The New Comic Thread for Monday, May 2, 2011

scsscs

Sars_Boy

just looked at this app and damn how is blizzard not suing the butts of gameloft?

Coinage

It really upsets me that microtransaction based games are successful.

Is it just me, or does Gabe's head look weird? And I've tried, but I cannot make my lower eyelids raise like Tycho's in the last panel. Is it physically possible?

Crashmo

Here's a trailer for Order & Chaos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql-iu98XGds

Surely that can't be legal.

With the added hilarity of stealing the faction names from Warhammer Online.

treyh37

is anyone else seeing the comic in this thread the right size but the comic tab has a smaller version of it

Burden of Proof

the comic in the thread was originally tiny

scsscs edited his post

Burden of Proof

holy shit, that is WoW!

King Riptor

Coinage wrote: »

It really upsets me that microtransaction based games are successful.

Is it just me, or does Gabe's head look weird? And I've tried, but I cannot make my lower eyelids raise like Tycho's in the last panel. Is it physically possible?

Well in theory some guy said " Hey lets try this some dopes will buy into it and we can break even"

He just sort of underestimated how many dopes there would be.

SabreMau

So, how big of a barrel is "pretty big"?

DarkPrimus

I wish I could win an iPad because there really isn't anything I want it for other than Angry Birds and the ability to have PDFs of my D&D characters for easy access.

Artreus

Yeah I'm jumping on the "That really does look exactly like WoW' bandwaggon.

Barcardi

Man, this and angry birds clone #5 really has me hoping that iphone games die horribly, and soon.

Then i play sword and sworcery and dawwwwwwwwwww ok games are good again.

Scudo

Still pretty impressive that we've reached the point where we can do WoW on a phone. In a fully supported, apparently very playable way. Like, I've seen those videos of people who've hacked their phones to run/stream WoW, but they all seemed to range from "technically working" to "you might be able to check your bank, if you're lucky."

Bucketman

Crashmo wrote: »

Here's a trailer for Order & Chaos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql-iu98XGds

Surely that can't be legal.

With the added hilarity of stealing the faction names from Warhammer Online.

Remember this is from Gameloft, the same people that have made money hand over fist with such hits as:
Dungeon Hunter (Dungeon Siege clone)
Starfront(Starcraft clone)
Sacred Odyssey (Sacred Clone
a game actually called Vampire Romance that I have been told is 100% Twilight's plot
Eternal Legacy (and Eternal Odyssey clone)
Gangstar: Miami Vindication (Grand Theft Auto clone)

I could go on, they have tons of crappy lisenced games, a shit ton of clones of other games, and then a really good Organ Trail game.

Bucketman

Also:

Backstab (assassins creed)
Diamond Twister (its exactly Bejewled)
Hero of Sparta (God of War)

SabreMau

Bucketman wrote: »

Starfront(Starcraft clone)

And an announcer?

Bucketman

Honestly Blizzard should just hire them so they can deskin that and make it Starcraft Mobil

Big Red Tie

literally playing this game right now

it's quite fun, pretty sure blizzard doesn't give a shit because it's not really cutting into their market
in fact, it could draw people into playing more fully featured mmos

iolo

Why don't the stones exist?

Caulk Bite 6

Barcardi wrote: »

Man, this and angry birds clone #5 really has me hoping that iphone games die horribly, and soon.

Then i play sword and sworcery and dawwwwwwwwwww ok games are good again.

to be fair, there are some good iphone games. like one I recently bought called Monster Dash. It's pretty great, for a buck.

as for this thing? yeah, I'm looking at that trailer and all I see is World of Warcraft. shit's just nuts.

jackal

When he said "literally" I assumed he meant "figurately literally" not "literally literally". Holy shit.

ukiyo e

Tycho's expression in that last panel... Hilarious.

Fire Truck

Bucketman wrote: »

a game actually called Vampire Romance that I have been told is 100% Twilight's plot

You were "told"

By yourself.

ThreeCubed

jackal wrote: »

When he said "literally" I assumed he meant "figurately literally" not "literally literally". Holy shit.

:^:

Hunter

Yeah, that's WoW.

I'm waiting for Keepmania: Whip Guy Kills Draculas

The Geek

Coinage wrote: »

It really upsets me that microtransaction based games are successful.

If the microtransactions are for items that have an actual effect on the outcome of a game or the performance or goals of a player, then I wholeheartedly agree. It seems like a really unscrupulous thing to do.

But if it's just for cosmetic stuff, then I don't see anything wrong with that. The decision to buy items like that are fully dependent on the vanity of the player.

Ivar

Coinage wrote: »

It really upsets me that microtransaction based games are successful.

Is it just me, or does Gabe's head look weird? And I've tried, but I cannot make my lower eyelids raise like Tycho's in the last panel. Is it physically possible?

He kinda looks like Pinocchio in Fables

skettios

The Geek wrote: »

Coinage wrote: »

It really upsets me that microtransaction based games are successful.

If the microtransactions are for items that have an actual effect on the outcome of a game or the performance or goals of a player, then I wholeheartedly agree. It seems like a really unscrupulous thing to do.

But if it's just for cosmetic stuff, then I don't see anything wrong with that. The decision to buy items like that are fully dependent on the vanity of the player.

Agreed.
I think League of Legends is kinda run like that.
Only possible exception I can see is buying new champs.. but if you play the game you can buy them with currency earned by playing sooooo
/shrug

GRMike

Sure... it looks like WoW, but is it fun like WoW...

I'm gonna try it out.

el_vicio

The Geek wrote: »

Coinage wrote: »

It really upsets me that microtransaction based games are successful.

If the microtransactions are for items that have an actual effect on the outcome of a game or the performance or goals of a player, then I wholeheartedly agree. It seems like a really unscrupulous thing to do.

But if it's just for cosmetic stuff, then I don't see anything wrong with that. The decision to buy items like that are fully dependent on the vanity of the player.

Yeah but microtransactions for cosmetic changes =/= michrotransaction based anyway, right?

njloof

If you want to get your lower eyelid to squint like that, you have to raise your cheeks, such as by smiling or grimacing. I'm assuming Tycho is doing the latter.

cfsbrawl

Isn't the cake analogy in panel 3 how they described microtransactions in Tiger Woods back in 2006?

Dark Raven X

I thought that was a fridge that would deliver sandwiches directly to the crisper?

This game is a clear WoW ripoff.

They have a Starcraft ripoff.

Blizzard is clearly positioning to eat them alive.

spcmnspff

They've been getting away with this for too long for it to cause a problem now. One day they will clone one of their own clones and accidently sue themselves into bankruptcy. That's the only way this vicious cycle will ever end.

Oooh, and make sure to check out the credits... my name is there!

GRMike

Ok... well I got it. Spent the 6.99 so you don't have to. WoW rip off or not, Gameloft may be on to something here. It is actually not as clunky as you might imagine and connecting to servers happens in seconds, even between playing time. I counted about 24 people all killing wolves on my iphone 4 screen at one time and there wasn't any slow down... I was also able to target and kill my wolf with no issues.

Bliz may want to buy this and re-brand it more than just kill it.

SyphonBlue

Dark Raven X wrote: »

I thought that was a fridge that would deliver sandwiches directly to the crisper?

This game is a clear WoW ripoff.

They have a Starcraft ripoff.

Blizzard is clearly positioning to eat them alive.

They've also got a Zelda ripoff, an Uncharted rip off, and some other ones

Kuribo's Shoe

warcraft is just a ripoff of warhammer

Fire Truck

The last few lines of the newspost sound like comic in and of themselves.

KrunkMcGrunk

Tycho was on fire today. Did you guys see what he wrote about Sony? Fucking hilarious!

- On the discovery that the intrusion has resulted in the dissemination of an infectious Hrungnir neocyte:

“All you people who wont submit to the mindpulse are f’ing morons. It’s like one parasite and you guys are talking about it like it’s some big thing or like “oh i don’t want to be a subjugant.” FFS, you guys. Just quaff the fucking Dominus Flask. Yield to Her. Yield, and be whole.”

Squall

@cwgabriel wrote:

Coming soooooooooon http://t.co/Zw0QgbJ

el_vicio

KrunkMcGrunk wrote: »

Tycho was on fire today. Did you guys see what he wrote about Sony? Fucking hilarious!

- On the discovery that the intrusion has resulted in the dissemination of an infectious Hrungnir neocyte:

“All you people who wont submit to the mindpulse are f’ing morons. It’s like one parasite and you guys are talking about it like it’s some big thing or like “oh i don’t want to be a subjugant.” FFS, you guys. Just quaff the fucking Dominus Flask. Yield to Her. Yield, and be whole.”

This right here.
Tycho whipping out his a-game.