dear, my pretty dear child )
Que lastima(not italian. maybe is "che la stima" - that she admire. but if is spanish is "what a pity")
Que lastima
oh cara mia addio...la mia bambina, cara perche non passi lontana, si lontana da scienza
(oh my dear farewell, my child, dear why dont you stay away, yes away, from science)
cara oh mia bambina (dear, oh my child)
oh mia cara
oh mia cara (oh my dear)
oh mia bambina (oh my child)
cara (dear)
cara
My reply to the above spoiler. + Show Spoiler +While I thought so too at first I don't think the timeline works out for that to be true. GLaDOS was based on a woman who was working for Aperture back in the sixties. Chell was in grade school when GLaDOS took over the facility in the following millenium, (one of the potato battery science projects is by a girl named Chell). Caroline/GLaDOS would have been too old at that point to be her mother as she would be in her 50s at least. + Show Spoiler +not sure what kind of calculations you are making, but im pretty sure glados was indeed chell's mother and Cave Johnson the father. + Show Spoiler +
My calculations are fine. The first era of retro tests date to 1968. Caroline/GLaDOS was already working at Aperture. Let's say she is 18, we'll be generous. That would mean she would was born about 1950.
Now GLaDOS took over Aperture some time in the 2000s and locked people getting in or out. That actually happened on Aperture's take your daughter to work day and early in Portal 2 you can see the science experiments of the school girls. If you look carefully one of the projects is by Chell, and the handwriting suggests she is about the age 6-7.
Assuming GLaDOS took over as early as possible (2000) that would mean Chell was born around 1994. Caroline would have been 44. Late but not impossible. And that's with the most generous of calculations. Caroline was likely older than that and GLaDOS's takeover was later in the decade. Which would push Caroline into her 50s when Chell was born.
Also the fact Chell was even at take your daughter to work day means she has a dad working at aperture. And Cave Johnson died back in the eighties sue to the inhalation of poisonous moon rocks.
+ Show Spoiler +Chell is barely even a character so who the f- cares?
I like the game, but seriously...
+ Show Spoiler +Yes but GLaDOS has an arc, it's an interesting notion if you want to look at GLaDOS as a character.
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I loved the whole game. I came into it with very low expectations, so maybe that's the reason that I was so ecstatic with how it turned out. I thought the added mechanics would just clutter up a game that I thought was so beautiful because of its simplicity, but they were done tastefully. Single player length seemed fine, for me at least. Difficulty seemed decent; though the only chamber I got stuck for a while was Chapter 18 Chamber 11, I think. The whole game was a fun experience; hopefully the user generated content will be sweet in a month.
On April 21 2011 18:26 Tercotta wrote:Show nested quote +On April 21 2011 09:53 eduh wrote:On April 21 2011 09:37 Tercotta wrote:On April 21 2011 07:30 Fruscainte wrote:Some speculation... + Show Spoiler +I think GLaDOS is Chell's mother
Turret Opera at the end.
(Translations a bit rough)
cara bel, cara mia bella mia bambina(my pretty dear, my pretty dear child )
Que lastima(not italian. maybe is "che la stima" - that she admire. but if is spanish is "what a pity")
Que lastima
oh cara mia addio...la mia bambina, cara perche non passi lontana, si lontana da scienza
(oh my dear farewell, my child, dear why dont you stay away, yes away, from science)
cara oh mia bambina (dear, oh my child)
oh mia cara
oh mia cara (oh my dear)
oh mia bambina (oh my child)
cara (dear)
cara
My reply to the above spoiler. + Show Spoiler +While I thought so too at first I don't think the timeline works out for that to be true. GLaDOS was based on a woman who was working for Aperture back in the sixties. Chell was in grade school when GLaDOS took over the facility in the following millenium, (one of the potato battery science projects is by a girl named Chell). Caroline/GLaDOS would have been too old at that point to be her mother as she would be in her 50s at least. + Show Spoiler +not sure what kind of calculations you are making, but im pretty sure glados was indeed chell's mother and Cave Johnson the father. + Show Spoiler +
My calculations are fine. The first era of retro tests date to 1968. Caroline/GLaDOS was already working at Aperture. Let's say she is 18, we'll be generous. That would mean she would was born about 1950.
Now GLaDOS took over Aperture some time in the 2000s and locked people getting in or out. That actually happened on Aperture's take your daughter to work day and early in Portal 2 you can see the science experiments of the school girls. If you look carefully one of the projects is by Chell, and the handwriting suggests she is about the age 6-7.
Assuming GLaDOS took over as early as possible (2000) that would mean Chell was born around 1994. Caroline would have been 44. Late but not impossible. And that's with the most generous of calculations. Caroline was likely older than that and GLaDOS's takeover was later in the decade. Which would push Caroline into her 50s when Chell was born.
Also the fact Chell was even at take your daughter to work day means she has a dad working at aperture. And Cave Johnson died back in the eighties sue to the inhalation of poisonous moon rocks.
+ Show Spoiler +Well, Glados did tell Chell several times that she was adopted...
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Need to get this game too!
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On April 21 2011 20:30 Sm3agol wrote:
Just finished this last night(single player)....and, sooooo good. An instant favorite.
My only beef is I want some really ludicrous chambers now. 90% of them were WAAYYY too easy, as in, instant solve easy, and that's even some of the later ones. I seriously was only stumped on two chambers, and then only for about 15 minutes max.
Yeah, was on the easier side compared to Portal 1. But the game in general definitely flowed better. They should be adding more levels in free DLC. Like they've done with all their other multiplayer based games.
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On April 21 2011 15:32 Morfildur wrote:
- 50 Euro is at least 10 Euro too much.
50 euros? it's 39 euros on steam and 34 euros if you preordered :S. You get discount for buying 2 from steam so it's 60 euros / 2 copies.
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On April 21 2011 18:26 Tercotta wrote:Show nested quote +On April 21 2011 09:53 eduh wrote:On April 21 2011 09:37 Tercotta wrote:On April 21 2011 07:30 Fruscainte wrote:Some speculation... + Show Spoiler +I think GLaDOS is Chell's mother
Turret Opera at the end.
(Translations a bit rough)
cara bel, cara mia bella mia bambina(my pretty dear, my pretty dear child )
Que lastima(not italian. maybe is "che la stima" - that she admire. but if is spanish is "what a pity")
Que lastima
oh cara mia addio...la mia bambina, cara perche non passi lontana, si lontana da scienza
(oh my dear farewell, my child, dear why dont you stay away, yes away, from science)
cara oh mia bambina (dear, oh my child)
oh mia cara
oh mia cara (oh my dear)
oh mia bambina (oh my child)
cara (dear)
cara
My reply to the above spoiler. + Show Spoiler +While I thought so too at first I don't think the timeline works out for that to be true. GLaDOS was based on a woman who was working for Aperture back in the sixties. Chell was in grade school when GLaDOS took over the facility in the following millenium, (one of the potato battery science projects is by a girl named Chell). Caroline/GLaDOS would have been too old at that point to be her mother as she would be in her 50s at least. + Show Spoiler +not sure what kind of calculations you are making, but im pretty sure glados was indeed chell's mother and Cave Johnson the father. + Show Spoiler +
My calculations are fine. The first era of retro tests date to 1968. Caroline/GLaDOS was already working at Aperture. Let's say she is 18, we'll be generous. That would mean she would was born about 1950.
Now GLaDOS took over Aperture some time in the 2000s and locked people getting in or out. That actually happened on Aperture's take your daughter to work day and early in Portal 2 you can see the science experiments of the school girls. If you look carefully one of the projects is by Chell, and the handwriting suggests she is about the age 6-7.
Assuming GLaDOS took over as early as possible (2000) that would mean Chell was born around 1994. Caroline would have been 44. Late but not impossible. And that's with the most generous of calculations. Caroline was likely older than that and GLaDOS's takeover was later in the decade. Which would push Caroline into her 50s when Chell was born.
Also the fact Chell was even at take your daughter to work day means she has a dad working at aperture. And Cave Johnson died back in the eighties sue to the inhalation of poisonous moon rocks.
+ Show Spoiler +How do you know GLaDOS takeover happened after 2000?
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All I want is more co-op. Was a super fun time playing with a friend. I am pretty sad that it is over :{
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I'm not a huge fan of Ricky but I do like him and watch most of his stuff. I've never heard of Stephen Merchants but he does have a very similar comedic style (although I'm sorry in advance if every British comedian has that style though lol I'm a bit ignorant).
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On April 21 2011 21:55 Nuublet wrote:Show nested quote +On April 21 2011 18:26 Tercotta wrote:On April 21 2011 09:53 eduh wrote:On April 21 2011 09:37 Tercotta wrote:On April 21 2011 07:30 Fruscainte wrote:Some speculation... + Show Spoiler +I think GLaDOS is Chell's mother
Turret Opera at the end.
(Translations a bit rough)
cara bel, cara mia bella mia bambina(my pretty dear, my pretty dear child )
Que lastima(not italian. maybe is "che la stima" - that she admire. but if is spanish is "what a pity")
Que lastima
oh cara mia addio...la mia bambina, cara perche non passi lontana, si lontana da scienza
(oh my dear farewell, my child, dear why dont you stay away, yes away, from science)
cara oh mia bambina (dear, oh my child)
oh mia cara
oh mia cara (oh my dear)
oh mia bambina (oh my child)
cara (dear)
cara
My reply to the above spoiler. + Show Spoiler +While I thought so too at first I don't think the timeline works out for that to be true. GLaDOS was based on a woman who was working for Aperture back in the sixties. Chell was in grade school when GLaDOS took over the facility in the following millenium, (one of the potato battery science projects is by a girl named Chell). Caroline/GLaDOS would have been too old at that point to be her mother as she would be in her 50s at least. + Show Spoiler +not sure what kind of calculations you are making, but im pretty sure glados was indeed chell's mother and Cave Johnson the father. + Show Spoiler +
My calculations are fine. The first era of retro tests date to 1968. Caroline/GLaDOS was already working at Aperture. Let's say she is 18, we'll be generous. That would mean she would was born about 1950.
Now GLaDOS took over Aperture some time in the 2000s and locked people getting in or out. That actually happened on Aperture's take your daughter to work day and early in Portal 2 you can see the science experiments of the school girls. If you look carefully one of the projects is by Chell, and the handwriting suggests she is about the age 6-7.
Assuming GLaDOS took over as early as possible (2000) that would mean Chell was born around 1994. Caroline would have been 44. Late but not impossible. And that's with the most generous of calculations. Caroline was likely older than that and GLaDOS's takeover was later in the decade. Which would push Caroline into her 50s when Chell was born.
Also the fact Chell was even at take your daughter to work day means she has a dad working at aperture. And Cave Johnson died back in the eighties sue to the inhalation of poisonous moon rocks.
+ Show Spoiler +How do you know GLaDOS takeover happened after 2000?
+ Show Spoiler +Its not clear in my opinion, but there is a strong indication that Portal takes place during or around the events of HL2 due to GLaDOS in the first game commenting that even she doesn't know what's going on outside there. Of course that's weak at best, but we can think something along those lines.
We do know that the takeover was on Take your Daughter to work day, but one thing people miss is we don't know how long passed between that and when Chell was woken up for Portal 1. It's entirely possible that the take-over happened early/mid 90s which would help match the timelines up for the Caroline/Cave thing to have happened. Chell clearly aged at least 10-15 years before she was woken up since she became a subject at the age of 6. Though I think the very first dates in the old test chambers were actually 1958. Still it's at least plausible from the timelines. Even more concrete we can see in the portrait of her she seems to be about mid 30s in 1968 which would make her 45ish if she had her child in the mid eighties (right around when Cave died) which would make Chell 6-10 years old by the 90s which would be perfect for when she was captured and sets it up nicely to have the capture occur right around when HL1 occurs and have her in her 20s by the time Portal 1 takes place.
The important thing of it to me is that it casts a different light on the ending a little bit, and actually makes the ending more solid. When I first played it I thought GLaDOS' motivation for grabbing you was just good will from her Caroline parts, but now you can see the euphoria and motivations she had for saving you were because you are her daughter. Then that part is immediately deleted and you're sent on your way.
Though it's kind of a shame that Portal 2 seems to happen so far after HL2 that I doubt the games will have that much in the way of interesting crossover stuff anymore.
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I'm in space. SPAAAAAAACE
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Started playing at 6:30 Atlantic standard Tuesday, took a half hour "break" at 9:15, finished at 11:45.
So, about 4.5 hours for me, first playthrough. I was not rushing at all, I was always looking at everything and checking stuff out, couple puzzles had me confused for for a bit. I could probably do it in about 3.5-4 on a second run.
Edit: I should actually check my achievement times to verify this
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On April 21 2011 22:33 57 Corvette wrote:
I'm in space. SPAAAAAAACE
+ Show Spoiler +I know you are mate, we're both in space
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