I love how at the end, it reveals that in this universe at least.. Wheatley was NOT the one to wake up Chell, but AEGIS as part of it's failsafe to stop GLaDoS.
Aegis did not wake Chell up as a failsafe actually, it was programmed to wake up whoever was first on the subject list, and Doug Rattmann was the one to assign Chell as the first subject of the list.
@@Weewewoowewoey ah, great point, i always thought rattmann was the one to wake up chell, but this headcanon allows both mel's story to stay in line with the original's
Wow I just cannot believe that these people spent so much time on this game like it literally looks like a real portal game but it's actually a fan game it's crazy. 🤯
Well, portal 2 is believed to take place after Half Life [REDACTED], so the Combine is most possibly destroyed, or have left Earth, meaning whatever is up there is probably better than down inside Aperture. Or not, they could still be there.
Wow...so, Mel was before Chell woke up...and Chell woke up because Mel shut down something....and guessing by the outside world, it's kinda in a post apocalypse and I'm guessing Half Life is happening...because Portal and Half were connected. Black Mesa was their rival.
Hey at the ending inside the aigis see what it says? It tells everything. (Draining reserve power: at portal 2 wheatley said that to you : waking test subject 1: thats chell) at the very end you hear that male voice which is telling chell the basic rules and portal 2 started which is the third game.
The events of Half-Life are long gone when this game and Portal 2 takes place. You have to remember that during Portal 1 the Combine ruled the Earth and at that time Gordon Freeman was also fighting them. Portal 2 starts hundreds of thousands of years into the future according to the announcer in the start that you have been asleep for 9999999. So during Portal Stories: Mel and Portal 2 the Combine have already been beaten for a very long time. This makes even more sense if you read the story of Episode Three.
@@Drakey_Fenix Wrong, Half Life Ep 2 is happening in Portal 2 (The Borealis) and it is not taking place hundreds of thousands of years in the future lol 9999999 is just an error in the AI.
@@magscorch7706Do you have any proof about Half-Life Episode 2 taking place during Portal 2? No. And the Borealis have been in the arctic for a very long time. Before GLaDOS was even invented.
5:06 the only thought that makes me cry at the final is the realization that Mel and Virgil will probably never see each other again… I don’t now why, but I always cry on this soundtrack…🥺
actually, I find it kind of sweet that at first mel wasn't strong enough to open the door hatch, but finally, at the end, she managed to finally get out and open the hatch. It's subtle easter eggs like this that make a story satisfying. Mel's character arc was truly complete.
A small theory: the ending of the game does not imply apocalypse happened. What I think it could be is that the Apeture Science facility was completely abandoned after the GLADoS incident, and so Combine wasn't aware of it, so it was left completely abandoned. What I think this and Portal 1 was trying to imply was that GLADoS is aware of the Combine and so tries not to bring their attention by keeping all the test subjects who survived.
Actual, Portal is connected to another game called Half-Life, which involves an invasion and causes most humans to die. So actually, Portal is set in the apocalypse
BEST. ENDING. EVER! I love it when you hear the line "You have been in susension for 9999...." and then it fades out referring to the begin of portal 2. LOVE IT! 8:07
Earlier in the game, Vergil chastises Mel for not being able to open a port door, exclaiming "What kind of olympian are you?!" In this cutscene, Mel grabs the wheel and opens it on her first try.
So, we have a timeline Portal Stories: Mel , On the 50's (Mod) -> Portal Prelude (Mod) or Portal 2 Comics: Lab Rat -> Portal -> Portal Stories: Mel, On the future (Mod) -> Portal 2 -> Aperture Tag (Mod) -> Thinking With Time Machine (Mod)
In Half Life Alyx, you can find a globe depicting the Combine's colonies in Europe and Asia. Turn it around, and you can find that North America's been, blotted out. Something happened in North America between Half Life and Half Life 2, something bad enough for both the Combine and Resistance to abandon it completely. Mel's situation is pretty bleak considering that.
Really hoped we’d hear a bit more from Virgil at the very end and see how he’s doing just like Portal 2... still, the ending was beautiful and the music really hits the feels
@@cardboardethymith3893 let's incare the facts Virgil says: When She destroyed Her. Means that when Chell destroyed glados so we can see portal stories mel takes place after portal 1. And it doesn’t happen after portal 2 as glados hasn’t woken up yet.
the game is in MICHIGAN. michigan might have changed from a city to a potential country city, and the people from michigan moved in another place. Yes, global warming is taking over, but scientists are fixing and thinking- what can they change to items so they'll not pollute. People are starting to recycle, reuse and others, so they'll not do harm to Earth. But maybe you're right, maybe in a millenia or so, Michigan might look like this.
When i played this game for myself i cried at the end, i do with any portal game really because i have to say goodbye to the people i have been helping and them helping me and seeing them for the last time before i can never see them again (yes i know i can just start a new file but whats the point in that?) it just makes me emotional.
Portal one probably takes place before the combine arrived in that area because there would be combine everywhere,portal 2 i have absolutely no idea about.
Yep! Wish there were more direct links in the games like when they discover the Borealis in Episode 2. There are some subtle references tho like when GLADOS hints at the combine invasion in Portal 1.
I think Cave Johnson shouting into the recording system about the scumbags over at Black Mesa could confirm this. Also the zero point energy field manipulator being seen in the Aperture science facility in a comic. Also the Borealis from HL2:EP2
So chell was stuck at the underground facility and she noticed that she slept 200 years that is because of the relaxation vault causing all the city and buildings to be abandoned and empty
makes sense considering that aperture labs is built on a salt mine turned shower curtain factory that then became a science lab that eventually went bankrupt and became fully self-sufficient to survive impending doom from an alien invasion.
Seeing how this game lines up 50-100 years after the 7 hour war, I would have loved to seen some combine buildings or and APC, just something that points at HL2 in someway. Still, this game blows me away, Mel is cannon for me.
imagine instead of the potal gun being burned she grabbed virgil and then threw him in so she can make a model of the portal gun for her family when she comes back
this game past probaly after chel awaken and during manking rebuilding itself after the combine invasion, and that end is more convincing than the original one, sinse the Portal 2 end is like a Utopia.
Since half life and portal are same universe, in ending when world is showed I was disappointed I didn't find anything related to combine or xen. Because Mel probably woke up during or right after the end of 7 hour war, anyway, close to it.
Whether it's 50 or 50000 years between Portal 1 and 2 doesn't matter that much, but I lean towards 70 years gap looking at how overgrown are parts of facility closer to surface. What important is that it takes place *long* after events of HL2, and Earth would be devoid of most, if not all, humans on the surface. This ending fits really well with main entrance to the facility. Derelict buildings in the background and overgrown forests where you would put a park. Ending of base Portal 2 feels like some side exit far away from main one. I remember intro video about hard light bridges showed that light would be harvested on standard wheat field with small shed in the middle. It could be maintained by some robots or whatever, so unlike some I believe that Both Mel and Chell got out.
@@cola98765 well at least some hint to remnants of combine technology (half destroyed towers, overgrown hunter choppers, decomposed and overgrown corpses of striders and dropships) eh?
Chell wakes up 50,000 years after she was put in the relaxation vault. The Combine invasion occurred during portal 1, so theoretically the human race outside of those in Aperture could be extinct. Huh
No, According to Half-Life Episode Three by Marc Laidlaw the Combine was beaten by Gordon when he sends in the Borealis into their homeworld and blows it up and also sacrifising himself. Portal 2 takes place long after this and Earth and Humanity will have recovered. It might just have been that Aperture Science have been forgotten by everyone and therefor no one have bothered to go and look for the facility after the events of Episode Three.
Even if it was: Mel escapes after PS:Mel and the Portal 2 events happen without major time jumps. So Chell exits the facility only shortly after Mel does (about a week, I guess.) So basically Mel could be walking around the city when the facility explodes and is sucked onto the moon. So it's likely the two have met.
@@Antifuse i think they didnt met becouse they got free from different places. Aperture science is VERY huge and Mel went out from a different emergency elevator meanwhile chell got free from mainchamber where Glados lives(?)
It’s also been stated the machine **COULD** be broken, think of it the machine has been running for awhile it may be glitched out it could be trying to say 99 years or 9 years or something along those lines and it just glitched out or it could just be completely broken and is just spewing random numbers.
Went to sleep in 1952 and wakes up potentialy more than 200 years later and is able to operate a modern computer keyboard
Did not even think about this !
200? Try 50,000
@edgy hat stereotype nope , the querty keyboard for typewriters was first used in 1874
Well, she technically wakes up in 2020 circa because GLaDOS is still offline and Portal 2 (when GLaDOS returns online) takes place in 2020.
Do you guys know they have typewriters in 1952 right?
I love how at the end, it reveals that in this universe at least..
Wheatley was NOT the one to wake up Chell, but AEGIS as part of it's failsafe to stop GLaDoS.
Aegis did not wake Chell up as a failsafe actually, it was programmed to wake up whoever was first on the subject list, and Doug Rattmann was the one to assign Chell as the first subject of the list.
@@Weewewoowewoey ah, great point, i always thought rattmann was the one to wake up chell, but this headcanon allows both mel's story to stay in line with the original's
Wow I just cannot believe that these people spent so much time on this game like it literally looks like a real portal game but it's actually a fan game it's crazy. 🤯
It's amazing what fan sometimes create
@@SAMPRey1996 I know!
I know baby yoda
i dont think you understand fan games
Also its free! 🤯
Virgil : i don't know exactly what's out there, but it should be better than what's down here
The combine : **X to doubt**
You doubted
[everybody liked that]
epic
Well, portal 2 is believed to take place after Half Life [REDACTED], so the Combine is most possibly destroyed, or have left Earth, meaning whatever is up there is probably better than down inside Aperture.
Or not, they could still be there.
So it's happening in HL2 time line
@@_GhostMiner Portal and Half-life are in the same universe
Wow...so, Mel was before Chell woke up...and Chell woke up because Mel shut down something....and guessing by the outside world, it's kinda in a post apocalypse and I'm guessing Half Life is happening...because Portal and Half were connected. Black Mesa was their rival.
Hey at the ending inside the aigis see what it says? It tells everything. (Draining reserve power: at portal 2 wheatley said that to you : waking test subject 1: thats chell) at the very end you hear that male voice which is telling chell the basic rules and portal 2 started which is the third game.
Half life 3 confirmed(oh yeah and half life 3 will really come in a pack with portal 3,half life 3 and team fortress 3
The events of Half-Life are long gone when this game and Portal 2 takes place. You have to remember that during Portal 1 the Combine ruled the Earth and at that time Gordon Freeman was also fighting them. Portal 2 starts hundreds of thousands of years into the future according to the announcer in the start that you have been asleep for 9999999. So during Portal Stories: Mel and Portal 2 the Combine have already been beaten for a very long time. This makes even more sense if you read the story of Episode Three.
@@Drakey_Fenix Wrong, Half Life Ep 2 is happening in Portal 2 (The Borealis) and it is not taking place hundreds of thousands of years in the future lol 9999999 is just an error in the AI.
@@magscorch7706Do you have any proof about Half-Life Episode 2 taking place during Portal 2? No. And the Borealis have been in the arctic for a very long time. Before GLaDOS was even invented.
5:06 the only thought that makes me cry at the final is the realization that Mel and Virgil will probably never see each other again…
I don’t now why, but I always cry on this soundtrack…🥺
Virgil probably died not long after that, Since Chell woke up after Mel left, and not long after THAT GLaDOS was woken
@@finewine1001 Yes, but that doesn't mean Virgil is dead. He did not contact GLаDOS in any way and did not rebel. So it's unlikely.
read “testing maintenance” on ao3
@@frogkik I've already read this. Like the Blue Sky
actually, I find it kind of sweet that at first mel wasn't strong enough to open the door hatch, but finally, at the end, she managed to finally get out and open the hatch. It's subtle easter eggs like this that make a story satisfying. Mel's character arc was truly complete.
A small theory: the ending of the game does not imply apocalypse happened. What I think it could be is that the Apeture Science facility was completely abandoned after the GLADoS incident, and so Combine wasn't aware of it, so it was left completely abandoned. What I think this and Portal 1 was trying to imply was that GLADoS is aware of the Combine and so tries not to bring their attention by keeping all the test subjects who survived.
Actual, Portal is connected to another game called Half-Life, which involves an invasion and causes most humans to die. So actually, Portal is set in the apocalypse
@@K_B_C 🤦♂️
i mean yeah, i think in portal 1 she says: “Im the only thing standing between you, and THEM.”
@@K_B_C Shut up. The combine is in Half Life 2 or HL2. HL2 Episode 2 Was in the Orange Box. With Portal 1
In my opinion, I believe this is better than Aperture Tag
portal 2
Your right and it's free!
It’s better then every other Portal game imo, including the 2 official ones.
Aperture Tag is nothing compared to PS:M.
digitaleventhorizons same
This game feels so real and official I don’t care it’s fan made. It’s canonically in the portal lore
"Canonically in the portal lore" wait what
Portal 3
@@_GhostMiner more like a prequel
@@Cris-pt3jw exactly. Portal 3 would be a prequel to portal 2 if it was this game
@@canalgenerico1 yes its before portal 2
BEST. ENDING. EVER! I love it when you hear the line "You have been in susension for 9999...." and then it fades out referring to the begin of portal 2. LOVE IT! 8:07
sus ension
I know right always gives me chills
@@ahmethakan6153 your comment translates to “his feelings”
@@Core533still gives me goosebumps
6:38 HARRRRYYYY! YOU ARE THE BEST!
Actually, i never noticed that. Holy.
I am not that suprised since the movements of the cores is Harry101uk style
Earlier in the game, Vergil chastises Mel for not being able to open a port door, exclaiming "What kind of olympian are you?!"
In this cutscene, Mel grabs the wheel and opens it on her first try.
So, we have a timeline
Portal Stories: Mel , On the 50's (Mod) -> Portal Prelude (Mod) or Portal 2 Comics: Lab Rat -> Portal -> Portal Stories: Mel, On the future (Mod) -> Portal 2 -> Aperture Tag (Mod) -> Thinking With Time Machine (Mod)
portal prelude is not canonically accurate, read lab rat, but as far as i know portal stories and aperture tag are
Lab Rat took place before Mel woken up
@@actuallyvulk i know.
@@jedigrandmaster6471 I was talking to Name Games btw
You missed the Cooperative Testing Initiative!
I have a special place in my heart for this game...
The ending gives me goosebumps every time… wow
Rip Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device aka ahpd
Virgil profile pic 💖💖
As she was riding that elevator I was expecting a hopeful ending listening to this, but as soon as those minor plucks hit I knew something was up.
In Half Life Alyx, you can find a globe depicting the Combine's colonies in Europe and Asia. Turn it around, and you can find that North America's been, blotted out. Something happened in North America between Half Life and Half Life 2, something bad enough for both the Combine and Resistance to abandon it completely. Mel's situation is pretty bleak considering that.
@@lucaswilliams2292 Pretty sure the cross was on New Mexico, where the black mesa incident happened
AT THE END IT WOKE UP CHELL OMG THIS TAKES PLACE JUST BEFORE PORTAL 2!!!!!
Actually the beginning was before BOTH portal games and when Mel woke up is was right before
Yes, they added additional story to help theorists with Aperture Tag and Portal 2.
Idk why but i love the ending song
It’s just a build up, a great hope after the human erasing disaster bringing a new sight into reality!
I think the song is called Halls of science
@@AOIU982 It's "The Best The World Has To offer"
It’s called Decades of Science.
Decades of science is credits, the best the world has to offer is the cutscene
Mel continued to make a Hay Field around the exit, as seen by Chell. 😂
AEGIS is kinda far away from the central AI chamber, hence the exits are in different places
@@seneryy oh bro, I was joking
In Half-Life 3, we NEED to see Mel or Chell. They can’t ignore this beautiful fan game.
Half life 3? Good joke
I'm pretty sure Chell woke up about 20,000 years after the events of Half-Life 2. Gabe confirmed it.
Almost feel bad for leaving Virgil down there
I like how they incorporated the ending of the world which happened in half life
what real life
0:30 Release third steam valve
Really hoped we’d hear a bit more from Virgil at the very end and see how he’s doing just like Portal 2... still, the ending was beautiful and the music really hits the feels
we have meet the cores 2, that’s good enough for me
5:12 I can imagine the Combine finding Mel wandering outside the abandoned facilities
@Epic Man Darling It took AEGIS a few million years to shut down?
@Epic Man Darling no, portal 2 is when portal stories: mel happen. portal 1 takes place 50 year before mel
@@cardboardethymith3893 the weed was good?
Your Source: My mom told me.
@@cardboardethymith3893 let's incare the facts Virgil says: When She destroyed Her. Means that when Chell destroyed glados so we can see portal stories mel takes place after portal 1. And it doesn’t happen after portal 2 as glados hasn’t woken up yet.
08:27 so intense..
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Once I heard the voices from Portal 2 at the end, I thought to myself, was I playing "Portal 2: Prelude"
Waking up Chell at the end was awesome but.. if Chell gets out only a few days after Mel, do they run into each other? 😂
It would make sense
I'm not so sure. Notice that they exit both different elevators at the end.
...do you think MEL is waiting for her up there or something?
Speedtuners be like in minutes: 3 take it or leave it
me getting out home after months of social distancing: 5:05
Literally me (I'm incel)
My game crashed just as the elevator started going up. Fitting, she exits the facilities and I exit the game.
That’s my kinda luck but almost every day
That’s my luck but kinda every day
I take that back I can’t even spell it right
I wonder if valve will see this and say fuck me yeh this this is now canon
I mean the multiverse does exist in cannon
AFTER credits scene explained: AEGIS woke up Chell then drained the reserve power of the facility
Anyone else notice that the elevator didn’t even close when taking Mel to the surface?
Yeah I found that kinda odd
Yeah
5:30 Sad to know Earth will look like this one day...
the game is in MICHIGAN. michigan might have changed from a city to a potential country city, and the people from michigan moved in another place.
Yes, global warming is taking over, but scientists are fixing and thinking- what can they change to items so they'll not pollute. People are starting to recycle, reuse and others, so they'll not do harm to Earth. But maybe you're right, maybe in a millenia or so, Michigan might look like this.
It's because of the combine from half life 2. It's a connected universe
Yes and we will blame it on Iran and North Korea.
Why haven't the combine raped the hell out of aperture labatories with their citadels yet?
@@SomeRandomHelldiver07 aperature is reallly deep underground and combine is looking for the borealis which is a aperature ship
0:31 "Release third steam valve"
Why didn’t she press it ;-;
Remember in the beginning how Mel couldn’t open that turn wheel door when she first woke up and that made Virgil mad so how come now she can open one
Great story so she Turned off Rat mans Stasis sleep for chel? And chel woke up? Nice way to actually make this some what cannon.
i loved this ending when i first played, sent chills down my spine to walk out to that song :0
When i played this game for myself i cried at the end, i do with any portal game really because i have to say goodbye to the people i have been helping and them helping me and seeing them for the last time before i can never see them again (yes i know i can just start a new file but whats the point in that?) it just makes me emotional.
we all love virgil bruh
R.I.P APERTURE LABS HUB :(
Im guessing the world outside is post-apocalyptic in a way?
Basically, with the Combine invasion and all.
Oh,ok
Marcus Myburgh
When do you think Portal and Portal 2 takes place?
Portal one probably takes place before the combine arrived in that area because there would be combine everywhere,portal 2 i have absolutely no idea about.
Portal was in same world of Half Life
she better not fall out of that elevator, the door didnt close xD
There is a lot of plot theories here
İts really sickhow they made this amazing portal mod it uses the same engine too
well that would be a pain in the ass if it wouldn't use the same engine :D
Who was here because of the song (Decades of science) gives you goosebumps.
Still gives me shivers is the city behind the wall behind the lab. This obviously takes place during the events of Half Life
No, this takes place 50000 years later minutes before chell gets woken up for the second time, and the 50000 years is from the final hours of portal 2
I finished the game yesterday. It was wonderful. As a fan of the franchise I think Mel is as much a part of the Portal universe as the official games.
Yeah, it's good!
When I finish the game, Virgil will have a special place in my heart and I will probably cry at the end :")
Wait so dose this mean that half life and portal are in the same universe
Yes
Yes
Yep! Wish there were more direct links in the games like when they discover the Borealis in Episode 2. There are some subtle references tho like when GLADOS hints at the combine invasion in Portal 1.
I think Cave Johnson shouting into the recording system about the scumbags over at Black Mesa could confirm this.
Also the zero point energy field manipulator being seen in the Aperture science facility in a comic.
Also the Borealis from HL2:EP2
kelvin lor yes
So chell was stuck at the underground facility and she noticed that she slept 200 years that is because of the relaxation vault causing all the city and buildings to be abandoned and empty
Given that Chell's exit is in a wheat field while Mel's is in an entire building, I find it unlikely they'll run into each other but not impossible ;)
*0:30** **_"Delete system32"_** I love this joke* 😀
*The true outside*
GlaDOS: write that down !
it would be awesome if they had the CItadel tower from Half-Life 2 being built in the background
No, it would've been already built because portal 2 starts right after, and we know that it was built by then.
Why would it be in construction
Anybody else or does the outside of Aperture look like the maze complex from the Maze Runner?
Maarten Kramers Yes, that was their inspiration. They said it in the developer commentary gameplay.
makes sense considering that aperture labs is built on a salt mine turned shower curtain factory that then became a science lab that eventually went bankrupt and became fully self-sufficient to survive impending doom from an alien invasion.
I thought the 3rd target was that portal gun...
I find it hard to hi this was Free and something like Aperture tag wasn't. This mod is just so well done
Yeah this game is awesome. A perfect free mod
Seeing how this game lines up 50-100 years after the 7 hour war, I would have loved to seen some combine buildings or and APC, just something that points at HL2 in someway. Still, this game blows me away, Mel is cannon for me.
When it says waking test subject 001 that must be chell it even says c
The fact that this is fan-made is astonishing.
You have been in suspension for...
999999...99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
Chell has woken up because Mel shut down the Facility power And power generators
"The door dilated."
- Robert A. Heinlein, Beyond This Horizon
Half life with portal is good as hell(in a good way)
Honestly, for me, I like the view of the destroyed laboratory with dramatic music more than the song of the turrets from the ending of portal 2
Shutdown of AEGIS was 15 seconds left to live till he dies
And finally she is free!.... until she was enslaved by the combine
Lights out during the shutdown
imagine instead of the potal gun being burned she grabbed virgil and then threw him in so she can make a model of the portal gun for her family when she comes back
Wow, so this is Michigan!
this game past probaly after chel awaken and during manking rebuilding itself after the combine invasion, and that end is more convincing than the original one, sinse the Portal 2 end is like a Utopia.
How did Mel pass trough 8-9 hours of testing without having to pee?
Aperture Science Urine Bag
vergil actually looks really similar to wheatley the way he was all beaten up but with an orange eye instead of blue
My theory is that the blast from the citadel rippled through the ground and set off the nuclear missles, creating an apocalypse scenario.
Jonas Kovamees did the episodes take place after the explosion?
Jonas Kovamees ah. I wasnt very familiar with the episodes after the main game. Alternate time line maybe??
i was thinking to myself, mel should have just stayed down there. remember. up there, the combine rule, only letting you live: a Half Life
I hope there are still people discovering this.
5:32 I would be thinking for sure and got me thinking,
Is this. Actually,
The real life?
when a person who went to sleep for thousands of years since 1952 has a faster typing speed than me
Lonewolf2056 was an easter egg
This made me gasp when I got to this part the first time holy shit
Funny, he wakes up the same person who’d then go on to reactivate Glados
mel 2 minutes after exploring: LET ME BACK IN
0:32
-Release Third Steam Valve
I love how they bringing back portal this makes me happy
7 years... oh god
So much more than just got back from the bottom of the Facility
looking at the ruins of what was the pinnacle of the achievement of aperture science, I would prefer to work in it
2056 is year of Portal stories Mel action
Because of the signs?
And you think they wanted to wake up on 2056 to test
No it takes place right before Portal 2. So that’s about 60050 years after 1952
@@ItsAsum why so big date?
would have been awesome if you saw or heard a strider in the distance once you get outside.
Still waiting for Portal 3 lol
Lol funny one bro
Same I want it more than anything
I recommend to be in that facility than out there at that zombie/alien × human wasteland
Animation and particle design leader was hungarian
Since half life and portal are same universe, in ending when world is showed I was disappointed I didn't find anything related to combine or xen. Because Mel probably woke up during or right after the end of 7 hour war, anyway, close to it.
@Tameranian wait what
Whether it's 50 or 50000 years between Portal 1 and 2 doesn't matter that much, but I lean towards 70 years gap looking at how overgrown are parts of facility closer to surface.
What important is that it takes place *long* after events of HL2, and Earth would be devoid of most, if not all, humans on the surface.
This ending fits really well with main entrance to the facility. Derelict buildings in the background and overgrown forests where you would put a park.
Ending of base Portal 2 feels like some side exit far away from main one. I remember intro video about hard light bridges showed that light would be harvested on standard wheat field with small shed in the middle. It could be maintained by some robots or whatever, so unlike some I believe that Both Mel and Chell got out.
@@cola98765 well at least some hint to remnants of combine technology (half destroyed towers, overgrown hunter choppers, decomposed and overgrown corpses of striders and dropships) eh?
@@cola98765 or what about xen flora and fauna?
Then, Mel was no more. She just can't survive there
Chell wakes up 50,000 years after she was put in the relaxation vault. The Combine invasion occurred during portal 1, so theoretically the human race outside of those in Aperture could be extinct. Huh
No, According to Half-Life Episode Three by Marc Laidlaw the Combine was beaten by Gordon when he sends in the Borealis into their homeworld and blows it up and also sacrifising himself. Portal 2 takes place long after this and Earth and Humanity will have recovered. It might just have been that Aperture Science have been forgotten by everyone and therefor no one have bothered to go and look for the facility after the events of Episode Three.
Even if it was: Mel escapes after PS:Mel and the Portal 2 events happen without major time jumps. So Chell exits the facility only shortly after Mel does (about a week, I guess.) So basically Mel could be walking around the city when the facility explodes and is sucked onto the moon. So it's likely the two have met.
@@Antifuse i think they didnt met becouse they got free from different places. Aperture science is VERY huge and Mel went out from a different emergency elevator meanwhile chell got free from mainchamber where Glados lives(?)
It’s also been stated the machine **COULD** be broken, think of it the machine has been running for awhile it may be glitched out it could be trying to say 99 years or 9 years or something along those lines and it just glitched out or it could just be completely broken and is just spewing random numbers.
And Mel woke Chell up... by shutting down the Aperture Employee Guardian and Intrusion System.
when the camera is zooming out after you escape the logo is
“APE T R LABOR TO I S”
I guess this was the reason half life 3 never came out.
TheOmniHero
If you look at the ending of portal 2 there's no buildings man only wheat and a damaged block.
Half life 3 will come out in a Orange box with portal 3,half life 3 and team fortress 3
@@Zeckmon3 Chell came out in a different place.
Now i know who drained all facility power in portal 2 and wake up chell