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.)

Comments

[flameraven.livejournal.com]

Ah. We have the Xbox version. For some reason I can't keep my attention on computer games (and my computer is not awesome enough to handle the graphics anyway). The cover shows P-body jumping between portals. Which is... just not nearly as epic as GLaDOS glaring at you in the ruins of her room, for example.

The older backstory would be fun, and would be something I could sort of see them exploring in Portal 3? I think people really wanted to see Chell make it out of that place, though, and I can't say I blame them. Poor Chell.

[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.