It reminds me of GLaDOS' eye.

Looking at the thin one, I wonder if GLadOS has promised them a bathroom at the end of the test, as incentive.

Cue "The bathroom is a lie!" meme.

I like how they tried to rip off GLADOS.

To those who are skeptical of Portal 1 because of the way all of those who have played it drone on about cake and lies and GLaDOS, I can understand how it seems like a cult, but really, go play it.

It's like the pod people of the body snatchers... it doesn't hurt and afterwards you'll be a monster like the rest of us!

I can see that, but I mean as a co-op partner like it was in the first one... I mean if Glados was able to withstand being thrown into a fire, I would imagine that the weighted companion could have survived too...

>> ^ponceleon:

>> ^mas8705:
FORGET SIFTBOT! THE WEIGHTED COMPANION CUBE (or one of its relatives) BETTER BE IN PORTAL 2!!!

It is in the video. at 22 seconds stuck in the rubble towards the upper right.

Portal in a Nutshell. (MAJOR SPOILERS - you'd be better off just playing the thing yourself - it's a perfect game IMO)

Created by Valve, makers of Half-Life, Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress, Portal is at it's heart an ingeneous puzzle game that focuses around a Portal gun. This gun is basically a wormhole gun that allows you to project entry/exit points onto walls, ceilings and floors which you can then travel through. The physics in the game are perfect and momentum figures into the puzzles in a very satisfying way. The increasingly more challenging levels are all based around getting from the beginning of the level to the end, and some of the later ones take some real brain power to figure out.

Beyond this, they've crafted a fairly brilliant story, narrated by the only speaking character in the game, GLaDOS, who is the insane computer in charge of the research facility that you are trapped in. The dialog is very witty and the rapidly decreasing mental state of GLaDOS's AI, and adds a lot of tension to the game. You slowly realize that there are major problems with this facility, and things unfold in an interesting way.

At one point, you are tasked with caring for a 'companion cube'. Later you are asked to 'kill' the cube by dropping it into an incinerator. Later in the game GLaDOS reprimands you for doing this.

As a reward for completing all of the research challenges, you are promised a tasty slice of cake. As inevitably escape research maze, you find notes from others who have presumably escaped too. You find things on the wall that say 'The Cake Is A Lie'.

Great boss battle at the end, and just when you think the fun is over, GLaDOS herself sings this amazing hilarious song by Johnathan Coultan.

In reply to this comment by Croccydile:
Am I the last gamer on Earth to not know what the deal is with this game? The limit of my knowledge involves overplayed jokes about some cake or something.

*promote GLaDOS!!!!

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It occurs to me after listening to this that the voice of GLADOS in Portal was an auto-tuned voice. Not singing but still it had that sound effect.

precursor to portal? Was that GlaDos's mom?

The woman who narrates these is creepy sounding... like GLaDoS almost...

The audio felt kinda like GlaDOS in Portal for a second there...

This is a great video. Good Q&A, good PR for cern.

While watching Angels and Demons in the theater, when they first showed the antimatter trap/bomb scene, my friend and I busted out laughing! Those folks seated around us were confused and not amused.

The design of the Vatican archives didn't make much sense to me either, but I didn't really care about that.

Well, that proves it. GlaDOS needs to stay out of politics.

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The companion cube is mute; I think you mean GLaDOS.