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[Ozy_y2k]

I think both Phae and botherer can be forgiven for the fact that their apparent enthusiasm for the genre has led to a little bit of butting of heads. I think Mr. Walker's article was pretty sound (nice job!) and I also think Phae can be pretty fiercely loyal in defending what she loves, so, at the end of the day, Everyone Can Be Right, here.

After all, what do They say? "You can't really DISAGREE about something properly, unless, on some level, you really AGREE."

[Phaedra]

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[miss_seph]

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Yeah from what I've been told, what people have labelled as PG2 is really not PG2, just a continuance of the characters lives, in a different scenario.
in otherwords, there is no need to have played Project Gateway (thank god, cos I didn't) in order to understand or effectively play Section 32: Special Forces Unit and the Line of Destruction, as I've written briefly(hence the memorised ramble) on RGA.

The desktops were cool My favourite is Cyberstrike and Blur Reality - with the pretty colours (lol)

as for the article, I thought it was pretty cool just to see a huge write up on a genre that we all know and love. any publicity IS good publicity. I wonder how many people are googling 'ARG' or 'Alternate Reality Games' or Tranquil Valley as a result of that article?[/url]

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Tranquil Valley....

[bagsbee]

I went to the Hudson News in Grand Central, they have a large British mag section, but they didn't have that one Then I noticed that all the other UK computer mags were from April 2005, leading me to believe that the most current issues hadn't arrived yet. The nice gentleman who works there indicated that they do indeed carry UK PCGamer, so I'll try back in a week or two.

Maybe I'll buy some to use as ARGFest prizes

[SeanB]

I think Johns article should be welcomed especially as this genre being new (yes new, to most here it might be old news but to the rest of the world, a few billion still don't know about ARGs), the genre need more writers that are interested in exposing the genre to a wider audience.

If we are to crit every article that comes out about ARG's then we will soon lose those in places of media to expose the genre because all they will be expecting is a wave of emails explaining where they went wrong or where they could've done better.

I think John's article was much welcomed to the genre and has succeeded in alerting those outside of the genre of this alternate world that can be available to them if they wish to indulge.

Thanks John, well done on picking up on this new genre and willing to spend time on writing the article and creating awareness.

Kind Regards
Sean

[bagsbee]

Loved the article. Exposure, exposure, exposure!

Don't sweat the "mistakes", folks...Steve Peters could have written the article and not gotten it 100% "factually correct". ARG is a young genre that's waaaaaaay too open for interpretation at this point for one point of view or other to be correct. We can't even seem to agree on even the most fundamental issue of what an ARG is, and that's OK.

Vivé l'ARG!!!

and I agree with Wishi, those photos are pure cheese

[JebJoya]

Hey, I hadn't been checking the main forums, just the perplex city ones since 2 days ago - bloody hell, I didn't realise that anyone would actually care about the article...

Covering a few things, first, I started playing having read the article, and TBH the negativity that the article said you lot have for n00bs (which i haven't seen, but meh ) purely made me actually read all the background stuff instead of jumping straight in - I'm glad I did (I mean, imagine buying a 'normal' computer game and reading the manual first - where would be the fun in that?!)

Second, I hate PCGamer - ARG has taken over my life, and I've only been playing like 2.5 days... :S It's amazing how paranoid you can become - I spent about 2 hours scouring that magazine for clues (esp. letters pages and adverts) - I honestly couldn't see anything... Ah well...

Third, well, I don't have a third, it was going to be me searching the magazine, but that went into the second because it was too short. Erm... Yes.

Jeb

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Does anyone know what was on the included DVD?