IDIOTS! GLaDOS is a psychopathic computer! She is the villain! You have to team up with her for a while to fight a common enemy, but she never stops being cruel and manipulative. The reaction from these parents is EXACTLY the reason the taunting about adoption is in the game! In the scene shown, Wheatley is trying to copy GLaDOS' style of mockery and fails.

Holy crap, I can't believe they have played the game and don't get this point. The bad guys say things to try to upset you! Are they supposed to be polite while they try to kill you? Concerned about your feelings and shy away from potentially touchy subjects??

This is one of my favorite games of all time, and it really pisses me off to see it being mis-interpreted like this. Apparently none of these people understand character creation.

I have a suggestion. If there is something about your life that somebody might poke fun at and make you all insulted, then don't leave the house. Don't play any video games. Don't watch any TV. Don't read any books. Just sit alone in your safe little room where nobody will ever hurt you with their painful, painful words.

Sigh.

Also, westy, I thought Steve Merchant's performance was superb. I don't know him as an actor, so maybe he has the same style in everything he does, which I see might get annoying. Also I'm an American, for whatever that's worth. Not sure how that changes how we view his performance. He's supposed to be a fairly dumb AI. I think he nailed it. You're not going to get the cleverness of Monty Python or Pratchett in a character like that. Of course the GLaDOS character has much wittier comments. She's smart. And evil.

>> ^ponceleon:

OH FFS. Just let it go. It is one of the most well-written games in quite some time. Should we ban Cinderella? She was adopted and it was a nightmare. Grow some fucking skin and enough with the fake fucking outrage over NOTHING.


most of the doilog makes the game feel like some wana-be pixar film .

Steve merchants voice is one of the most damaging things to the game and the exsperance. I guess if your american you will perceive his voice differently but at a minimum they could have put a bit of distortion on it so it didn't sound like a voice actor in your ear for half the game allso they should have made is speaking far less formulaic ( granted how he talks in this is all he is capable of as an actor)

As for Steve merchants lines in terms of writing to me it felt like I had some kids nurator from some cheep kids cg film following me around , when you have a character like that you really need the writing to be done by monty python , duglus adems or maybe terry Pratchett.

The glados character however is good and most of her lines are decent and fit the game well.

As for this whole adopted news story its just retarded the news anchers and tv produces should just be em brassed by how pore there reporting is.

>> ^westy:

>> ^WKB:
Was that Stephen Merchant?!? I thought this was a gag video at first with quotes from The Ricky Gervais show added.

yep it is and I think it really ruins the game for English people maby if they had applied some auto-tune / filters to it so it didn't just sound like Steve merchant doing a voice over through 60% of the game then it would have been ok.
I think they were looking for a "generic" English type person john clease typ thing and steve was the only one they could find lol.
I think most people will enjoy portal and think its utterly amazing. It is better than allot of games and is pretty polished , but at the same time i think it feels really dulled down as a game and although some of the puzzles and the mechanics available are really good , it missed allot of puzzles that would just be "fun" to do and certainly lacks puzzles that allow for th player to compleat them in multiple ways or in creative ways.
I think it suffers a tiny bit from consolitus ( no where near as bad as most games nowerdays)
What i don't understand as well is why the pc multipler is not set up in the same way as the CSS surf maps worked , where u could join into a server and play custom maps with a bunch of people that would be Realy good. i guess they wanted to do a split screen typ coop for console users.
im sure sum-one will mod it and it will evolve from there so that will be interesting to see

Didn't ruin it for me (an English person) becuase Wheatley is supposed to be a moron. Perfect voice for such a purpose.

>> ^WKB:

Was that Stephen Merchant?!? I thought this was a gag video at first with quotes from The Ricky Gervais show added.


yep it is and I think it really ruins the game for English people maby if they had applied some auto-tune / filters to it so it didn't just sound like Steve merchant doing a voice over through 60% of the game then it would have been ok.

I think they were looking for a "generic" English type person john clease typ thing and steve was the only one they could find lol.

I think most people will enjoy portal and think its utterly amazing. It is better than allot of games and is pretty polished , but at the same time i think it feels really dulled down as a game and although some of the puzzles and the mechanics available are really good , it missed allot of puzzles that would just be "fun" to do and certainly lacks puzzles that allow for th player to compleat them in multiple ways or in creative ways.

I think it suffers a tiny bit from consolitus ( no where near as bad as most games nowerdays)

What i don't understand as well is why the pc multipler is not set up in the same way as the CSS surf maps worked , where u could join into a server and play custom maps with a bunch of people that would be Realy good. i guess they wanted to do a split screen typ coop for console users.

im sure sum-one will mod it and it will evolve from there so that will be interesting to see

And Steve Merchant!

http://www.videosift.com/video/Derren-Brown-Predictable-Steve-Merchant

You derren brown video interests me.

I would like to see him meet meet his match. That would be cool. I doubt that derren brown and his match would get along well, its like anti matter and matter. haha.

I know, Thylan sent me every video on the sift with him in it after my comment haha. I had watched one last week that rasch sent round, and it was fucking hilarious, just didn't remember the name. Thanks for letting me know danny

In reply to this comment by dannym3141:
Go and check out his podcasts with ricky gervais and steve merchant! You will NEVER look back.

In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
Fuck, I better go sort my life out. I need therapy or somethin, and you dannym are the perfect person for suggestions

Go and check out his podcasts with ricky gervais and steve merchant! You will NEVER look back.

In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
Fuck, I better go sort my life out. I need therapy or somethin, and you dannym are the perfect person for suggestions

I'm fairy sure that this was on Xfm not Radio 2. (It was on the Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant radio show, which Karl produced)