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    Can you solve the riddle?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Jalf, May 12, 2007.

  1. Jalf

    Jalf Comrade Santa

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    Little puzzle in the announcement of this game:
    http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=76115

    Good luck guys :D
    (I've solved it... This part, at least... Currently stuck on one of the follow-ups)


    Guess viral marketing doesn't always suck... It's got my attention at least, and the game does look pretty cool :)
     
  2. odin243

    odin243 Notebook Prophet

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    I think I got the first part... not sure if I should post it? Maybe we could all work together and try to beat all the other forums !!!

    Edit: Got the next couple of parts, it's not so easy now...
     
  3. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    I hate those puzzles which don't require any thinking but instead require you to swivel your mouse around until you find the annoying 1px by 1px hot spots. Such a pain.
     
  4. LFC

    LFC Ex-NBR

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    Yay! Another Charlie's Angels game :D

    Hi Angels!
    Hey Charlie!
     
  5. Jalf

    Jalf Comrade Santa

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    Well, I might as well reveal that when you figure this one out, one of the things you get is a link to the game's official forums, where people are working together anyway... So don't see a problem in sharing information.

    Here's a hint, to those who havne't figured it out.
    1) Each line in the poem is actually an url. (www. before and .com after)
    2) The lines are also all anagrams for a final message, which is also an url (and on each page from the above urls, you get an anagram of each word in the final one)

    And yeah budding, finding those hotspots is a pain. Which city do you get? (they show different ones depending on your ip)
    I can help with the London one, but no clue on Shanghai or New York.

    Btw, does this forum have spoiler tags? :D
     
  6. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    Well, I'm in UK, so I got London as well. Didn't know there were other cities. But yeah, this new Charlie's Angels game does look promising :p
     
  7. Jalf

    Jalf Comrade Santa

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    For London, the hotspots are:
    - Ground level on the left side of the bridge
    - On the building just in front of the big egg-shaped one I can't remember the name of. (Directly below the big round light
    - At the blurry/soft round light at the extreme right, at sea level
    - Under the diagonal crane thing in front of the big dark rectangular building
     
  8. Jalf

    Jalf Comrade Santa

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    Ok, the game is Funcom's recently announced MMO, The Secret World.

    The official website (or forum, anyway) is here: http://www.darkdemonscrygaia.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2 (which continues in the same trail, with occasional posts by "a friend" offering up clues and asking for help, and then getting deleted a few minutes later, and the community trying to crack the code)

    Also someone is trying to gather all known info here: http://darkdaysrcoming.blogspot.com/

    Do I need to say that they've definitely got me interested? :p
     
  9. usapatriot

    usapatriot Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    interesting, now im hooked!
     
  10. ronkotus

    ronkotus Notebook Evangelist

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    Cool stuff. :)
     
  11. LFC

    LFC Ex-NBR

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    I was only a tad wide of the mark :D

    Interesting but I don't like viral marketing for a reason. I'm a 21st century consumer. I have YouTube, email, a mobile phone and maccy d for when they have good discount vouchers for shops attached to their food. Its a fast and ongoing 24/7 world. I have no time to use my brain for the internet
     
  12. Jalf

    Jalf Comrade Santa

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    You don't play games then? Fair enough. We can't all have time for everything. :)
     
  13. LFC

    LFC Ex-NBR

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    lol this is the guy who bought Oblivion 2 months ago and still hasn't started and abandoned fear without getting 1/4 through! No time :(

    Don't pay too much attention to me. I'm <strike>a bit of a</strike> a right old proper drama queen to try and get a point across
     
  14. Hello-

    Hello- Notebook Consultant

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    If you guys are interested in the game, the official forum is here: http://www.darkdemonscrygaia.com/

    To keep up with the story so far and most of the speculation from those forums check over here: http://darkdaysrcoming.blogspot.com/ (Also contains the solution to the puzzle on www.darkdaysarecoming.com)

    Here's the blog site for one of the creative minds behind the game: http://ragnartornquist.com/
    He's posted about a secret project he couldn't speak of in the past and it's finally unveiled.
    Previously worked on Anarchy Online, The Longest Journey, and Dreamfall.