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Valve's fake, rigged, waste of time Progress Quest troll Portal 2 ARG
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Zomba13
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JUSTINE SPOILERS (NOT PORTAL 2)
The way I see it is that the whole thing is a test she has made for her guests. She drugs them/gets them drunk and puts them in the contraptions and the basement for her sick fun. She is the voice on the phonographs and the whole DLC is just a dry run to be used on her guests tonight. The monster may/may not be real or may just be another human.
Phantom Limbs
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Definitely the worst one.Zerokku said:
Takes a lot of trial and error and memorization.
Also threading the needle right off the bat helps with an extra 5500 points.
If you don't know, before you jump, walk to the far right, there is a small opening between a two buildings that you can pass through. 5500 points.
"God's Beard!"
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Hawkian said:
Maybe the "he" is Cave Johnson? I think that she has no memory because the whole thing is Glados being rebooted and she's piecing together herself. Only thing I'm not sure on is the monster. Maybe it's her memory of Chell? It has that big vice on it's head like someone who was trapped, like a test subject, and it's obviously trying to kill her.
Crunched said:
I'm assuming chell, right? Who else would she want to know she's alive?
XeroSauce
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God's Beard said:
I thought "he" was her dad, the one she didn't speak to properly?
Edit:
My guess is similar, she's testing herself, as an experiments, as to whether or not she can come back to her original self, rich, careless, etc. Hence the whole "voice of the past" thing at the start, on the first recording. She was vain and rich and needy in the past, and she wants to see if taking drugs is a suitable option and whether she can return to what she is like.
That's why they make it so easy to kill off the 3 men, that's why there is the "Suitor" monster. It's mentioned that she used to take drugs recreationally and slowly got used to the sideeffects.
That's why they make it so easy to kill off the 3 men, that's why there is the "Suitor" monster. It's mentioned that she used to take drugs recreationally and slowly got used to the sideeffects.
MrCompletely
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Stitch said:
ugh, really? Man, I love Valve but I feel like they manipulated us all to think we would be playing over the WEEKEND, which is the only real time I get to sink into a game. Passover Monday/Tuesday, then have to catch up on the work I'll miss, and hopefully crack it open Wednesday or Thursday. At least the weekend wasn't squandered, thank you to the amazing Gears 3 beta!
Mr. Spinnington
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looking forward to playing Portal 2 four hours early on tuesday
celebi23 said:
That's good to hear, I had no clue if it was logical at all
God's Beard said:
I haven't tried to frame it as taking place in the HL2 universe like that. Interesting. I thought of it as a reimagining, an alternate universe like Portal as told by H.P. Lovecraft.
The
monster, though, in the context of the DLC itself, is obviously (unless I totally misunderstood something) supposed to be Basile, who I think is either her father or surrogate/stepfather. To me there is a lot of evidence for this...
On the phonograph where you get to hear his voice, he mentions that he's blinded her and asks what this is she put on his head- the monster has a weird contraption on its head/neck, and is blind. The log also ends with him going "come back here, you whore!" or something, as though he has begun stumbling about looking for her, which is what's going on while you are actually playing.
She blinded him because he used to say regularly about her mother, who had died, to answer her when she asked how pretty she was, "her beauty was blinding." She asked Basile when he woke up after whatever the hell she did to him, "How pretty am I?"
First he says "plenty, I don't want to play games right now" or something. Then she says "say it." So he goes "your beauty is blinding-" and that's when he realizes she's blinded him. Pretty fucked up.
However, I could be wrong about all of this because of the timeframe, which I didn't understand, and I hadn't really paid attention to the dates on the notes. I don't get quite how old Justine is supposed to be, for example, and how long it has been since her father started that letter. A few years she's had him locked up, subjecting him to various experiments? So she'll send the letter out even though it's years late, so the recipient will know she's still alive?
On the phonograph where you get to hear his voice, he mentions that he's blinded her and asks what this is she put on his head- the monster has a weird contraption on its head/neck, and is blind. The log also ends with him going "come back here, you whore!" or something, as though he has begun stumbling about looking for her, which is what's going on while you are actually playing.
She blinded him because he used to say regularly about her mother, who had died, to answer her when she asked how pretty she was, "her beauty was blinding." She asked Basile when he woke up after whatever the hell she did to him, "How pretty am I?"
First he says "plenty, I don't want to play games right now" or something. Then she says "say it." So he goes "your beauty is blinding-" and that's when he realizes she's blinded him. Pretty fucked up.
However, I could be wrong about all of this because of the timeframe, which I didn't understand, and I hadn't really paid attention to the dates on the notes. I don't get quite how old Justine is supposed to be, for example, and how long it has been since her father started that letter. A few years she's had him locked up, subjecting him to various experiments? So she'll send the letter out even though it's years late, so the recipient will know she's still alive?
Best I could make of it, really.
Crunched said:
There are more clues than just that phonograph.
Nappuccino
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or, the more likely argument, it was designed with the assumption that more people would be participatingTheExodu5 said:
The Omega Man
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After all this fake folding@home, the game will unlock right before I am leaving for work lol
I still think is rigged, whenever valve feels is the right time they will just say glados started overclocking cpu's
I still think is rigged, whenever valve feels is the right time they will just say glados started overclocking cpu's
Plus considering one of the posters here said that his friend had been working on polishing Portal 2 at all hours of the day and night the last week, they may have been trying to fix some of their normal Valve time bugs and have no desire to accelerate the PC release date.The Omega Man said:
Trickster
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Outside of the alluded and hinted-at overclocking thing, there's few ways to shorten the end-game without drawing the ire of the people invested into this. For we casual observers and players it'd be great, but the people organizing and getting involved in pushes and such would probably be more than a little irked that they're being bailed out. At least if the potato threshold overclocking pans out, it gives them something to work towards (and they'd have earned the boost).rinker said:
Fix The Scientist
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If EA pulled something like this there would be riots.
Mister_Bubbles
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L00P said:
The Omega Man
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well at least they gathered enough buzz for their potato campaign, I liked the first part of the arg way better.Blizzard said:
Ickman3400
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Fix The Scientist said:
For what reason, they didn't release the game early? That's not really a good enough reason to get angry at anyone.
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