The New Comic Thread for Wednesday, March 10, 2010

#pipe

Henroid wrote: »

I've figured it out. SabreMau isn't a person at all. He is an artificial intelligence. It's the only way he could do this stuff.

oh shit! SCSSCS is self replicating

the singularity is here

Darric

cooljammer00 wrote: »

So what's "the meanest thing that he ever did" from? It's been a while since we had a no hovertext lyric.

Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue

Henroid

#pipe wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

I've figured it out. SabreMau isn't a person at all. He is an artificial intelligence. It's the only way he could do this stuff.

oh shit! SCSSCS is self replicating

the singularity is here

I think it was a ruse. scsscs isn't a robot at all. Merely a distraction.

NotASenator

cooljammer00 wrote: »

So what's "the meanest thing that he ever did" from? It's been a while since we had a no hovertext lyric.

This is how we will separate the wheat from the chaff when judgement day comes.

iolo

I like the second panel hands.

Peter Ebel

Okay, I guess.

TheySlashThem

damn, sabremau

Candymancer

In this god of war kratos gets remarried and gives up the way of the warrior for a simpler life. It's a lot like Harvest Moon.

DouglasDanger

SabreMau wrote: »

L|ama wrote: »

Oh and Tycho's head, top left, missing a border section between hair and eyebrow in panels 1 and 3

The line above the eyebrow is often omitted in standard practice. I've noticed its absence occasionally because usually the eyebrow and hair meet with no gap.

Where it's actually inked in is a much rarer occurance.

Good comic. Why not save some games for later dry spells?

Also, holy shit Sabre. Damn.

Squall

sabre are those ghost sheets on Gabe's bed

for shame

it's great. so great.

GreasyKidsStuff

Jesus Sabre. You sure are something.

something wonderful

Shabooty

sabre, are you like a photoshop savant or something?

Faceless Coward

SabreMau wrote: »

L|ama wrote: »

Oh and Tycho's head, top left, missing a border section between hair and eyebrow in panels 1 and 3

The line above the eyebrow is often omitted in standard practice. I've noticed its absence occasionally because usually the eyebrow and hair meet with no gap.

Where it's actually inked in is a much rarer occurance.

That's a lot of digging and BB Code for something most people will miss.

Tofystedeth

The best part is, assuming he saw L|ama's post immediately after it went up, and was able to write his own post instantaneously, it was still only 34 minutes of digging.

Langly

cooljammer00 wrote: »

So what's "the meanest thing that he ever did" from? It's been a while since we had a no hovertext lyric.

Also, yeah, FF14 is basically the same on either system. It looks prettier on PS3 and doesn't have an install, but it's not gamebreaking like the Bayonetta cross platform issue.

13, 14 is a MMO.

the cheat

this comic is titties.

DirtyDirtyVagrant

"Kratos kills everyone. The end."

I don't like the God of War games much, but Kratos is truly a bad man.

Der Waffle Mous

L|ama wrote: »

Der Waffle Mous wrote: »

L|ama wrote: »

I've played the PSP one

you kill a bunch of people and it has really good graphics for a handheld, but the last boss was pretty damn hard

The part just before that?


I'll be damned if that wasn't the best fucking QTE I had ever seen.

It's been a year or two, you might need to refresh my memory. I remember some sort of path with lights, and then the boss standing at the top of a staircase which is in turn at the bottom of a tower, and the fight is at the top of the tower. That's about it.

Mash X to push a little girl down.

Spink

Having read the new penny arcade book yesterday, in particular the "podcast" section where they discuss reviews I think this comic is a little backwards in that they've dealt with how things with no new content can still be spoiled by people rating them "good" or "suck" - hype and anti-hype are the biggest/worst type of spoiler to me too.

Hopefully this post itself isn't too much of a spoiler I tried to be as vague as possible.

Munkus Beaver

Tycho clearly does not understand.

Of course the story is that Kratos kills some stuff. That's a given.

But the spoilers are how Kratos kills things.

Is he going to rip out their eyes and pour molten sulfur down the sockets? Is he going to rip off the many appendages of the Echidna and beat her until she starts bleeding from every pore? Is he going to tear off Zeus' genitals and make him choke on his own scrotum?

These are things that can be spoiled.

Speed Racer

I don't really like God of War-style games very much.

DarkPrimus

Speed Racer wrote: »

I don't really like God of War-style games very much.

Have you played that new Wolverine game? Wolverine Origins Uncaged Edition?

Apparently all the reviews called it a God of War clone but I haven't played any of the God of War games so all I know is that it running around as Wolverine slicing the shit out of thousands of enemies was a lot of fun. Also you can get it for like $20 now.

Seriously, it is so ridiculous. Wolverine finds a bridge out, but there is a helicopter that flies over and starts shooting at him. So you do a QTE where you leap onto the helicopter, break the windshield, pull out the pilot and DECAPITATE HIM WITH THE HELICOPTER BLADES and then jump over to the other side of the bridge, instead of, you know, flying the helicopter to where ever he needs to go.

That's just during the first level of the game, too. It gets so much more over-the-top.

Fuga

blehhh

DarkPrimus

The only demo that has made me laugh more than Wolverine at the over-the-topness was Bayonetta, which is on my to-get list.

Shakesbeard

wolverine also had the best late title card in a game ever

DarkPrimus

Yes.

UnbreakableVow

Wolverine was a really great game, much better than it had any right to be

Nothing to God of War, though

sarukun

Is today's lyric from "Boy Named Sue"?


Because I really hope it is.

SageinaRage

I got to the final boss in the first god of war and was like fuck this


I haven't felt the need to play another

Ivar

late title card?

UnbreakableVow

Ivar wrote: »

late title card?

When a title card shows up late

http://www.giantbomb.com/late-title-card/92-3008/

I prefer Mass Effect 2, Assassin's Creed II, and Heavy Rain's to Wolverine though

Daric

DarkPrimus wrote: »

Speed Racer wrote: »

I don't really like God of War-style games very much.

Have you played that new Wolverine game? Wolverine Origins Uncaged Edition?

Apparently all the reviews called it a God of War clone but I haven't played any of the God of War games so all I know is that it running around as Wolverine slicing the shit out of thousands of enemies was a lot of fun. Also you can get it for like $20 now.

Seriously, it is so ridiculous. Wolverine finds a bridge out, but there is a helicopter that flies over and starts shooting at him. So you do a QTE where you leap onto the helicopter, break the windshield, pull out the pilot and DECAPITATE HIM WITH THE HELICOPTER BLADES and then jump over to the other side of the bridge, instead of, you know, flying the helicopter to where ever he needs to go.

That's just during the first level of the game, too. It gets so much more over-the-top.

You want a God of War clone, play Darksiders.

You are the Horseman of War.

Seriously.

DarkPrimus

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

Ivar wrote: »

late title card?

When a title card shows up late

http://www.giantbomb.com/late-title-card/92-3008/

I prefer Mass Effect 2, Assassin's Creed II, and Heavy Rain's to Wolverine though

Technically Mass Effect 2's title shows up right at the start, and then again after the prologue.

Langly

SageinaRage wrote: »

I got to the final boss in the first god of war and was like fuck this


I haven't felt the need to play another

the last boss in God of War 1, and the previous getting out of hell level, was pretty annoying, but GOW2 improved everything.

Tossrock

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

Ivar wrote: »

late title card?

When a title card shows up late

http://www.giantbomb.com/late-title-card/92-3008/

I prefer Mass Effect 2, Assassin's Creed II, and Heavy Rain's to Wolverine though

I guess it's the video game equivalent of a cold open

SabreMau

Squall wrote: »

sabre are those ghost sheets on Gabe's bed

Are they, now?

BlackDove

SabreMau wrote: »

L|ama wrote: »

Oh and Tycho's head, top left, missing a border section between hair and eyebrow in panels 1 and 3

The line above the eyebrow is often omitted in standard practice. I've noticed its absence occasionally because usually the eyebrow and hair meet with no gap.

Where it's actually inked in is a much rarer occurance.

It's like you're some creepy comic character stalker.

I LIKE IT.

SabreMau

For edit reference purposes, and to quickly find a proper expression without a bunch of network traffic, I've got about 5 years worth of PA archives saved to local disks. So it's one of those things noticed over time.

Tofystedeth

Wow, i actually have more saved PA than you Sabre. Of course I just grabbed everything that was in the archive starting at 1 and up through like, 18 months ago for my screensaver. You probably have a much more deliberate approach. And you like, do awesome stuff with it.

Tossrock

that's kind of a weird comment