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    Portal 2

    Game » consists of 20 releases. Released Apr 19, 2011

    Portal 2 is the sequel to the acclaimed first-person puzzle game, carrying forward its love of mind-bending problems and its reckless disregard for the space-time continuum.

    Wild Portal 3 Theory *spoilers*

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    #1  Edited By guyver0

    TIME TRAVEL!

    ok here me out.
    During chapter 6 when visiting the old offices frequently there is a sign saying "If you see an orange jumpsuit, press the read button." 
    There is an illustration of a person looking vaguely like Chell holding a mop. Why would you need to press a button if you see a janitor? 
    A red button was on the desk on the scientist that made sure GLaDOS didn't become god like. therefore the red button is an emergency button.
    does anyone else reckon this could mean the Chell time travels at some point?
    Just an idea, looking for opinions.
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    #2  Edited By thehexeditor

    I was hoping for you to mention the co-op ending instead of.. this

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    #3  Edited By Daveyo520

    I hope they don't do one after the end of 2.

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    #4  Edited By mracoon

    If there is Portal 3 it would have to be without Chell. I don't really see a need for Portal 3 anyway.

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    #5  Edited By AustinQ

    I think I might have this down. If they were to make a Portal 3, the main character would be Caroline.

    Anyone agree?
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    #6  Edited By Pie
    @AustinQ: You know Caroline is GLADoS right?
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    #7  Edited By PhatSeeJay

    Portal 3 should merge with Half Life 3. Two silent protagonists come together in the most bizarre co-op campaign ever created. One with a crowbar and guns and the other with nothing but a portal gun.

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    @thehexeditor said:
    " I was hoping for you to mention the co-op ending instead of.. this "
    Yeah that would be the obvious thing to bring up.
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    #9  Edited By KaosAngel

    Portal 2 takes place after Episode 3, we know the world is saved from the aliens.  Glados mentions seeing humans on the outside during this time period so it's safe to say everything is well.  

    Portal 3 either has to take place before Portal 1, take place during Half Life 2, or something else that's magical.  As far as I see it, Glados will just put those humans in more tests over and over and then releases them.

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    #10  Edited By I_smell

    The icon on that sign is a homeless person, because Aperture was hiring homeless people in the 70s.

    Oh my fucking god.

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    #11  Edited By AustinQ
    @Pie:  Where did you get that from?
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    #12  Edited By Pie
    @AustinQ said:
    " @Pie:  Where did you get that from? "
    The bit where the game tells you
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    #13  Edited By omghisam
    @Pie said:
    " @AustinQ said:
    " @Pie:  Where did you get that from? "
    The bit where the game tells you "
      
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    #14  Edited By kingzetta

    Portal 3: YOU ARE THE PORTAL!!

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    #15  Edited By rjayb89

    Nah, it's gonna be like Mirror's Edge but with portals.

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    #16  Edited By p_p_o_d
    @mracoon said:
    " If there is Portal 3 it would have to be without Chell. I don't really see a need for Portal 3 anyway. "
    this.  


    I think aperture will be left alone.     A sequel where glados finds and tests another person would be the lamest shit ever and a prequel during the Cave Johnson era just seems too predictable and cash grabby for Valve.  




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    #17  Edited By GJSmitty
    @AustinQ said:

    " @Pie:  Where did you get that from? "

      
      About 15 seconds in she says "You know, being Caroline has taught me a valuable lesson"
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    #18  Edited By NickLott
    @AustinQ: Specifically, aside from GLADoS saying it outright, remember toward the end of the Aperture history act (during the 80s era) when Cave was going on about new technology to put his conscience into a computer so that he could live forever? He says if he doesn't live to see it completed, to use Caroline in his place.
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    #19  Edited By gamer_152  Moderator

    Interesting theory, but I don't think this is anywhere near enough evidence for time travel. The most logical explanation for the orange jumpsuit signs is that they're there to tell the Aperture employees to alert people if they see test participants outside of the tests.

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    #20  Edited By Scooper
    @KaosAngel said:
    " Glados mentions seeing humans on the outside during this time period so it's safe to say everything is well. "
    She also says she saw some deer and that the test detected that "you are a horrible person", she also tries to murder you multiple times. I don't think you can believe 99% of what she says. She's toying with Chell for most of the game so yeah. We know the Earth didn't blow up or anything between Episode 2 and Portal 2 but we don't have any idea if there's any humans or anything still around, or at least, if there's a decent amount.

    Anyways, I don't think there'll be any Portal 3 much like I don't think there will be a Left 4 Dead 3. However I'd really really love if the writers from Valve kept stories going in other types of media like books or comics... It would be awesome to have a book about Chell and what she's does after Portal 2 but I don't think it would make a terribly good game. These fictions and worlds Valve thinks up are soo interesting I wish they'd get together and expand upon them in books.
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    #21  Edited By DrPockets000

    Knowing Valve, it'll take so fucking long to come out everyone will have forgotten what happened in 1 and 2 and no one will care where the story goes.

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    #22  Edited By bulletstorm

    The second playthrough in I made a bigger note out of GLaDOS saying she saw people, I don't think she can be trusted though, she's likely just saying that to tease Chell more.
    I'm in the "Chell's alone on Earth" camp. I think the only suitable "Portal 3" would be an artsy, "walk around North America until you die of "x"-causes" journey. 

    A return to Aperture Science? Never again, and I don't think Valve intends to. 

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    #23  Edited By demontium
    @mracoon said:
    " If there is Portal 3 it would have to be without Chell. I don't really see a need for Portal 3 anyway. "
    Yes and.... yes
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    #24  Edited By MustachedPagoda

    I don't think Valve has a serious idea of where they want to go with Portal 3.  I think the ending is open enough so that they can literally do whatever they want (if they even want to do another one).  Honestly this game ended almost exactly the same as the first one (excluding the bit added later on).

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    The end of Portal 3 ends much like Men in Black where the camera keeps pulling back further and further until it is revealed it is a self contained universe on a pimple on Gabe Newall's enormous ass.
    Lower quadrant of the left cheek an inch and a half away from the abyss if you want to know the exact location.

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    #26  Edited By time allen
    @kingzetta said:
    "

    Portal 3: YOU ARE THE PORTAL!!

    "
    exclusively for kinect
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    #27  Edited By Yanngc33
    @Pie: But at one point in the game's story Caroline and GLaDOS are two separate people, GLaDOS being the A.I. Cave always wanted to create and when Caroline took control of the facility put a part of her inside. Caroline was a real person
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    Also, I don't want another Portal (even though it's one of my favourite games), but I do want Gordon Freeman and Alyx to meet Chell in Half Life 3, with the portal gameplay not overdone, just a brief bit of change of pace, probably not make it more action than puzzle since it's a shooter.
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    #29  Edited By KarlPilkington

    As long as Half Life and Portal eventually merge somehow I'll be happy.

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    #30  Edited By JoeyRavn

    IMO, if they ever want to continue the story from inside Aperture, they should use:


    Mind you, I haven't played the MP yet, so I don't know what this ending there that everyone's talking about is.
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    @AustinQ: @Pie said:
    " @AustinQ: You know Caroline is GLADoS right? "
    I thought this was as explicit as they could have made it. 

    There were allusions to it in old Aperature, which would have been enough, and then GLADoS straight up says it right at the end.
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    #32  Edited By su2gnole

    The best thing is for this: L4D, HL, TF, C-S, Portal, (basically any game by valve) end up being put together in one game. The Trilogy of all of them have to be somewhere, and they all (with the exceptions of TF and CS) have connections, in a way.

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    #33  Edited By Pogger5

    just think guys wheatley and the portal gun are both in space wheatley has the weird claw things on his head to use the portal gun to get back to earth it could be about wheatley getting back to earth breaking glados off the main guide rail so if they both ended up in those aperture science robot core holders (like atlas and p body) glados could try and ascape the facility why wheatley tries to destroy the test facility and the world (just an idea but it would make an awesome game)

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    #34  Edited By joshsan

    two co op storys and two one player storys for the one player story it the queston why the core why portal gun why glados you dont use portals till almost the end the 2nd is the return of chell so glados is kinda worred that wheatly may retrun some on eath were so she take chell over to the lab to find him. she do but she takes wheatly and space core becase they done nothing yet

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    #35  Edited By benspyda

    @joshsan said:

    two co op storys and two one player storys for the one player story it the queston why the core why portal gun why glados you dont use portals till almost the end the 2nd is the return of chell so glados is kinda worred that wheatly may retrun some on eath were so she take chell over to the lab to find him. she do but she takes wheatly and space core becase they done nothing yet

    This. I have no idea what it means but it must be amazing.

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    #36  Edited By roughneck117

    @joshsan

    :

    wut

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    #37  Edited By toowalrus

    I've still got my bet down that portal 3 and half-life 3 are the same game.

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