Ratman was always supposed to be part of the story too, and the man is literally schizophrenic. He was trying to warn Chell that she was going to be killed. Now everybody knows GLaDOS is evil, but back in 2007 just playing the game on a recommendation I didn't.
>Now everybody knows GLaDOS is evil, but back in 2007 just playing the game on a recommendation I didn't.
It's pretty obvious right from the start there's something very wrong with GLaDOS.
Wrong yeah, but I didn't assume she was actually murderous. I assumed she was just trying to "get" humanity but couldn't. There really aren't any lines that show her hand for like the first hour.
The assumption you're expected to make is that GLaDOS is just a malfunctioning pre-recorded voice and you're stuck in an abandoned testing area. She doesn't refer to herself with "I" or "me" until you try to escape.
Fricking this. I heard about the meme before I played the game and it annoyed me when I realised what it actually meant since it's not at all what the game was meant to be conveying. And it's probably that type of reaction from players that lead to portal 2 being downgraded.
Portal 2 is harder than 1 though, especially the multiplayer, but neither are particularly hard. The bonus maps are where it's at for challenge, that and all the free Steam expansions.
I meant the story and especially the tone of the game. It's not as bad as some here make it out to be but I would've preferred it to be more like the first game.
>lol look at the loser and his videogames!
This NEVER happened to me. No one cared I played video games. You weren't ridiculed because you play video games. You were ridiculed because you did NOTHING but play video games. You were a boring loser.
Bro I personally made fun of kids for playing videogames. Your dipshit opinion is worthless compared to the reality of it. Stereotypes exist for a reason and you bet your ass playing vidya made you part of a certain stereotype, boring loser or not.
Playing video games was never a problem for me. Probably because when people said to me "Hey, want to go to a party on Friday?" I didn't say "No. I want to stay home and play video games instead." Also, it helps to not want to talk about nothing but video games all day. Also, you definitely don't want to talk about nothing but anime all day. Nothing will get you socially ostracized faster than being a fricking weeb.
I enjoyed Portal, but it seldom made me laugh and I never understood the obsession with Still Alive. Also >Sister randomly asks me if I have Portal >She plays it on my Steam account for a bit and then borrows my copy of The Orange Box on PS3 to play >No idea how far she gets but she gets really into the memes >Sends me some and I play along because I'm not an autistic c**t >Fast forward to my birthday >Came up from Uni (130 miles away) on the train >Walks in with this big cardboard box for me >Open it >She made a replica of the cake, and even made a floor tile out of icing for underneath for me
I've got photos somewhere, it was an amazing cake.
>I enjoyed Portal, but it seldom made me laugh
Because it's not funny. Portal is "geek humor". Geeks think just being absurd is the height of hilarity. Now known as LOL SO RANDOM. They don't do actual jokes. This is why video games are NEVER funny. They're not made by funny people. They're made by geeks and geeks have the worst sense of humor on the planet.
As a VA sure but the writers for both games are the same.
>I enjoyed Portal, but it seldom made me laugh
Because it's not funny. Portal is "geek humor". Geeks think just being absurd is the height of hilarity. Now known as LOL SO RANDOM. They don't do actual jokes. This is why video games are NEVER funny. They're not made by funny people. They're made by geeks and geeks have the worst sense of humor on the planet.
Is just a humorless c**t who either didn't play Portal on release or did and is STILL trying to pretend to be too cool to have found it funny.
>Is just a humorless c**t who either didn't play Portal on release or did and is STILL trying to pretend to be too cool to have found it funny.
I did play it on release. I didn't like it. I genuinely don't find just mere absurdity funny. It's the laziest and most unsophisticated comedy you can do and it's absolutely rampant in the video game industry because geeks are morons that absolutely love it. I fricking don't.
1 year ago
Anonymous
There's nothing about Portal that's "mere absurdity" you absolute lying fricking homosexual, it's not Invader Zim. It's got some weird science goofery to go along with the wacky sci-fi concept of breaking physics. Get bent.
1 year ago
Anonymous
he's probably too autistic or too much of a bitter c**t to appreciate the intentional juxtaposition of things like the companion cube and talking turrets. It may not be the height of comedy, but it's clearly not a barrage of non-sequiturs like we've had from more modern games.
As a VA sure but the writers for both games are the same.[...] Is just a humorless c**t who either didn't play Portal on release or did and is STILL trying to pretend to be too cool to have found it funny.
>Didn't they hire an actual comedian for Portal 2?
Yeah. Stephen Merchant >As a VA sure but the writers for both games are the same.
A bunch of Wheatley's dialogue was improvised so Merchant was probably a big part of why the game was so funny
One of the writers for National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, yeah. That movie is one of the greatest comedies ever written in terms of jokes that land and pacing, holy shit. He probably had a hand in the Cave Johnson recordings, which are genuinely funny (At least I thought so, comedy's subjective and shit)
I found it funny. The real problem was instead of just being that game we all liked and maybe mentioned 10 years later it became overrated because everyone wouldn't stop sucking its wiener. Its just like what happened to botw.
Not to guess your age, but Adult Swim Ran-Dumb rumor was the thing when Portal came out. Doesn't make it better, but explains it. I heard someone compare it to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, as it's heavily dampened by the fan base running it into the ground.
>Not to guess your age, but Adult Swim Ran-Dumb rumor was the thing when Portal came out.
I'm well aware of that. Adult Swim was very hit or miss for me. I, for example, was a big fan of Sealab 2021 which had a lot of actual comedy and satire in it. I was less a fan of, for example, Archer which started as somewhat a satire but quickly devolved into the "jokes" just being everyone is a sexual deviant and that's it.
Been a fan of his since the mid 2000s about, he's excellent. Smoking Monkey is probably the best album in terms of variety, but the best song is probably Betty and Me for it's instrumental. I'm Having A Party is also excellent.
Comedy does lose it's value when it's spammed to death which is the valid complaint about Portal's humor. But of course the hipsters in this thread have to pretend they were better than their peers and didn't find it funny ever.
I'm not a hipster but I'm definitely better than you if you think Portal is funny. Portal is the type of "comedy" literally anyone could write. A fricking child could write it. There's nothing clever. There's no wit. It's just WACKY and that's it.
It's not "elitism" to have a bare minimum standard. Anyone can just write any old wacky bullshit. It's what Anthony Burch does, for example, and Anthony Burch is routinely shit on around here for being hack. So why should Valve get away with the same zero effort shit? As a puzzle game it's fine. As a comedy it's absolutely terrible. It's just a fact it's a shit comedy and you have a shit sense of humor.
If you're moronic enough to not understand the difference between the jokes in Portal, which actually make sense in the context of the story, and the jokes in Borderland, which is the only thing you're right about, I double down on the necking yourself thing and honestly think you should.
>the jokes in Portal
There aren't any jokes in Portal. There's just wacky and zany things. Claiming Portal has jokes is like claiming Jackass had jokes.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Like what, you shitmouthed little wienerroach? You keep mentioning such "absurdities," seriously, like fricking what? Are you ESL, is that why you didn't get anything?
1 year ago
Anonymous
>jokes in portal
am i missing something?
there isn't a single joke in the game
ITT: literal autists
1 year ago
Anonymous
At the time being in highschool it was pretty great probably the comfiest time of most millennials lives. Sorry you missed it
>because humor inevitably becomes outdated in the span of 10 years
Frick off. I can still watch A Night at the Opera or Arsenic and Old Lace and laugh and those are like 70 years old. You guys are just admitting that it was never funny and it just took you a while to realize that.
>Dark comedy joke about person going insane and realizing that their torture is pointless >Gets turned into a "lul so randum, us gamerz amirite" meme
I don't get it.
Portal was a good game, but it attracts wannabes and those who think anything with guns or muscles are shallow and "dudebro".
The fact that it's a puzzle game and the comedic writing made it very easy to consume.
I mean, look at this blog post of that very type of person: http://gambit.mit.edu/updates/2008/01/the_myths_of_first_person_shoo.php
Dead Space 3 was a dudebro shooter though, and it was gay. Nothing wrong with macho stuff, but keep it out of Dead Space, especially when it's a big buff Black person. The protagonist is a fricking engineer, not a marine.
>I could talk about how the stories of FPSs suck too, and how they are my favourite example of how gameplay is completely divorced from the story of the game, but then there's Bioshock to shut me up.
It's so funny how pseudo-intellectuals think the twist of Bioshock being "You never really had a choice." automatically elevates the story. If anything it kind of makes the story more stupid. Bioshock's twist only works as a commentary on video games in general and it's not a particularly clever one. Yeah, we all noticed you always just follow your instructions in video games. It's not like Bioshock actually does anything different. It basically just says "Hey! Ever notice this about video games?" Yeah. I did. A long time ago. So what?
>People calling the Portal humor "random." >Literally nothing in it is random. >The cake line is not random. >The companion cube is not fricking random. (It's actually a mechanical thing too, everyone left the cube behind in the puzzle until they made jokes about it.)
I actually don't get it, and I played Portal on The Orange box when that thing first came out. I played it on the Xbox 360 though.
You know what I did get? Portal 2 when it launched on steam. I had an old ass laptop, but it still ran the game well enough so I had a ball with it. Never had anyone to play the co-op with though.
>Never had anyone to play the co-op with though.
It's a fun experience, especially if you have a dumbfrick moronic friend which you have to explain the puzzles to. Also you can drop your friend into the water
>millennials excreted mountains of shit and piss due to excessive laughter from this
you have no idea how comfy of a time it was to be in highschool right when the orange box came out
It was a very frank admission of the fact that you were not getting what you were offered in exchange for cooperating.
The idea that the nonstop testing could degrade your mental state enough that you would even give a shit about the cake was what was so funny to me.
Ratman was always supposed to be part of the story too, and the man is literally schizophrenic. He was trying to warn Chell that she was going to be killed. Now everybody knows GLaDOS is evil, but back in 2007 just playing the game on a recommendation I didn't.
>Now everybody knows GLaDOS is evil, but back in 2007 just playing the game on a recommendation I didn't.
It's pretty obvious right from the start there's something very wrong with GLaDOS.
Wrong yeah, but I didn't assume she was actually murderous. I assumed she was just trying to "get" humanity but couldn't. There really aren't any lines that show her hand for like the first hour.
The assumption you're expected to make is that GLaDOS is just a malfunctioning pre-recorded voice and you're stuck in an abandoned testing area. She doesn't refer to herself with "I" or "me" until you try to escape.
real gamers never found it funny
I was one of those people and I am sorry
Reminder that this was not meant to be funny, and only normalgays and GRRL GAMERS who never actually played the game made this an "inside gamer joke"
Fricking this. I heard about the meme before I played the game and it annoyed me when I realised what it actually meant since it's not at all what the game was meant to be conveying. And it's probably that type of reaction from players that lead to portal 2 being downgraded.
>2022
>Wokeshit apocalypto.
It really did get worse.
Portal 2 is harder than 1 though, especially the multiplayer, but neither are particularly hard. The bonus maps are where it's at for challenge, that and all the free Steam expansions.
I meant the story and especially the tone of the game. It's not as bad as some here make it out to be but I would've preferred it to be more like the first game.
>lol look at the loser and his videogames!
This NEVER happened to me. No one cared I played video games. You weren't ridiculed because you play video games. You were ridiculed because you did NOTHING but play video games. You were a boring loser.
Bro I personally made fun of kids for playing videogames. Your dipshit opinion is worthless compared to the reality of it. Stereotypes exist for a reason and you bet your ass playing vidya made you part of a certain stereotype, boring loser or not.
Playing video games was never a problem for me. Probably because when people said to me "Hey, want to go to a party on Friday?" I didn't say "No. I want to stay home and play video games instead." Also, it helps to not want to talk about nothing but video games all day. Also, you definitely don't want to talk about nothing but anime all day. Nothing will get you socially ostracized faster than being a fricking weeb.
I enjoyed Portal, but it seldom made me laugh and I never understood the obsession with Still Alive. Also
>Sister randomly asks me if I have Portal
>She plays it on my Steam account for a bit and then borrows my copy of The Orange Box on PS3 to play
>No idea how far she gets but she gets really into the memes
>Sends me some and I play along because I'm not an autistic c**t
>Fast forward to my birthday
>Came up from Uni (130 miles away) on the train
>Walks in with this big cardboard box for me
>Open it
>She made a replica of the cake, and even made a floor tile out of icing for underneath for me
I've got photos somewhere, it was an amazing cake.
>I enjoyed Portal, but it seldom made me laugh
Because it's not funny. Portal is "geek humor". Geeks think just being absurd is the height of hilarity. Now known as LOL SO RANDOM. They don't do actual jokes. This is why video games are NEVER funny. They're not made by funny people. They're made by geeks and geeks have the worst sense of humor on the planet.
Portal wasn't funny but Portal 2 was hilarious
Didn't they hire an actual comedian for Portal 2?
As a VA sure but the writers for both games are the same.
Is just a humorless c**t who either didn't play Portal on release or did and is STILL trying to pretend to be too cool to have found it funny.
>Is just a humorless c**t who either didn't play Portal on release or did and is STILL trying to pretend to be too cool to have found it funny.
I did play it on release. I didn't like it. I genuinely don't find just mere absurdity funny. It's the laziest and most unsophisticated comedy you can do and it's absolutely rampant in the video game industry because geeks are morons that absolutely love it. I fricking don't.
There's nothing about Portal that's "mere absurdity" you absolute lying fricking homosexual, it's not Invader Zim. It's got some weird science goofery to go along with the wacky sci-fi concept of breaking physics. Get bent.
he's probably too autistic or too much of a bitter c**t to appreciate the intentional juxtaposition of things like the companion cube and talking turrets. It may not be the height of comedy, but it's clearly not a barrage of non-sequiturs like we've had from more modern games.
>Didn't they hire an actual comedian for Portal 2?
Yeah. Stephen Merchant
>As a VA sure but the writers for both games are the same.
A bunch of Wheatley's dialogue was improvised so Merchant was probably a big part of why the game was so funny
One of the writers for National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, yeah. That movie is one of the greatest comedies ever written in terms of jokes that land and pacing, holy shit. He probably had a hand in the Cave Johnson recordings, which are genuinely funny (At least I thought so, comedy's subjective and shit)
I found it funny. The real problem was instead of just being that game we all liked and maybe mentioned 10 years later it became overrated because everyone wouldn't stop sucking its wiener. Its just like what happened to botw.
Not to guess your age, but Adult Swim Ran-Dumb rumor was the thing when Portal came out. Doesn't make it better, but explains it. I heard someone compare it to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, as it's heavily dampened by the fan base running it into the ground.
>Not to guess your age, but Adult Swim Ran-Dumb rumor was the thing when Portal came out.
I'm well aware of that. Adult Swim was very hit or miss for me. I, for example, was a big fan of Sealab 2021 which had a lot of actual comedy and satire in it. I was less a fan of, for example, Archer which started as somewhat a satire but quickly devolved into the "jokes" just being everyone is a sexual deviant and that's it.
Sealab 2021 is not funny.
Archer is the only show I've ever seen that I can say peaked in its' first season. Great first season, became way too fricking referential later on
Plenty of shows peak in Season 1. Game of Thrones and Walking Dead for example.
Whatever happened to ratman?
he got blasted by a turret attempting to save chell and causing Portal 2 to take place.
Was this told in the comic? I can barely remember the game
This is the ultimate example of fake nerd culture
Anybody who actually played the game saw absolutely no humour in it
JoCo is a good musician. Kinda sad he's only known for his Portal songs, Artificial Heart and Solid State are unironically good.
Been a fan of his since the mid 2000s about, he's excellent. Smoking Monkey is probably the best album in terms of variety, but the best song is probably Betty and Me for it's instrumental. I'm Having A Party is also excellent.
*Was
Comedy does lose it's value when it's spammed to death which is the valid complaint about Portal's humor. But of course the hipsters in this thread have to pretend they were better than their peers and didn't find it funny ever.
I'm not a hipster but I'm definitely better than you if you think Portal is funny. Portal is the type of "comedy" literally anyone could write. A fricking child could write it. There's nothing clever. There's no wit. It's just WACKY and that's it.
>I'm not a hipster
>Proceeds to say the gaygiest hipster shit
have a nice day, comedy elitists are the worst fricking people
It's not "elitism" to have a bare minimum standard. Anyone can just write any old wacky bullshit. It's what Anthony Burch does, for example, and Anthony Burch is routinely shit on around here for being hack. So why should Valve get away with the same zero effort shit? As a puzzle game it's fine. As a comedy it's absolutely terrible. It's just a fact it's a shit comedy and you have a shit sense of humor.
If you're moronic enough to not understand the difference between the jokes in Portal, which actually make sense in the context of the story, and the jokes in Borderland, which is the only thing you're right about, I double down on the necking yourself thing and honestly think you should.
>the jokes in Portal
There aren't any jokes in Portal. There's just wacky and zany things. Claiming Portal has jokes is like claiming Jackass had jokes.
Like what, you shitmouthed little wienerroach? You keep mentioning such "absurdities," seriously, like fricking what? Are you ESL, is that why you didn't get anything?
ITT: literal autists
At the time being in highschool it was pretty great probably the comfiest time of most millennials lives. Sorry you missed it
>this is what b gays really believe
that's an A post, anon. that is the result of A physics
>a-gays are so dumb they can't even recognize their own physics model
it was unironically funny, it just makes Gankertards seethe now because humor inevitably becomes outdated in the span of 10 years
>because humor inevitably becomes outdated in the span of 10 years
Frick off. I can still watch A Night at the Opera or Arsenic and Old Lace and laugh and those are like 70 years old. You guys are just admitting that it was never funny and it just took you a while to realize that.
>Dark comedy joke about person going insane and realizing that their torture is pointless
>Gets turned into a "lul so randum, us gamerz amirite" meme
I don't get it.
>jokes in portal
am i missing something?
there isn't a single joke in the game
Portal was a good game, but it attracts wannabes and those who think anything with guns or muscles are shallow and "dudebro".
The fact that it's a puzzle game and the comedic writing made it very easy to consume.
I mean, look at this blog post of that very type of person: http://gambit.mit.edu/updates/2008/01/the_myths_of_first_person_shoo.php
Dead Space 3 was a dudebro shooter though, and it was gay. Nothing wrong with macho stuff, but keep it out of Dead Space, especially when it's a big buff Black person. The protagonist is a fricking engineer, not a marine.
>I could talk about how the stories of FPSs suck too, and how they are my favourite example of how gameplay is completely divorced from the story of the game, but then there's Bioshock to shut me up.
It's so funny how pseudo-intellectuals think the twist of Bioshock being "You never really had a choice." automatically elevates the story. If anything it kind of makes the story more stupid. Bioshock's twist only works as a commentary on video games in general and it's not a particularly clever one. Yeah, we all noticed you always just follow your instructions in video games. It's not like Bioshock actually does anything different. It basically just says "Hey! Ever notice this about video games?" Yeah. I did. A long time ago. So what?
It's like saying "made you look!" It's worse in BioShock Infinite though, which does the exact same thing 10x more pretentiously.
Especially when Half-life, which she mentions off-hand, did it much better.
>People calling the Portal humor "random."
>Literally nothing in it is random.
>The cake line is not random.
>The companion cube is not fricking random. (It's actually a mechanical thing too, everyone left the cube behind in the puzzle until they made jokes about it.)
board is full of anons who don't play videogames, who knew
Create an aperture product based on the last song you listened to.
I actually don't get it, and I played Portal on The Orange box when that thing first came out. I played it on the Xbox 360 though.
You know what I did get? Portal 2 when it launched on steam. I had an old ass laptop, but it still ran the game well enough so I had a ball with it. Never had anyone to play the co-op with though.
>Never had anyone to play the co-op with though.
It's a fun experience, especially if you have a dumbfrick moronic friend which you have to explain the puzzles to. Also you can drop your friend into the water