"She Was Never Ugly" - A short rant on Chell's Portal 2 re-design - Games

[QUOTE=Starscre4M;30380587]why people keeping saying that??????????????? it isn't the same person the Zoey from l4d BETA was the same person [img]http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090803122305/left4dead/images/2/24/Left4dead020.jpg[/img] the final Zoey is another person [img]http://ludoslegio.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/sonja-kinski.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] I hope this is a joke, seriously. Because I'm telling you, this is hilarious. And you're wrong, even Valve said that the current Zoey is based off of the same person Chell is based off of.

[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;30380531]I never said she was the [b]ideal[/b] female protagonist, but she is definitely one of the first that paved the way for much better female protagonists. And she fits for what I'm saying, she's made attractive yet she's not some weak woman who needs a man to save her.[/QUOTE] That's fair. iirc the guy who invented the original character was a pretty cool dude, had a big fight with the marketing department over how she was made into a sex object for the advertising--he was really mad about [url=http://webspace.webring.com/people/oo/ostercy2003/Lara_Croft_and_Duke_Nukem.jpg]this[/url] for example. [editline]11th June 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=CakeMaster7;30380600]I hope this is a joke, seriously. Because I'm telling you, this is hilarious. And you're wrong, even Valve said that the current Zoey is based off of the same person Chell is based off of.[/QUOTE] Source? Zoey doesn't look remotely asian.

[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;30380600]I hope this is a joke, seriously. Because I'm telling you, this is hilarious. And you're wrong, even Valve said that the current Zoey is based off of the same person Chell is based off of.[/QUOTE] could you show me a source of this? next time you finish a l4d campaign read the credits, you will see that Zoey was based on Sonja, and not Alesia Glidewell... also from the l4dwikia [quote]Her original design was based on Alesia Glidewell, who also worked with Valve on Portal as a model for the character Chell. However, when the character designs were updated later in development, Zoey was made to resemble actress/model Sonja Kinski instead. [/quote] [url]http://left4dead.wikia.com/wiki/Zoey[/url]

At some angles, Chell looks like she's from India, which makes her unattractive to me, because I don't think many indian girls are pretty. I liked her new look

If i was a test subject in Aperture. Ofcourse id be messy. The room ingame shows no sign of new clothes or a shower really. She must be a smelly smelly no parents.

Damn, does that bother you that much? Though she looks better in Portal 2, her eyes seems way to opened.

Her eyes are probably like that due to her stasis and all the gels that get on her.

[QUOTE=Dronaroid;30375824]The end of Lab Rat [sp]shows that she's abnormally stubborn[/sp]. With that, you can go a really fucking long way.[/QUOTE]Yeah, just ask Cave Johnson.

In portal 1 it looks like she has freaking fetal alcohol syndrome. Yup.

People like the OP who are more concerned with how ugly an ingame character is make me wonder about the future of the human race

She went from someone who looked like a prisoner that had been trapped by a scary giant sentient computer that had been forced to solve complex tests and never shower for... who knows how long, to action movie star always with perfect hair and makeup. This is fact. Her first design had more character, but her second design could do porn.

let's just put it this way. [img]http://boards.fightingamphibians.org/v/src/130344492526.jpg[/img] [img]http://coedmagazine.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/portal_2_chell.jpg%253Fw%253D400%2526h%253D316[/img] which one would you rather fuck in the ass?

You guys are missing the point that Chell had 500+ years of beauty sleep in between games.

Yeah, what Sie-Sveinhund said. She looks way different in-between games, because, hundreds of years of sleep will do that to you.

How do you guys know? Have you ever slept for hundreds of years and woken up a super model? Edit: This is the best 300th post ever.

I'm sure sleeping for VERY, VERY long like that is bound to make you look pretty good afterwards.

[QUOTE=Louis;30369560]Chell was ugly, she looked messy and like she had the downs.[/QUOTE] Yeah I'd agree with you entirely but... [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6232230/Stuff%20for%20people/Chell.png[/img]

Chell does look different in Portal 2. It was either the years of sleep, the developers choice, or the fact that she probably washed her face...

[QUOTE=Fort83;30385748]you do realize portal is supposed to be in the same universe as half life? and Half life isn't a cartoon. TF2 is the cartoon.[/QUOTE] they said in the commentary that Portal is meant to be silly. like the silly episodes in the x-files, it doesn't ALWAYS have to make sense

[QUOTE=Aspen;30384999]let's just put it this way. [img]http://boards.fightingamphibians.org/v/src/130344492526.jpg[/img] [img]http://coedmagazine.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/portal_2_chell.jpg%253Fw%253D400%2526h%253D316[/img] which one would you rather fuck in the ass?[/QUOTE]Both.

[QUOTE=toxicspill3457;30387317]Both.[/QUOTE] Because you're desperate? :v:

[QUOTE=toxicspill3457;30369538]But saying that she only became hot [i]after[/i] she had been all-dolled up for the cover-art makes my stomach turn.[/QUOTE] :cawg:

[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;30388509]Because you're desperate? :v:[/QUOTE]I find Portal 1's Chell hot because she isn't supposed to be. [editline]meh[/editline] But hey, that's just my preference. Obviously, I'm the minority here. If you simply don't agree, that's fine, and I apologize for ever trying to change that.

[QUOTE=Aspen;30384999]let's just put it this way. [img]http://boards.fightingamphibians.org/v/src/130344492526.jpg[/img] [img]http://coedmagazine.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/portal_2_chell.jpg%253Fw%253D400%2526h%253D316[/img] which one would you rather fuck in the ass?[/QUOTE] the toilet or camera

[IMG]http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/1533/datchell.png[/IMG]

But seriously, this is just one of those games where the main character could of been a pile of hair and still it wouldn't have mattered, specially that she never talks and you barely ever see her.

Don't mean to get off topic, but why do Chell and Alyx both have casts on their right arm?

Because they injured them, why do you think? Consiering that the right arm is their dominate hand, i dont think it would be hard to hurt them, considering the world they live in/things they do.

[QUOTE=Aspen;30384999]let's just put it this way. [img]http://boards.fightingamphibians.org/v/src/130344492526.jpg[/img] [img]http://coedmagazine.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/portal_2_chell.jpg%253Fw%253D400%2526h%253D316[/img] which one would you rather fuck in the ass?[/QUOTE] id do a real woman because im not a neckbeard!!

ITT: Op has hots for a video game character...