Aperture Science vs Black Mesa

[Narkro555]

Black Mesa
Pros:
Made the Gravity gun,  HEV suit, and TAU CANNON
Made trans-dimensional teleportation system
Worked with Gordon Freeman
Made much better games
Cons:
Almost all killed by aliens, zombies, and soldiers

Aperture Science
Pros:
Made the portal gun and light bridges
Made the most advanced AI ever
Cons:
Every single person was killed by a faulty AI
Sunk their own research vessel competing with Black Mesa, and even in Portal 1 it says that Black Mesa is more successful :3

Here's a post to consider reading:

>d0g could crush GLADoS and the co-op bots to dust.
>Black Mesa auto-turrets have a full 360 degrees of sight and can only be knocked over by actually being hit with a weapon of some sort.
>Black Mesa saved our universe twice and the Xenian outworld once, making for a full three universe savings. Aperture couldn't even save themselves.
>Black Mesa had an alien army unleashed in their facility, zombies eating everything, their entire facility deteriorating and going haywire, and the US military ordered to kill all of its employees all happening simultaneously and had six survivors and counting. Aperture had a single AI go haywire and had only two survivors.
>Gels have very few practical applications. Gluon guns and Tao cannons are infinitely useful.
> the portal gun can only bring you as far as you can see. The Black Mesa Teleporter can bring you across the globe, and can, in fact, bring you to a whole other universe.
>Black Mesa at least makes a strong effort to keep emplopyees safe.
>For twenty years, Cave Johnson was struggling to control his company. For twenty years, Wallace Breen successfully ran the entire planet and all of humanity.
>while Aperture may have to long fall boots, Black Mesa has an entire suit of loving power armor.


I wonder who is better.

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[indyjones]

Aperture because of the ending to Portal 2.

[Mushroom man]

Aperture because of the ending to Portal 2.

/agree

[slimabob]

Aperture because of the ending to Portal 2.

[Narkro555]

You still have to admit that Black Mesa was a bit more successful then Aperture. At least some members survived.

I wish I could add a "both" option, but that would upset the voting style.

[Wynd_Fox]

SNASA is obviously better than either, but out of the two... Black Mesa, since it's in better games.

[Mushroom man]

But Aperture Science has an awesome song!

[Bisjac]

lol black mesa con; destroyed humanity

[Jairo]

I find it a bit unfair how you have better reasons for Aperture in opposition to Black Mesa.
Even though Black Mesa kicks ass

[Narkro555]

I'm revising the list to try and make it fairer.

TBH Half-Life was much much better then any of the Portal games. Despite being so old, it's actually about the same length as Portal 2.

[WOLFPACK2]

Pros for Black Mesa:

Security Force (aka Barneys)

Safe work environment

Scientists trained in the use of fire arms (remember in the training course you use an mp5)

[Narkro555]

Safe work environment

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I like Black Mesa too, but even I think that's wrong.

[Jubel]

Aperture Science
Sunk their own research vessel competing with Black Mesa

When was this?

[steve5451]

But Black Mesa is working on portal technology too.

[WOLFPACK2]

...

I like Black Mesa too, but even I think that's wrong.

just quoting what the announcer said, and what some of the signs around the place said, it's at the beginning where it says that :P