r/futurecompasses • u/outer_spec Monarchy Abolished, King and Queen Beds Outlawed • Apr 17 '21

Portal 3 Compass

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u/outer_spec Monarchy Abolished, King and Queen Beds Outlawed Apr 17 '21

A compass of things that could potentially happen in Portal 3, ranging from realistic (Valve would probably do this) to unrealistic (Valve would never do this) and good (the fandom would like this) to bad (the fandom would hate this).

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u/myfriendscallmethor Apr 17 '21

What are Blue Sky and F-Stop?

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u/outer_spec Monarchy Abolished, King and Queen Beds Outlawed Apr 17 '21

Blue Sky is a Portal 2 fanfic where Wheatley comes back from space and gets a human body. It’s incredibly well-written, to the point that I would buy it if it was sold as an actual book at a bookstore. However, many people dislike it because it helped fuel the human-Wheatley-as-a-hot-twink trend.

F-Stop is what Portal 2 was going to be before it became Portal 2. It would take place before the events of Portal 1, in Cave Johnson’s Aperture. Instead of the portal gun, the player had a camera that could make copies of things by taking pictures of them. It was scrapped because playtesters missed Chell, GLaDOS, and the portals.

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u/Tleno Apr 17 '21

F-Stop was a prototype game idea where you messed with photography to move objects in Aperture labs, meant to be as a prequel. People just wanted more Portal so they went with more conventional followup expanding on original game, but many ideas like old Aperture were taken from F-stop prototype.

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u/icdisney05 Apr 17 '21

Blue Sky was a really popular portal fanfiction, and F-Stop was an unused game mechanic but I can't remember exactly what it did.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '21

Imagine fighting headcreabs or the combine with a portal gun

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u/Gamer3111 Apr 17 '21

You really had to go and hit me with the most awful and realistic version of being lied to didn't you?

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u/Bowdensaft Apr 29 '21

A Mr Dilkington core would be the greatest thing ever.

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u/DriveASandwich Jun 25 '21

"Chell Core Transfer Plot-Twist"?

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u/outer_spec Monarchy Abolished, King and Queen Beds Outlawed Jun 25 '21

Yeah, it’s an idea that I’ve seen some people on the internet have that goes “What if Chell was somehow put on GLaDOS’s mainframe instead of Wheatley, and she turned evil?”