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[PA Comic] Bonus Comic - The SIN Of Long Load Times
Sterica
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As a way to mark PA's 15th birthday on November 18th, Mike decided to redraw the very first comic.
Here is the original for easy comparison.
Here is the original for easy comparison.
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well it's kind of a new joke now. so like Gabe is feeling nostalgic and finds his old copy of Sin, get's some sort of Win95/98 emulator and loads it up on his gaming rig, but even with the brute force of his new PC, it still runs dirt slow. I wonder what a PC game from that era would look like on some HD LCD screen today?
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That, or he's still waiting for the same level from 15 years ago but got a new monitor sometime in the interim.
I had a Spectrum ZX81 with a cassette loader.
Ten/fifteen seconds to load a level? That's adorable.
Try two minutes for every level of Lemmings.
You kids get off my lawn etc.
He did try to hate Tycho to death once, and it caused a nosebleed.
Tycho's earlier newspost hit the same sort of mark.
i fondly remember dialing in to the "information superhighway" using nothing but a 14.4 modem and the annoyance of occupying the house landline. now we're talking about downloading entire AAA titles and even remote game streaming.
15 goddamn years wasted on this shit. thanks Obam...i mean Jerry and Mike!
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Look at how far the art has come in 15 years. Just look at it.
I didn't interpret it that Tycho was just freaking out from being lifted. I took it to mean that Gabe is not merely lifting him up, but force choking him.
Yeah this was my interpretation. And it makes it far funnier.
Crazy.
Gentlemen, please, there's no need to fight over this.
The truth is that in reality neither version of the comic is very funny.
But it was their first one.
It was pretty funny at the time given how hilariously buggy Sin was.
I have to say, there is no greater shame that Sin was a buggy game because in interactivity especially it was miles ahead of most games (and actually, it still fucking is). You often had multiple routes into a place, the maps were large and reasonably non-linear (the first bank level especially) and I can't think of another game that lets you hack banking computers to steal the antagonists millions of dollars. It also had some choices that could change levels giving you a different experience when you played the game a second time if you wanted.
But sadly, it came out roughly in the same time frame as Half-Life and it was riddled with game breaking bugs and issues.
The original is very much worth playing. Episodes didn't do very well and then Relic got sold to a mobile games developer
Ritual, you mean.
Oh, back when Valve was convinced that episodic gaming was the future (turns out it wasn't and DLC actually was, something they're reticent to do unless it involves hats), Ritual apparently wanted to do nine goddamned episodes of Sin. Such optimism...
There's been a ton of DLC for a left 4 dead 1/2 and some for Portal 2.
(Insert "grumble grumble back in my day free dlc were called 'patches'" spiel here)
You had to pay for most of the L4D dlc on the consoles.
EDIT: Looks like you still do. L4D has two $7 dlc packs and 1 free one, L4D2 has 3 $7 dlc packs and Portal 2's single DLC pack is just free it looks like.
EDT2: Also, I'm pretty sure "Free DLC" is a legit thing, so I'm not sure why you're hung up on cash monies.
Yeah I know, and Valve had grumbled about having to charge for them forever on consoles, hence "reticent." One of the reasons they touted Steamworks on Portal 2 on the PS3 was a way to get around that sort of thing.
Anyway, my original point was about Valve's old vision on how games were going to be created and monetized, hence my "hangup" on paid DLC (otherwise I honestly don't give a damn about the distinction of paid and free, cheeky bullshit about "they were called paaatches" aside). Valve thought the future was smaller, cheaper games produced consistently. The market instead trended towards the same big, relatively expensive game, but supported by cheaper DLC for a shorter period of time. Valve produces that sort of content, yes, but it seems they do so without the expectation of direct profit from them (though you could argue that it bolsters sales of the base game itself, I suppose, and of course the console side -- see up).
But all this is bullshit anyway because we all know the REAL TRUFAX FUTURE is free-to-play everything with hats microtransactions yo.
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