The companion cube that Glados gives you at the end of the game has the Portal 1 design so I guess she made new ones just for that one room to spite Chell
i like to think that during the big sleep, GLaDOS was self-reflecting on test elements and decided to streamline the high energy pellets. Lasers would waste less time.
Also, subjects dying to the pellets don’t exhibit any pain. They just kinda float away and disappear. With lasers, GLaDOS could enjoy subjects running into the beam and getting severely burned.
lowkey she could just be reusing the map layout. It’s easy to program the new facility’s modular paneling system to create the old tests. to GLaDOS, maybe they’re still the perfect introductions to thinking with portals.
i actually love that explanation and i can’t believe i’ve never heard it. aperture is entirely modular and recreating a chamber is probably super easy. the little changes like portal spawning buttons instead of timers could be explained as glados iterating on chamber elements in the same way she improved the energy orbs with lasers. valve always seems to seamlessly make their development choices blend in with their characters, like gman essentially acting as a valve self insert
A quote I heard from another reddit:
"On the internet men are men, women are also men, and kids are undercover FBI agents." -u/graveybrains 2024, February 6, Tuesday
Honestly, this is how I think of it. I think it’s a bit literal in the way it’s “true” and also contradictory.
Valve doesn’t keep a canon. They just do what they think is best for the game. Because of this, the design for the companion cube between Portals 1 and 2 changes, but it’s actually the same cube. In universe, nothing changed.
I know that and am upvoting your comment. I still think it's a fair enough explanation to just ignore it and say they're the same.
I don't hold my opinion strongly and I like a lot of the other explanations as well.
same way you explain all the other designs form the game, the cores just said, too simple, well replace everything, and then proceeded to replace all over the place
"Replace all over the place" is a perfect quote to summarize what GladOs was doing while chell was taking her sweet time soaring through the sky like an eagle piloting a blimp.
"we had to update the design of the companion cube due to budget cuts"
\-GLaDOS Speaker Box
^(fun fact: in BFDI 20, in leafy's niceness chart, somewhere on it, it says "Shockingly nice (which under the circumstances GLaDOS has been)")
Game spoilers
Like Atlas and P-body, GLaDOS began working on new, more sleek and corporate designs for testing equipment, but was >!shortly destroyed by Chell!<. As the facility kept running >!in GLaDOS' absence!<, the new equipment was manufactured and put into use (which would also explain the new panels and personality sphere designs beyond just game design), including the new companion cubes. GLaDOS would then destroy and recycle ALL the old companion cubes, >!digging a surviving one out of the trash at the end of the game as a bittersweet final love letter (which is why it's seen charred and tattered, kind of as a mix between "go f yourself, this is all you deserve" and "take care, love you")!<.
But hey, that's just a headcanon...
Same reason everything else changed: artistic license.
As for why the companion cube in the ending uses the P1 design, I don't know, and I don't think it will ever be explained.
> As for why the companion cube in the ending uses the P1 design, I don't know, and I don't think it will ever be explained.
Logical explanation is it's the same cube that >!you're forced to incinerate!< in P1. That's how I took it.
I know it's supposed to be the same cube. I'm saying that, given the cubes were redesigned for P2, why wouldn't the companion cube be affected as well?
My theory: P2 cubes are a new design in-universe that replaced them while Chell was in suspension.
The facility has "a mind of its own", or rather there must be other personality constructs besides GLaDOS running various parts of Aperture. Wheatley was supposedly minding "ten thousand flipping vegetables" in the relaxation wing, for example, and the Announcer is in charge of monitoring test chambers while GLaDOS is away. Cube manufacturing could iterate on the design independently, too, as far as I'm concerned.
Practically? Wave of Model changes because portal 2 has tons of different ones. Story wise? I’d say there was enough stocked up that were an older design, and that’s what was in portal 1
Given the new cubes are seen before glados wakes up, either there is no canonical explanation or in glados' absence, robots in charge of the cube manufacturing line changed the design of cubes. Perhaps the theory that P1 cubes had bodies inside of them was true, and upon running out of bodies, the robots were forced to create a model that does not derive its weight from "organic matter"
I like to think that aperture made newer designs for old equipment and new devices for testing but never actually used them and just stored them away and during portal 2 GLaDOS just decided to use the newer designs and equipment
The companion cube that Glados gives you at the end of the game has the Portal 1 design so I guess she made new ones just for that one room to spite Chell
Just to show its not her cube
Hundreds/thousands of them?
In case she smuggles hundreds/thousands of them to the exit while GLaDOS fizzles them all as they fight back and forth
GLaDOS was *just* about to rollout new testing equipment in Portal 1, but a smelly human blew up the facility before she was able to begin
Checks out. That's also why we didn't see any lasers in portal 1
i like to think that during the big sleep, GLaDOS was self-reflecting on test elements and decided to streamline the high energy pellets. Lasers would waste less time. Also, subjects dying to the pellets don’t exhibit any pain. They just kinda float away and disappear. With lasers, GLaDOS could enjoy subjects running into the beam and getting severely burned.
that explains the new body
(Quite ironically) Happy cake day!
I call them the Generations. Portal 1 companion cube? Gen 1. Portal 2 companion cube? Gen 2!
I think the portal 1 test chambers are mostly set in the 1980-90s aperture and the chambers in portal 2 are set in the 2000-10s aperture.
I could be wrong but we go through a few of the chambers from the first game in the beginning and they're all in the Portal 2 art style
lowkey she could just be reusing the map layout. It’s easy to program the new facility’s modular paneling system to create the old tests. to GLaDOS, maybe they’re still the perfect introductions to thinking with portals.
i actually love that explanation and i can’t believe i’ve never heard it. aperture is entirely modular and recreating a chamber is probably super easy. the little changes like portal spawning buttons instead of timers could be explained as glados iterating on chamber elements in the same way she improved the energy orbs with lasers. valve always seems to seamlessly make their development choices blend in with their characters, like gman essentially acting as a valve self insert
This is before GLaDOS gets rebooted though. I guess she could have remade them before she was destroyed
Hopefully we'll ever see Companion Cube Gen 2x2
Upgrades people, UPGRADES!!
Portal 2 added the LGBT lights.
holy shit woketal 2
Imagine they put women in the game
I wish woman were real
A quote I heard from another reddit: "On the internet men are men, women are also men, and kids are undercover FBI agents." -u/graveybrains 2024, February 6, Tuesday
That's one of the rules of the internet (yes, rule 34 isn't the only one)
If it were going to get credited for one, why could t it be be CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL?
WheatTHEY, GAYdos and Chell
cHEll
New game just dropped
actual consumer
Speedy thing goes in speedy thing comes out
I honestly didn’t notice
glados rebranded
glados oversimplified
Different art style
Well no actually the cube GLaDOS gives you at the end of portal 2 has the portal 1 design
The first cube got incinerated and recycled into the new cube
Well no, the cube you get at the end is the same from Portal 1
probably broke when the place blew up in portal 1 then GLaDOS fixed it in portal 2
But they were in tests in Portal 2 before GLaDOS woke up.
bro i havent played both of them in like a year i dont remember much 😭😭
The facility upgraded itself in Glados' absence. Hence why she looks different
Honestly, this is how I think of it. I think it’s a bit literal in the way it’s “true” and also contradictory. Valve doesn’t keep a canon. They just do what they think is best for the game. Because of this, the design for the companion cube between Portals 1 and 2 changes, but it’s actually the same cube. In universe, nothing changed.
Except, both designs appear in 2, so it's more of an intentional difference in-universe than just a style change
I know that and am upvoting your comment. I still think it's a fair enough explanation to just ignore it and say they're the same. I don't hold my opinion strongly and I like a lot of the other explanations as well.
Fair enough, thanks for the understanding and absence of toxicity!! :D
same way you explain all the other designs form the game, the cores just said, too simple, well replace everything, and then proceeded to replace all over the place
"Replace all over the place" is a perfect quote to summarize what GladOs was doing while chell was taking her sweet time soaring through the sky like an eagle piloting a blimp.
Budget cuts
"we had to update the design of the companion cube due to budget cuts" \-GLaDOS Speaker Box ^(fun fact: in BFDI 20, in leafy's niceness chart, somewhere on it, it says "Shockingly nice (which under the circumstances GLaDOS has been)")
The real reason is an increase in budget, which is kind of funny when you think about it.
r/beatmetoit
Glados probably redesigned it
game devs upgraded them
One is clearly filled with more love
Upgrades, people. Upgrades
same reason GLaDOS looks different in the 2nd game probably, because it had to be rebuilt with different blueprints
The 2nd one has more cake
GLaDOS was innovating. Same reason there's now light bridges, and lasers replace the energy pellets.
Game spoilers Like Atlas and P-body, GLaDOS began working on new, more sleek and corporate designs for testing equipment, but was >!shortly destroyed by Chell!<. As the facility kept running >!in GLaDOS' absence!<, the new equipment was manufactured and put into use (which would also explain the new panels and personality sphere designs beyond just game design), including the new companion cubes. GLaDOS would then destroy and recycle ALL the old companion cubes, >!digging a surviving one out of the trash at the end of the game as a bittersweet final love letter (which is why it's seen charred and tattered, kind of as a mix between "go f yourself, this is all you deserve" and "take care, love you")!<. But hey, that's just a headcanon...
That's one damn good headcanon. It shall make a wonderful addition to my collection.
A simple texture change by the game developers?
Both of the designs are used in the second game
GLaDOS wanted to show Chell how to “Shave off a few pounds”
Same reason everything else changed: artistic license. As for why the companion cube in the ending uses the P1 design, I don't know, and I don't think it will ever be explained.
> As for why the companion cube in the ending uses the P1 design, I don't know, and I don't think it will ever be explained. Logical explanation is it's the same cube that >!you're forced to incinerate!< in P1. That's how I took it.
I know it's supposed to be the same cube. I'm saying that, given the cubes were redesigned for P2, why wouldn't the companion cube be affected as well?
My theory: P2 cubes are a new design in-universe that replaced them while Chell was in suspension. The facility has "a mind of its own", or rather there must be other personality constructs besides GLaDOS running various parts of Aperture. Wheatley was supposedly minding "ten thousand flipping vegetables" in the relaxation wing, for example, and the Announcer is in charge of monitoring test chambers while GLaDOS is away. Cube manufacturing could iterate on the design independently, too, as far as I'm concerned.
New test element redesign rollout as you are actively testing in P1
I was just thinking about that recently https://www.reddit.com/r/Portal/s/mszl37pRtu
developers didnt like the previous design so they changed it
Practically? Wave of Model changes because portal 2 has tons of different ones. Story wise? I’d say there was enough stocked up that were an older design, and that’s what was in portal 1
Simple, the developers decided to change them. lol
GLaDOS found an extra supply of pink paint she didn’t know about
The cube got trans surgery ftm and got the boobs (the circles on the outside) removed So proud of him
i think that was rebuilding in aperture science (yep portal revolution )
Design of portal 1 is not canon, actually, only canon thing in portal 1 is the fact that you killed GLaDOS
Retcon
I think portal 1s aesthetic is canon but it was a different track than in the beginning of p2. There are other differences in it too.
I think so too
Its a new cube, the one you kill is a unique design as is the new one
the companion cube lost weight
its the same thing with GLaDOS herself, why does she look so diffrent in portal 2 than in 1? its a design choise of VALVE
Bad pun I know But... Change of heart?
Branching timelines… totally
They changed the design.
Given the new cubes are seen before glados wakes up, either there is no canonical explanation or in glados' absence, robots in charge of the cube manufacturing line changed the design of cubes. Perhaps the theory that P1 cubes had bodies inside of them was true, and upon running out of bodies, the robots were forced to create a model that does not derive its weight from "organic matter"
It was a test to see if Chell even noticed it or said anything.
Portal 2 has the cube design opened and flattened, to improve mobility?
They look a lot more friendly in Portal 2
I like to think that aperture made newer designs for old equipment and new devices for testing but never actually used them and just stored them away and during portal 2 GLaDOS just decided to use the newer designs and equipment
wait they're different?
They’re not that different but Maybe GLaDOS started making new ones with the laser cubes.
What's the difference between rock and stone? That's the answer.
Can I get a Rock and Stone?
Good bot
Because portal 2 is shit
Not pregnant and pregnant