So... Portal 2
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I dunno, he seems his usual self here.
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But Avatar is crap.
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Everything ever is crap. Some people just refuse to admit it.
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I dunno, having a generally fulfilling life and liking yourself and the people around you seems pretty okay.
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That's just what they want you to think.
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So if you thought the last ARG was insane, the current one is probably blowing your mind. In case anyone has missed it, clues have been hidden across twelve indie games (sold as a special offer on Steam in the form of the "PortalTwo Sack") which are being regularly updated as the ARG progresses. As an example of a single clue in one of the games, coordinates were found in one of the updated levels of Toki Tori which directed players into the middle of the ocean. Flip the longitude and latitude around, and you got the co-ordinates of the developers' HQ, in the Netherlands. So one brave fellow went all the way to the offices, only to find that they had been closed and locked. Instead of giving up, he climbed up the side of the building in the middle of the street and took pictures from the first floor's roof, where he found a poster containing a coded message. Turns out, the development team had been filming him the entire time.
Other highlights include the ongoing microblog drama, the Gabe Newell puzzle image (containing a possible new release date of April 15th), and various creepy messages extracted from Amnesia: The Dark Descent (that are, sadly, not very well chronicled on the Wiki).
As if that wasn't enough, there's also a fairly sinister Portal 2 comic that's entirely unrelated to the ARG, as well as a series of promotional videos on Valve's youtube channel that aren't quite as unrelated to the ARG as they may have seemed.
This is possibly the nerdiest thing I've ever seen. Yet somehow, it's hard not to get sucked in. The game looks pretty good too, with one of the best trailers I've ever seen for a game.
Other highlights include the ongoing microblog drama, the Gabe Newell puzzle image (containing a possible new release date of April 15th), and various creepy messages extracted from Amnesia: The Dark Descent (that are, sadly, not very well chronicled on the Wiki).
As if that wasn't enough, there's also a fairly sinister Portal 2 comic that's entirely unrelated to the ARG, as well as a series of promotional videos on Valve's youtube channel that aren't quite as unrelated to the ARG as they may have seemed.
This is possibly the nerdiest thing I've ever seen. Yet somehow, it's hard not to get sucked in. The game looks pretty good too, with one of the best trailers I've ever seen for a game.
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Probably old, but Chell's new design kind of threw me for a second. Boobies are great and all, but I'm not so sure about the more sexualized nerd-pandering.
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I dunno, doesn't look like there's much to see.
Unless bare arms inflame people's victorian sensibilities.
Unless bare arms inflame people's victorian sensibilities.
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She's stripped to a tank top because she's running around and working up a sweat. She, like most women, also has breasts. These two facts are only 'pandering' if you've never seen a woman wearing a tank top before.
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I thought the main character of the first game was just a generic model of a woman they had and threw in without thinking.
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It's not the bust/clothes so much as it is the face for me. Chell in Portal 1 looked sorta plain-ish to me. This new one looks like one of those Victoria's Secret models.
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I'm sure it looks better in motion (I'm not bothered by it in the latest teaser, for instance) but I'm really bothered by the way her jumpsuit is tied at the waist and sort of hanging off her. It looks ready to come undone and just drop off and trip her while she's running.
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It does look a bit nerd-pander-y to me, I must confess. Then again, I'm not attracted to women.
It looks like the ARG has been building up to a surprise early release on the 15th, by the way. For Steam users only, possibly only the owners of the potato sack, possibly only people who have all the hidden potatoes.
It looks like the ARG has been building up to a surprise early release on the 15th, by the way. For Steam users only, possibly only the owners of the potato sack, possibly only people who have all the hidden potatoes.
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Wait, that's what I was gonna say, except in a noticeably less coherent manner. What's going on.Delphine wrote:She's stripped to a tank top because she's running around and working up a sweat. She, like most women, also has breasts. These two facts are only 'pandering' if you've never seen a woman wearing a tank top before.
Seriously? She looked downright ugly in the first one, and I wouldn't consider this one particularly attractive, either. She just finally looks human.Segaholic2 wrote:It's not the bust/clothes so much as it is the face for me. Chell in Portal 1 looked sorta plain-ish to me. This new one looks like one of those Victoria's Secret models.
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Fucking EWWW GROSSCrisis wrote:It does look a bit nerd-pander-y to me, I must confess. Then again, I'm not attracted to women.
This isn't the first time I've seen someone complain about Chell's (totally unisex) redesign, and it still isn't making any sense to me. As if anyone ever sprung a boner watching the Olympics.
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I think she should have massive breasts in a tight purple latex suit to signify her heroism.
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Well, I think the decision to half-undo the jumpsuit is a pretty rational one thematically - the jumpsuit, despite being the only colourful object in the test chambers, seems intended to dehumanise the test subjects by making them uniform, essentially reverting them to a face and a suit. (Which worked quite well with Chell's "unorthodox" facial appearance by making her even more of an outlier, although that idea seems to have gone out the window.) Now, the open jumpsuit gives Chell a bit more personality, highlighting her rebelliousness and femininity.
Or it could be an excuse to show sweaty tits, which I gather is a fetish or something.
Or it could be an excuse to show sweaty tits, which I gather is a fetish or something.
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1) I never said I found her attractive.Neo wrote:Seriously? She looked downright ugly in the first one, and I wouldn't consider this one particularly attractive, either. She just finally looks human.
2) Your level of attraction to a digital female is utterly irrelevant to what I was saying, which was a quantitative comparison of facial similarities.
3) Compare the previously posted image with this first-page image result for "Victoria's Secret model". If you say there is absolutely no similarity whatsoever, then you are either blind or a liar.
Also you seem to utterly contradict your own post from the previous page:
Neo wrote:That's funny. I never considered Chell to be ugly until I saw her in the new suit!
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Yes, you could see it as symbolic - Chell's gradually shedding the appearance of 'test subject' as she busts out of captivity. That's the first impression I got from the image anyway.Crisis wrote:Well, I think the decision to half-undo the jumpsuit is a pretty rational one thematically
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Tell you what. Next time I won't read your post, so it will never be possible for me to reply to it, apparently misunderstanding every single word you said.Segaholic2 wrote:1) I never said I found her attractive.Neo wrote:Seriously? She looked downright ugly in the first one, and I wouldn't consider this one particularly attractive, either. She just finally looks human.
2) Your level of attraction to a digital female is utterly irrelevant to what I was saying, which was a quantitative comparison of facial similarities.
3) Compare the previously posted image with this first-page image result for "Victoria's Secret model". If you say there is absolutely no similarity whatsoever, then you are either blind or a liar.
Fair enough. I was more or less just making a joke when I said that, because the baby blue suit looked hideous, but there's also the fact that the design for Portal 2 changes the scales and makes the original look even worse by comparison.Segaholic2 wrote:Also you seem to utterly contradict your own post from the previous page:Neo wrote:That's funny. I never considered Chell to be ugly until I saw her in the new suit!
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Huh, yeah. She looks like a VS model because she's not real, and VS photos are airbrushed to oblivion. The vacant expression doesn't help either.
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Haw.CM August wrote:Yes, you could see it as symbolic - Chell's gradually shedding the appearance of 'test subject' as she busts out of captivity. That's the first impression I got from the image anyway.Crisis wrote:Well, I think the decision to half-undo the jumpsuit is a pretty rational one thematically
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I see you are the sort that a woman in a tank top is pandering to.
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What? No. Not even I'm that prudish. I just can't resist unintended wordplay. Y'know, 'cause they're saying her 'bust" is now noticeable and therefore "out" there.
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So how 'bout that Portal 2.
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So how 'bout that Portal 2.
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I don't know what's worse, people making dumb boob jokes or people taking dumb boob jokes way too seriously.