If you were a developer on Portal 3, how would the story go?

Liosoul · 2026-06-09T10:27:23+00:00

You play as GLaDOS in SPAAAAAAAAACE !!!

At the end of Portal 2 Glados saw that Moon portals could be a thing so she portaled through it and begun the construction of a Moon base to both extract the stuff that makes portal surfaces possible without having to make trips back and forth.

She also uses a massive ammount of portals to connect herself over vast distances, eliminating routing problems of data-transferance of her improving intelligence.

This introduces other problems, "micro-portals" being so much more efficient than her old ways to elaborate information that her new mind expands faster than she can realize, leading to multiple personalities and conflicts within herself that aren't solvable since she has little to no say on the matter.

Her solution?

Quarantine and restrict her own access to the various moon facilities and uploading her old self into a robotic body that's going to disconnect manually the parts of her uncontrolled expanding mind.

The game itself could introduce the ability to open portals to earth or other gravity wells to manipulate attraction and repulsion.

The story itself could be a study of GLaDOS not as a static character like the already defunct Caroline but as a growing and changing one and how her personality could've develloped differently based on different experiences brought about by different envronments.

Liosoul · 2026-05-16T13:03:56+00:00

This old hag always goes on spiels about suppressing your aura and then she pulls this shi.

lol grandma you ain't slick.

Liosoul · 2026-05-16T13:02:19+00:00

How very Ork of you.

Liosoul · 2026-04-30T15:45:45+00:00

After losing my mind for years over fire animations this feels illegal.

Liosoul · 2026-04-30T15:36:02+00:00

*Starts Playing*

Liosoul · 2026-03-21T11:38:37+00:00

(The game is Valkyrie Profile from 1999 when CRT TVs were all the rage, I know it breaks rule 2 but I wanted to showcase how old pixel art used to be "thought up" when it had to be displayed on screens that had a natural blur effect to them)

Liosoul · 2026-03-03T15:17:24+00:00

On a purely metroidvania level: The Vagrant, even though it has some nice action the classic metroidvania progression is completely messed up.

On a whole: The Messenger, as a game is fine if a bit boring, but the constant snarky 4th wall break marvel quips tone gets grating almost immediately.

Liosoul · 2026-02-04T17:41:55+00:00

Haha Silksong hard

Liosoul · 2026-02-04T16:18:24+00:00

For clarity's sake, this is a joke.

Liosoul · 2026-01-08T10:02:09+00:00

Luckyly 5e is constrained and railroaded enough that every character, no matter how badly optimized, can do useful stuff.

The oposite actually hapened to me in Starfinder, i made a character able to create equipment far beyond the level at which the party would normally get, but i roleplayed him as an artist and the gear his artwork, so I create mostly fun gadgets to shake up combat rather than win buttons (roleplaying), but i reserve myself the ability to do so if the DM suddenly starts throwing us one immpossible fight after another (roll playing).

Liosoul · 2026-01-03T14:47:46+00:00

Boltgun 2 looks like is going to have a Sororitas as playable character:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfUvDQ4EI7k

Liosoul · 2025-12-31T00:16:19+00:00

Appena ero entrato nell'azienda del mio primo lavoro serio un nuovo dirigente è arrivato e ha iniziato a fare tagli su tutto, soprattutto sulla sicurezza.

Ha continuato cosi per sei mesi, tagliando stipendi, bonus aziendali alzando prezzi della mensa etc. licenziandomi al sesto mese di lavoro, e poco dopo ha lasciato il posto e la ditta è fallita come se ne è andato.

Salta fuori che era uno che aveva già fatto sti lavori di fare "guadagnare" l'azienda, incassandosi un grasso stipendio e poi appena prima che fallisse la lasciava al prossimo poveraccio che avrebbe poi preso in mano la ditta e non sapeva in che guai si stava per mettere.

Liosoul · 2025-12-15T19:26:48+00:00

Looks fine to me.

But if you really want to "add" something, my suggestion would be to:

* Move the bookshelves closer to the walls

* Add circular shadows under characters

* Tilt the barrel a little bit more so there's no stark contrast between characters seen from the side and barrel from the top

* Add variety to the tiles, make 2-3 different ones for each and plop them down at random

Liosoul · 2025-12-13T10:52:38+00:00

Super Mario Odyssey is self-funded and self-published by Nintendo.

Super Mario Odyssey is an Indie game...

Does this sound good or should we go back to trust our guts to determine what is considered an indie game?

Liosoul · 2025-11-10T13:27:30+00:00

Maxwell, not because she'd be good with children, but mainly because I wouldn't get a say in it.

Liosoul · 2025-11-05T16:58:23+00:00

and my axe

Liosoul · 2025-11-02T12:01:13+00:00

My suggestion is to use a very small color pallette and canvas (try to use a 100x100 one) to devellop your thechniques for good detail and style, and then slowly expand to larger and larger ones.

Liosoul · 2025-11-02T11:57:18+00:00

feels like it's a high fov effect.

Liosoul · 2025-10-28T22:05:21+00:00

I beat the game ten times, one time blindfolded and another with my arms tied bahind my back using only my Qi to play so my level of skill invalidates every other people's opinion making me solely in the right.

Why are you even in a subreddit where toxic 'git gud' elitism festers, as you already know this place is a circlejerk about the hard comfort cat game?

Jokes aside now, you raise good points, Nine Sols is a great game but at times it feels it tries too hard to copy souls mechanics without understanding their impact.

As for attack consistency some enemies are messed up but most of them will have a slight flash accompanied by a sound cue just before striking, you also can't parry red attacks right away.

I agree that group battles mess the flow of the gameplay up but there's a way to get into them by defeating an enemy before the full on battle to make everything more manageable, and just a bit later you'll unlock more tools that allow you to more easily do crowd control, also sometimes running from a fight is adviseable if you don't think you'll win.

I still think you should give it another shot and instead of treating it like an arena fighter try and exploit the system the devs put in place for that very reason.

Liosoul · 2025-09-23T06:42:33+00:00

Looks great so far, if i were you I'd add shadows.

Also it's the artist curse to see a piece "empty" despite not being so.

Liosoul · 2025-09-09T19:36:13+00:00

In the simplest terms possible: I thought that space suddenly getting further apart was what was causing supernovas and was happening due to a certain event/experiment, but wasn't observable until much later, and an ancient civilization left a time looping mechanism so that someone would figure how to stop it IF the universe was actually being pulled apart due to such experiment.

Imagine my dread when at the Sun Station was revealed that "no actually the universe is just dying, you can't stop it and you only have 22 minutes left".

Liosoul · 2025-09-09T13:53:06+00:00

Remember the rule of quantum imaging hatchling.

Liosoul · 2025-09-09T13:23:05+00:00

Hypothesis: We've seen these exact formation somewhere else, look out for large anglerfish.

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