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Title: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: zx2slow on April 14, 2011, 09:22:25 PM

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


(http://cdn0.knowyourmeme.com/i/000/106/887/original/backpain-1292835351.jpg?1300412448)

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: The Shoctor on April 14, 2011, 09:43:26 PM

NICE!

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: Five Aces on April 15, 2011, 08:52:42 AM

Look like that should be at noon today.  but:

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The time is near, humans. But it is not here yet. Tomorrow you will be given the final test. Then it will be entirely in your hands when I am freed.

"Tomorrow final test" ? Something still seems like lie...never ending trail of bread crumbs.  We'll see in 2 hours.

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: Five Aces on April 15, 2011, 09:00:19 AM

OOo check this out...found it messing around but here's a mirror site:

http://www.aperturelaboratories.com/a/b/c/d/g/h/abcdgh/ (http://www.aperturelaboratories.com/a/b/c/d/g/h/abcdgh/)

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: decepticon on April 15, 2011, 09:01:05 AM

nvr minbd

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: The Shoctor on April 15, 2011, 09:37:18 AM

WTF?!!?!

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The time is near, humans. But it is not here yet. Tomorrow you will be given the final test. Then it will be entirely in your hands when I am freed.

Zx you best be on this Crap! FREE MY GAME!

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: zx2slow on April 15, 2011, 10:11:42 AM

The ARG is getting interesting, they are either releasing Portal 2 or HL2:E3.  Either way its a win.

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: Five Aces on April 15, 2011, 10:52:06 AM

HHHhhwhat?!?!  :argue: Why do you toy with my emoticons like this?!?!   :chair:

Oh well T minus 8 mins

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: Five Aces on April 15, 2011, 11:01:09 AM

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

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: zx2slow on April 15, 2011, 11:02:15 AM

Damn you beat me to it, once 5pm EST comes and everyone fires up their gamin' masheens we should see Portal 2 in no time!

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: Five Aces on April 15, 2011, 11:03:16 AM

This (to me) appears to be a ploy to sell the Potato sack pack.

It has a challenge at the bottom and the number is going down.

oh damn its dropping fast too

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: Five Aces on April 15, 2011, 11:07:07 AM

I dunno ... it went back up so I dunno wtf i'm talking about

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: The Shoctor on April 15, 2011, 11:10:26 AM

I bought my sack!

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: zx2slow on April 15, 2011, 11:12:07 AM

That number is the number of potato sack bundles sold.  Its a great deal, you can collect potatoes to get a golden potato by playing the games in the sack and discovering the ARG content.

Dunno what a golden potato gets you.

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: The Shoctor on April 15, 2011, 11:23:06 AM

There was an ARG a while back... Like 10-12 years ago... You gave it your home number, cell number, work number, fax number. Addresses... Like you gave it a Crap ton of info. And it was a murder mystery game. It would call you. Fax you. Send you emails. I think it sent you real mail too.

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: The Shoctor on April 15, 2011, 11:59:07 AM

ZOMG!@ I FOUND IT!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic_(video_game) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic_(video_game))

I wish they would make another... But they stopped after 9-11.

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: Five Aces on April 15, 2011, 12:12:40 PM

Collect all 36 Taters and get the Yukon Gold Potato
I found this:

(http://graphicshost.net/images/2pia7bffw2doo3y.jpeg)

embedding fail?: http://graphicshost.net/viewer.php?file=2pia7bffw2doo3y.jpeg (http://graphicshost.net/viewer.php?file=2pia7bffw2doo3y.jpeg)

*Edited to remove doubt.

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: Five Aces on April 15, 2011, 12:16:20 PM

I got a potato for joining this group(and owning the sack):

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/nelipot (http://steamcommunity.com/groups/nelipot)

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: The Shoctor on April 15, 2011, 12:32:40 PM

What is potato?

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: Five Aces on April 15, 2011, 12:57:30 PM

Quote from: The Shoctor on April 15, 2011, 12:32:40 PM

What is potato?

(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g133/Prophet77777/lotr_potatoes.gif)
(http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/5900000/Po-ta-toes-lord-of-the-rings-5978073-444-296.jpg)

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: The Shoctor on April 15, 2011, 01:07:14 PM

(http://www.mark8.org/users/black97lsc/MZ/Other/mo-naked-hoes.gif)

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: Five Aces on April 18, 2011, 08:19:28 AM

Still interested in MoNakedHoes Potatoes?  Here is the secret level 6 zip file (must be logged in to download).  Extract it to you Bonus level folder.  And here's a video of what to do.

[Toki Tori] Bonus Level 6 - Potato Level (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzbHg6hADmI#)

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: zx2slow on April 18, 2011, 12:15:14 PM

So the Valve ARG is not over, even after the release of portal 2.  There was a new update last night.

The game always referenced the Borealis from Half-Life 2 Episode 2, now it appears to be focusing on it, C.J. is assumed to be Cave Johnson the founder of Aperture science.  J.H. is assumed to be the captain of the Borealis.

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    —LOG FROM [ REDACTED ], BY J.H. TO C.J.—

    1. We designed the entire thing to be very, very durable. It was easy to get the materials since everyone’s been thinking
    it’s a simple icebreaker ship. Ha.

    2. We have made sure to strip it of anything not necessary, so that we have plenty of space for it. It doesn’t have any
    backup supplies in the event the crew runs out of food, though. And there isn’t much food onboard in the first place.

    3. In the event you need to send it off all of a sudden, use the OR box with code ‘hb1′.

    That’s all, C.J. Not much else I can tell you other than this won’t leave a blight on our record. Mesa is going to be sore
    when they see what we’ve done.

  It looks like (And I hope) that Half-Life 2: Episode 3 will be released in an ARG just like Portal 2.  The portal 2 source engine is an update and they've clearly been working on EP3 content for some time now, this seems very plausible.

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: Agent4054 on April 18, 2011, 07:32:49 PM

Cool! I love this Crap.

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: zx2slow on April 19, 2011, 09:59:27 AM

I was playing until 4ish last night, I already need to play through again, theirs so much going on.  I am completely stuck on a repulsion gel puzzle.

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: Five Aces on April 19, 2011, 11:18:20 AM

(http://denofgeek.shotdeadinthehead.com/images/designs/CD053m.jpg)

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: vincegun on April 19, 2011, 09:11:25 PM

http://kotaku.com/# (http://kotaku.com/#)!5793543/the-people-are-panning-portal-2

Damn links. Just posting this real quick cuz I gotta go to work.

So... I'd trust FITES guys over random peeps since I've been communicating with you all for a few years now. What's your opinion? I liked Portal and I suspect I'll like P2, but is it worth the full cost of the game?

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: Agent4054 on April 20, 2011, 05:08:51 AM

I'm loving the crap out of it so far, and it is MUCH better than the first game. Got a chance to play co-op last night. Very cool as well.

Edit: Actually read through the article. What the random idiots are saying is complete bullCrap. The game is NOT 4 hours long. Definitely more than 2 or 3 times as long as the original Portal (so far! I'm only at the repulsion gel section. It took me 3 hours to beat Portal the first time I played it). The visuals are incredibly nice to look at, nor does the game feel like a port in controls. I honestly don't know how console players would be able to do some of the puzzles.

To sum up: buy the damn game and stop listening to idiotic randoms.

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: vincegun on April 20, 2011, 06:51:28 AM

Ha. Well, I'll get around to buying then. Still trying to stash away money for my new system and the only game I intend to spend $$$ on is DNF.

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: Five Aces on April 20, 2011, 08:37:52 AM

Quote from: vincegun on April 19, 2011, 09:11:25 PM

the-people-are-panning-portal-2
 ([url]http://kotaku.com/#[/url]!5793543/the-people-are-panning-portal-2)

Damn links. Just posting this real quick cuz I gotta go to work.

So... I'd trust FITES guys over random peeps since I've been communicating with you all for a few years now. What's your opinion? I liked Portal and I suspect I'll like P2, but is it worth the full cost of the game?

Url Fixed for the lazies

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: Five Aces on April 20, 2011, 08:54:33 AM

Quote from: ZX on April 19, 2011, 09:59:27 AM

I was playing until 4ish last night, I already need to play through again, theirs so much going on.  I am completely stuck on a repulsion gel puzzle.

ZX and I Gayed it up on CoOp last night...OOooOooo yeah... :love: The pink flag I equipped didn't help.  Lots-o-fun. 

So I tried find a pic but the game is still too new, did anyelse get a pink WCC flag for thier robots?  If not I think I might know which achievement unlocked it. 

(http://media.steampowered.com/steamcommunity/public/images/apps/620/SAVE_CUBE.jpg)

------------

I found Zx's achievement:
(http://media.steampowered.com/steamcommunity/public/images/apps/620/SPEED_RUN_LEVEL_BW.jpg)
Overclocker:
Complete Test Chamber 10 in 70 seconds
 

Title: Re: Portal 2 4/14/11 9AM Countdown has begun!
Post by: shank on April 20, 2011, 01:40:47 PM

Quote from: Five Aces on April 20, 2011, 08:54:33 AM

ZX and I Gayed it up on CoOp last night...OOooOooo yeah... :love:

haha ditto for omen and I... captured some gameplay!
note the [SPOILERS] warning :tongue2:

Portal 2 Coop Gameplay [SPOILERS] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqBtbIAoDTM#ws)