Comments on: SquatMatch: SHODAN vs GLaDOS

By: Nadroj

Nadroj — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:35:11 +0000

You know that cyborg you control in portals? SHODAN made her go there.
I have much more respect for SHODAN. She scared the crap out of me when I was twelve. Especially when I found that that person was her all along.

By: Catofnight

Catofnight — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:35:30 +0000

I know, old topic and all.. But I just recently found it..
And I must say.. I love it 8D Really well thought, and good points of view..

But think about it.. both AIs are intelligent, and sure they might start a war against each other, but.. What if they didn’t? What if they ended up working together..

SHODAN could easilly kill a lot of people, kill them and hunt the survivors towards the Aperture Science facility, where GLaDOS would welcome them, and guide them to the safest place, they just have to go through a few tests, to ensure that they’re not SHODAN’s cyborgs..

And Thus they lived happily ever after 8D Not..

By: ATC

ATC — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:40:42 +0000

I can’t believe this! CABAL from Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun: Firestorm would easily destroy them both with his CABAL Defender.
LIEK PEWPEW LAZOR!!1!one!!eleven1!

P.S Portal is one of the greatest games I’ve ever played.

P.S (II) Look in here and you’ll see with your own eyes how badass he is.
http://cnc.wikia.com/wiki/Computer_Assisted_Biologically_Augmented_Lifeform

By: Lord Of Pugs

Lord Of Pugs — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:43:11 +0000

Shodan would win, no contest. GLaDOS spends her time experimenting with almost-vanilla humans, trying to see what they can do with portal (and perhaps other) technologies. Chell and her trip through GLaDOS’s testing environment was the product of years, maybe decades of research. Shodan was able to create a race of beings that trump humans in every way on a whim. If Shodan had the time and resources that GLaDOS had then she’d probably be the ruler of the Combine.

This isn’t to say that I like Shodan more than GLaDOS. They are both among the best AIs ever created in fiction.

By: DARKflame34

DARKflame34 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:29:56 +0000

No. SHODAN would kill GLaDOS.
SHODAN doesn’t just control zombies, she makes intelligent use of resources, such as forcing humans to do her bidding. She could probably find a test subject inside the chambers, and use them to download herself into GLaDOS’ main CPU. The the fight would begin, and SHODAN was hacked for combat. SHODAN could either fight GLaDOS head-on, or she could now see what her cyborgs and mutants are failing at and make changes to the chambers for her benefit so her children could destroy GLaDOS. All GLaDOS has is a bunch of stationary machine-gun and rocket turrets.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:47:53 +0000

Don’t forget Durandal from Marathon. He’s like a male SHODAN: controls an enormous space vessel, is insane, will do anything to attain more power, uses the player as a puppet, enjoys using enormous lasers on planets…

By: mrman

mrman — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:03:51 +0000

michael GLaDOS had you trusting her through the entire game up until you the last hour. and, being a random test subject. how and what could you think that she wanted to kill you. its a pretty fair fight if you ask me.

By: Michel

Michel — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:43:08 +0000

SHODAN doesn’t rely purely on Zombies. She’s way more resourceful than that. Remember when she was charging the mining laser in an attempt to destroy Earth, or when she started downloading a copy of herself to Earth? *SPOILERS* And don’t forget the beginning of System Shock 2. SHODAN did gain a lot of trust from the player there, much more than GLaDOS ever could. */SPOILERS*

By: manuel

manuel — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:14:52 +0000

I don`t speak inglish, but I want to say that glados isn’t bad. She is crazy.
She becames a people killer when something failed in her system.

By: Spamalot

Spamalot — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:04:32 +0000

You’re making me want to go back and play system shock 2. I can’t really weigh in on who pwns more, since I haven’t played system shock. I must say though, GLaDOS is one of the best villains of any game ever. Portal was amazing.

Buy the orange box. I think you might be able to get the games individually for windows via steam, but they end up costing 20 or 30 bucks a piece.

Durandal from the marathon series was pretty evil too.