The Cake is a Lie, but Portal 2 is Not
It’s not every day that you wake up in an austere training facility under the rule of a malevolent, malfunctioning AI named GLaDOS, who robotically deadpans, “I’m not kidding now. Turn back or I will kill you. I’m going to kill you, and all the cake is gone.” Portal was one of the best surprises of 2007 and a refreshing alternative to a glut of mediocre FPSs that included Blacksite: Area 51, Jericho, and Timeshift.
It should come as no surprise that Portal 2 is in the works, though details at this point are scant: no word yet if the fan favorite, Weighted Companion Cube, returns.
According to a recent article, a casting call on Breakdown Express is looking for that special someone to give voice to Cave Johnson, deceased head of Aperture Science, the company behind the whimsically sadistic Portal experiments. More tellingly, the listing mentions that Cave will be a sidekick-cum-antagonist, so players may end up in the role of a disgruntled Aperture Science employee this time around.
However, if Portal 2 plays out anything like the original, getting a good health care package will be the least of your corporate concerns. Expect hazardous traps, dark humor, talking gun turrets, and brain-melting puzzles—everything that made Portal an instant classic. The addition of a George W. Bush facsimile—replete with southern accent and cocky swagger—in Cave Johnson is just icing on the cake (pun intended).
Sadly, Portal cosplayers will have to wait until next year for new material, as Valve confirmed there will be no new Portal this year. Until then, take comfort in the fact that you’re still alive.
Tags: Companion Cube, Portal, Portal 2, Valve
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No shit? I wouldn’t have known that from the article you dipsht.
actually how many of you count that how many times “the cake is lie” appears in the game
OMG I want Portal 2 . The first one Rocked. And the CAKE IS A LIE!
Well, Velcurry The cake actually isn’t a lie. My brother and cousin did some cheats to try to get to the cake and actually got to the cake.
“You did some cheats to try to get to the cake and actually got to the cake” ?
What’s that, Robin? Your bulls#17 detector’s going off? Mine too! To the Batcave!
in the final stage, type:
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sv_cheats 1
noclip
Happy Hunting
lololol dante ur bad use noclip l2p
Sweet chips!! a second?? ……. *reads further* ….BUTIWANTMYCOMPANIONCUUUUBBEEEE!!! QAQ But seriously, can’t wait till it comes out!~ <3
If you all would just turn on the developers console, type in sv_cheats 1, and use noclip to explore a bit you would see that in fact, the cake is not a lie. On the subject though, i’m honestly not surprised that there’s going to be a portal 2. Still Alive was so much of a sequel setup song that it was kind of obvious that they would make a portal 2.
Screw the companion cube, those sentry guns are far more adorable… in a “lolomgwtf” kind of way.
I wonder if Chel’s… escape?… will actually tie in with the Half-Life story at any point.
Oh My God if you realise in Portal 1 at the end you end up outside on the floor next to blown up GLaDOS…
so Portal 2 will probably be outside with creatures…. hopefully I WANT IT!!! And if you don’t cheat the cake is a lie! =( So get ready for portal 2 in the outside world……
WITH CAKE!!
“The cake is a lie” is a lie. GLaDOS says “there will be cake” and that cake (and grief counselling) will be available. From my recollection (and I could be wrong here, it’s been a while) she never specifically says that you (Chell) will get or be served cake or that cake will be made available to you. There’s cake, even if she doesn’t expect you to get it. After all, you’re going to be baked first, right?
Technically, though, everything in ‘Portal’ is a lie as it is fiction. So is the statement “the cake is a lie”, being fiction, in itself a lie?
In the context of the game, however, the cake is not a lie. Just because the ‘Rat man’ (who is twice a lie, by virtue of not appearing in canon and also being a proposed fictional character) never beat GLaDOS and hence never got to the cake room in the credits, does not mean there is no cake. There was a (code which produced an image of a) cake, not to mention a list of ingredients including packet cake mix and ingredients for a cake from scratch, and garnishes such as fish shaped ethyl benzene, sediment shaped sediment and rhubarb on fire…ok maybe it wasn’t so delicious and moist (and arguably anything only in ‘Still Alive’ is not part of the canon anyway), but “there really was a caaaaaake”.
And Dante, you’d better get out of the cave you’ve been living in from 2007 - 2009 and let Robin know the bulls#!7 detectors were faulty because ‘noclip’ is not a lie either. If you haven’t already, check out some of the walkthroughs using cheats on PC, Xbox & PS3 all over that new fandangled invention called the internet. And remember, if you disrespect one of the community (even if you disagree with a previous comment / post), someone will return the favour one day.
Cannot wait for more cute killer sentry turret / dimension bending puzzle / deadpan psycho AI quoting action. Funniest game ever. Love it. I’d marry that thing, but GLaDOS is ’still alive’ (presumably on the Borealis) and wouldn’t let me.
Bring on Chell vs GLaDOS v2.0 (fuel system icing inhibitor for polar maritime adventures?). There are not enough female avatars out there and GLaDOS was a chillingly funny adversary.
Meanwhile, Valve, how about a sentry turret which ‘dispenses’ candy coated peanut butter pieces, shaped like fish?