man.. you're unbelievable you've beaten it already? in what, 10 hours since its RELEASE ?
 its gonna take me a week or two to beat no matter how much i enjoy it..
 u mad brah

I more or less couldn't stop playing once it got going.  It's terribly engrossing.

It was a little weird.

I agree that the singing turrets felt way off, they could've saved that for pr later on...

Tell me, do we really need to use spoiler tags to talk about spoilers when you say the word spoilers in the title?

By the way,

I was kind of surprised that they took away player camera control as much as they did during the ending sequence. That's not something Valve usually does.

" I was kind of surprised that they took away player camera control as much as they did during the ending sequence. That's not something Valve usually does. "

Finished it in a single sitting and i have to agree the turrets were weird and the companion cube was also really weird. The companion cube is just supposed to be an inanimate object that gets a personality painted onto it by the player, the way they ended with it kinda messed that up.

Maybe Wheathly will make a come back?

Also, what does the ending say about what's to come in Episode 3?

We know that Aperture Science and Black Mesa exist in the same universe, and that the companies are aware of each other. GLaDOS seems to know what's going on with the Combine in Portal 1, because she has those lines about how Chell wouldn't really want to know what's going on outside, leading me to believe that Portal 1 happens around the same time as the events of Half-Life 2. We're not told how much time passes between Portal 1 and Portal 2, but it's obviously quite a while given the level of vegetation covering areas of the facility. 

Half-Life 2 made it seem that the Combine were draining Earth of its natural resources (massively decreased ocean levels, the canals being half drained, etc...). It doesn't seem like the field we see at the end of the game could exist on a planet that was being slowly harvested by an alien race.

Here are my thoughts: You can't fucking talk in space! And if anyone suddenly popped up on the moon like that their lungs would explode! Seriously, though, I loved the ending and I was a bit sad it was over. Now we wait for Portal 3.

Hmm, I dunno.. the story is sorta all over the place already, so by the time I reached the end I was just ready for ridiculousness of any kind. I have to agree though, the moon was by far the best part :P

Did anyone else find the "Missing Experiment" for the Ship Overboard achievement??  Serious tease by Valve with that one.

I enjoyed the ending. I also felt that Cave Johnson was underused (no real conclusion to what happened to him, I was expecting him to be a part of Glados) and no hints towards Episode 3. I hope we see more of those guys in E3 like. 

" Here are my thoughts: You can't fucking talk in space! And if anyone suddenly popped up on the moon like that their lungs would explode! Seriously, though, I loved the ending and I was a bit sad it was over. Now we wait for Portal 3. "

I feel so conflicted about the game.  Technically, I think it's a masterpiece.  I loved the gameplay mechanics, art, sense of scale, etc., but I'm just completely disappointed with the lack of any real story progress.  At the end of the game, we're at the same point we were at the end of the first.  All the exposition was interesting enough, but it's completely irrelevant.  All that writing felt like something that should be in an other-media prequel or something.  The whole story is so non-committal and inconsequential.  It dances around saying or doing anything concrete.  I guess that's something I have to realize.  Portal could be set in the Half-Life universe because it was so self-contained.  At the end of the first one, I felt like Portal and Half-Life were ready to smash head-on and interweave.  That expectation obviously was either never planned by Valve or forgotten by them.  So while I loved playing the game, looking back on it makes it feel like they remade Portal with better exposition and really fun gameplay additions.

" I feel so conflicted about the game.  Technically, I think it's a masterpiece.  I loved the gameplay mechanics, art, sense of scale, etc., but I'm just completely disappointed with the lack of any real story progress.  At the end of the game, we're at the same point we were at the end of the first.  All the exposition was interesting enough, but it's completely irrelevant.  All that writing felt like something that should be in an other-media prequel or something.  The whole story is so non-committal and inconsequential.  It dances around saying or doing anything concrete.  I guess that's something I have to realize.  Portal could be set in the Half-Life universe because it was so self-contained.  At the end of the first one, I felt like Portal and Half-Life were ready to smash head-on and interweave.  That expectation obviously was either never planned by Valve or forgotten by them.  So while I loved playing the game, looking back on it makes it feel like they remade Portal with better exposition and really fun gameplay additions. "

I took that scene at the end to mean that this game takes place after the combine have been driven off the planet and the human race is recovering.

Anyone else notice that the turret king in the part with the singing turrets looked like the "animal king" at the beginning of the game?

And Glados says she saw humans. Which may be Combine. But if Combine were there, would the Earth look that good? Combine were mining and destroying everything. So if there are still humans, and the Earth is there, do I really feel any tension about the conclusion of Half-Life? Nothing is a certainty, but this ending make me feel less eager to wrap up the Half-Life series.

Portal 1 ended with the notion that she was 'still alive.' Obviously, she was. And that was the crux of how this game gets going.

" Portal 1 ended with the notion that she was 'still alive.' Obviously, she was. And that was the crux of how this game gets going.

Portal 2, on the hand, ended with the notion that...

SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal hidden content.

She 'wants you gone.' This will either lead to a new character with Aperture (I feel like we're done with that facility after this), or that the world of Aperture science may expand into the 'real' world.

"

" @project343 said:

" Portal 1 ended with the notion that she was 'still alive.' Obviously, she was. And that was the crux of how this game gets going.

Portal 2, on the hand, ended with the notion that...

SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal hidden content.

She 'wants you gone.' This will either lead to a new character with Aperture (I feel like we're done with that facility after this), or that the world of Aperture science may expand into the 'real' world.

"

Totally possible. She wants you outta there. An evil robot with unfettered access to a huge science facility? Can't be good. "

The whole moon thing was great. When the roof fell away, I just shot it on a whim, and I'd totally forgotten that the white paint was made of moon dust. Amazing.

Yea not really explaining what ended up happening to Cave is my only real concern.

I really liked the ending. It was a bit quirky, but it felt right. Portal's always been zany.

Who is Caroline?And who the hell is the Rat Man?
Other than that, I enjoyed the ending, and was pleasantly surprised by the end song.

On the MOON.

I LOVED the king Turret in the background joining in on the fun. I thought that was a great throw back to the screens warning you of it's coming.

I agree. I did like the fact that you stop in front of them at first though. It was like "I knew it was a trap! Oh...they're singing." That was kind of a funny moment. They could have done without it. It didn't ruin the ending by any means for me though.

" Here are my thoughts: You can't fucking talk in space! And if anyone suddenly popped up on the moon like that their lungs would explode! Seriously, though, I loved the ending and I was a bit sad it was over. Now we wait for Portal 3. "