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Penny Arcade - Comic - Mister Joneser

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Mister Joneser!

Penny Arcade - Comic - Mister Joneser

Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.

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  • Golden YakGolden Yak Burnished Bovine The sunny beaches of CanadaRegistered User regular
    'The Great Circle?' That sucks.

    I can get excited for a Temple of Doom or a Last Crusade, or even a Crystal Skull. But a dumb shape? Come on.

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  • JayDizLJayDizL Registered User regular
    Given how long the Previews/Ads are before the actual movie starts at some theatres?

    Yeah.

    The only way you'd know what was showing would be the name on the ticket.

  • dennisdennis aka bingley Registered User regular
    Golden Yak wrote: »
    'The Great Circle?' That sucks.

    I can get excited for a Temple of Doom or a Last Crusade, or even a Crystal Skull. But a dumb shape? Come on.

    Hey, the first one was good, and it was only a partial circle.

  • GSMGSM Registered User regular
    The only thing that makes sense is that it's Machine Games, and they made those pretty great Wolfenstein reboot games, and also Youngblood. I guess after that rebooted Nazi-shooting series fell off a cliff with the third installment, they needed some other Nazi-shooting series to reboot, because all their tech only works for shooting Nazis.

    We'll get back there someday.
  • GrendusGrendus Registered User regular
    I mean, an Indiana Jones game might work, given that Uncharted and Tomb Raider are both currently on the back burner. The idea of a cinematic experience about a graverobber who dresses up his desecrating ancient burial sites as "archaeology" but we forgive them because they're totally keeping much worse people from doing the same thing is a classic genre.

    Though I'm less excited for Machine Games. I'd rather Arkane take a shot at it, Indiana Jones seems like it would work better as an immersive sim in the vein of Prey or Dishonored. But then, supposedly most of that team is gone after being forced to work on Redfall.

  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    Indiana Jones is a trilogy that ended in 1989.

  • palidine40palidine40 Registered User regular
    GDI Mike! Nobody talks shit about Total! err... about Indiana Jones! Except when its about the Crystal Skull! Or about the ramblings of an old man! Or about what has or hasn't aged well! Or... etc

  • dennisdennis aka bingley Registered User regular
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    Indiana Jones is a trilogy that ended in 1989.

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  • MichaelLCMichaelLC In what furnace was thy brain? ChicagoRegistered User regular
    GSM wrote: »
    The only thing that makes sense is that it's Machine Games, and they made those pretty great Wolfenstein reboot games, and also Youngblood. I guess after that rebooted Nazi-shooting series fell off a cliff with the third installment, they needed some other Nazi-shooting series to reboot, because all their tech only works for shooting Nazis.

    Their Wolfenstein games were really good, yeah. Action and story were both very strong; making him into an actual character was an impressive feat.

  • GrendusGrendus Registered User regular
    MichaelLC wrote: »
    GSM wrote: »
    The only thing that makes sense is that it's Machine Games, and they made those pretty great Wolfenstein reboot games, and also Youngblood. I guess after that rebooted Nazi-shooting series fell off a cliff with the third installment, they needed some other Nazi-shooting series to reboot, because all their tech only works for shooting Nazis.

    Their Wolfenstein games were really good, yeah. Action and story were both very strong; making him into an actual character was an impressive feat.

    I completely agree on the Wolfenstein games. Youngbloods was pretty mediocre, but The New Order, The Old Blood, and the New Colossus were excellent.

    I just think their games lean heavier on the action, less on the adventure. Indiana Jones is an adventure series first and foremost, which was something Arkane was better at. But they may well surprise me.

  • MichaelLCMichaelLC In what furnace was thy brain? ChicagoRegistered User regular
    edited January 2024
    Grendus wrote: »
    MichaelLC wrote: »
    GSM wrote: »
    The only thing that makes sense is that it's Machine Games, and they made those pretty great Wolfenstein reboot games, and also Youngblood. I guess after that rebooted Nazi-shooting series fell off a cliff with the third installment, they needed some other Nazi-shooting series to reboot, because all their tech only works for shooting Nazis.

    Their Wolfenstein games were really good, yeah. Action and story were both very strong; making him into an actual character was an impressive feat.

    I completely agree on the Wolfenstein games. Youngbloods was pretty mediocre, but The New Order, The Old Blood, and the New Colossus were excellent.

    I just think their games lean heavier on the action, less on the adventure. Indiana Jones is an adventure series first and foremost, which was something Arkane was better at. But they may well surprise me.

    It did drop off for sure. Arkane's level design is incredible, at least I'm the Dishonored series.

    Could take that action and make it more physical traversal; jumping, swinging, eyc.

    Or yeah, could turn Indy into a killing machine which would be lame.

    Jokes on us, it's a game about the dog. The Great Circle is the dog's food bowl.

    MichaelLC on
  • LttlefootLttlefoot Registered User regular
    It’s a frogger clone where the cars are replaced by traps and boulders

  • OverkillengineOverkillengine Registered User regular
    Lttlefoot wrote: »
    It’s a frogger clone where the cars are replaced by traps and boulders

    I mean....that's a better effort than some IP cash-ins have historically had.

  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    Why is the door pink?

    Why is the door hinge pink?

  • OverkillengineOverkillengine Registered User regular
    Obviously it's a Barbie dreamhouse, and that's explanation Kenough.

  • palidine40palidine40 Registered User regular
    MichaelLC wrote: »

    Their Wolfenstein games were really good, yeah. Action and story were both very strong; making him into an actual character was an impressive feat.

    KALI MAH!

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