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Penny Arcade - Comic - Provenance
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Provenance
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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it has zombies yes.
as a zombie, you mill around doing nothing for 20 minutes (zombies can not pick up weapons or even open doors) THEN get shot by a sniper from half a mile away
The Old Mike died....
and as replaced by a New Mike that decided to grow as an artist. He likes pushing things in different directions. Some for the better, some not so much, but I like the flavor it brings.
Yes which is an adaptation of a book.
Which seemingly was also stolen by the whole Hunger Games thing.
As Tycho notes in his newspost, the trick is to acknowledge your influences, credit your sources, and actually do something new with the thing you took. To simply copy it with no work or value added is lazy and despicable.
pfft
if you're bad maybe
8-)
Nah, they copied it from a Simpsons episode.
http://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/news/meet-playerunknown-creator-of-the-battle-royale-genre-w475728
You're thinking of regular Fortnite. Battle Royale Fortnite doesn't have zombies.
But then it didn't matter because WoW sold like... a million copies (+1).
There's only so much space they have in one comic. It would probably lose focus from the punchline if they mention that the guy behind PUBG also did the ArmA Battle Royale mod and H1Z1 King of the Hill mode beforehand.
"Hey, the creator of this game stole a concept from a different game's mod, the bastard!"
"He was the person that created that mod in the first place."
Sometimes the internet is good to me.
good
luck
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that
And I would argue that whether you make a movie out of it, a book or a video games makes a world of difference
I know it kind of gave way to other styles over the years, but no-respawn deathmatch used to be the default multiplayer mode in the days when shooters were mostly single player unless your friend brought his laptop over and you could figure out the ethernet stuff.
Also, I know people like to cite Battle Royale being the progenitor of everything, but "fight in an arena to the death" is, a pretty old concept. I'm fairly certain it was invented by some Sumerian tavernkeep who decided to throw a couple angry chickens in a pit and see what happened.
Depends on how far you take it. Making a bunch of people kill each other is obviously a well-traveled concept, but "citizens made to fight to the death as part of a political agenda to sow distrust and opression by the goverment as a form of social control" is less so, though obviously it's still been done. Most of the stories that use the battle royal concept uses it as a form of gladitorial entertainment, but in Battle Royal i'ts used to terrify and cow the populace.
In Battle Royale, the government forced the people on the island to stay on the move by spreading poison gas outside a safe circle which would diminish in size over time and also had random zones that would be bombed periodically. It's not the concept of "fight to the death" that was taken from Battle Royale but the whole setting and mechanics
It's not an arena, unless you stretch the definition of "arena" into uselessness.
Not that I'm saying The Hunger Games, Battle Royale, or anything else are invented from scratch. I'd point out that The Running Man was published 17 years prior to Battle Royale. In that novella, the runners aren't in a specific game complex (as in the movie) but are just let loose in the world. And part of the inspiration for that seems to be Robert Sheckley's 1958 short story The Prize of Peril about a game show where one person is hunted for a week to try to win cash prizes like a game show. These things kind of flow and mutate and get recombined and reinterpreted for the present culture.
an amazing new concept that's new and fresh!
Oh, yeah.
It's called Bomberman.
Which came out the year after The Running Man. Obviously they ripped it off.
I know you're joking, but this example is a good one to show how much there's an "atmosphere" to these type of games that's more important than specific details. The Running Man never had "zones" or a "field" (at least the book). But it felt far more like PUBG than Bomberman. A big part in this case is the feeling that it's an everyday person trying to survive, suddenly going from normal to being hunted (and hunting).