Chell in Episode 3...how the hell would that work?

[spectrenihlus]

Their has been a lot of belief that Chell will be in Episode 3 and I am personally for it. I would love to have both the gravity gun and portal gun in use in the same game. However how the hell will we be able to deal with 2 silent protagonists in a game. Either Chell is going to have to speak or it is going to get really awkward if Alyx gets the silent treatment from two people.

 

[darth.pixie]

Maybe she'll just be hinted at. Or the two meet, share a "..." and move along.

Either way, it's going to be interesting but I doubt Chell will actually get more screen time than a scene or two.

 

[Popido]

Hinted background character.

Co-op with Freeman is impossible, as it would make it too obvious that he never gets a chance to speak.

 

[Woodsey]

4 years ago Valve said they planned for her to appear in the Half Life games and interact with the other characters.

4 years ago.

They've said that with Portal 2 they wanted to distance the two series. She might get a reference, but that'd be it I imagine.

 

[ramboondiea]

they drive past her and ask why is there a women and a cube in a corn field?
also she doesnt have the portal gun anymore does she?

 

[Sniper Team 4]

How she would get there is simple: G-Man. Enough said.

How it would work: Recently, someone reminded me that Valve was talking to the deaf, and I think mute, community about how to make video games include their demographic more. Now, putting that together with how Chell never talks and at the end GLaDOS calls you a mute lunatic, I'm betting Chell will show up and speak using sign language. This could also explain why it's taking so damn long for the next Half-Life game. They needed to get Chell out of the labs so she can appear in the next game.

 

[thiosk]

She'll be seen portaling about. Perhaps she'll put up a portal or two for you to run through.

 

[The Sane]

G-Man? I'm not too sure on what G-Man is capable of (only played HL2 games and haven't read deeper into any lore) but as I understand it he 'uses' Freeman for his own goals, and Chell would be significant enough to attract similar attention.

 

[Dr. Paine]

Okay, I'm not entirely sure how Chell would end up in the HL setting/timeline (G-Man and/or experiments involving time travel are possible), but the whole 'well how can you work with two mute protagonists' thing is a little shaky.

Chell is silent- by choice.

?I always had this feeling of Chell is a character who?s just pissed off the entire time and having to do this, and just not giving them the pleasure of saying anything. She probably can talk.?

Word of god [http://www.vg247.com/2011/03/14/wolpaw-players-dont-care-about-portals-chell/], people. If Chell was in Episode 3, she'd probably be willing to talk.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

This could also explain why it's taking so damn long for the next Half-Life game. They needed to get Chell out of the labs so she can appear in the next game.

Huh. I.....can't believe I never thought of that. That actually seems like quite a plausible explanation behind HL3's delay. Although it would imply that they finished that game a long time ago, and have only been waiting for Portal 2's release to launch it. They could release before years end, then? But that isn't going to happen.

 

[Daverson]

Chell and Gorden wouldn't need to talk. They both have the somewhat unnerving ability to do... well... this. [http://www.hlcomic.com/index.php?date=2006-07-26]

(Things got a lot weirder when it became canonical that Gordon doesn't talk, especially when you consider that in the entire first game he must have gone around prodding scientists and security guards and they instantly knew what he wanted. This sort of thing would have to have to have been going on a while for every last person in the facility to "get" it. There's probably a special training seminar for new recruits where they have to learn his ways... this would explain why he gets given all the dangerous jobs, though...)

 

[spectrenihlus]

Isn't Portal 2 set in the distant future?

If the events of Portal 1 takes place around the same time as half life 1-2 (doesn't matter which). Then there is no way that anyonne in Half life 2: episode 3 could know anything about her future because Portal 2 hasn't even happend yet...

Actually

GLaDOS' partial destruction is followed by a period of inactivity within the Aperture Laboratories, during which time maintenance systems and Personality Cores maintain its functions. The facility remains in disarray, having become overgrown and dilapidated.[7] Pre-recorded 'Emergency Test Protocols' can oversee test chambers in times cataclysmic system failure, "able to sustain themselves on a minimum 1.1 Watt". Chell spends this time in stasis until the events of Portal 2. For at least some of her stasis, Chell is under supervision by a remaining Aperture employee, Doug Rattmann.

The span of time between Portal and Portal 2 is not entirely clear. During Portal 2's opening sequence, an automated 'Courtesy Call' implies that Test Subjects in stasis are revived every 50 days. However, when the player is next woken, an autonomous P.A. system reports that the time elapsed is "99999...99...". It is unknown what unit of time it refers to. The presence of unrotted paper, wood & upholstered furniture throughout the game's environments would seem to support a timespan of decades (ex: 9999 days, or 27 years) rather than centuries.

As such, the events of Portal 2 apparently coincide with the return of Gordon Freeman & The Resistance, around 202-.

(taken from the half life wiki)

 

[Bneuf]

G-man does contract the best of the human race. Gordon, Adrian Sheperd, but he missed out on Barney. With the highest tenacity level of all the Test Subjects, Chell would be an excellent choice, with or without the portal gun.

 

[Euhan01]

I think she'll appear like G-man, you'll spot her in the distance jumping into a portal but never interact with her. Maybe follow a portal, but as a one off rather than part of a puzzle.

 

[Brazilianpeanutwar]

It would be cool if chell was the one who opened the portal that gordon stepped through in the first game.

Or she was connected to g-mans ability to appear all over the goddamn place....

 

[Anarchemitis]

Isn't Portal 2 set in the distant future?

If the events of Portal 1 takes place around the same time as half life 1-2 (doesn't matter which). Then there is no way that anyonne in Half life 2: episode 3 could know anything about her future because Portal 2 hasn't even happend yet...

Actually

GLaDOS' partial destruction is followed by a period of inactivity within the Aperture Laboratories, during which time maintenance systems and Personality Cores maintain its functions. The facility remains in disarray, having become overgrown and dilapidated.[7] Pre-recorded 'Emergency Test Protocols' can oversee test chambers in times cataclysmic system failure, "able to sustain themselves on a minimum 1.1 Watt". Chell spends this time in stasis until the events of Portal 2. For at least some of her stasis, Chell is under supervision by a remaining Aperture employee, Doug Rattmann.

The span of time between Portal and Portal 2 is not entirely clear. During Portal 2's opening sequence, an automated 'Courtesy Call' implies that Test Subjects in stasis are revived every 50 days. However, when the player is next woken, an autonomous P.A. system reports that the time elapsed is "99999...99...". It is unknown what unit of time it refers to. The presence of unrotted paper, wood & upholstered furniture throughout the game's environments would seem to support a timespan of decades (ex: 9999 days, or 27 years) rather than centuries.

As such, the events of Portal 2 apparently coincide with the return of Gordon Freeman & The Resistance, around 202-.

(taken from the half life wiki)

Exactly.
Portal 2 takes place in an unknown amount of time, possibly as many as hundreds of years after Portal, and even then the original is not given any indication for date.
Conversely, Half Life takes place in 200X and roughly a decade has passed between The Seven Hour War and Freeman's return.

 

[V8 Ninja]

I don't think it would work at all. Isn't Portal 2 supposed to take hundreds of years after the first one? And if I believe I have my Half-Life chronology right, the first Portal took place in the middle of Gordan's decade-long sleep from HL1 to HL2. There's no way in the world that would work unless the G-man picked up Chell and sent her back hundreds of years. But then the question of why the G-man would want Chell comes up. Chell isn't a trained warrior; she's a test subject that was able to survive the trials of not one, but TWO murderous AI with some luck and a portal gun. The only reason I could see G-man wanting Chell is to make sure Chell doesn't talk about Aperture Science.

 

[Dr. Paine]

I don't think it would work at all. Isn't Portal 2 supposed to take hundreds of years after the first one? And if I believe I have my Half-Life chronology right, the first Portal took place in the middle of Gordan's decade-long sleep from HL1 to HL2. There's no way in the world that would work unless the G-man picked up Chell and sent her back hundreds of years. But then the question of why the G-man would want Chell comes up. Chell isn't a trained warrior; she's a test subject that was able to survive the trials of not one, but TWO murderous AI with some luck and a portal gun. The only reason I could see G-man wanting Chell is to make sure Chell doesn't talk about Aperture Science.

Gordon was just a scientist who happened to be decent with a metal bar and had a powersuit. Chell has shown herself to be freakishly determined and excellent at surviving, it's not hard to imagine her adapting to the true HL world with little difficulty.

As for the time period... I can't remember the exact interview, but I remember seeing something where it said Portal 2 took place in 2010, and Half Life 2/episodes take place around 202X (it was originally going to be about ten years, but that was changed. If you need any evidence for this, just look at Alyx- does she look anywhere near 11/12? She's got to be 21, at the youngest). Portal 2... According to The Final Hours of Portal 2, there was originally going to be a mention of a 50,000 year gap, but that's been changed to 'unspecified'. There was also a cut line from Wheatley: "There was a man in a blue suit/with a briefcase looking for you a little while ago."

 

[Mad1Cow]

Interrupting each other with pauses? I like this thinking, GABE GET ON IT NOW!!!