{"id":45559,"date":"2026-04-18T22:32:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=45559"},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:32:59","slug":"long-before-friendslop-portal-2-made-co-op-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=45559","title":{"rendered":"Long Before Friendslop, Portal 2 Made Co-Op Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1585\/15855271\/4684169-images.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>April 18, 2026 marks the 15-year anniversary of Portal 2&#8217;s release. Below, we reminisce about its memorable story, novel cooperative two-player mode, and enduring comedy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">There was a time in the PlayStation 3\/Xbox 360 era when Valve was spoiling us with games, packaging some excellent titles in The Orange Box and bringing us back-to-back Left 4 Dead entries. But the company hit a stride with the 2011 release of Portal 2, which might be its finest accomplishment of that generation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Following up from 2007&#8217;s Portal, Valve would still have had a hit if it had only made and released the single-player campaign, but the developers went the extra mile with the addition of a full-fledged co-op campaign&#8211;which itself would have been an equally worthy sequel to Portal on its own, and in retrospect, was a harbinger for cooperative and social games trending today.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/long-before-friendslop-portal-2-made-co-op-cool\/1100-6539481\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 18, 2026 marks the 15-year anniversary of Portal 2&#8217;s release. Below, we reminisce about its memorable story, novel cooperative two-player mode, and enduring comedy&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1622,4153,14494,2702,8292],"class_list":["post-45559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-cool","tag-coop","tag-friendslop","tag-long","tag-portal","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}