The Portal 2 Discussion Thread

Just deciding to put this here so that we don't get a shitstorm of Portal 2 related threads all of a sudden.

So what do we know so far?

Official Press Release (with a hidden BBS login, a character named d. rattman?)
Possible holiday release date (GameStop says October 26?)
Steam for Mac? HA HA HA HA. Good one, Valve.

[POSSIBLE SPOILERS WITHIN]
http://kotaku.com/5486657/an-insiders-guide-to-portal-2
Does a general run-through of the plot of Portal 2, potential characters.

http://kotaku.com/5486758/portal-2-a...iar-characters
We'll be playing co-op and multiplayer (I can just sense the collective erection of trolls everywhere), with the possibility of exploring the world OUTSIDE of Aperture Science.

Will add more as it comes in.

Discuss. Happy? Mad? Where's Episode 3?! :gonk:

Oh, I managed to miss this thread. Thanks for posting in the other one.

Is it just me or is the press-release written in poor enlighsh?
I can see they're trying to do some AR stuff but that's so poor it has to mean something in it's self. >.>

EP 3 PLEASE

It better have some goddamn portals in it

According to GameInformer, Valve said this game takes place HUNDREDS of years after the original.

Scans below; MAJOR SPOIIERS WITHIN. If these aren't allowed, could someone please tell me.

woah, where did these scans come from? and what's this i hear about another bbs number? last time i checked all we had was ascii art...

oh...GameInformer....i should've read that a little more closely

Game Informer magazine. Waiting for my issue in the mail. :realsmug:

I was really hoping they were going to incorporate Portal 2 into EP3 to tie in the story...but I guess a standalone will still be good.

I am so stoked for the new physics with Portals :D gonna be great.

Interesting to see CabooseJr's reaction :D

Gabe just gave an acceptance speech at the GDC awards, gave a lovely presentation on why he and his company kick so much ass, then his PowerPoint got a "BSOD." According to random parts of the interweb (namely Kotaku), it mentioned something along the lines of "press any key to release a deadly neurotoxin." He also said at the end of the speech "you figure it out." Dunno if that means anything yet.

Will be watching the internets like a hawk as this develops.

Double post! Here's the BSOD:

http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/7500/bsodj.png

HOLY ASS MAN SHOT TAGS :gonk:

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

Attachment 1438

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

Hm, you're right.

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

Anyone got a video of this somewhere?

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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!

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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:

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

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

Confound it, Iffy! My image was real!

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.

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Originally Posted by gaben

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."

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http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...ns/aaatoot.gif

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Originally Posted by Kyon

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."

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Fixed that for you, Gabe. :eng101:

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Originally Posted by Aerowyn

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Originally Posted by Gaben

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."

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Fixed that for you, Gabe. :eng101:

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Fixed that for you.