Quote from iWork925 on July 21, 2011, 7:31 pm

She might be implying that Chell looks like Caroline. But because she is a robot, she might think that all humans look the same. Typical speciest GlaDOS.

Quote from MasterLagger on July 22, 2011, 11:36 am

Yeah, that makes more sense than Chell being related to Caroline.

Quote from satchmo on July 22, 2011, 7:48 pm

Cave and Caroline may not be married, but I think they probably had a love-child.

She's is his personal secretary. And you know that personal secretaries do more than just shuffling papers for their bosses.

Quote from PieGuy950 on July 24, 2011, 10:54 pm

Nacimota wrote:

chickenmobile wrote:

... Though I highly doubt there will be a portal 3...

Yeah, everyone knows Valve doesn't make games with 3s in them

I thought it was because VALVe didn't know how to count to 3

Quote from iWork925 on July 25, 2011, 12:58 am

1.... 2....................... potato

Quote from Arnar105 on July 26, 2011, 10:04 am

Well reading this let me think about rat-man... If it was 50.000 years ago, why do we see him in portal 2? (In the end, man running, that's rat-man right?). So it would not make any sence that it was 500, or 50.000 years in the future. I think its 20-50 years like Nacimota said.

Quote from Rubrica on July 26, 2011, 10:15 am

Actually, there's nothing to confirm the 'figure' seen in the credits is the rat-man, and the general consensus is that there's nothing even there, or maybe a Frankencube. That said, I don't necessarily agree with the 50,000 years thing.

There's one notion that I've been entertaining, though I don't agree with it, as its unrealistic, baseless speculation, but maybe AS was actually rediscovered after Portal, and repaired? That would explain away the retcons in Portal 2, and account for this ridiculous time war we have going on (sorry, had to make the pun. I'm British, after all). The only unexplained thing is how GLaDOs remained destroyed, unless they simply never found her, but that's unlikely. Anyway, as I said, it's baseless speculation, and I don't even agree with it; just a fun little musing.

Quote from WinstonSmith on July 26, 2011, 10:33 am

Rubrica wrote:

Actually, there's nothing to confirm the 'figure' seen in the credits is the rat-man, and the general consensus is that there's nothing even there, or maybe a Frankencube. That said, I don't necessarily agree with the 50,000 years thing.

It's a Frankencube walking around. I can provide detailed and outlined screenshots for anyone who thinks otherwise.

And yeah, as has (I think? Somewhere?) been stated before, the 50,000 years thing may be an overstatement, the point is Portal 2 takes place in the future. Far in the future.

Quote from MasterLagger on August 9, 2011, 11:09 pm

If one of the unused GLaDOS dialog files was used, it would be 50,000 years. But it wasn't used, so who knows?