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Penny Arcade Adventures To Appear On PS3

Posted by timothy on from the but-can-you-fling-nurses-in-it dept.

Relin writes "Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One started its run on the Xbox Live Arcade, and shortly after making its way to Steam, the development team at Hothead Games announced that it had begun work on a PS3 version of the game."

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  1. PS3 and Linux by Narpak · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I really can't get over the fact that they are creating a PS3 version of a game that is already available for Linux. But which I mean, ports usually go Console - Windows - Mac (if you are lucky); going the other way seems like bizzaroworld. But then I guess that fits with the entire Penny Arcade franchise.

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    1. Re:PS3 and Linux by Poltras · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I'd happily argue with you that there are more games ported to Mac than Linux. If you don't count Wine (because Wine is also on Mac, that point is moot). Blizzard's whole collection, some EA games (BF2142, Madden, etc). Not a whole lot, but more than Linux and certainly porting to Mac before ported to Linux (exception made of Id games).

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    2. Re:PS3 and Linux by AnonChef · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Now days it's Console -> PC -> Whatever (if you're really lucky).

  2. Four Gods wait on the windowsill... by Deathdonut · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The game borrows much in the way of mechanics from old standards. You run around picking up items that light up when you mouse over them. You pick from mostly unimportant dialog choices. Combat is mostly an action-point turn-based system in the Final Fantasy style. Despite all this, the game is evolutionary in many ways: 1) The writing and concept is funny as hell. If you don't find this evolutionary, what games have you played recently? 2) Action-point turn-based combat with decent options and quite a bit of twitch. 3) It is episodic in nature. $20 buys you 6+ hours of entertainment. 4) Cross platform release with simple options for all platform owners. 5) You get to kill hundreds of hobos and mimes. Nuff said. If you haven't checked it out and have some time to spare, pick up the demo for free and you'll probably drop the $20 afterwards like I did.

    1. Re:Four Gods wait on the windowsill... by MagdJTK · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It's a real shame that there are so few genuinely funny games. I think it's all down to games like Grim Fandango selling all of about fifteen copies and demonstrating that not even that level of humour can beat gunning down thousands of identical aliens in the eyes of the majority of gamers.

    2. Re:Four Gods wait on the windowsill... by MagdJTK · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It's funny but I've read PA for ages and I've never given any consideration to what they sound like. Maybe that's just me.

      I'm still not convinced by your arguments for no speech though --- what about film adaptations of books where they might not even look like how you imagined them?

  3. Re:JUDASES!!! by iapetus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because they've always been entirely complimentary towards the 360 and Wii.

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