Portal 2: The Cake Is Still A Lie

[SKarious]

Well, I haven't seen it anywhere in this thread yet, so here goes:
From MiracleofSound, the guy who brought you the awesome "Minin' all day long" and "Commander Shepard" comes a new Portal 2 song.

Warning: contains spoilers to Portal 2, Harry Potter & Star Wars.
Also, very catchy.

[dromer]

Somehow I managed to balance a cube perfectly on edge.

[Mando Knight]

Somehow I managed to balance a cube perfectly on edge.

It's possible, just horribly unstable. Good job on doing something that would take hours of frustration and work to repeat.

[Jahkaivah]

Somehow I managed to balance a cube perfectly on edge.

If the laws of physics no longer apply in the future, god help you.

[Arbane]

Well, I haven't seen it anywhere in this thread yet, so here goes:
From MiracleofSound, the guy who brought you the awesome "Minin' all day long" and "Commander Shepard" comes a new Portal 2 song.

Warning: contains spoilers to Portal 2, Harry Potter & Star Wars.
Also, very catchy.

Heh. The singer says: "My IQ's the infinite space from here to the moon". That's a finite amount of space, and (aside from one teapot) it's ALL EMPTY.
How appropriate.

[Destro_Yersul]

Heh. The singer says: "My IQ's the infinite space from here to the moon". That's a finite amount of space, and (aside from one teapot) it's ALL EMPTY.
How appropriate.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was the point of the line.

[SKarious]

Yes, that was the intention of the line.
And now I can't get that song out of my head.
Wait, a teapot?

[Hyudra]

Just played through the single player a second time while I wait for a friend to do co-op with. Got all the single player achievements. It's really worth getting the 'smash tv' achievement, if only for the dialogue along the way.

[Qwertystop]

Yes, that was the intention of the line.
And now I can't get that song out of my head.
Wait, a teapot?

Yeah, the teapot that is impossible to prove the nonexistaince of. Thought experiment parodying religon.

[SKarious]

Ah, that teapot. I like my religious parodies to be of the unicorn variety.

Wait. Just had a brainwave!
After watching Yahtzee's review of Portal (and the other Orange Box games) again,

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And hearing Cave's rant -
Do you think Valve IS planning to give us a lemon bazooka in the next game?

[Qwertystop]

Ah, that teapot. I like my religious parodies to be of the unicorn variety.

Wait. Just had a brainwave!
After watching Yahtzee's review of Portal (and the other Orange Box games) again,

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And hearing Cave's rant -
Do you think Valve IS planning to give us a lemon bazooka in the next game?

What?!
Where did lemon bazookas come up in the review? And how will the current end of Portal 2 give any possible sequel? It's a bit different than the way they ended Portal 1 and edited the ending, because the original ending of 1 was somewhat vague as far as what happened. Also, for Portal 2's ending, they'd need to change the entire credits song.

[Valaqil]

What?!
And how will the current end of Portal 2 give any possible sequel? ... Also, for Portal 2's ending, they'd need to change the entire credits song.

Well, the song mostly just says, IIRC, that she hopes to have less problems by getting rid of you. "Go away and don't come back." What if Chell returns?

Further, the co-op ending is different from the single-player and gives at least two distinct possibilities for continuing with a sequel.

[BRC]

They could do Portal 3 without Chell, but that wouldn't feel right somehow, yet Portal is really about Aperature Science, so if they had Chell outside the testing labs it wouldn't feel like Portal either.

I can think of a couple ways they could make a sequel, but they would all scream "WE WANT MORE MONEY, SOMEBODY PUT CHELL BACK IN THE TESTING CHAMBERS!".

Currently, there is only one way I can think to do Portal 3 properly, and that would be a Prequel. Either the early days of Aperature, with Cave Johnson yelling at you, or the last Fall, revealing how Chell got trapped in the first place.

[The Glyphstone]

So, a game that occurs between P1 and P2? A "midquel"?

[BRC]

So, a game that occurs between P1 and P2? A "midquel"?

No, a Prequal, before Portal 1. We don't know how Chell ended up in the enrichment center in the first place. This would be that story.

Edit: Though my personal "This would be awesome though it makes absolutely no sense" is a cyborg-Chell with a pair of Robotic arms. Her right arm fires Orange Portals and holds GLaDos (if she can be stored in a potato she can be stored in a robo-arm), her left fires Blue Portals and stores Wheatley.
This makes no sense, but it would give us an entire game of GLaDoS-Wheatly banter, plus at least one instance where Chell shuts them up by clapping her hands.

Edit II: Or "Aperture Tales #1: Cave Johnson vs the Mantis Men", tagline, "Now your thinking with combustible lemons"

Edit III, son of Edit: Or Chell gets sent back in time, and must use her skill with portals to help Cave defeat the Mantis Men. Chell and Cave then proceed to travel through various video game continuities, solving problems with a combination of Portals, Combustible Lemons, and Science.

"She's a brain damaged test subject with a portal gun and off-the charts tenacity, he's a shower curtain magnate with a laser that turns blood into gasoline and a thirst for Science. Together, They Fight Crime"

[Grif]

No, a Prequal, before Portal 1. We don't know how Chell ended up in the enrichment center in the first place. This would be that story.

Edit: Though my personal "This would be awesome though it makes absolutely no sense" is a cyborg-Chell with a pair of Robotic arms. Her right arm fires Orange Portals and holds GLaDos (if she can be stored in a potato she can be stored in a robo-arm), her left fires Blue Portals and stores Wheatley.
This makes no sense, but it would give us an entire game of GLaDoS-Wheatly banter, plus at least one instance where Chell shuts them up by clapping her hands.

Edit II: Or "Aperture Tales #1: Cave Johnson vs the Mantis Men", tagline, "Now your thinking with combustible lemons"

Edit III, son of Edit: Or Chell gets sent back in time, and must use her skill with portals to help Cave defeat the Mantis Men. Chell and Cave then proceed to travel through various video game continuities, solving problems with a combination of Portals, Combustible Lemons, and Science.

"She's a brain damaged test subject with a portal gun and off-the charts tenacity, he's a shower curtain magnate with a laser that turns blood into gasoline and a thirst for Science. Together, They Fight Crime"

Time travelling paradoxes. Yummy.

Maybe Chell can travel into our dimension and give Gabe the bopping he so richly deserves for holding out on HL2:Ep 3/HL3 for so long. GIVE HIM LEMONS I SAY!

[Silverraptor]

I'm busy reading through the whole thread, just to see what people thought of it. I came across something that I actually would like to state on my walk through.

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Back where you're suppose to put the defective turret in the scanner, it actually took me forever to solve it. In fact, when it said it was "Going off memory", I thought you had to scan yourself to stop turret production, because you could only jump when you tried to say apple. Then I got the achievement, and thought I solved it. But turrets were still being made, and then I had to start looking around.

More comments on my playthrough to come. Like:

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At the lightbridge over the pit. I had gotten all the way through to the cube, and then was busy, jump/portal/jump/portal to get the bridge to rise and got all the way to the top, yet was still unable to get out of the pit. I then thought, "How do I do it no-?"

*Looks to portal where lightbridge is coming through*

*Facepalms*

[Androgeus]

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Back where you're suppose to put the defective turret in the scanner, it actually took me forever to solve it. In fact, when it said it was "Going off memory", I thought you had to scan yourself to stop turret production, because you could only jump when you tried to say apple. Then I got the achievement, and thought I solved it. But turrets were still being made, and then I had to start looking around.

I had accidental foresight for that part:

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I saw the turrets being thrown over the catwalk when I came in to the room, and released I should be able to catch one. I didn't realised that I would need one. I just though it was a cool place where you could catch as many turrets as you wanted for fun

[The Linker]

Yeah, I did the same thing. I walked into the turret scanning-room all "I saved a broken turret! ^_^ ...Huh, I actually need him!"

[Thufir]

More comments on my playthrough to come. Like:

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At the lightbridge over the pit. I had gotten all the way through to the cube, and then was busy, jump/portal/jump/portal to get the bridge to rise and got all the way to the top, yet was still unable to get out of the pit. I then thought, "How do I do it no-?"

*Looks to portal where lightbridge is coming through*

*Facepalms*

That's a common problem. Well, not necessarily that specific one, but the problem of only thinking about the light bridges and excursion funnels and forgetting that you can go through the portals too.

[Drascin]

I'm busy reading through the whole thread, just to see what people thought of it. I came across something that I actually would like to state on my walk through.

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Back where you're suppose to put the defective turret in the scanner, it actually took me forever to solve it. In fact, when it said it was "Going off memory", I thought you had to scan yourself to stop turret production, because you could only jump when you tried to say apple. Then I got the achievement, and thought I solved it. But turrets were still being made, and then I had to start looking around.

My main problem was that

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I didn't see the portal surface inside the cabin. So I was going around, with the broken turret in tow, thinking "how the hell do I get this thing in hereeeeeeeee " for fifteen minutes straight

[Jahkaivah]

I had accidental foresight for that part:

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I saw the turrets being thrown over the catwalk when I came in to the room, and released I should be able to catch one. I didn't realised that I would need one. I just though it was a cool place where you could catch as many turrets as you wanted for fun

Yeah, I did the same thing. I walked into the turret scanning-room all "I saved a broken turret! ^_^ ...Huh, I actually need him!"

I didn't think to do that, instead when it became apparent that I needed one I headed back and Wheatley shouts "Wait! Where are you going, where are you going?.... Awww have you got an idea?".

That gave me a wonderful point and click adventure vibe as thats just the sort of thing characters say to let you know you're on the right track.

[Lord Fullbladder, Master of Goblins]

.... I spent a while thinking I had to go back and find a way to put the Oracle Turret into the scanner. Heh heh.

[Arbane]

So, I have yet to play this game, but I was watching a friend play it, and I saw the end. The boss battle looked a little lackluster, mostly an upgrade of Portal's boss battle, but the ending itself was RIDICULOUS and SPECTACULAR and BEAUTIFUL. The turret song is ridiculously catchy and heavenly, in its own strange way.

The ending is really nice, but for some fool reason, on my computer, the sound starts skiskiskiskiskiskipping when the elevator ride starts. ARRRGH.

[Mando Knight]

I totally called it.

Also, Portal needs an official map editor. That way we can be as fail-tastic at designing puzzles as Wheatley.

And now, Valve is releasing a version of the tools they used to build the official maps.

[ShortOne]

I can't wait. I want more co-op maps.

[Jahkaivah]

I totally called it.

And now, Valve is releasing a version of the tools they used to build the official maps.

You called that a company that releases SDKs for all of of their games was going to release the SDK for their latest game having already stated plans to release an SDK for it.

[clap clap]

Good, that's still working.

[Qwertystop]

Any idea if there's a way to buy one copy of the game and play it simultaneously on 2 computers? Offline mode doesn't count, since I'm aiming for co-op. I have found a way to do LAN co-op, so it being one account doesn't matter.
EDIT: Never mind, just re-read the instructions below and realized that since only one needs to be in Online mode, it doesn't actually matter that I only have 1 copy.
If you're interested, LAN is accessed by the following method:

On the first PC(steam in online mode):
1. Click on Play Cooperative Game so that you can see a list of your steam friends
2. Go to console and type 'sv_lan 1' and press enter
3. Type map mp_coop_lobby_2 (or mp_coop_start)

On the second PC(steam in offline mode)
1. From main menu go into developer console
2. While first PC is loading the map, type 'connect <First PC's IP address>' into the console and press enter.

It will not save data for PC 2, however.
the _lobby_2 is the Hub ,the _start is the first levels, pre-hub.

[Mando Knight]

You called that a company that releases SDKs for all of of their games was going to release the SDK for their latest game having already stated plans to release an SDK for it.

[clap clap]

Good, that's still working.

Well, in case you thought you'd get a quick hundred bucks betting against the sun rising...

[pffh]

I'm playing around in with the authoring tools but I can't figure out how to make a half block sized wall or how to lower a wall by half a block. Anyone here that can help me out?