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 		The Stanley Parable
A video game ARG
If any of you are gamers out there you may have heard of the half life 2 mod 'The Stanley Parable'.
Now what you may have not known is that a "HD remix" is in the works which adds content and makes it look a lot better and so forth.
You can vote for it to enter production through steams 'greenlight' system and view a few trailers there.
Now this is the interesting part and I'll be damned if you lot figure something more out about this than I have so far, but, there are several clues within the videos which point at an ARG.
Such as during the trailer '.mov0002' we are having a brief 'demo' of the game and on a particular door positioned among others it is labelled 'An ARG',
also during the same video a single frame towards the end of the clip shows us a clipboard with a note attached with a LONG string of numbers, seen here which translates through ASCII (Thanks thebruce) to this:
Quote:
"I just played your game and I'd like to say i was the most annoying ting I ever played.
t had its cool moment but overall the experience was only of annoyance.
The problem s that it does not touch the heart of people. It's a very emotionles game.
Did you ask ay girls to try ut your game? I ask because they are blissfully less logical than us guys.
I am very logical myself, but also very emoional, so it was easy for me to find the game noying.
Wht happened is that you ame frustrated me. I felt like I was being taken into someone else's hallways, doors and plans, to deliver me an experience that didn't touch me.
And worst of all, I'm watching you - 1112800

Some of you may have noticed the lack of letters in a few words and have already figured this out but they spell out "This is not an arg".
I may be following a trail which could end in a very abrupt dead end, but this smells very fishy to me.
Thoughts?[/url]

PostPosted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 12:38 pm
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 		Seems like a lot of effort was put into that, too much for it NOT to be an ARG, in my opinion. A note, encoded in ASCII, stuck into a video, which hides the message 'This is not an ARG'?

Unless, of course, they did it just for the ARG community, knowing we'd pounce all over some potential code or clue, but even then, this still smells fishy. I'll be keeping an eye on this one.

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