Game News Penny Arcade is Dead

[HanoverF]

and PAX (never attended) is a rarely fun convention.

 

[Marquess Cornwallis]

Does anyone know if the second PA game ended in a cliff hanger, or were they self contained, or what?

The first two episodes complete a story arc, there is no real cliffhanger.

I'm not overly familiar with the webcomic (in fact, I only read up on it more before playing the games), but I have to say I liked the games more than the strips.

The whole "alternative 1920s with a Lovecraftian tinge" theme was rather nice and some of the writing genuinely funny in a way vaguely reminiscent of the more surreal Lucas Arts classics. The overall quality level wasn't quite that of Day of the Tentacle, but then again, what is?

All in all, the games aren't bad, but I couldn't help but think they would have been so much better had they stuck with the point-and-click adventure genre. A biased opinion, of course, seeing as I'm fond of old adventure games and don't care much for jRPGs.

 

[scient]

What's this wall of text shit? tl;dr

The first one is by xkcd, one of few web comics I find actually funny, and I think point was to parody PA news/blog posts. The comic can be funny...sometimes, maybe 5-10% of time but the news posts always suck. PAX and charity that have going is awesome but still doesn't make comic consistently funny.

 

[LusciousPear]

xkcd:

HAY GUYS
WE'RE NERDS
LET'S HAVE EMO LOVE

 

[Zeus]

xkcd:

HAY GUYS
WE'RE NERDS
LET'S HAVE EMO LOVE

 

[Humanity has risen!]

This thread is what prompted me to finally register after all this time.

I absolutely cannot stand these guys, whose webcomic has never, EVER been funny in the slightest. But much worse is their authoritative attitude and the way they tell everyone in the game industry what to do ever since they've been online. They're such smug bastards.

And even worse than that is any kind of horrible lore that Mike tries to come up with, full of incomprehensible references and speech, and awful characters. Words cannot express how happy I am to see that another game will never see the light of day, although unfortunately, it will continue in a comic.

I've seen pretty much all the comics they've made for commercial products and I can't even tell what's going on in any of them.

 

[Darth Roxor]

But much worse is their authoritative attitude and the way they tell everyone in the game industry what to do ever since they've been online. They're such smug bastards.

Sounds like RPG Codex.

 

[ScottishMartialArts]

But much worse is their authoritative attitude and the way they tell everyone in the game industry what to do ever since they've been online. They're such smug bastards.

Sounds like RPG Codex.

Except Penny Arcade actually has an audience.

 

[Admiral jimbob]

xkcd:

HAY GUYS
WE'RE NERDS
LET'S HAVE EMO LOVE

xkcd is worth it just for the absorbing little hate-filled rants over at xkcdsucks.

http://xkcdsucks.blogspot.com/

 

[Clockwork Knight]

^

The art, as always, is extremely mediocre.

stick figures

 

[Tardvapor]

I've never created anything in my entire miserable life. I'm so far removed from the creation of anything, and so frustrated by that, that I feel the need to vehemently criticize the work of others. Unfortunately my opinions make me sound like even more of a blithering asstard than I already am so I can't even get a job criticizing things.

that's why I post on the codex, it's like failure +2.

 

[Zeus]

I've never created anything in my entire miserable life. I'm so far removed from the creation of anything, and so frustrated by that, that I feel the need to vehemently criticize the work of others. Unfortunately my opinions make me sound like even more of a blithering asstard than I already am so I can't even get a job criticizing things.

that's why I post on the codex, it's like failure +2.

What a pancake.