waaaahhhhhh no references to half lifeee!!
brb starting boycott
Just because we won’t see any of the characters directly doesn’t mean we won’t find evidence of what happened. Who knows whats going to happen in Ep3. For all we know Gordon could end up visiting ApSci (thats pretty unlikely though 
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Not necessarily. I can see HL references even if the events have passed. It does however show that the combine never got their hands on the base for some reason.
I’m making a satirical comment about Orpheon, you tool
No, pre-loaded games are games that are already installed, but aren’t activated yet. Usually you can’t preload a game through steam unless you own it, and it’s not released yet, or there was a free weekend.
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Hey, Portal 2 taking place hundreds of years in the future (if that is actually what you meant, cuz it sounds kinda strange… I guess that explains the overgrowth we see in the cover-designs of the magazine, ANYWAY), that means that the combine didn’t succeed.
^ Just what I said, HOW or WHY the combine havnt gotten hold of the place is the biggest mystery. Theres gonna have to be, in some way, a refrence to Half-Life to show why the Combine havnt gotten to that area. It looks like it might be on some kind of island? Even then the Combine sure would have been there.
Good point. The article also talks about how GLaDOS’s personality cores (the things attached to GLaDOS you burn up) roam the ApSci facility, and how one named Wheatley tries to assist you in escaping. Plus, since the facility is decaying, you have to go through different parts of the compound besides just test chambers, which is bound to turn up some secrets.
I’d say that it is possible that the Combine could have found the Aperture Science facility (assuming that they did succeed and that they don’t already know about it), but perhaps they decided that it held no importance to them… I still have to wonder even if the Combine were defeated why is this area in such a state of decay?
I’m not really worried if they’re gonna make a reference on it or not. I mean it’s Valve we’re talking about here after all, they’re likely gonna pull something off. 
Come on now, who’s saying that the Portal series is in the same universe as the Halflife series?
It’s like saying the combines made a dicklaser and made everyone look like cartoons in Team Fortress 2, or that the headcrabs suddenly turned invisible in Left 4 Dead.
Seriously, Portal universe =/= Halflife universe.
No combines in Portal, no portals in Halflife.
Play Portal 1, cockroach.
Valve games are not all in the same universe, only Half-Life series and Portal, originally TF2 was going to be in the Half-Life universe, but they realised that would be dumb.
In Portal, when you get to the area where you can see into room that has a projector running, look at that. It’ll cycle through a couple different frames, one of which specifically states that Aperture Science is in direct competition with Black Mesa for a Data storage system which is how GlaDOS came to be created in the first place.
In Episode 2, Kliener points out that Aperture Science owns the Borealis, and that Aperture Science was one of Black Mesa’s competitors in researching portal technology.
Ergo, Portal and Half Life = Same Universe. You just never get to where the combine happen to be in portal, and you just haven’t stumbled across the aperture science technology in Half Life 2. Just because there are no humans or breathable air on mars doesn’t mean that it’s not the same universe.
Actually, I think TF2 IS in Half Life, but it’s as some sort of weekly TV series or something. So they exist as fictional characters within the Half Life universe.
A cockroach indeed. It seems you have been left on the dark for so long that you haven’t yet figured out for the past 3 years that Portal is in the same universe as Half-Life… 
I see no official source for this.
Using that logic, TF2 is also in the L4D universe as action figures, as they appeared on the L4D1 cereal boxes.
Play Portal 1 AND Episode 3. Then say stupid things. Or don’t, surely it would make us all happier.
TF2 is the universal constant that keeps the… er, multiverse from falling apart.
That obviously explains why the universe’s silliest ideas feature in the game.
Such as aluminum baseball bats, haha, what were they thinking?
Cake maybe? I know it’s a used up meme, but I couldn’t resist. 
I hope we see the remnants of the Aperture Science Bakery…
It exists!
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