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PA comic: Friday August 26, 2011
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I'm back, baby!Santa Monica, CAModerator Mod Emeritus
I'm back, baby!Santa Monica, CAModerator Mod Emeritus
Fix Your Shit
After you’ve been matchmade in League of Legends, you move to a screen where you can watch each player’s loading bar creep up as you enter the game. It seems like this would be a boredom factory, but it’s actually alright: this is the first time you’re able to see your opponents in a normal game, so it’s typically a flurry of “oh no’s” and “not him‘s” and so forth. You use this time to crank up a kill order on the opposite team, talk about item builds, and so forth. This is something that can keep you occupied for, oh, maybe a minute or so.
Occasionally, you are given much, much longer.
The wide range of hardware the game is available on means that people are attempting to play it on microwaves or on dad’s old shitbox they found in the attic or some other scantily apportioned semi-functional mousetrap, mousetraps not being known for their reliable wireless-fi, which means that for the better part of the match they will exist in the non-place between loading and execution. You’ll still get plenty of execution, though - of your own body, because shitbox.
I have no idea if Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is any good. It’s impossible for me to tell. All I know, all I really know, is that I must buy and buy immediately. In The Grim Darkness Of The Future, there is only brand loyalty.
I wish that weren’t enough; I wish that I were stronger on every axis. That I could be strong for you, be useful! But no. All I want to do is grind right through an orc with a sword that is also a chainsaw. Relic couldn’t be better suited to it: they’ve been making this game for years and years, just from a different perspective, with the camera situated way up in the sky looking down on everybody. The meticulous, almost living animations that have defined the series drop with all their heft and confidence. The sawing is as good as one might hope, if not better, but…
The environments in the demo feel lifted from an RTS sometimes, though - don’t they? Don’t they lack the lived-in cranny, don’t they have scale without granularity? Aren’t there a no i’ve got to fight it i’ve got to fight it
(CW)TB out.
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3rd panel is quite excellent though. That pinky.. edit: makes me think of Artosis when he plays Starcraft. Or is the soviet version of drinking tea, you hold your pinkies out when you play NGage?
Does the stark white background in the first two panels strike anyone as odd sitting right next to the soft blue background of the third?
edit: Because it's completely untouched and just seems blank, not just because it's the color white.
Steam profile.
Getting started with BATTLETECH: Part 1 / Part 2
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It's sort of the WoW of right now I guess. Everyone gets their friends playing, everyone gets together and plays team games at certain times. It's definitely filled a WoW niche for a lot of people, while also enticing people who wouldn't play an MMO but enjoy the competitive esport aspect.
Some of us have a gaming budget akin to scrounging through the bargain bins of electronics stores in third world countries.
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If your opponent didn't have a decent computer, the game would slow down to as bad as 1/4 speed.
In a fighting game.
Only one way to find out for yourself, y'know.
I was like "what's all the hullaballoo!?" for about two months then just decided to try it. It is free, after all. Had a blast. Got some of my friends and coworkers playing it. Good times. I think all that is worth "free".
I've been away from the game for about 9 months. But I might actually pick it up again when the new Dominion mode comes out. Because in my eyes, that's the first true growth that the game will have seen in ... well... forever.
Seems a little hypocritical to turn around and then complain about people with bad connections ruining their LoL experience. Or perhaps it's to be taken the other way, continuing the joke by saying that obviously only people in the Russian wilderness would have bad internet connections in this day and age.
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The point the other week wasn't that everyone has high speed stable internet. It was that a majority of those loudly complaining on message boards about the need to be always online are in fact always online. For the complaining.
Also, the joke a week ago was about connectivity. Today's joke is about hardware. This is much more apparent in the newspost. For all we know, Comrade Russian is sitting on the world's greatest wireless internet hotspot. But it doesn't matter because he's playing LoL on an NGage.
Good point.
The idea itself wasn't so bad, but the implementation was a crappy game system glued to a crappy phone
There's a thread in the PA Library subforum where an industrious user has saved the wallpapers for us.
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/63278/wallpapers/p1
And yay St. Bernards.
perhaps he has in fact been sent to rescue comrade playing-lol-on-his-ngage
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
I can't spare the time to get into a game that requires a MMO level of commitment to get good/reach a level where I'm actually useful.
Because, babies.
I think that unlike an MMO, LoL works because there are a variety of skill levels and different play formats. Now, if you have extremely minimal time to commit, you'll probably be most interested in co-op play versus bots. I think that's the main thing Gabe and Tycho play too.
Everyone is waiting to see what the new map/game type does, too. Since game will be significantly shorter in length, it could have a huge impact on time commitments for playing.
I am seriously hoping to be able to jump in, play a quick game, and get back on with trying to become an accountant. My time is quite limited, and regular LoL takes way too long.
bust out my old Celeron 300mhz and 14.4 modem and just sit there loading games.
that's it, just load, immediately quit, and go back to loading another game
that'll learn em.
Yeah we're kinda goin' nuts for Rainbow and Slash over that news. :^:
Oh wow, this is GREAT NEWS! I thought all hope of another episode in game form was lost.
Also, you can drop out for a time and come back without having to change your game. The time you put in does not fade as quickly as it does with an MMO.