http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=99690 Same goes for you lot.

As much as I love episodic play (which is to say, I don't because I'm impatient and hate waiting months for the next chapter) what I'm hoping is that they'll wrap up the final parts of the story in one larger game. The sales would have been (I can only assume based on purely made up statistics) awesome if it was released as a game that hit the stores. There has not been a similarly stylish game released in quite a while and there is still a very large number of people in the world who still enjoy getting their box and CD. Ah well - we'll finally have an answer to our queries soon with pax less than a day away. Come Monday we shall know all, or cry ourselves to sleep that night. ~ Now if only they'd market a little wind up Fruit Fucker toy. That would be made of pure WIN.

Has anyone had time to go talk to the guys at Hothead yet? Any word on an EP 3 or not?

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/04/pe...coming-at-pax/

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/04/pe...coming-at-pax/ My Day. You just made it.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/04/pe...coming-at-pax/ My Day. You just made it. Me too. /feels warm and fuzzy inside

well i just hope they have the annoucement soon.

In the interview with Giant Bomb, they said it would be "soon". The interview

Even without the mention of the game announcement being "soon" , that was a fantastic interview.

Ooooor later.

Ooooor later. We're going by Valve time.

Ooooor later. We're going by Valve time. Or Blizzard. It will be ready when it's ready type of thing. Hopefully it'll eventually be out, like most of Blizzard's games.

Or Blizzard. It will be ready when it's ready type of thing. Hopefully it'll eventually be out, like most of Blizzard's games. If anything, I would hope they'd put an extra six months in so they can get episodes 3 and 4 done and out the door at the same time.

Well, lots of different things it could mean, but worth noting that the upcoming demo for OTRSPOD 3 that had been listed on Hothead's site for months (as very soon, with episode 4 listed as being available "a bit after soon") is no longer listed: http://www.hotheadgames.com/pademos.php So while if we want to cling to any hope we could maybe argue this means that they're paying attention to it again and changing the episodic structure or something, but it seems more likely to be another pointer in the direction that PA may not be finishing eps 3+4 (or not with Hothead, but it's hard for me to imagine them doing it with a different company).

Well, lots of different things it could mean, but worth noting that the upcoming demo for OTRSPOD 3 that had been listed on Hothead's site for months (as very soon, with episode 4 listed as being available "a bit after soon") is no longer listed: http://www.hotheadgames.com/pademos.php So while if we want to cling to any hope we could maybe argue this means that they're paying attention to it again and changing the episodic structure or something, but it seems more likely to be another pointer in the direction that PA may not be finishing eps 3+4 (or not with Hothead, but it's hard for me to imagine them doing it with a different company). I don't think it means they are not finishing the episodes. More of a strategic push back of the release date as there are about 4 billion games on the market or about to be released to the market at this moment in time. Of course, that's just my hypothesis. Also with the release of modern warfare 2 I think the count is about 4 billion and one now. I'm pretty sure my number is accurate.

I don't think it means they are not finishing the episodes. More of a strategic push back of the release date as there are about 4 billion games on the market or about to be released to the market at this moment in time. Of course, that's just my hypothesis. Also with the release of modern warfare 2 I think the count is about 4 billion and one now. I'm pretty sure my number is accurate. Obviously if they're concerned about competition that'd make sense, but this was an unannounced change to remove a reference to a demo that was "coming soon!" that had been up for months and months. In the absence of any hope-affirming information that doesn't look good. Also, looking at the Game Info section I believe there also used to be some language about "additional episodes being released about every 4 months" which is gone, now. (Wayback Machine only had a copy from Jun 2008, which did have it, but nothing since ep 2 was released) Again, this is all circumstantial, but looking at the OTRSPOD section of Hothead's site there's no longer ANY mention of Episode 3 or 4. . . :/