I'm really glad Valve went with Atlas and P-Body instead of Chell and Mel. Not only do two robots fit much better with Portal's art style than two humans, but it also makes co-op a distinct experience from the single-player campaign. Plus, it makes dying and being revived in co-op much more believable. Also, Atlas and P-Body are one of my favorite duos in gaming because of their personalities.
P-body and Atlas are amazing, someone should make a mod where you play as a turret or something, because all of the machines in aperture have so much personality I honestly think I'd like playing as any of them, hell let me play as a companion cube I'll pay $60 just to listen to more dialogue written by the devs behind Portal
Also it makes sense for glados to be testing her rooms with 2 robots over and over again since they’re expendable and can seemingly work forever. The lore justification is just a lot better
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 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.
Imagine a portal game from the perspective of ratman, or some employee just before Caroline gets uploaded, imagine the scene potential of panicked whispers among the staff about caves demise, the future of aperture, their disdain for the secretary banging the boss becoming the new facility overlord.
11:19 It’s most likely an attempt to dehumanize them. Referring to them by their colors allows her (and us) to think of them as simple robots, not complex being who have emotions and a relationship with each other. I have no clue if this is the cannon reason, but it makes sense to me :]
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.
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
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
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 RUclips. 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.
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".
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
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
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.
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 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💯
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.
"Now I've got my facility back and I have two new test bots it's time to celebrate!...........Are you finished celebrating yet?.....Good. Now let's continue testing."
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.
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
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!
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.
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
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.
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
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
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?
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 :(
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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Gotto love Glados' line in the last cutscene: OH MY GOD IT'S GESTATING A CLONE ARMY.
I heard that in her voice!
Is that from the bird cutscene?
@@jd_kreeper yes
That line REALLY cracked me up.
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I'm really glad Valve went with Atlas and P-Body instead of Chell and Mel. Not only do two robots fit much better with Portal's art style than two humans, but it also makes co-op a distinct experience from the single-player campaign. Plus, it makes dying and being revived in co-op much more believable.
Also, Atlas and P-Body are one of my favorite duos in gaming because of their personalities.
I agree with everything you said!
P-body and Atlas are amazing, someone should make a mod where you play as a turret or something, because all of the machines in aperture have so much personality I honestly think I'd like playing as any of them, hell let me play as a companion cube I'll pay $60 just to listen to more dialogue written by the devs behind Portal
Also it makes sense for glados to be testing her rooms with 2 robots over and over again since they’re expendable and can seemingly work forever. The lore justification is just a lot better
Like Wall-E, I LOOOVE the duo.
Who's mel
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.
That's very kind. Thank you :) Also thanks for watching the videos!
this is not lore. i played Co-Op and the point of the robots is to get to a human vault
@@ducksqad622 technically , it's lore
I've never played co-op either.
I love how your saying this with a serious tone, when most of the events you relay in the video are quite comical.
It's a talent haha
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💀
half life is connected to aperture science soo its not the last persons alive on earth
@@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.
Yeah like why the hell did they have neurotoxin anyways?
Can I play
@@THECHEESELORD69in general gladios got neurotoxin because she asked researchers for it for an experiment
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.
You are a genius
Wow, nice analysis of GLaDOs' thoughts on the Duo over the course of the Portal 2 Co-op campaign.
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.
I still think that in some way caroline is still in there, and that actually Glados cant delete her, or at least thats what i like to believe
....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.
Imagine a portal game from the perspective of ratman, or some employee just before Caroline gets uploaded, imagine the scene potential of panicked whispers among the staff about caves demise, the future of aperture, their disdain for the secretary banging the boss becoming the new facility overlord.
That'd be great
11:19 It’s most likely an attempt to dehumanize them. Referring to them by their colors allows her (and us) to think of them as simple robots, not complex being who have emotions and a relationship with each other. I have no clue if this is the cannon reason, but it makes sense to me :]
Or for verbal convenience.
And also a way to address the player using said color more directly
This is unbelievable how Valve created iconic robots like Altlas and P Body, I wish there were spin-off with them
SAME! Portal 3: ATLAS & P-Body
YESS That'd be great XD
@@Skyrionn It will probably be called Portal : ATLAS & P-Body
Looks like the number 3 in the Valve community is non-existent
I Mean t echinaclly they have their own entire game so they already have it.
Aperture Robot Group
I love how in the game files, Pbody is referred to as “egg”
eggbot and ballbot my beloved
Atlas and P-Body basically being her children is amazing~
I never thought about it that way. You've completely changed my perspective there.
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.
They made the goddamn floor panels sentient, of course a calculator would be.
I think it's both.
I love how Glados is afraid of birds because she got taken by one as a potato
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.
She never really developed, she just stopped trying to kill Chell, the Glados body still wants to test
She literally deleted her character development in the final cutscene
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
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
All that nice warm fuzzy feeling
Don't forget disco dancing
You say sociopath like it's a bad thing
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.
I know it isn't on the topic of Atlas and P-Body, but I am very much intrigued by the prototype GLaDOS chassis
Same! I guess it's just a part of GLaDOS' story. I'm kind of hoping that if we do get another Portal game, it'll be featured in some way
You can really see, that you put a lot of effort in your videos. Love them! Keep it up :)
It does take a while to put one together but I enjoy it so much! Thanks for watching
@@Skyrionn Did you see that the sfm map for the vault got leaked?
To be honest I never really enjoyed listening about games on RUclips. 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.
That's very kind of you! I appreciate you listening and watching!
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".
Ahh, I played through P2 coop at least 3 times woth my buddy, thanks for bringing back those precious memories!
No worries! Thanks for watching!
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
atlas and p-body will go down in gaming history as one of the best duos of all time.
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 doubt aperture could completely destroy a multiversal empire but maybe it can take back earth at least.
When me and my friend were playing portal 2 multiplayer we were always fighting over who GLaDOS was talking to
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.
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 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💯
Atlas and P-Body have a dynamic that reminds me of me and my brother. Although that might be because we played co-op together.
Same here, and it’s also fitting that orange is my brother’s favorite color and blue is mine.
@@SonicMaster519 They have huge sibling energy. I can't understand the ship between the two.
@@rosykindbunny1313 People ship everything together, just ignore it. Those weirdos don’t deserve attention.
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 “You know, you DID kill me. Fair’s fair.”
@@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.
Mel was a human who was testing but no one knows what happened to Mel
Skyrionn contonues to be the only youtuber i can repeatedly watch fully as shorts has rotted my attention span
Glados: I am not scared of nothing! Also Glados: OH MY GOD ITS GESTATING A CLONE ARMY!
"Now I've got my facility back and I have two new test bots it's time to celebrate!...........Are you finished celebrating yet?.....Good. Now let's continue testing."
I heard that in her voice
The best duo of all the valve games no 🧢 i love them 🤖
same!
Another great video. Name a more iconic duo, I'll wait.
alyx n gordon
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.
That's a great idea! I'd play that
One day Valve just needs to release a Portal/HL crossover game called “3”, as a sequel to both Portal and HL 2
@@sambenedict7804 that would be a great title
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.
I thought that the robots were designed by old aperture as a plan to phase out human test subjects because of legal costs
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
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!
Seth Hayes for Portal 3 Lead Writer 2022
I'm glad I could help in some way. Good luck!
Do you work at valve or something
@@Gatorz_Gaming shhh cmon dont crush his dreams gas him up
@@Gatorz_Gaming I wish, but I’ve got a dream
Pretty fitting that Mel, a human test subject, was replaced by robots.
“Blue that’s not how you solve the puzzle you don’t run into the sentries or try to destroy them”
Always a good day when Skyrionn uploads :)
Thanks for watching!
Super interesting video. I love your style of storytelling.
Glad you enjoyed it! There's always more to come
This video is great I can’t wait to watch more
I imagine Atlas and the Party Escot Bot were quite similar.
I think they are. The Party Escort Bot just has a purple eye :)
Portland 2 fans when they see a portal:
I’m having a stroke on just trying to understand this comment.
@@Xiiki same
I gotta agree with this one
@@Xiiki I think it’s an SCP thing maybe
@@tophatcat1173 me too
Fun fact, dyk the eye placement of Atlas is the literal fps pov camera placement.
Name a more Iconic duo I’ll wait
I'll wait with you
Houndeye and city scanner
Hey your vids are amazing. Love listening to this while I study or grind d2 keep it up!
That's amazing! Thanks for helping the channel :)
How do you make those cinematic shots at the beginning? Specifically these ones: 0:00 to 2:04. (Besides the few official teasers or whatever they are)
quite funny how the camera goes crazy at 2:38
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.
1:49 by what I know by the hands of ratman shell was the first subject that glados awake
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?
I highly doubt in cause it's huge
Theoretically that is possible, but I do wonder where you can find such large caves + technology for that.
@@sanicinapanic4264 idk about new aperture, but old aperture should be possible under the condition that a large cave is either made or found
@@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
Seems like I'm going to listen to all your videos today 😅
Anyone think they'd get along with Dog?
Or that a defective turret with P-Body style limbs would be funny if not annoying.
yes! Dog, ATLAS and P-Body team up game!
What is Dog?
That robot thing from Half Life 2
i need to learn more that cant just be it, there has to be more.. there is so much to be asked after portal 2 I really want these questions answered
These Two deserves a Co-op.
They did. I'd happily play Portal 3 if it was just them too!
valve: **doesnt make portal 3**
the guy who made portal stories: mel: fine. i'll do it myself.
Hey, when I played through the entire coop campaign twice with an Egyptian guy, I got to play the one with the actually cool name, ALTAS. Yippee.
The end of art therapy is a huge cliffhanger
We need more!
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.
That would have been a great use for them. The technology in Aperture would have likely helped the resistance a ton too!
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.
glados is aware of their existence but the combine are not aware
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.
AMAZING VIDEO 👏 👏 👏 Subscribed😎
Awesome thank you!
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
Lemme know what you think! Mel felt like an official installment into the Portal series
In Portal 3, they should make us play as a bird.
Great video, thank you.
Waiting for the playlist.
There is one :)
@Skyrionn wait, really? I must be blind then lemme go check! Love your video BTW. Your voice is nice to listen to while I work.
Imagine if the Ant Lions build a Nest under aperture and a war erupted. Robots vs Alien Bugs
My friend and I played portal 2 together, I was Atlas and he was P-body, but we called them “tall bot” and “ball bot”
good times ✊
Makes me wish those "test subjects" were in the next Portal game and play a bit like the Outlast trials
its only a matter of time before the combine find the facility
amazing video as always!
Thank ye!
This might be a silly question but how does Aperture’s entire facility permanently have power and the resources to create more bots among other things
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
I know that in the second game GLADOS mentioned some turbines once the lights flickered so it definitely seems renewable power
They use a nuclear core generator.
@@audreymehndi1644
I bet it’s geo-thermal.
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?
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 :(
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.
I'd love to know that too
I always forget i have early acces to these videos lol but great video i realy liked it
haha! I do my best to post them as early as possible :P
Yay! I love your vids.
Thanks!
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
I think most siblings did the same thing. My sister had a ton of "unfortunate" accidents with the grinder when using the funnels.
I always thought that Atlas's name was P-Body because I thought it was spelled Pea Body. Brilliant, I know
haha! Name, if you look at the back of P-Body, you'll see she has a "P" on her.
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.
Very nice characters id say
We do love them
Yes, content.
Welcome!
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.
Oh lovely!
thank ye!
Now that i know portal takes place in the halflife universe i would love to see more crossover content between the two
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
I dont think atlas is based on a core, looking back his head is more like the one of a rocket sentry.
No. Rocket sentries have a side port for the gun part.
@@protoborg yeah but the proportions match, they could have also removed that.
Which robot I prefer?
Obviously +SPACE CORE+
She speedran killing test subjects
100%
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.
Yea I think he got that wrong
@@Xavier-vt6uy no it could very possibly be how he says it, it's just not definite.
it could ether mean when chell escaped the testing track in portal 1 or when wheatly and chell escaped the testing track in portal 2
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.
That makes sense since it seems like P-Body is the only robot Wheatley tested before GLaDOS took over control again.
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.
Those people don't understand half life isn't even that serious, Aperture was the opposite of Black Mesa, BM was order, aperture was chaos
I'll actually add that to the list. Every connection between the companies I can find
I believe that only aperture can best the combine using the robots
the combine do not know it exists, but aperture knows they exist
Spaaaceee
space space space
Lol I didn’t realize she was really saying different stuff to me and my partner in science
IKR! It felt personal
18:20
What is this music
Plus image glados made 8 more robots to work with atles and peabody
Nicr one, again :)
Thanks for watching :)
I love co-op, I main P-body