[PA Comic] Wednesday, July 4, 2012 - Ionosphere

Geth

Ionosphere
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/07/04

Dhalphir

There's a new Spiderman game?

God, I'm out of touch.

Maz-

Well, there's a new Spiderman movie so I'm guessing it's the "official game" for that.

SabreMau

Dhalphir wrote: »

There's a new Spiderman game?

God, I'm out of touch.

Tofystedeth

Aww we got Div but none of his patented abuse.

Henroid

The webs are sticking to the guy from Prototype as he's doing his hang-glide move over the park.

Dhalphir

What is Div doing? that is one weird face

Kagera

Dhalphir wrote: »

What is Div doing? that is one weird face

Whiskey enema
I've seen that face before

Enlong

Well, there goes my interest in the game.

I adored the Spiderman 2 game, mostly because its webswinging was beautiful. If this new game can't be bothered to make his webs anchor to the buildings instead of the friggin' ether, then I ain't interested.

Lars

That bird is concerned about it's situation.

kingworks

It is interesting how many superheroes are suddenly much less 'super' when taken out of New York City.

Lucascraft

The news post says this game is like Batman. Does that mean it has a fairly rhythmic free-flow combat system? Does it allow you to yoke up thugs from street lamps, gargoyles, and other overhanging objects?

SabreMau

kingworks wrote: »

It is interesting how many superheroes are suddenly much less 'super' when taken out of New York City.

Doesn't pretty much every superhero go out into space at some point to fight where there are fewer skyscrapers?

And how many of them are NYC-based, anyway? Don't they have some superheroes based in Wisconsin?

Mr_Grinch

The combat is sort of batman like, without being as fluid. It's a bit more button mashy. Also the lack of anchor points for the swinging made this a rental (and a brief one at that).

Black_Heart

Div featured in a comic without him drinking, having intercourse with other electronics, or making abusive insults? This is an outrage.

Surely that isn't Div, but some imposter. Bizarro Div.

SabreMau

Black_Heart wrote: »

Div featured in a comic without him drinking, having intercourse with other electronics, or making abusive insults? This is an outrage.

Surely that isn't Div, but some imposter. Bizarro Div.

It's not unprecedented.

see317

SabreMau wrote: »

Black_Heart wrote: »

Div featured in a comic without him drinking, having intercourse with other electronics, or making abusive insults? This is an outrage.

Surely that isn't Div, but some imposter. Bizarro Div.

It's not unprecedented.

To be fair, he is on a leash in that one. That may just be one of his kinks.

Nerdgasmic

div hasn't actually done anything in ages

Tleilaxu

That satellite looks like it's barfing out spider-man-web.

crash1001

Oh look, its Div.
I haven't saw him in a while.

KalTorak

i want a panel where the web attaches to a passing Iron Man.

Gaslight

They seem to have pretty much phased Div out as an actual "character," they just have him sort of make a cameo/walk-on/background appearance now and then for nostalgia's sake. He is basically on the same level as Thomas Kemper now.

Spoiler:

That's the cat.

Good Looking Fat Guy

Div was a one-note character anyway, and I think the PA guys smartly realized that.

Kagera

He's a DivX player he's lucky his time hasn't passed by now.

Black_Heart

Good Looking Fat Guy wrote: »

Div was a one-note character anyway, and I think the PA guys smartly realized that.

and the Fruit Fucker, Charles, and virtually every other character besides Gabe, Tycho, and their families, aren't?

Enlong

Black_Heart wrote: »

Good Looking Fat Guy wrote: »

Div was a one-note character anyway, and I think the PA guys smartly realized that.

and the Fruit Fucker, Charles, and virtually every other character besides Gabe, Tycho, and their families, aren't?

Well, Charles did grow beyond "Shut your pie hole".

DexOZ

I miss Div greatly, even if he is a one-note character, maybe because of it

Scarab83

Meh, I don't feel the lack of web-anchor points makes the game any less fun whatsoever. It's still a blast to swing through the city. However, like most games these days, I wish it was longer.

admanb

Black_Heart wrote: »

Good Looking Fat Guy wrote: »

Div was a one-note character anyway, and I think the PA guys smartly realized that.

and the Fruit Fucker, Charles, and virtually every other character besides Gabe, Tycho, and their families, aren't?

They... are? I'm not sure what your point is. Fruit Fucker is Div, except more memorable so he gets little side notes. Charles documents Gabe's on-again-off-again relationship with Apple. The rest are pretty much the same background note that Div is.

Gaslight

The Fruit Fucker has pretty much receded into the background too, for that matter. I mean, yes he's (it's?) iconic to the strip but they don't really do comics about it (him?) anymore. The last one was in 2008, as far as I can tell from PipeFour. Since then he's appeared six times, but always just as a background or other art detail of comics about other stuff without comment. (Not counting this fairly shitty guest comic.)

Darkewolfe

Newspost discussion on Lookouts comics. I went to consider purchasing, and I guess it's digital only? Penny Arcade comics purchased in real life form are my primary staple for bathroom reading, so I'm pretty disappointed by this.

Xaquin

Darkewolfe wrote: »

Newspost discussion on Lookouts comics. I went to consider purchasing, and I guess it's digital only? Penny Arcade comics purchased in real life form are my primary staple for bathroom reading, so I'm pretty disappointed by this.

pretty sure it'll be in comic stores on Aug. 29th

Enlong

Scarab83 wrote: »

Meh, I don't feel the lack of web-anchor points makes the game any less fun whatsoever. It's still a blast to swing through the city. However, like most games these days, I wish it was longer.

I just feel like I'd be endlessly comparing it to Spiderman 2. That game was an absolute joy to get around in. Swinging on buildings, doing Spidey slingshots into the sky, and of course, running straight up skyscrapers.