[PA Comic] Friday, February 1, 2013 - We Can Help

Geth · February 2013

We Can Help
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/02/01

Travan · February 2013

God dammit.

I would watch this movie.

God dammit. God dammit.

King Riptor · February 2013

I have watched this movie.

It'll still be better than what Bobby Kotick is planning to approve.

Jimmy Marku · February 2013

Oh. I concur G, I concur.

Peter Ebel · February 2013

Silly enough to work.

Kagera · February 2013

Um where's the nelf rogue that falls in love with the nerd?

Jeez do I have to do this shit myself???

darleysam · February 2013

Duncan Jones is a good director, and I doubt he'd have signed onto this if he couldn't make it a good film. I'm looking forward to it.

Stormwatcher · February 2013

I don't think Kotick would have any say in this. Blizzard does things their way, activision doesn't meddle.

Platy · February 2013

They should have been decked out in armor in the third panel.

And Duncan Jones will be directing the movie adaptation, what

He's a fine director, but his work so far has been very different from what one would expect of a Warcraft movie.

assyrianEmpiricist · February 2013

If no one in that movie ever comments on all the headless murlocs running around Southshore then I don't want it to be made. GREAT QUEST DESIGN, BLIZ

Australopitenico · February 2013

Yes, these sort of ideas always work out, just remember the D&D movie. I just did and now I'm weeping quietly.

Athenor · February 2013

Stormwatcher wrote: »

I don't think Kotick would have any say in this. Blizzard does things their way, activision doesn't meddle.

If you believe this, then I have a bridge to sell you. It may not be overt, but I can promise you that Activision watches over their biggest cash cow very carefully. Plus this falls out of Blizzard (the developers) purview; the IP rights belong to Activision, the parent company.

Maz- · February 2013

One can only hope that Blizzard has nothing at all to do with this if you want this movie to have a good story.

Otherwise the villain will inevitably someone who has been ~corrupted~ by some ancient eeeeevil.

And he will be voiced by Chris Metzen.

Enlong · February 2013

Kagera wrote: »

Um where's the nelf rogue that falls in love with the nerd?

Jeez do I have to do this shit myself???

Judging by her weapon choice, Chlaire Leeder there is the team's rogue.

Quid · February 2013

Day one.

I'd bring my biggest flask.

Kagera · February 2013

Seriously though the WoW movie is like five years late in terms of hitting on the popularity of the franchise. I mean obviously WoW is like the big MMO still and cash cow as fuck but is there still really enthusiasm for the thing or is it like that time where you are semi-hard and think 'well time to jack off now I guess' and just half-heartedly go at it?

Kagera · February 2013

Enlong wrote: »

Kagera wrote: »

Um where's the nelf rogue that falls in love with the nerd?

Jeez do I have to do this shit myself???

Judging by her weapon choice, Chlaire Leeder there is the team's rogue.

Oh wow I really thought she was a warlock using her cursed dagger to summon a portal or some shit for whateve reason.

But a rogue makes a lot more sense.

Munkus Beaver · February 2013

the movie would only work if the nerd was constantly harassing the jock to increase his DPS

Kagera · February 2013

More like annoying the jock with his lore-how.

Darkewolfe · February 2013

Kagera wrote: »

Seriously though the WoW movie is like five years late in terms of hitting on the popularity of the franchise. I mean obviously WoW is like the big MMO still and cash cow as fuck but is there still really enthusiasm for the thing or is it like that time where you are semi-hard and think 'well time to jack off now I guess' and just half-heartedly go at it?

This is the perfect time for the movie. Thing is: There's no way to do a WoW movie without damaging the brand. It's going to be fuck-awful half-hearted fan service that doesn't really work. (See the D&D movie). Bringing it out once the brand is already in decline means you're not harming the brand while it still matters. HOWEVER, all the people who have ever played WoW will still go see it, because it's a movie about something nostalgic. Bam, cash in on everyone with a shitty movie once it doesn't matter that you're damaging the brand identity.

Kagera · February 2013

Darkewolfe wrote: »

Kagera wrote: »

Seriously though the WoW movie is like five years late in terms of hitting on the popularity of the franchise. I mean obviously WoW is like the big MMO still and cash cow as fuck but is there still really enthusiasm for the thing or is it like that time where you are semi-hard and think 'well time to jack off now I guess' and just half-heartedly go at it?

This is the perfect time for the movie. Thing is: There's no way to do a WoW movie without damaging the brand. It's going to be fuck-awful half-hearted fan service that doesn't really work. (See the D&D movie). Bringing it out once the brand is already in decline means you're not harming the brand while it still matters. HOWEVER, all the people who have ever played WoW will still go see it, because it's a movie about something nostalgic. Bam, cash in on everyone with a shitty movie once it doesn't matter that you're damaging the brand identity.

I bow to your superior cunning.

Darkewolfe · February 2013

Kagera wrote: »

Darkewolfe wrote: »

Kagera wrote: »

Seriously though the WoW movie is like five years late in terms of hitting on the popularity of the franchise. I mean obviously WoW is like the big MMO still and cash cow as fuck but is there still really enthusiasm for the thing or is it like that time where you are semi-hard and think 'well time to jack off now I guess' and just half-heartedly go at it?

This is the perfect time for the movie. Thing is: There's no way to do a WoW movie without damaging the brand. It's going to be fuck-awful half-hearted fan service that doesn't really work. (See the D&D movie). Bringing it out once the brand is already in decline means you're not harming the brand while it still matters. HOWEVER, all the people who have ever played WoW will still go see it, because it's a movie about something nostalgic. Bam, cash in on everyone with a shitty movie once it doesn't matter that you're damaging the brand identity.

I bow to your superior cunning.

I vastly preferred your visual metaphors, though.

roflstomp · February 2013

God I hope it is NOT people getting sucked into the game. That, for one, reduces the who fantasy world to being just a game. Secondly, it's just...I don't know. Just give me a good, in-universe, ideally canonical story. I don't care if you retell what we've played. Make it about the War of the Ancients, or about Thrall, or Arthas, or Medivh...or start with one and make a dozen movies, like we have one for every Goddamn superhero. lol

I know the idea with a person 'new' to the world is to explain the world to the audience, but really...audiences aren't that stupid. The people going to the movie already know what's going on, or can piece it together. This isn't an unprecedented movie, there are plenty of fantasy works out there now. People know about magic, and strange worlds, and fantastic creatures. And the new Star Trek didn't have to have some guy watching his TV get sucked into the world just to explain what the hell warp drive is...they just did it, and the assumption is made that you either know about it or can figure out that it makes you go really fast.

Riokenn · February 2013

It should be 10 strangers.

All assigned a different class.
(excluding the Hero Death Knight class of course)

Nosf · February 2013

I would set fire to anyone involved in the aforementioned abomination. Fiery fire, not just the usual fire stuff.

Pifman · February 2013

The jock's nose in the last panel may have crossed the threshold of what is acceptable in cartoony noses. Yikes.

Gyral · February 2013

This premise sounds eerily like the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.

fightinfilipino · February 2013

yeah, i watched this movie when it came out in the 80s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF20B8p4F08

IcyLiquid · February 2013

Activision was merely a setback.

awesomologist · February 2013

Wow, today's comic was ripped from the 1983 fantasy classic "Guardians of the Flame" Series by Joel Rosenberg.

KalTorak · February 2013

dear everyone

i'm pretty sure the comic is directly referencing all these 80s fantasy films with clichéd plots.

Henroid · February 2013

KalTorak wrote: »

dear everyone

i'm pretty sure the comic is directly referencing all these 80s fantasy films with clichéd plots.

It's the new millennium - there's no such thing as referencing or paying homage to things. There is only "ripoffs," because that the language internet people speak in for some stupid fucking reason.

DarthVain · February 2013

A better alternative: Michael Moore

This is Brad. Brad hasn't left his basement in 6 years. His mother weeps upstairs each night during Raid time. Brad plays a video game called "World or Warcraft". What is Blizzard REALLY up to? Well today we're going to find out...

Joe Gamer · February 2013

Guardians of the Flame by author Joel Rosenberg was my favorite of the many many many entertainment venues to follow this plot....Now I have to go watch Masters of the Universe again.

LazyDolphin · February 2013

I hopped into this forum just to ask if maybe anyone knew the specific 80's fantasy series this was riffing on (aside from the D&D cartoon). I remembered reading it when I was about 12, but couldn't recall the author or titles. If memory serves, in that series the handicapped nerd IRL stays behind in D&D land where he fit in better (and could walk). Should've known you guys would already be all over this. Guardians of the Flame, Joel Rosenberg. Thanks!