Aperture Science spares no expense...

[Arby]

Aperture also has a significant lead in one vital area: exits. Portal 2 showed us several exits from the Aperture facility. Sure

most

of them were condemned, but they existed. I know that upon reaching those things in Portal 2 the first time my immediate reaction was the imagine how insanely overjoyed Freeman would be to see them, followed by how crushed he would be at them being inaccessible.

[Arby]

By that I mean, that at a certain point in his life, he made the decision that the tests subjects were expandable.

 

Somehow I think Expansion Gel didn't sell all that well as a dietary supplement.

[ArcticAvenger]

It depends on your point of view. If by exits you mean "outside the facility", then Freeman did reach the Surface a few times.

 

Unfortunetly... since the base is located in the middle of a desert, were heavily armed gunships and soldiers patrol... I'd count these as "being inaccessible." But sure, exits did exist.

 

Somehow I think Expansion Gel didn't sell all that well as a dietary supplement.

Something els that didn't sell very well was telling people you'll give them 50$ for the internal organs they have. Because, you know, they don't need them anyway.

[Arby]

I wouldn't exactly count crawling through sewage pipes and abandoned mechanical systems as exits . Aperture had them clearly available and marked as doors for the express purpose of leaving the facility.

[ArcticAvenger]

Aperture had them clearly available and marked as doors for the express purpose of leaving the facility.

For a period of time, at least.

[scott155]

Aperture science keeps working after the apocalypse whereas Black Mesa causes the apocalypse.

[JPController]

Aperture science keeps working after the apocalypse whereas Black Mesa causes the apocalypse.

Imagine what would of happened if a corporation like Weyland Yutani or OCP existed in the Half Life Universe. I don't dare say Umbrella though. Zombie zen? Already done.

[Luis]

No, it is Blappeture Mesa

http://www.blappeture.com/

 

God, that cracked me up, I had never listened to it before.