Blog: "The Portal 2 ARG Postmortem"

[mattwestwick]

Great read.

Frankly no one expected an add-on to the grand extent of Justine. That's partially why so little attention was given to the lovely images in the rar files. I thought it was just unreleased concept art.

Also the IRC channels tended to have very strict goals so a lot of time was spent being boggled over the hex codes. The frustrating difficulty in 3rd rar puzzle and the quantity of possible leads (words in pictures) compared to the other arg games, caused the irc group and its leading figures to get mad when someone tried to change the subject. Quite a hindrance.

You could see some people presenting potential solutions but quickly being quashed. It was only really the influence of, Harold, that could change the direction of the investigations.

Also yeh, I could safely play super meatball all day looking for clues but you can't expect an in-depth investigation of amnesia, it's just too freaky. You could have put a clue on the monster's ass and it never would have been found.


So bravo for such a well-constructed, bloody difficult experience. It was quite embarassing to struggle through it for so long.