Valve's Lombardi: No Portal 2 in 2008

by Griffin McElroy on Apr 26th 2008 6:00PM

We're making a note here: huge disappointment -- since Kim Swift's February interview with X-Play, where she mentioned the existence of a Portal 2 project, we've been salivating at the thought of the continued adventures of Chell, GlaDOS, WC³, and the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device. Unfortunately, it seems we'll be wearing our spit guards for quite some time -- according to a recent Eurogamer interview with Valve's Doug Lombardi, any sort of continuation of the beloved franchise will not be hitting store shelves this year.

Lombardi expressed Valve's desire to create an equally "revolutionary" successor to the lightning-in-a-bottle first person puzzler, rather than cash in on the franchise at the height of its popularity with a quick and dirty sequel. Oh, Lomby, can't we have both? We're all about instant gratification -- especially gratification involving cake, and a particular silent, springheeled heroine.

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Tags: douglombardi, half-life-2, lombardi, orangebox, PC, portal, portal-2, PS3, sequel, valve, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (26)

Why sequel at all? Just make an expanded version with the ability for user-generated puzzles and the potential for DLC

Then Portal will live for a long time

We already have that. Its called the vastly superior PC version. : P

You mean kinda like Portal on the PC? Oh...right.

Yeah, there's quite a few good ones available for the PC version, since anyone can make them in the Source SDK you get free on Steam.

The only user-made one I got was this map by Bethdesa (makers of Oblivion) - it was very clever, hence why I still haven't completed it.

I think Portal 2 should be all live action ( live people, live ray gun, live scenes)

Since portal the flash version has 40 levels then Portal the new version should have levels 20-40. Or make Portal 2 like flash in 3d with the 40 levels.

Sounds like Valve.

Perhaps it will debut alongside Episode Three.

Valve always delays their games so that they can be better and have more content, and we love them for it. :)

Bring it to Wii with Prime 3 like controls pleaseeeeee??

This makes me a sad panda.

GOOD.

I love Portal but they don't want to turn it into another sequel milking panda cow. Portal 1 and everything around it was done perfectly. We don't need a sequel this early. Just more maps.

Dare I say don't make a sequel. Just bring us something else fresh and fun to play in a few years.

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That's a little old compared to other sites.

Anyway Portal shouldn't have a sequel.The amount of hype is ruining this game to the point where we have a bunch of Valve-tards speculating if there's going to be a Portal Gun in Ep3.Say No to Portal!

*God I wish Joystiq had image tags...wait nobody has tried that yet!

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"We're all about instant gratification -- especially gratification involving cake, and a particular silent, springheeled heroine."

My eyes slipped and I read that line as "gratification involving heroin"--obviously a hidden message. I believe the true meaning of this "hidden" message is up to the speculation of Joystiq readers.

No, you're just having a Freudian Slip again...

Valve, how about Portal 1.5? No? Well how about Portal 1.1...

Am I the only one glad to see a company take its time to make a GOOD sequel? Why would we expect a follow up in less than a year? After all, it took Team Fortress 2 about 10 years, but it was well worth it.