Portal

Half-Life Series
#1

How does Portal fit into the Half-Life series? Exactly when relative to half-life, do the events from portal occur? Also, why, if they are close competitors, does Aperture’s research facility look so much nicer and more advanced than Blackmesa’s? And, in Portal, what happened to all the people? There are tons of chairs and desks and observation rooms, even a running powerpoint presentation, but not a single scientist. What happened to them?

Thanks to anyone who answers. Also, are there any official answers from Valve, or is it all just speculation?

#2

GLADOS doesn’t affraid of Balck Meas.

#3

GLaDOS filled the facility with neurotoxins, remember?

#4

I suggest you take a look at this site: https://gameinformer.com/mag/portal2.aspx

#5

I think Portal is pretty cool ehh, fills the facility with toxins and doesn’t afraid of anything

#6

When oh when will this meme die?!

#7

Never.

#8

Read this… It’s very accurate.
https://members.shaw.ca/halflifestory/index.htm

#9

The neurotoxin isn’t the reason why the facility is abandoned. There still had to be people around to insert the morality core, remember? It’s more likely that they ran off during the Seven Hour War, which was presumably shortly after that. I think it’s possible Judith Mossman used to work at Aperture Science, considering she knows where the Borealis is.

Portal probably occurs at some point between the Combine taking control of Earth and Gordon waking up. Any earlier than that and there would have been an investigation. And the Aperture facility probably looks more advanced because they put more score in aesthetics than Black Mesa, and also don’t put ethics before results.

#10

^This basically. This line basically tells you:

And this one from the ending credits:

It takes place during the time when the Combine are securing a foothold on Earth.

EDIT: Actually it doesn’t. It just occured to me that Portal could just as easily be taking place during/slightly after the RC. Which would explain the utter lack of scientists.

#11

Well it was confirmed that portal has no connection to the Half-Life universe…
The developers (if you seen the developers notes in portal) said that they used props and textures from EP:2 because they didn’t had any more resources…
They also mentioned that Portal 2 will happen 3000 years after the ending of the Half-Life saga…

#12

If you played Half-Life 2 ep.2 with commentary… then you should have heard valve say something about Expanding half-life’s world with Portal. OR if you listened to Kleiner explaining about the rivalry of apperture and black mesa.

#13

She also says “All I know is I’m the only thing standing between us, and them. Well, I was.” Which sounds like she’s referring to the Combine.

  1. Portal is in the Half-Life universe. That’s a fact. They’ve just decided not to elaborate much on the connection in Portal 2, as the styles of the two games differ somewhat.

  2. Portal 2 is happening a few hundred years after Portal 1, at most.

#14

Which explains why there are slideshows running that you can see through a couple of windows in Portal comparing Apperture Science to Black Mesa.

#15

Fix’d

#16

:3

#17

From what we can gather, someone tried to kill everyone in the building by using the neurotoxin vents. GLaDOS, seeing that person as a threat but unable to track him down, activates the emitters herself in order to kill him (and everyone else) before he kills everyone. In death, one of the scientists activates the -as-yet-uncompleted morality core. I guess the party escorts cleaned up the bodies, aside from a few grease stains here and there.

But yeah, it’s just speculation.

#18

There is a back story about how GLaDoS killed all the scientist that you can look up and some locations were based off of locations in half life

The cake is a lie

#19

Are you serious? She killed all of the scientists? But HOW? Some kind of… brain poison? Wait, that doesn’t seem quite right… This sheds so much light on the Portal universe! How much more do you know? This is the kind of information we need RIGHT NOW.

#20

How the fuck did anyone dig up this thread?

Founded in 2004, Leakfree.org became one of the first online communities dedicated to Valve’s Source engine development. It is more famously known for the formation of Black Mesa: Source under the 'Leakfree Modification Team' handle in September 2004.