Prometheus was punished by the gods for giving the gift of knowledge to man

[shichahn]

So I finished Portal 2 last night. Well, the single player anyway.

So very, very much love for this game and this series. Portal was great, and Portal 2 manages to be even better in some truly spectacular ways. And while I feel like the ending is pretty conclusive... I didn't see how they could make a sequel after the first one, either. So we'll see. I would be satisfied if it ended here, but how can I not want more?

Favorite random trivia bit from the Half-Life wiki: apparently Valve originally intended for Wheatley to be voiced by Richard Ayoade, but decided Stephen Merchant fit better. And while I think I agree... just the very thought of Richard Ayoade in a Portal game is so freaking amazing that I hope they find a role for him somewhere one of these days.

As a heads-up to all of you who don't already know, I will be doing my usual summer disappearing trick as of this coming Sunday, and will be between various isolated places in Oregon while I train new banding interns. And so as always, I will be semi-difficult to reach until sometime in August, but I will do my best to check my phone and email when I have service.

(This probably goes without saying, but spoilers are in the comments.)

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[flameraven.livejournal.com]

I also have to say: I do want to play Half-Life now. All I know about it is that apparently Black Mesa tried to create a portal gun and instead got headcrabs. But I might have to just watch my roommate play it, because I fail so badly at FPS's. Like, not only do I fail at playing them, they actually give me motion sickness and headaches. I got about half an hour into the story mode of Halo 3 and had to quit. It was pretty upsetting. :/ But I need to know about the aliens, and I do hope they'll tie Portal 2 and Chell into the story somewhere.