Portal 2 [EP2 spoilers inside]

[The Monkey]

So do you reckon Portal 2 will take place on the Aperture Science ship Borealis? That would be pretty neat, as it would allow Chell to interact with Mossman and, when they get there, Alyx and Gordon.

 

[Russian Mafia]

If it did happen it would be interesting, maybe ending with Alyx and Gordon flying by in the helicopter over-head.

 

[kupocake]

I don't think there'll even be a Portal 2. Just a bunch of expansions, extra levels, multiplayer modes or cooperative modes for the original.

edit: and the setting will be similar to Portal itself. I think Chell will be transplaneted as an NPC to the main series, and we'll play other unknowns in GlaDOS' grasp.

Though the Portal Gun may turn up for Episode 3. I think Valve made Portal with the intention of seeing whether the Portal Gun would work in Isolation, and whether it could be put into the main Half-Life series. What their conclusion is, remains to be seen.

 

[Stene]

Nah, knowing Valve doesn't want to show Gordon's face in the game, that's not going to happen. In Portal you see yourself through tha p0rtalz.

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

No, not interacting with gordon. We've got this far without seeing him, I'm sure we'll continue (he must be a vampire, no reflection :O )

 

[GM)Paravin.]

Then he's Dracula, since he could easly pass the church in Ravenholm. ^^

 

[giant384]

they could still think of a way where he wont show up through the portals...same with the portal gun he is holding. would seem awkward to just see a portal gun floating.

 

[xennyth]

They could always put an HEV suit helmet on him.

 

[engine]

I think Portal 1 happened inside the Borealis. The ship disappeared along with part of the drydock... so everything in Portal, even the ending with your narrow view of the ground, could be within the ship/dock setting.
Some of the extremely tall test chambers might not have fit inside the ship.. not sure, but cargo ships can get pretty big. I commute into manhattan everyday by ferry boat through New York harbor. I've seen ships that could easily hold a 12 or 14 story building, upright. Or the tall chambers could really be shorter chambers, divided by portals to appear continuous.
It does make sense in terms of doing dangerous, crazy research with no regard for human rights that Aperture would put a facility in a big ship, operating in lawless international waters.
Also, the Diagram in Judith's transmission about the Borealis looked like a schematic for Glados.

 

[Xendance]

I think Portal 1

Portal 1? Is there a Portal 2? :O

 

[giant384]

I think Portal 1 happened inside the Borealis. The ship disappeared along with part of the drydock... so everything in Portal, even the ending with your narrow view of the ground, could be within the ship/dock setting.
Some of the extremely tall test chambers might not have fit inside the ship.. not sure, but cargo ships can get pretty big. I commute into manhattan everyday by ferry boat through New York harbor. I've seen ships that could easily hold a 12 or 14 story building, upright. Or the tall chambers could really be shorter chambers, divided by portals to appear continuous.
It does make sense in terms of doing dangerous, crazy research with no regard for human rights that Aperture would put a facility in a big ship, operating in lawless international waters.
Also, the Diagram in Judith's transmission about the Borealis looked like a schematic for Glados.

if you beat portal then you would realize that everything you said is bs

 

[engine]

if you beat portal then you would realize that everything you said is bs

i did, and don't. You can take issue with the image outside the aperture facility at the end. no, it doesnt look like anything ship related, and that's where I doubt myself. but what else is completely implausisble?


and I said "Portal 1" as a vaguely ironic intro to my bs two cents about the overall topic of "inside the Borealis"

 

[Crash Happy]

The schematics at the end of the transmision are for the Borealis aren't they?
I know that tankers get seriously huge but even so your path in Portal (he says hinting so as to avoid a spoiler) took you a long way. I'm not sure how big those container vessels get but excluding any tardis-like quality to the ship I'd say we travelled further than could be contained inside the ship we saw. Obviously scale is hard to judge.

 

[engine]

when we get into the glassed in observation area in portal we see that many of the chambers are actually very close to one another, which is what made me think of this in the first place. Also the Behind the Walls areas are rather shiplike. But i guess that could be said of any rusty metal environment.
And at the start, the portal which lets us out of our relaxation chamber doesn't come from any gun, even tho it looks similar to the gun portals...And back to the ship vanishing... hadda be some large portal which did that, no? Obviously Aperture had more than one type of Portal trickery up their sleeve.

Ep 3 will put me in my place eventually, when Gordon gets inside the Borealis. So I'll leave it be until... probly Fall of 2011 at the soonest?

 

[Crash Happy]

That is one flip off huge ship. Obviously scale is difficult to judge but compare that shot with the one that Drondeh posted over in the Ep2 forums Borealis thread.

3 visible sets of portholes on the good ship B, 7 on yours.

 

[giant384]

what is that picture?^^

looks shopped to me

 

[Intamin]

Nah, it's a pic of the final map, "T-Minus One," when you watch the transmission from Judith. Valve's real-time camera work is involved, and the camera's pointed on that section of the map to make it look like they're really showing the Borealis...etc.

I believe that's what you're seeing.

 

[engine]

Ok, revising my theory. I think Portal takes place entirely inside that Aperture Science 1.21 GigaWatt Super Colliding Shipping Container.

 

[Crash Happy]

No, exposure to the 1.21 GigaWatt Super Colliding Shipping Container was not part of the experiment.

 

[Narvi]

Be awesome if the ship was bigger on the inside, like the TARDIS.

 

[Psychanalysis05%]

The theory that Portal took place inside the Borealis is almost credible, though the environment of where the Borealis is in comparison to that in the ending of Portal just contrast way too much.

The reason I say it is almost credible, however, is beacause the Borealis blueprints contain specs for the 'unstationary scaffold' and 'material emancipation grid', both huge parts of the test chambers.

Another theory is that these were simply only tested in the chambers originally, and seeing that they worked put them into practic in the Bore-oh shit! I just realised how the Portal Gun most likely will be used in Ep3!

Gordong, not knowing exactly what it is for, steps through an emancipation grid on the Borealis and his weapons all get vaporised (though I can see the grav gun getting supercharged again), and becomes trapped in an area of the ship for some (plot hammer) reason or another. Here he picks up the Portal Gun and uses is to traverse the innards of the ship (I'm guessing a mobile enrichment center at first, then progressing quickly into the underbelly a la the last areas of Portal). I can also see either the portal gun becoming damaged or losing power once coming out of this sequence, or only actually working inside the Borealis (either for security purposes or perhaps even drawing power from the ship itself).

I don't really know how credible this theory could be, but it sounds pretty damn likely now that I think about it.

 

[engine]

i played thru portal again after posting, (in a saddeningly brief number of minutes compared to first trip) with developer commentary on. The developers specifically say "building" a time or two, referring to the aperture facility. Also, I'd dedicated so much concentration on Aceing the bonus maps that I'd completely forgotten how vast some of the non-test chamber ending areas were. Seems closer in size to a Citadel rather than a Ship.

There are areas, tho, where you're tantalized by small openings in the ceiling etc, where I could almost think i was seeing a bit of sky/cloud action... too hard to decipher with the hdr blowing out the contrast... but those areas were below the final chamber, which extends upwards beyond sight.

..and i just looked up Tardis.. Dr Who's time machine, huh?

What designation suitably demonstrates the brilliance of my invention? Ah yes, TARDiS. gg Dr. Who...