Great writing, Alex!

Great article, so much of Portal 2 was just so good. I think the ending was easily the best game ending ever. I think I need to go play through it a third time now.

I want a Morgan Freeman sphere. In fact, everything should be in sphere form; Morgan Freeman, Pizza, British Comedians, the possibility are endless.

Great article. I thought that having a New York correspondent for Whiskey Media wasn't the best idea in the world, but this definitely changed my mind.

Mr. Walpaw's Law, himself.

The extra line with the adventure core is pretty funny. Also, his action music.

" Alternative ending? I want to see this.  "

Very good read, though I had convinced myself that Chell might be mute. But Gladdos probably would not let that go if true.

What was funny was the fat jokes, because Chell is  rather thin. But watch the fan art progressively stick bigger boobs and a rear end on her. Might be fun for Wolpaw. Congrats to that guy, btw. I simply remember reading his reviews back in the early days of GS. he was a good read.

" David Cage need to take notes.  "

 I was a fat kid my whole life

 In Wolpaw's opinion, "People who play games have this intuitive sense that the designer is going to make it so you don't have to read this sign. That they'll leave the breadcrumb trail in there and I can ignore the sign as anything but flavor text."

Good stuff Alex. Love the content appearing on the site as of late. 

Enjoyed the read very much!

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 I was a fat kid my whole life

That's a contradiction. "

So, Alex in New York results in this? Ok, I'm down with it.

Great read!

Thank you Alex, this was excellent.

Weird, because I just watched Oldboy for the first time yesterday and I do see where that guy was coming from with that comparison.

Also, I have already been thinking of Portal 2 as a game that's all about the adventure and it's what I like most about it.  I would dearly like more adventure games like this.

Great article, having Alex on the East Coast might not be such a bad idea after all!

Amazing read Alex. Looking forward to more great articles like this.

I'm feeling the final point of this article - that games tend to have unsatisfying endings, because they always feel the need to leave room for the sequel in that dumb cliffhanger way. They're all trying to be Empire Strikes Back.

Portal 2 ending wins either way: Satisfying as fuck, but there's still room to continue the series.

Oh man,  Ayoade would have been a perfect Wheatley.

Great read Alex. Looking forward to more content like this.

Awesome article, Alex!

I fucking love Portal 2

Excellent article Alex

" Oh man,  Ayoade would have been a perfect Wheatley.

  

  
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" @omghisam said:

" Oh man,  Ayoade would have been a perfect Wheatley.

  

  
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he was actually there first choice but they diddent get himEDIT diddent read the hole thing before i posted this "

Erik's a weird guy.

I can appreciate this interview for the simple fact that he just wanted to make an entertaining game. I especially enjoyed the comments about not turning it into a work of art that only students of art could enjoy. At the end of the day he just keeps it real lol.

Great read. I was wandering the net and discovered that The Escapist picked this up. Weird? I dunno, but if it means more readers get to Giant Bomb I'm pleased.

Anyway, keep up the good work sir!

Great article, Alex.  I pointed my wife at this one.  She's a huge Portal fan.

Such a great article. Nice work!

I would actually look at the testing signs just to see if there would be some kind of easter egg or something in them. It also didn't hurt to know what elements would be used in the test.

2 things I mildly disagreed with. One was not reading the panels. Well, I knew they were there because of their utility in the first game. I would say my pattern was different. I would glance at them if I remembered, and would go back and look at them to see if there was a clue for something not perceived. Also they were amusing though not exactly unseen. But over all i knew they were there  if I remembered, and I wasn't going to make assumptions. Yes, I was less dependent on them.

The comment about art, Art reflects the subject. I could not imagine the Portal world in some primary stylized fashion, it was a real place with real walls, emmense spaces, mechanisms and dangers.Except for the intrusion of nature, it was an enviroment geared for or in support of 'Testing', though there was an interesting chronological factor in the story, also.  Depicting all that, isn't that Art enough? And given so, true to itself. which probably makes what I am saying jibe to what Wolpaw mean't., come to think.

He did a good job.

I just want to say...

Hell yeah to Wolpaw at avoiding the NYU directive questions into making him a pretentious prick...just like them.

Also. Great Article.

Awesome article!  More like this please!

" @Grillbar said:

" @omghisam said:

" Oh man,  Ayoade would have been a perfect Wheatley.

  

  
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he was actually there first choice but they diddent get himEDIT diddent read the hole thing before i posted this "

Hm, no, I like him, but I think Merchant is far better for the part. "

This was quite an interesting read!
Great post^^
So many fun facts and tidbits about one of my (already) favorite games of all time~

lots of work went into this article. nice job. 

Thats a good article

Really love this game. It has so much character. 

Great read.  Nice article, Alex.

Thanks for this Alex. I prefer reading essays and commentary on games over news and reviews and it's one of the reasons I don't spend as much time on giantbomb as I did in the beginning. I'd like to see more articles like this and like the stuff you guys are doing on screened.

Excellent stuff here! Really loved this article. 

So here's the full talk. http://vimeo.com/23534126
Can any of you spot Mr. Alex Navarro? Where he at?

Excellent stuff