Murkrow
Says "also" and "or something" a lot
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Anyone?
I've completed the single player a couple of times but haven't done any co-op.
Really good game overall. Lots of little jokes here and there, and I loved a lot of the hints they drop like the redemption turret talking about Caroline, and Cave Johnson talking about how the conversion gel is made from moon rocks, which explains how the moon is portalable.
One of the only problems I have with it is that it's confused my idea of when things happen in the half-life universe.
At first I thought it was
Glados activated -> Half-Life 1 -> Portal -> Half-Life 2 -> Portal 2
Which is probably still right, but it's the minor things they hint at through the games that I'm not sure of now. They've retconned a lot of things, like what used to be on the Aperture Science website.
Was the Borealis built before or after Glados? Her signature is seen on the data in HL2 episode 2, but now presumably it was built in the old aperture complex, and Glados was built after it went missing.
And the portal gun has now been around since the 50s, so Glados being built for the purposes of making a portal gun has been retconned (I assume her purpose now was just "run the facility as Caroline"), so they clearly didn't have that much competition with Black Mesa seeing as how they apparently beat them to portal technology by decades, and they only competed for funding and not be the first to make portals.
While I appreciate the inclusion of Cave Johnson and seeing the history of Aperture and seeing how he changed over the years, I'm not too fond of his attitude towards the experiments, he often says "we're not banging rocks together here", but that's the impression I get. If it weren't set in the Half-Life universe that wouldn't really bug me, but I guess it sort of spoils the fact that an inter-dimensional galactic empire with all their technology can't make teleporters and how the resistance in HL2 try desperately to keep their experiments secret and use it against them, but someone so crazy could have made his company make one in the 50s.
I've completed the single player a couple of times but haven't done any co-op.
Really good game overall. Lots of little jokes here and there, and I loved a lot of the hints they drop like the redemption turret talking about Caroline, and Cave Johnson talking about how the conversion gel is made from moon rocks, which explains how the moon is portalable.
One of the only problems I have with it is that it's confused my idea of when things happen in the half-life universe.
At first I thought it was
Glados activated -> Half-Life 1 -> Portal -> Half-Life 2 -> Portal 2
Which is probably still right, but it's the minor things they hint at through the games that I'm not sure of now. They've retconned a lot of things, like what used to be on the Aperture Science website.
Was the Borealis built before or after Glados? Her signature is seen on the data in HL2 episode 2, but now presumably it was built in the old aperture complex, and Glados was built after it went missing.
And the portal gun has now been around since the 50s, so Glados being built for the purposes of making a portal gun has been retconned (I assume her purpose now was just "run the facility as Caroline"), so they clearly didn't have that much competition with Black Mesa seeing as how they apparently beat them to portal technology by decades, and they only competed for funding and not be the first to make portals.
While I appreciate the inclusion of Cave Johnson and seeing the history of Aperture and seeing how he changed over the years, I'm not too fond of his attitude towards the experiments, he often says "we're not banging rocks together here", but that's the impression I get. If it weren't set in the Half-Life universe that wouldn't really bug me, but I guess it sort of spoils the fact that an inter-dimensional galactic empire with all their technology can't make teleporters and how the resistance in HL2 try desperately to keep their experiments secret and use it against them, but someone so crazy could have made his company make one in the 50s.
