Finished the game recently. Gonna have to pick out a bunch of quotes here. But first: I don't know what's more unbelievable, the fact that you portal to the moon, or that GLaDOS saves your life. Both of these are the biggest 'wow' moments in the game, I think.
all the easter eggs in this game are like, totally worthwhile.
in terms of callbacks – there was actually a really spectacular one that i didn't even think about until my second time through. wheatley shines the light on the conveyor belt and mentions the replicas of the "murdered" robots, who always scream and nobody knows why. then at the end GLADoS mentions putting wheatley in the room she built of robots who just scream at you. the second time through, when wheatley mentioned them, i was astonished. there's SO MUCH that they set up only to reference it again several hours later. really clever.
Yeah, I loved the way Wheatley was telling that as if it were a horror story. "At night you can still hear the screams. Of their replicas. All functionally identical to the originals. No memory whatsoever of the incident. No one knows what they're screaming about. There's obviously nothing paranormal going on."
You mean the only working, whole one on the turret redemption line? There's an achievement for rescuing it.
That was the Oracle Turret! After you pick it up it quotes Cave Johnson a few times. "Get mad! Don't make lemonade!" It also mentiones a Greek titan myth: "Prometheus was punished by the gods for giving the gift of knowledge to man. He was cast into the bowels of the earth, and pecked by birds." That last bit is a massive understatement, seeing as the myth tells that his liver was eaten by an eagle each night.
I vaguely suspected that the Oracle Turret hinted at how GLaDOS and Wheatley get attacked by birds, but I never suspected the whole plot actually goes along the lines of the Greek myth. Prometheus, god of foresight aka GLaDOS is cast into the pit when Wheatley, aka Epimetheus, god of hindsight takes over. PotatOS is pecked by a bird at the bottom of the pit, plus you can see the word 'Tartarus' painted on one of the buildings in the distance down there. It's incredibly well set up, but don't give me credit for it, I just read it somewhere else.
I started the game over in dev commentary mode and paid more attention during the opening container scene. Do you realise that he's knocking other containers over the whole time, which probably have other test subjects in them? And then there's busted up husks of other containers all over the place, especially nearer to the place where you bust through the wall. I just didn't think about it on the first playthrough, but if there's other people in the containers he kills probably about 10 people in the opening scene, and he's probably done this dozens if not hundreds of times during the time you have been in stasis.
And yeah, there is that one line where GlaDOS says something about one of the researcher's Nobel prize certainly not neing awarded for being immune to toxic nerve gas.
Not true! The other people in the cryo containers are all already dead. You can read about it in the comic. Essentially, destroying GLaDOS in the first game knocks out the main power grid, and Chell's chamber is the only one that's still on life support. As for GLaDOS, she gassed all the Aperture employees before the events in the first game, although I don't remember why.
Wait. Does this mean Chell was actually responsible for the death of the only remaining human beings in the facility?
Huh.
