Don't worry, I'm familiar with the story of the first game as I've seen my roommate play it many times, I just never played through it myself so it was sometimes difficult to visualize what I needed to do to solve the puzzles. I did find the Aperture Science history online after I beat Portal 2, although my impression was that it was pretty much 100% fabrication on the part of the company to appear more legit.
After all, they could hardly have been only making shower curtains if the vault was sealed in 1961 and inside it is all kinds of tests that require a portal gun (and a sign reminding test subjects not to forget their 'quantum tunneling device.') Apparently moon rock really IS poisonous so I don't doubt that Cave Johnson would have died from that (and I think we see a portrait of him in the clearly 1980's section of the old vaults.)
I don't know if I hated GLaDOS, but she certainly was terrifying. When I watched my roommate play through the first part of P2, we were both REALLY nervous about going into her chamber the first time. This game definitely does cast her in a more sympathetic light, though. She's still crazy, but...that facility is all she's got. Although I really worry for the fate of all those other test subjects in cryo...
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2011-04-26 14:45 (UTC)After all, they could hardly have been only making shower curtains if the vault was sealed in 1961 and inside it is all kinds of tests that require a portal gun (and a sign reminding test subjects not to forget their 'quantum tunneling device.') Apparently moon rock really IS poisonous so I don't doubt that Cave Johnson would have died from that (and I think we see a portrait of him in the clearly 1980's section of the old vaults.)
I don't know if I hated GLaDOS, but she certainly was terrifying. When I watched my roommate play through the first part of P2, we were both REALLY nervous about going into her chamber the first time. This game definitely does cast her in a more sympathetic light, though. She's still crazy, but...that facility is all she's got. Although I really worry for the fate of all those other test subjects in cryo...