Portal 2 Writer: Enough With the Cake Jokes Already
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People really went overboard with the 'cake' stuff.
I guess Wolpaw and the rest of you bitches will just have to suck it up. The cake helped make Portal great and Portal 2 should follow up on that. If Valve fails to deliver over something so blatantly stupid it will be a sad day for all of us. You're going to find yourself wondering what could have been.
EDIT: For the record, I have never once mentioned the cake on an internet forum. But you guys are ruining something great for what seems like almost no reason.
I guess Wolpaw and the rest of you bitches will just have to suck it up. The cake helped make Portal great and Portal 2 should follow up on that. If Valve fails to deliver over something so blatantly stupid it will be a sad day for all of us. You're going to find yourself wondering what could have been.
EDIT: For the record, I have never once mentioned the cake on an internet forum. But you guys are ruining something great for what seems like almost no reason.
Yea. It was funny and everything but I've played through the game a couple of times and I think they should be able to come up with something else funny.Yassen said:
The dead horse has been beaten, let's bury the bones.
Looking forward to this one.
Wait...what? I know Portal was a good game, but people referencing it years from now? I find that doubtful.afaceforradio said:
I point to 'Splosion Man, with Portal references involving cake released (a few) years after Portal.ThatsBitch3n said:
I wouldn't be bothered by it if people who hadn't even played the god damned game would have not made references to it... But nope, even I found myself, without so much as playing the game, making cake and triumph jokes.
That's how much you guys talked about this stupid puzzle game.
That's how much you guys talked about this stupid puzzle game.
You know, there are 3 things I really hate about Portal; the cake, the companion cube, and the STUPID FUCKING SONG.
None of which are the game's fault but rather the fans, or to be more specific, to fans that haven't even played the game. See, I liked Portal for a lot of other reasons. For example, I really liked the brilliant minimalistic soundtrack that created the perfect atmosphere for wandering around a dangerous yet stagnant facility, in which you are completley isolated from any recognizable form of life. Yet it's all overshadowed by the fucking jokes. Yes, they were funny in the game, but then they were beaten to death outside of them. Tons of people who hadn't even played the games were making jokes about it. The significance of this is that Portal wasn't being recognized for it's great story or interesting game play, but rather the jokes. So then you have people who think the entire game is about cake and cubes. The things I actually like about the game aren't even recognized by most people.
I probably sound like a dumb elitist prick, and I guess I am being one. But the point of my post was to establish why I hated these things, and why I am overjoyed to hear that the writers recognize that these jokes died a long time ago.
None of which are the game's fault but rather the fans, or to be more specific, to fans that haven't even played the game. See, I liked Portal for a lot of other reasons. For example, I really liked the brilliant minimalistic soundtrack that created the perfect atmosphere for wandering around a dangerous yet stagnant facility, in which you are completley isolated from any recognizable form of life. Yet it's all overshadowed by the fucking jokes. Yes, they were funny in the game, but then they were beaten to death outside of them. Tons of people who hadn't even played the games were making jokes about it. The significance of this is that Portal wasn't being recognized for it's great story or interesting game play, but rather the jokes. So then you have people who think the entire game is about cake and cubes. The things I actually like about the game aren't even recognized by most people.
I probably sound like a dumb elitist prick, and I guess I am being one. But the point of my post was to establish why I hated these things, and why I am overjoyed to hear that the writers recognize that these jokes died a long time ago.
Portal's popularity was a surprise. To the developers. But that's hardly the only thing that made it great, unless you want to utterly dismiss the black humor, minimalist but brutally effective storytelling, and of course the utter awesomeness of first-person puzzle games - a niche that Valve pretty much has cornered the market on just by being able to do it so well.SonicWaffle said:
Have you even seen the gameplay [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq2mZoKkqMw] demos? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGlyQmmvj0w] Yes, Portal was/is amazing. But a sequel isn't inherently a bad thing (See Toy Story) when it ties up the loose ends without going out of its way to create more. Now that everyone knows what to expect, Valve has a lot more freedom to play around with pretty much everything. As long as Portal doesn't degenerate into a shitty game franchise made of recycled mechanics and mediocre storytelling, a sequel is hardly the worst thing that can happen to it.
On topic: Thank God. Portal is an excellent game, but as stated above, I'm tired of its memes being cited by people who have no idea what the game is about. Now I have an excuse to punch anyone who tries to quote delicious cake at me.
I doubt this is true. If the cake is a lie, then they probably will put it in there after telling us they won't. It makes the surprise "cool" instead of predictable. Besides, so much was made out of the cake in the first game, it'd be stupid not to have at least some reference to it.
You do realize that memes do not originate on the internet?AWEXOME said:
A meme is a "unit of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena."
Beliefs, fashion, music, and all that are memes. Hell, the term "meme" originated before Internet, even.
Oh, thank GOD!
Maybe now they'll focus more on the Companion Cube so it's actually a big deal when you cook the damn thing.
Maybe now they'll focus more on the Companion Cube so it's actually a big deal when you cook the damn thing.
