june gloom on 2/3/2010 at 10:22

---

(http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=166851) Neckbeard brigade has begun analysis.

Honestly this crazy ARG stuff is very likely to be more interesting than Portal 2 will actually be.

Briareos H on 2/3/2010 at 12:30

---

the aperture technology that eli didn't want to be found by the combine is a time portal gun and is somehow obtained by chell during portal 2 within the borealis - a ship still under the control of a more advanced version of glados fused with the memories of cave johnson. time portal mechanics introduce a whole new element of gameplay which is used in portal 2 to influence the events happening in episode 3, making both games interdependent story-wise while still standalone. everything ends in both games with defeating the ai (portal 2) and a few advisors trying to use the technology to their advantage (ep 3). alyx then tries to outrun gordon so she can use it herself to go back in time, prevent the resonance cascade and save her father but fails along with a destruction of the borealis, coming with an uncontrolled time warp engulfing gordon whose whereabouts in time and space thus remain to be defined by hl3.

Enchantermon on 2/3/2010 at 12:55

---

Ah, so that's why Steam told me it had just finished downloading Portal last night.

mothra on 2/3/2010 at 17:59

---

summary sofar:
(http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=13767776&postcount=2291)

mothra on 3/3/2010 at 23:13

---

finished portal a few minutes ago. valuable asset retrieved. awesome stuff. portal2 meets episode3 ? or just portal 2 ? also: steam on the mac