UPDATED: Portal 2 To Feature Co-op Play, Possible ARG Hints

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UPDATED: Portal 2 To Feature Co-op Play, Possible ARG Hints



After speculation this week, Valve has officially come out to say that Portal 2 [http://www.amazon.com/Portal-2-Playstation-3/dp/B003O6E3C8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1278968960&sr=1-1] is indeed dropping this holiday season.

UPDATE: New details on the gameplay of Portal 2 have emerged. The sequel introduces two new characters and a previously unseen area of Aperture Science Labs. You will once again work with GlaDOS, but Portal 2 will have a two player co-op campaign with its own story that will force the players to solve puzzles together. Portal 2 will be released on PC and Xbox 360.

Source: GameInformer [http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/03/05/Portal-2-For-Two.aspx]


A brief press release from Valve stated the accolades of the company and the many awards (70) that the first Portal received. The sequel is currently slated to come out "this holiday season" but there were no details provided on the setting, plot or anything, really. Going to the Steam website to view continuing ARG [http://store.steampowered.com/news/3559/] which was hinted at earlier this week.

Here follows the complete text from the Steam website including the underlined characters:

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike and Half-Life) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Portal 2 for shipment this coming holiday season.

Portal 2 is the sequel to 2007's Portal, which won 70 industry achievement awards.

For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com [http://www.steamgames.com]

So the underlined characters are: D R A T M A N N H 0 N E E.

I have no idea what that means, or if it means anything at all. That's your job to figure out. Get to it.




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Jared

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What the...well, I am glad to see a second game coming out that is super, special epic awesome!

As for what the phrase means...halp? Anyone? lol
 

xHipaboo420x

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I made a thread about this already.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.178710-Updated-Portal-Shenanigans#5200909

It's got where to go in relation to DRATMANNH0NEE. Shall I just copy & paste the info here?
 

JDviewer

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Can't wait! Hope to hear a lot more about it soon. WIth so many fans out there surely someone has an idea of what those letters mean already!
 

Flamezdudes

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FUCK YEAH! I bloody love Portal so i cannot wait for this, although i wonder how Console user's will buy it...
 

headshotcatcher

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Jaredin said:
What the...well, I am glad to see a second game coming out that is super, special epic awesome!

As for what the phrase means...halp? Anyone? lol
There used to be a teaser site where you could login as aperture science people, maybe Dratmann and honey are name and password? *goes and tries*

EDIT:
http://www.aperturescience.com/

Doesn't work though, maybe someone of you can figure something out?
 

Fox242

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This might be Yahtzee's worst nightmare come true. Unless this game manages to top the original, then he will proceed to blast this game into bits and pieces.
 

Redingold

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The code was the login to the BBS, where it gave an image code or something that some bright spark turned into this: http://bayimg.com/OaLeHAacA
 

Vanguard_Ex

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MaxChaos said:
I made a thread about this already.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.178710-Updated-Portal-Shenanigans#5200909

It's got where to go in relation to DRATMANNH0NEE. Shall I just copy & paste the info here?
Doesn't make a difference, the news room will still post it.
 

Heart of Darkness

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So, by holiday season, they mean Summer '12? 'k. Maybe by then Episode 3 will be slated to come out Holiday '13.
 

mexicola

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Underline letters probably don't mean anything, just there to mess with your mind trying to figure it out. Some kind of an inside joke of the developer team so they can laugh at you trying to guess on the meaning of it. Well, IMO.
 
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Redingold said:
The code was the login to the BBS, where it gave an image code or something that some bright spark turned into this: http://bayimg.com/OaLeHAacA
Which seems to suggest Portal 2 is multiplayer...