Impressions of the Aperture Science Enrichment Center

[Madame Adequate]

Has anyone gone through with the developers commentary? The woman who did the voice for GLaDOS is complete out of her tree. Seriously she's as nutty as the AI she voices.

I think I may be in love with Ellen McLain, tbqh. She is fantastic. But Realm Lovejoy has by far the best way of speaking. Not enough of her explaining things. I would pay to hear her read the dictionary, tbqh.

Edit:

I really need to buy the Orange box to get this, it looks fairly fun.

The Orange Box is almost worth getting solely for Portal, and you can finish it in under three hours. But there's some other good stuff in there too. TF2 is pretty great, and the HL2 stuff... probably doesn't need explained. BTW I dunno who knows it, so I'll point it out - if you already own HL2 and/or Episode 1, and get the Orange Box, you can pass the ownership to a friend, thereby meaning you've not really wasted money in purchasing two copies. Not that you can really fault the value of The Orange Box.

[Slothy]

BTW I dunno who knows it, so I'll point it out - if you already own HL2 and/or Episode 1, and get the Orange Box, you can pass the ownership to a friend, thereby meaning you've not really wasted money in purchasing two copies. Not that you can really fault the value of The Orange Box.

Indeed. Even if you're only getting three games for the price of one (less than the retail price of one if you get it on Steam), then you're still getting three awesome games for the price of one. I can't believe the people who actually complain that HL2 and Ep:1 are included because they already own them. You can't beat this value, even if you are passing on two of the games to friends.

[Necronopticous]

If you could do that then you'd be a god to me Necronopticous. I don't know how you'd do it with no portals since you have to get yourself and the cube through the first door, but if you could pull it off I'd be amazed.

Unfortunately there is no way to break the camera without using portals, so my plan to do it with 0 portals didn't work. ;[

[Tidus Andronicus]

"The Enrichment Center reminds you that the weighted companion cube will never threaten to stab you, and in fact, cannot speak."
hehe, God I love Portal... I've played it all the way through like 4 or 5 times now... done many of the advanced maps, and some of the challenges... I've also done many of the accomplishments... although I still got plenty more to try... I've also been messing with the game itself. hehe

Steam Community :: Portal :: NikoKun
^16.8 hours (It's actually been almost 20 total) (game takes 2 hours to beat, infinity hours to mess around in though. lol)

I've also messed with the ending a little, and added my own twist to it! >=3 hehe

Check this out! (warning kindof spoilers, for those who haven't beaten it yet)

Secret Ending - The Cube
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d...ortalCube1.jpg
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d...ortalCube2.jpg
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d...ortalCube3.jpg


Also, I have some packs of sound clips from the game, for you all!

http://idisk.mac.com/clarkrmoreland/...DOS_Quotes.zip
^also contains the ending song.

And then these:
http://idisk.mac.com/clarkrmoreland/...S_Quotes_2.zip
http://idisk.mac.com/clarkrmoreland/...ret_Quotes.zip
^voices of the gun turrets XD
Probably could make a nifty windows sound theme or something... lol

I also have the lyrics to the ending song... hehe


God I love Portal, it's my favorite game of all times now! lol
Even this guy likes Portal, and can't find anything to complain about. lol
The Escapist : Zero Punctuation: The Orange Box

I miss my weighted companion cube!
Still alive...

[Slothy]

Just so everyone knows; Valve has apparently said they'll release a weighted companion cube toy (I'm assuming through their Valve store). I don't care if it's $50, I'm not missing out on it like I did the head crab hat.

[Tidus Andronicus]

Just so everyone knows; Valve has apparently said they'll release a weighted companion cube toy (I'm assuming through their Valve store). I don't care if it's $50, I'm not missing out on it like I did the head crab hat.

haha, yeah I heard about that... I sooooo want a Companion Cube... But they're making a plushie toy out of it... and I would prefer a solid Weighted Companion Cube Paper Weight. lol cause that would make so much more sense.

Tshirts would be cool too though.

So anyway, From what I heard in the developer commentary, This is just the first portal game. "In this first Portal game, we ...etc etc..." Sounded like they plan to make more.

Also I'm quite interested in seeing what they do with Episode 3 of Half Life, considering they (SPOILER)Talk about Aperture Science near the end of Episode 2. lol Could we see the ASHPD in HL2:E3??? That would be so smurfing sweet!

[Necronopticous]

I'm psyched about the Companion Cube toy.

I would rather have a solid model, also, but I'm cool with a plush toy. It's cuter, and I can see why they went that route.

[JKTrix]

Easter Egg: Apparently you can get the recipe for the cake from one of the screens in the game. They link to the recipe from that article.

I can't click the recipe link.

Is it a lie? I've been burned once before.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

According to the game script, the recipe is as follows:

1 18.25 ounce package chocolate cake mix.
1 can prepared coconut pecan frosting.
3/4 cup vegetable oil.
4 large eggs.
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips.
3/4 cups butter or margarine.
1&2/3 cups granulated sugar.
2 cups all purpose flour.

Don't forget garnishes such as:
Fish shaped crackers.
Fish shaped candies.
Fish shaped solid waste,
Fish shaped dirt.
Fish shaped ethyl benzene.
Pull and peel licorice..
Fish shaped volatile organic compounds
and sediment shaped sediment.
Candy coated peanut butter pieces, Shaped like fish.
1 cup lemon juice.
Alpha resins.
Unsaturated polyester resin.
Fiberglass surface resins.
And volatile malted milk impoundments.
9 large egg yolks.
12 medium geosynthetic membranes.
1 cup granulated sugar.
An entry called 'how to kill someone with your bare hands'.
2 cups rhubarb, sliced.
2/3 cups granulated rhubarb.
1 tablespoon all-purpose rhubarb.
1 teaspoon grated orange rhubarb.
3 tablespoons rhubarb, on fire.
1 large rhubarb.
1 cross borehole electro-magnetic imaging rhubarb.
2 tablespoons rhubarb juice.
Adjustable aluminum head positioner.
Slaughter electric needle injector.
Cordless electric needle injector.
Injector needle driver.
Injector needle gun.
Cranial caps.

[Tidus Andronicus]

According to the game script, the recipe is as follows:

1 18.25 ounce package chocolate cake mix.
1 can prepared coconut pecan frosting.
3/4 cup vegetable oil.
4 large eggs.
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips.
3/4 cups butter or margarine.
1&2/3 cups granulated sugar.
2 cups all purpose flour.

Don't forget garnishes such as:
Fish shaped crackers.
Fish shaped candies.
Fish shaped solid waste,
Fish shaped dirt.
Fish shaped ethyl benzene.
Pull and peel licorice..
Fish shaped volatile organic compounds
and sediment shaped sediment.
Candy coated peanut butter pieces, Shaped like fish.
1 cup lemon juice.
Alpha resins.
Unsaturated polyester resin.
Fiberglass surface resins.
And volatile malted milk impoundments.
9 large egg yolks.
12 medium geosynthetic membranes.
1 cup granulated sugar.
An entry called 'how to kill someone with your bare hands'.
2 cups rhubarb, sliced.
2/3 cups granulated rhubarb.
1 tablespoon all-purpose rhubarb.
1 teaspoon grated orange rhubarb.
3 tablespoons rhubarb, on fire.
1 large rhubarb.
1 cross borehole electro-magnetic imaging rhubarb.
2 tablespoons rhubarb juice.
Adjustable aluminum head positioner.
Slaughter electric needle injector.
Cordless electric needle injector.
Injector needle driver.
Injector needle gun.
Cranial caps.

While some of it was ok... There's some down right weird things in that recipe... xD

[qwertysaur]

The Aperture Science Center would like to remind you that the weighted companion cube will not threaten to stab you, and in fact, cannot speak.