Crazy Valve ARG Teases ... Portal 2? *Update*

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Maybe Alyx IS Chell?

 

[Sinister Minister]

Maybe if Valve spent more of their workday on the actual product rather than being 'clever' (AKA: pulling smarmy Abercrombie bullshit) we'd have the %$&^ing game by now!

And you know this...how?

 

[8bitmaster]

ive found 4 of them so far and noticed that they are just sound files. Is there some way to dl them or are you supposed to record them in game?

 

[ninjajoeman]

I say its a prequel seriously... the picture looks like gladus stripped of her components just like a prototype and the note means that they are in a job at aperture science which means that they are acting like none of this happened or it has not happened yet...but I'm probobly wrong but pfft who knows

 

[Bobic]

It appears they've added another vague update to portal

'March 3, 2010 - Portal Update Released

Updates to Portal have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.

Portal


Added valuable asset retrieval'

So what craziness is this leading to now

 

[QuirkyTambourine]

There's a new ending to the game

http://www.xfire.com/video/2393cf/

Pretty awesome/creeepy/strange shit going on here

 

[sgtshock]

There's a new ending to the game

http://www.xfire.com/video/2393cf/

Pretty awesome/creeepy/strange shit going on here

Holy shit.

I think we just found out what the 'valuable asset' was.

 

[Steve the Pocket]

Retconning is easy when you have the ability to edit everyone's copy of the game after the fact! Pity they didn't think to do this to Half-Life 2 when Episode One came out...

 

[The Random One]

Is the picture supposed to be all blurry? Because it's all blurry for me.

 

[Zer_]

Zer is feeling anticipation. Zer cannot wait for this announcement. Zer will explode now.

 

[ninjajoeman]

boom

 

[Steve the Pocket]

Dammit I can NOT get that radio to stay with me when I jump across after the fire. It keeps jumping out of my hands for no reason. I wish there was some kind of walkthrough that wasn't just some guy noclipping around telling you where to go...

 

[Trivun]

So wait. There's a shot of Vortigaunts holding hands. Is it possible this is a joint reveal of both Ep. 3 and Portal 2? Because that shot (the vortigaunts) makes zero sense in Portal.

Actually, it makes perfect sense. Half Life and Portal take place in the same continuity, as Black Mesa and Aperture Science are specifically mentioned in various Half Life media as being rival science labs and companies. They exist together, and the references to some 'catastrophe' on the surface that Glados makes in Portal can be construed as being something to do with the Seven Hour War and subsequent Combine conquest of Earth.

So Vortigaunts in a Portal setting makes perfect sense.

 

[Magnalian]

This has remained surprisingly quiet on the Escapist+ this post has so far only recieved around 100 posts, while the Steam forums had topics with more than 500 PAGES in the last 2 days. And here I thought this place was swarming with Valve fanboys.

 

[Godhead]

Here's a puzzle for you Valve: Guess what finger I'm holding up!

OOH OOH OOH, is it your pinky?

 

[ThatsBitch3n]

So wait. There's a shot of Vortigaunts holding hands. Is it possible this is a joint reveal of both Ep. 3 and Portal 2? Because that shot (the vortigaunts) makes zero sense in Portal.

Actually, it makes perfect sense. Half Life and Portal take place in the same continuity, as Black Mesa and Aperture Science are specifically mentioned in various Half Life media as being rival science labs and companies. They exist together, and the references to some 'catastrophe' on the surface that Glados makes in Portal can be construed as being something to do with the Seven Hour War and subsequent Combine conquest of Earth.

So Vortigaunts in a Portal setting makes perfect sense.

It makes even more sense because they are not vortigaunts. they are 2 failed aperture science robots.

 

[NLS]

It makes even more sense because they are not vortigaunts. they are 2 failed aperture science robots.

Yes, I don't see how people started seeing those things as vortigaunts.

 

[NotAPie]

Dammit I can NOT get that radio to stay with me when I jump across after the fire. It keeps jumping out of my hands for no reason. I wish there was some kind of walkthrough that wasn't just some guy noclipping around telling you where to go...

I'm not sure if it works the same way but, if you press the use key don't you pick it up with your hands instead of using the portal gun?
Well if I'm right, pressing the shoot button with make you throw the object you picked up, throw it into the portal.
God I hope I'm right because if not I'ma feel like even more of an idiot.

 

[ninjajoeman]

for some odd reason I dont get the radios to work but I get the new ending...

 

[Aeshi]

Don't we already have a thread for this?