Trailers: Portal 2: Bot Trust

[MarsProbe]

Portal is pitch black comedy. I would not call a game that threatens to pull all your teeth out and donate your organs before dumping you into a military testing facility where you are shot to pieces before being cooked in a giant oven a "Family" game any more than I'd call a Stanly Kubrick movie a "Family" movie. The mere absence of gore and language and boobies does not a Family game make. Portal is an adult game with very adult themes.

Little Big Planet is a Family game. Mario is a Family game. Portal is a black comedy.

Family [anything] = [thing] that entire family is able to enjoy. Like a good Pixar movie, which has, to use an example, toys flopping around in an amusing manner for the kids and some themes that will likely zip over the kids heads but adults will notice. It also, doesn't have anything that renders it unsuitable for the nippers.

Likewise, Portal doesn't have any gore/language/nudity or anything to expose the kids to. They will probably be too busy enjoying fooling around with the portal gun and perhaps even figuring about the puzzles, whereas the adults amongst are more likely to take in the jokes. Especially as the humour in Portal is delivered in such a way you have to either take your time and listen, or stop to read something in the gameworld.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

My god, I laughed for so long at this commercial. I'm loving this.

 

[MB202]

Damn, that was freaking funny!

Also, the robots reminds me of WALL-E.

 

[Twilight.falls]

Valve, once again, demonstrates their superb dark-comedy.

 

[samsonguy920]

This was awesome. I demand more seconds of Portal 2 videos!

I'm pretty sure I heard a sixth extra seconds.
as in 1/6, everyone here seems to be hearing differently though.

Oh well, at least the trailer is AWESOME!

1/6th of a second to a robot can be an eternity!

 

[Lucane]

Edit: It's also nice to finally know ATLAS' and P-Body's names.

No longer Orange and Blue. Now P-Body and Atlas.

Not to be a dick, but we knew that a LOOOOOOONG time ago.

I didn't mean it was news to anyone else but me but their Gamestop commercial that just came out about the pre-order bonus only has GlaDOS call them Orange and Blue.

So It's easy not to know their names if you don't check sites for Portal 2 Info.​

 

[mew4ever23]

Ah, that was too good. Keep up the good work valve.

My favorite part:

The Solution? Robots! *wham wham wham*

..Then fire the guys who made those robots and make better robots.

 

[Lancer873]

This is a nice reminder as to why I had to vote Valve over Mojang, helps lessen the guilty feeling. Gotta love Valve.

 

[Avatar Roku]

Edit: It's also nice to finally know ATLAS' and P-Body's names.

No longer Orange and Blue. Now P-Body and Atlas.

Not to be a dick, but we knew that a LOOOOOOONG time ago.

I didn't mean it was news to anyone else but me but their Gamestop commercial that just came out about the pre-order bonus only has GlaDOS call them Orange and Blue.

So It's easy not to know their names if you don't check sites for Portal 2 Info.​

Ah, fair enough.

 

[KwaggaDan]

Can someone please tell me why the narrator sounds so familiar?

 

[Veldel]

JESUS CHRIST I am really laughing alot from this ad Valve had a good smart move and not doing ad agencies because this is awsome XD

 

[restoshammyman]

No longer Orange and Blue. Now P-Body and Atlas.

members of kongregate have been aware of the name for a month now.

 

[Harry Mason]

Portal is pitch black comedy. I would not call a game that threatens to pull all your teeth out and donate your organs before dumping you into a military testing facility where you are shot to pieces before being cooked in a giant oven a "Family" game any more than I'd call a Stanly Kubrick movie a "Family" movie. The mere absence of gore and language and boobies does not a Family game make. Portal is an adult game with very adult themes.

Little Big Planet is a Family game. Mario is a Family game. Portal is a black comedy.

Family [anything] = [thing] that entire family is able to enjoy. Like a good Pixar movie, which has, to use an example, toys flopping around in an amusing manner for the kids and some themes that will likely zip over the kids heads but adults will notice. It also, doesn't have anything that renders it unsuitable for the nippers.

Likewise, Portal doesn't have any gore/language/nudity or anything to expose the kids to. They will probably be too busy enjoying fooling around with the portal gun and perhaps even figuring about the puzzles, whereas the adults amongst are more likely to take in the jokes. Especially as the humour in Portal is delivered in such a way you have to either take your time and listen, or stop to read something in the gameworld.

You are held captive by a malevolent A.I. attempts to murder you at every turn and forces you to burn alive the only friendly thing in your environment. Take it from someone who works in an Elementary school, NEVER underestimate children's ability to pick up on complex themes and innuendo. They are much more intelligent than you are giving them credit for, and I've seen first hand the way that traumatizing material effects the psyche of a child.

I could write a theses paper on the relationship between a six-year-old with an abusive family in my class, and the Iron Man movies. We are defined my our entertainment.

 

[Alphacron]

Can someone please tell me why the narrator sounds so familiar?

You've most likely heard him asking for more pictures.

Pictures of SPIDERMAN!

(J. Jonah Jameson (forgive me if I spelled that wrong, Graham and Paul aren't the only ones behind on their Spiderman Research) from the three new Spider Man Movies)

 

[Goldeneye1989]

Wait wait wait.

Cave Johnson

So Cave Dick......

So .....

Oh valve.... you sneaky bastards.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

Ah, make it stop! Laughing too hard! It hurts!

 

[daxterx2005]

6 seconds more.
I fricking loled

 

[Speakercone]

help!...can't...breathe!...
too...much...laughter!

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

"Fire the guys who made those robots." But... but...!

UNILATERAL FORCE-INDUCED ISOKINETIC BREAKFAST TRIALS!! Also PANCAKES!!

...I wanna play a game with those robots!

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

You are held captive by a malevolent A.I. attempts to murder you at every turn and forces you to burn alive the only friendly thing in your environment. Take it from someone who works in an Elementary school, NEVER underestimate children's ability to pick up on complex themes and innuendo. They are much more intelligent than you are giving them credit for, and I've seen first hand the way that traumatizing material effects the psyche of a child.

Kids have always been exposed to dark, dark entertainment. Don Bluth movies, Disney films, the Simpsons, Pixar films - all meddling with dark, adult themes, and all a hit with the kids. I think you're right, kids do pick up on these things - but I say, as long as there's a happy ending, kids won't care. Kids like to be scared more than they let on, and I say Portal is the perfect mix of "kid-friendly" jokes under a mask of pitch-black absurdity that defines the "family" genre.