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[PA Comic] Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - Xenotriptych
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Good job though, it's been years since I've seen a typo in the comic.
might make that the new avatar
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
But we can use this as another golden opportunity. See which reviewers grade this game over 7 and consider their opinion to have no appreciable value from this point on!
If this community believes that hating someone based soley upon their gender is acceptable and understandable, I have no interest in being a part of it.
It has had the positive effect of destroying my lust for preorder tchotchkes. I still have one pending, for Metal Gear Rising, but that has a demo that was thoroughly fucking rad, so it feels somewhat justified.
I preordered Tomb Raider on Steam last year on the strength of the action sequences in the trailers, and the misguided notion that Naughty Dogs were behind it. Now I know that's not the case, getting a little nervous about it.
The credits have three other developers listed above them (not counting their producer credit), and there was this guy the other day who said that Timegate did most of the work. Timegate is still hiring to work on the game, Gearbox isn't - so presumably however much Gearbox did on the game itself Timegate's taking over on the DLC.
The games industry is a lot like the movie industry: The logos on the box don't always mean that's who actually made it.
It's a literal triptych. Very nice.
"The forbidden numbers"
Like 1, 2, and 3.
Couldn't Gabe and Tycho have just used themselves in this comic like they do when other games are terrible?
edit: Just read the title. Never mind.
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Yeah, on first read I thought the second panel was the assassins that game developers send after reviewers who give bad reviews, which made me try to connect the third panel and everything went to shit.
Everything was butts.
RAMIREZ!
You ever been mistaken for a man?
Same, then I read the title and got it. But then I got angry that I know what a triptych is, because that humanities class was fucking awful.
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It's all toilets down here, that's all you need to know.
I'm pretty sure the guy is supposed to be one of the characters in the game, demonstrating how bad the dialogue is.
this is just sad
Otherwise once you figure out the flow, the comic is pretty hilarious :P Even if it has a Tychpo :P
Nobody puts baby a vicious alien killing machine in the corner.
So you want them to CAD it, is what you're saying
Or maybe every panel is its own contained beat and "disorienting" is a melodramatic way of describing your initial confusion.
Panel 1 is an introduction to the idea that the game is bad, and rips on scoring systems for reviews.
Panel 2 is an example of how bad the game is.
Panel 3 is the development side being retarded.
I have no idea, I don't read CAD
Exactly!
I thought it was someone reporting that the reviewers wanted to use the forbidden numbers. Like he waits in the vents watching for scores below 7.
So a joke on IGN more than the game.
So they type it into Google and learn something. Not everything has to be spelled out. This isn't the funny papers. Even without knowing what a triptych is, it isn't difficult to intuit that the panels are unrelated.
(if not years)
I want to smooch it