Aperture or Black Mesa

[Hurricane]

Black Mesa definitely. Look at the numbers. One known survivor/escapee from Aperture, over twenty from Black Mesa (who are now the leaders of the Resistance!)

 

[Officer Combine]

Black Mesa definitely. Look at the numbers. One known survivor/escapee from Aperture, over twenty from Black Mesa (who are now the leaders of the Resistance!)

Aperture science is A Space Odyssey, Black Mesa is Planet of the Apes.

 

[Hurricane]

The original Planet of the Apes, or the crappy remake?

 

[Officer Combine]

Original.

 

[G(ordon)-man]

iAperture. Yeah.

 

[Officer Combine]

Tis better to have a fake friend than a sworn enemy.

 

[WriterforHire]

Personally, if I had a choice, I wouldn't be in either. It pretty much means death in both cases. But, if I had to choose, I'll choose Aperture, because then there's a slim possiblity of me living through the entire ordeal. It becomes a little more even if a Nuke wasn't really dropped on Black Mesa, but even then I'll have to stick with Aperture. After all, we don't know if everyone died in Aperture - it could have been a massive evacuation. We know people died in droves in Black Mesa.

 

[Officer Combine]

Personally, if I had a choice, I wouldn't be in either. It pretty much means death in both cases. But, if I had to choose, I'll choose Aperture, because then there's a slim possiblity of me living through the entire ordeal. It becomes a little more even if a Nuke wasn't really dropped on Black Mesa, but even then I'll have to stick with Aperture. After all, we don't know if everyone died in Aperture - it could have been a massive evacuation. We know people died in droves in Black Mesa.

But you could follow Gordon, Adrian, or Barney through the whole ordeal. Or you can just follow a clone to its death.

 

[lord_raken]

I would prefer Black Mesa because there is nor freaky A.I that floods the facility with a neuro-toxin. Black Mesa employees seems to have a better life expectancy. : )

 

[Xevrex]

I would prefer Black Mesa because there is nor freaky A.I that floods the facility with a neuro-toxin. Black Mesa employees seems to have a better life expectancy. : )

Tell that to all the people either brutally killed by aliens, brutally killed by the military, or brutally killed by electricity/falling debris.

 

[Officer Combine]

Tell that to all the people either brutally killed by aliens, brutally killed by the military, or brutally killed by electricity/falling debris.

Both labs brought on their own end. Black Mesa brought on its own and the entire human population's end.

 

[RStefaN]

For all you aperture science "fans" out there, I think you should remember a few things:

1. Don't really think i wanna work with a AI that's lieing and trying to kill me.
2. All that white, beautiful and "high technology" is just an fake let's say illusion, because as you can see when you progres in the game behind all that is the true world, a rusty, lifeless world.
Or to say this to you in a few words, I'll quote something from the game: "The cake is a lie".

So I choose: Black Mesa, hands on.

 

[RStefaN]

Aperture has better graphics than Black Mesa.

How can you even say something like that?
Portal is made on the source engine, half-life isn't, that's why it has better graphics.

PS: sry for the double post.

 

[Officer Combine]

For all you aperture science "fans" out there, I think you should remember a few things:

1. Don't really think i wanna work with a AI that's lieing and trying to kill me.
2. All that white, beautiful and "high technology" is just an fake let's say illusion, because as you can see when you progres in the game behind all that is the true world, a rusty, lifeless world.
Or to say this to you in a few words, I'll quote something from the game: "The cake is a lie".

So I choose: Black Mesa, hands on.

Is it really lying if the person is clearly not telling the truth?

Like say you walk up to bill gates, and ask where he was born: "The south side of Africa."

Is he lying?

 

[deathcheckedin]

Aperture seems less responsible for destroying the world with an alien f***storm, so thats another good one

 

[WriterforHire]

For all you aperture science "fans" out there, I think you should remember a few things:

1. Don't really think i wanna work with a AI that's lieing and trying to kill me.
2. All that white, beautiful and "high technology" is just an fake let's say illusion, because as you can see when you progres in the game behind all that is the true world, a rusty, lifeless world.
Or to say this to you in a few words, I'll quote something from the game: "The cake is a lie".

So I choose: Black Mesa, hands on.

The problem here and with most of the answers in this thread, is that you're all assuming that if you were in the facility of your choice what would happen to you would mirror what's seen in the game. While that's entirely true for Black Mesa, it's the very opposite for Aperture.

1. If I'm not a test subject, then I wouldn't need to talk to GLaDOS or experience the tests at all.
2. At the time of the Neurotoxin Release, if it indeed happened, the back areas of of the game was as pristine as the actual Chambers. And, even if it weren't so, who cares what the facility looks like?

The only real threat one would get from Aperture when it was in its prime is from GLaDOS' Neurotoxin Release, which, as many has stated, we can't be sure even really happened because of how unreliable GLaDOS is, or, if it was released, whether the entire facility was killed off or only a few. But, with the Black Mesa Incident, death is nearly assured. I don't know how to use guns and I don't have a nifty HEV suit on me. So, I'm screwed. I'll too sum it up into a simple sentence.

Black Mesa: Death. Aperture: ?

Then again, I've never been a good gambler.

 

[G(ordon)-man]

You are a nifty one.

 

[pilot7893]

Aperture Science because unlike Black Mesa, while you guys are waiting for the aliens to come to you, we're putting on our coats and finding them ourselves

 

[pilot7893]

How come? GLaDOS was a epic fail.

No she wasn't. GLaDOS was ahead of her time. The only mistake they made was not waiting until construction on the Morality Core to finish before powering her up.

 

[WriterforHire]

You are a nifty one.

Uh...is that a good thing or a bad thing?

 

[HL2p0rTaL]

Aperture Science because unlike Black Mesa, while you guys are waiting for the aliens to come to you, we're putting on our coats and finding them ourselves

Where did you get that pic?

 

[pilot7893]

Where did you get that pic?

It is a repaint I made myself. So you could argue that I made it up.

 

[Officer Combine]

No she wasn't. GLaDOS was ahead of her time. The only mistake they made was not waiting until construction on the Morality Core to finish before powering her up.

Yes because its so moral to drop a person into a pit of fire. Or so GlaDOS told me.

 

[gFrohman]

It's not very moral to tease test subjects with cake either.

 

[Jebusy]

Aperture Science because unlike Black Mesa, while you guys are waiting for the aliens to come to you, we're putting on our coats and finding them ourselves

OMG another orbiter sim player, you almost never see those outside of the forums...

 

[Officer Combine]

It's not very moral to tease test subjects with cake either.

But the cake was real. How was it a tease?

 

[G(ordon)-man]

Uh...is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Nah, don't take me seriously.

 

[Officer Combine]

Nah, don't take me seriously.

Harder said then done.

 

[deathcheckedin]

still black mesa is getting a source port