LordCuthberton said:
So GLADOS is not dead?
That's a shame. Seems like cashing in on the first games characters and storyline.
EDIT: I do know she is alive, now. I do know there was that whole song deal that you people keep reminding me of. But i'm not braindead, I did play the game the whole way through and I just interpreted it differently to most people. I thought the song was like a dark suicide note or something similar. I didn't expect it to be literal.
They made it clear that she was alive at the end of the first game. After the song plays (or is it before? don't recall), you can see the camera pan around some dark and deep tunnels, into a deeper underground bunker of sorts, where tons of "components" (like the ones you just incinerated in the end of the game) are stored, and "awaken". After that a mechanical claw is seen putting out a candle on a cake. The idea was to remind you that GlaDOS is a computer. You destroyed a generic unit, but there are backups. We learn through the game that GlaDOS took over the Aperture Science center shortly before the adventures in Portal, the assumption is that she took it over both figuratively, by killing everyone else in it, and literally, by assimilating the entire network. She has effectively become the entire Aperture Science base, and what you destroyed was, essentially, just one terminal.
Also, we learn that for some reason GlaDOS actually
REALLY likes cake, it wasn't just a joke, despite being unable to consume it in any way. Programming oddity?
