What's so great about the Companion Cube?

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Valiance said:
Alright, I just finished Portal after starting at about 2 am, and I seriously don't understand what was so special about the Companion Cube.

This may come as a surprise, as I did find it comical and it was kinda fun to have to take it around with me throughout the test chamber, but I USED IT ONE TEST CHAMBER.
Is someone feeling guilty? It sounds like there's a lot of remorse in your post. You're trying to shrug it off as inconsequential, as though it doesn't matter to you...but deep down something is missing, right?
 

Wargamer

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TheGreenManalishi said:
I euthanised my companion cube in the fastest recorded time, GLADoS told me so.
GLaDOS also said there would be cake...
...oh, wait, there was.

Well, she did say you would be missed, and she clearly doesn't miss you...
...right?

Gah! Damn you, GLaDOS! When were you lying and when were you truthful?
 

timmytom1

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She told me i was going to android hell if ever i was disobedient *shivers* but i`m a good boy i do whatever GlAdOs tells me to do.
 

SnowCold

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The wierd thing, I WANTED to think like you when I played portal, but for some reason, I felt a little pinch of guilt when I killed the little fella...
 

Logan Westbrook

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If you don't know what is so great about the Weighted Companion Cube, then I'm afraid we can't tell you.
 

SmilingKitsune

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sorry user name taken. said:
it doesn't talk back...
Indeed, it just loves you unconditionally no matter how many times you use it as a shield against energy pellets.
I wuvs my companions cube...or I would if I hadn't killed it, ~starts sobbing~.
 

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Did you find the room full of poems dedicated to the companion cube? I think it's more the reaction that previous test subjects had to the cube combined with the desire to disobey GLaDOS when she repeatedly says that the cube cannot speak or help you. But if you wait long enough to kill it, she says "If the companion cube could speak, it would say 'Go ahead, go on without me.'" It's mostly the fact that the fact that it is reinforced several times that it is just a cube, so much so that it almost seems that GLaDOS believes that you will see it as more, and you wonder if you should.

That's just a theory, the fact that it appears again at the end helps (is that a spoiler? the game's been out a while now and it's not as though anyone answering this question will not have played this game right?).
 

Lenny Magic

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Companion Cube basically embodies what a lot of people want in a friend. For example it will always waits for you, it never asks questions and will never lie to you.
Unlike Companion Sphere, oh that little s**t never did a thing to help me, always tried to run away, deflected things right into me as apposed to away and to top it off some how it managed to bounce off the edge of the emergency intelligence incinerator and out of shear spite push me in.

I kid you not -.-
 

chromewarriorXIII

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I never liked the companion cube because it tried to murder me. It flew at my face and knocked me off of a ledge.
 
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SmilingKitsune said:
sorry user name taken. said:
it doesn't talk back...
Indeed, it just loves you unconditionally no matter how many times you use it as a shield against energy pellets.
I wuvs my companions cube...or I would if I hadn't killed it, ~starts sobbing~.
MURDER!!! MURDER!!! ~in south park voice~
 

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Jimmy_shredshot said:
Companion Cube basically embodies what a lot of people want in a friend. For example it will always waits for you, it never asks questions and will never lie to you.
Unlike Companion Sphere, oh that little s**t never did a thing to help me, always tried to run away, deflected things right into me as apposed to away and to top it off some how it managed to bounce off the edge of the emergency intelligence incinerator and out of shear spite push me in.

I kid you not -.-
Yeah companion sphere was kindof a douche
 

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sorry user name taken. said:
SmilingKitsune said:
sorry user name taken. said:
it doesn't talk back...
Indeed, it just loves you unconditionally no matter how many times you use it as a shield against energy pellets.
I wuvs my companion cube...or I would if I hadn't killed it, ~starts sobbing~.
MURDER!!! MURDER!!! ~in south park voice~
~hugs knees and starts rocking back and forth~ It wasn't me, the computer made me do it, not my fault, so what if I euthanised my companion cube faster than any other test suject on record? That doesn't prove anything...does it?
Agghh I can't take it, ~jumps into furnace~ We'll be together now companion cube!