Portal 2 Writer: Enough With the Cake Jokes Already

[Formica Archonis]

We may or may not have the opportunity to find out someday; Portal 2 is currently scheduled for release in 2011, which according to Valve Time [http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time] translates into somewhere between "16 months from now" and "eventually."

Well someone got out of the wrong side of bed this morning.

Hardly. I'm not even much of a Valve news follower and I know their reputation. And he even linked a page chock-full of citations that Valve announcing "2011" could literally mean anything from Novemberish 2011 on. Wrong side of the bed would be "Scheduled for release in 2011 but we know Valve employees couldn't tell you the right time if your face was a clock."

 

[dashiz94]

That's cool with removing an obviously dead meme, but I wonder if there will be secret areas like the ones in Portal

 

[Lizmichi]

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.

Crap were screwed. NOOOO oh well, time to pull out my emergency stash of cup cakes.

 

[Woodsey]

We may or may not have the opportunity to find out someday; Portal 2 is currently scheduled for release in 2011, which according to Valve Time [http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time] translates into somewhere between "16 months from now" and "eventually."

Well someone got out of the wrong side of bed this morning.

Hardly. I'm not even much of a Valve news follower and I know their reputation. And he even linked a page chock-full of citations that Valve announcing "2011" could literally mean anything from Novemberish 2011 on. Wrong side of the bed would be "Scheduled for release in 2011 but we know Valve employees couldn't tell you the right time if your face was a clock."

I'm well aware of Valve-time, I was mainly referring to the start of the final paragraph; the entire thing was a bit bitchy though.

 

[Johnny Cain]

I'm sure that 4chan thing will stir up enough from the next game to last three more years.

 

[LawlessSquirrel]

It was a good series of jokes in Portal, killed as many things are by being overused to the point of being butchered and downright annoying (see: meme). It would have been a mistake to include it again for fanservice. New game, new ideas.

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

!

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Thank god! Yes! Somebody making new jokes! That is what we needed in a sequel! Things are looking good already!

 

[DigitalSushi]

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.

Retro is cool, is that why we get all these over the top re-imaginings of 80's series, like A Team and Transformers?, so we'll get Michael Bay directing "Cake".

I'm pretty happy to hear this. I enjoyed the cake theme in the game, as well as the song in the end, but God, did I get sick of it after hearing every mention of cake or lies being linked back to Portal, followed by some half-ass use of the famous song's lyrics in an attempt to sound clever, as seen in places like, hmm, let me think...this very article.

Me and a friend on an F1 website saw that the meetup was going to have cake, but the person bringing cake couldn't make it..

Yeah you know what happened next, needless to say the owner was completely baffled when he got an influx or "Cake is a Lie" messages since he doesn't play computer games.

 

[Baldr]

The pie has always been the true lie.

 

[uNCLEsAM098]

"The cake is a lie", is not a lie.

 

[awsome117]

So the cake really was a lie... :'(

 

[SonicWaffle]

I'm against the idea of Portal 2 anyway. The original was great because it was a short, funny game that came as a surprise. I just don't see them replicating the success now everyone knows what to expect. Too much hype, too many high expectations, too many comparisons.

Portal was brilliant, let it be; not everything needs a sequel.

 

[tehweave]

THANK YOU. I agree wholeheartedly. Plus, the joke doesn't work. There was a freakin cake at the end of the game. It's not funny. It really isn't, and I'm so happy the developer thinks the same way.

 

[WorldCritic]

FINALLY! I'm so sick of hearing The cake is a Lie.

 

[Retodon8]

The cake wasn't really a lie though, was it?
GLaDOS mentions: "The Enrichment Center is required to remind you that you will be baked, and then there will be cake.", and that is exactly what was her intention.
I only played and finished the game maybe a few months ago, so perhaps I was numbed by all the cake jokes (were there any actual jokes?), but the ending wasn't super special cake-wise.
The surprise after the final test chamber was nice, I liked finishing the game that way, but I never really "got" the cake.

 

[Jared]

I cant blame him...but, I wonder what new meme he will give birth to...

 

[Lemon Of Life]

Goodo, the cake jokes got old fast, and I'm happy they're not relying on it.