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  • The Personality Cores of The Aperture Science Facility were created to help the scientists run the facility and deal with an issue they had with the GLaDOS project. After many apocalyptic events, the cores saw this opportunity as a way to run Aperture their way.
    Why were they constructed? Were they originally human? and how did they help keep Aperture functioning when humanity no longer could? In this video, I explore the lore and story behind the Personality Cores in Portal.
    Timestamps
    00:00 Introduction
    00:49 The Design & Development of The Cores
    08:06 The Roles of The Personality Cores
    10:18 The Incident
    14:36 Many Years Later
    21:23 Legacy
    24:32 Behind the Scenes & Closing Thoughts
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  • @Skyrionn
    @Skyrionn  Před rokem +682

    What core would you make if you worked at Aperture?

    • @LeonardoPH14
      @LeonardoPH14 Před rokem +201

      Badass core would be badass

    • @NovaJR9
      @NovaJR9 Před rokem +281

      The uM aCtUaLlY 🤓 core

    • @GlowatrGT
      @GlowatrGT Před rokem +69

      The dumb core because I’m dumb

    • @hl2betafan
      @hl2betafan Před rokem +76

      i'd just turn myself into one

    • @justjohnny1333
      @justjohnny1333 Před rokem +112

      @@NovaJR9 actually it already exists and its called the 'fact core'

  • @obesinspelarj3202
    @obesinspelarj3202 Před rokem +785

    It’s so perfect that one small ball with a blue eye and british voice managed to almost destroy an entire enrichment center

  • @ckinggaming5bucketmadness766

    It is theorized that Wheatley was more than just an intelligence dampening sphere, but also programmed to make ideas that hinder Glados/the core in charge and prevent them, hence why he led Chell around before taking over the facility and then proceeded to hinder himself

    • @craz2580
      @craz2580 Před rokem +1

      Maybe the idea behind weathly was to destroy the facility so that no one would have ever gotten close to the tecnology

    • @ckinggaming5bucketmadness766
      @ckinggaming5bucketmadness766 Před rokem +76

      @@craz2580 I feel like that isn’t something that Cave Johnson would want, though the scientists may have wanted to destroy what they’d created

    • @quan-uo5ws
      @quan-uo5ws Před rokem +196

      That would explain why despite being a moron, he manages to disrupt her turrets and destroy her neurotoxin supply.

    • @lukebell4738
      @lukebell4738 Před rokem +96

      do he's more like a sabotage core?

    • @mmemphis
      @mmemphis Před rokem +20

      I wonder was gladus rright he was made to be dumb cause he sure is

  • @darkduckpl9620
    @darkduckpl9620 Před rokem +432

    So basically humans created cores to control glados but they were so good that they made them into into workers and they became little society

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem +79

      basically yeah

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 Před 11 měsíci +20

      They live in a society

    • @blub148
      @blub148 Před 4 měsíci +4

      Now i dont have to watch it a-

  • @blackchibisan8116
    @blackchibisan8116 Před rokem +862

    I’ve always wondered if her trying to kill them all was because she wasn’t a volunteer. That they had attached the additional cores to keep Carolyn suppressed until only glados remained

    • @nil_system
      @nil_system Před rokem +68

      Seeing how she calm down after she remembered her memories she probably was a volunteer. I am guessing more likely it wasn’t taught morality and given a lot of power and probably confused then experimental on was what messed her up or it’s something to do with her subconscious

    • @Ryan-in6ls
      @Ryan-in6ls Před rokem +103

      @@nil_system I’m pretty sure they found some unused audio files of Carolyn begging not to become apart of GLaDOS, I think she did what she did due to a psychotic break and uncontrollable anger

    • @nil_system
      @nil_system Před rokem +14

      @@Ryan-in6ls my original answer is based of the video and what I know.and seeing how it's unused they decided not to go with that

    • @Namelessstew
      @Namelessstew Před rokem +19

      @@nil_system they only didn't because the voice actor of Cave Johnson refused to do the voice lines due to disagreement with the type of character he was.

    • @nil_system
      @nil_system Před rokem +13

      @@Namelessstew to me not in the game.not indented to be used/found like in a arg then it's not cannon. Can u imagine every joke/scraped idle file developers leave in the game is cannon?

  • @cogtheprotogen6671
    @cogtheprotogen6671 Před rokem +582

    My interpretation of Wheatley thinking he would die if he used his basic functions is as follows, the scientists/engineers didn't tell him that, the other cores did. Because they saw him as stupid, they bullied him. Maybe that's one of the reasons he wanted to leave

    • @huh3714
      @huh3714 Před rokem +17

      I think it's was just random kid who told him just for the lols

    • @personthatexists5952
      @personthatexists5952 Před 8 měsíci +4

      Nooope. The reactor was about to blow up.

    • @ferretappreciator
      @ferretappreciator Před 7 měsíci +15

      Tbh I think with Wheatley being the "bad idea" core he would naturally come up with the idea to not use his basic functions all on his own

    • @windylenox3348
      @windylenox3348 Před 6 měsíci +14

      I think it was the scientists/engineers just because they didn't want that level of Idiot doing what he pleased, but i like the idea of the other cores bullying him its fitting

    • @Bill-ix2zc
      @Bill-ix2zc Před 4 měsíci +33

      I tend to think about it like this:
      The engineers tell Wheatly that if he uses his flashlight or pops off his rail he will die, as in, his battery would eventually die, or, don't get off the rail if nobody is around. However, he mistook these warnings as "Never do these specific things or you will die instantly.", and never took the time to realize that would be impossible in the first place.

  • @Freemelon07
    @Freemelon07 Před rokem +307

    I love how so much emotion can be conveyed by a little round moving metal eye.

    • @neuronoc.7343
      @neuronoc.7343 Před rokem +25

      There's actually a full showing of how the personality core was developed to express as much as a metal ball on a management rail could. Handles, actuations, eyelids, they all were developed to approximate parts of the human face, like the brow, cheekbones, etc.

    • @MisterJohnDoe
      @MisterJohnDoe Před 9 měsíci +6

      Probably the reason why the cores got redesigned compared to the Portal 1 versions.

  • @JonTheGeek
    @JonTheGeek Před rokem +223

    Caroline said she never wanted her personality to live forever
    I'd bet that she became angry and scared when she was forced into the AI scanner and that's why GlaDos is so different.

  • @Rippley_fan
    @Rippley_fan Před rokem +1845

    SPAAAAACCCCEEEEEE

  • @trollyface6640
    @trollyface6640 Před rokem +402

    A theory i have is that glados may ne hostile due to how caroline was feeling in her last moments when she was being uploaded.She was probably angry as hell

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem +132

      I'd be angry too tbh

    • @redtheluckless
      @redtheluckless Před rokem +79

      Not to mention that she was forced into the upload due to Cave Johnsons request

    • @cherrypawz678
      @cherrypawz678 Před rokem +45

      YES i had this exact thought!!! i think at first she remembered who she was as caroline and was angry at cave johnson, but as she slowly forgot who she was she just ended up taking out her anger on the scientists / chell

    • @xanderplayz3446
      @xanderplayz3446 Před rokem +9

      I would have made a “suit” that gave cores a portal gun and arms and legs and said to upload me to a core and plug me into the to the “suit” after that. Maybe I should rewrite that sentence.

    • @Ju-tb4jq
      @Ju-tb4jq Před 10 měsíci +7

      @@xanderplayz3446 thats straight up just atlas and p-body its not confirmed but glados might have copied chells brain and used it for the coop testing bots

  • @volvofreak86
    @volvofreak86 Před rokem +258

    Not only is wheatly greatly written, but Stephen Merchant does great voicing him, really suits it

    • @grindelston5968
      @grindelston5968 Před 10 měsíci +3

      I really prefer the original voice, dunno if you've ever heard it, it's on youtube, it was what valve showed at e3 before release and they changed it to merchant at the last minute.
      Have a watch, see what you think!

    • @lmahu6627
      @lmahu6627 Před 6 měsíci +3

      @@grindelston5968 I wouldn't call Merchant's casting a last-minute thing, since Richard Lord was never intended to be the final voice for Wheatley to begin with; he emphasized that he was just a placeholder for the _Meet Wheatley_ video. It's possible that Merchant was already casted as Wheatley, since Lord wrote in his blog that "theres no way you will be dissapointed with the final voice - i'm over teh moon with who it might be." (sic). It's just that they haven't recorded and/or edited anything in time for the video, hence the placeholder voice.

  • @seafoamspirit3484
    @seafoamspirit3484 Před rokem +99

    16:50 Imagine being a person and then you're uploaded to a little eyebot body and the guys who enslaved you like this say "this one makes other robots stupid. that's its purpose"

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem +30

      ikr. The worst kind of existance.

    • @inklazer3447
      @inklazer3447 Před rokem +4

      bomb cores

    • @sarina2834
      @sarina2834 Před 2 měsíci

      you should check out Blue Sky

    • @arshu_parshu1999
      @arshu_parshu1999 Před 5 dny +1

      the cores don't have "genetic lifeforms" mentioned anywhere so its safe to assume they were born as an ai
      so being just born and having your "mother" say your purpose is to make the other robot stupid

  • @DreadSnortt
    @DreadSnortt Před rokem +377

    Just finished Portal 2 for the first time today, immediately went and binge watched all of your previous Portal-related videos. This couldn't have come out at a better time for me! Thank you!

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem +22

      Welcome aboard! There are SO MANY videos too :D

    • @EnderTender
      @EnderTender Před rokem +10

      Finished Portal 2 Today as well

    • @Slimeight
      @Slimeight Před rokem +5

      Finished it Friday it was incredible!

    • @angelface925
      @angelface925 Před rokem +3

      I'm so glad you enjoyed it! There was an ARG ran by Valve! Wish I could have been there while it all unfolded!

    • @BPond7
      @BPond7 Před 11 měsíci

      Do you remember how we laughed and laughed, except I wasn’t laughing?

  • @LoveyLand
    @LoveyLand Před rokem +115

    I think about the one turret in the tube that says “help me. I’m different” a lot.

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem +31

      Lowkey broke my heart.

    • @mayarlis
      @mayarlis Před rokem +30

      Holding her for some time And She starts spoiling the story... Like when she says "Her name is Caroline". I realized it after I played whole portal for second time.
      *The one Turret on the line waiting for destruction.

    • @SuspiciousAppleJuice
      @SuspiciousAppleJuice Před rokem +3

      @@mayarlis they could possibly be the same turret?

    • @burningsexuality1540
      @burningsexuality1540 Před rokem +13

      @@SuspiciousAppleJuice they are, they just can’t be grabbed at the beginning

    • @SuspiciousAppleJuice
      @SuspiciousAppleJuice Před rokem +2

      @@burningsexuality1540 damn

  • @The_hot_blue_fire_guy
    @The_hot_blue_fire_guy Před rokem +75

    One very interesting thing is that there probably is a multiverse out there that never invented the cores because GLADOS never tried to kill anyone and she insisted functioned like the scientists intended. And so they would never have tried to make the cores.
    Another universe in which the scientists did find a combination of cores that succeeded in permanently
    making GLADOS safe and friendly is also interesting to think about.

    • @tayhemsworth4219
      @tayhemsworth4219 Před 2 dny

      U think there is a tech demo where cave becomes "GLaDOs" while he regrets it he doesn't become murderus and just wants to die

  • @plasmatic3223
    @plasmatic3223 Před rokem +73

    The cores being human uploads / imprints sounds canon to me. How else would Aperture be able to create AI too advanced, even be able to experience emotions and talk so much more human-like than even GLaDOS ?

    • @magentawool2556
      @magentawool2556 Před rokem +20

      YEAH! Think about this: space core, astronauts that went missing after they visited aperture?

    • @Cipher_Spy
      @Cipher_Spy Před měsícem +1

      ​@@magentawool2556or someone who was looking forward to harvesting moon rock

    • @Cipher_Spy
      @Cipher_Spy Před měsícem

      Wheatly: Special Ed kid

  • @Alkaris
    @Alkaris Před rokem +217

    Wheatley is in TF2 as one of the tools for Spy, even though it's a Valve game, Wheatley in TF2 is called the AP-SAP, which is the item used for sapping Engineer buildings in TF2, and has Wheatley voice lines tied to the item whenever you pull it out or use it to sap things.

    • @randomtexanguy9563
      @randomtexanguy9563 Před rokem

      I forgot about that 💀

    • @DoctorTex
      @DoctorTex Před rokem +1

      Ok, as cool as that is, doesn't having Wheatley talking during the sapping process defeat the point of the sapper being a stealth tool? The engi will likely hear it immediately.

    • @Stanfordscienceman
      @Stanfordscienceman Před rokem +24

      @@DoctorTexwell you also have the loud alarm that starts playing when your sentry gets sapped,meaning that you’ll probably already know without Wheatley screaming about it.

    • @serg_sel7526
      @serg_sel7526 Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@Stanfordscienceman"Spy sapped my sentry!"
      _BEEEP, BEEEP, BEEEP, BEEEP_ *sentry destroyed*

  • @AngelofGrace96
    @AngelofGrace96 Před rokem +267

    I do love the personality cores, I think valve did a lot to make them (and glados) feel very human. My favourite is the space core, I just can't help loving him. Which one's your favourite?

    • @neuronoc.7343
      @neuronoc.7343 Před rokem +48

      Wheatley. The pain he expresses in the final Portal 2 fight as you let him talk really shows that there's likely more to the cores than mere AI.

    • @mj_out
      @mj_out Před rokem +26

      The Curiousity Core. Its voice was so cute.

    • @silverphantomme99
      @silverphantomme99 Před rokem +22

      Wheatley and Curiosity core. I can be a moron because of how overwhelming curious I can get. (For others point of view.)

    • @boatfan1234
      @boatfan1234 Před rokem +12

      Strangely I like the anger core

    • @odd6646
      @odd6646 Před rokem +2

      @@boatfan1234 you are strange

  • @Quesbe
    @Quesbe Před rokem +51

    I like to think that Harry's Meet the Cores series is canon, since it really feels like it's a series that could have been made by Valve themselves. Also, of course, Virgil core from Portal Mel = best core.

  • @DaRealGrossBurger5
    @DaRealGrossBurger5 Před 7 měsíci +19

    Portal 1 ending: you remove balls
    Portal 2 ending: you add more balls

  • @sthego3970
    @sthego3970 Před rokem +55

    Now I want more portal games just to have a Morgan Freeman core in them.

  • @SerpentNight
    @SerpentNight Před rokem +81

    3:48 Ever notice that Wheatley's handles just disappeared when he was attached to GLADOS's body and were back again when he was torn off; weird...

  • @MrMaxwell949
    @MrMaxwell949 Před rokem +28

    Still cant believe this company formed before the 1960s outreached the combine in their technology so much that the combine need the borealis. I wonder if the combine know about caves multiverse jumping

  • @SplotchTheCatThing
    @SplotchTheCatThing Před rokem +37

    Do get the feeling that the central theme of Portal 2's story has to do with how Wheatley became even more of a disaster than GLaDOS ever was after he took over the facility.
    Maybe something about how power wielded by someone who doesn't have any real awareness of their own flaws and is thus unable to control them, is more dangerous than power wielded by someone with actual malice.
    Would explain why they still spent a good chunk of the runtime establishing GLaDOS's malicious nature before even letting Wheatley take over, even though most players would have already been well aware of what she is. Her behaviour is an important point of comparison in the story if the comparison is the story's most important point. :)

    • @prometheanrebel3838
      @prometheanrebel3838 Před rokem +11

      GlaDOS: Lawful Evil
      Post-Part 1 Core Transfer Wheatley: Chaotic Evil

    • @SplotchTheCatThing
      @SplotchTheCatThing Před rokem +3

      @@prometheanrebel3838 pretty much!

    • @pascuala.
      @pascuala. Před 9 měsíci +5

      I think he _does_ know about his flaws, he's pretty self-aware and seems to have a low self-steem he just tried to boost his ego a little bit with small things like the "hacking" and such.
      And of course, giving this amount of power to an insecure person can be chaotic.

    • @SplotchTheCatThing
      @SplotchTheCatThing Před 9 měsíci +4

      @@pascuala. yeah, I guess developing a willful ignorance of oneself isn't miles away from a lack of awareness :)
      He certainly seems more self-aware in the post credits which suggests the body itself might have something to do with suppressing it. Or maybe just the sheer amount of power.

  • @jackpijjin4088
    @jackpijjin4088 Před 7 měsíci +7

    I just realized...
    Valve intentionally gave Aperture an 'Apple'-like aesthetic. The Cores are portable pods based on the shape of an eye. They're eye-pods.

    • @ThatTimeIFell
      @ThatTimeIFell Před 6 měsíci +1

      I was here late enough to appreciate this. Up top..

  • @blastyfs2
    @blastyfs2 Před rokem +10

    don't forget the space sphere wasn't happy forever
    faced with the realization of just how big space is, it soon wanted to return to earth as furiously as it wanted to go to space

  • @ArsiRochell
    @ArsiRochell Před rokem +81

    This is just a theory of mine, but what if the cause of GLaDOS's murderous actions were of either her inner intrusive thoughts taking control and her not knowing, or maybe it was for revenge because of the other theory of Caroline being forced to become GLaDOS against her will. I mean think about it, maybe it was the other side of Caroline's happy go lucky personality from what I've observed from her voicelines with Cave Johnson during the near climax of Portal 2. This is just a small theory I had when I played Portal 2 after Portal 1
    Update: So Caroline WAS forced to become GLaDOS

    • @TapTapClick
      @TapTapClick Před rokem +5

      I'd like to think that maybe the process of uploading her didn't kill the original and when GLaDOS was fired up it realized it was a copy when faced with it's human self giving her orders and that's what made her so mad.

    • @magentawool2556
      @magentawool2556 Před rokem

      nowhere in the game or canon does it say she was forcced to be uploaded.

    • @ev_rebound5774
      @ev_rebound5774 Před rokem +5

      @@magentawool2556 Cave Johnson said he wanted her to be the one uploaded if he died. And he said to do it even if she didn’t want it and he knew she would refuse. Also there’s voice lines that didn’t make it into the game that are implied to be Caroline refusing the upload

  • @plushdragonteddy
    @plushdragonteddy Před rokem +12

    love the part where u listed all of those cores, it registered in my brain as a bunch of new aesthetics dropping lmao

    • @user-vf1cl7zj2r
      @user-vf1cl7zj2r Před 4 měsíci +4

      My favorite aesthetic is Useful Core That Is Definitely Not A Portal To Hell Core

  • @shinymk6562
    @shinymk6562 Před rokem +78

    Yes! Been waiting for this one to be remastered. Given how I think the original holds up pretty well, I'm excited to watch this asap.

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem +8

      Thanks buddy! I hope you enjoy it!

  • @eskieguy9355
    @eskieguy9355 Před 11 měsíci +10

    I like the thought that cores are uploaded human brain engrams. It actually makes sense that Aperture techs would side step programming each core to bring it up to sentience, by just grabbing whatever it is that makes our brains work. It also explains the large number of defective cores. Since they're all connected by wifi, Aperture Labs could have developed one master sentience, with each core having just the personality & programming for their purpose. Equivalent to a human having multiple personalities, except, all at once.

  • @SirGingerOfKnight
    @SirGingerOfKnight Před rokem +41

    14:48 Considering Portal was in the Orange Box alongside Episode 2:
    I always thought they were an aperture equivalent of the Heli Mines from Half-Life 2/E1/E2 - It had never dawned on me that they were also cores! I thought it was just a cake trap!

  • @smilelovecookie
    @smilelovecookie Před rokem +8

    Watched this in my break of coding (Gamedesign student here).. the space core is floating around as an easter egg in my game now as well! :D

  • @samuelantoniocastillomeza5034

    Pretty cool. I love the cores for howsimple they are yet mean so much to the game¿s lore and even make or a great character with the Whitley. And if I was a core, I think I'll be either the anger one or a curiosity one.

  • @TapTapClick
    @TapTapClick Před rokem +7

    If I was an Aperture scientist I probably would have suggested after the first time she released neurotoxin into the facility that we give her access to something that tells her it's filled with neurotoxin but is just oxygen or something else that's harmless so she could still "attempt" to release it without anyone actually being hurt and never let her have access to enough to fill more than 1 test chamber with (cause I have no idea why they would bother having it to start with unless for in the test chambers). I would also make sure that there was no way the neurotoxin could enter any areas such as observation rooms, staff lounge, main entrance, bathrooms, labs, pretty much anywhere that the scientists would be at not including inside the test chambers so she can only kill test subjects. As for what I would make as a last resort if she some how managed to bypass everything else would be a mask all personal (other than test subjects) have to have around their neck ready to go along with an antitoxin (granted one would be able to be made at all) that would be attached to the lanyards that their credentials would already be on.

  • @bigjalopy
    @bigjalopy Před rokem +28

    I have never played Portal or half life and have no idea how the youtube algorithm led me here but I am obsessed with these videos mate. You have a great voice for these lore type of videos so I look forward to seeing what's next 😊

  • @Scypek
    @Scypek Před rokem +3

    "A destructive force few objects could survive..." I threw a chair into the emergency intelligence incinerator and I beg to differ.

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem +1

      Those chairs are indestructable!

  • @flamingoman992
    @flamingoman992 Před rokem +14

    I really enjoy your videos, I really like the way you depict the video like it's a documentary going through aperture's building. Keep up the good work.

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem +3

      Thank you very much! There's more to come too!

  • @robertron5303
    @robertron5303 Před rokem +5

    This channel deserves so much more attention! Great content 👍

  • @samloos3531
    @samloos3531 Před rokem +11

    I would like to see the hard core, a core that just throws raves

  • @potatomining4806
    @potatomining4806 Před rokem +20

    I love how high quality these videos are

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem +3

      That's high praise. There's more to come too :)

  • @potatomining4806
    @potatomining4806 Před rokem +100

    I’d love to see your theories on what possible portal 3 could look like

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem +28

      Let's keep them theories going until we actually get another game!

    • @DatamalDraws
      @DatamalDraws Před rokem +16

      @@Skyrionn think valve still cares for the portal series, as they have made an aperture “tech demo” for both the steam deck (Aperture Desk Job) and steam vr (The Lab)

    • @davisdf3064
      @davisdf3064 Před rokem +16

      One possibility is that we play as one of the many Androids GLaDOS developed for testing. If that's what happens, then the possibilities are endless, from a puzzle chambers only game, to even straight up WAR between the AIs.
      Portal 3 can exist, it just doesn't need to be with Chel!

    • @angelface925
      @angelface925 Před rokem +4

      @@davisdf3064 you mean like the co-op? Or something else? I'm not to feel in the lore side 😅

    • @davisdf3064
      @davisdf3064 Před rokem +5

      @@angelface925
      Yes, except we might not be Atlas or P-body, just another random Droid that GLaDOS uses for testing.

  • @evoli9347
    @evoli9347 Před rokem +9

    i literally played both portal games for the first time BLIND this week and its so good am glad the community is still kicking

  • @_nater_tots_
    @_nater_tots_ Před rokem +1

    love the visuals you made for this. Really engaging and enjoyable vid :)

  • @OfficialToxicCat
    @OfficialToxicCat Před rokem +7

    I remember Harry101UK had a series where they introduced different cores. Including the main ones like FactCore, Anger Core, Curiosity Core and Adventure Core. And one of the cores literally took brains of the employees and downloaded them into robots. They even stuck an employee who had a wheat allergy into a toaster.
    Also love the idea of Cave Johnson having a brain too big to fit into a robot body.

  • @NovaJR9
    @NovaJR9 Před rokem +5

    Love your videos, you deserve way more than 70k with content as high quality as this. Always makes my day when a get a Notification saying: Skyrionn uploaded

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem +2

      Thanks very kind of you to say! I hope you enjoy this one too!

  • @FireKiller70
    @FireKiller70 Před rokem +10

    WOW! This video was certainly a roller coaster of mind blowing lore from the beloved story of the portal franchise!
    I would also love to see more portal games! And when you said a core was found in Elder Scrolls Skyrim?? THAT is amazing!

  • @fbi4189
    @fbi4189 Před rokem +41

    I really appreciate these videos getting me back into Valve’s titles, thank you Skyrionn 🙏🏽

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem +6

      Glad you like them! It appears more people are coming to Valve's older games which is great!

    • @NovaJR9
      @NovaJR9 Před rokem +2

      @@Skyrionn valves older games aka: all of them except half life alyx

    • @BlackMesaResearchFacility
      @BlackMesaResearchFacility Před rokem +2

      ayo the FBI found out about the test subjects underground

  • @OmegaWarhead15
    @OmegaWarhead15 Před rokem +12

    I love these lore and story videos you make of titles like the Half life 2 games and the Portal games.
    Keep it up with the good quality videos :)
    👍

  • @standard-carrier-wo-chan

    Love how there's still new Portal content videos even over a decade after the game's release.

  • @the_betterbunny2131
    @the_betterbunny2131 Před rokem +7

    Your videos always make me smile, Great video btw, keep it up!

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem

      Happy to hear that! There's always more to come :)

  • @Prototype-357
    @Prototype-357 Před rokem +6

    I like how the title is the "Darker" side of Aperture, cause we all already know Aperture's dark side, so this is the dark-er side.

  • @dxfan18
    @dxfan18 Před rokem +8

    16:55 Crap, this actually makes sense if you think about it. When a person is uploaded into a sphere, it amplifies a part of their personality. Space core was an ambitious astronaut who dreamed of space. Rick/Adventure core was a daring, womanizing war hero. Fact core was an academic full of random facts. Whealtey was a moron they found lying around in England.

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem +4

      England has a ton of morons haha. I like the theory anyway! Thanks for watching man

  • @thesilentobserver93
    @thesilentobserver93 Před rokem +9

    Loving your Portal lore videos!

  • @garrettstanley7180
    @garrettstanley7180 Před rokem +4

    Dude I've been so addicted to your vids keep it up.

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem

      Glad you like them! There's more to come!

  • @sageisokay1689
    @sageisokay1689 Před měsícem +1

    This guy so made me understand the lore behind Portal more than the majority of "Portal lore explained" videos I've seen. Also his voice is so soothing it could put me to sleep

  • @certifiedschizophrenic8598

    Thank you for going in depth no one else ever would do this and it irritated me cause more was so hard to find

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem +1

      Thanks buddy! I do my best to get all of the information available.

  • @Ubreakable-lr2dk
    @Ubreakable-lr2dk Před rokem +5

    Great content as always

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem +1

      Appreciate it! Thanks for watching!

  • @Admiral_Cheese
    @Admiral_Cheese Před rokem +9

    Not only did wheatley and the SPACCCCEEEEEE core go into space but the adventure core also went into space expect he went a different direction that wheatley and the SPACCCCEEEEEE core went (also he was the first one to detach) and fact core stayed on

  • @gamingboi_7730
    @gamingboi_7730 Před rokem +1

    Im listening to ur portal lore while doing homework. Its relaxinng and really fun

  • @blubberking100
    @blubberking100 Před rokem +9

    I would love to see you make a video about Aperture's nanotechnology that maintain the foundations of the facility

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem +2

      I'd like to but there's barely any information except for the fact they exist and a few names

  • @SplotchTheCatThing
    @SplotchTheCatThing Před rokem +8

    You know the question I have... why are the test chambers made as puzzles to begin with? Portal 2 makes it pretty clear that this was a deliberate decision by Aperture that they even built their AIs around, so that they can't tell the subjects how to solve the puzzles. But if this is just product testing for the portal gun and whatever other wacky inventions Aperture designs, wouldn't it be more efficient and effective if the subjects knew what they're supposed to do with what they're given?
    It could be a quirk of company philosophy chalked up to Cave Johnson's insanity, but most of his insanity is pretty well spelled out in Portal 2's story, where the whole puzzle aspect is only established to have been done on purpose, but without any hint as to why.

    • @sardonicus1739
      @sardonicus1739 Před 3 měsíci +2

      I don't think he was just trying to playtest product. I think he saw himself as a scientist discovering new things about the human condition. I think a lot of the products invented were meant to test human lab rats.
      To me the fact that he invented a backup so that tests can still be done by the ai cores even after an apocalypse scenario where all humans are wiped out shows that the science itself is more important to him than just it's selling value.

    • @SplotchTheCatThing
      @SplotchTheCatThing Před 3 měsíci

      @@sardonicus1739 An interesting idea for sure.
      And clearly something was more important to Cave Johnson than selling value 'cause he hardly ever sold anything XD

  • @galacticalliance4801
    @galacticalliance4801 Před rokem +9

    i really would love an in depth video from you on the gman, even if it was just mostly speculation, hes the most fascinating part of the half life series in my opinion, that and all the other lore that proves theres forces way beyond our control at play, for us a life or death struggle, for the powers that be in the multiverse just tuesday.

  • @navaleriane
    @navaleriane Před 2 měsíci

    thank you for your work! very informative and engaging video

  • @cressrose
    @cressrose Před 3 měsíci

    The personality cores are literally one of my favorite parts of the games. They add so many more questions and theories to explore with the story of Aperture (like the question of whether or not the cores personalities are derived from the uploaded/imprinted consciousnesses of the employees). Thanks for making this video; you did a wonderful job laying out the lore of these delightful constructs. ^v^
    --If I were a scientist at Aperture in charge of personality construct creation, I think I'd request for a Music Composition Core to be made: their task would be to write music for the facility to boost productivity and morale. They could be named Pachelbel or something. :) That, or I'd want a Silly/Jester Core to be made, to lighten the stress and depressing mood, y'know?

  • @enderman7097
    @enderman7097 Před rokem +4

    you know what I don't see many people (in fact basically no one) talking about? the fact that adventure core was ALSO sucked into space, so perhaps they are also orbiting Wheatly, just further away. also its said the reason why space core orbits Wheatly is because Wheatly is so dense (literally and figurately)

  • @dragonfire280
    @dragonfire280 Před rokem +4

    I noticed something watching this
    The moon was visible in the sky at the end of Portal 2 when Chell shot a Portal on the moon which lead to Wheatley and her being pulled through a portal to space
    But after being brought back through the portal by GLaDOS it’s day when she gets to the surface
    Which means Chell was asleep for either 12-1 hour/hours

  • @OtherWorldExplorers
    @OtherWorldExplorers Před rokem +20

    We need personality cores for politicians.

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem +4

      I'd prefer them tbh. UK's going through a rough patch with politicians atm

    • @ExodusGold
      @ExodusGold Před rokem

      That would be nice

  • @PolewkaW
    @PolewkaW Před rokem +16

    I really like ur appreciation towards half life/potral universe, It's nice to hear about same things from different perspective. Also ur voice is perfect for this kind of things. Keep it up, ur doing great work~

  • @TheStuffMade
    @TheStuffMade Před rokem +8

    Great video the lore is very fascinating. Portal 2 is such a great game, I wish Valve would make more games.

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem +2

      Thanks for watching! Hopefully one day we'll get one!

  • @Crayer3
    @Crayer3 Před 4 měsíci +1

    now , with the new "portal revolution" mod if we can combine the lore from those extraordinar mods, we know , that Caroline (GlaDOS) never agreed to be scanned and put inside a core , and most probably someone from aperture did it when she was unaware of this ; so most probably the scan wasn't complete and that why in portal 2 we can see her become Caroline when she's a potato , the proper GlaDOS was ruled by a set of protocols and "laws" when Caroline is actually a personality, when she was free of those protocols we can see that there is actually a human there after all , and about the part where she didn't agree for the neuroscan (portal revolution mod lore) , that's why she doesn't remember being named CEO and is not bringing up the part where she killed everyone in the facility.
    i think is an interesting theory and i had to share it.

  • @nekogamer2508
    @nekogamer2508 Před 10 měsíci +3

    Your forgot add that glados tried to murder the people in the facility upon first activation in a pico second which is a millionth of a second

  • @Leeeiif
    @Leeeiif Před rokem +3

    Great Video!!!

  • @Yipper64
    @Yipper64 Před 11 měsíci +3

    19:34 what's interesting is it seems that having control of the facility is what causes the murderous tendencies. When Glados is removed from it, she becomes more docile, and more like Caroline.
    Partially because she didnt have the capability to harm anyone, but her personality generally mellowed out.

    • @SuperBootsthedog
      @SuperBootsthedog Před 10 měsíci +1

      Power causes corruption

    • @Yipper64
      @Yipper64 Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@SuperBootsthedog Yes but I have to wonder if for the cores, its in a more literal sense.

    • @SuperBootsthedog
      @SuperBootsthedog Před 10 měsíci

      @@Yipper64 definitely

  • @suicune2001
    @suicune2001 Před rokem

    Well done!

  • @-marci
    @-marci Před rokem +2

    Nice video!

  • @krich451
    @krich451 Před rokem +6

    I hope the fruit punch core is exactly like the space core just all about fruit punch instead. Just completely stoked about fruit punch 24/7.

  • @Spaaaceee
    @Spaaaceee Před rokem +6

    Spaaaceee!

  • @CassiusStelar
    @CassiusStelar Před 7 měsíci +2

    I imagine Glados getting a black widow on her eye and asking for Spider Core to be plugged in because she honestly doesnt know what it does.

  • @numba9ine288
    @numba9ine288 Před rokem +2

    Can u do a video on the lore behind the whole history of aperture science? When it comes to half life videos nobody does them better like you do man🙏

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem

      Something is coming in the next week that'll explain it pretty well :)

  • @jexim_kymaria
    @jexim_kymaria Před rokem +4

    was a great video! Just letting you know though that the space core is not in the Skyrim base game, it's only added through a mod that's seemingly made by Valve released in the creation kit.

  • @littlechickeyhudak
    @littlechickeyhudak Před rokem +6

    my favourite part of your Portal lore videos is the way you explain the ridiculous comedic lore of Portal in your serious dramatic lore voice lol

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem +4

      Part of my brand at this point

  • @ps3moira
    @ps3moira Před 4 měsíci

    I love portal lore videos, this is one of them

  • @JaidenAnimations_With_Man_Face

    I watched this while filming a vid on my channel, and i gave you creds of course.

  • @stewartbugler
    @stewartbugler Před rokem +7

    On your point of how they would of needed more narrative to implement them... I have to disagree when I met the other cores during the end game I remember being so fascinated by them I spent about 2 hours trying to hear everything they had to say. My favourite obviously the Space core. However if they just dumped a Morgan Freeman Core mid game as temporary replacement to wheatly I would of done exactly the same with him even if it was only 1 level. I imagine it would not be that it is Morgan Freeman just completely obsessed by him. Probably trying to Turing test into being Morgan Freeman. That literally needs no introduction just a babbling core you need to carry from A to B without getting annoyed and ditching it or setting him free believing it is what remains of One of the most iconic actors of the 21st century.

    • @stewartbugler
      @stewartbugler Před rokem

      As this has had a few likes I'd also like to add that if the Morgan Freeman Core was a thing and you did have this objective of carry it to A to B or listen to it and set it free... I honestly would leave either path completely ambiguous on whether it survived or not regardless the path... like if you put it in the trash compactor like your told the compactor fails and it laughs and states "I'm Morgan Freeman and I will not be defeated." Or gives a tear jerking speech about Freedom then just simply states... "Just leave me here i have Narration to provide..." then it'll proceed to describe the room you leave him in. Because how amazing would Portal 2 be if you can Narrate half the game with a core that thinks its Morgan Freeman! Like imagine if you got it into Wheatleys terrible puzzles and he struggles to define the room without giving away the solution and eventually breaks from Narration to argue with Wheatley.

  • @smartmonkey777
    @smartmonkey777 Před rokem +17

    What could go wrong if you give a unstable murderous AI just "a little neurotoxin"....

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem +2

      exactly

    • @Artificer_
      @Artificer_ Před 6 měsíci +5

      GLaDOS may have a little neurotoxin, as a treat

  • @Delinquentify
    @Delinquentify Před rokem +1

    I love these videos, It's like sunnyv2 but portal lore.

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem +1

      That's very high praise. I love Sunnyv2

  • @harryredding8622
    @harryredding8622 Před rokem +1

    its been forever sense i saw these types of videos n this game!

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem

      I have SO MANY. Check them out on the channel :D

  • @umarak0137
    @umarak0137 Před rokem +3

    I love this Skyrionn guy!

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem +2

      I love you for watching the videos

  • @NovaJR9
    @NovaJR9 Před rokem +3

    10:16 companion cube: laughs maniacally

  • @thatdoofus4529
    @thatdoofus4529 Před 9 měsíci +1

    Wheatley is awesome. A well-intended fool, who quickly succumbed to sheer power and anger that Glados left behind.

  • @littlesharkeliz
    @littlesharkeliz Před rokem

    So happy to see a fellow Portal enthusiast ❤️

  • @awesomewolf7197
    @awesomewolf7197 Před rokem +4

    What if Carolyn wasn't a willing participate in her becoming an AI and that's why she wanted to kill everyone... for revenge

    • @silverboltscrapper
      @silverboltscrapper Před rokem +4

      It's 110% canon that Caroline didn't want to become GLaDOS, but whether or not that's why GLaDOS is malicious is up for debate

  • @gagaplex
    @gagaplex Před rokem +3

    Is it ever explained why/in what sense GLaDOS is "Genetic"? She was a robot, not a cyborg. And even if Carolin's actual body was somehow integrated (instead of her brain pattern being uploaded or something), she wasn't "genetically modified" or anything, so far as we know? It just never made sense to me, or did I miss something?

  • @doglover449
    @doglover449 Před 10 měsíci

    This was actually super interesting to listen to

  • @Joel_Ross71
    @Joel_Ross71 Před rokem +1

    Well done

  • @KA-dx2kz
    @KA-dx2kz Před rokem +6

    Always wondered what happened to the bodys

    • @Skyrionn
      @Skyrionn  Před rokem +3

      I'm gonna assume GLaDOS used the Party Escort bot to get rid of them.

  • @aironium
    @aironium Před rokem +4

    Space Core 🤝 Premier Cherdenko
    S P A C E

  • @PR0XYL1NK
    @PR0XYL1NK Před rokem

    gosh, i love these videos

  • @dallasthedirtbag
    @dallasthedirtbag Před měsícem

    22:43 this reminds me of that one episode of Xavier Renegade Angel where they use the same voice clip of the word "pain" over and over for every sentence

  • @Corium1
    @Corium1 Před rokem +5

    I still find it really funny that this game takes place in Michigan. Like I live here, and there is this absurd nightmare science facility in my backyard xD