So what are some topics you'd like to see me cover in the future? I'm planning to diversify my content to include way more than Valve games, so I'm open to any ideas!
it became what i like to call a "reverse meme" it was never intended to become a meme, but the statement of them hoping it would being a meme became a meme, and in turn hoopy became a meme. either "anti-meme" or "reverse meme"
it sounds like "deadly neurotoxin" was actually clipped and repeated the second time glados says it, and ellen only actually says it a second time when glados talks about warming up the neurotoxin emitters
“It was a morality core they installed after I flooded the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin to make me stop flooding the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin. So get comfortable while I warm up the neurotoxin emitters.” This is my favorite series of lines in the entire series. The way Ellen McLain shifts her voice to a much deeper tone and the mixture of dark humor and genuine fear what she’s saying creates is just so good. Also the whole monologue flows together in a weird robotic way and it’s amazing. A+ all around
I'd say from a business standpoint, it being released in a bundle was probably a good thing. Had it been released by itself, it would have had to compete with the other titles in The Orange Box, but by bundling them together the customer is going to buy all 3 for just one or two games, then say "Hey, there's this bonus 3rd game. Might as well try it!"
I thought the whole “hoppy the hoop” thing was a joke. It’s so random it seems like there’s no way they could’ve actually believed that would be the portal meme.
Obviously Greg did manage to break through into other multiverses and ensured that portal was a success in all of them as the ultimate advertising for Aperture.
I say the little hideout dens are one of the best narrative tools Ive seen in a video game, it makes you question who was there, and flips the entire story so far on its head
16:09 actually the Hoopy the Hoop was more of a joke as Erik Wolpaw said, "We thought we should have a warehouse full of Hoopy t-shirts and mugs and posters…we would watch that hoop roll by over and over again. That was the part of the game we were most proud of, and nobody cared." clearly joking and somewhat mocking the cake is a lie meme
15:59 one thing I find funny about this is you can find almost no reference to cake in the second game the only reference in the game is the fake door to GLaDOS’ lair saying “GLaDOS Emergency Shutdown and Cake Dispensary” (which is the same door texture from Portal 1)
6:14 I wondered when playing the game for the first time if the water being contaminated with neurotoxin is what made it lethal, or if it was actually the portal gun being submerged into liquid that kills you, since you have a few moments to get out should you fall in.
No, it's pretty clearly said by Glados that it's acid AKA "The subtext of that acid pit is acid. The content of the pit is also acid. I'll let you fully absorb it. "
Im so glad portal is getting so many videos dedicated to it.. i was obsessed with is as a kid and it was MY introduction to gaming.... so worth it lol.. great video by the way
Yeah Valve games are one of the greatest games in the gaming history except CS GO. But some of those games have terrible communities like TF2 and Counter Strike community, I genuinely don't like really much but Half Life and Portal are the best communities so far.
9:15 | I will admit it. The first time that I completed the last chamber, I thought that was it. I thought that the game was over, and the developers intended the anti-climactic ending. Death, then credits. Of course, after respawning I realized there had to be something I could do, and there was. This game was so full of interesting surprises, mysteries, and dialogue. Many points after that point in the game rely on you yourself holding the knowledge and mechanics of the game. Beautiful.
That was probably the best timing for the ending I've heard lol, glados' voice getting spastically fast whilst saying that 'thats you,that's how dumb you sound!' line really adds to the destruction and then the useof the 'things have changed since you were last out there' as she's about to die. Perfect timing
It's amusing how Portal became such a hit. Under normal circumstances, Portal would be remembered as a niche but fun little game that would maybe have a small cult following behind it. But who would have known that it became so big that it would get a sequel that connected it to the universe of Valve's flagship game series, Half Life.
Portal is iconic. Portal is amazing. Portal is loved by all. I honestly want to write paragraphs upon paragraphs about this game, but I know what I want to say has been said time and time again. So I’ll just leave it at that. I love Portal and I absolutely adore its sequel, Portal 2.
My favorite thing was the end has the Party Escort Bot to signify GLaDOS wasn’t lying about it. It would have been cool to get that option when it is mentioned, but instead they throw you into the goo
It makes me so happy to know the community is still going strong for one of my favorite games in the world. Even a decade later, the ending with Wheatly flying away breaks my heart
you've earned yourself another sub and now I'm even more furious that my laptop is broken so I can't go back and boot up these masterpieces. I'll be getting it fixed soon but it still stings. Thanks for reminding me that video games are fucking amazing.
Just played this game for the very first time and now it feels like researching an old library where I can read people's experience through the years with that gem of a game.
A lot of effort put into this video, its a shame most people miss out on this unless they are known to like valve content, keep up the good work, +1 subscriber
i love portal 2 because of the sheer replayability, such a creative concept. and i will always see it as one of my top 5 games (very close to the top, maybe even at the top)
I think "the cake is a lie" is a perfect meme. Is a reference to the game that only people who heard of the game would know, and a reference to the ending of the game that only people who knows about it or had played it would know, all packaged in one simple single frase of five words. Make people who know about the game find other fans, and people interested in know what their talking about. What a meme was suposed to be back in the early 2000, a reference to somthing that only people on the know would get, before memes became subrealistic.
In case anyone is confused here, this is TH-cam's new Chapters feature - timestamps need to appear in the description of a video in a format where they first start with 0:00; for example 0:00 - Intro 1:57 - Portal 1 2:34 - Cake The chapters feature makes deliberate sections appear on the timeline seek bar on TH-cam's player interface
my favorit part about hoopy is how it was supposed to be a meme. and then it got completely ignored until it was revealed. and then the fact that it was supposed to be a meme became a meme. in the end, they won. hoopy became a meme.
When portal 2 was being released I remember it vividly. Specifically because one day when I was riding to school I saw not one but TWO billboards showing the portal 2 logo with Atlas and P-body. Prior to this I had never seen any game ever advertised like this! It felt larger than life! Like it wasn't just me who knew about this soon to be incredible game! It was there for EVERYONE to see! I knew right then that this game was special.
I absolutely love the moment when you destroy the morality core and GLaDOS's voice immediately becomes way less robotic and far more sinister. It quickly makes you realize that you just accidentally unlocked the full sentience of this psychotic, murderous AI.
Portal shaped so much of what we expect in puzzle based games, we are always paranoid that everyone wants to kill us, we always expect the unexpected, and we now think with portals so easily that portals can be a big part of the 2nd puzzle in a game, and no one would struggle with it It barely even has to be introduced In a game for most people to just instantly complete the puzzle, allowing for more complex games with advanced puzzles And it allows for even more mechanics, encouraging creativity for devs and pushing the boundaries of what games can do Portal is to the puzzle game genre, what half-life 1 was to the FPS It changed everything
Fun fact: any damage dealt to glados in the final fight will drop a core. Including before the fight itself. If you cheat and get hl2's weapon's into the final fight, it only takes a couple of pistol shot to get all the cores, and then it's just a little ways away from finishing the fight in a few seconds.
Something that's not mentioned enough in talking about Portal is the modding scene it created. So many good mods that hold up to this day, like Portal: The Flash Version Map Pack, Portal Prelude, or even stuff like Hetzchase Nailway that had some truly innovative mapping.
My favourite line is "We both said alot of things that you're going to regret, but I think we can put our differences behind us, for science, you monster." -GLaDOS, 2011. Chell can't speak so GLaDOS is calling her a monster and punishing her for what GLaDOS did. Also there's a line in the second game that I can't remember that implies that Chell is mute.
I was asking myself the same thing since I played the game in 2017. It is not by all means a bad game, but the surrounding cult spoiled the experience too much for me by the time I actually played it.
Its you again! And yea, at the time I played it; I already knew Glados would try to kill the player. But I was taken by surprise during the fire pit sequence and the final run through the labs.
I can explain why portal exploded in popularity. It wasn't sterilized mass media, it was a passion project. It was also a first person puzzle game at the height of first person shooters.
you will not think , a guy with the mirrored colonel picture . would have such nice voice and well writing/edited video about games . glad i found out about this channel . it's the rare case , where youtube recommend something that not trash . PS: found you because of your half life videos .
@@notyetrain it's a cop out so they dont have to do anything with it. Hell the paved clean area of the first outside is just miles of wheat in the end of the second. I just hate unanswered questions
in the final hours of portal 2 they talk about this actually, mentioning how they originally had a lot more hl2 references in portal 2 (wheatley talking about gman, glados mentioning fighting off combine) before trying to go in a more distinguished and independent direction for the game the wheat field could be explained by the constant movement of the lair. the first game has it below a parking lot, the glados fight in the second game has it moved seemingly deeper underground, wheatley then moves it close enough to the surface to shoot a portal on the moon, and finally glados moves it back underground directly under the wheat field
So what are some topics you'd like to see me cover in the future? I'm planning to diversify my content to include way more than Valve games, so I'm open to any ideas!
Fallout
anything that interests you the most dudemang
Joe
Why not Subnautica? That game is terrifying in it's own special way.
Yeah I’d like to see you do fallout. Mainly one and two
Note: The “Hoopy The Hoop” thing was an offhand joke from an interview, no one at valve actually believed a nameless prop would become a meme.
it became what i like to call a "reverse meme"
it was never intended to become a meme, but the statement of them hoping it would being a meme became a meme, and in turn hoopy became a meme.
either "anti-meme" or "reverse meme"
@@SpoonDiceMusic except nothing about it is antimemetic, it's just an ironic meme based on unintentionally spreading a hoax as fact and its absurdity
I know this but I read it and laughed again
@@guccithebloxmaster4847 it is not true
MJ TV it is it’s in portal 1 not 2
The Virgin “Cake is a lie” vs The Chad “Hoopy the hoop”
I see, a man of culture.
What type of cake is it lemon chocolate cottencandy?
Hoppy is chad
@@travis6778 NO LEMONS!!!
@@carlosauer3884 WHAT ARE THE RED THINGS STRAWBERRY?!
"...at least expect to see it on wii or something."
Honestly, if that was a thing I would have totally wielded the controller like the gun in game.
Go search for Portal In Motion for PS3
Wish it was on the Wii honestly
i think someone made a wii homebrew of the game
It's now on a nintendo console!
i mean… no shit right? that’s how you would play the game… if it was on the wii…
So am I a monster for being like "Oh, ok." when GlaDOS said I have to incinerate the companion cube?
Yep, your VIP ticket to hell will arrive soon.
You are pure evil
On my first playthrough, I just chucked it in there, so you're not alone.
Eh, kind of
But I did the same, so...
11:30 I like how "The Enrichment Center with a deadly neurotoxin" appears twice in this sentence and she says it in EXACTLY the same way
it sounds like "deadly neurotoxin" was actually clipped and repeated the second time glados says it, and ellen only actually says it a second time when glados talks about warming up the neurotoxin emitters
its like a ytp
that and the cow skull on the monitor
“It was a morality core they installed after I flooded the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin to make me stop flooding the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin. So get comfortable while I warm up the neurotoxin emitters.”
This is my favorite series of lines in the entire series. The way Ellen McLain shifts her voice to a much deeper tone and the mixture of dark humor and genuine fear what she’s saying creates is just so good. Also the whole monologue flows together in a weird robotic way and it’s amazing. A+ all around
She's really A girl boss va
Flows like neurotoxin into the brain
Yeah I've heard good things about this new "portal" thing. I'll give it a look, thanks
Portal exist since 2011
@@Andraszingst actually 2009 the 2nd game came out in 2011
Nope. The first game launched in 2007 as part of the Orange box.
@@Szuszkan ok sorry
@@Andraszingst Most nézem, hogy alig egy órája írtad a commentet. :D
I'd say from a business standpoint, it being released in a bundle was probably a good thing. Had it been released by itself, it would have had to compete with the other titles in The Orange Box, but by bundling them together the customer is going to buy all 3 for just one or two games, then say "Hey, there's this bonus 3rd game. Might as well try it!"
I thought the whole “hoppy the hoop” thing was a joke. It’s so random it seems like there’s no way they could’ve actually believed that would be the portal meme.
it was 100% a joke theportalwiki.com/wiki/Hoopy_the_Hoop
When the algorithm picks up on the fact that you have Portal 1&2
10:25 "and all the cake is gone" character: *pulls out revolver*
* 10:21
"ermm excuse me that's a .357 aka weapon_357"
What's even better is that the fandom has recently been revived once again by the 'Wheatley Crab' meme
Obviously Greg did manage to break through into other multiverses and ensured that portal was a success in all of them as the ultimate advertising for Aperture.
'The cake is a lie' became popular because you have no idea what it means and it makes 0 sense, until you know what it means.
sort of like loss
So true with me back then 😂
I say the little hideout dens are one of the best narrative tools Ive seen in a video game, it makes you question who was there, and flips the entire story so far on its head
16:09 actually the Hoopy the Hoop was more of a joke as Erik Wolpaw said, "We thought we should have a warehouse full of Hoopy t-shirts and mugs and posters…we would watch that hoop roll by over and over again. That was the part of the game we were most proud of, and nobody cared." clearly joking and somewhat mocking the cake is a lie meme
15:59 one thing I find funny about this is you can find almost no reference to cake in the second game the only reference in the game is the fake door to GLaDOS’ lair saying “GLaDOS Emergency Shutdown and Cake Dispensary” (which is the same door texture from Portal 1)
Even though I already knew why I love portal I still decided to watch this because it's rare for someone to be talking about portal.
6:14 I wondered when playing the game for the first time if the water being contaminated with neurotoxin is what made it lethal, or if it was actually the portal gun being submerged into liquid that kills you, since you have a few moments to get out should you fall in.
That's actually a good point. I'd love more speculation on this
I mean, she did say to never submerge the device in liquid.
If glados knows to never submerge it in liquid that means it would of happened before, possibly energising the waste, so it would probably be both.
Also there would probably be ALOT of neurotoxin embedded in it
No, it's pretty clearly said by Glados that it's acid
AKA "The subtext of that acid pit is acid. The content of the pit is also acid. I'll let you fully absorb it. "
Im so glad portal is getting so many videos dedicated to it.. i was obsessed with is as a kid and it was MY introduction to gaming.... so worth it lol.. great video by the way
Yeah Valve games are one of the greatest games in the gaming history except CS GO. But some of those games have terrible communities like TF2 and Counter Strike community, I genuinely don't like really much but Half Life and Portal are the best communities so far.
Same, glados would always still be my favorite 🤪💕💕 (despite that she would probably still kill me)
Love the Panty avatar!
honestly because of that "the cube wont stab you" line I never grew attached to the cube because I thought it was gonna stab me lol
9:15 | I will admit it. The first time that I completed the last chamber, I thought that was it. I thought that the game was over, and the developers intended the anti-climactic ending. Death, then credits. Of course, after respawning I realized there had to be something I could do, and there was. This game was so full of interesting surprises, mysteries, and dialogue. Many points after that point in the game rely on you yourself holding the knowledge and mechanics of the game. Beautiful.
Same thing for me!
"Perhaps no game has had a bigger impact than Portal."
In an alternative Universe, where Half-Life does not exist.
just after 9:00 : the one thing that's burned into my mind more than that music by now, is that EVERYONE shoots that second portal to the left
"We haven't seen another full-length portal game since 2011"
Ouch... thanks for making me feel old...
That was probably the best timing for the ending I've heard lol, glados' voice getting spastically fast whilst saying that 'thats you,that's how dumb you sound!' line really adds to the destruction and then the useof the 'things have changed since you were last out there' as she's about to die. Perfect timing
Total accident too
@@PurpleColonel wow, what a happy accident lol
13:48 ngl that felt so unsatisfying to hear without the rest of the words lol
TBH I had to rewatch that part, I just started singing still alive the forest time
Ok but does Chell wear a helmet?
Of course!
@@PurpleColonel not
( it was a joke dont attack me )
This video is so incredibly well put together. Loved every single second- you put into words my love of Portal. The editing was phenomenal as well!
A game so good even Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation years ago said that it was absolutely sublime from start to finish.
Fun fact: in portal 2 whenever you are getting the 2nd portal gun
That’s actually the fire pit....
glados.. literally says that
The helmet on gordon freeman is a lie
N O
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTT!
ho w
haf lif
im just glad i can imagine all of us getting old and talking about these games we love so much
All these years that Portal/Portal 2 is out I'm still loving it so much :3
It's amusing how Portal became such a hit.
Under normal circumstances, Portal would be remembered as a niche but fun little game that would maybe have a small cult following behind it.
But who would have known that it became so big that it would get a sequel that connected it to the universe of Valve's flagship game series, Half Life.
Hearing Ellen McLain's GLADoS voice with no distortion is…surreal
14:30 I literally said out loud in Heavy's voice:
"Hoh! The memes."
"Hmm good memes"
Portal is iconic.
Portal is amazing.
Portal is loved by all.
I honestly want to write paragraphs upon paragraphs about this game, but I know what I want to say has been said time and time again.
So I’ll just leave it at that.
I love Portal and I absolutely adore its sequel, Portal 2.
"Reddit loved them" and you show my image. Ok... 🙂
I'm not crying, you're crying!
Who's cutting the onions?
Technically the speedrun is 15:12 for playing the game without glitches, 6:26 is going outside the intended playzone
My favorite thing was the end has the Party Escort Bot to signify GLaDOS wasn’t lying about it. It would have been cool to get that option when it is mentioned, but instead they throw you into the goo
It makes me so happy to know the community is still going strong for one of my favorite games in the world. Even a decade later, the ending with Wheatly flying away breaks my heart
Portal is actually a piece art. Good to see that people are still giving it love with recent videos.
you've earned yourself another sub and now I'm even more furious that my laptop is broken so I can't go back and boot up these masterpieces. I'll be getting it fixed soon but it still stings. Thanks for reminding me that video games are fucking amazing.
Just played this game for the very first time and now it feels like researching an old library where I can read people's experience through the years with that gem of a game.
What I love is that this was kind of a tech demo, and a non-priority project. It’s the absolute genius of Valve.
6:41 "Welcome to Chamber 17."
"You have chosen or been chosen to participate in the Aperture Science computer-aided Enrichment Center tests."
A lot of effort put into this video, its a shame most people miss out on this unless they are known to like valve content, keep up the good work, +1 subscriber
17:22 My god, imagine Portal: Rattman as a VR experience, and people just upchucking all over their bedroom floors with right arm outstretched
Love how GLaDOS is still happy that you got through the testing track
i love portal 2 because of the sheer replayability, such a creative concept. and i will always see it as one of my top 5 games (very close to the top, maybe even at the top)
I think "the cake is a lie" is a perfect meme.
Is a reference to the game that only people who heard of the game would know, and a reference to the ending of the game that only people who knows about it or had played it would know, all packaged in one simple single frase of five words.
Make people who know about the game find other fans, and people interested in know what their talking about.
What a meme was suposed to be back in the early 2000, a reference to somthing that only people on the know would get, before memes became subrealistic.
At 5:03 I got an ad for papa John's and the first thing that showed up was words saying, The Crust
I noticed your description has timestamps. If you want them to show up on the video, they need to start with 0:00. 👍
In case anyone is confused here, this is TH-cam's new Chapters feature - timestamps need to appear in the description of a video in a format where they first start with 0:00; for example
0:00 - Intro
1:57 - Portal 1
2:34 - Cake
The chapters feature makes deliberate sections appear on the timeline seek bar on TH-cam's player interface
@@ProjectV95 Thanks for clarifying. 😅👍
What a fantastic video. Thank you TH-cam Recommendations.
those are my favorite game reviews now, they go so in deph so quickly
the music in the end where you see that burning pit is so fucking goodit still gives me chills
the cake is a lie lololol
You are really underrated, your content is awesome lmao
When you get to portal 2 you really need to put some effort in the ending, that game still gives me the chills to this day
People would hate what I have to say about portal 2
@@PurpleColonel oh no
@@PurpleColonel do you not like it?
I actually just finished the fist portal game before I watched this. It makes me feel smart.
Amazing video as always! The quality is great and I love the use of 15.ai and direct glados quotes
my favorit part about hoopy is how it was supposed to be a meme. and then it got completely ignored until it was revealed. and then the fact that it was supposed to be a meme became a meme. in the end, they won. hoopy became a meme.
Portal 2 has been my overall favorite video game for years, and probably will continue to hold that title until Portal 3.
When portal 2 was being released I remember it vividly. Specifically because one day when I was riding to school I saw not one but TWO billboards showing the portal 2 logo with Atlas and P-body. Prior to this I had never seen any game ever advertised like this! It felt larger than life! Like it wasn't just me who knew about this soon to be incredible game! It was there for EVERYONE to see! I knew right then that this game was special.
"With only one voice present"
Turrets the intelligence sphere curiosity sphere and anger sphere: Are we a joke to you?
yes
PORTAL PORTAL PORTAL! WE NEED MORE!
I absolutely love the moment when you destroy the morality core and GLaDOS's voice immediately becomes way less robotic and far more sinister. It quickly makes you realize that you just accidentally unlocked the full sentience of this psychotic, murderous AI.
hell yeah new video
You’re forgetting one very important detail bro
The cake is a lie
cutting to the instrumental version of still alive while you were talking was a nice little editing touch
Thanks! I try to add stuff like that when I can :)
I love the narrative and art style
Portal shaped so much of what we expect in puzzle based games, we are always paranoid that everyone wants to kill us, we always expect the unexpected, and we now think with portals so easily that portals can be a big part of the 2nd puzzle in a game, and no one would struggle with it
It barely even has to be introduced In a game for most people to just instantly complete the puzzle, allowing for more complex games with advanced puzzles
And it allows for even more mechanics, encouraging creativity for devs and pushing the boundaries of what games can do
Portal is to the puzzle game genre, what half-life 1 was to the FPS
It changed everything
Fun fact: any damage dealt to glados in the final fight will drop a core. Including before the fight itself. If you cheat and get hl2's weapon's into the final fight, it only takes a couple of pistol shot to get all the cores, and then it's just a little ways away from finishing the fight in a few seconds.
It makes you wanting more, even though the story is over
We gotta get a video of about portal 2 now lol, this was amazing!
i choked a little bit when she said the line after incinerating the companion cube and i was shocked at how effective it was
Something that's not mentioned enough in talking about Portal is the modding scene it created. So many good mods that hold up to this day, like Portal: The Flash Version Map Pack, Portal Prelude, or even stuff like Hetzchase Nailway that had some truly innovative mapping.
Oh, yeah, who could forget that beloved Portal meme, hoopy the hoop!
My eyes started tearing while watching this video, i am very nostalgic to portal
My favourite line is "We both said alot of things that you're going to regret, but I think we can put our differences behind us, for science, you monster." -GLaDOS, 2011.
Chell can't speak so GLaDOS is calling her a monster and punishing her for what GLaDOS did. Also there's a line in the second game that I can't remember that implies that Chell is mute.
Just played both games earlier this week and loved it.
I remember playing portal sill under the effects of getting my wisdom teeth out. Fond memories.
Him: make a loong and very good explaination.
Me : hehe funny robot goes "you're fat"
I was asking myself the same thing since I played the game in 2017. It is not by all means a bad game, but the surrounding cult spoiled the experience too much for me by the time I actually played it.
Yeah same, I almost wish I could somehow go back and play the game spoiler-free and not knowing the cake was a lie.
It is perhaps for reasons such as these that games like Portal could likely not have been made in today's times.
Its you again! And yea, at the time I played it; I already knew Glados would try to kill the player. But I was taken by surprise during the fire pit sequence and the final run through the labs.
i love how portal content is getting more again into youtube.
Glados is such passive aggressive gaslighters I love it 😂
Every time I play this game I die in the final chamber because I'm too busy vibing to "4000 degrees Kelvin" because it fucking slapps
Babe wake up, New
PurpleColonel Video
The big question is
Was the cake actually a lie?
I can explain why portal exploded in popularity. It wasn't sterilized mass media, it was a passion project. It was also a first person puzzle game at the height of first person shooters.
This is going to blow up congratulations man!
Before about 2019: the cake is a lie
After about 2019: everything is cake
you will not think , a guy with the mirrored colonel picture . would have such nice voice and well writing/edited video about games . glad i found out about this channel . it's the rare case , where youtube recommend something that not trash .
PS: found you because of your half life videos .
I like that you don't over explain things more than you need to.
I'm a fairly okay portal speedrunner, and every time that you're not moving it hurts my heart. I'm *always* moving.
13:11 hey it’s hoppy the hoop the best but forgotten character
I like how glados hints that shes keeping the area safe from the combine then they just ignore it for the 2nd one
Eh, I mean the second one takes place far into the future. Who knows if the combine are even still on earth?
@@notyetrain it's a cop out so they dont have to do anything with it. Hell the paved clean area of the first outside is just miles of wheat in the end of the second. I just hate unanswered questions
in the final hours of portal 2 they talk about this actually, mentioning how they originally had a lot more hl2 references in portal 2 (wheatley talking about gman, glados mentioning fighting off combine) before trying to go in a more distinguished and independent direction for the game
the wheat field could be explained by the constant movement of the lair. the first game has it below a parking lot, the glados fight in the second game has it moved seemingly deeper underground, wheatley then moves it close enough to the surface to shoot a portal on the moon, and finally glados moves it back underground directly under the wheat field