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Penny Arcade - Comic - Discretionary Heroism
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Discretionary Heroism
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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"Aren't you supposed to be looking for your kid or something?"
"Oh he's fine, you know he's probably good, I'm just going to, yep going over here to check out these raiders they might know something."
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That guy Sephiroth sure is about to destroy the whole world, but I'm pretty close to having a perfect run on this motorcycle minigame at the Golden Saucer, and then my Limit Break will be even more... Limit Breaky.
Snowboards ain't gonna ride themselves, ya know.
Or do you want to try taking down an ancient unkillable evil? No? Then quit your barking.
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i mean, the latter is just regular old evil capitalism, which is too real, soooooo...
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"And would it have killed you to have had even one of those 900 idiots sitting at the entrance to this dank forest to guide me to you?"
Either Fallout 1 or 2 had a town that you'd get a warning about and it'd be destroyed if you took too long getting there.
Mass Effect 2, to a limited extent had one.
Deus Ex: HR had a small one as well at the start.
Syphon Filter had one? But you could OHK the final boss with the poison grenades so... it was a general outlier.
But in modern times there's not that many that I can think of where timers matter (edit: within the context of the comic. Games with openly timed mechanics are usually clearly stamped as such.)
edit: It was possible to run out of time in the Way of the Samurai games too, which resulted in different endings. The first two Dead Rising games, the third is fairly generous about the time.
But...I gotta say. Am I the only one who thinks the exclamation point in "I gotta say!" is a bit jarring? Nitpicky for sure, but it doesn't sit well with me, haha. Who screams out "I gotta say!" like that? I guess, trees do...
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Well there is a Zelda game that does have some dire consequences for taking too long.
Fallout 1 had you finding a water chip to save the vault you lived in. If you took too long, they ran out of water and died. You could arrange for a water caravan to supply them, which extended the deadline. But I vaguely recall there being consequences for disclosing the location of the vault.
This was a hotly debated feature in the game, affecting reviews here and there, although not a lot from what I remember. But it did cause enough annoyance that the sequel dropped any such limit.
Funnily enough, I never beat Fallout 2. I mean, in my mind I did. I left my naive tribal village, became a man of the world, made it to New Reno and made that town my bitch. Heaveweight boxing champion, porn star, casino boss, had a badass car. Then my village got kidnapped and you know what... I'm just too comfy in New Reno to care about them anymore. That's the ending I wrote for my character.
Still one of the greatest role playing games ever.
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Yup, new deadline, which was the Master's mutant army finding them. Which was, uh, bad.
Nice.
That's my head cannon ending
Like you drop the ashes off, and then go blow some cars up with Minh before going home and wondering what the fuck happened.
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Too bad you never actually get around to stopping the Nazi Elves and their plans are going completely unchecked by the end, even if you do resolve the Civil War plot completely non-violently. Granted, the Evil Space Dragon eating the universe probably takes precedence, but I would have liked to have gotten the option to atleast screw over the Thalmor a little bit.
Look, the world ends, I die. You save the world and I'm broke, I starve to death. There's only one player character and you're the only one who shops here. What, that guy? His script brings him in here once a day to look at that shelf. He never buys anything off it. In fact, that shelf is empty. Somebody stole everything on it. I wonder who that was. You jerk.
I think Castlevania is one of the worst offenders with this, a few of the pre-Symphony entries literally had merchants hiding inside the goddamn walls of the castle like some sort of opportunistic vermin. Do these assholes just follow the Belmonts around hoping to sell Holy Water and Turkey Legs to them? Because they cant possibly make that much of a return on their investment. Unless there's like, an entire guild of merchants who follow every single chosen hero around on their epic quests to sell them stuff.
You know what they say in business: "When there is a gold rush, sell shovels". Who says you're the first hero? That shopkeep was probably raised on money their parents made from selling gear to an endless stream of heroes who couldn't hack it.
I'd buy that at a high price.
I've had an npc melt because i took too long to do his sidequest in Sunless Sea.
Star Control 2 did this the best. In game clock, take too long and one of the big bad armadas defeats the others and goes around literally cleansing the galaxy of races. You lose if they wipe out Earth
Of course, while they are doing that it actually becomes easier to complete some objectives (and impossible to complete others as the species you need to talk to is ash) so it's not even a meaningless timer
this sounds ripe for a game idea (that's probably already been done, and yes, I know about Recettear and Holy Potatoes and I meant the more specific idea about a merchant having to follow a hero through a dangerous world and pop up at opportune times)
You know where you could go to have it always be at a power of 60? The castle.
But you had 6 months ingame time in order to finish the main quest. (otherwise the main villain shows up in a cutsequence and murders you).
Fallout 1 had two timers: one visible timer counts down to your vault running out of water without a replacement purifier chip, and an invisible timer that starts after you're banished from the vault that counts down to the Master taking over (destroying?) the wasteland. My first play-through ended abruptly when the secondary, invisible timer ran out while I was living my post-vault life exploring/trying to get the special random encounters.
There are some games with hard time limits, like The Magic Candle. And some which basically have a time limit, like Wizardry 4, where apparently messing around too much makes the game unwinnable. Then things like Castlevania 2 where the time taken just affects which ending you get.
Move figs? I'm guessing it's because people who play D&D don't have dates?
... sorry, I registered exclusively for this pun.