The Portal 2 Discussion Thread

[flibitijibibo]

Double post! Here's the BSOD:

[Ifafudafi]

HOLY ASS MAN SHOT TAGS

Don't get excited anyway; that screen's fake. Compare the lines of text to this one (click to enlarge):



Notice that the words are not the same length in both pictures.

[flibitijibibo]

Hm, you're right.

Back to the original image then. Anyone have CSI-scale enhancement powers?

[n00b1n8R]

Anyone got a video of this somewhere?

[Saggy]

The hex converted to decimal: 226 228 226 : 215 197 213 196 228 213 227 ( 201 ) + 211 197 197 197
If it's ASCII it's extended ASCII. Could it be EBCDIC (common mainframe encoding)?
Edit: It IS EBCDIC. It spells: S U S : P E N D ... U N T ( I ) L ... E E E (colon, dots for spacing, and parens added to roughly locate them in the source image.)
Hey, being QSECOFR on an AS/400 many years ago finally pays off!

Taken from Penny Arcade.

So basically, the hidden code was telling us to wait until E3 for further details.

E: And for anyone who thinks that the picture I posted is fake, GDC award attendees said that the BSOD changed from a normal Windows version (The one Flibit posted) to the one I posted (the GLaDOS verison). As you can see in the one Flibit posted, the grey bar appears to have a longer word then GLaDOS (Windows) and the first suggestion line says "Press any key to terminate the ... application". After a little bit, the GLaDOS version appeared. Brian Crecente of Kotaku can back this up. He was liveblogging the event. Here's what he said after it came up:

9:34 Crecente: GladoS blue screen... Press any key to flood the facility with deadly toxins

That's my argument. I say the picture is real.

[flibitijibibo]

Confound it, Iffy! My image was real!

[English Mobster]

And here I finally got around to enhancing that first BSOD, CSI-style.
I couldn't make much of it, other than the last line was slightly longer and that the gray bar read: GLaDOS.

[CN3089]

1UP: What's the big answer you give for Portal 2?

GN: "Oh Portal 2's great. It's the best game we've ever done."

1UP: And it's not even done yet.

GN: "It's pretty clear, just internally."

[Aerowyn]

GN: "Oh Portal 2 Episode 3's great. It's the best game we've ever done."

1UP: And it's not even done yet.

GN: "It's pretty clear, just internally."

Fixed that for you, Gabe.

[=sw=warlord]

Originally Posted by gaben 1UP: What's the big answer you give for Portal 2?

GN: "Oh episode 3's great. It's the best game we've never done."

1UP: And it's not even done yet.

GN: "It's pretty clear it won't be, just internally."

Fixed that for you, Gabe.

Fixed that for you.