Has half life series something to do with portal ?

i actually find some things on portal and on Half Life 2 Episode 2. The thing i found in hl2 E 2 was that on a screen near the end of the game you can see a label wich has the aperture laboritories logo on it, and in portal i found something about black mesa makes more money or something like that. Do you guys have any good facts or rumours about this 2 games? i searched on google and they said that Half Life universe is simulation... can you guys explain what they mean by simulation?

Yes and I'm willing to bet that Portal 2 will be more integrated into the Half life universe than it is right now. There are several digs at Black Mesa from Aperture Science in the game and even one in the famous ending song "Still Alive".

Yes, the Portal games take place in the Half Life universe.

Aperture Science and Black Mesa were competing in a race to create portal technology I believe, which resulting in the Resonance Cascade.

The full story can be found here. http://members.shaw.ca/halflifestory/

Not knowing exactly what's happening while playing Half Life 2 is like listening to the band Tool without understanding the lyrics. Sure the gameplay is fun, but when you actually know what the hells going on, having a purpose, it elevates it to a position of truely amazing story telling. Half Life 2s multilayered structure is a blessing, and a curse. Hence why it's defined as one of the greatest games of all time. Sure, it's a standard "Aliens invade Earth" type of story but, the way Valve pull it off, with almost zero plotholes, AND find a way to "splice" in a new IP, which fits so perfectly into the original Half Life story, is borderline godlike.

thats why i like Valve. They make there games better with updates but EA, Activision is money whores. HL series has one of the best story telling games ever i think :) but thanks for responds, hopefully we will sonn know the truth about G man and Aperture Science and Black Mesa

according to the new GI article, portal 2 is set "hundreds of years" past the events of portal 1 and half-life 2. in a note GI also states, "Valve doesn't intend to elaborate on the Half-Life connection because of tonal differences between games. We are aware, however, that Portal 2 takes place well after the events of Half-Life 2. Perhaps Chell is safer inside (my note: the lab)"

but what do they mean that HL universe is simulation?. Like G- man is simulating it or something like that?

Yes, Aperture Science is a rival company, I'm sure they are going to flesh this all out for us in PORTAL 2.
Anyone interested, check out his months Game Informer, it's on the cover with a nice piece on the game.

The Valve Portal Development Team is 28 people strong.

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EDIT : Dataleak about three posts above seemed to have caught this too, and even brought a link to SW for ya, TC. :P

For some odd reason I had jumped to the conclusion that the MC in Portal was Aylx Vance's mother.

according to the new GI article, portal 2 is set "hundreds of years" past the events of portal 1 and half-life 2. hihatrider

So Gordon Freeman is dead.

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according to the new GI article, portal 2 is set "hundreds of years" past the events of portal 1 and half-life 2. peaceoutmedusa

So Gordon Freeman is dead.

Aperture Science and Black Mesa were competing in a race to create portal technology I believe, which resulting in the Resonance Cascade.

Not knowing exactly what's happening while playing Half Life 2 is like listening to the band Tool without understanding the lyrics. Sure the gameplay is fun, but when you actually know what the hells going on, having a purpose, it elevates it to a position of truely amazing story telling. Half Life 2s multilayered structure is a blessing, and a curse. Hence why it's defined as one of the greatest games of all time. Sure, it's a standard "Aliens invade Earth" type of story but, the way Valve pull it off, with almost zero plotholes, AND find a way to "splice" in a new IP, which fits so perfectly into the original Half Life story, is borderline godlike.

Dataleak

I just read the story, i love the half life series but only had the faintest idea of what the whole story was, the gameplay and what I new was enough at that time. the creators did an awsome job at the story, I really want to run through the series again right now after learning more about it. Thank you.

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Aperture Science and Black Mesa were competing in a race to create portal technology I believe, which resulting in the Resonance Cascade.

Not knowing exactly what's happening while playing Half Life 2 is like listening to the band Tool without understanding the lyrics. Sure the gameplay is fun, but when you actually know what the hells going on, having a purpose, it elevates it to a position of truely amazing story telling. Half Life 2s multilayered structure is a blessing, and a curse. Hence why it's defined as one of the greatest games of all time. Sure, it's a standard "Aliens invade Earth" type of story but, the way Valve pull it off, with almost zero plotholes, AND find a way to "splice" in a new IP, which fits so perfectly into the original Half Life story, is borderline godlike.

sailor232

I just read the story, i love the half life series but only had the faintest idea of what the whole story was, the gameplay and what I new was enough at that time. the creators did an awsome job at the story, I really want to run through the series again right now after learning more about it. Thank you.

according to the new GI article, portal 2 is set "hundreds of years" past the events of portal 1 and half-life 2. in a note GI also states, "Valve doesn't intend to elaborate on the Half-Life connection because of tonal differences between games. We are aware, however, that Portal 2 takes place well after the events of Half-Life 2. Perhaps Chell is safer inside (my note: the lab)"

hihatrider

[QUOTE="Dataleak"]

Aperture Science and Black Mesa were competing in a race to create portal technology I believe, which resulting in the Resonance Cascade.

Not knowing exactly what's happening while playing Half Life 2 is like listening to the band Tool without understanding the lyrics. Sure the gameplay is fun, but when you actually know what the hells going on, having a purpose, it elevates it to a position of truely amazing story telling. Half Life 2s multilayered structure is a blessing, and a curse. Hence why it's defined as one of the greatest games of all time. Sure, it's a standard "Aliens invade Earth" type of story but, the way Valve pull it off, with almost zero plotholes, AND find a way to "splice" in a new IP, which fits so perfectly into the original Half Life story, is borderline godlike.

sailor232

I just read the story, i love the half life series but only had the faintest idea of what the whole story was, the gameplay and what I new was enough at that time. the creators did an awsome job at the story, I really want to run through the series again right now after learning more about it. Thank you.

Of course. Aperture is mentioned numeruos times in Half-Life as the sister lab of Black Mesa. Also. [spoiler] At the end of Portal GLADOS references Black Mesa [/spoiler] Vandalvideo

Yeah, I forgot about the reference at the end, that's yet another link.

We just have to wait then to Portal 2 and HL2 E3 :D