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Penny-Arcade Videogame Announced
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MaryAlan writes "Penny-Arcade has announced that they're going to be making a game, partnering with Hothead games to create titles featuring the characters of the comic. The games will be released in episodes several times a year, digitally downloaded, and will play on Windows, OS X, and Linux, with an eye on consoles somewhere down the road. The first game is to be called Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness. There's also talk of the possibility they'll be released on Steam." From the Kotaku article: "'We're really excited to be working with Hothead Games on our first electronic adventure,' said writer Jerry 'Tycho' Holkins. 'From the moment we laid eyes on them, it was clear they had the technical and creative chops to execute our grim vision. Now that we have pooled our strengths, our dark work may truly begin.'" Yay! Dark works!
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PAX 2006 Recap 28 comments
Above and beyond the announcement of their videogame last Friday, PAX apparently passed pleasantly for the PA fans who made it to Bellvue, WA this past weekend. Various news organs have a look at what transpired. eToyChest has a journal of each day, with firsthand accounts and lots of pictures. Gamasutra covers the Penny Arcade Scholarship announced at the event; $10k towards an education to get yourself into the games industry. Kotaku was there to liveblog the keynote, while Joystiq covers the making a comic panel. For wrap-up, we have an IGN report, and the ever exhaustive 1up minisite for everything you'd want to know.
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Penny Arcade Holiday Strip Series #1 308 comments
While normally we don't do this sort of thing, recent charity work with Child's Play has substantially increased
the bandwidth demands over at Penny Arcade. To assist Gabe & Tycho, and keep their site running slightly faster than a snails-pace, we're co-hosting their seasonal holiday strip series "The Last Christmas". The cover and the first page are attached to this story (future pages in coming days), so read on and enjoy until we hit our bandwidth limits! (Warning: Comic may contain Cthulhu)
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Yay, I found this secret fruit blending device (Score:5, Funny)
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umm, RTFA? (Score:3, Informative)
At last! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:At last! (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:At last! (Score:4, Informative)
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> I wouldn't bet on that.
Me neither.
Even the incredibly unique PS2 title "Ico" didn't escape criticism: the first time Gabe tried the game, he apparently tripped so heavily on the beautiful graphics that he froze into a smiling statue on the couch; later on we see Gabe driven up the wall by Yorda's inability to understand that WANDERING OFF GETS HER IN TROUBLE -- that and her attempts to communicate in a language unknown to anyone. ("Yeah, yeah, whatever. I don't speak 'crazy bitch'!")
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As they are fond of reminding their readers, they tend to not make comics about the games that they play that they like, because (to quote Tycho) "the muse is reticent." In other words, just because their comics are often critical doesn't mean that they hate all games.
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Surely you're joking
Woot, CTS! (Score:2)
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Re:Woot, CTS! (Score:5, Interesting)
I've actually been holding out for a professionally-produced game based on the cardboard-tube Samurai. I emailed Tycho about it one day: Cardboard Tube Samurai Wii! For me, it's the killer game that would convince me to buy the Wii. Imagine: using the wiimote to deliver smackdowns against enemy samurai and ninjas. And pig sidekick mini-missions. :-)
Sure, Gabe & Tycho would have to sell out to make this game. But only a tiny bit. And I hear that part of your soul grows back after a while.
-jh
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Wait a minute (Score:2, Interesting)
In a word. (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't think they'd hold back at all if their own game sucked. They'd be the first to admit it.
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Oh, boy! (Score:2)
I hope they do this right (Score:3, Insightful)
OK (Score:5, Funny)
Oh the joys..... (Score:3, Funny)
I do agree that unlocking the FF2000 character should be a priority or epic proportions.
Awesome! (Score:2)
I'm sure they know full well how huge a hit their gamer cred would take if their own game turned out lousy, so they're pretty much putting their livelihoods on the line for this.
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See Roger Ebert.
Linux? (Score:2)
It's a surprise, but a welcome one.
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Sweet (Score:2)
Now the only question is, what'll be worse, the GBA platformer or the Xbox beat 'em up?
Digital (Score:3, Funny)
I don't know how well it would succeed (Score:3, Insightful)
There's also the issue of living up to expectations. Penny Arcade has a huge following, so if their video game is a flop, it's not going to look good and they'll catch some flak as a result. In addition, I expect this game to be very hyped simply because PA is so widely read, and that could contribute to any unreasonable expectations being formed about how good this game will be.
In short, there are pitfalls here that they will have to overcome. The question is whether or not they'll succeed.
-Parallax
I think they expect it to fail (Score:2)
This could just be a set up for a series of comics about failed and poorly thought out video game tie-ins.
Keep in mind that Penny Arcade has too much self deprecating humor for the failure of the video game to be a problem.
Based on the first game title, I'd suspect they EXPECT the game to be terrible.
Penny-arcade invading your entire house. (Score:3, Insightful)
Then i found out they invaded the marketplace of my 360...
Then they came to invade my gaming table in the form of a Penny-Arcade card game...
Now they'll take over my mouse and keyboard!!!
Oh the humanity! is there no end? Will somebody please think of the children?
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Fruit Fucker 3000 (Score:2)
On a Mac? (Score:5, Funny)
"Congrats on beating the game! You still smell like patchouli!!"
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/08/11 [penny-arcade.com]
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But I agree with their general point, it's just always good clean fun to pick on Artie MacStrawman [crazyapplerumors.com].
checks calendar... (Score:2)
Although i Love their comics, i wonder how this could possibly evolve into a fun game?
RTS? RPG? or....
MMORPG? FU&K YAH!
Penny arcade grows bigger. Supernova inevitable. (Score:4, Insightful)
Penny arcade has definatly grown too big, their comics are funny at times but they get into storylines and try to develop characters and that's not what drew the fans in, in the first place. Their Dead Rising was interesting at first but has gotten lame. what could have been a decent week cartoon turned into almost three times as long and the humor was only in the first comic.
Two or three years down the line after a failed tv pilot, I've the feeling it's all going to collapse in on them. They'll still be popular but they'll be focusing on the comic and not all these other diversions.
Don't want to contradict the poster but... (Score:3, Insightful)
Obligatory (Score:2, Funny)
I hope they read the fine print. (Score:2)
There is the concern about the entire Penny Arcade license, but focusing on just the game I hope they have full creative control. If they don't it's possible they won't like they game one iota and not want it to hit the shelves. If they don't have full veto powers, then the publisher will tell PA they have invested money, won't invest anymore and it's time to risk a return and then promp
It needs more wang! (Score:2, Insightful)
Be true to the comic (Score:2)
For those who don't know: The leading newspost is considered to be part of the comic so much so that, occassionally, the comic might not make any sense without it. Sometimes those posts can go on for what seems to be forever.
Dark Works (Score:2, Funny)
but but but (Score:3, Funny)
I mean, it practically writes itself.
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You conveniently fail to recognize that their comics have been consistently on time, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, for over 7 years.
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Re:Episodes a few times a year......... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Episodes a few times a year......... (Score:4, Funny)
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Says linux in summary.
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