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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. The Game is Mediocre (At Best) by morari · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Outside of a few shining moments of wit in the writing, the game offers nothing in the way of real fun. It's sad, and at the same time very surprising. You'd think that after making fun of bad games for years, the Penny Arcade guys would know how to avoid developing one themselves.

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    1. Re:The Game is Mediocre (At Best) by Otter · · Score: 4, Insightful
      You'd think that after making fun of bad games for years, the Penny Arcade guys would know how to avoid developing one themselves.

      There's no reason to think that. Complaining is far easier than doing.

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  2. Re:The Review by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The engine made me realise how impressive Grim Fandango was, with better visuals running on a machine a tenth of the power. The humour was predictable and only occasionally made me actually laugh in the demo, while the gameplay managed to feel tedious in places in spite of the short duration of the demo (and certainly didn't make me want to pay for the full thing).

    When you compare it to something like Monkey Island, or Grim Fandango, or even most of the Space Quest series, it didn't come up to anything like the same standard.

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  3. Re:which to get by vux984 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    On the other hand, you can't increase your Gamerscore or collect achievements with the PC version >:)

    This 'gamerscore'... what is the point?

    The higher your score the more of a joke your life is? I've always thought people who cared about gamerscores were like forum rats who cared about their post count... as if being on top was something to be proud of.

    Or is there more to it? Can it actually get you anything?