[TheDudeGuy]

I think most of this cryptic stuff heavily relates to amnesia. I mean "skinless one" sounds like something you'd come across and with all the glyphs and weird stuff added to the game it makes sense.

[butters757]

Passwords for the Sarah Fincher website, if anybody was curious.

Houseofusher
Theraven
Pitandpendulum
Amontillado
Drjekyllandmrhyde
Peterquint
Lucywestenra
Miltonarbogast
Tanginabarrons

[Lord Ned]

Skinless One = meat boy

[Captain Chalky]

So I have to pay to be fooled on april fools? What is this bullshit?

[Naruto Sucks]

ok what the fuck

Dog posted:

http://www.facepunch.com/threads/107...m-April-Fool-s

More info.

ok thanks
:f5:

[Dog]

http://www.facepunch.com/threads/107...m-April-Fool-s

More info.

[MiKaXsUs]

Dat Sarah Fincher website seems...weird. Where is it from?

[Supacasey]

90% sure it's unrelated.

[Mio Akiyama]

it's been confirmed to be related

[MiKaXsUs]

Mio Akiyama posted:

it's been confirmed to be related

By whom if i may ask?

[Elizer]

MiKaXsUs posted:

Dat Sarah Fincher website seems...weird. Where is it from?

It's related to this: http://www.patrickcarman.com/enter/skeleton-creek/

It's some type of hybrid novel/webseries thing. Interesting concept, not for me though.


But what does that book series have to do with TF2 and Portal 2?

[nightlord]

Is the TF2 cow weapon real?

[D3N1ZFTW]

nightlord posted:

Is the TF2 cow weapon real?

Yes...

[nightlord]

No need to rate me dumb, it could have been real considering some of the stuff Valve actually adds to the game.

[MiKaXsUs]

Anything new that we haven't seen before?

[deathshadow97]

Lord Ned posted:

Information About games by Topic:

"I need to get out These people at FG are horrible"

FG?

Now what could that be.

[Smooth Criminal]

deathshadow97 posted:

"I need to get out These people at FG are horrible"

FG?

Now what could that be.

Facegunch.

[Reactors]

Anyone ever figure out what was changed in killing floor?

[Dude902]

deathshadow97 posted:

"I need to get out These people at FG are horrible"

FG?

Now what could that be.

Frictional Games, the developers of Amnesia. It's on a developer's blog, which makes perfect sense based on the text.

[wari65]

Reactors posted:

Anyone ever figure out what was changed in killing floor?

Character Bios and dosh is potatoes

[Randdalf]

I don't know if anyone has said this yet, but the Potato sale on Steam with the games involved in this "ARG", is probably Valve's way of saying thank you for them letting Valve use them as part of the ARG - sales usually generate sales for the developers.

[HyperTails]

I think you're all thinking too hard

[Smooth Criminal]

HyperTails posted:

I think you're all thinking too hard

I think you're not thinking hard enough

[MendozaMan]

This is indeed all connected, with that patrickcarman website holding a video where in black mesa is somehow referenced and strange alien occurences are "explained"

I mean come on, the paper says LEVEL MESA : BLACK

[Mio Akiyama]

MendozaMan posted:

This is indeed all connected, with that patrickcarman website holding a video where in black mesa is somehow referenced and strange alien occurences are "explained"

I mean come on, the paper says LEVEL MESA : BLACK

Not a Portal 2 ARG but a HL2EP3 ARG?

[Political Gamer]

Mio Akiyama posted:

Not a Portal 2 ARG but a HL2EP3 ARG?

I think its mostly a Portal 2 ARG but I didn't finish the game so for all I know some big EP3 thing was just around the bend.

[brandonsh]

Mio Akiyama posted:

Not a Portal 2 ARG but a HL2EP3 ARG?

G-Man is a potato.

[Swiket]

MendozaMan posted:

This is indeed all connected, with that patrickcarman website holding a video where in black mesa is somehow referenced and strange alien occurences are "explained"

Woah woah woah, back up.

Where is this from?

[Political Gamer]

Swiket posted:

Woah woah woah, back up.

Where is this from?

Found on http://valvearg.info/wiki/Valve_ARG_...rahfincher.com

[E-102 Gamma]

E-102 Gamma posted:

In that video conference a while back, Gabe said that Portal 2 was more-or-less finished. They were just waiting for approval and stuff like that.

The main theme of this April Fools event is potatoes.

One of Portal 2's achievements apparently involves a potato.

Portal is scheduled for release in April.

Today is April 1st.

...

Portal 2 will be released later today!

I knew I'd be wrong.

[MacD11]

its not going to be episode 3 if they are releasing a Half Life Related thing soon, its probably gonna be a filler game about the 7 hour war.

[MiKaXsUs]

MacD11 posted:

its not going to be episode 3 if they are releasing a Half Life Related thing soon, its probably gonna be a filler game about the 7 hour war.

Exactly. Gentlemen, behold. We have found HL3.

[nightlord]

I don't think that sarahfincher site is actually related, when you google it lot's of things about it from 2009.

[brandonsh]

nightlord posted:

I don't think that sarahfincher site is actually related, when you google it there are some videos from 2009.

As the Wiki says, the site itself was last updated but the videos were updated in March 2011 or something. Maybe this has been planned for a while.

[mike55]

brandonsh posted:

As the Wiki says, the site itself was last updated but the videos were updated in March 2011 or something. Maybe this has been planned for a while.

Those videos are for the fourth book in the Skeleton Creek book series which uses that website: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...-9780545249959

[JCDentonUNATCO]

Yeah I seriously doubt that website is related. They were promoting it at our school's library before, its pretty much a children's book.


Hmmm you know what, looking at that picture again it says G. Freeman and Black Mesa and thats kind of a stretch saying its NOT related. Although it could still just be some little easter egg by the author of the books.

[Gyrospiral]

Another possible connection:

One of the books in Black Mesa East (Eli's lab in Half-Life 2) was The Extreme Aggrotato by Marc Laidlaw.



Potato.....aggrotato.....

[Chaos Creator]

Zombii posted:

KF has more ARG stuff.

Translates to:
Alien 8 It. 2074 -4629 17

Also, all KF characters have new dialogue lines, some of it must be related to the ARG.

hl2 ep3 would be the 8th game in the series.....uh....it also had aliens in

i really hope this is true

[gta-man12345]

Political Gamer posted:

Found on http://valvearg.info/wiki/Valve_ARG_...rahfincher.com

Thanks, im reading this while i eat some Lays.

edit: heh they used my noclip photo of the portal ending.

[CrumbleShake]

Political Gamer posted:

Found on http://valvearg.info/wiki/Valve_ARG_...rahfincher.com

G. Freeman? That's not very subtle.

The strange lights probably mean the Sprites that were in Opposing Force.