Portal
Portal is a puzzle/action game by Valve software where the player makes dimensional holes and inserts themselves to complete puzzles.
Just The Facts
- Portal allows you to create holes in floors, ceilings and walls to travel and complete puzzels.
- The Aperture Science Research Facility is run by an AI program named GLADos (Pronounced "Gladice")
- The weighted Companion Cube cannot speak.
Characters
Portal is light on characters compared to other games. Where most have hordes of villains trying to kill you, Portal has a computer program that is testing you with the eventual reward of cake. You must find out if the cake is a lie.
Chell
Thanks to the internets, we know you play a woman named Chell; some poor sucker that wakes up in a room to catchy latin music and is the subject of an experiment. Thanks to portal Technology, she is also the only character in video game history that can check out her own ass.
Turrets
Considering they try to fill you with more metal than the Titanic, the gun turrets in Portal are pretty friendly. They have nice freindly voices, ask nice friendly questions and fire hot lead at you.
Weighted Companion Cube
Anyone who has played Portal will get misty-eyed seeing this little fellow. He is loveable, thoughtful and a good listener. Sadly, he is also flammable at high temperatures.
GLADos
GLADos stands for "Genetic Lifeform And Disc operating system". She likes your company, but still tries to kill you. She also forces you to do something awful to your companion Cube, so fuck her.
"All Aperture Science technologies remain functional up to 4,000 degrees Kelvin." Now, if the incinerator is less than 4,000K, we know the companion cube lived and the ending of Portal 2 makes a lot more sense.
ReplyI kinda wonder what she's supposed to do with it at the end of the game.
Chell: Well, I guess I gotta drag this thing across this entire f*****g wheat field.
Also, shouldn't the combine be out there? Like ready to kill her? It would be beast if she teamed up with Freeman. It would be even beaster if she and him went back to aperture. Glados would be so pissed. Come to think of it though, how do you make a functional team of 2 peope who don't talk?
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ReplyIs anyone there?
no, the cake is a spy
Actually I'm pretty sure it's pronounced "gla-dose". At least thats how Ellen McLain and Erik Wolpaw pronounces it. You know, her voice actor and the writer.
ReplyGLaDOS, not GLADos. Moron.
ReplyI wish I had a companion cube. Everyone needs a companion cube. As a girl, I alo idolize Chell. Don't ask me why, she never talks.
ReplyThat's why I like her too: she's a girl that doesn't talk.
BA HA HA HA
GLADos, you AI crapshoot! COMPANION CUBE WAS MY ONLY FRIEND!
ReplyAh, GLADos, You've won my heart, you passive-agressive, psychotic, wonderful, beautiful bitch.
ReplyIf Glados is mostly based off Caroline, then I have to imagine Caroline was a VERY interesting person.
The cake man, that friggin' cake was a lie!!!
ReplyYour wrong, I saw it.
COMPANION CUBE!!!!! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply Hide All See All 6 RepliesI personally do not understand why people get emotional about the companion cube. It's just an Aperture Science Weighted Cube with hearts on it. It serves as a good stepping platform, shield, and can activate a Super Colliding Super Button. It's nothing to get emotional over.
Heresy! Burn in the Aperture Science Emergency Intelligence Incinerator you bastard!
The game puts an emphasis on emotional attachment to the cube (through GLADOS' comments and Ratman's wall scribblings) so it's become tradition to act out the same fondness for it.
Hey. The bastard stole my cake.
Send Gateship to android hell. He has defied the holy edicts one too many times.
We WARNED you it was a real place.
I kinda have to agree, I played the second game through and loved it but never finished the first. (Don't own it) I thought the companion cube talked to you and was magic or something. I kinda wondered why it was so important if it was just a regular cube with hearts on it.
very nice page. portal is the best.
Replyit's ok, was a little funy but could do with some more.