• Portal 2 - Nothing but the Facts
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[b]Excursion Funnels[/b] are part of an investigation into how well test subjects can solve problems while travelling through a churning funnel of liquid asbestos. Results so far have been highly informative: They cannot.
1986- Black Mesa starts testing Xen portals, and portals in A.S. are developed. 1995- Gordon Freeman is employed. (This is when Hl1 was released) Gordon then turns on the xen portal thing. Kills Nihilanth. 1996- Chell joins A.S. to test out the portal gun. 1998?- 7hr War begins. Approx. 2000- Glados is turned on. Chell is the sole survivor of the neurotoxins; she slept far away from Glados, and has oxygen supplied in her bed. Humans lost the 7hr war. Chell wakes up. 2015- Gordon returns from stasis, does all Hl2 story. 2100- Chell returns from stasis. What. Theory: The portal storm closing caused time to jump 100 years later, in the near vicinity.
[QUOTE=Pdan4;20622733]1986- Black Mesa starts testing Xen portals, and portals in A.S. are developed. 1995- Gordon Freeman is employed. (This is when Hl1 was released) Gordon then turns on the xen portal thing. Kills Nihilanth. 1996- Chell joins A.S. to test out the portal gun. 1998?- 7hr War begins. Approx. 2000- Glados is turned on. Chell is the sole survivor of the neurotoxins; she slept far away from Glados, and has oxygen supplied in her bed. Humans lost the 7hr war. Chell wakes up. 2015- Gordon returns from stasis, does all Hl2 story. 2100- Chell returns from stasis. What. Theory: The portal storm closing caused time to jump 100 years later, in the near vicinity.[/QUOTE] Your theory would be kind of cool, but I find it to be highly unlikely.
I hope there are some really subtle allusions to Half Life and how the rebellion turned out. Knowing VALVe there will be. I want it to be subtle though, like looking outside at the right spot and seeing the combine walls meeting up, meaning they have complete control. Or looking out and seeing a combine aircraft really far into the distance.
[QUOTE=Pdan4;20622733]1986- Black Mesa starts testing Xen portals, and portals in A.S. are developed. 1995- Gordon Freeman is employed. (This is when Hl1 was released) Gordon then turns on the xen portal thing. Kills Nihilanth. 1996- Chell joins A.S. to test out the portal gun. 1998?- 7hr War begins. Approx. 2000- Glados is turned on. Chell is the sole survivor of the neurotoxins; she slept far away from Glados, and has oxygen supplied in her bed. Humans lost the 7hr war. Chell wakes up. 2015- Gordon returns from stasis, does all Hl2 story. 2100- Chell returns from stasis. What. Theory: The portal storm closing caused time to jump 100 years later, in the near vicinity.[/QUOTE] Or you know, Chell was in stasis the whole time and something in the facility broke down causing her to wake up from stasis (the whole facility is in shambles).
[quote][b]Jonathan Coulton will be involved[/b][/quote] Yay.
I can't wait to pre-order it. [editline]09:46PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Pdan4;20622733]1998?- 7hr War begins. Approx. 2000- Glados is turned on. Chell is the sole survivor of the neurotoxins; she slept far away from Glados, and has oxygen supplied in her bed. Humans lost the 7hr war. Chell wakes up.[/QUOTE] How can the 7 hour war last 2 years
Great recap of the infos
[QUOTE=Aurora93;20624067] How can the 7 hour war last 2 years[/QUOTE] Yeah, even a VALVe employee said it only lasted 7 hours.
[QUOTE=tehMuffinMan;20624706]Yeah, even a VALVe employee said it only lasted 7 hours.[/QUOTE] hmm, the seven hour war god i wonder how long that went on for must've been ages
[QUOTE=tehMuffinMan;20624706]Yeah, even a VALVe employee said it only lasted 7 hours.[/QUOTE] No I'm pretty sure he said it lasted 8 hours.
You guys suck at sarcasm.
[QUOTE=Neckbeard;20626401]You guys suck at sarcasm.[/QUOTE] I thought it was pretty great, you know all that sarcasm. Was pretty Sarcastic
derailed I'm excited :3
I just hope the stuff with Jonathan Coulton is not overused. Still Alive was pure awesome but I just hope that any more stuff won't go overboard.
[QUOTE]- Portal 2 takes place well after the events in Half-Life 2 - Portal 2 takes place hundreds of years after the events in Portal[/QUOTE] what so HL2 takes place somewhere in the fucking 2100's ?
[QUOTE=Pdan4;20622733]1986- Black Mesa starts testing Xen portals, and portals in A.S. are developed. 1995- Gordon Freeman is employed. (This is when Hl1 was released) Gordon then turns on the xen portal thing. Kills Nihilanth. 1996- Chell joins A.S. to test out the portal gun. 1998?- 7hr War begins. Approx. 2000- Glados is turned on. Chell is the sole survivor of the neurotoxins; she slept far away from Glados, and has oxygen supplied in her bed. Humans lost the 7hr war. Chell wakes up. 2015- Gordon returns from stasis, does all Hl2 story. 2100- Chell returns from stasis. What. Theory: The portal storm closing caused time to jump 100 years later, in the near vicinity.[/QUOTE] I think Half-Life was released in 1997 actually.
can anyone show me where exactly the magazine said "portal 2 takes place well after the events in hl2" ?
[QUOTE=tehMuffinMan;20624706]Yeah, even a VALVe employee said it only lasted 7 hours.[/QUOTE] Goddamnit It's not "VALVe"... It's "Valve", it's a goddamn name of a company, names are written with a capitalized first letter, and no other caps. OT: The info sounds cool. I don't get why people are whining about it being 100 years after Portal 1, I'm sure Valve got it all figured out to fit with everything.
[QUOTE=LarparNar;20629530]Goddamnit It's not "VALVe"... It's "Valve", it's a goddamn name of a company, names are written with a capitalized first letter, and no other caps. OT: The info sounds cool. I don't get why people are whining about it being 100 years after Portal 1, I'm sure Valve got it all figured out to fit with everything.[/QUOTE] [img]http://www.valvesoftware.com/img/valve_logo_black.gif[/img] It'd be more like a superscript E but that's not possible :v:
[QUOTE=YoMother;20629459][URL="http://members.shaw.ca/halflifestory/timeline.htm"]Portal takes place in 2010[/URL][/QUOTE] [quote=Your link]1 - The date that the events of Portal take place aren't certain.[/quote]
[url]http://filesmelt.com/dl/1267938564447.jpg[/url] The tiles on the right look dynamically lit. [editline]01:20PM[/editline] /retoast
[QUOTE=kukiric;20630104][url]http://filesmelt.com/dl/1267938564447.jpg[/url] The tiles on the right look dynamically lit. [editline]01:20PM[/editline] /retoast[/QUOTE] Keep in mind VALVE likes to give us fancy screenshots using their fancy shmancy dynamic shadows and ambient occlusion and depth of field D:
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;20629696][img]http://www.valvesoftware.com/img/valve_logo_black.gif[/img] It'd be more like a superscript E but that's not possible :v:[/QUOTE] Somehow I knew that would be posted, so I am reposting with this: [img]http://www.namcnewswire.com/newimages/activision.jpg[/img] It's a logo... If you're still not convinced you can go check out how they write it themselves here: [url]http://www.valvesoftware.com/about.html[/url] [editline]05:36PM[/editline] Here's another logo, if you want more: [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Wikipedia-logo.svg/600px-Wikipedia-logo.svg.png[/img]
Get over it.
I wonder if any Half-Life references are going to be put in. Could give us clues to how its going to end since this is decades after. Also how the how is Chell alive? Last time I checked humans didn't live two hundred years.
[QUOTE=cheeseman52;20630769]I wonder if any Half-Life references are going to be put in. Could give us clues to how its going to end since this is decades after. Also how the how is Chell alive? Last time I checked humans didn't live two hundred years.[/QUOTE] Relaxation Vault.
[QUOTE=cheeseman52;20630769]I wonder if any Half-Life references are going to be put in. Could give us clues to how its going to end since this is decades after. Also how the how is Chell alive? Last time I checked humans didn't live two hundred years.[/QUOTE] That Deus Ex Machina of the Half-Life universe called [I]STASIS[/I].
[QUOTE=qwerty000;20629200]what so HL2 takes place somewhere in the fucking 2100's ?[/QUOTE] What? ... Want to try that one again?
I've only read the first couple of points, I dare to read on because of spoilers :3
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