Poll: Did you really feel sorry for the Companion Cube?

[MiracleOfSound]

You know what the scary part is? She actually succeeded. It's just a stupid cube, it's meant to be taken as a joke! I can't believe the cult following that meaningless object has!

I can't believe the cult following it has either, but only because half the people making companion cube jokes don't get the fucking joke.

The people who actually got the joke were saying they felt sorry for the cube in an ironic way. Then everyone started jumping on the bandwagon and going 'uh, maybe I should have felt sorry for it too'.. 'Har har companion cube awwww lolz'

The clever people understand that only Glados with her limited knowledge of human behaviour and emotion could imagine you becoming attached to a stupid metal box.

 

[Ithera]

A brief tear for my fallen cube, then moving on towards destiny.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

Its a freaking box, it has the personality of Master Chief, and i mean come on, people dont really praise him for his character depth, yet people loved this thing.

No, this thing doesn't talk, thus saying it has a better one then him.

 

[YogaBearform]

I threw it in without really thinking. My friends in the dorm watching me play, having already done it themselves, were surpised I did it as quickly as I did.

The game *is* called Portal, though. If they had asked me to throw away the portal gun (or if the game was called "Companion Cube"), I probaly would have been more hesitant.

 

[Reep]

Its a freaking box, it has the personality of Master Chief, and i mean come on, people dont really praise him for his character depth, yet people loved this thing.

No, this thing doesn't talk, thus saying it has a better one then him.

You might believe that, but you can't deny the fact that its personality is nonexistent. I'm just confused at how an object with a personality that doesn't exist can cause so many people to like it.

 

[blarghblarghhhhh]

I actually pondered if I was a cold person for not feeling bad about it. the game made it seem like you were supposed to feel bad but to me it was just an objective that needed completion.

 

[WorldCritic]

When I first played Portal and it told me to burn the cube I was like "ok, see ya cube."
I honestly have no idea why people cared so much. It's a block people, it's like what Yahtzee said, are we supposed to feel sorry for a brick?

 

[MiracleOfSound]

When I first played Portal and it told me to burn the cube I was like "ok, see ya cube."
I honestly have no idea why people cared so much. It's a block people, it's like what Yahtzee said, are we supposed to feel sorry for a brick?

Sigh... no you were not meant to care. People who say they care are either being sarcastic or completely thick.

Glados thought you'd form an emotional bond with the cube, due to her not having a clue about human emotion.

That was the joke.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

Its a freaking box, it has the personality of Master Chief, and i mean come on, people dont really praise him for his character depth, yet people loved this thing.

No, this thing doesn't talk, thus saying it has a better one then him.

You might believe that, but you can't deny the fact that its personality is nonexistent. I'm just confused at how an object with a personality that doesn't exist can cause so many people to like it.

I never really denied it, I just think the Cheif has the most two dimensional personality ever is all

 

[BarkBark]

*Removed

 

[chozo_hybrid]

Well I did not feel sorry for it, like everyone else in this forum, but I almost felt attachment for it.

Let me put it this way - Harvesting little sisters and blowing up Megaton has absolute 0 effect on me, but the cube actually left a hint of a 'could -be' emotional attachment.

The logical conclusion to this is: If given the option I would much rather kill a human than a cube with hearts painted on it.

Well, you can't kill a cube.

Plus humans make funny sounds when you kill them.

 

[ThePostalGamer]

Not in the slightest. I wasn't attached to it at all. It's a cube.

Although, I didn't throw many of the turrets into the Aperture Science Emancipation Grills, purely because I laugh at what the turrets sometimes say.

When it stops talking, THEN I throw it into the Aperture Science Emancipation Grill.

 

[Blimey]

Well....no. Its a box. In a game. On my TV.

If it was a sweet, innocent puppy, I still wouldn't care. Because its umm...not real.

No offense, but if anyone genuinely felt "sorry" for it, then maybe they need some time away from video games.

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

I hate the companion cube, with a passion. When I was trying to complete that level with as few portals as possible, I had just climbed on top of the ledge, so I put the cube down. It comes flying at me and smashes into me, knocking me off the ledge, and then falling on top of my makeshift stairs, destroying them. I burned it good.

 

[Eicha]

I chucked it in. Lil bastard muttered something anti-semetic.

 

[XMark]

I spent a good 10 minutes trying to figure some way around destroying the companion cube like GLaDOS wanted me to.

 

[Maltyz]

No!
FUCK HIM!

 

[8bitlove2a03]

Well, considering there seems to be nothing but bandwaggoning here (either you're in the "bawww cube go bye bye" joke crowd or the "bah, ignorant fools who don't get the joke!" crowd following along with the people who made that point initially), I present to you an amusing fact: binary thinking is retarded. Now for something completely different.

When I played Portal and got to this level, I treated the Cube as a simple cube. I didn't pretend like it was some sentient thing trapped by an evil corporation inside of a box. What I did do was pretend Chell was a poor little girl with no friends, who was pretending that the Cube was actually sentient and her best friend. While it sounds retarded, it actually amused me to no end. Seriously, I was having a little montage in my head with "So Happy Together" playing in the background. No, I was not attached to the Cube myself, but pretending Chell was added a whole new level of funny to that level. Because of this, I indirectly became attached to the Cube for the hilarity I imagined.

So as you see, there are more reasons than "retards don't get the real joke" that some of us like the Cube.

Thank you for participating in this Aperture Science Computer Aided Enrichment Center Activity. Goodbye.