How cool would it have been that if at the end when Chell gets out onto the wheat field, one of those giant combine strider things was there?  I mean this is set in the Half-life universe afterall...

The Borealis dry dock was enough cross over stuff for me. It was empty and mysterious.

HL2: Episode 3's gold trophy/100 point achievement is carrying the charred Weighted Companion Cube over ten miles to be put into the spaceship to recover Wheatley.

Wasn't it confirmed a while ago that it was set in the half life universe?

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Wasn't it confirmed a while ago that it was set in the half life universe?

 

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" How cool would it have been that if at the end when Chell gets out onto the wheat field, one of those giant combine strider things was there?  I mean this is set in the Half-life universe afterall... "

" HL2: Episode 3's gold trophy/100 point achievement is carrying the charred Weighted Companion Cube over ten miles to be put into the spaceship to recover Wheatley. "

" How cool would it have been that if at the end when Chell gets out onto the wheat field, one of those giant combine strider things was there?  I mean this is set in the Half-life universe afterall... "

The lack of anything Half-Life related in Portal 2 (save for the dry dock) was kind of stupid to me. Why involve the two franchises if you never intend to do anything with it? I'm not asking for a preview of Episode 3 (ALTHOUGH THAT WOULD BE NICE VALVE), but something a little more concrete than hearsay would be nice.

" The lack of anything Half-Life related in Portal 2 (save for the dry dock) was kind of stupid to me. Why involve the two franchises if you never intend to do anything with it? I'm not asking for a preview of Episode 3 (ALTHOUGH THAT WOULD BE NICE VALVE), but something a little more concrete than hearsay would be nice.

Honestly looking at the wheat field, I expected a Hunter to pop out before the fade to black. Something. Anything, really. You can't just say "Yeah they're totally connected and share the same universe" and then do nothing with it. It makes Valve look like they were talking out of their asses or, at worst, trying to bait HL fans into a guaranteed purchase of Portal 2.

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Well guys look at this little treasure I found. From Erik Wolpaw (the writer of Portal 2 I believe) himself, responding to a question about the ending of the game:


"We did three endings, it’s a long series of endings. We wanted to show you GlaDOS, show you Chell and then show you Wheatley – GlaDOS learns a lesson and promptly deletes it so she can set herself back to zero. You learn whatever you learn and you’re out and it doesn’t look so bad – but we know the Combine’s probably lurking out there somewhere . And you get the Companion Cube back – that could be good or bad, it’s not really clear. In my mind GlaDOS has given you the Companion Cube like “take your shit and go”, or the Companion Cube has been on its own adventure this whole time and just manages to escape at exactly the same moment you do, in which case it’s probably pissed.."

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/04/26/erik-wolpaw-on-portal-2s-ending-the-spoiler-is-probably-lurking-out-there-somewhere/

Woulldn't that be crazy if in a DLC they managed to make a few levels that showed what happens to the companion cube?

I don't know how they'd do it, but that could be cool...

" Woulldn't that be crazy if in a DLC they managed to make a few levels that showed what happens to the companion cube?I don't know how they'd do it, but that could be cool... "

Despite what Wolpaw may have said, nothing is really set in stone until they decide to put it in the games and having a Strider out there would have solidly confirmed the idea that way into the future, the Combine are still ruling the Earth, probably not something they want to do at this point. The image of Combine on the surface would also have spoiled the almost eerily perfect vision of the surface that is shown at the end of the game, it's completely not what they were going for.

As for the Companion Cube I saw it as GLaDOS, despite resenting you, being nice enough to return it at the game, although I don't think the Companion Cube can really have adventures. I love CC as much as the next guy, but a Companion Cube DLC? There's only so much you can do with a character that is literally a metal box. I also feel like that would lean too heavily on the jokes of the original Portal, something they were clearly trying to avoid with Portal 2.