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I am reminded of this quote from chuck, "I won't be at PAX this year, so I need some of you good people to do me a favour. Find these Hothead/GabeTycho lads and demand, threaten, plead, carp, quibble, complain, extort, make an offer they can't refuse, choke their rivers with your dead, shit do what you have to do, but get them to make PAA Episode 3. In return for this, I'll buy you a pint the next time I see you." It can be found in the thread about episode 3. SO those of you at PAX have a duty! Find what you can about the game and report back to your comrads! I'll be sure to notify Chuck that you want that Pint!
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http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/26/penny-arcade-adventures-discontinued-there-wont-be-an-episode/
And i can feel the vigor in my limbs. Though it is not the 'vigor' I was hoping for... thanks for the info, I guess
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Thanks Mike and Jerry and Hothead for a wonderful 2 episodes though.
I suppose I can buy them all now...
That's a shame alright, bit irritated that Khoo couldn't have mentioned it when he posted earlier.
As for the pints, I'll be drowning my sorrows in various Dublin pubs over the weekend.
Enjoy PAX-East anyway.
Well, it's not like we didn't know at this point, but it still sucks all the same.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
Reality sets in, both sides realize there's simply no resources to devote, PAA wasn't a huge cash cow anyway, so it was shelved.
That is my speculation. No drama, just two entities trying to work together, and keeping the dream alive long after it became clear it was dead.
EDIT: to clarify, none of this means I am deluding myself into believing the game will eventualy get made. It almost certainly won't (I say almost because it's possible that the idea will get picked up again a very long time from now). But I do think that we aren't seeing the complete picture as to precisely WHY the game won't be being made.
Waiting all this time just to have it cancelled? With vague promiscuous promises of potentiality along the way? One of the worst things a company can do is mislead it's buyers and that's pretty much what they've done for the past year. I'm sure they've had their reasons, but unless we hear them, which I doubt, then it basically feels like being sucker punched. I was getting all hyped over the past couple of weeks, feeling 'vigor'ous and now I'll be sad all day.
I wish I had the intestinal fortitude to completely ignore DeathSpank now. Not because they are not making Episode Three, but because they've strong us along for a year rather than being upfront and saying they were having problems and issues and it wasn't going to happen. I would much rather have gone through the year expecting nothing, to be pleasantly surprised if it did come out, instead of having various stages of excitement only to get a swift kick to the pillock region now.
Well, there may be some rights-type-stuff involved, of course, but I'd bet that a bigger problem is just time/effort. Producing additional episodes through Hothead would have been far less work than having to build everything from scratch with a different company, and I doubt they'd look forward to going through that whole long process again, when their energies are clearly focused elsewhere. It'd be pretty difficult psychologically to work up the enthusiasm to get that massive ball rolling again with someone else. (That's my theory, anyway.)
Contrariwise, (to play the advocate here) the creators of this website, the strip, Child's Play, and PAX may have simply decided that doing the website, the strip, Child's Play, and PAX were more important.
Yeah I suspect there's more to it as well
That being said, I really enjoyed the games and the story, but I don't think I'll be picking up a book about it. Part of the charm is the immersiveness and creating your own character, finding all the weird little descriptions in the environment. Reading about Joe Blow going on adventures with the company isn't going to be as fun.
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First of all, Deathspank is coming out, so I'll get another chance to play an RPG which is, if not entirely similar in structure, still somewhat related. And second, the other element of the game which I really loved, the story, is going to be completed.
During the Create a Strip panel today, someone asked when this will be released, and as you heard it won't. But Jerry did say he's going to devote some post time to finishing the story. I am saddened by the fact that I can't get to play the story, but at the very least I will enjoy seeing where his ideas were leading.
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I'm afraid to click that spoiler. I'm not sure I want to know. I'll just keep trying to fuck everything. -- trentsteel
I think this would be the most satisfying end, in lieu of a full pair of games. I don't want to think that my poor avatar just ended up living in a giant dented mock-up of an orange on the World's Fairgrounds.
I doubt I'll buy into another serialized game, as I too feel stranded and hung out to dry in my own character's Rain Slicked Precipice of Darkness. As for anything else greenhouse puts out, I'll be less likely to replace the sullied taste in my mouth with even more sour fruit.
I suppose what irks me the most is that I've always viewed the PA entity as a great group of people that I would instantly be friends with when we first met, and who have never let me down, now a blemish on that friendship. I still love you guys, but I can't say I'll be so eager to jump on any future projects you might put forward.
I just recently bought the episodes at Steam for 4.99—and I really enjoyed them. The humour is as special as the comic strips, but the fact that you play the story is the difference that made it work for me. I don’t think that a comic continuation will work as good as the games did.
I really thought the price drop on Steam might give the episodes some sales that could convince PA and Hothead to do the rest, but well...
don't bother... there are cliffhangers that will never be resolved. besides, any of us here do half our job we don't get half our pay, we get fired. teach these guys a lesson and don't pay them for a job not finished.
IT'S COMEDY!
You look at the work that a guy like Scott Johnson (my extra life, experience points) does and you see that when he commits to something, it gets done. In fact take a look at experience points; it was commissioned by Crispy Gamer, much like Ding! from Kurtz, and that comic is still going strong despite Crispy Gamer giving up the ghost. That's some fricking commitment there.
ANYWAY, disappointed that we're not getting episode 3. I wanted to ask the guys at the LA book signing which they thought would come out first, Ep 3 of Rain Slick, or Half Life. Looks like at this point it'll be Half Life; of course that won't come out for another 5 years but...
Thinking about the Scott Johnson forking in my last post, I for one would really like to see a side strip on PA, one dedicated to the extended universe characters, almost like the blamimations. It makes some sense, the blamimations are collaborative and the whole second wing of Lookouts was a collaboration/outsource deal...