Comment on dBrand Companion Cube cancelled:
Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 2 days agoNo mirror, but I watched it when it was still up. The entire video was narrated by “Dave Johnson” in a halfway decent Cave Johnson impression talking about their company being bought out by investors, showing a scene of these new owners (robots apparently, just people wearing those cheap generic sci-fi helmets you see advertised on social media and a black morph suit) using portals and portal guns at one point.
The most blatant though was that it even featured extended scenes with pretty bang on animated models of GLaDoS, the turrets, and Atlas, including the GLaDoS model speaking in a vaguely GLaDoS-esque modulated voice that clearly wasn’t Ellen. It was legit well done enough that when the voices didn’t match I started questioning mid watching “Wait this seems unofficial. Are they…allowed to do this?”
They were, in fact, not allowed to do this.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Kinda burying the lede that they shadow announced Half-Life 3 at the end of the video. I mean, unless you cut it off early.
It was a cool video. I assumed it was legit to some point.
Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I just assumed the Half Life 3 bit was just the usual shitpost joke that plenty of people have done before. I at least didn’t put any amount of credence to it at all as being a “leak” or “official announcement”