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Quick Review of Penny Arcade Game

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the wonder-how-they-would-rate-their-own-game dept.

Now that it has been in general circulation for a while, Kotaku has a nice simple review of the good, the bad, and the ugly in the new Penny Arcade game, On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness. "When you've been making fun of the video game industry as long as Penny Arcade's Jerry 'Tycho' Holkins and Mike 'Gabe' Krahulik have been, deciding to create your own game is one ballsy move. You have to know that every review site you've ever trashed and every developer you've viciously sodomized with your barbed wit is watching your every move, desperate to see you stumble so they can get in a few licks."

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  1. Re:which to get by vux984 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Perhaps the "point" is to enjoy competing with your friends in games which may not have a multiplayer element?

    Er... that's what a 'high score' is or even the online leaderboards, and ladder tournaments, for a given game. I 'get' those. I've even competed in games at that level.

    But a "Gamerscore" is an aggregate score across all your 'achievements' in all your games... well all your xbox 360 games anyway.

    So if I'm 'competing' with my friends for 'gamerscore', the guy who rents a lot of stupid/terrible/easy games beats the guy who plays and masters a select few hard games. Or if I refuse to play shite movie-tie ins or refuse to buy each new season of nhl and football and you buy or rent or borrow them them all you accumlate more points... you 'win'.

    So what exactly does gamerscore measure?

    Your willingness to play "Barbie and the 12 Princesses" and the "Dora the Explorer" game?
    Your willingness to restart a Portal level 100x to re-throw a box until it lands on a switch on the 1st throw?
    Your willingness to Play games rated terrible, games that even you can't stand?
    Your willingness to watch youtube walkthrus to find the hidden medallians?

    And I assume if you've got the highest gamer score going would that be: "All of the above?"

    My inference that it measures ones lack of a life seems quite apt.

    Don't hate

    I "hon't hate". I think its stupid, and by extension I think people who care about it are stupid. There is a difference.

    It doesn't bug me that xbox lets you 'publish' your 'acheivements' online.

    But I do find it sad and pathetic that people think the fact that they've gotten all the strawberries on the hula-hoop level in the my little pony game is an 'acheivement', and that there are people out there who will rent the my little pony game and play it to absolute completion using a youtube walkthru just to 'acheive' this so that they can add extra points to their 'score'.

    I can respect someone who's good at a game. I've even been impressed as someone completes Super Mario in one life, or R-Type, or does a speed run through a level, or who beat Doom on Nightmare... but 'gamerscore'? Please.