Portal 2

Healium · 16-04-2011 2:43pm

Helix wrote: »

this game has brought more lols than any ive ever played before

Get out. Seriously.

I have 5 days to wait. Before that, the Americans and worldwide Steam users will have it, and the internet will be full of talk and spoilers.

It's going to be enough torture to wait

P.S. GLaDOS isn't even booted up http://www.aperturescience.com/glados@home/

You're a damn liar!

richymcdermott · 16-04-2011 3:44pm

one name that i care for stephan merchant , though i need a game now ever so badly with karl pilkington as the voice character

VenomIreland · 16-04-2011 3:47pm

richymcdermott wrote: »

one name that i care for stephan merchant , though i need a game now ever so badly with karl pilkington as the voice character

Preferably with dialogue written by Pilkington himself.

Overheal · 16-04-2011 3:57pm

Burgo wrote: »

There is a leaked copy, but no crack for it apparently.

well i have it pre-loaded on my PC, so yeah, you could say theres a "leaked" copy of it

Antar Bolaeisk · 16-04-2011 8:12pm

1 2 3 Kick It is now complete. Looks like the next target is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

Mantel · 16-04-2011 9:57pm

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

1 2 3 Kick It is now complete. Looks like the next target is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

Wonder if the games are weighted in anyway when it comes to making a difference. Killing floor has a huge amount of players compared to the others but is lagging way behind.

Sierra Oscar · 16-04-2011 10:03pm

Mantel wrote: »

Wonder if the games are weighted in anyway when it comes to making a difference. Killing floor has a huge amount of players compared to the others but is lagging way behind.

Its now assumed that they are weighted differently. Also, it now seems that the "Axillary Power" aka potatoes collected does actually mean something. GLaDOS can overclock the CPU's after a certain amount of potatoes have been collected.

Mr E · 16-04-2011 10:25pm

The next person to post a spoiler NOT IN SPOILER TAGS gets an infraction.

Helix · 16-04-2011 10:26pm

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Its now assumed that they are weighted differently. Also, it now seems that the "Axillary Power" aka potatoes collected does actually mean something. GLaDOS can overclock the CPU's after a certain amount of potatoes have been collected.

plus its something that'll make sense

about half way through portal 2

quite clever actually

Krieg · 16-04-2011 10:38pm

Current projected launch 62hrs 55mins
Default launch 64hrs 25mins

Looks like its only gonna knock a few hours off the release time. Which is a good thing. The release time would have been at midnight, if they knock a few hours off we can play it in the evening of the 18th

Healium · 16-04-2011 11:30pm

So, got this from the ARG wiki

---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.

*drools*

(Don't see this as a spoiler. Merely speculation. HALF LIFE, PLZ. That Achievement BETTER be about the damn Borealis)

Harps · 16-04-2011 11:42pm

Its obviously referring to the Borealis but its just more meaningless speculation, I know thats the whole idea of the ARG but until I actually hear something real I'm not getting too excited.

Hopefully the ship has some sort of proper role in Portal instead of just being a side gimmick to further fuel the HL hype

Antar Bolaeisk · 16-04-2011 11:43pm

Krieg wrote: »

Looks like its only gonna knock a few hours off the release time. Which is a good thing. The release time would have been at midnight, if they knock a few hours off we can play it in the evening of the 18th

Some of the calculations are predicting as little as 35 hours remaining though most seem to be hovering around the 40ish mark. That should put it somewhere on Monday.

Harps wrote: »

Its obviously referring to the Borealis but its just more meaningless speculation, I know thats the whole idea of the ARG but until I actually hear something real I'm not getting too excited.

Hopefully the ship has some sort of proper role in Portal instead of just being a side gimmick to further fuel the HL hype

I can't see how the Borealis could feature too much in Portal 2 since it's set so far in the future. Unless of course it's through old notes just lying around.

Sierra Oscar · 16-04-2011 11:49pm

Not sure if this is related to the ARG yet, possibly is though.

Helix · 16-04-2011 11:55pm

Helix wrote: »

plus its something that'll make sense
about half way through portal 2

quite clever actually

im sorry but how on EARTH is that a spoiler?

Antar Bolaeisk · 17-04-2011 12:00am

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Not sure if this is related to the ARG yet, possibly is though.

Guess we find out tomorrow.

That's one very specific time though.

Antar Bolaeisk · 17-04-2011 7:52am

Another game down, current focus is Rush.

There's now a program available to auto-switch the game at the optimum time called the GLaDOS@Home Community application.

Current focus is now Cogs if you have it, then in decreasing order of importance:

Toki Tori
BIT.TRIP BEAT
The Ball
Audiosurf
Amnesia
Super Meat Boy
Defense Grid: The Awakening
Killing Floor

Edit: Apparently the potato modifier hasn't kicked in and won't until there are 375,466 potatoes. That might mean we could be looking at Portal 2 early tomorrow if true!

Nothing seemed to happen when that number of potatoes was hit.

Toki Tori is nearly there, focus has now been changed to Bit.Trip Beat.

If you don't have that then move on to the next most important game. The order is:

BIT.TRIP BEAT Pixel2CPUrate = .0073
The Ball Pixel2CPUrate = .0043
Amnesia Pixel2CPUrate = .0019
Super Meat Boy Pixel2CPUrate = .0015
Defense Grid: The Awakening Pixel2CPUrate = .0014
Audiosurf Pixel2CPUrate = .0013
Killing Floor Pixel2CPUrate = .0005

Jet Black · 17-04-2011 10:58pm

Be funny if this were true

ríomhaire · 17-04-2011 11:18pm

Jet Black wrote: »

Be funny if this were true

Normally hate those kind of comics, but it made me chortle.

Also, irony:
Many games companies have stated piracy as a reason to focus on the console market. The PC version of Portal is entirely uncracked but one can download a rip of the console versions now. Can't wait till it unlocks.

Krieg · 18-04-2011 12:23am

Less than 24hrs to go?

http://www.gamingmasters.co.uk/portal/
http://www.coughlandesign.com/portal/

Midnight release

Sierra Oscar · 18-04-2011 12:59am

Personally I am beginning to think that the ARG will have minimal impact on the games release . . . I think it is setup in such a way that the release has to be within a timeframe very close to the original planned release time.

ProjectColossus · 18-04-2011 1:17am

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Personally I am beginning to think that the ARG will have minimal impact on the games release . . . I think it is setup in such a way that the release has to be within a timeframe very close to the original planned release time.

+1 to that, I've been very suspicious of this since late Friday. The ARG was well and good, solving puzzles to progress, there was a genuine sense of community achievement when a solution would come out. But this is feeling like a waste of time, there is no puzzle solving anymore, there is just people idling in games trying to make a clock tick faster. The game has been finished for ages at this stage (at least since the console disks were made) and should have been released by now. Or, the Arg should have started a few days later so that the big countdown would appear tomorrow and launch the game on Tuesday since that's been the planned release date.

And what really sucks is that so many people in the forums (there are a lot of hardcore fans there) have had the ending spoiled because of the console leak. If the release had been on Friday many people would have been spared that and everyone would be delighted that it was available early, but I personally feel this final "challenge" has been a pointless mess.

calex71 · 18-04-2011 1:19am

Look you are all forgetting one simple principal ................................................................................................................ the cake is a lie

mickydoomsux · 18-04-2011 2:14am

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Personally I am beginning to think that the ARG will have minimal impact on the games release . . . I think it is setup in such a way that the release has to be within a timeframe very close to the original planned release time.

I posted this exact theory on another forum the day all this started and i got lambasted for saying it.

This "ARG" is just a marketing tool so that both Valve and Portal 2 get a rub of the good-vibes indie voodoo. The first Portal was sort of a hipster-ish game and they just lap up indie stuff and augmented reality gubbins.

marco_polo · 18-04-2011 2:46am

Anyone know where usually has the best PC retail prices? (Slim pickings i know) I've got an All4one voucher with Portal 2s name on it.

Healium · 18-04-2011 2:53am

calex71 wrote: »

Look you are all forgetting one simple principal ................................................................................................................ the cake is a lie

Grrr, no it's not! Ratman was wrong

K.O.Kiki · 18-04-2011 5:27am

mickydoomsux wrote: »

I posted this exact theory on another forum the day all this started and i got lambasted for saying it.

This "ARG" is just a marketing tool so that both Valve and Portal 2 get a rub of the good-vibes indie voodoo. The first Portal was sort of a hipster-ish game and they just lap up indie stuff and augmented reality gubbins.

>hipster
>indie

Don't you ever, EVER try to put those 2 words in the same paragraph again :mad:

Overheal · 18-04-2011 6:30am

am i the only who didnt know they patched Portal 1? It has a different ending now...

Mantel · 18-04-2011 8:05am

Overheal wrote: »

am i the only who didnt know they patched Portal 1? It has a different ending now...

Quite possibly, it was part of the portal 2 announcement ARG. They also put in a new achievement and new radio transmissions.

folan · 18-04-2011 8:11am

Overheal wrote: »

am i the only who didnt know they patched Portal 1? It has a different ending now...

what?

Portal 2

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