[PA Comic] Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - Rudderless

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[PA Comic] Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - Rudderless

Rudderless

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/11/12

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H3Knuckles

So, I wonder what Gabe thought about Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, or Twilight Princess?

Donnicton

Now this is logic I can get behind.

El_Funko

Two for two on some solid Gabe teachings. PS4 and Pirate Ship for life, yo.

RMS Oceanic

El_Funko wrote: »

Two for two on some solid Gabe teachings. PS4 and Pirate Ship for life, yo.

Pirate Ship 4 life

It all fits:

Half Life 3 confirmed

DoctorEars

After the seemingly awful reception Assassin's Creed Unity has received, I'd really like to see Mike and Jerry stream it. It would be beautifully awful.

Dark Raven X

Unity's had a p.solid reception around here. People complaining about technical trubs, but that's about it.

Neuroskeptic

I like how Tycho's hoodie is just a face-less version of Gabe's.

Lucascraft

On the one hand, pirate shipping in Black Flag was an incredible experience. On the other hand, it's possible to over-use a setting, theme, or character. Just look at Ezio. AC2... brilliant. By the time we got to Revelations, it was well past time to be done.

Hevach

Well, he did take those breaks to work at Ubisoft pretty hard in Black Flag:

Lucascraft wrote: »

On the one hand, pirate shipping in Black Flag was an incredible experience. On the other hand, it's possible to over-use a setting, theme, or character. Just look at Ezio. AC2... brilliant. By the time we got to Revelations, it was well past time to be done.

While I do agree you can overuse something pretty easily... The ship combat was what finally sold me another AC game after the first one and I never really made things work. I never actually finished the main questline, because too much of it involved leaving my ship at port and dicking around on foot like some kind of peasant. That was basically the tall ships game I'd been looking for since Sid Meier's Pirates.

Gaslight

Every new Assassin's Creed game that comes out it's the same story: the setting really appeals to me, then I remember I'd have to put up with all of the bullshit Da Vinci Code ancestral memory virtual reality conspiracy framing story stuff. And then I lose interest.

Dark Raven X

Lucascraft wrote: »

On the one hand, pirate shipping in Black Flag was an incredible experience. On the other hand, it's possible to over-use a setting, theme, or character. Just look at Ezio. AC2... brilliant. By the time we got to Revelations, it was well past time to be done.

Counterpoint; Brotherhood the middle one between AC2 and Revelations is often considered the best of the series. I personally like Black Flag more, but AssBro has a huge following.

RatherDashing

I like how G&T seem to need to come to a consensus ahead of time whether they're gonna be cool with a new game coming out. Mainly because me and my friends do the same thing.

michaeldemoss

Why is there not a merch hoodie in the PA store?

Talyn Rahl

It's funny because it's true.

Pirate ships are awesome.

Rottonapple

michaeldemoss wrote: »

Why is there not a merch hoodie in the PA store?

this

ziddersroofurry

This is why I'm looking forward to Double Damage games 'Rebel Galaxy'. Pirate ship battles from Black Flag...in space..only faster, and with capital ships and lasers

Dirk2112

This reminds me that I have to finish Black Flag. I grew tired of sneaking around and jumping off of buildings into stacks of hay.

Quid

H3Knuckles wrote: »

So, I wonder what Gabe thought about Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, or Twilight Princess?

Did they have pirate ships?

Seems p easy to figure out based on that.

LCCX

If you're serious that your next game must have pirate sailing ships, then take a look at http://www.navalaction.com/ . It is coming out soon and, well, sailing pirate ships... I wish they had some desktop wallpaper quality screenshots to demonstrate the game's graphics' quality though.

Travan

Tycho expressed my sentiments exactly. Paris On the Eve of The Revolution seems like a perfect fit for this franchise, one explicitly held off until the resources to do it justice were available. Having the final product come out this uneven is incredibly dismaying.

forty

Neuroskeptic wrote: »

I like how Tycho's hoodie is just a face-less version of Gabe's.

Zipperless as well.

H3Knuckles

Quid wrote: »

H3Knuckles wrote: »

So, I wonder what Gabe thought about Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, or Twilight Princess?

Did they have pirate ships?

Seems p easy to figure out based on that.

Well what I was going for was that they were the two big Zelda games after The Wind Waker, which did have a pirate ship (it wasn't really yours, you had to sail around on a little one-man sailing ship, but you did get to ride on Tetra's pirate ship several times). Unless I'm mistaken Gabe was and still is a big Zelda fan, so I just thought it was kind of funny.

Jortalus

Gabe has a point. I'm not even excited about the next AC game because it won't be a pirate simulator.

Gaslight

The “Real World” aspects of the series - either working at Google as in Black Flag, or as Desmond Miles - are so sidelined as to be excised completely.

OK maybe I would actually like this game then.

I wasn’t a fan of the Black Flag approach, but the importance of the past to the present or the future is a core part of what makes Assassin’s Creed what it is.

Nope, fuck that, just let me run around in beautiful historical settings climbing, stabbing people, sailing ships, etc.

sidesquare

I'm def going to be playing Unity but, I already miss the open sea and my ship!

Darkewolfe

LCCX wrote: »

If you're serious that your next game must have pirate sailing ships, then take a look at http://www.navalaction.com/ . It is coming out soon and, well, sailing pirate ships... I wish they had some desktop wallpaper quality screenshots to demonstrate the game's graphics' quality though.

They don't seem to have any in-game images or video at all, so looks sketchy.

Also, Naval Action will be the name of my next porn shoot.

Desert Leviathan

So it looks like there's a DLC episode up for this strip, but the link currently leads to a 404 error.

Desert Leviathan

Looks like it's fixed now. Hooray!

Treequil

I honestly only got Assasins Creed 4 Black Flag (though I call it Pirate's Creed) because it reminded me of Sid Meyer's Pirates, and lived up to my hopes of being like that. Unity may look good, but it's not about Pirates. n.n;