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Portal 3
Dr.Block:
Wait, am I missing something here? Mantis men have absolutely nothing to do with Half Life.
MegaScientifical:
--- Quote from: Dr.Block on June 06, 2011, 01:23:22 PM ---Wait, am I missing something here? Mantis men have absolutely nothing to do with Half Life.
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Portal and Half-Life share the same universe. They retconned the cut ship from Half-Life 2 for Half Life 2: Episode 3 as an Aperture Science ship, which there's an Easter Egg of in Portal 2. Don't you remember all the references to Black Mesa in Portal and Portal 2? Cave Johnson cursing out Black Mesa? They were in competition with Aperture Science.
But I still don't think Mantis Men ever had anything what so ever to do with the Borealis. By the chronological timeline of The-Higher-The-Newer, they're at completely different times.
Dr.Block:
--- Quote from: MegaScientifical on June 06, 2011, 03:17:08 PM ---Portal and Half-Life share the same universe. They retconned the cut ship from Half-Life 2 for Half Life 2: Episode 3 as an Aperture Science ship, which there's an Easter Egg of in Portal 2. Don't you remember all the references to Black Mesa in Portal and Portal 2? Cave Johnson cursing out Black Mesa? They were in competition with Aperture Science.
But I still don't think Mantis Men ever had anything what so ever to do with the Borealis. By the chronological timeline of The-Higher-The-Newer, they're at completely different times.
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I understand that, it seemed like you were implying by putting mantis men in this build it would be a reference to Half Life.
MegaScientifical:
--- Quote from: Dr.Block on June 06, 2011, 04:46:35 PM ---I understand that, it seemed like you were implying by putting mantis men in this build it would be a reference to Half Life.
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Nah, I was still talking about those guys wanting them in Half-Life 2: Episode 3 when it seems like they're just trying to take advantage of the most prominent connection to Aperture as a way to introduce this element sooner, probably with some excuse that in Portal you wouldn't have rifles to fight them off.
Jay the Cartoonist:
--- Quote from: MegaScientifical on June 06, 2011, 12:28:27 AM ---Really, you two are the first occurrence of such a random idea to me. It was implied for Portal 3, and if it will, it will be there. I see no reason it should come out of the Half-Life side of the series. They're in the same universe, but they have their oddities to themselves.
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Mega you're taking it way too seriously. I thought it would be funny if in episode 3 that you saw a mantis man here or there on the borealis as a joke. Not as an enemy to be taken seriously, as an easter egg put there only for stuffs n' giggles.
--- Quote from: MegaScientifical on June 06, 2011, 05:17:45 PM ---Nah, I was still talking about those guys wanting them in Half-Life 2: Episode 3 when it seems like they're just trying to take advantage of the most prominent connection to Aperture as a way to introduce this element sooner, probably with some excuse that in Portal you wouldn't have rifles to fight them off.
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Nope, not my thinking at all. IDK why you like to argue with me so much...
I'm not saying valve SHOULD do it either, I just thought it would be funny. Sorry I have to strip my sense of humor like you do.