Steam Winter Sale ARG?

There's no way this isn't intentional. Hold on to your butts!

Guys, don't do this to yourselves!

wake up a little drunk and wtf hl3 arg and ffix in pc, what a start, please valve dont leave us now

All hype thrusters engaged, FULL SPEED AHEAD.

You are already in, you just don't want to admit it XD

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The hype train won't stop :(

Cant stop, wont stop!
This is it.
Also CES is next Wednesday on the 6th, this HAS to be it!

Kek
 
What happens if it isn't solved before the Winter Sale ends?

HL3 gets canned?

We'll get the announcement the 6th instead of the 4th ;)

The big breakthrough for VR was that Valve found out someone finished hl3 without telling anyone.
 
I'm so glad I don't care about the Half Life franchise whatsoever, except for Portal :) This will be amazing to watch when everything falls apart.
 
Oh my fucking god if this is true I'll probably explode when HL3 is actually announced and I won't even be able to play it.
 
It's almost certainly nothing. Valve teases hl3 every few months it feels like.

The only tease they did was the leaked stuff in the Dota files on the eve of the 8th anniversary of hl2ep2, which was the first bit of info on what the game was. That (at least in my opinion) was more of a head nod to the HL die hard fans that got sucked into the "the know" rumour mongering. Apart from that there has been nothing about the actual game.
 
The only tease they did was the leaked stuff in the Dota files on the eve of the 8th anniversary of hl2ep2, which was the first bit of info on what the game was. That (at least in my opinion) was more of a head nod to the HL die hard fans that got sucked into the "the know" rumour mongering. Apart from that there has been nothing about the actual game.

Yeah I meant small stuff like the hl3.txt and random lambdas at places.

Not like anything major like a screenshot and if anything I do not believe HL3 is the game that looks to be the next Valve game (L4D3 is pretty much a really badly kept secret)
 
I found the step from undertale to ikaruga to be a bit strange (ok, ARG's are always strange), but the argument was that it isnt a bullet hell. Though if people try to explain the combat system, the first thing they say is "well, its kinda like a bullet hell shooter". So naturally, bullet hell would be among the tags. Do we know if there are several path that would lead to ikaruga maybe?.

I always wonder how people find these solutions, it seems so arbitrary.

Also, its probably not half life :D
 
Yeah I meant small stuff like the hl3.txt and random lambdas at places.

Not like anything major like a screenshot and if anything I do not believe HL3 is the game that looks to be the next Valve game (L4D3 is pretty much a really badly kept secret)

I don't think the hl3.txt thing was small since it had the first info of what hl3 may contain. There haven't been lambda logos anywhere I don't think.
 
The Red Herring badge icon rotated 180 degrees is a robot hand holding up 3 fingers.

Portal 3 confirmed!!

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Kidding obviously, but a three fingered hand reaching for the red herring is too amusing of a coincidence :D
 
I want to believe but you people are insane :D

Seriously these are all just specs zoomed in and numbers being counted without any proof of anything only that you want it to be something.
 
I want to believe but you people are insane :D

Seriously these are all just specs zoomed in and numbers being counted without any proof of anything only that you want it to be something.

I want to believe
(I missed out on the gold potato thing, fucking lucky bastards got a shitload of games from going through with that)
 
I found the step from undertale to ikaruga to be a bit strange (ok, ARG's are always strange), but the argument was that it isnt a bullet hell. Though if people try to explain the combat system, the first thing they say is "well, its kinda like a bullet hell shooter". So naturally, bullet hell would be among the tags. Do we know if there are several path that would lead to ikaruga maybe?.

I always wonder how people find these solutions, it seems so arbitrary.

Also, its probably not half life :D

I think the Undertale to Ikaruga thing is more like a "connect the dots" kind of thing.
The bullet hell like combat system of Undertale is definitely the strangest aspect of it, considering it's actually an RPG. Those are two kinds of genres that normally have nothing at all to do with each other.
From all the shmups available on Steam, Ikaruga surely is the most famous bullet hell shooter of them. Another one could have been Jamestown, but that game's relatively old by now and JT+ is still a few months away from being released.
Now I know that Hitman Codename 47 is also quite the old stinker by now, but that one probably filled more of a role like "here's a barcode with the number 47 in it, connect the dots". I don't know if anyone tried the password on any of the other Hitman games' storepages, but my guess is that it would've worked on those as well.

So yeah, that's how I would explain it.

Who knows, maybe this ARG leads to a Gordon Freeman announcer option in DOTA 2 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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There is a game on steam called Borealis. I wouldn't be surprised if the ARG stuff leads to its store page in some way.

The witch hunt has had some interesting selections so far. Hitman, Grim Fandango, Undertale, Ikaruga. Such a weird selection of games. Valve is definitely up to something crazy.

Edit: Oh god one of the tags on the Borealis page is also Bullet Hell lol.

Bullet Hell tag on Borealis page tying this into these other games........... Mygawd
 
I'm amazed how people can figure these things out. The clues are so obscure I have to wonder if the people that made the ARG in the first place join the detectives to push them in the right direction.
 
I want to believe but you people are insane :D

Seriously these are all just specs zoomed in and numbers being counted without any proof of anything only that you want it to be something.

It is without doubt something prepared and not crazies looking at things that aren't there since the numbers do produce results such as sound files that people download and a steam badge, whether or not it has anything to do with HL3 is something else entirely.
 
When this turns out to be revealing a secret extra comic book page this image should be used anytime anyone thinks half life 3 is being teased.

VALVE IS NEVER GOING TO MAKE THIS GAME. Accept it.

I seriously wonder if people at Valve saw this pic and ask themselves how people still managed to project something HL3 related onto absolute randomness.
 
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