Chell May Get a Makeover for Portal 2

[Xanadu84]

I just hope they keep Chell a normal looking girl. Valve has a good track record in regards to having pretty normal looking female characters. Male characters too, actually. That's a rarity in video games. Hopefully the makeover doesn't involve suddenly sexifying her up.

Also, though I can see the Asian heritage, am I the only person who thought Chell was Latino?

 

[Flunk]

I had no idea what the protagonist of Portal's name was, I barely remember what she looked like. That's how unmemorable she was. They could change just about everything about her without the vast majority of people noticing and even those who did notice wouldn't really care much.

 

[zana bonanza]

I dunno why, but I'm oddly attached to Chell. We know next to nothing about her, but maybe that's it; we get to flesh her out ourselves as we play. And okay, I liked the fact that she was female. And not a pretty, big boobed blonde or something, like you normally see in games. And no one came to her rescue; she/the player had to escape the facility with only the help of the Companion Cube and graffiti on the walls.

So I'm glad she's in the sequel. I don't mind the new outfit, although the thing on her head is a bit weird.

 

[pwnzerstick]

One thing I can't figure out is how we knew her name was Chell in the first place besides garrys mod. I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else. Same thing with the Gman.

 

[without memory]

LAME. Chell was absolutely FERPECT the way she was. Don't ruin this!

I totally agree I actually liked the whole prisoner look,it suited her becuase that's what she practally was.. the new green and grey look wierd and looks nothing like the old chell...

though I can see the Asian heritage, am I the only person who thought Chell was Latino?

chell's model Alesia Glidewell is a mix of brazilian and japanese...... but chell looks more latino to me.....

 

[nasharti]

Oh I desperate to see again on big screen . I hope Portal 2 to be successful come back movie . I am really excited to watch it .
http://blog.itechtalk.com/2010/joliese-tan-review/

 

[blarghblarghhhhh]

im pretty sure she will be a clone. it makes the most sense.

edit: people above me are right, shes an android.

 

[Samah]

Time manipulating Portals explains how they can be 100 years into the future.
Perhaps Portals that bend time will become present which could mean a whole NEW dimension in puzzle solving.

Did you ever play Braid [http://braid-game.com/]? If puzzle solving with time manipulation is your thing, you owe it to yourself to play it. It's super cheap on Steam, and there's a demo available.

 

[Dr. Paine]

This concept art isn't a very good representation of what she'll lightly look like in game. The current in game model looks a lot better.

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While this look fits better into the Aperture Science labs than the Prison Jumpsuit I'm a little worried that it may fit a little too well. One of the keys to understanding how Portals work is seeing your own avatar though a Portal when the game begins. With those whites and greys it looks to me like Chell may be lost amongst the scenery. I sense a last minute game model change similar to the left 4 dead one.

Still, she looks cool and more like a lab rat rather than an inmate, which didn't really fit.

As long as the heel springs stay and they don't scrap the hat, I'm happy.

It's nice to see them keep Chell, I really hope we get some idea on her character. (And as for the time thing: stasis explains it away, and I have a feeling that the time might be a bit of a lie. At the end of the game it might be revealed it's actually during the events of HL2, and in fact only about 15-19 years after Portal 1, or the G-Man will show up. It has been said that Chell has a part in the Half Life world, and some relationships with characters already known. Then again, that was in '07, they could have changed it. I really hope they haven't, though.)

 

[MR.Spartacus]

If we assume she's an android coupled with GLADoS being a computer. The whole century thing isn't that big a problem. Besides there are "slow transport" as seen in half life 2

 

[Cowabungaa]

100 Years in the future? Will we see time travel puzzles ala Braid mixed with Portal's recognisable portal puzzles? That'd be...interesting.

 

[NLS]

They'll probably do some last-minute changes like they did with L4D to the character design. This current one blends too easily with the environment and just looks dull and boring.

 

[Zoph]

Perhaps the hundreds of years thing could be because of a 'slow teleport'? Like what Gman apparently stuck Gordon in between HL 1 and 2, and where Gordon and Alyx arrived in Dr. Kliners lab a whole week after leaving the citadel in episode 1.

 

[Dr. Paine]

They'll probably do some last-minute changes like they did with L4D to the character design. This current one blends too easily with the environment and just looks dull and boring.

It might be interesting if they decide to go with the prisoner jumpsuit orange for the overall color...

 

[ben---neb]

I trust you more than I trust my mother. You won't fail me now.

My sentiments exactly.

 

[cobra_ky]

This concept art isn't a very good representation of what she'll lightly look like in game. The current in game model looks a lot better.

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While this look fits better into the Aperture Science labs than the Prison Jumpsuit I'm a little worried that it may fit a little too well. One of the keys to understanding how Portals work is seeing your own avatar though a Portal when the game begins. With those whites and greys it looks to me like Chell may be lost amongst the scenery. I sense a last minute game model change similar to the left 4 dead one.

especially since that two-tone jumpsuit is hideous. Why would you even design it like that? I'm not sure how i feel about the poop flap, either.

 

[dead_rebel]

Time manipulating Portals explains how they can be 100 years into the future.
Perhaps Portals that bend time will become present which could mean a whole NEW dimension in puzzle solving.

Did you ever play Braid [http://braid-game.com/]? If puzzle solving with time manipulation is your thing, you owe it to yourself to play it. It's super cheap on Steam, and there's a demo available.

I did play it, was quite brilliant, but like Portal too short.

100 Years in the future? Will we see time travel puzzles ala Braid mixed with Portal's recognisable portal puzzles? That'd be...interesting.

Check my post out, I've tried to explain how time-travelling puzzles would ROCK.

 

[Chipperz]

I hope so. She looked pretty horrid in the first one. She's about the least attractive protagonist ever. I understand being a test subject and what not, but good grief, she could have taken a few minutes to at least make it look like she did the best with what she's got. She looked haggard and hungover and like she was always about to puke.

I kind of liked that about her. When you go though thousands of game protagonists who wouldn't look out of place on a cat walk (especially with women) it's refreshing to see a character who looks like she should; like shit. Like she hasn't had a decent meal or a bath in weeks.

I agree with your thoughts on this, and I do like the effect it creates, that she is in it more or less against her will, that it's been awhile since any kind of humanity was around, but I do feel she could have at least tried. She looks like she's always about to vomit, or that she just woke up from something unpleasant. There's no hope or inkling of confusion, no determination--just dumbfounded sickness. Even messed up there should be some sense of maintaining sense of self, and I don't get that with Chell. All I get is that she's given up, resigned to doing whatever Glados wants.

Thing is, that's actually what I liked about her. She was a character that knew she had to keep doing these tests against her will, and nothing she could do would change it until the very end, when she's been put through so much that even destroying GLaDOS is almost just another routine test.

The idea that she should have stopped for a few seconds to find a shower and some make up before going back to performing life-threatening tests for a homicidal computer is, well, I don't quite understand it...