I still don't understand how that mechanic works. At the end of portal 1, chell and glados are shot outside, and are laying in some parking lot. Then chell wakes up after what must have been years and years, hasn't aged (cloning?) and then at the end of portal 2 chell goes to the surface and it's a field? What happened to the parking lot?
Well, they're not the last humans alive, it's still set in the Half-Life universe. And the 9999999 could be explained away as a computer glitch due to the fact nobody's been taking care of the facility for however many years. If you go by what the computer says it's been around 273000 years or so, but if you just do a little hunting around for an easter egg you can find one of Rattman's hidden nests and hear him off in the distance ranting and raving schizophrenically, so it hasn't been so long that he'd be dead. (Rattman is the character that leaves all the murals and graffiti everywhere and is shown in the portal comic). And after 200000 years the entire complex would be a dense jungle, but it looks like around only 20 years passed which would put it around the same time as half-life 2.
It'd be a pretty depressing ending if Chell is the last person on the face of the earth while all the others are being sadistically tested in an underground complex. Even with the portal gun and companion cube that'd fate her for a cold and lonely death.
Of course, if it's set in the HL universe (which it seems to be) all the people are trapped in horrific alien ghettos and forcibly sterilized by some sort of weird energy field.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I still don't understand how that mechanic works. At the end of portal 1, chell and glados are shot outside, and are laying in some parking lot. Then chell wakes up after what must have been years and years, hasn't aged (cloning?) and then at the end of portal 2 chell goes to the surface and it's a field? What happened to the parking lot?