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On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Awesome
Runefox wrote to point out that the boys at Penny Arcade have passed around the first trailer for their upcoming episodic PC game. Kotaku is link/hosting a flash version of the trailer, and a high quality one is on GameTrailers. As Runefox says: "While almost all can agree that the graphics, as they are now, will give small children nightmares, so, too, can most everyone agree that the Fruit F***ker is simply awesome." Earlier this week Gabe put up a post with more information on the game, and owns up to maybe having put out the trailer 'too soon'. "We were worried though that people might think this was going to be a 2D game if that's all they saw. So we decided at the last minute to attach some of the 3D work we've got. It's extremely early and it's missing some effects like cell shading and a few others.In retrospect we probably should have held of showing it but we were excited and we jumped the gun a bit. We still have a lot of work to do in order to really define the look of the game." The best tidbit: You'll be able to make your own PA-style character to fight alongside the boys. Good form.
Yeah, I can't say that I'm excited at all to play a videogame about or by a couple of dorks who have an occasionally humorous and often dumb digital comic strip. I would rank any such product up there with online flash games by Kraft like "cheesier macaroni blaster".
I'm sure they're nice enough guys. But fuck, it's just a god damn comic strip. Why not make a Slashdot video game? Slashdot is something I actually check out on a regular basis. I can't remember the last time I went out of my way to read an online comic strip. Might have been during a long boring weekend at the office a year or so ago...
Penny Arcade is for people who don't get Megatokyo.