Portal 2
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On the second Portal game from Valve, GlaDOS, Chell and a lack of cake!
The original game Portal is a well known and well loved and extremely funny puzzle-solving, action, adventure, insane robot game. With no cake. However, it was only ever intended to be a demo, a teaser, a trial - not a proper game at all! This is why it so short. But now - now the 'real' Portal has arrived. Portal 2. It exists, it has finally been released and it looks like a lot of fun. So much fun that an entire class was cancelled so that everyone could play Portal 2 and a whole list of awesome memes have been added to the list of Portal memes.
In Portal, you played the protagonist, Chell - a woman being used as a test subject in the Enrichment Centre, guided through increasingly complicated test chambers by the voice of GLaDOS. GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System), an AI, continually promises you cake,but becomes increasingly unstable and suspicious. The game ends with you incinerating GLaDOS' Personality Sphere.
In Portal 2, you are still playing Chell and have returned to the Enrichment Centre hundreds of years later (after spending the time in stastis). However, everything has gotten a lot more complicated... Portal 2 actually mimics a lot of the gameplay of Portal, with a very similar final Boss battle (only... not against GLaDOS).
We also get to hear a lot more of Cave Johnson, the founder and CEO of Aperture Science. Gotta' love the crazy ones, folks.
Seven demo videos were released at the Sony E3 Conference - you can watch the the new and devious puzzle elements, such as Repulsion Gel, Aerial Faith Plates and Pneumatic Diversion Vents, below!. Come, read, learn, and laugh. And then there will be cake. Sadly the Companion Cube cannot attend because it was murdered. But there really was a cake. Portal 2 will play on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The single player campaign (with Chell) takes around six to nine hours, and the co-op Robot mode takes about five hours. Some people will be faster, others slower.
[Most of the things referred to throughout (e.g. the Companion Cube, the "Still Alive" song, the cake) are internet memes now. The cake is constantly promised to you throughout the game, but as the AI gets increasingly insane she tells you it was eaten/there was never a cake. And there's graffiti everywhere from previous test subjects saying 'the cake is a lie']
Have You Played Portal 2 Yet?
Or are you still waiting to get your hands on it?
Portal 2 Collector's Edition Guide
The official and officially awesome limited edition guidebook to Portal 2
Portal 2 Collector's Edition Guide
Amazon Price: $29.18 (as of 06/04/2012)
Some of the puzzles are actually really hard, so if you don't want to get stuck for too long, this handy 'levelled' guide book is full of awesome tips (designed to give you a hint... or a full walkthrough, whichever you need). It's a big shiny book, with high quality images, lots of extra information at the back, including interviews, quotes, plot summaries and art. It's also a limited edition book, and what I bought my brother for Christmas.
"Oh Portal 2's great. It's the best game we've ever done."
Source: Gabe Newell: Portal 2 Interview
Did You Ever Play the Original Portal?
What did you think?
Portal was a short, fantastic and hilarious puzzle-solving, physics-bending, role-playing, mad-computer-controlled game that came out in 2007 from Valve Corporation. It was playable on Xbox and PC - and in 2010 a Mac version was released.
It also won a whole bunch of awards!
Is Portal 2 the Most Awesome Game in the History of Computer Games?
If you had to choose between Portal 2 and anything else, would you pick Portal 2?
And check out the awesome list of the
Top Portal & Portal 2 Memes
YES. We will all have cake.
christinsword says:
Haven't actually played it yet...but believe me when I say I really want to!
Zedyo1009 says:
YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSS, say no and I will make you wish you could die :D
Resjes says:
It's a great game! :)
theportalfan says:
awesome game i pick it above all games ever made including portal
agilewords_2 says:
nice
God says:
Portal 2 has some of the most hilarious gameplay of any puzzle game and it has a great storyline.So i say Hell Yeah!
GLaDOS says:
Portal 2 is soo epic! I just love that game soo much! Ive already beat the whole game like 36 times maybe more! I want a plush campanion cube tho :((
says:
Very innovative game, and funny ending
Bogdan says:
I say, it's the best videogame in human history.
Reisgar42 says:
It's the very best anything ever in the history of everything.
Mr. bleah says:
I needed grief counciling to deal with the loss of my companion cube
Mr. bleah says:
The grief counciling is a lie
Justin says:
One of the best storylines in gaming history, right beside HL2 . I think we're looking at the perfect game here.
Jack says:
Oh heck yes! if you played one second of portal youll love it
KiteEye says:
there will be cake, you will be one of the ingredients. . .
JUL3 says:
Of fucking course, it's a VALVe game isn't it?
some1 says:
heeeeeeeeeell yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah!
Harold Zoid says:
It will be awesome. It's portal, with more stuff, all of which looks awesome.
Awesome + Awesome=Double Awesome
kliein says:
of course it would be
Piedoom says:
I disagree with Cherrybomb- although portal 1 was funny, it was not humor alone that let to its tremendous success. It was that it was different. Oh, yeah and Portal 2 will be awesome. Yep- well, I mean- I think it's tied with every other game in the OB including Tf2 (which I find awesome, too) But since portal 2 is not out yet, you must place the device on the ground and lie on your stomach with your arms at your sides. A party associ--- *slap*
PS: my security word was wootbug.
That's amazing.
No. We will all be baked.
Frank says:
It is the most awesome game ever i just completed single player and it was amazing, i tried some co-op and it was hilarious fun. A must have game.
radonas says:
At least IF WE WERE THE CAKE. HEall yeah.
Guyverguyjr says:
I think this time your gonna die. Not all the time heroes can stay alive.
An Introduction To Portal
...with Portal 2 teasers!
[NB: Steam offered Portal as a free download in May, to celebrate it being available on Mac - this is no longer the case, but the promotional video is still a good introduction. Steam is the gaming 'platform' - you can download games through it, and you need an account to play them. Valve is the company that made Portal]
Steam for the Mac has been released, and Aperture Science couldn't be happier.
Since May 12th, millions of new recruits have poured into the Aperture Science Enrichment Center for Portal testing. If they are ever found, we are sure they would want you to know that the wheels of science turn ever onward. Today, in an effort to restaff, Aperture Science directs your attention to this motivational recruitment video.
Release Date: 18th April, 2011
"Even though Portal 2 will arrive slightly later than planned, all life on earth won't instantaneously stop as every molecule in your body explodes at the speed of light, which is what would happen should a rip ever appear in the fabric of Valve Time"
The release of Portal 2, originally set at 26th October, 2010, has been pushed back until 2011, because "making games is hard."
The latest announce,ent was that it would be released on the NINTH of FEBRUARY. I'm not sure I believe them :D
Optimistically, this is counting down to my birthday instead. At which there really will be cake.
Edit for 19th November: They lied. Latest release date is now April 22nd for Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 - except in North America, where it is the 18th of April
Countdown to Portal 2 Release
Portal 2 comes to PS3! The E3 Trailer
The trailer from the E3 convention!
Portal 2 Trailer [HD]: Meet Wheatley
Demo Gameplay Part 1: Meet Wheatley the... robotic eyeball who introduces you around!
Portal Credits Songs
I'm doing Science and I'm still alive.
(lyrics on the right)
As a follow-up, Jonathon Coulton returned to write the credits song in Portal 2 - "Want You Gone"
Want You Gone!
Portal 2 Quotes!
We`ve both said a lot of things that you`re going to regret.
You can vote for the best and most favourite quotes from Portal 2 here! Also, being burnt is now officially being thermally discouraged.
GLaDOS: Here come the test results: you are a horrible person. That's what it says. We weren't even testing for that.
4 points
Cave Johnson: Those of you who volunteered to be injected with praying Mantis DNA, I've got some good news and some bad news.
Bad news is we are postponing the test indefinitel more...3 points
Can you say anything? Okay, that was a jump. Jumping is what you just did there.
2 points
GLaDOS: You're not just a regular moron. You're DESIGNED to be a moron!
2 points
Wheatley: There's a password. It's fine, I'll - I'll just hack it. Not a problem.
Okay, A-A-A-A-A-A. Um, I thought that was going to more...2 points
GLaDOS: He's not just a regular moron. He's the product of the greatest minds of a generation working together with the expressed purpose of building the dumbest moron who ever lived...and you just put him in charge of the entire facility. *slow clap*
2 points
GLaDOS: I honestly, truly didn't think you'd fall for that trap.
In fact, I designed a much more elaborate trap fur more...2 points
GLaDOS: Okay. Look. We`ve both said a lot of things that you`re going to regret... but I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.
2 points
Cave Johnson: If you've cut yourself during one of our testing procedures, you may have noticed your blood has turned to pure gasoline.
That's perfectly normal; that just means the invis more...2 points
This next test is very dangerous. To help you remain tranquil in the face of almost certain death, smooth jazz will be deployed in three. Two. One.
2 points
GLaDOS: Most people emerge from suspension terribly undernourished. I want to congratulate you on beating the odds and somehow managing to pack on a few pounds.
2 points
Some emergency testing may require exposure to lethal military androids. Rest assured that all lethal military androids have been taught to read and provided with one copy of the Laws of Robotics. To share.
2 points
GLaDOS: It says this next test was designed by one of Aperture's Nobel prize winners. It doesn't say what the prize was for. Well, I know it wasn't for being immune to neurotoxin.
2 points
GLaDOS: That jumpsuit you're wearing looks stupid. That's not me talking. It's right here in your file.
On other people it looks fine. But right here a sc more...2 points
To start preparing for human testing again, I checked an old suggestion box. The number one request: less deadly tests. That's ridiculous. How do they know for sure the tests are deadly if they could still write the suggestion?
2 points
Cave Johnson: All these science spheres are made out of asbestos, by the way. Keeps out the rats. Let us know if you feel a shortness of breath, a persistent dry cough, or your heart stopping. Because that's not part of the test. That's asbestos.
2 points
GLaDOS: It seems the Aerial Faith plate isn't calibrated for someone of your generous...ness...
2 points
Turret (pitfully): Hello? Wheatley: Ughh, don't make eye contact
Turret: Hello?
Wheatley: No thanks,
Turret: I just more...1 point
GLaDOS: I`ve been really busy being dead... you know - after you murdered me.
Wheatley: YOU did WHAT?!1 point
Power-up lnitiated
[Wheatley] Ok, don't panic! I can still stop this... more...1 point
[GLaDOS] Do you know the biggest lesson I learned from what you did? We're a lot alike, you and I. You tested me. I tested you. You killed me, I... Oh no wait. I guess I haven't killed you yet... Well, food for thought.
1 point
Cave Johnson: When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade.
Make life take back the lemons back! Get mad! I do more...1 point
GLaDOS: [to the robots] To reiterate, this is not a competition. Still, if it were, Orange would be winning ... It's not though.
1 point
Deploying Surprise in 3... 2...1... Surprise! I made it all up. *Party Whistle*
1 point
Cave Johnson: If the laws of physics don't apply in the future, then god help you.
1 point
Wheatley: Most test subjects do experience some, uh, cognitive deterioration after a few months in suspension. Now, you've been under for quite a lot longer, and its *not* out of the question that you might have a *very* minor case of serious brain damage
1 point
Wheatley: Oh, for God's sake... They told me that if I ever turned this flashlight on, I would die! They told me that about everything! I don't even know why they bother giving me this stuff if they didn't want me to use it; it's pointless! Mad!
1 point
I give you credit, I guess you are listening to me. But for the record, you don't have to go that slowly. Waddle over to the elevator and we'll continue the testing.
1 point
GLaDOS: [to the robots] Keep in mind that - like Albert Einstein and his cousin Terry - history will only remember one of you.
1 point
Cave Johnson: You're not part of the control group, by the way. You get the gel. Last poor son-of-a-gun got blue paint.
1 point
GLaDOS: [to the Cooperative Testing Initiative robots] These next tests require cooperation. Consequently, they have never been solved by a human. That's where you come in. You don't know pride. You don't know fear. You don't know anything. You'll be
1 point
Oh this feels so great, we can walk anywhere we want without having to be attached to some railing! Hmm, where should we go? Let's just follow the railing I guess...
1 point
"I absolutely guarantee one hundred percent that its this way!" "..Nah, its not that way"
1 point
Adventure Core ('Rick'): Hey, lady, do you have a gun? Actually, nevermind, YOU hold the gun. I'll just use a knife. Do you have a knife? That's ok, I'll just distract him while you take care of it, pretty lady.
1 point
GLaDOS: I used to just test. I didn't get murdered, or get turned into a potato, or eaten by birds. None of that happened until YOU showed up.
1 point
Wheatley: HAHAHA! DEATH TRAP... Are they killing you, stomp twice if you're alive, and, don't stomp obviously if you are dead... Maybe they learned how to use garottes, which is why it's so quiet... (later) Ah, they were the crap turrets weren't they...
1 point
Trivia Core: 89% of magic tricks are not magic. Technically they are sorcery.
1 point
Trivia Core: At some point in their lives 1 in 6 children will be abducted by the dutch
1 point
GLaDOS: This is the part where he kills us.
Wheatley: Hello! This is the part where I kill you!
more...1 point
Wheatley: "Oh you came back? Uhh, Actually I hadn't planned for this... go ahead and jump into that pit right over there would you?"
"Your parents are down there! Your not adopted more...1 point
Defective Turret Testing Area: Template...
Hello.
Response...
Hello.
*passes*
Template...
Hello.
more...1 point
GLaDOS: Science has now validated your birth mother's decision to abandon you on a doorstep.
1 point
GLaDOS: Remember before when I was talking about smelly garbage standing around being useless?
That was a metaphor. I was actually talking about more...1 point
GlaDOS:Did you know humans frown on weight variances? If you want to upset a human just say their the weight variance is above or below the norm.
1 point
Wheatley: Hey partner! I'm speaking in an accent that is beyond her range of hearing!
GLaDOS: Little metal ball, I CAN hear you.
Wheatley: more...1 point
You are navigating these test chambers faster than I can build them. So feel free to slow down and...do whatever it is you do when you're not destroying this facility.
1 point
Well here we are again, It's always such a pleasure, Remember when you tried to kill me twice?
Oh, how we laughed and laughed,
Except I wasn't laughing,
more...1 point
GLaDOS: Sorry about the mess, I've really let the place go since you killed me. By the way, thanks for that.
1 point
GLaDOS: Federal regulations require me to warn you that this next test chamber...[sultry, drawn out] is looking pretty good.
1 point
GLaDOS: These bridges are made of natural light that I pump in from the surface. If you rubbed your cheek on one it would be like [happy] standing outside with the sun shining on your face. [grim] It would also set your hair on fire. So don't actually do
1 point
GLaDOS: Well, I suppose we could just sit in this room and glare at each other until somebody drops dead.
1 point
GLaDOS: Impersonating a stalemate associate? I just added that to the list. It's a list I've made of all the things you've done. Well, it's a list I am making. Because you're still doing things even though I'm telling you to stop. Stop, by the way.
1 point
GLaDOS: No tricks. This potato only generates 1.1 volts of electricity. I literally do not have the energy to lie to you.
That extra half volt helps but it isn't going to p more...1 point
GLaDOS: OK, I guess emotional outbursts require more than 1.6 volts. Now we know that. We just need to relax. We're still going to find out what the hell is going on here. But calmly.
1 point
GLaDOS: Say. You're good at murder. Could you [pecked] OW! murder this bird for me?
1 point
GLaDOS: In case you're still wondering, yes, I'm still a potato. Go away.
1 point
GLaDOS: I was getting so lonely down here. It's good to finally hear someone else's voice. I'm kidding of course. God, I hate you.
1 point
GLaDOS: Luckily by the looks of things he knows about as much about test building as logical contradictions.
1 point
Glados I know how humans make more humans and, frankly, it's ridiculous. And it already assumes you have a human, which I hope somebody got fired over.
1 point
Glados:The humans closed this test because they said it was too deadly. I thought they would have moved it into the testing track hall of fame for that.
1 point
Glados: I'll interpret that gesture to mean you want me to become even more vindictive towards you.
1 point
Glados: Humans must have some purpose other than a place to store your neurotoxin. Something I failed to notice before. An intangible quality that makes their test results significant.
1 point
Glados: As an impartial collaboration facilitator it would be unfair of me to name my favorite member of your team.
However, it's perfectly fair to hint at in a way t more...1 point
GLaDOS: I don't want to drive a wedge between the two of you. But I've been studying Blue's performance and I don't know how to put this. I'm certain you're trying very hard.
1 point
OK fine, let's all act like humans. Look at me. Boy, do I love sweating. Let's convert beef and leaves into energy and excrete them later and go shopping.
1 point
Blue, please disregard the following statement. Orange, you have been a shining light in an otherwise ungodly morass of incompetence.
1 point
I've been doing some reading. Did you know the word "orange" is derived from the same Latin root as the word "traitor"?
1 point
Credit where credit's due. You're both doing a great job of disappointing me.
1 point
Blue, how well do you really know Orange? Do you trust Orange? What if I told you that you aren't Orange's first cooperative partner?
1 point
Welcome back quitters. Maybe you can find another course for you to fail.
1 point
The two of you have forged an excellent partnership: with one of you handling the cerebral challenges, and the other ready to ponderously waddle into action should the course suddenly become an eating contest.
1 point
Perhaps I should have specified: teamwork is a concept in which two or more people work together, usually with the goal of not failing horribly.
1 point
I can't decide which is my favorite: the crushers for crushing you or the reassembly machine for putting you back together so you can be crushed again.
1 point
Blue, you are the most advanced model of robot Aperture Science has ever discontinued.
1 point
This is a bridge building exercise. The humans were miserable at this. Mostly because you can not build bridges out of tears.
1 point
Adventure Core: I'll tell ya, it's times like this I wish I had a waist so I could wear all my black belts. Yeah, I'm a black belt. In pretty much everything. Karate. Larate. Jiu Jitsu. Kick punching. Belt making. Taekwondo. Bedroom.
1 point
The bell invites / Hear the turret / For it is a knell / That summons to heaven / Or to hell
Eastrer Egg: Written on painting. From Macbeth ii. more...1 point
That just goes to show that people with brain damage are the real heroes.
1 point
Cave Johnson: All right. We're working on a little teleportation experiment. Now, this doesn't work with all skin types, so try to remember which skin is yours, and if it doesn't teleport along with you, we'll do what we can to sew you right back into it.
1 point
Cave Johnson: Now, if you're part of Control Group Kepler-Seven, we implanted a tiny microchip about the size of a postcard into your skull.
1 point
Cave Johnson: We're just throwing science at a wall here and seeing what sticks
1 point
GLaDOS: The birth parents you are trying to reach do not love you, please hang up and never call again
Wow, how sad, but also quite impressive... maybe t more...1 point
Do you know what rhymes with Science? Compliance. Do you know what doesn't rhyme with Compliance? Neurotoxin.
1 point
"The Schrodinger's Cat Paradox outlines a situation in which a cat in a box must be considered, for all intents and purposes, simultaneously alive and dead. Schrodinger created this paradox as a justification for killing cats.
1 point
Wheatley: "I'll be honest: the death traps have been a bit of a failure so far. For both of us, I think you'll agree.
And you are getting very close to my lair...'lair', more...1 point
Cave Johnson: The boys in the lab are telling me I shoudn't have mentioned the control group and that I should stop making these pre-recorded messages. That gave me an idea: MAKE MORE PRE RECORDED MESSAGES! I PAY THE BILLS I'LL TALK ABOUT THE CONTROL GROU
1 point
Fact Core: 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 pens pens pens pens pens apples oranges pears plums kumquats tangeriens lemons%uFEFF limes avacado tomato banana papiya guava error error error file not found error error error fact not found fact not found.
1 point
Wheatley: "Let the games begin. Let's see uhh... A computer! I expected that. Let's tick that off "Computer".. Tick.
1 point
Wheatley: No, seriously. Do come back. Come back, please. Oh, you came back! I didn't plan for this. Um, can't reset the death trap. Um -- OOH! Could you just, could you just jump into that pit? Would you just jump into that pit for me? Could you, would y
You're saying to yourself, why should I jump into the more...1 point
GLaDOS: The scientists were always hanging cores on me to regulate my behavior. I've heard voices all my life. But now I hear the voice of a conscience, and it's terrifying, because for the first time it's my voice.
1 point
Cave Johnson: I punch those numbers into my calculator it makes a happy face.'
1 point
Stalemate detected. Core transfer cannot continue...
Wheatley: "Pull me out pull me out pull me out more...1 point
Glados: It's your old friend, deadly neurotoxin. If I were you, I'd take a deep breath. And hold it.
Wheatley: "Ooagh! Ow! Agh! Ugh! Ungh! GAH! Ow! more...1 point
GLaDOS: I suppose we could just sit in here and stare at each other until somebody drops dead.
1 point
All of our automated turrets have been taught to read, and given a copy of the three laws of robotics. one copy. to share.
1 point
Wheatley: You know I almost got a job down here in manufacturing. But who did the foreman eventually go with? Only an exact replica of himself. Yea? Nepotism
1 point
Awesome Moments From Portal 2
Watch some of the funniest lines in Portal 2
The History of Aperture Science
The origins of the Enrichment Centre and GLaDOS
- 1953 - Aperture Science begins operations as a manufacturer of shower curtains. Early product line provides a very low-tech portal between inside and outside your shower.
- 1956 - Eisenhower administration awards Aperture a contract to provide shower curtains to all branches of the military except the Navy.
- 1957 - 1975 - Mostly shower curtains.
- 1978 - Aperture Founder and CEO, Cave Johnson, is exposed to mercury while secretly developing a dangerous mercury-injected rubber sheeting from which he plans to manufacture seven deadly shower curtains to be given as gifts to each member of the House Naval Appropriations committee.
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1979 - Both of Cave Johnson's kidneys fail. Brian damaged, dying, and incapable of being convinced that time is not now flowing backwards, Johnson lays out a three tiered R&D program. The results, he says, will 'guarantee the continued success of Aperture Science far into the fast-approaching distant past.'
Tier 1: The Heimlich Counter-Manoeuvre - A reliable technique for interrupting the life-saving Heimlich Manoeuvre.
Tier 2: The Take-A-Wish Foundation - A charitable organisation that will purchase wishes from the parents of terminally ill children and redistribute them to wish-deprived but otherwise health adults.
Tier 3: 'Some kind of rip in the fabric of space... That would... Well, it'd be like, I don't know, something that would help with the shower curtains I guess. I haven't worked this idea out as much as the wish-taking one.' - 1981 - Diligent Aperture engineers complete the Heimlich Counter-Manoeuvre and Take-A-Wish Foundation initiative. The company announces products related to the research in a lavish, televised ceremony. These products become immediately, wildly unpopular. After a string of very public choking and despondent sick child disasters, senior company officials are summoned before a Senate investigative committee. During these proceedings, an engineer mentions that some progress has been made of Tier 3, the 'man-sized ad hoc quantum tunnel through physical space with possible applications as a shower curtain.' The committee is quickly permanently recessed, as Aperture is granted an open-ended contract to secretly continue research on the 'Portal' and Heimlich Counter-Manoeuvre projects.
- 1981-1985 - Work progresses on the 'Portal' project. Several high ranking Fatah personnel choke to death on lamb chunks despite the intervention of their bodyguards.
- 1986 - Word reaches Aperture management that another defence contractor called 'Black Mesa' is working on a similar portal technology. In response to this news, Aperture begins developing the Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System (GLaDOS), an artificially intelligent research assistant and disk operating system.
- 1996 - After a decade spent bringing the disk operating parts of GLaDOS to a state of more or less basic functionality, working begins on the Genetic Lifeform component.
- Several Years Later (Official Date Classified) - The untested AI is activated for the first time as one of the planned activities on Aperture's first annual bring-your-daughter-to-work day.
- PORTAL COMES HERE. Only GLaDOS survives... and Chell.
- Several centuries later Chell returns to the Enrichment Centre, in Portal 2.
The Award-Winning Portal
Play the first Portal Game!
AWARDS
* At the 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards, Portal won Game of the Year, along with the Innovation Award and Best Game Design.
* IGN.com honored Portal with several awards, for Best Puzzle Game for PC and Xbox 360, Most Innovative Design for PC, and Best End Credit Song (for "Still Alive") for Xbox 360, along with overall honors for "Best Puzzle Game", and Most Innovative Design.
* In its Best of 2007, GameSpot honored The Orange Box with 4 awards in recognition of Portal, giving out honors for Best Puzzle Game, "Best New Character(s)" (for GLaDOS), "Funniest Game", and Best Original Game Mechanic (for the portal gun).
* Portal was awarded Game of the Year (PC), Best Narrative (PC), and Best Innovation (PC and console) honors by 1UP.com in its 2007 editorial awards.
* GamePro honored the game for Most Memorable Villain (for GLaDOS) in its Editors' Choice 2007 Awards.
* Portal was awarded the Game of the Year award in 2007 by Joystiq, Good Game, and Shacknews.
* The Most Original Game award by X-Play.
* In Official Xbox Magazine's 2007 Game of the Year Awards, Portal won Best New Character (for GLaDOS), Best Original Song (for "Still Alive"), and Innovation of the Year.
* In GameSpy's 2007 Game of the Year awards, Portal was recognized as Best Puzzle Game,"Best Character" (for GLaDOS), and "Best Sidekick" (for the Weighted Companion Cube).
* A.V. Club called it the Best Game of 2007.
* The webcomic Penny Arcade awarded Portal Best Soundtrack, Best Writing, and Best New Game Mechanic in its satirical 2007 We're Right Awards.
* Eurogamer gave Portal first place in its Top 50 Games of 2007 rankings.
* IGN.com has also placed "GLaDOS", (from "Portal") as the "#1 Video Game Villain" on their Top 100 Villains List.
Wired considered Portal to be one of the most influential games of the first decade of the 21st century, believing it to be the prime example of quality over quantity for video games.
Portal
Amazon Price: $79.99 (as of 06/04/2012)
List Price: $9.99
* Award-winning, innovative gameplay
* The first first-person puzzle action adventure game
* Two bonus games introduce new play challenges
* Support for level editing and mod creation - build your own Portal puzzles
* Hours of single player gaming
Also a classic part of gaming and internet culture that spawned a number of memes!
Previews of the Visual Elements of Portal 2
Portal 2: Concept Art and Screenshots: images from Game Informer magazine
Portal - Transmission Recieved
"Changed radio transmission frequency to comply with federal and state spectrum management regulations"
"Plus, in the event of your death, I personally guarantee that, thanks to the form you were required to sign this morning, your family will not suffer the indignities of a prolonged and costly legal battle against Aperture Science. Trust me, I am rich, and it is a burden I do not wish on anyone.
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Puzzle Elements: The Excursion Funnel
Demonstration 2: Excursion Funnels or 'The weird glowing blue light antigravity tunnel thing!'
Excursion funnels are part of an investigation into how well subjects can solve problems while travelling through a churning tunnel of liquid asbestos. Results so far have been highly informative. They cannot.
Puzzle Elements: The Aerial Faith Plates
Demo Gameplay Part 3 - Aerial Faith Plate or 'the trampoline boards that will make the Companion Cube really seasick, not that you care'
Aerial Faith Plates are part of a larger trust experiment designed to help the Enrichment Center discover whther the capacity for trust is affected by being catapaulted through space.
What Platforms Will Portal 2 Be Available On?
Portal 2 will be available to play on
PC
Max OS X
Playstation 3
Xbox 360
Official System Requirements
Portal 2 system requirements according to Steam
Processor: 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher)
Memory: 1GB XP / 2GB Vista
Hard Disk Space: At least 7.6 GB of Space
Video: Video card must be 128 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for Pixel Shader 2.0b (ATI Radeon X800 or higher / NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or higher / Intel HD Graphics 2000 or higher).
Audio: DirectX 9.0c compatible
OS: MAC OS X 10.6.6 or higher
Processor: Intel Core Duo Processor (2GHz or better)
Memory: 2GB
Hard Disk Space: At least 7.6 GB of Space
Video: ATI Radeon 2400 or higher / NVIDIA 8600M or higher
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Puzzle Elements: Thermal Discouragement Beam
Demo Gameplay Part 4 - Thermal Discouragement Beam or 'GIANT LAZORZZZ YEEHAAA'
Basically you have a 'magnifying glass' Companion Cube, a Giant Red Burning Laser Beam and little 'ant' turrets. You then channel your childhood cruelty to the logical end. Or you can die.
Puzzle Elements: Pneumatic Diversity Vent
Demo Gameplay Part 5 - Pneumatic Diversity Vent or 'the most fun air-tunnel hydro slide thing ever'
'Passive Monitoring' ensures objects in vent are identified, but never judged.
This one looks the most fun so far - you can suck up all the little turrets and watch them fly all over the place. Plus you get to 'ambush by giant vacuum' and blow a wall down on them in a sneak attack!
Funny Graphs: Time Valve Spent Developing Portal 2
There is no cake. Now let them eat cake.
Puzzle Elements: Repulsion Gel
Demo Gameplay Part 5: Repulsion Gel or 'bouncy liquid rubber stuff'
Aperture's second attempt at a dietetic pudding substitute resulted in Repulsion Gel, a much sweeter, slightly less non-toxic form of fiverglass insulation that cause subsequent ingested food items to bounce of the lining of the dieter's distorted stomach and out his or her mouth.
For Various Reasons, this was also pulled from the shelf.
Puzzle Elements: Propulsion Gel
Demo Gameplay Part 7: Propulsion Gel or 'the Chemical Zooming Mudslide'
Designed as a Diet Aid and marketed under the name 'Propulsion Pudding', this sweet, largely non-toxic liquid form of fibreglass insulation increased the velocity of any food that followed it through the digestive tract, leaving the body no time to absorb calories.
Propulsion Pudding was pulled from the shelves when it was discovered that digestion plays several crucial roles in the eating process, such as breaking food down into small,manageable chunks before it is violently expelled from the human body.
Characters: Who Will You Meet In Portal 2?
(so far)
Chell - You (female escapee/test subject)
GLaDOS - Unfriendly AI
Wheatley (placeholder) - Personality Sphere
Turrets
Possible cameo from the Weighted Companion Cube
Wheatley The Personality Sphere - Annoying or Not?
Do you think you could put up with Wheatley throughout the whole game?
GLaDOS IS BACK.
And she's not happy
- "Well, you found me. Congratulations. Was it worth it? Because despite your violent behavior, the only thing you've managed to break so far, is my heart. Maybe we could settle for that, and we'll just call it a day. I guess we both know that isn't going to happen. You chose this path. Now I have a surprise for you. Deploying surprise in 5... 4--
Time out for a second. That wasn't supposed to happen. Do you see the thing that fell out of me? What is that? It's not the surprise. I've never seen it before. Nevermind. It's a mystery I'll solve later.
...By myself. Because you'll be dead."
Portal 1
- Oh. It's you. It's been a long time. How have you been? I've been really busy being dead. You know... after you murdered me. Look. We've both said a lot of things we're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.
We're a lot alike, you and I. You tested me. I tested you. You killed me. I ki--
Wait... I guess I haven't killed you yet. Hm.
Food for thought during this next test.
Portal 2
Top Ten Awesome GLaDOS Quotes
Vote For The Best Quotes From Our Favourite Murderous AI
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The Enrichment Center is committed to the well-being of all participants. Cake and grief counseling will be available at the conclusion of the test. Thank you for helping us help you help us all.
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"It's a mystery I'll solve later. By myself. Because you'll be dead."
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"Please note that we have added a consequence for failure. Any contact with the chamber floor will result in an unsatisfactory mark on your official testing record. Followed by death."
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"You will be baked, and then there will be cake."
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I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportunity to succeed. There was even going to be a party for you. A big party that all your friends were invited to. I invited your best friend the Companion Cube.
Of course, he couldn't come because you murdered h more...4 points
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But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.
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Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and I was like, "Goodbye," and you were like, "NO WAI," and then I was all, "We pretended we were going to murder you." That was great.
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We've both said a lot of things you're going to regret.
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I've been busy being dead
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The Aperture Science Center promises to always offer safe testing environments. In dangerous testing environments, the Aperture Science Center promises to offer helpful advice. For instance, the floor here will kill you. Try to avoid it.
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Will there be cake?
Or will all the cake be gone?
Flynn_the_Cat predicts:
I predict that the cake is a... not-there thing. >.>
christinsword predicts:
By the time I get to it...I suspect all the cake will be gone...but I hope not! Incredibly-dedicated lens
san119018 predicts:
some doubts about this game
agilewords_2 predicts:
the game is just awesome
hitman_991 predicts:
this game will suck just like the one before it
kieran2000 predicts:
there will be no cake cause it would be coverd in vines and bug who wolud want to eat that
Zombie Cake? Words from Valve writer Erik Wolpaw
And can we actually trust anything Valve says on this matter? HAVE THEY EATEN THE CAKE ALREADY?
"For instance, cake," he added. "I've had enough cake jokes."
"The cubes are in there because they're a gameplay element, and obviously, GLaDOS is back, but there's a bunch of new gameplay and we want to tell an interesting new story," he said.
"We didn't jettison everything, but I absolutely do not want to try and resurrect a three-year-old meme. That seems like it would be kind of sad. It's not a good idea."
Quotes from Valve writer Erik Wolpaw, in an interview with Gamasutra: Portal 2's Wolpaw: 'I Do Not Want To Resurrect A Three-Year-Old Meme'
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SPOILER Valve cunningly referenced the Cake Is A Lie meme by having a fake door leading to cake.
Weighted Companion Cube
The Weighted Companion Cube may be still alive!
The beloved, silent, defenceless Weighted Companion Cube has been spotted in the previews! Looks like it pulled a 'Luke Skywalker' after being dropped down the incinerator chute!
(of course, we can't be sure...)
Hoopy
Co-Op RoBots!
Play with a friend as a turret and a personality core!
The cop-operative mode will allow two people to play as two bots - a turret and a personality core - who both get portal guns and can travel through each other's portals. Console versions will have a split screen mode, and PC versions will have picture-in-picture to allow for easy communication.
Interviews with Valve and Voiceovers
Talking About Portal 2 With Real People
Portal 2 Official Art
GLaDOS and Chell in the Game Informer Article
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Who Else Is Getting Excited? Any Recent News?
Google Blog Searches for Portal 2
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- Valve announces Dota 2 as free to play -- and there will be hats
- Valve, creators of some of the best-selling games ending in '2' ever made (Team Fortress 2, Portal 2, and Left 4 Dead 2) today announced that Dota 2 (Defense of the Ancients 2) will be free-to-play--as will all playable heroes in the game.
- Portal 2 sells over 4 million copies, proving gamers love testing
- Portal 2 is what some might consider a hugely successful game, now with over 4 million copies sold woldwide, developer Valve revealed today. Hey, people just love to do science, especially when it involves malformed turrets and ridiculously stupid AI.
- Portal 2 Makes Super Street Fighter II A Fighter For The Ages
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Not in cruelty
Not in wrath
The REAPER came today
An ANGEL visited
this gray path
And took the cube away
(Portal)
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- This game is amazing I love it so much. Its annoying cause I have a really old computer and I get tons of glitches. Try solving the puzzles when the gels dont show up on surfaces. I call it Portal 2 pro mode ;)
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- The first Portal was awesome! I hope they won't make the second one unnecessarily complicated. The beauty of the original game was that it was so stylized and simple. I see they are adding lots of stuff to it, hopefully it won't lose the essence of what Portal was.
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- I've seen my brother play the first portal. I wonder what will happen in the second one.
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This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
Aperture Science
We do what we must
because we can.
For the good of all of us.
Except the ones who are dead.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake.
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
And the Science gets done.
And you make a neat gun.
For the people who are still alive.
I'm not even angry.
I'm being so sincere right now.
Even though you broke my heart.
And killed me.
And tore me to pieces.
And threw every piece into a fire.
As they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you!
Now these points of data make a beautiful line.
And we're out of beta.
We're releasing on time.
So I'm GLaD. I got burned.
Think of all the things we learned
for the people who are still alive.
Go ahead and leave me.
I think I prefer to stay inside.
Maybe you'll find someone else to help you.
Maybe Black Mesa
THAT WAS A JOKE.
HAHA. FAT CHANCE.
Anyway, this cake is great.
It's so delicious and moist.
Look at me still talking
when there's Science to do.
When I look out there, it makes me GLaD I'm not you.
I've experiments to run.
There is research to be done.
On the people who are still alive.
And believe me I am still alive.
I'm doing Science and I'm still alive.
I feel FANTASTIC and I'm still alive.
While you're dying I'll be still alive.
And when you're dead I will be still alive.
STILL ALIVE (x2)
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