#Portal 2 potato Patch#
There was nothing clearly linking the games upon the bundle's launch, except for how each of them had recently been updated through Steam, with patch notes mysteriously using the hashtag “#PotatoFoolsDay”. Released on the 1st April 2011, The Potato Sack Bundle featured 13 games (listed below) from all around the indie gaming scene of 2011. Players will often need to work together, solving clues and carrying out real-world tasks to progress, and sometimes even impact, the narrative. It certainly didn't spell the start of a Portal 2 ARG, but that, my friends, is exactly what it was.Īn ARG (alternate reality game) is a style of game which fuses digital media with real-world interaction to tell a story over the course of days, weeks or months. Before the game’s release, though, an eclectic Steam bundle titled “The Potato Sack Bundle” didn’t immediately ring any Portal ‘bells’ in players’ minds. If you’ve played Portal 2-and you really should have done by now-you’ll know why Aperture Science and potatoes go hand-in-hand. Not so easily remembered, at least for most of us, is the potato-fever that swept the indie gaming scene in the run-up to Portal 2’s release. Are you remembering Portal 2 now? Are you smiling? Yeah, me too. Even now, a decade on, it holds a permanent place in that warm, cosy corner of our memories alongside our favourite films and the last day of school before summer. There’s no doubt about it, Portal 2 was a masterpiece, a gel-sliding ride through history, a tongue-in-cheek look at the absurdity of bureaucracy and a deeply emotional story all rolled into one incredible package. Can you believe it? That’s 10 years since we first made friends (and enemies) with moronic machine Wheatley 10 years since we plummeted Long Fall Boots-first into the sleazy history of Aperture Science with Cave Johnson and 10 years since we formed the most unlikely of bonds and made amends with murderous AI GLaDOS. Valve’s darkly humorous puzzler Portal 2 released 10 years ago.
Articles // 19th Apr 2021 - 2 years ago // By Jamie Davies Potato Sack ARG: Remember When GLaDOS Took Over All Those Indie Games?
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