# I've got the Portal 2 blues. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 28, 2017, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-the-portal-2-blues/785427 "2017-04-28T11:18:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-the-portal-2-blues/785427/21 "2017-04-28T20:22:23Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I’ve played through the solo Portal 2 twice, but isn’t there also a cooperative version for two players controlling two robots? I want to try that, but haven’t found anyone to do it with. Yes, and it is utterly awesome. You can play split screen or online. I’ve played it with my kids, they think it’s hilarious. And they _hate_ GlaDOS now. ---
**Author:** ![Scoobysnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Scoobysnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoobysnax)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-the-portal-2-blues/785427/22 "2017-04-28T21:37:25Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Wait, you thought your death after Room 19 was an ending? As I remember it, if you died there, the game restarted you at the last checkpoint, it didn’t end. So obviously it wanted you to keep trying. It has been almost 10 years, so I don’t remember if there were two endings. I will have to go back and play it again. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-the-portal-2-blues/785427/23 "2017-04-28T21:49:42Z")
Thanks for the input guys. Thanks to **Jophiel** , I happened to find one today that is very similar to P2. I was in the Playstation store looking up “The Talos Principle” When I happened to see a title called: “The Turing Test”. At $20, I went ahead and bought it. Compelling story, great design and a steal for the money. I highly recommend to anyone who likes P2. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-the-portal-2-blues/785427/24 "2017-04-28T21:55:36Z")
Glad to help in a roundabout way 🙂 I’ve heard good things about The Turing Test but don’t have any hands-on experience with it so didn’t want to make a blind comparison without personally knowing what it was like. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-the-portal-2-blues/785427/25 "2017-04-28T22:15:18Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > Cave Johnson was the greatest sciencer ever! > > Who else could’ve discovered that ground up moon rocks are pure poison? “Your test assignment will vary, depending on the manner in which you have bent the world to your will. Those of you helping us test the repulsion gel today, just follow the blue line on the floor. Those of you who volunteered to be injected with praying mantis DNA, I’ve got some good news and some bad news. Bad news is we’re postponing those tests indefinitely. Good news is we’ve got a much better test for you: fighting an army of mantis men. Pick up a rifle and follow the yellow line. You’ll know when the test starts.” ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-the-portal-2-blues/785427/26 "2017-04-28T22:44:30Z")
> [@Chisquirrel](#): > > I hear Portal 3 will come bundled with Half Life 3. You’re thinking of _Portal 4_, which features a co-op mode with Chell and Gordon, and it’s revealed that several key _Half-Life_ moments were the result of future-Gordon using the gravity gun through a temporal portal to help his earlier self. There’s also a platforming segment where you play as Dog, with an autonomous weapon mount controlled by a Cave Johnson sphere shooting stuff for you. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-the-portal-2-blues/785427/27 "2017-04-28T23:16:25Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > You’re thinking of _Portal 4_, which features a co-op mode with Chell and Gordon, and it’s revealed that several key _Half-Life_ moments were the result of future-Gordon using the gravity gun through a temporal portal to help his earlier self. There’s also a platforming segment where you play as Dog, with an autonomous weapon mount controlled by a Cave Johnson sphere shooting stuff for you. Wait a minute! That completely contradicts the events of Half-Life 2 Episode 3! ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-the-portal-2-blues/785427/28 "2017-04-28T23:25:03Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > Wait a minute! That completely contradicts the events of Half-Life 2 Episode 3! Time-travel. Duh. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-the-portal-2-blues/785427/29 "2017-04-29T13:47:01Z")
> [@Scoobysnax](#): > > It has been almost 10 years, so I don’t remember if there were two endings. I will have to go back and play it again. I just played through Chamber 19 again, and it’s what I remembered - after the end of the normal testing, if you don’t rescue yourself from the candescence chamber, you die, but after a few seconds it just puts you back to the previous checkpoint. No ending. ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-the-portal-2-blues/785427/30 "2017-04-30T05:52:00Z")
The problem with having Portal 2 as the first game you beat is that very very few games will ever live up to it. The puzzles, writing and voice acting are all incredibly wqell done. I wish Valve would actually make games again rather than just sitting on their enormous pile of money they make from steam… Or if they don’t want to do it, how about just license the IP and let another studio develop Portal 3 and HL3 (with Valve having creative input of course). ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-the-portal-2-blues/785427/31 "2017-04-30T07:14:12Z")
> [@Chisquirrel](#): > > I hear Portal 3 will come bundled with Half Life 3. > Hopefully we have that before I die. I’ve never played any Half Life. Will I still be able to follow the story of Portal 3? ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-the-portal-2-blues/785427/32 "2017-04-30T08:00:00Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I’ve never played any Half Life. Will I still be able to follow the story of Portal 3? Historically, there doesn’t seem to have been much correlation between playing _Half-Life_ and understanding any stories. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-the-portal-2-blues/785427/33 "2017-04-30T12:36:53Z")
Portal and Half-Life are set in the same universe in the sense that there are occasional small hints hidden in one or the other about things common to both games. But Portal takes place entirely (well, yes, except for _that_) within the Aperture Science facility, which is pretty isolated from the rest of the world. Even knowing all of the hints, it’s impossible to even place the games chronologically relative to each other: For all we know, Portal might take place at the same time as Half-Life, or a thousand years later. So no, not knowing Half-Life won’t handicap you at all. At worst, you’ll miss a few Easter eggs. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-the-portal-2-blues/785427/34 "2017-04-30T20:36:07Z")
I’m about to make some of you very, very happy. There is a fan game, free on Steam, that is about as close to Portal 3 as we will get. The story is weaker, but the puzzles are amazing. I heard they have now added a “not as hard” mode. Don’t use it. I and my wife played all the way through the hard mode and we aren’t exactly puzzle geniuses. Lots of fun. [Portal Stories: Mel](http://store.steampowered.com/app/317400/Portal_Stories_Mel/) It requires Portal 2 on Steam. My review, written at the time reads: > [@](#): > > Get this game if you even remotely like Portal or Portal 2. > > It is an awesome production made by people who not only love the Portal games, but understand what made them such gems. The test chambers(puzzles) in this game are some of the finest I have seen and equally match the quality of the original games. > > The test chambers in the game, however, are much harder than those found in Portal 1 or 2. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but be warned: This game does not hold your hand and difficult puzzles appear quite early in the game. It is assumed you have played both Portal and Portal 2 and they utilize not only the skills you learned in those games, but innovate in ways that require you to think in new ways. Everything, however, does makes sense and the puzzles have logical solutions. I played and beat the entire game and I only found one solution that I considered “cheap”. It involved using the laser bridges to lift a box off a switch, something I did not know could happen. That is minor nitpicking, though. The vast majority of the puzzles are mind-bending, logical, and extremely satisfying to play. I spent 45 minutes solving one with my wife and even though we made minimal progress, we both agreed that we enjoyed puzzling through the particular chamber we were on. > > The final puzzle, a timed battle similar to the one in Portal 1, is a total pain an is an unfortunate mark against the game. You are required to use the turrets to shoot things and placing turrets is actually quite difficult. They tip over too easy, self-destruct, and you can hardly control your rage when you are trying to do the right thing and can not. > > Anyway, overall, this game deserves huge marks. Valve should hire the individuals that made this game to devise a genuine Portal 3, though this game almost serves as Portal 3 already. It’s puzzles are top notch, it’s story is quite captivating, the voice acting is excellent, and the overall production values are amazing. > > Anyone who likes Portal even a little should get this game and enjoy it to the fullest. > > 9/10 - nearly perfect! I stand by this review. It was awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-the-portal-2-blues/785427/35 "2017-04-30T20:54:16Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I’m about to make some of you very, very happy. There is a fan game, free on Steam, that is about as close to Portal 3 as we will get. The story is weaker, but the puzzles are amazing. > > I heard they have now added a “not as hard” mode. Don’t use it. I and my wife played all the way through the hard mode and we aren’t exactly puzzle geniuses. Lots of fun. > > [Portal Stories: Mel](http://store.steampowered.com/app/317400/Portal_Stories_Mel/) > > It requires Portal 2 on Steam. > > My review, written at the time reads: > > I stand by this review. It was awesome. Can you tell me how this Steam thing works please? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-the-portal-2-blues/785427/36 "2017-04-30T21:09:26Z")
I’ll have to check out the Portal Stories. Otherwise, the most Portal-like game I’ve found is the Portal Level Pack for Lego Dimensions. It’s pretty much what you’d expect from a Portal world built up in the Lego video game engine. It’s funny, and they manage to give a Portal feel to the Portal-style puzzles. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-the-portal-2-blues/785427/37 "2017-04-30T21:36:54Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Can you tell me how this Steam thing works please? Steam is just a program that delivers games you buy to you for PC. You would have to re-buy Portal 2 for PC. Then, Mel would be free of charge. > [@Johnny\_Angel](#): > > I’ll have to check out the Portal Stories. Otherwise, the most Portal-like game I’ve found is the Portal Level Pack for Lego Dimensions. It’s pretty much what you’d expect from a Portal world built up in the Lego video game engine. It’s funny, and they manage to give a Portal feel to the Portal-style puzzles. I need Lego Dimensions for PC. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-the-portal-2-blues/785427/38 "2017-04-30T21:59:09Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I need Lego Dimensions for PC. They don’t have it for PC, presumably because on the PC it would be just too easy to spoof having the RFID tags that are supposed to come with the toys you buy. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-the-portal-2-blues/785427/39 "2017-05-01T00:35:17Z")
> [@Johnny\_Angel](#): > > They don’t have it for PC, presumably because on the PC it would be just too easy to spoof having the RFID tags that are supposed to come with the toys you buy. I figured. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-the-portal-2-blues/785427/40 "2017-05-01T00:45:31Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I’m about to make some of you very, very happy. There is a fan game, free on Steam, that is about as close to Portal 3 as we will get. The story is weaker, but the puzzles are amazing. > > I heard they have now added a “not as hard” mode. Don’t use it. I and my wife played all the way through the hard mode and we aren’t exactly puzzle geniuses. Lots of fun. > > [Portal Stories: Mel](http://store.steampowered.com/app/317400/Portal_Stories_Mel/) > > It requires Portal 2 on Steam. > > My review, written at the time reads: > > I stand by this review. It was awesome. SWEET!!! Time to do my happy dance!!! Off to Steam! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-the-portal-2-blues/785427.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-the-portal-2-blues/785427.md?page=3)