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| dodger2020 wrote: | | garus wrote: | | Werelds wrote: | | http://www.hasportal2launchedyet.com/ |
1 day ahead, now that's something worth mentioning. I'm a little more optimistic now  |
Only it's not 1-day ahead. The timer on the aperturescience.com website says 68 hours and 34 minutes. That's still only about an hour ahead. I think the launchedyet site is figuring the time to launch based on that progress bar which I don't think is correct. It'll be interesting to see how much the timer goes down when 123 kick it finishes. |
It's ~ half a day if we continue at the same rate.
The glados@home counter is updated only when we completely fill the bar of one game, hence why it has been reduced only for about an hour.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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| Posted: Sat, 16th Apr 2011 18:53 Post subject: |
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| consolitis wrote: | | dodger2020 wrote: | | For example, if you walk up close to a wall to try to read some of the writing it gets pixelated. |
Worse than Portal 1? The written walls textures were a joke even on PC. |
Since the PC version is 2-3 times larger than the console version high res textures are a must.
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| Posted: Sat, 16th Apr 2011 19:12 Post subject: |
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| me7 wrote: | | consolitis wrote: | | dodger2020 wrote: | | For example, if you walk up close to a wall to try to read some of the writing it gets pixelated. |
Worse than Portal 1? The written walls textures were a joke even on PC. |
Since the PC version is 2-3 times larger than the console version high res textures are a must. |
That's what I hope for, but I wonder if it's mainly the higher quality sound files that bumps the overall size..?
I know for a fact the L4D2 "The Passing" DLC they released was ~1GB on PC but only ~0.3GB on Xbox.
Upon closer inspection of the PC DLC, ~0.6GB of the ~1GB were sound files! (~60% of the total)
The 360 version's sound files were ~0.1GB of the ~0.3GB (~33% of the total)
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY |
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| Posted: Sat, 16th Apr 2011 20:39 Post subject: |
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1 2 3 Kick it, will be completed soon (less than 5% remaining).
The amount of player*hours a game has to be played to be completed seems to depend on how many copies the game has sold through the years. This is why the bar for TWEOTW advanced so fast, while for example Killing Floor, who has a much higher player count (over double the amount of people that try to complete 1 2 3 Kick It!!!) moves very slowly.
It's funny, but because the pack was on sale for 14 days, and I assume it sold well, it's harder for us to reach our goal. 
24+ hours before the official release: cool
<24 hours: kinda pointless (depending on where you live)
Maybe Valve gives us a 10% reward or something when we reach 50%
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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Werelds
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| Posted: Sat, 16th Apr 2011 20:50 Post subject: ***** |
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*****
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| Posted: Sat, 16th Apr 2011 20:57 Post subject: |
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| Werelds wrote: | It's a bit of a shame that it's slow, but I still think the whole ARG things is fucking awesome. A ridiculous amount of work has gone into it, both from Valve's end as well as all the indie devs.
Some are saying that it's a "lame" marketing stunt. It's a marketing stunt alright, but it's not as if it's ever been done before (fucking Facebook "like"s do not count), indie devs got some much deserved attention and we have an opportunity to possibly speed up the release a bit. I honestly don't see why some find it so "lame", as if EA for example would ever do anything like this 
I for one welcome this shit, because even though I already owned a good portion of the potato sack, this once again shows Valve's support for indie devs who often create better games than 95% of all "AAA" titles out there; obviously it's a fantastic way to hype Portal 2 shitless as well, but that's beside the point  |
I agree, but they could have made it more interesting. I mean the ARG was awesome and they had stuff going on for 14 days! It's incredible that they managed to pull it off!
But now that we are this close to release and we know what's the reward they're like "oh just idle in some games."(*) Seriously? Why couldn't it be new riddles and puzzles? Or new potatoes to find? ARG before yesterday = fun. Now = boring.
(*) I know they say "go and play the games you bought dammit, why did you buy them in the first place?!", but if you do that instead of idling for many hours/day you won't make much of a difference.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY |
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| Posted: Sat, 16th Apr 2011 21:00 Post subject: |
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| Areius wrote: | Yeah, I think the estimation will be around 10 hours before, but people will continue to play the finished games I think, so I guess it's around 1 hour before release. Oh, I forgot Valve Time which means it'll probably release 1 hour later than originally planned.
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I think each bar we fill, is a milestone, and removes a few minutes.
I mean I think we have already ensured it will be released at least ~50 minutes earlier because we completed TWEOTW.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY |
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| Posted: Sat, 16th Apr 2011 21:11 Post subject: |
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| Werelds wrote: | | It's a marketing stunt alright, but it's not as if it's ever been done before (fucking Facebook "like"s do not count) |
I remember that the developers of Amnesia had that "preorder our game x times and we will release commentary" thingy. Not enough numbers? No commentary for you guys! 
which is "worse" than what Valve is doing.
edit 1 2 3 Kick It finished.. 1 hour 30 minutes off.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY |
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| Posted: Sat, 16th Apr 2011 21:28 Post subject: |
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We don't know everything yet. Valve promised something special for players that collect all potatoes...
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| Posted: Sat, 16th Apr 2011 21:29 Post subject: |
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Most likely a skin for the game or something..
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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| Posted: Sat, 16th Apr 2011 21:33 Post subject: |
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im going to bed now. hope a crack appears tomorrow 
>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> ♪ Viva La Vida ♪ <<<<<< <<<<< <<<<<< <<<
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| Posted: Sat, 16th Apr 2011 22:42 Post subject: |
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AaAaAA!!! is moving fast, we're beyond 50%
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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I bet that when all is said and done the game will end up being unlocked on tuesday.
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Sun, 17th Apr 2011 18:40 Post subject: |
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| Hierofan wrote: | | http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/04/17/potatwo-the-valve-arg-aint-over/ |
Stop... torturing... my... brain!
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| Posted: Sun, 17th Apr 2011 19:28 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sun, 17th Apr 2011 21:09 Post subject: |
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Mysterious news entry at the ARG wiki. Someone warns the players that glados is using them and that someone will die if they continue to help glados boot.
Could be a troll, but maybe the early release was never meant to happen and glados just lied to the players.
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snip
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| Posted: Sun, 17th Apr 2011 21:51 Post subject: |
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Seriously. When was the last time a AAA title got released during the weekend on Steam? Afaik, never...
"Sometimes when you do things right, people are not sure you've done anything at all." -- God (Futurama)
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| Posted: Sun, 17th Apr 2011 21:52 Post subject: |
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| maul_inc wrote: | | Seriously. When was the last time a AAA title got released during the weekend on Steam? Afaik, never... |
who said anything about weekend? tomorrow would be monday sir
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