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

[shadowesque13.livejournal.com]

Infinitely better than this Wheatley, anyway. He gets into my head, gdi. TINY LITTLE WHEATLEY, STOP NARRATING MY THOUGHTS.

[flameraven.livejournal.com]

Portal 2 was fantastic. THE MOON. WHAT.

By far my favorite levels though were all the retro science levels. The history was fascinating and horrifying at the same time. Cave Johnson was insane.

Mostly I'm impressed with this game for making me not hate GLaDOS anymore. I just can't do it. She's still evil, but I've got a weird kind of respect and sympathy for her. If someone shoved my brain into a faulty OS, I'd be rather pissed off too.

I'm actually working my way through Portal now; never did get a chance to go through it before. Which... probably made a lot of Portal 2 harder than it needed to be, because they don't actually explain anything.