64Cheese
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The cake is a lie!I picked up The Orange Box yesterday. It's a collection of games including Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal.
I installed it and played through Portal last night. I had heard it was a short game, and it was - only a couple hours to beat it - but it is now my favourite game EVER! It's like a shooter, only instead of bullets, you have a portal gun that makes portals in walls to warp you or other objects around a room. So it's like a shooter, only converted into a puzzle game, and then turned partially back into an action game. And with an environment that will just drive you insane: white laboratory walls, computer equipment and an eerie computer voice from a possibly malfunctioning robot. And the storyline (what little there is) is very involving. Also the computer voice makes a few humourous comments.
So in conclusion, I miss my companion cube and the cake is a lie.
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Tyto
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That's where that line is from?
I keep hearing it, but never knew where it was from...
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64Cheese
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That line is an expression of the deep emotional trauma this game simulates putting you through.
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Kavi
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| 64Cheese wrote: | | That line is an expression of the deep emotional trauma this game simulates putting you through. |
Emotional trauma? Sweet! Why have I never heard of this, and where can I play it.... (plotting) Tyto when we get our own place, forget things like food and running water, we're so putting everything into a kickarse gaming room 
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64Cheese
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Don't forget the internet so we can play Team Fortress 2, an online shooter that comes as part of The Orange Box, along with Portal and three different Half-Life 2 games. They are all great, by the way.
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Vye Brante
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Oh. I wondered where that line came from too.
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Amjam
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Yeah, it's from Portal. And the cake is not a lie. It's in the credits. 
I enjoyed euthanizing my beast... er, companion cube.
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64Cheese
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The cake is not a lie in the fact that it does actually exist, but more that you were never intended to have any.
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