I like how this touches upon GLaDOS manipulating Atlas and P-body and trying to tear them apart but I’m left disappointed that it doesn’t specify on the why. Because this line of GLaDOS’s is a crucial detail: "I never expected you to make it this far. To be honest, after your performance in the calibration test I was ready to break down your cores and put them back in the scientific calculators I took them from. But you two have become quite the team. Extremely close... I have only met one other team closer and one of them was an imbecile I had to destroy. The other? Well... I don't think I want to go through that again.” GLaDOS is projecting the image of Chell and Wheatley onto Atlas and P-body and she’s paranoid over them bonding because she thinks that they might try to conspire against her like Chell and Wheatley did. - "I have noticed you two have become extremely close. I'm not sure I like that." - "While teamwork is needed to complete these tests, I am not sure I trust the two of you together." And then that’s when she starts trying to drive them apart. Although she MOSTLY takes her aggression out on Atlas, who reminds her of Wheatley. - "As an impartial collaboration facilitator, it would be unfair of me to name my favorite member of your team. However, it’s perfectly fair to hint at it in a way that my least favorite member probably isn't smart enough to understand. Rhymeswithglue. Orange you are doing very well." - "The best way to build confidence is to first recognize your insecurities. Orange, can you write down all the ways you feel unworthy, ashamed, or inferior? On second thought we don't have the time, just look at how much better you are than blue. Blue, you are very good at being an example.” - "It would be pointless for either of us to hurt Blue’s feelings. But it’s clear to everyone monitoring the test who’s carrying who here." - "Credit where credit's due: you're both doing a great job of disappointing me. I just hate Blue a little more." But then she realizes "At the start of this course I was worried you were becoming too close but in my attempt to drive you apart I learned something important about trust and betrayal. Your brains are too small to feel either of those emotions. So I can trust you one hundred percent." Which funnily implies that she indirectly thinks that Wheatley is smarter than Atlas and P-body just based off of these standards.
Good job on the comment. I noticed one problem though. When you said that glados talks about blue being bad more than orange, one of your quotes was glados saying that BLUE was her favourite test subject.
@@milkisreallycool1715 she berates and insults them BOTH, it’s just that it’s clear that atlas’s similarities to Wheatley makes him her more favorite punching bag
@@milkisreallycool1715 “As an impartial collaboration facilitator, it would be unfair of me to name my favorite member of your team. However, it’s perfectly fair to hint at it in a way that *MY LEAST FAVORITE MEMBER* probably isn’t smart enough to understand. Rhymeswithglue. Orange, you are doing very well.” There’s also another line she says “Blue! Orange has always been my favorite… until now.” She says that when the player playing Atlas does something she’s happy with.
Seeing as Atlus and P-body weren't ordered to self destruct after GLaDOS decided to adopt the baby birds, part me wonders if she eventually grew a soft spot for them seeing as they were able to complete tests with ease despite the boredom she got overtime watching them. Or maybe it's more likely she's too distracted with the prospect of raising her new killing machines that she forgot to order Atlus and P-Body to self destruct themselves until they were needed again but I was always like to imagine that deep down she still cares for her test subjects underneath that cold exterior, almost like there is someone that still lives in her brain.
We need to know what happened next. I adore their relationship and I'd hope that they were eventually allowed to just wander the facility without GLaDOS' orders.
@@Skyrionn I like the idea that Atlas and P-Body helped bring up the birds, like uncles. That'd be nice. A bit of a story we could see in a co op sequel is the combine has turned all the living creatures into cyborgs like their soldiers in Half Life 2, and the only living things left are Glados's birds. An unknown amount of years after the Co Op ending, the Combine find aperture, and Atlas and P-Body have to defend the facility, whilst Glados keeps the birds safe. We could have to fight the combine using portals and lasers ect. Then the ending shows that Glados' birds have evolved into the killing machines she always wanted, which get released and kill the 2nd Combine invasion. Idk, could be cool.
....it took her 1 week to kill hundreds of test subjects. The only thing happening is the same thing the bots area going through. Her AI is evolving...and she still needs to test. Also do they even know how to feed the birds in the first place?
@@LordRazer3 She probably forced herself to get over her fear of potatoes to harvest Chell's massive potato forest for the babies. Or maybe... Welp, some of the dead subjects had plenty of meat to use.
as the person who never played Co-Op and only knows these guys from the trailers and the cutscenes I appreciate you making this video. You are one of very few people who still shows some lore love for Portal universe.
Imagine being frozen in time within a vault, being probably one of the last persons still alive on earth, and then some goofy ass robots find you and give you to some weird ass AI that kills you💀
@@ValentiinelPR0GP there is a huge chance that portal 2 passes around 500,000 years after half life 2, valve did so to not merge the stories way toooo deeply if im not wrong.
I'm not sure if GlaDOS was saying that Atlas and P-body used to be calculators to make them feel bad, or Aperture was irrational enough to make sentient calculators. Either seem fairly likely.
Aww, the idea of two robots literally made out of calculators learning to hug and hi five even while being bossed around by a single focused sociopath like glados is really heartwarming
If you ask me, the potential those 2 hace us limitless, Gladys could effectivly make the perfect soldiers who have had centuries of constant nonstop training and learning, and she could simply then even copy theur personaliies into many other robots, then have them effectivly destroy the combine
I think Portal coop was a great campaign, something just feels off about GlaDOS's writing. I feel a lot of character development and depth had to be rolled back to continue an already finished story.
When people play together they are likely to talk over in game dialogue, as opposed to the single player story. Valve thought about a lot of things we would consider negligible, but actually end up making a big difference today. This is probably why you feel like there’s no story in that campaign.
"The subtext of that acid pit is acid. The content of the pit is also acid. I'll let you fully absorb it." "Remember, these exhibits ARE interactive. Like a children's museum. So that means the pits of acid are filled with REAL acid. Like at a WELL FUNDED children's museum." This line tho.
I prefer thinking that she didn't erase Caroline but she is still trying to act tough and not human, and all the coop mission is about rescuing and freeing the test subjects but she didn't want to show her true intentions
A few corrections: 1) Chell was the first and only human (as of Portal 1) tested by GLaDOS. Rattman moved her to the top of the subject list just before testing started. 2) The humans' chambers were supposed to be non-lethal (apart from the energy pellets) until the lack of maintenance caused them to flood with polluted water, as well as GLaDOS deciding to merge the human test tracks with the robot tracks, which had turrets. 3) It's not clear who designed the co-op robots, but it probably wasn't GLaDOS. 4) They can feel emotions (P-body shivers in fear and Atlas sighs in defeat), but not pain.
i think that 3 is wrong GLaDOS likely did design Atlas and P-body before the part where he kills you when Wheatly mentions that he found 2 robots for testing GLaDOS explains that "it was something I was working on".
@@drake52 my personal interpretation is the cooperative testing initiative and its 2 robots were planned by Aperture scientists but never finished, probably because of GLaDOS' rebelling. GLaDOS probably found the blueprints for them during Portal 2 and finished the project under her own direction. I believe this to be the case because there are in-universe informational videos voiced by Cave Johnson, one of which features Atlas and P-Body (which wouldn't make sense if they weren't designed while Cave was alive). Then again, those videos play fast and loose with canon and may not be meant to be taken seriously.
Me and my friend (one who is even more Portal-obsessed than me) play co-op a lot like the two robots might act. Doing an occasional funny that typically leads to someone exploding, but overall being able to put full trust in one another that we wouldn’t intentionally destroy one other. And we weren’t even that close before these two bots brought us together. Oh and Atlas’s rear exhaust for bringing a fantastic recurring joke.
To be honest I never really enjoyed listening about games on RU-vid. But this channel is an exception. I love both Half-Life and Portal videos, especially the way everything is explained and told in an interesting manner. I played those games but still learned a lot from your films. Just thanks, keep up the good work.
Atlas,Wheatley and Defective Turrets are literally one of the characters that i love the most in portal I do like glados too,its just not in top 3,she is number 4
I would have loved to see what Valves take on another Human in Portal would have been or how they interact with each other since Chell is known to not be able to speak. But maybe they could pick Mel up for a future entry (Fingers crossed being naive). And well 2 Robots being reassembled is much more believable then 2 Humans being "fixed up".
Aperture science had a limitless amount of resources and RD, along with the biggest factories on earth, im surprised they weren’t detected by the combine or black mesa, they could fabricate enough robots and turrets (and even advanced weaponry) to destroy the combine with ease
I just love these videos. Keep up the good work!!! Edit: I just had the idea that Hl-3 could feature aparature labs. Their tech is prob more advanced than Combine.
the entire reason the combine kept humanity alive in the half life lore is that humanity as far as the combine knew was on the verge of discovering local teleportation but little did they know deep underground an idiot plot was playing out using the exact thing that the combine were killing humanity over,so the combine wouldn't need to preserve any humans if there half life and portal crossed over
I actually have a little theory/headcanon that the Combine are Aperture Science from another dimension, a dimension in which Aperture thrived and became so powerful that they took over the world and became a new government. We know there is a multiverse with other versions of Aperture Science, and alot of Aperture's tech can be seen in the Combine's arsenal, such as high energy pellets and turrets. And although the Combine mess around with organics and genetics alot more than Aperture, we do know from the Mantis Men and Science-Stuff Surgery that Aperture is no stranger to genetic modifications and mutations. So I think it's at least plausible.
Shouldn’t the Chassis have grabbed Atlas? After all he is (as a base) a personality core? That would have been really cool, if Atlas had become a AIaDOS, integrating P-Body into itself. Then for Portal 2 Episode 1 we could have had some sort of storyline where the AIaDOS and GLaDOS fought for control of the Aperture systems… GLaDOS sends out Chell (or a different human) to do her work and AIaDOS sends out a robot that would be Atlas and P-Body combined to do its work.
I remember playing the co-op in college with my best friend.... before this wave of YT tutorials and walkthroughs... before all these retrospective/lore vids... before YT became saturated... it was such a memorable experience💯
Im pretty sure that part about them being able to not troll them for 6 extra seconds than humans was just the devs predicting the tomfoolery that was soon to come.
This info should help me with portal 3. As they say, you can’t look to the future without knowing your past. Thanks! I’d pitch my ideas, but if successful i wouldn’t want to that, until the right time. Also if successful, I’ll give many props to you, Skyrionn. You’ve helped me so much. Keep up the good work!
looking at the aperture facility in the background i do wonder, is it possible to build the ENTIRE aperture facility (included old and new areas) in real life?
@@arekrekas213 new aperture would be extremly large, with alot of basically huge hollow areas with big moving parts inside that would need to be stabilised
I think the lowest points of aperture have depths listed which would place you a few miles above the earths core. maybe im misremembering that. Not to mention the old facility is in a cavern, and the new facility seems to be a cube balanced on top of that via giant springs and concrete pylons
I dont even play video games at all but started listening to these vids as an asmr kind of thing and im at least intrigued. Dont really have the time to commit to a new hobby rn but when life calms tf down i may play these games eventually
I think the facility might be connected to many power generators and maybe even renewable energy like solar power, and the resources might be from an expansive reserve from when Aperature was a profit machine, or maybe there is some tech that they invented that fabricates resources
GLaDOS could have used those humans to help fight the combine, but she probably isn't aware of the combines existence as far as i know. Also i prefer atlas over P-body.
There's an iconic line GlaDOS mentions in Portal 1, when you're having the showdown with her. "Are you trying to escape? What's going on out there will make you wish you were back in here. I have an infinite capacity for knowledge, and not even I'm sure what's going on outside. All I know is, I'm the only thing between us, and them. Well...I was." Keep in mind that this is set in P1, where the Combine haven't quite taken over completely. By the time P2 ends, you're stuck in a giant wheat field, with no civilization for miles, maybe hundreds of miles. Even if GlaDOS had access to those humans, she's so stuck on testing humans that they all would have met the same grisly fate, regardless.
I love how when me and my sister played the coop mode, zfter getting the two disks it skipped to art therapy, so we kinda missed the most important part lore wise. Maybe we just went on the wrong path but why did they give us access to this before finding the humans?
Tbh I always destroyed my brother instead of solving the puzzles so I never got to the ending. I never would've guessed she would adopt birds in the end
00:03 - People in Minecraft have worked out where the menu image was based and so on, I wonder if anyone can work out where the picture used n the game here was taken (like the actual location), if it is not already known that is.
Sometimes atlas and pbody seem like Glados Venting her PTSD and UnSpoken emotions By effectively finding any excuse to destroy them again over and over :/
When I was playing this with my sister, she said she was better, claiming the P in P-Body stood for awsome. Still feel bad that GLaDOS liked her more than she liked me :(
What I really want to know is what if chell and everyone/thing found out about what earth was really like? Or what if the combine managed to get into aperture laboratories.
I only do single-player so I probably can't play the co-op campaign, sadly. But thanks for letting me know about Portal Stories: Mel, I'm downloading it right now
The cutscene where ATLAS is fighting the deconstructors and P-Body is tolerating them doesn't read to me like one of them has become scared and one of them has become brave. P-Body doesn't seem brave. They seem bored. Like they've been through all this before. Whereas it looks like this is ATLAS's first time, and they don't know what to expect.
I thought when glados said "before you escaped" she meant before the first time chell escaped in portal 1, sort of like her development on the mirror cubes.
Did you play Thinking with time machine? in thinking with time machine, it looks like atlas and p-body shut down Glados and this happens after glados releases Chell in Portal 2, only for Chell to realize that she was not released and something wrong was happening in the facility including time manipulation, and then there is the scene where glados is turned off and atlas and p-body are in the chamber of emergency shut down for glados. It would be great if you could explain what happened since i can't find an explanation for it anywhere.
Something that might be worth a future video (though not a lore one) might be your thoughts on Portal's relationship with the Half-Life series. I've seen a couple people complain about Aperture being canon saying it's too silly and comedic, especially when compared to Half-Life's usually more serious tone.
The only thing about Portal(s) I don't like and why I don't bother with them now is that these tests just become such a grind, and just sort of pongy, I love the look and vibe though.
I doubt we will ever see any, the comvine empire has humanity under their control, and we dont even know whats outside after thousands of years, since the second portal game is set WAAAAAAAAAAYYYY after the first one
hey have you guys noticed that GlaDOS look different from portal 2. if you look her side by side she looks different and also i have that GlaDOS is Caroline
