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#1 cabose38
Member since 2005 • 1162 Posts

Do you guys know about this?

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

If you do, and have toki tori, then please play it now.

Just trying to get the word out as I desperately want to play Portal 2 before the weekend is over.

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#2 flipin_jackass
Member since 2004 • 9772 Posts
I saw that yesterday and I'm still not even sure what it is. Probably because I'm not crazy about Portal 2. Though, I do feel like playing Audiosurf, Super Meat Boy or Defense Grid now...
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#3 DanielDust
Member since 2007 • 15402 Posts
I hope that was a joke, the weekend is almost over, what you see there is the result of 50 hours, if it goes at this pace, you'll be lucky if you see it 10 hours before the official release date.
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#4 Gamesterpheonix
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They are just trying to get people to play games and market at the same time. Its nice that they are offering a way to release the game early but its still just a ploy. lol all it means is that its ready and they're screwing with us to make us THINK we can release it early even though they could have released it early themselves if they wanted with no problems.
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#5 o0Pwnzorz0o
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Kinda sad how some of these games only have 2 thousand current CPU's, if everyone that had these games would have completed these semi-easy potato challenges and just played them then Portal 2 would have been released like Saturday...
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#6 DanielDust
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Kinda sad how some of these games only have 2 thousand current CPU's, if everyone that had these games would have completed these semi-easy potato challenges and just played them then Portal 2 would have been released like Saturday...o0Pwnzorz0o
The only sad thing is that most people don't really play them at all after they buy them, but at least they sold quite well for indie games.
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#7 o0Pwnzorz0o
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[QUOTE="o0Pwnzorz0o"]Kinda sad how some of these games only have 2 thousand current CPU's, if everyone that had these games would have completed these semi-easy potato challenges and just played them then Portal 2 would have been released like Saturday...DanielDust
The only sad thing is that most people don't really play them at all after they buy them, but at least they sold quite well for indie games.

Ya that's true. I take it back when I said semi-easy potato challenges... the Audio Surf ones and The Ball potatoes took me hours. I am one away from 24. This is probably the funnest I've had with games in a long time. I usually don't play little indie games like this but for some reason I am having so much fun with these games right now.
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#8 Mochyc
Member since 2007 • 4421 Posts
Not gonna happen. I'm betting at best It'll come out on monday night.
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#9 charmingcharlie
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Just trying to get the word out as I desperately want to play Portal 2 before the weekend is over.

cabose38

It is looking more and more likely that this Arg thing is rigged, it doesn't matter how many play the games it won't unlock things faster. In all probability you will get a few hours off the official release date and that is it. Even if you got every single gamer on steam to get involved with this it still would only shave a few hours off the release date.

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#10 TerrorRizzing
Member since 2010 • 4232 Posts

dont take it too seriously, most people will just wait until tuesday lol

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#11 cain006
Member since 2008 • 8625 Posts

I'm surprised that Amnesia is doing the worst. It was selling pretty well earlier.

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#12 o0Pwnzorz0o
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I'm surprised that Amnesia is doing the worst. It was selling pretty well earlier.

cain006
It's also one of the easiest games to get the potatoes, one of them just involves you naming your profile a certain name and the other is getting 100% on the Justine DLC which I did for 3 friends in around 1 hour.
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#13 Batang_X990
Member since 2010 • 939 Posts
they shouldve given this a whole week. the weekend seem to short. and people might not even be on at all during the weekend.
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#14 nutcrackr
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People on the Steam forums are complaining that the whole process is only going to lead to a release about 8 hours earlier than originally planned. My guess is that these people put in way too much of their own time into this expecting perhaps a weekend release.

Seems thousands are participating in a system were they call a game and people rush and start playing (or idling) that game and it goes up to 100% finished. At the moment they are focusing on The Ball. When each game hits 100% I'm pretty sure that a chunk of time is removed from the countdown.

People have made countdowns and estimations of the system. This is probably better ones I've seen. I think it alone gives you a good indication of how much effort some are putting into this whole ARG thing. I personally got a few easy potatoesand called it a day.

http://cpucount.zapto.org/

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#15 flipin_jackass
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I think it alone gives you a good indication of how much effort some are putting into this whole ARG thing.nutcrackr
Okay, this might sound like a dumb question/request, but can someone explain to me what ARG is in layman's terms? I tried Wiki and Google and it just confused me. I've seen this acronym a lot lately.
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#16 DanielDust
Member since 2007 • 15402 Posts

Too complex and awesome to just explain, start from day one.

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#17 hypoty
Member since 2009 • 2825 Posts

I'm surprised that Amnesia is doing the worst. It was selling pretty well earlier.

cain006

Some games seem to take longer to increase than others, and it could be based on sales. Amnesia has the most sales which means more people have to play it for it to increase.

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#18 Dante2710
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There is no point really, if you are lucky you might get Portal 2 three or 2 hours earlier.
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#19 hypoty
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There is no point really, if you are lucky you might get Portal 2 three or 2 hours earlier. Dante2710

7-9 hours most likely, but if you're going to work/school that day it won't mean much. It's going to unlock at 6pm where I live, right when I get home from work, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones.

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#20 Mochyc
Member since 2007 • 4421 Posts

I'm surprised that Amnesia is doing the worst. It was selling pretty well earlier.

cain006
Haha, I'm too scared to play it. I actually had a nightmare about it just by watching gameplay videos.