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."

Comments

PS3 and Linux

[Narpak]

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.

Re:PS3 and Linux

[MBCook]

The game was written for the Torque engine (IIRC). Torque has ports for Windows, Linux, Mac, and 360. There is no PS3 port. They are either building a Torque port or going to a different engine.

Re:PS3 and Linux

[Poltras]

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).

Re:PS3 and Linux

[AnonChef]

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

JUDASES!!!

[elrous0]

Gabe and Tycho, beware the dark side. Once you go down the path to Sony, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will!

Re:JUDASES!!!

[Chris Mattern]

Oh, they've already been that route.

Re:JUDASES!!!

[iapetus]

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

Wii?

[AbsoluteXyro]

Where the hell is the Wii version? I was pretty sure these Penny Arcade guys liked money. Lots and lots of money.

Re:Wii?

[ShawnDoc]

They stated they wanted to, but the Wii just doesn't have enough storage to fit the game.

Four Gods wait on the windowsill...

[Deathdonut]

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.

Re:Four Gods wait on the windowsill...

[antifoidulus]

I played the demo, but was upset that Tycho and Gabe don't seem to have any voice parts in it. I'm a huge fan of the comic(well, this year has kind of sucked but...) and was hoping to be able to hear them in game.....do you in the full version? Or is all you get that really annoying narrator dude?

Re:Four Gods wait on the windowsill...

[_xeno_]

I was terrified that they'd give them voices. I was actually quite relieved to discover that they never did.

It's based on a comic. You shouldn't hear their voices. You've presumably already got an idea of how they sound in your mind. So, no, they never do have any voice acting in the full version, thankfully.

Another good reason not to do any voice acting is that your character is supposed to represent you. Either your character would have no voice acting or it wouldn't really be "you."

You're supposed to be playing through the comic. I was rather glad to discover that there is no voice acting in the game. I think it works better that way.

So that's a no, there is no voice acting in the full version.

Re:Four Gods wait on the windowsill...

[MagdJTK]

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.

Re:Four Gods wait on the windowsill...

[MagdJTK]

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?

Re:Four Gods wait on the windowsill...

[_xeno_]

what about film adaptations of books where they might not even look like how you imagined them?

That's different. The game was supposed to be a sort of "interactive comic." The cutscenes were all 2D and involved "panels" just like a comic would. The entire look and feel of the game was designed to match Penny Arcade's style. If they'd gone for a more cinematic experience, voice acting would likely have been more appropriate. But they were trying to create an interactive comic experience, and part of a comic book is that it doesn't have a voice track.

If they were going to create a Penny Arcade animation, then I would expect it to have voice acting. But the style of the game just works better without one. Games have worked without voice acting for ages.

Glad things are working out

[Cathoderoytube]

I think it's a fair trade. Xbox 360 gets Final Fantasy XIII, and the PS3 gets Penny Arcade.

Re:Glad things are working out

[oahazmatt]

I think it's a fair trade. Xbox 360 gets Final Fantasy XIII, and the PS3 gets Penny Arcade.

Why do I get the feeling the popularity of both will lead to "Final Arcade I: The Last Beginning"?

I want episode 2!

[forgoil]

Nuff said!

I'm still pissed at Greenhouse for the achievments

[samwh]

The Steam version, which was released later, got achievements. The people who bought it on release day got stuck with a game missing features, and were told by Greenhouse staff to suck it up. See this thread:

http://forum.playgreenhouse.com/jforum/posts/list/720.page

I know I will only be getting the next episode on Steam, since I know that the other versions are crippled.

Re:I'm still pissed at Greenhouse for the achievme

[LunarCrisis]

The Steam version, which was released later, got achievements. The people who bought it on release day got stuck with a game missing features, [...]

No, the people who got it on steam got a game with added/tacked-on features, there's an important difference. The fact that they decided to give more after the fact doesn't mean you got cheated.