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The Official Penny Arcade Thead

They're doing a Comic Jumper. . . comic for Twisted Pixel. Gabe is basing the art off Rob Liefeld. So therefore it has horrible anatomy, pouches, and no feet. :lol :lol

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I have never understood why people can (rightly) hate on Liefeld's art, but some of those same people love Jim Lee's art.
 
beat said:
I have never understood why people can (rightly) hate on Liefeld's art, but some of those same people love Jim Lee's art.
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Ok, I'll admit that at a very quick glance, some of Jim's stuff can look slightly Liefeld-esque (and even then it was probably because Liefeld is biting his style), but it's so wrong to talk about those two artists as being equals.
 
Zozobra said:
Ok, I'll admit that at a very quick glance, some of Jim's stuff can look slightly Liefeld-esque (and even then it was probably because Liefeld is biting his style), but it's so wrong to talk about those two artists as being equals.
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No, it's not just that both crosshatch a lot, it's that Lee IMO has stiff poses, reuses certain poses a LOT, has a very limited array of faces to draw... AFAIK Lee doesn't add muscles where there are none or otherwise bork anatomy as badly as Liefeld, but I still don't really get the appeal anymore. Anyways, I'm getting off-topic.

I actually wanted to bump this to mention this: http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/1027441488_BeU8W-XL.jpg and how awesome it was that Gabe even bit Liefeld's little signature style in the lower left.
 
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Great strip today with a great accompanying post:

It's simply a misnomer that Myst has no story. It has the very oldest kind of story in fact, one about fathers and sons. If it had been less spellbinding visually, maybe somebody would remember it. As it stands, Myst - for most people, on whatever platform they find it - is a game about a lighthouse. Is that still better than a game about the most recent, largely mute space Corporal? Probably.

Myst IV and URU in particular tell stories that aren't just fascinating for their explicit storytelling, but which I mean the kind of storytelling one typically sees, which is to say those portions of a game that in capital letters blink on and off with the words "THIS IS THE STORY PART DOG." These are games whose richest narrative is inherent in their respective worlds, where the "puzzles" arise organically from the personalities in play. The places you visit in Myst are all created by someone, which makes them reflections of their character, so when you make your way through these places their mind is laid bare.
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/10/4/

As someone who really enjoyed Myst, it's nice to see someone not shit on it for a change. Also that movie poster is rad.
 
Very surprised that they have not fixed the spelling mistake on the last panel ("the" is spelled twice).
 
Raging Spaniard said:
Very surprised that they have not fixed the spelling mistake on the last panel ("the" is spelled twice).
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Ha I didn't even notice.

I like Penny Arcade but this current series I don't think is all that funny.
 
Awesome. I just tried this game for the first time on Saturday and while it was quite fun, I too was struck by the absurdity of sending an unending cavalcade of distant descendants off to their swordy doom.
 
charlequin said:
Awesome. I just tried this game for the first time on Saturday and while it was quite fun, I too was struck by the absurdity of sending an unending cavalcade of distant descendants off to their swordy doom.
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Yeah plus the pressure of having to bear a son. All in all what a shitty family to be born into. :lol
 
Gabriel's World of Warcraft account got hacked, which (as a practical matter) means that this guild got hacked, and the deep vault of its guild bank tranched, and his character left to shiver nude in some digital hedge. Panel One was a literal conversation, and it's a little spooky to think of some malevolent force in control of your character. I'm talking about something separate from the acts they commit, which tend toward the upper bound of nefarious. I mean that, for anyone else logged on, it was Gabe. Did they greet this monster?
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hoooolly shit, the hardest ive laughed at a webcomic ever.
 
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Honestly this is one of the things that turned me off the game because of the demo. Seems so unnecessary to have to stomp dudes for items.
 
I'm tempted to sit down and go through both of the Dead Space games one of these days, and I credit the attention it's getting on Penny Arcade for it. Even if they are pointing out that I will have to stomp enemies for items and suffer through poor checkpoint placement.
 
MjFrancis said:
I'm tempted to sit down and go through both of the Dead Space games one of these days, and I credit the attention it's getting on Penny Arcade for it. Even if they are pointing out that I will have to stomp enemies for items and suffer through poor checkpoint placement.
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Dead Space 1 is fantastic. Dead enemy stomping is entirely voluntary. I don't remember bad checkpoints either.
 
MjFrancis said:
I'm tempted to sit down and go through both of the Dead Space games one of these days, and I credit the attention it's getting on Penny Arcade for it. Even if they are pointing out that I will have to stomp enemies for items and suffer through poor checkpoint placement.
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There's maybe a couple cases of bad checkpoint placement in Dead Space 1, but overall it's fine. Dead Space 2's checkpoint placement is excellent.
 
Van Owen said:
Or they're joking around about a look-a-like like the previous comic suggests...
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From the blog the day before:

It's all true. I showed it to Gabriel, against my own better judgement, who quickly made it his wallpaper. Shortly thereafter he brought in several unauthorized "consultants" from the office to determine her identity (the results weren't good) and I've seen a couple home screens now which also feature the image in question. So... I guess that's cool.
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czartim said:
From the blog the day before:
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Yeah, they wouldn't make up a joke like that for the sake of it. Still, I'd feel really weird if I saw someone who looked EXACTLY like my wife performing various sexual acts in a video freely and widely available on the web.
 
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