Shack Preview: Portal

[Asuka]

http://www.shacknews.com/extras/2007/050307_portal_1.x

Already stuff we know just more and more lucky folks getting to play it!

 

[Gui!]

i wanna play now

 

[Mahalis]

Portal's early levels take place in a Combine portal user training facility

Early levels? Combine?
That's kind of a vague sentence, but if it's accurate...
- later levels leave the facility?
- ...Combine?

 

[Planetary]

So that means the Combine connection is confirmed?
Or not?

The game itself should clear everything up... but knowing Valve, it probably won't.

 

[Ennui]

I'm skeptical, it sounds like it might just be that the guy who wrote the article was talking out of his ass

 

[Planetary]

Still, there has to be a good reason why those spheres are just like Combine energy orbs, not to mention the turrets.
The facility itself doesn't seem Combine at all. I see no teal searchlights or dark blue metal, which the Combine use for everything.

 

[Iced_Eagle]

I'm skeptical, it sounds like it might just be that the guy who wrote the article was talking out of his ass

It was pure speculation on his part. So yea, pretty much.

 

[Narvi]

Ah, good, complete confirmation it's a woman.

 

[xcellerate]

I asked team members if Portal eventually ties into the larger events of the Half-Life universe, and while the carefully noncommittal answers I received strongly suggested that it does, it remains to be seen how and to what extent. "We would prefer to let players come to those discoveries themselves," explained Valve's David Speyrer.

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[Asuka]

Ah, good, complete confirmation it's a woman.

We have had complete confirmation it was a woman for months now. Straight from Valve. :smoking:

 

[Narvi]

We have had complete confirmation it was a woman for months now. Straight from Valve. :smoking:

Yes, but now I have an interview I can point people at. Instead of people going RAR RAR GUY IN PORTAL VID IS GUY.