Post all of your baseless speculation about Portal 2's story here! I'll start:

msleeper's baseless speculation
||I said it before, but after seeing the HD trailer for Co-op, specifically GLaDOS' line about how the bots are facing their "real purpose" in Manufacturing, I think they will be some sort of boss challenge in the singleplayer. GLaDOS would rather have robots than Chelle, because robots she can control and respawn infinitely. Assuming the "brain scan" being backed up statement during the fight with GLaDOS in Portal 1 was actually true, I assume that Chelle's backup was lost in the interim between Portal and Portal 2.

Anyway, GlaDOS wants the bots to replace Chelle, and is training them in Portal techniques to do so. Hence the Cooperative Testing Initiative.||

Sounds plausible enough but I'm not quite ready to believe it yet.

Omnicoder wrote:
Sounds plausible enough but I'm not quite ready to believe it yet.

Just an observation, but on the whole "manufacturing" topic, Wheatley said that he almost got a job in manufacturing, also, what did he mean by "tending to" the humans? Are they test subjects or workers?

yohoat9 wrote:
Just an observation, but on the whole "manufacturing" topic, Wheatley said that he almost got a job in manufacturing, also, what did he mean by "tending to" the humans? Are they test subjects or workers?

Foreman, perhaps? Or Forerobot?

Multiplayer: complete the campaign; make it to manufacturing, accidentally turn all of your robotic clones into slaves for Glados to take over the world. Downer ending, unless you complete single player.

Single player: you and Wheatley meet up several times, each time uncovering more and more of the plot. Eventually, you defeat her again using faith plates, gels, and discouragement beams.

Yes, I'm serious. This is what I think could happen, given that Red and Blu both seem to have an infinite amount of clones, plus Glados has a grudge against anything she can't control.

(Yes, i called the bots Red and Blu. Coincidence, aye?)

In portal 2, when mapping a co-op map, could you make it so only one player has a portal gun? Because I've thought of a few ideas for that...

yohoat9 wrote:
In portal 2, when mapping a co-op map, could you make it so only one player has a portal gun? Because I've thought of a few ideas for that...

If the system is anything like the way all other Source games work then yes.

Well, seeing as the real purpose as stated by Valve is to make the robots more human (by gathering objects such as "Worlds Best Dad!" mugs and the like, here's my 2 cents.
I hope there will be vistas of the futuristic destroyed world, while GLaDOS is hiding the Borealis "chip" that is mentioned in Ep2; this would also play inot the fact that Valve have stated that they want Ep3 to be "more scary to the player", as you will know that you failed to obtain/destroy the chip in Ep3 (much like Halo: Reach). And for some reason, I think time travel will happen. Not sure why, I just think it will.

Jomonay wrote:
Well, seeing as the real purpose as stated by Valve is to make the robots more human (by gathering objects such as "Worlds Best Dad!" mugs and the like, here's my 2 cents.
I hope there will be vistas of the futuristic destroyed world, while GLaDOS is hiding the Borealis "chip" that is mentioned in Ep2; this would also play inot the fact that Valve have stated that they want Ep3 to be "more scary to the player", as you will know that you failed to obtain/destroy the chip in Ep3 (much like Halo: Reach). And for some reason, I think time travel will happen. Not sure why, I just think it will.

I for one am opposed to ep3 references. Portal is it's own series now, it doesn't need to lean on half life. While I am also anxious for news of ep3, I don't think portal is the way to deliver it.

Yeah I have to agree. They set Portal 2 in the distant future for a reason, and if anything it would only destroy the Half-Life franchise if they time-traveled Gordon to the time period that Portal 2 was taking place.

msleeper wrote:
Yeah I have to agree. They set Portal 2 in the distant future for a reason, and if anything it would only destroy the Half-Life franchise if they time-traveled Gordon to the time period that Portal 2 was taking place.

They stated themselves that there would be a couple of references or seomthing, but nothing massive. And I meant test subjects time travelling, but oh well :L

My guess is that it's just going to be a nod towards the fact that it's 200 years or whatever in the future, Earth is clearly still here so the Combine were taken care of once and for all.

I think there will only be as many references to the half life franchise as there were in the first portal such as the "maybe black mesa" line, and the projector in the room saying statistics of them and black mesa...

Wait how do you know it's in the distant future?

They've said that multiple times in multiple interviews.

They also said that part of the reason for it to be in 100ish years from P1 was to remove the connection to the HL2 universe which only arouse out of necessity. It's pretty clear that they don't want to mix the two universes much, or at least not in Portal's end of it, goodness only knows what will become of the Borealis in ep3.

Personally I don't think we'll see much/any of it in ep3 and if we do: the relation to GLaDOS/portals will be limited, probably only grazing mentions.

I don't think we'll get any indication of the fate of the combine/earth resistance at all.

youme wrote:
...goodness only knows what will become of the Borealis in ep3.

Psshhh, it's obviously going to sprout wings when Gordon arrives, and it will be a giant Flying Fortress* that can rain down heck on the Combine remnants and Advisors while planting the seeds of hope-inspiring-rainbows all over the Earth.

OK, kidding (somewhat). I'd like to see some Portal blueprint or schematic on a wall in the Borealis somewhere. I'd also like to (maybe) see a crowbar stuck in the wall somewhere in P2.

*1984 references FTW

youme wrote:
Personally I don't think we'll see much/any of it in ep3 and if we do: the relation to GLaDOS/portals will be limited, probably only grazing mentions.

We do know that there is a GlaDOS on the Borealis, iirc from the blueprints texture. Also, she was originally designed for something to do with ice. Gordon has to encounter glados!

Mr. Happy wrote:
Also, she was originally designed for something to do with ice.

Citation needed.