What if Chell actually... [spoiler alert?]

[giogionline]

Hello everybody!
As my first entry in the Steam community I'd like to ask you people what do you think would have happened if Chell actually escaped Aperture Laboratories at the end of the first episode.
I find it very fascinating when GlaDoS says "I was the only thing between you and them" during the final battle.
Can you imagine Chell trying to survive in this new world thanks to the portal gun, eventually teaming up with the resitance?

I think it would be really cool.

EDIT: OK I only realized after posting that someone could have the game ruined if they never played... lol

[MoosemanEX]

Originally posted by The Diamond Line:

I heard that before Portal 2 was announced, Portal 1 had a different ending. The only difference was that Chell didn't get dragged back into Aperture. In 2010 they updated it so she was dragged back in. If you watch a video of the ending from before 2010 you might see the old ending.

Very true, she was just lying there and the screen faded to black.

[post apocalypse otter boi]

Originally posted by WHEATLEY:

Originally posted by AEX10Playz:

Thats not possible as Portal 2 takes place 50,000 - 100,000 years after Half Life 2

But if you launch portal 1 on mac, the window is titled hl2_osx... This could mean that they are actually set in the same time, a bit like area 51, with futuristic technology...
And anyway, in portal 2 when chell wakes up for the second time, the announcer keeps on repeating the number 9 when stating how long she has been in suspension. This could mean that she has been asleep for thousands of years.

LOL wut? all source games are in the task manager are hl2.exe and portal and half life are in the same universe, it's just that the timeline doesn't match up. In half life 2 they even mention apenture and the borallis

[meetmeinoz]

Originally posted by WHEATLEY:

Originally posted by AEX10Playz:

Thats not possible as Portal 2 takes place 50,000 - 100,000 years after Half Life 2

But if you launch portal 1 on mac, the window is titled hl2_osx... This could mean that they are actually set in the same time, a bit like area 51, with futuristic technology...
And anyway, in portal 2 when chell wakes up for the second time, the announcer keeps on repeating the number 9 when stating how long she has been in suspension. This could mean that she has been asleep for thousands of years.

But it could also be a glitch.

It's not confirmed how much time has passed, but I usually headcanon it being like a 100 years because I prefer the stories where Chell re enters society(one rebuilt after the Combine Invasion ends) and lives a normal life with other people.

[poop skywalker]

I never actually thought about it that way. Kinda reminds me of that theory that ghostbusters 2 was a dream

[post apocalypse otter boi]

Originally posted by The Diamond Line:

Originally posted by WHEATLEY:

But if you launch portal 1 on mac, the window is titled hl2_osx... This could mean that they are actually set in the same time, a bit like area 51, with futuristic technology...
And anyway, in portal 2 when chell wakes up for the second time, the announcer keeps on repeating the number 9 when stating how long she has been in suspension. This could mean that she has been asleep for thousands of years.

But it could also be a glitch.

It's not confirmed how much time has passed, but I usually headcanon it being like a 100 years because I prefer the stories where Chell re enters society(one rebuilt after the Combine Invasion ends) and lives a normal life with other people.

just saying but it's not a glitch. most source enigne games appears on task manager as hl2.exe

[meetmeinoz]

Originally posted by Handicapped Kitten:

Originally posted by The Diamond Line:

But it could also be a glitch.

It's not confirmed how much time has passed, but I usually headcanon it being like a 100 years because I prefer the stories where Chell re enters society(one rebuilt after the Combine Invasion ends) and lives a normal life with other people.

just saying but it's not a glitch. most source enigne games appears on task manager as hl2.exe

I wasn't talking about that, I was talking about how the announcer says 9 9 9 9 9 over again. The announcer sounded glitched.

[post apocalypse otter boi]

Originally posted by The Diamond Line:

Originally posted by Handicapped Kitten:

just saying but it's not a glitch. most source enigne games appears on task manager as hl2.exe

I wasn't talking about that, I was talking about how the announcer says 9 9 9 9 9 over again. The announcer sounded glitched.

whoops my bad

[meetmeinoz]

Originally posted by Handicapped Kitten:

Originally posted by The Diamond Line:

I wasn't talking about that, I was talking about how the announcer says 9 9 9 9 9 over again. The announcer sounded glitched.

whoops my bad

It's okay. I should have worded it better.

[MoosemanEX]

Originally posted by The Diamond Line:

Originally posted by Handicapped Kitten:

just saying but it's not a glitch. most source enigne games appears on task manager as hl2.exe

I wasn't talking about that, I was talking about how the announcer says 9 9 9 9 9 over again. The announcer sounded glitched.

Yeah but that would mean that chell was asleep for so long that a computer could not state how long she was asleep for.

[giogionline]

Originally posted by The Diamond Line:

Originally posted by WHEATLEY:

But if you launch portal 1 on mac, the window is titled hl2_osx... This could mean that they are actually set in the same time, a bit like area 51, with futuristic technology...
And anyway, in portal 2 when chell wakes up for the second time, the announcer keeps on repeating the number 9 when stating how long she has been in suspension. This could mean that she has been asleep for thousands of years.

But it could also be a glitch.

It's not confirmed how much time has passed, but I usually headcanon it being like a 100 years because I prefer the stories where Chell re enters society(one rebuilt after the Combine Invasion ends) and lives a normal life with other people.

I think that's the most probable and realistic time lapse, if not 100 I'd say no more than 500 years. To think hundreds of thousands of years is an exaggeration to me, I mean come on people things change A LOT during this much time, nature would have swallowed everything (more than you see in game) and computers would have maybe gone more crazy than they are already.
I have to admit though that I still have to replay Portal 2 since many years now so maybe I'm missing some minor details

[meetmeinoz]

Originally posted by npng3:

Even though Chell escaped from Aperture Science at the end , she can't survive with portal gun outside. Because portal gun only works on certain surfaces. ( can't really remember but i think the surface must be moon rock or something ). So Chell has almost zero chance to survive outside -which invaded by Combine Army- because she can't use her portal gun -which is her only speciality-

PS: I don't think Combine invasion ended because at the end of the game -when GLaDOS blowing up- she says something like "do you think you can survive outside ?" so I think Combines still on Earth during the Portal 1.

However, the Portal Gun would work on some surfaces. Remember, Cave Johnson said the moon rock stuff was a GREAT portal conductor, not the ONLY portal conductor. And the Portal Gun was created before the conversion gel was.

Since a lot of time passed between the end of Portal 1 and Portal 2, I'd say the Combine had probably been defeated before the end of Portal 2.

[giogionline]

Originally posted by npng3:

Originally posted by The Diamond Line:

However, the Portal Gun would work on some surfaces. Remember, Cave Johnson said the moon rock stuff was a GREAT portal conductor, not the ONLY portal conductor. And the Portal Gun was created before the conversion gel was.

Since a lot of time passed between the end of Portal 1 and Portal 2, I'd say the Combine had probably been defeated before the end of Portal 2.

You're right but even if moon rock isn't the only portal conductor , the chances of Chell surviving outside is still very low because Chell doesn't have any combat experience. ( besides turrets )

Looking your gameplay time in both games , it's sure that you know Portal lore much more than me so you might be right about Combine but in my opinion , we can't be sure whether they're still on Earth or not during Portal 2 because we don't have any clue about that.

Combat experience doesn't count here, Gordon alone fought back entire hordes of aliens and soldiers and he was just a Ph.D

[post apocalypse otter boi]

Originally posted by giogionline:

Originally posted by npng3:

You're right but even if moon rock isn't the only portal conductor , the chances of Chell surviving outside is still very low because Chell doesn't have any combat experience. ( besides turrets )

Looking your gameplay time in both games , it's sure that you know Portal lore much more than me so you might be right about Combine but in my opinion , we can't be sure whether they're still on Earth or not during Portal 2 because we don't have any clue about that.

Combat experience doesn't count here, Gordon alone fought back entire hordes of aliens and soldiers and he was just a Ph.D

I assumed barney taught him how to use guns.

[giogionline]

Originally posted by Handicapped Kitten:

Originally posted by giogionline:

Combat experience doesn't count here, Gordon alone fought back entire hordes of aliens and soldiers and he was just a Ph.D

I assumed barney taught him how to use guns.

Fair assumption, let's also not forget about the hazard course! Still I wouldn't say that's enough...
Anyway, I'm afraid we're starting to speculate here... let's just say I always considered it something that here in Italy we call a "narrative pact" (didn't find any translation), i.e. something that in a story doesn't need to be true or logic but that the audience (listener, reader, gamer, etc...) accept as totally true and ok (like x-men powers or any kind of fantasy or sci-fi event set in a "real world") just for the sake of the story itself

[post apocalypse otter boi]

Originally posted by giogionline:

Originally posted by Handicapped Kitten:

I assumed barney taught him how to use guns.

Fair assumption, let's also not forget about the hazard course! Still I wouldn't say that's enough... I always considered it something that here in Italy we call a "narrative pact" (didn't find any translation), i.e. something that in a story doesn't need to be true or logic but that the audience (listener, reader, gamer, etc...) accept as totally true and ok (like x-men powers) just for the sake of the story itself

I don't claim that barney teaching gordon to shoot is enough for him to be a badass, but I just assume that he has some firearms training.