Portal: Is the cake a lie?

Commander Spleen · Post by **Commander Spleen** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 17:24

Too many classy.

Ah, those droids are excessively cute...

KeenRush wrote:Everyone speaks like its humour and stuff is something never seen before.

I speak as if it's extremely good humour, combined into one short and sweet gaming experience. I make no implication that it's like has not been seen before.

I'm most impressed that it's finally a novel use of an FPS engine. The old 'this has better graphics and new guns' thing has grown old for me.

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 17:37

Anti-Gary wrote:THE WEIGHTED COMPANION CUBE CAN SPEAK!!!

It also ate all of the cake.

...No wait, I incinerated it before it could do that. Noooooo!

Sciz CT · Post by **Sciz CT** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 18:04

KeenRush wrote: Take it easy! Everyone speaks like its humour and stuff is something never seen before. Is it really so that it's the first in the FPS genre to use (intentional) humour?

It isn't the first funny first person game by any means, but it is the first one I'm aware of to have such a dark sense of humor, and the first to integrate the comedy into the gameplay so extensively.

Djaser · Post by **Djaser** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 18:41

I think games like Serious Sam and Duke Nukem have as much (dark) humour.

Post by **KeenRush** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 21:57

Haha, I can't believe it! I entirely forgot Duke Nukem exists! Yeah, there's one example of FPS with humour.

ckguy · Post by **ckguy** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 5:47

HOLY CRAP! THIS GAME IS AMAZING!

Inspired by all the talk about it on the PCKF, I got this game today, and it is fucling incredible. If you haven't played it, there really isn't any way to explain what it's like. Amazing warped physics. Zany humor.

I just finished the level where you have to euthanize (spelling???) your faithful weighted companion cube.

While the incineration is very painful, 8 out of 10 technicians agree that companion cubes are incapable of feeling much pain. And those droids "There you are! Goodbye! Malfunction! No hard feelings. I don't blame you."

Now would be a good time to give up. There will be cake.

[Edit] Just finished level 18, only one more to go! (and yes I know that once you finish the "last" level the game is not done) But it's 4am, time to go to sleep.

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 13:21

SLEEP?! I finished the game at 2 am because I wanted to know how it ended! Believe me, the end is really worth it.

entropicdecay · Post by **entropicdecay** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 16:22

KeenRush wrote:Haha, I can't believe it! I entirely forgot Duke Nukem exists! Yeah, there's one example of FPS with humour.

Off Topic: I liked Duke Nukem 2. It's a shame I can't find the disc that has the full version on it, I'd like to play it again.

memsys · Post by **memsys** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 18:43

elecdude33 you have a pm

Niborius · Post by **Niborius** » Thu May 22, 2008 14:27

Go to www.aperturescience.com, type 'login' than 'cjohnson' than 'Tier3' and finally 'thecakeisalie'.
There's interesting information here about the story and more.
But it contains spoilers through.

LJH · Post by **LJH** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 0:27

It's an FPP (First Person Puzzle), not an FPS.

And yeah. It's probably the only new game in ages that I've actually liked playing... only one since Final Fantasy X-2 anyway. (apart from the Ace Attorney series

)

memsys · Post by **memsys** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 2:40

Djaser wrote:I think games like Serious Sam and Duke Nukem have as much (dark) humour.

look at blood now if that isn't dark humor then nothing is

Deltamatic · Post by **Deltamatic** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 18:50

Niborius wrote:Go to www.aperturescience.com, type 'login' than 'cjohnson' than 'Tier3' and finally 'thecakeisalie'.
There's interesting information here about the story and more.
But it contains spoilers through.

And also a diagram of Santa falling into a lit fireplace. Although, the Weighted Companion Cube is wearing a Santa hat...
It all comes together now. Not only is the Weighted Companion Cube secretly fireproof, but the Weighted Companion Cube is Santa. (Himself.) Aperture Science is a front for all of his elves. He lets them eat cake and make toys all year round.