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Penny Arcade Adventures To Appear On PS3
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."
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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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.
Because they've always been entirely complimentary towards the 360 and Wii.
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.