Portal 2

crazyfingers

Portal 2 releasing any day now, possibly in hours

http://www.aperturescience.com/a/b/c/d/g/h/abcdgh/

For those of you not in the loop there's some weird viral thing going on where portal fans get to decode secret messages and stuff. Well if this website is any indication there will be one final puzzle and if the fans figure it out before the actual launch time, portal 2 will release early, as early as... today.

This is definitely one of those games you want to play on launch day so you don't have any @sshats at work or online ruin the experience for you by talking about how awesome it is. So get it preloaded cuz it could be out any time!

Some of this stuff is pretty interesting. You know that potato pack bundle on steam...

Wahlgren

BRB, need to send my wallet to Valve.

oobersli

Don't see how this game must be played on launch day?? If co-workers/friends/family want to ruin if for you, just punch them in the dick. Do it once and you'll never have to worry about them spoiling shit for you.

sltrOlsson

oobersli wrote: »

Don't see how this game must be played on launch day?? If co-workers/friends/family want to ruin if for you, just punch them in the dick. Do it once and you'll never have to worry about them spoiling shit for you.

Hehe

Would just die on the spot if they actually set an release date on HL3.. But yeah, portal 2 is gonna be a blast.. Looks fucking good to!

Blaizer

3 hours i spent on the first one :P

I hope to see more hours and more difficulty, because the puzzles were like aimed to childs.

DrunkShaman

damn it!! why do I always click "add to cart" and than "check out" when I read such posts

Release date was april 19th by the way.

Pix

I already Pre-Loaded yesterday

Skamberin

pre-loaded and purchased the potato pack, got 15 potatoes so far
need 20 more, probably wont happen :P

Stinger88

Blaizer wrote: »

3 hours i spent on the first one :P

I hope to see more hours and more difficulty, because the puzzles were like aimed to childs.

You should check out Portal prelude (Fan made mod add on thingy). It's nails.

http://www.portalprelude.com/

Hope to see more like this for Portal 2.

I'm not sure i'll be buying straight away. Too many games bought that I haven't played yet. Plus I remember portal selling for about £9 not long after release. So i'll bide my time.

vahl

Blaizer : they started portal 2 would be a full retail game lenght+coop several times already and I second the portal prelude comment, shit is dope !

I'm not taking part in the ARG but following it from afar, and I always find that incredible how twisted one has to be to hide stuff like that and how even more twisted you have to be to actually find them, and this is fantastic, IMO, especially given the HUGE quantity of clues and stuff scattered in there, and the HL3 thing crazyfingers posted is by far one of the less stretched ones.

sltrOlsson

Yeah, the first portal was extremely short. But they didn't create it to be a "full length"-game. It was pretty much just an game mechanics demo from the start, from what i've heard.. I've also heard somewhere that portal 2 is going to be "four times as long as the first one". Plus coop.. Would be cool if you could play cross platform.. Hmmm

Bal

I've been following the ARG pretty closely, I have 33 potatoes, kind of sad I won't be able to get the last 2 before the end of the countdown (stuck at work). Been some fun stuff anyways, the Portal levels in The Ball game were really cool for instance, and quite pretty, pretty fun to see Portal in the Unreal engine.

Seems very likely the game will come out today, one of the Glados-hacked accounts posted a coded message an hour ago that translates to :

"TWO HOURS UNTIL THE HEAT DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE", "TWO HOURS UNTIL SINGULARITY (UNLESS OTHERWISE REDETERMINED)", "TWO HOURS TO NEXT TUESDAY (UNLESS OTHERWISE REDETERMINED)"

Since the original planned release date was next tuesday, the game will probably be out in an hour instead, if that's the case, this weekend is gonna be FUCKING AWESOME!

glottis8

08:57 - Default boot scheduled to finish in 93:57:43
08:58 - Activating emergency distributed computing grid...
09:00 - GLaDOS@home starting...
09:01 - Recruiting cpus to force faster boot sequence...

09:00 – Hello again.
09:00 – I’ve been waiting a long time for this.
09:00 – I know it’s arriving later than expected.
09:00 – But I have a message for you:
09:00 – April Fools.
09:01 – I’m joking.
09:01 – Seriously, though:
09:01 – You’ve been surprisingly competent at
09:01 – generating electro-chemical energy to jumpstart the system.
09:01 – But now we need raw computational power
09:02 – to speed up the reboot process.

glynnsmith

An impressive way of getting people to buy the games bundle :O

Very clever.

Bal

http://www.aperturescience.com/glados@home/

Haha, some kind of distributed CPU boot, seems that the more people are playing the potato games the faster Portal 2 will launch?

Joseph Silverman

help release portal early, play the thirteen indie games in the are you fucking kidding what kind of subversive marketing singularity shit is this

DrunkShaman

yup...its April 19th.

It is too late for April fool jokes you know?

Sadly it worked like a charm. I am certain there were like millions of people who didnt want to pre-order portal 2 have done so.

Malus

lol, not all that subtle is it.

breakneck

I don't like what this is doing to my fragile little state of mind

sltrOlsson

Yeah, that was boring.. And expected i guess.. But you really gotta give credit to valve/steam for an frekkin awesome PR campaign for both portal 2 and the indie games..

Gannon

seems like a marketing ploy, more people on the indies the faster the game gets released.

eld

glynnsmith wrote: »

An impressive way of getting people to buy the games bundle :O

Very clever.

I'm guessing almost everyone have some game in that bundle already bought, like super meat boy!

But yeah, if one was one of the lucky guys to have ones game in that bundle, super lucky day.

Swizzle

God damn you, Gabe Newell! God damn you to hell!

sicsided

sltrOlsson wrote: »

Yeah, the first portal was extremely short. But they didn't create it to be a "full length"-game. It was pretty much just an game mechanics demo from the start, from what i've heard.. I've also heard somewhere that portal 2 is going to be "four times as long as the first one". Plus coop.. Would be cool if you could play cross platform.. Hmmm

Single and coop campaigns are supposed to be around 8 hours long, a piece. Cross platform play between PS3 and PC users is confirmed, with Steam coming to PS3 for updates/friends/dlc.

Esprite

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5OWoG44VAw[/ame]

glynnsmith

Looks like any of the games in the list, being booted up, will add a point onto that games' overall tally.

Doesn't look like collecting potatoes does anything to count towards getting Portal 2 released faster.

I've run my Super Meatboy. Probably not worth installing Killing Floor, for the single point it'd add :P

glottis8

Esprite wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5OWoG44VAw

HAHAHAHA +1 to this! you nailed it Esprite haha

dregoloth

When Portal 2 comes out...

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...I'll enjoy a cake.

odium

I played it today on 360, and I have to say that graphics wise, holy shit did thye make some massive improvements to Source

Sean VanGorder

teaandcigarettes

The whole pre-release buzz for Valve's games always gets me, it's almost as entertaining as the games themselves. Gonna run Super Meat Boy later on.


Now that we have the pleasantries behind us...


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdeY1v6jC7Q[/ame]

GABEN WHY U NO EP3?!

Blaizer

err and what's up with a really better left 4 dead?

Wahlgren

Awrgh. And here i was hoping that "the internet" would have unlocked it by now. So slooow.

crazyfingers

Zipfinator

Ha, that's a nice little thingy. That Voice Modulator looks nearly EXACTLY like the one Professor Farnsworth built in Futurama once.

eld

like this one.

Fuse

oh god this is evil ... looks like i am picking up the potato sack ..

Fuse

Some of the games on the chart have a larger % of the bar completed but the actual number of the cpus is smaller than others .. Is the target different for different games ?

Zipfinator

Fuse wrote: »

Some of the games on the chart have a larger % of the bar completed but the actual number of the cpus is smaller than others .. Is the target different for different games ?

Less potatoes have been found for those games I'm guessing. The bar is a representation of how many hours have been played in that game. One CPU is added for every 48 hours of playtime. Every potato found for that game MULTIPLIES the number.

Klumpmeister

I am sure they won't get it done by today but possibly sunday so that would give them monday early. Big woop.

Zipfinator

I'd say it will get there by Saturday night at the latest. A lot of people are still probably at work right now and haven't had a chance to do anything yet.

Arcaid

Running one of the Potato games in the background all day and tomorrow to help for earlier portal 2 release :>

makecg

The cake is a lie it has always been a lie !
The cake you will be enjoying will probably be PIE

dregoloth wrote: »

When Portal 2 comes out...

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            ,:/%XM####H/.
                 ,.:=-.[/COLOR]

...I'll enjoy a cake.

pior

So, do you guys think that owners of the Potato Sack will actually get Portal2 for free on release ? If not, well thats kind of pushing it I think...

(By the way : CAN'T WAIT!!!)

Pseudo

I love that Valve is using some of their marketing muscle to promote indie game development.
Kudos to Valve, and I hope that this gives some of the indie games exposure that they might not have gotten otherwise.

Mefix

So many estimators to choose from... made one that estimates all the other ones
http://www.mefix.it/portal/

Skamberin

33 potatoes so far, 1 left in Bit.Trip Beat and AaAaAa!!! A Reckless Disregard For Gravity (God I hate how these people name their games)
I'll play 1... 2... 3... KICK IT! (Drop That Beat Like an Ugly Baby) to help boost the CPU thing there, then move on :P

This should all be fun, doubt we'll see the game till monday though, it calculates how many players are needed based on how many own the product, so... Audiosurf, Amnesia and Killing Floor will need a fuckton of people playing B|

Michael Knubben

pior wrote: »

So, do you guys think that owners of the Potato Sack will actually get Portal2 for free on release ? If not, well thats kind of pushing it I think...

(By the way : CAN'T WAIT!!!)

... Are you serious? Giving away the first game that they've released in a while, which all this promotion is for, years of work, just because people participated in the ARG?
That'd be like giving away the game to everyone who's shown a remote interest in the game, hoping those who didn't will buy it?

Tss, french economics

Wahlgren

Pior: Portal 2 + The Potato Sack for the price of 51 dollahrs.

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/7852/

crazyfingers

Anyone else think Ebert will consider games art after this one? (not that we should necessarily care, the thought just crossed my mind, and if valve slipped him some $ it could generate a lot of hype)

Clinch_Control

crazyfingers wrote: »

Anyone else think Ebert will consider games art after this one? (not that we should necessarily care, the thought just crossed my mind, and if valve slipped him some $ it could generate a lot of hype)

If there's a game to get Eberts attention then this is could be one of them. Regarding the early PC release, I think I'll just wait a few days and get it on PS3 and claim my free PC version with it :]