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[Jreengus]

I have one friend who I haven't spoken to about it yet but who will almost certainly be up for it. But I'd also be up for some Bay12 co-op action.

[Thexor]

This doesn't really seem like it fits the "random internet player" kind of co-op experience.

I'm of the same opinion. Random player encounters will either be of the "I read every guide out there this is the only way to play DO EET MY WAY!!!" variety, or else of the "Mmm, I'm mute, and have no clue what I'm doing, and am not interested in taking advice or trying to work together. Now, how to you shoot portal again?"

If any B12ers are interested, I'll throw my name in as a semi-non-random player. 

[kg333]

I've preordered and will probably be playing a bit with my brother, but I'm generally up a lot later than he is.  *puts name in the semi-non-random pool.

KG

[Draco18s]

I won't be pre-ordering, but I'm pretty sure that if/when I buy the game I've got a buddy.

[forsaken1111]

http://www.aperturescience.com/a/b/c/d/g/h/abcdgh/

Hm...

Anyway on the subject of co-op, I can tell you that, at least with MY friends, the game will be extremely replayable. In fact the co-op mode will be 10 times more challenging than single player. This is also evidenced in Magicka... I still have yet to complete a 4-player playthrough with my regular gaming buddies. Halfway through it devolves into a complete fuckoff with everyone laughing hysterically and then everyone dying horribly somehow. I imagine Portal 2 will be similar where at first we'll be calmly working through puzzles and then later on "Hey I wonder if I can hit you with the laser while you fly through the air after slipping on goo and going through 4 portals!"

[dragonshardz]

I prepurchased it, it's preloaded on my laptop, I am ready to roll. Steam name is same as here, just add [DFC] in front of it. I'm going to be spending the majority of the 19th playing through the single-player campaign.

[Draco18s]

http://www.aperturescience.com/a/b/c/d/g/h/abcdgh/

Someone needs to get that up on the Portal Wiki.  Any idea how that link was arrived at?

[Soulwynd]

It was through a QR code derived from audio files.

[PTTG??]

09:00 – Hello again.
09:00 – I’ve been waiting a long time for this.
09:00 – I know it’s arriving later than expected.
09:00 – But I have a message for you:
09:00 – April Fools.
09:01 – I’m joking.
09:01 – Seriously, though:
09:01 – You’ve been surprisingly competent at
09:01 – generating electro-chemical energy to jumpstart the system.
09:01 – But now we need raw computational power
09:02 – to speed up the reboot process.

...

Problem loading page (http://www.aperturescience.com/glados@home/)

It loaded. You have to play the indie games to speed up the portal 2 launch. It's currently at 93 hours.

[Nistenf]

http://www.aperturescience.com/glados@home/
It will redirect you there.
The people who have the potato sack has to play it so POrtal 2 can be released early

[Draco18s]

BUY GAMES.  $38!  MOAR ACHIEVEMENTS.  GET PORTAIL FASTER.  SPEND MONEY.

Lololololololol.  Marking ploy.  Nothing to see here, move along folks.

[Bluerobin]

Spoiler: Not worth reading (click to show/hide)

Except a fair number of the games are genuinely good games that are on sale half off if you buy them individually, more if you get the whole pack (and you don't HAVE to buy the whole pack, you CAN get them individually). Plus many of them have had large threads on B12 already, so it's worth having a look and seeing if you already own the games to go back and play them for a bit and speed up the Portal 2 launch.
Reddit said it better: "Oh no, the ARG marketing ploy turned out to be a devious marketing ploy!!!
WHO COULD HAVE POSSIBLY SEEN THAT COMING?!?!?!?!?!"

Spoiler: Games in the pack (click to show/hide)

I know I'll be playing some Killing Floor to try and buy the potato gun, just because I've been meaning to and now there's another reason.

[Taco Dan]

I'm going to be playing these games as much as I possibly can and I hope you guys do too. Let's see Portal 2 release early!

[Bluerobin]

Oh, so you might have to just unlock the potato achievements in those games, not necessarily play them a whole bunch? Do we know that for sure?

[Draco18s]

For those of you that are bad at math:

The timer ends at 10am on Tuesday, the 19th (Eastern).  So far there is a 7 second discrepancy between my system time and the indicated timer (i.e. the current play counts have removed 7 seconds).

Approximate number of [game plays | achievements | game hours] required (+/- 10%):

Defense Grid:                    214,000
Killing Floor:...................723,500
Cogs:                             34,000
Rush:.............................20,500
Toki Tori:                        25,000
Bit Trip Beat:....................39,500
1...2...3... Kick It!:            13,500
Audiosurf:.......................218,000
The Wonderful End of the World:   25,500
Super Meat Boy:..................324,000
Amnesia: Dark Descent:           134,500
AAAAAA!!!:........................33,000
The Ball: 5                       56,000

I should also note: the lower that value is, the more terrible the game (as in fewer people own it).