Random Screenshots of my Games #57 - Aperture Desk Job

[cobysev@lemmy.world]

The plots of Portal 2 singleplayer, co-op, and PTI are very "distant" from anything happening with Half-Life.

From what I understand (it's been a while since I read up on the lore), Portal 1 and 2 take place after the Combine invasion of Earth, shortly after the first Half-Life game. That's why Aperture Science is almost completely devoid of life, minus the personality cores that are attempting to continue running things. It's because of the resonance cascade incident at Black Mesa that Aperture Science is now mostly defunct, and Chell is trapped as a lab rat at GLaDOS' mercy.

So the Portal series is pretty reliant on Half-Life's story to justify their plot, even if it's never directly addressed in the game itself.

[bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world]

Next to Astro's Playroom, this is still one of the best tech demos of all time!

[livelm@lemmy.zip]

Never have I ever wanted "Portal 3" to be a thing more than after I played this.

[fliaoaegail@k.fe.derate.me]

That sounds like a great time! I can totally see how the Steam Deck makes it easy to game from bed. Aperture Desk Job seems like a fun way to get to know the device with Valve’s classic humor.

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[zahille7@lemmy.world]

What in the AdSense fuck is this?

[ivanafterall@lemmy.world]

TIL there's another little Portal game I'd not heard of!

[prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Yeah I think it was kind of like a tech-demo for the Steam Deck. I had fun with it, but I truly don't remember a single moment from it. These screenshots look completely foreign to me lol.

To be fair, I was probably high when I played it.

[prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I wish more developers would take advantage of the insane features of the DualSense. It's sad that a free tech demo does a better job than 90% of the games.

[evilbit@lemmy.world]

Valve did the same thing for the Index VR kit. They create these little brief but fully produced games to demonstrate the functionality when they release new hardware, and they’re delightful.

[evilbit@lemmy.world]

That first paragraph is AI slop as fuck.