What year does Portal and its sequel, Portal 2, take place in?
Can anyone confirm a date or a time period that Portal and subsequently Portal 2 take place in?
It's probable that Portal 1 takes place in around the modern day, but I couldn't find a date for when the timeline begins. Portal 2 is much more difficult to find the time period, as the only clue we are given is that we are
9999999 somethings from when Chell was dragged back into the Aperture facility at the end of the first game.
Any ideas about this?
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I say between 25-38 years like since they are running on emergency power from what I search back up generators last 20-40 years depending on how well they are maintained (if read correctly) and besides the narrator voice was very old due to the glitches on him saying 9 repeatedly
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Does Portal 2 take place 50000 years in the future?
One way to further differentiate Portal and Half-Life was to set the game far in the future\u2014at least 50,000 years. It doesn't explicitly say that Portal 2 was set in 52,000 AD, but the general point was that the events between the two series are so distant from one another as to not interfere.Which year is Portal set in?
Around 2010. This is the period during which Portal is set. It occurs a short amount of time after the Combine invasion of Earth.Does Portal 2 take place after Half-Life 2?
The Final Hours of Portal 2, which is an OFFICIAL source of information as it contains behind-the-scenes information from Valve themselves, says that "at least 50,000 years" have passed between the events of Half-Life 2 (and presumably Half-Life 3) and Portal 2.How far apart is Portal and Portal 2?
So with that we can conclude Portal 2 was set 2 months after Portal 1 in 2010.Portal: A History of Aperture (Timeline and Lore)
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If you think of it this way, when a digital clock is unplugged and plugged back -- it will flash '12:00' indefinitely until its reset, A few dozen years is all it takes to wear down wood, and upholstery from under use and bad conditions. My answer is that, Aperture Science suffered a catastrophic power failure and reverted to a backup generator, which in turn borked the system clock, and woke up all of the... still alive test subjects. Since we know that Rattman is still alive, it seriously could not have been that long. Rattman has been around from Portal 1 to Portal 2. We see him in the ending credits, along with evidence of him living in all of his dens throughout the game. If it has truly been longer than 60 years, Rattman would have died, and all of his murals would have been more decrepit and grown over. Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure humans don't live longer than 114 years Doug would be past his due point, and would be too old to move at all if so much time has elapsed (since we someone sprinting on the elevator ride up from GLaDOS' Chamber, and there only being two known living humans in Aperture Science that we know of.) I Estimate 30-40 years, enough time if we talk about plant growth along with possible radiation leakage (if there is a nuclear reactor hidden somewhere)and Chells' science experiment, that could explain the overgrowth. Machines also degrade quickly with out power, and maintenance. No power, no central intelligence, no nanobots (jerry and his crew) All personality constructs working at low voltage levels, The breaker room underneath GLaDOS's chamber looks almost untouched and not corroded (Also Switched off). Can't have been too long, or you wouldn't be able to flip any of the breakers to turn anything on, or to divert power. (better question-- WHY WERE ALL THE BREAKERS SWITCHED OFF?!)
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