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Penny Arcade - Comic - My Old Friend
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Penny Arcade - Comic - My Old Friend
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Blackout is just the jig on the grave.
Blackout is a somewhat realistic 1st person Battle Royale, that (almost guaranteed) will run better than PUBG, it will have (relatively) more & better guns & gameplay, it will also have the benefit of being bundle with a multiplayer COD & co-op COD zombie game.
So yeah, I can see how worry the PUBG guys would be now.
Yeah, it came out of nowhere for me as well this week. One minute, I've never heard of it and the next minute it's the hottest new thing.
I was actually already on the fence about it. I've enjoyed the other Black Ops games, but I heard there was no traditional campaign in it, which has me worried. I tend to burn out pretty quickly on competitive FPS because I suck super bad at it, and I get frustrated by dying over and over because I'm so bad at it.
It looked pretty solid. At some point, I think Jerry said something along the lines of, "It's like PUBG, only it looks nice and is finished."
Integrated. It's there instead of a single player campaign.
Law and Order ≠ Justice
PUBG has been the top game on Steam for quite some time now. They have been over 1,000,000 current users for some time too (still are). More than any other game in history. So maybe they might not be the top game anymore, but they are still huge and making tons of money. Maybe at some point in the future when they are hurting PUBG might go free, but they are still one of the top games, period.
I've seen some long time fans of COD saying this one finally has the right feel that the series has lacked for a while. Map flow has improved, the pace of a shoot out feels right, the weapons feel more balanced and the skill reward for good marksmanship feels better. I can't verify any of these things personally, but it sounds like the COD faithful have been amply rewarded.
PUBG's userbase has been reduced by 66% since early summer and they're now below CSGO and DOTA.
There's reasons too numerous to note but it wasn't just because people got bored with it.
snap impressions from the market for me is that:
-Hey, we have a realistic battle royale
-It actually feels finished and the gameplay is tight.
-there is no cottage industry of chinese hackers killing the american and european servers.
-Its a AAA company that might actually take cheating seriously.
PUBG is still going to go strong for a while because it takes a while to bleed that large of a revenue engine.
Fortnite took a large chunk of the Battle Royale audience, but Blackout is a direct competitor to PUBG and it's just better.
tl;dr produce a better product and treat your customers properly or go bankrupt.
Steam - NotoriusBEN | Uplay - notoriusben | Xbox,Windows Live - ThatBEN
Yeah, i want him to not feel pressure to post if life just gets hectic, but the historic consistency makes me worry there was a serious problem.
But man.
They sure have been quick to move on this Battle Royale trend.
I'm still waiting for a big AAA developer's take on the Build/Craft/Survive genre. Conan Exiles is the closest thing we have right now, and I love that game. But I also feel like there is so much untapped potential in that genre. And whenever an AAA studio with more money than Solomon comes along and decides to invest in it, it's gonna be awesome.
PUBG is quite literally based on cheaters selling stuff in the steam store.
It's not a cottage industry it's the whole damn enchilada.
so yea. that point should be moved to spot 1 or 2 on my bullet list.
Steam - NotoriusBEN | Uplay - notoriusben | Xbox,Windows Live - ThatBEN
This is true. In watching Jerry and Kiko play, I saw plenty of zombies, a gun that shoots grappling hooks, and a freaking 1950s raygun. These things were fun, but they're not exactly in the realistic genre. They COULD use their engine to make a much more realistic version than PUBG, though. Just have a map setup that was No Zombies and Realistic Weapons.
Jerry is absolutely fine, don’t worry. The post probably got gummed up in the cdn
That's good to hear. I was thinking about tweeting at him about it, but I keep jumping back and forth between GeoffwithaJay's point, and just wanting him to know it's missed and appreciated. I genearlly like his posts as much or more than the comic itself.
Yeah I was wondering about the post too. Not having it is like a solar eclipse.
Does Bethesda qualify? 'Cause they're definitely going that way with Fallout '76.
News to me.