Portal (the cake is a lie)

[Spiff]

Has anyone played Portal yet? (part of The Orange Box, the latest addition to Valve's Half-life family)

The best, most innovative game I've played in a long time, and the funniest. A bit too short, but perfect fun otherwise. And the ending was over the top.

I can't get that ending song "I'm Still Alive" from GLaDOS out of my head. Imagine a wisecracking artificial intelligent girlfriend for HAL2000, and you would know GLaDOS.
Warning: Game Spoilers ahead. . .



It's probably not as funny if you haven't played the game, since most of the lyrics are taken from the context of the game.

 

[Berbenli]

"This test is impossible. We are sorry that we put this in, it is unfair and broken. You could leave and have some cake. Seriously, if I were you, I would just quit right now."

 

[Spiff]

"This test is impossible."

LOL. To think I almost fell for that.

 

[justsimon]

I haven't played it, but I've been playing the flash version:

http://portal.wecreatestuff.com/

I've been waiting for Episode 2 to come out, but now I'm too broke to buy it.

 

[screwnutty]

Portal. What an amazing little game. I just love free falling from portal to portal. LOL!

It's the best puzzle game I've ever played and it's addictive too. You really have to use your brain on some of the test chambers!

Team Fortress 2 is a blast. Love the spy and scout. It's like a pixar movie...except with over the top cartoon violence and the taunts are hilarious!!

Half Life 2 and episode one and two are still after 3 years the best puzzle/FPS game ever!! I mean the facial reactions of the characters is simple amazing!

Favourite quotes from Mrs. hal 9000...

"Remember, the Aperture Science ‘Bring Your Daughter to Work Day’ is the perfect time to have her tested."

# "Please note, 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. Good luck."\

# "Stop what you are doing and assume the party escort submission position."

# "As part of a previously mentioned required test protocol, we can no longer lie to you. When the testing is over, you will be… missed!"

"The Enrichment Center is required to remind you that you will be baked, and then there will be cake."

"Look - we're both stuck in this place. I'll use lasers to inscribe a line down the center of the facility, and one half will be where you live, and I'll live in the other half. We won't have to try to kill each other or even talk if we don't feel like it."

"Have I lied to you? I mean, in this room? Trust me."

"Good news. I figured out what that thing you just incinerated was. It was a morality core they installed after I flooded the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin to make me stop flooding the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin."

Funny stupid computer....you get smashed now!

 

[screwnutty]

The guy who wrote the end song for Portal is singing it to a drunken crowd in a bar.

 

[Spiff]

The guy who wrote the end song for Portal is singing it to a drunken crowd in a bar.

Even though I credit him for being part of one of the best game endings ever made, it was just weird hearing him sing it. GLaDOS rocks!

Ellen McLain - the real voice behind GLaDOS

And here's some game commentary by Ellen.

 

[evilest]

A very cool game with a real challenge but it was way too short.

 

[justsimon]

I think my computer is going to be too slow to run Episode 2.

 

[screwnutty]

I think my computer is going to be too slow to run Episode 2.

*swooshing sound* *tardis appears in Sinfulsimon's living room, out steps screwnutty. Turns to Sinfulsimon and gives him a hug. then whispers "buy an xbox and come play with me. Smiles at Sinfulsimon. Goes back into tardis. *swooshing sound again* Tardis dematerializes, leaving sinfulsimon with an awkward stare*