Jan 31
Valve Confirms The Return Of Portal, “…Is A Lie” Jokes Follow
If you asked me what my favorite game of 2007 was, I would have to tell you Portal. That’s saying a lot considering ‘07 saw the releases of Call of Duty 4, Halo 3, Bioshock, Super Mario Galaxy, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, and others. But Portal was the only game that made me look at gameplay in a different perspective. As with any semi-successful IP, it was only a matter of time before we would hear of a sequel.
Well, it seems as if the matter of time has passed for Portal, as Valve spokesperson Doug Lombardi, speaking to Eurogamer, confirmed, “There’ll be more Portal, for sure.” This is where I would step in and ask, what exactly do they mean more Portal? Because you just can’t throw in some more rooms and call it an expansion/sequel. Portal is a self-contained experience, with a definite beginning and end. But Lombardi goes on to assure us that it won’t just be “a bunch of new puzzles.” No concrete details are in place, but one can only hope that they’ll take it carefully with Portal 2, and give us another GOTY competitor.
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I have to imagine that they’ve been working on the follow up since before the Orange Box launched. They even drop not-so-subtle hints in Portal about where the series might be headed.
Personally, I don’t see how you can say that it is completely self-contained. GLADoS herself says in the credits song that she is, in fact, still alive. Add that to her mentioning Black Mesa, and Kleiner talking about Aperture Laboratories in Episode 2, and we know that the two games exist in the same world, if not even along the same timeline.
Could it mean the portal gun in Half-Life 2: Episode 3? Who knows. I just know that I’m not at all surprised to hear that they’re already working on a new Portal game.
Honestly, I didn’t enjoy Portal as much as everyone else seemed to. Sure, it was extremely fun while it lasted but was so short that I wonder if it would merit a $20 purchase by itself.
Backflip, you never like games that everybody else does. You’re so indie!
I know! I do really like TF2 though…