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Second Penny Arcade Game Due Out This Week
Hothead Games has announced that the second episode of the Penny Arcade: On the Rain-slick Precipice of Darkness series is coming out this Wednesday, and they've released a trailer showing off some of the gameplay. ACG has an interview with Hothead's Joel DeYoung discussing the series and explaining some of the decision-making that went into its development. The game will launch for Linux, Mac, PC, and Xbox Live, with a PS3 version coming later. Feedback from players of the first game in the series inspired a $5 decrease in price this time around.
... but with proper humiliation.
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Will it be DRM-free? I'll lurk on tehpiratebay for a week or so...
Menudo - 180 Calories per cup.
Pho - 698 Calories per every 784 grams
I do appreciate the price drop, but could they please just make it an even 15$.
Or perhaps Kieth Olberman? Hey Kieth, how does it feel to lose your spot to that shrill twat Maddow?
I can't speak for menudo, but if eating pho is wrong, I don't want to be right!
(Also, you forget andouillette, the sausage not only wrapped in, but made completely from, intestine.)
"They were pure niggers." – Noam Chomsky
They actually made a good game that doesn't get in your way, is available on all the major platforms, actually includes humour and avoids ultramacho bullshit stereotypes except in high caricature, and costs as much as a night at the movies (with popcorn). What the fuck do people need in order to satisfy them? Let me stop you before you answer that: Nobody's going to include a free blowjob in the box.
This is about as good as it gets, you cunts. Get over your holy wars and buy the game, because it's the worst thing except for basically everything else that's going to be released this year.
Actually this is one of the few games I have bought. I felt that after years of producing comics that gave me a good laugh ( though I wish fruit fucker and the divx player would make appearances again), i felt not just a relationship with the authors; and emotional investment if you will, in the characters that are portrayed through Penny Arcade. Playing the game was like reliving the comics
Further to that, the price of the game wasn't too bad either.
The Tao that can be named is not the Tao
What is with EVERY SINGLE THREAD about video games turning into anti-DRM rants. Sorry, DRM is today's copy protection. Copy protection has been in games since they put spin wheels and decoder cards into the game box. This will not be going away. Yes, some of you will refuse to buy games because of it, but you're not gamers. Playing the original Zork over 20 years ago doesn't qualify you as a gamer. CDs were their very own copy protection when they first came out since nobody had the patience to transfer 650 megs over their 9600 baud modem. Then came security keys, and then DVDs. Now it's DRM since people will gladly download 8GB games, and it will take a single night. Enough already. I came in here to read about the game and there isn't a single post about it.
Don't trust a bull's horn, a doberman's tooth, a runaway horse or me.
I'm just happy that they listened to cystomer feedback. We said $20 was a little steep for 4 episodes and they listened. Most said around $15 would be a fair price point and voila!
I enjoyed the first one and will buy this one.
As for the DRM, come on folks, the PC/Mac/Linux version gets installed pretty quickly. I can't even remember if I needed to input my license key except to download it. I can install it at home like I want and play. No worries. No activation through internet or other crap. No intrusive sending data to the base (Spore).
I think DRM is silly, but having some way of allowing paying customers to download the full version and letting non-paying customers download a demo version is acceptable so long as you don't try to push it further.
Again, thank for listening to feedback. Responding to it means that I will buy this one (in one or two weeks, when my exams are finished)
Well, I kind of liked the first game (it was worth my $20 at the time), but I'm goddamn drowning here in Fable II, Fallout 3, Saint's Row 2, a Dead Space I haven't even opened, the new Castlevania...
Just bad timing, guys. Your amusing writing but mediocre gameplay just can't compete with that. Maybe later?
I am not a Penny Arcade fan at all and I bought the first one merely for the native Linux support but it was fun as hell. Will buy the second ep for sure. It's about time they released it. I almost started feeling sorry for Mimes again.
10/10. Direct and to the point. The demand to eat out your asshole invokes a caste system where you are on top and everyone else is a rim jobbing loser.
Today's DRM is -not- the same thing.
spin wheels weren't installed on the sly and didn't leave their tendrils in my computer for all time, even after I'd uninstalled every game that used them.
decoder cards didn't cripple disk drives from time to time.
CD checking didn't stop working when some remote server went offline or my internet connection went out.
People are making a big deal out of this new DRM technology because it's -fundamentally different- now.
The first game was pretty fun, but the difficulty depended almost entirely on how good you were at hitting the spacebar at just the right moment to counter. Once you got good at that the game became way too easy. If you weren't, then your characters were going to be repeatedly maimed about 20' into the second stage. It was either get your block/counter timing down (and make the game way too easy) or die horribly. Items were for the most part a waste of time.
I'd like to see a re-balance in the second issue to make full blocks/countering harder (reduce the timing windows or don't give us the flash or randomize it a bit or something), but to also make it less necessary (not every enemy attack needs to do 3/4 of your HP worth in damage!).
I read the internet for the articles.