What's so great about the Companion Cube?

[Straitjacketeering]

Some people just don't get proper satire.

 

[martyrdrebel27]

i thought it was awesome how much GLaDOS made you care about an inanimate object. without any action at all from the cube, it took on a personality.

WCC is the one of the most brilliant pieces of character work in a game to date.

 

[sorry user name taken.]

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!

~watches slow burning kitsune eats pop corn~ ''now thats drama!''

 

[ironmace2.0]

I guess it was just a joke to have some fun with and if anyones with you to make a wise ass remark (my brother watched me).

 

[Gamer137]

It's just a cult classic joke. Nothing is special about it, but it is popualr for the same reason the cake is. GLADOS just could not stop fricken' talking about it.

 

[hoov]

Wait? so am I the only one whom the companion cube did threaten to stab? And it was always looking at me like it wanted me dead, I was glad to see the back of it.

 

[JordanMillward_1]

But.. it's.. the companion cube! How can you not love the Companion Cube!?

Also, this was a triumph!

Exactly. It was your faithful companion, how can you not love it?
All it did was love you, and you killed it. Bastard.

But seriously, it's just another humorous aspect of the game.
You're not supposed to take it to heart.

Damn you all for killing Your Faithful Companion Cube! All it wanted to do was love you!

 

[Lord Beautiful]

I'm not much of a fan of the Cube either.

 

[Go on]

Because it promised to never stab or lie to me.

Can't say that for all those other heartless, scheming, knife wielding cubes can you?

This ^^

 

[master m99]

i think it is because of glados and ratmans room i expected it to come alive at any second and while walking around the chamber brainlessly i would ofter turn around very quickly to the cube cause i could have sworn i heard something, when i was asked to kill it i had started to suspect what this cube wasn't anything special but there was still that big what if about it in the back of my mind and i was already suspecting glados by that point thanks to our friend ratman so i have to say i did hesitate to "kill" it. also i think i might have caute a few glimpses of it while going through the maintenance area (that could have just been me tho) going through pipes and stuff

 

[master m99]

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.

what about *stop squirming and die like an adult!* did u obey her then?

 

[clicketycrack]

Also, this was a triumph!

I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.

I must say...
It's hard to overstate
my satisfaction.

Aperture Science:
We do what we must because we can.

 

[Valiance]

I euthanised my companion cube in the fastest recorded time, GLADoS told me so.

Me too.



Honestly, I'd rather the storage cube dispenser.

I walled off turrets with those, dropped those on turrets, climbed up stuff with those, escaped with those, etc, etc...

Not my companion cube that I bounced an energy ball off.

 

[gigastrike]

How could you not love that adorable, little thing? Weighted companion cube, you're my only friend <3.

 

[McGee]

The cube is funny because of all the hilarious comments Glados makes about it. Since those people in the test chambers had no human interaction, they turned to the cute little cube. Then they turned to it a little TOO much. It lets you kind of create in your head what people did when they finally cracked, which usually ends up being funny.

 

[Crimson King]

We have all this hype about the Companion Cube that I never understood. Forget that, you know what I got attatched to? The Portal Gun! Would you rather have a Cube with hearts that will probably stab you, or a gun that shoots linked portals?

 

[balimuzz]

It was great because the developers treated it like a character. It could have just been another weighted cube, but it was treated like a living character, because of the secret area in that test chamber, and the way that GLaDOS suggests that others who were tested felt that it was alive as well. This was brilliant, and I appreciated it a lot, because it was just so off the wall.

 

[Internet Kraken]

Nothing

It was a joke that people inflated to the point that it no longer amuses me in the slightest.