The Crazy Story of Portal 2's Early Release
5,399Portal 2 was intentionally released over 10 hours early worldwide - but why? We take a look at the insane puzzles, cryptic clues and even real-world treasure hunts that became the Portal 2 Potato Sack ARG.
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Valve worked alongside the developers of 13 games to create the Potato Sack bundle, and with it a series of hidden clues and puzzles. Whilst gamers at first didn't know why these clues and puzzles were in relation to, it eventually became evident that they were linked to the pending release of Valve hotly anticipated puzzle adventure Portal 2. The grand prize offered by Valve was an early release of the game, which was ultimately achieved around 10 hours before the original scheduled window.
As observers, we have around 2,000 dedicated individuals to thank for this awesome piece of gaming history.
📑 Timeline of community events, discoveries, false leads, everything:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110903043917/http://valvearg.com/wiki/Template:News
🎬 Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:46 - Potato Sack & ARG explanation
1:43 - The Plan
2:14 - The First Phase
4:35 - The Second phase
7:25 - The Final Phase
8:55 - The Countdowns
🎵 Music:
Portal 2 - You Will Be Perfect
KD Knows My Name - Naive (sponsor/outro)
Portal 2 - 999999
Portal Stories: Mel - Interfacing
Team Fortress 2 - Seduce Me!
Portal Stories: Mel - System Corruption [alternate]
Portal 2 - Bots Build Bots
Portal 2 - I Made It All Up
BIT.TRIP.BEAT - Transition
Team Fortress 2 - Rocket Jump Waltz
Portal 2 - I Am Different
Portal 2 - Turret Wife Serenade
Portal 2 - Science Is Fun
📑 Huge shoutout to these additional sources:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110430124053/http://www.killingfloorthegame.com/potato-arg-a-kf-postmortem/
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/134740/the_portal_two_arg_the_whole_story.php
http://www.lazy8studios.com/2011/Portal2_ARG_puzzles
http://www.theballthegame.com/?page_id=1219
https://frictionalgames.blogspot.com/2011/04/portal-2-arg-postmortem.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20110429020854/http://twotribes.com/message/what-we-did-for-the-portal-2-arg
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