So, I don't know how many of you play Portal, but here's the idea:
Set in the world of Half-Life—though when in that world is unclear—in Portal you play a woman named (according to Wikipedia) Chell, who had been signed up for a research project done by Aperture Science. All we know is that she wakes up in a test chamber, the first of 19 in the experiment. Her job is to get from the entrance to the exit of each. This is more challenging than it sounds, but Aperture has thoughtfully provided a“Portal Gun.” This gun fires blue and orange doorways into flat surfaces. Walk into one, come out the other. Simple!Not really.Your test proctor is a computer called GLaDOS, and from the start she's a little weird. "Have I lied to you yet in this chamber?" Yeah, GLaDOS. That's how you start a friendship. Geez. But her voice is your only companion in these creepy as hell test chambers. Well, except your companion cube. He's your real friend. Each chamber has windows through which observers might peer, but there are never any people behind the glass. Only her cameras watch you. In some rooms, you’ll discover cracks in the set pieces and see frightening evidence that other subjects have died in this experiment...
Comforting
So, basically you play as Chell going through these tests. You get a real friend, (who you later incinerate) the companion cube, and GLaDOS seems to want to be your friend. She offers cake, she'll even sing. But she also lies. Beneath GLaDOS's cold, metal exterior, lies a sad little puppy. Who also wants to kill you to over throw a company- Black Mesa. (See: Half Life)
Anyway, this game is so much more than a puzzle game and it's defiantly recommended. You go behind that game, into the game- if you will. I am most impressed with it, and I am SO STOKED for Portal 2. I'm so happy that I in fact key bored mashed and made my 'Windows' key come off, and go into my top. I got it back on, though. So it's all good.
Mood: Neutral
Listening to: Skype
Last thing I ate: Ramen. Surprised, are you not?
Last thing I drank: Diet coke
Currently reading: Poetry, particularly Emily Dickinson and Robert Browning.
By the way try Billy Collins, Shoveling snow with Buddha and Another reason why I don't keep a gun in the house.
ReplyDeleteAnd GLaDOS deserves her how storyline, of people she has tortured and all that, I would so totally read that or play that for that fact of the matter, But I think she deserves more respect then she gets I mean just because she creepily kidnaps people and clones them hundreds of times then puts them in an experiment where at least thirty clones die, that doesn't make her a bad computer, it just makes her... Bored? I mean she is only a computer after all, what else is she going to do for entertainment then kill random strangers with complete onslaught of turrets and lava and very hard puzzle that involve HUGE blocks called 'companion cubes' (which with the size they are they look like they are heavy that only the grav part of the portal gun can lift.)which could kill you if it fell on you...
This game has no logic what so ever... I enjoy it anyway
Anyway, sorry for rambling I enjoy portal... A LOT.
Peace
@anon
ReplyDeleteI agree, actually. She's a WAY under-loved antagonist. And I always appreciate your ramblings.