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File: ee71b6942dc4bf7⋯.jpg (24.32 KB, 349x427, 349:427, ee71b6942dc4bf744ebe3067dd….jpg)

514017 No.14332227

Can a videogame contain an ARG within itself? Know any good examples?

f82891 No.14332232

Exclusively withing itself?

No, the whole point of an ARG by definition is that it extends past the medium it starts from.


514017 No.14332342

>>14332232

I mean that the clues are found within the game.


922a87 No.14332347

>>14332342

The Secret World, kinda.


66dd4b No.14332360

Well, there was that sigil ARG, fragments of some esoteric symbol could be found across dozens of indies, I recall one of them was Neon Struct. Don't know what became of that.


775fab No.14332372

Didn't Halo do something like this back in the day? I remember they even set up a (pretty convincing) fake UFO enthusiast website where you could find an audio clip of characters from the game talking backwards or something. I cannot remember if the clues started in one of the games though. IIRC the ARG was called "I love bees" or something similar.


6cd002 No.14332534

What is ARG?


514017 No.14332953

>>14332534

Augmented Reality Game.


775fab No.14332983

>>14332534

Basically it's a scavenger hunt that takes place across multiple mediums which generates hype for a franchise.


29b810 No.14333068

>>14332227

Metal Gear Solid with the codec numbers being on the CD case and needing to switch controller ports to beat a boss.


514017 No.14337103

Bumb


c640a0 No.14337207

flying babies are gay

cats are gay

crown and robe kings are fucking gay

stop posting gay shit


07a1f3 No.14337216

File: 289dfc3bda98544⋯.png (437.73 KB, 750x350, 15:7, ClipboardImage.png)


514017 No.14340134

>>14337216

I heard the game gets meta, but is it really an ARG clue?


835cfb No.14340238

File: da60678e3c2ca83⋯.jpg (83.13 KB, 800x752, 50:47, lop.jpg)

>>14332227

Just coming by to say that's a good painting of a cat, the face is pretty realistic.

What kind of cat is that? It looks like a British cat with floppy ears.


55ac9e No.14340252

File: 042f2142e38d70b⋯.jpg (167.16 KB, 719x1000, 719:1000, Reddit01.jpg)

>>14332534

a game Gabe Newell plays with reddit

http://archive.is/HQsn5


bd4f22 No.14340392

>>14332227

Doom 3 with the martianbuddy.com website


a53c17 No.14340415

>>14340252

Reddit-chan is cute.


55ac9e No.14340473

File: d74c85bbe287e4c⋯.png (234.81 KB, 399x453, 133:151, absolutly disgusting.png)

>>14340415

>Reddit-chan

Gilda Mars is A SHIT!

A SHIT


1da38a No.14356833

File: f8450d23107c6e7⋯.png (366.04 KB, 600x514, 300:257, ClipboardImage.png)

>>14340238

Scottish fold, anon.


adcf71 No.14356846

>>14340252

That shitty comic has no right to be that cute.

More?


ba9393 No.14356855

File: 4a158c9ecc7f332⋯.jpg (55.05 KB, 616x353, 616:353, gmg.jpg)

>>14340134

The stuff hidden in the game's files leads to whatever the dev is working on next, and there's a few small nods in the actual game that mentions things found in the files.

What about Glittermitten Grove? It was an entire ARG game encased around the actual game everyone was looking for.


1da38a No.14356923

>>14356887

Because we don't hang out with the dorks, anon.


6b98af No.14356928

File: e42b7cf04fbf675⋯.jpg (77.58 KB, 900x362, 450:181, why reddit sucks.jpg)

File: da0e2abb0a30008⋯.png (164.59 KB, 1293x488, 1293:488, why reddit sucks.png)

>>14356887

>Are redditors really this cute?

If you think retarded is equal to cute. Then yes.

>Why do we hate them again?

Consolewar shit, garbage-tier of taste, 90% of reddit content are reposts from elsewhere and karma system which rewards being good goy, it blocks you when it's too low.

Using certain subs mainly /r/donald and KiA, blocks you on all major ones.

Also admins/mods were caught on manipulating karma points on it.


279131 No.14357479

File: 604f365d8a72b34⋯.png (410.88 KB, 350x491, 350:491, ClipboardImage.png)

>>14332227

Swordquest had you hunt down clues across 3 games (Airworld being unreleased due to financial issues) in order to compete in a contest to get some crazy fucking shit. A jewel crested sword, philosopher's stone, crown and a chalice, all made of real luxurious metals and gems, and all adding up to $150,000 in total (adjusted for inflation, that's almost $400,000). It was serious fucking shit.

The games involved you going through cryptic mazes, solving cryptic puzzles which would give you hints for stuff you would look up the official comic book, manual, etc. You find these hidden words and phrases, write them down and send them into Atari where they plop your ass down in front of a bunch of other people and have you compete with them for the final prize.

The ultimate ARG. If you can call it an ARG.


ab1f07 No.14358272

File: 0d90aea2880452c⋯.gif (651.48 KB, 647x363, 647:363, 0d90aea2880452c6004c70c3c9….gif)

>>14357479

>tfw some kike has the sword, crown, and goblet in his house right now


1fa5bb No.14358381

>>14340134

Yes, turns out its for some kind of SCP wiki knock off called Project Libitina.

https://ddlcwiki.ga/wiki/Project_Libitina http://projectlibitina.com/

also

>Sexual Response Test is bypassed during prepubescence.

This might be good, maybe not as good a golden age SCP wiki, but still might be good.


dd09b8 No.14358415

File: 89f3cfc2bcab120⋯.gif (833.59 KB, 400x225, 16:9, Year Walk Huldra.gif)

Year Walk sorta had one. It was simple, but it turned the game on its head.

>start game next to a cabin and a safe with some symbols instead of numbers

explore the forest and realize it's a love story about a man going on a year walk to try and see the future

>witnesses mythological creatures that lead him and force sacrifices from him before he can complete his year walk

>game ends with him waking up from a sort of sleep-walking coma, it looks to be spring and he's standing in front of the love of his life as she's bleeding to death on the grass

>a message on screen tells you to use CURRENT YEAR as the code to for the games encyclopedia

>leads to a day-by-day journal of a man in modern times trying to study Swedish folklore

>finds some newspaper articles about a man who goes on a year walk and killed a woman, and was quickly given a death sentence

>he finds the safe and takes it home with him

>his entire life falls apart in less than a week and he starts losing his mind, tearing his rented room apart looking for whatever is watching him

>he keeps seeing symbols pop up and realizes they're for the safe

>opens the safe and finds out nothing is inside

>it dawns on him that the safe was not meant for him

>puts some items in the safe and performs his own year walk in the same cabin as the man he researched

>go back to the main game

>use the combination to open the safe

>it has a newspaper article from a later date about how he killed the woman he loves and that he was put to death

>there is a letter from a man claiming to be from the future, stating that there is only one way out of this, and that 'you know what you must do'

>the last thing in the safe is a knife

Also goddammit I delete the post twice to edit it and I keep making mistakes so fuck it.,


1366f4 No.14358493

File: aa85df855dd6100⋯.png (231.2 KB, 480x320, 3:2, ClipboardImage.png)

ARG is used as an advertising tool most of the time. Even then it's an awful tool as people would get led to believe something amazing behind all these mysteries, not someone trying to sell a car or to be shown a timer for the upcoming game. They'd immediately lose interest.


7e6c07 No.14358595

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>14332227

The Payday the heist secret was actually pretty good and pretty clever, I recommend looking into all the clues associated with it.

http://payday.wikia.com/wiki/PAYDAY_Secret_ARG

There is apparently going to be a secret in Payday 2, but overkill set the clues at the game launch, the game is nearing the end of it's lifespan, and even overkill themselves have said it's still not in the game yet, so I have no idea if they're actually going to do a PD2 secret.


be0b02 No.14358650

File: 6eb84c1a22d71a0⋯.png (8 KB, 429x410, 429:410, yes.png)

>>14340134

There's a fuckton of ARG material in it.


a8dfd7 No.14358770


835cfb No.14359085

>>14356928

That image doesn't even list all the reason reddit is bad, the site also has an unbelievable amount of drama and huge cliques that control large areas of the site. Virtually every big subreddit is either directly controlled or at least connected to the same small group of 150~ people that all want to purge the wrongthink off the site. Names you see come up a lot are ones like JoyousCacophony, krispykrackers and TheJackal8. Usually when a person mods a big subreddit, they mod several others as well. Some of them mod over 100 subreddits.

Think about that, that's fucking insane. Imagine if Mark wasn't just the head of /v/, but was also a mod on /pol/, /tv/, /b/, /tech/, /cow/, /k/, /a/, /co/ and /n/. That's what it's like on reddit but worse and there are dozens of people with that much power.


a18dab No.14359122

>>14332227

I think Undertale had one but it never went anywhere.

>>14359085

>Some of them mod over 100 subreddits.

What the fuck, people are okay with that?


000c67 No.14359175

File: e52de8500774f4f⋯.png (37.3 KB, 530x846, 265:423, ClipboardImage.png)

All that build up for

FUCKING

NOTHING


19861c No.14359274

>>14359175

Except that wasn't an ARG, just toby having no idea how to implement him


835cfb No.14359283

>>14359122

>>14359175

Toby is truly a genius of our age, he does all that setup and then does nothing with it.


6760ca No.14359313

>>14359175

>>14359283

Wasn't a fucking ARG, just an easter egg of some cut content. Don't project fan-autism and game theory niggers onto the developer. There was no "pay off" because it *was* the pay off.


4b145b No.14359381

>>14358272

They were melted down by the banks who bought out the company's assets, only one of the four treasures still exist now.


1da38a No.14359403

>>14358415

I played this game and never suspected any of that, but I suppose that's par for the course. Definitely an interesting little game.


7fe3a0 No.14359665

The game Frog Fractions 2 was in?


4e574f No.14359669

>>14332227

Didn't Portal 2 or something do exactly that when Valve put a bunch of SSTV recordings in the games files?


835cfb No.14359718

>>14359665

Glittermitten Grove


cbe082 No.14360657

>>14359669

Yeah it was a huge deal that made people buy other games and whose payoff was the game being unlocked one hour early or something like that. ARG's make me feel cheated.


7952f9 No.14360713

>>14332227

do you mean an alternate reality game or an altered reality game? I know it seems bizarrely pedantic but there's a major difference

alternate reality games interact with the real world in some way that makes it a partial reality (The Secret World gives you a web browser and you can look up information based on clues like a completely fictitious company's very real webpage)

altered reality games superimpose virtual elements on a real world landscape (ARGames for 3DS)


cbe082 No.14362014

>>14360713

Not to be abrasive but who the fuck cares?


a07647 No.14362167

>>14360713

I think it's pretty obvious the thread is about Alternate Reality Games. Speaking of which, there was one for Rainbow Six: Siege's most recent update. Turns out it was just for a week long zombie event, but it was pretty neat, they hid parts of QR codes over different maps that weren't there before, stuff like that.

>>14362014

I think you meant to be abrasive, and that's not very nice! Please be nice!


cbe082 No.14362185

>>14362167

I'm sorry I hadn't had my morning cigarette.


6fc4e6 No.14362206

>>14333068

Then Metal Gear Solid 2 happens

>Turn off your console Raiden


7fe3a0 No.14362498

>>14359718

Did anyone ever make any porn of the tutorial fairy?




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