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The New Comic Thread for Friday, May 13, 2011

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edited May 2011 in Social Entropy++
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    BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    See this is why medic worked great in tf2. Couldn't horde shit.

    Also, hello robot man. Long time no see

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    SabreMauSabreMau ネトゲしよう 판다리아Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I saw "support class" and went to look up what Brink was and was disappointed to see it was an FPS instead of an RPG.

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    WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited May 2011
    pure multiplayer games with an entire absence of absolutely any semblance of single player content are about the furthest you can possibly get from fun for me

    in mmo's i can solo when i want and team when i'm lonely, but there's god damned nothing in brink, if i wanted to play an fps that was nothing but me running around shooting meat bots by myself all day i'd plug in perfect dark

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    FactorySquirrelFactorySquirrel Marceline's Henchman Land of OooRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I thought Brink was about skateboarding. It's not about skateboarding? Because a skateboard FPS would be interesting, if only to see what happens.

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    Romanian My EscutcheonRomanian My Escutcheon Two of Forks Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    To be fair, undoubtedly those players were covered in grime from being so extreme, and robes are a pain in the ass to get dry-cleaned.

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    Bacon-BuTTyBacon-BuTTy Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    This game looks terrible.

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    XehalusXehalus Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    So, Brink is an imbalanced nightmare?

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    DarricDarric Santa MonicaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    It's great.

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    DarricDarric Santa MonicaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    (On PC)

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    Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    yeah I hear bitching nonstop about Brink


    but only from 360 players

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    WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited May 2011
    did it get a ps3 release? that'd be unfortunate.

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    Dox the PIDox the PI Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    WhipstitchZombie wrote: »
    did it get a ps3 release? that'd be unfortunate.

    yup :lol:

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    It's CrumbelievableIt's Crumbelievable Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    FactorySquirrel wrote: »
    I thought Brink was about skateboarding. It's not about skateboarding? Because a skateboard FPS would be interesting, if only to see what happens.

    I thought Brink was about rollerblading.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO9sUg0Lab0

    I was sadly mistaken :(

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    Bacon-BuTTyBacon-BuTTy Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Dox the PI wrote: »
    WhipstitchZombie wrote: »
    did it get a ps3 release? that'd be unfortunate.

    yup :lol:

    So what did people do?

    Buy it for the PS3, go home and then ...... play against bots?

    I'd love to see the sales figures for the PS3 version.

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    FactorySquirrelFactorySquirrel Marceline's Henchman Land of OooRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    It's Crumbelievable wrote: »
    FactorySquirrel wrote: »
    I thought Brink was about skateboarding. It's not about skateboarding? Because a skateboard FPS would be interesting, if only to see what happens.

    I thought Brink was about rollerblading.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO9sUg0Lab0

    I was sadly mistaken :(

    I loved that movie when I was a kid.

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    Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    this game looked so fun in the pre-release hype

    did it turn out not to be fun?

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    DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    that's what a bunch of reviews are saying

    makes me afraid to leave the skirts of TF2

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    Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    They added a bunch of stuff to make it more attractive to people who have been playing Counter-Strike and Call of Duty and Halo for the past ten years, but it's really just Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory done all over again and spiffed up with FPS concepts from other, more recent franchises.

    So a lot of people hate it because it's not CS or CoD or Halo but I fucking love it.

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    EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    The lack of distinction between SP and MP sounds very... experimental

    Wouldn't that make for an incredible amount of lag if people are just popping in and out of your games? How do servers work exactly

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    JauntyJaunty Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Edcrab wrote: »
    The lack of distinction between SP and MP sounds very... experimental

    Wouldn't that make for an incredible amount of lag if people are just popping in and out of your games? How do servers work exactly

    Experimental doesn't really cover it: there isn't really a single-player at all, unless you would have counted playing TF2 against bots as singleplayer. How they got away with calling it that is beyond me. Well, I guess they didn't get away with it, looking at some of those review scores.

    Anyways on PC the way it works is you can either play it solo (i.e. with a team of stupid bots against another team of stupid bots) or you can find a server online. Or you can do the weird middle-ground thing where you set up a game and people can join in on you but it will likely be horrible and laggy because you are acting as the host for them.

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    GravesGraves Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    FactorySquirrel wrote: »
    It's Crumbelievable wrote: »
    FactorySquirrel wrote: »
    I thought Brink was about skateboarding. It's not about skateboarding? Because a skateboard FPS would be interesting, if only to see what happens.

    I thought Brink was about rollerblading.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO9sUg0Lab0

    I was sadly mistaken :(

    I loved that movie when I was a kid.

    ditto, that was my jam back in the day.

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    JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    If I ever played pen-and-paper RPGs, I'd be a cleric. A cleric who sells complex and expensive healthcare plans to his comrades at the beginning of the campaign.

    "Resurrection, huh? That's pretty pricey. Give me your fucking boots."

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    The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Captain K wrote: »
    They added a bunch of stuff to make it more attractive to people who have been playing Counter-Strike and Call of Duty and Halo for the past ten years, but it's really just Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory done all over again and spiffed up with FPS concepts from other, more recent franchises.

    So a lot of people hate it because it's not CS or CoD or Halo but I fucking love it.

    Brink needs about two or three solid, meaty patches before it's great. But there's meat on those bones. I fucking adore the art style. But there's a whole host of bugs and glitches and imabalances that I don't doubt will be smoothed out in a month or so.

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    #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    Captain K wrote: »
    They added a bunch of stuff to make it more attractive to people who have been playing Counter-Strike and Call of Duty and Halo for the past ten years, but it's really just Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory done all over again and spiffed up with FPS concepts from other, more recent franchises.

    So a lot of people hate it because it's not CS or CoD or Halo but I fucking love it.

    Brink needs about two or three solid, meaty patches before it's great. But there's meat on those bones. I fucking adore the art style. But there's a whole host of bugs and glitches and imabalances that I don't doubt will be smoothed out in a month or so.

    yeah I agree.

    I'm having a lot of fun with it when I play against bots plus 2 or 3 other humans who are very nearby geographically

    Hopefully a couple of patches will fix the netcode. If it ever runs as smoothly as Bad Company 2 I'll probably never stop playing.

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    ffaristocratffaristocrat Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Reminds me of how in Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Medics were the best offensive class. Oh, you'd want to play actual support for a little bit to level up a couple times as a Medic first. Regenerating health and the ability to use your own health packs made you formidable, but add in later level abilities like adrenaline and dual pistols, you'd be a powerhouse.

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    JustinSane07JustinSane07 Really, stupid? Brockton__BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2011
    I like the perspective of this comic. It's a simple couch comic done differently and it looks good.

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    ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Captain K wrote: »
    They added a bunch of stuff to make it more attractive to people who have been playing Counter-Strike and Call of Duty and Halo for the past ten years, but it's really just Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory done all over again and spiffed up with FPS concepts from other, more recent franchises.

    So a lot of people hate it because it's not CS or CoD or Halo but I fucking love it.

    Sounds pretty great to me because I fucking hate Halo and there's a significant portion of my life back I'd like from CS. I think I can attribute a full point maybe even a point and a half loss of my GPA in my first year of college to CS.

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    MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    WhipstitchZombie wrote: »
    pure multiplayer games with an entire absence of absolutely any semblance of single player content are about the furthest you can possibly get from fun for me

    in mmo's i can solo when i want and team when i'm lonely, but there's god damned nothing in brink, if i wanted to play an fps that was nothing but me running around shooting meat bots by myself all day i'd plug in perfect dark

    I think you'd have to start making explicitly genderist comments to get me to agree with you less

    throw in something about hating the jews maybe

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    CythraulCythraul Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I used to like soloing a lot in MMOs and be the lone wolf in FPS, but meh, doesn't do it for me anymore.

    There's no sniper option in this game is there? That class takes the team aspect out of FPS so badly...

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    SabreMauSabreMau ネトゲしよう 판다리아Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    JustinSane07 wrote: »
    I like the perspective of this comic. It's a simple couch comic done differently and it looks good.

    It does mix things up a bit. It used to be every couch comic had it facing either to the left of the panel or directly on. Lately it's been facing the right more often, and showing more of the floor and the doorway is useful too.

    So that it doesn't become stale

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    The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Butters wrote: »
    Captain K wrote: »
    They added a bunch of stuff to make it more attractive to people who have been playing Counter-Strike and Call of Duty and Halo for the past ten years, but it's really just Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory done all over again and spiffed up with FPS concepts from other, more recent franchises.

    So a lot of people hate it because it's not CS or CoD or Halo but I fucking love it.

    Sounds pretty great to me because I fucking hate Halo and there's a significant portion of my life back I'd like from CS. I think I can attribute a full point maybe even a point and a half loss of my GPA in my first year of college to CS.

    I had to do resits on about five of my gcse exams because of Phantasy Star Online. That game landed at the absolute best and worst time for me.

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    TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Multiplayer-only shooters with only 8 maps (and only one objective per map per side) should not be $60. I know there's no middleground for consoles between a $15 downloadable title and a $60 retail title but they'd get a lot less flack for the game's issues and limitations if they only charged like $30 for it.

    As of right now they're losing sales because it's maybe $45 worth of game for $60.

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    QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Jedoc wrote: »
    If I ever played pen-and-paper RPGs, I'd be a cleric. A cleric who sells complex and expensive healthcare plans to his comrades at the beginning of the campaign.

    "Resurrection, huh? That's pretty pricey. Give me your fucking boots."

    i am stealing this and writing a story about it

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    GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Yayyyyy Brinkcomic.

    Brink is a lot of fun BTW. You might want to wait for a patch or two and for the price to maybe come down somewhat, but it's a lot of fun.

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    SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    TankHammer wrote: »
    Multiplayer-only shooters with only 8 maps (and only one objective per map per side) should not be $60. I know there's no middleground for consoles between a $15 downloadable title and a $60 retail title but they'd get a lot less flack for the game's issues and limitations if they only charged like $30 for it.

    As of right now they're losing sales because it's maybe $45 worth of game for $60.

    I remember L4D and L4D2 getting a lot of flak for this, but I guess the numerous bugs in Brink stop folks from dwelling on it too much

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    DuoDuo Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Cythraul wrote: »
    I used to like soloing a lot in MMOs and be the lone wolf in FPS, but meh, doesn't do it for me anymore.

    There's no sniper option in this game is there? That class takes the team aspect out of FPS so badly...

    There are indeed sniper rifles. There's no dedicated sniper class, though. The sniper rifles aren't all that fantastic, though.

    I'm going to try a few of the other rifles, but so far I haven't found one that is just super great.

    I seem to remember the devs saying that sniping was possible, but they made it difficult. So far, I would have to agree.

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    TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I see no problem with developers focusing on exclusively on mulitplayer

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    Feels Good ManFeels Good Man Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    ThatDudeOverThere wrote: »
    I see no problem with developers focusing on exclusively on mulitplayer

    I agree with this


    is there literally a single human being on the planet that ever played through battlefields single player?

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    faitsfaits a panda eating cake seattleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I prefer co-op to single player gaming, but I'm not really a fan of straight-up multiplayer unless it's tf2.

    There isn't really a problem with developers focusing solely on multiplayer, that's just the audience they're going after. And I probably won't buy it. Unless it has hats.

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    FramlingFramling FaceHead Geebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Feels Good Man wrote: »
    ThatDudeOverThere wrote: »
    I see no problem with developers focusing on exclusively on mulitplayer

    I agree with this


    is there literally a single human being on the planet that ever played through battlefields single player?

    I played through Bad Company's single player and never touched multi.

    I hate competitive multiplayer. I actually had some hope for Brink, but if there's no story and it's just fighting people because they're there, looks like I won't bother.

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