Portal 2 Writer: Enough With the Cake Jokes Already

Andy Chalk

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Portal 2 Writer: Enough With the Cake Jokes Already


Portal 2 writer Erik Wolpaw is sick of cake and that's why he says he "absolutely does not want to resurrect a three-year-old meme" in Portal 2 [http://www.thinkwithportals.com/].

For being a short, relatively straightforward puzzle game, Portal [http://www.amazon.com/Orange-Box-Pc/dp/B000PS2XES/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1276874809&sr=1-1] had a pretty big impact on gamer culture. The cube, the cake, the triumph; it really is hard to overstate the satisfaction gamers took away from it. But while some critical elements of the original game, like GlaDOS and the companion cubes, will show up in the sequel, Wolpaw says he's not interested in merely rehashing an old success.

"If you thought you were sick of the memes, I was sick of it way ahead of you," he told Gamasutra [http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/29015/Portal_2s_Wolpaw_I_Do_Not_Want_To_Resurrect_A_ThreeYearOld_Meme.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GamasutraNews+%28Gamasutra+News%29]. "For instance, cake. I've had enough cake jokes."

"The cubes are in there because they're a gameplay element, and obviously, GLaDOS is back, but there's a bunch of new gameplay and we want to tell an interesting new story," he continued. "We didn't jettison everything, but I absolutely do not want to try and resurrect a three-year-old meme. That seems like it would be kind of sad. It's not a good idea."

A Valve Time [http://www.valvesoftware.com] translates into somewhere between "16 months from now" and "eventually."


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ShadowKatt

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So does that mean that if we find a cake in Portal 2, that the lie about no cake was a lie?

My head a-spode!
 

Casual Shinji

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Straight from the horse's mouth.

I doubt people will finally shut up about it though.
 

Yassen

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All I can say is "Good". It's been done to death and I'm glad Portal 2 isn't going to wallow in the original like so many bad sequels. I have high hopes for this game.
 

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Aperture Science
We do what we must
because we can.
For the good of all of us.
Except the ones who are dead.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake.
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake...


We're out of cake.

Damn it.
 

afaceforradio

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Casual Shinji said:
Straight from the horse's mouth.

I doubt people will finally shut up about it though.
Course they won't. It will become annoyingly 'cool cos it's retro' like Thundercats and even people who weren't born on its release will think they're cool for referencing it. ;o)

I'm glad they're moving on from the cake, I am sure this one will have lots of fun little tidbits and catchphrases to get attached to.
 
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Well thats good. I honestly don't think I can take another cake joke or else my head will explode.

ShadowKatt said:
So does that mean that if we find a cake in Portal 2, that the lie about no cake was a lie?

My head a-spode!
 

slowpoke999

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-Writer of Portal writer wants to kill a meme from a game he made.

-4chan take it as a challenge and extract 3 new memes from the next game.

Tf2 has more memes then you can count.
 

Random Argument Man

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RAM'S new and lame internet meme: THE SANDWICH IS A LIE!!!


Yeah, it was bad. Imagine that we've suffered 3 years of badly placed jokes all around the Internet.

Thank you Valve.
 

MR.Spartacus

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So we won't be taking that rocky road to the black forest?

I'll admit that it was funny in game. All those idiots repeating it verbatim a dozen-hundred times over ruined the effect. That's in addition to missing the point.
 

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Andy Chalk said:
A Valve Time [http://www.valvesoftware.com] translates into somewhere between "16 months from now" and "eventually."
Well someone got out of the wrong side of bed this morning.
 

Booze Zombie

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Yahtzee has said it, many other people have said it, now an actual writer for the game has said it, the cake is not funny.
 

AMMO Kid

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So wait...was the cake a lie? Or was it real in the first game?...I need to lie down.