[PA Comic] Monday, February 17, 2014 - The Hot Seat

Dog · February 2014

[PA Comic] Monday, February 17, 2014 - The Hot Seat

The Hot Seat

The Hot Seat

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/02/17

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AntonNUL · February 2014

Tycho, get your priorities straight. Get Elliot to go extinguish the flames. Problem solved.

Quid · February 2014

So just how much of Tycho is made out of plastic?

Henroid · February 2014

Quid wrote: »

So just how much of Tycho is made out of plastic?

Just the horse head.

zerzhul · February 2014

I've always assumed it's a detailed prosthetic full head mask that got accidentally glued on once and fused to his skin.

MichaelLC · February 2014

More like 'Titanfail to find host' am I right?!

NinjaTard · February 2014

As a PS4 player who will miss out on Titanfall until either A) a unicorn cries magic rainbow tears and it comes to my Next Gen console of first priority or

Price drop/Surprise money so I can buy an XBOne myself.....can I ask if this comic implies it's a great game or a really bad one? I'm guessing really good.

Also, still getting used to the new site: has there not been a Tycho post yet or am I missing the link somewhere to read his comments on today's strip?

Gaslight · February 2014

I am pretty sure it means it's really good.

There hasn't been a Tycho newspost for this comic yet. When one goes up, a "Txt" button should appear next to the title of the comic.

Skull2185 · February 2014

NinjaTard wrote: »

As a PS4 player who will miss out on Titanfall until either A) a unicorn cries magic rainbow tears and it comes to my Next Gen console of first priority or Price drop/Surprise money so I can buy an XBOne myself.....can I ask if this comic implies it's a great game or a really bad one? I'm guessing really good.

Also, still getting used to the new site: has there not been a Tycho post yet or am I missing the link somewhere to read his comments on today's strip?

I went PS4 as well. My brother has an XBone though, and I sat and watched him play the Titanfall beta for like an hour last night. I was glued to the screen the whole time. It looked remarkably(understandably) similar to a CoD game, but with some awesome improvements. Also giant robots. Giant robots are always a plus. Anyway, it's good. Really good... and I didn't even play it.

Albino Bunny · February 2014

NinjaTard wrote: »

As a PS4 player who will miss out on Titanfall until either A) a unicorn cries magic rainbow tears and it comes to my Next Gen console of first priority or Price drop/Surprise money so I can buy an XBOne myself.....can I ask if this comic implies it's a great game or a really bad one? I'm guessing really good.

Also, still getting used to the new site: has there not been a Tycho post yet or am I missing the link somewhere to read his comments on today's strip?

It runs on the source engine and it's requirements are pretty low. You might wanna look into going PC for it.

Big Dookie · February 2014

Gaslight wrote: »

I am pretty sure it means it's really good.

There hasn't been a Tycho newspost for this comic yet. When one goes up, a "Txt" button should appear next to the title of the comic.

Yes, they're basically saying it's so good that the game crashing was the only thing that could tear them away from it. Even Tycho's house burning down around him can't get him to stop. From their red eyes it appears they've done the same as the rest of us in the beta and played it for about 28 hours straight over the weekend.

Hardtarget · February 2014

great newspost by Tycho today on the lineage, I wonder how many people even remember allied assault let alone call of duty 1.

Allied Assault WarChest was like 2 bucks this weekend on gog, I meant to pick it up but forgot. I wonder how well it holds up.

LostNinja · February 2014

Great news post, if only because it reminded me how funny the Stanley Parable comic was.

Ianysus · February 2014

Wish I wasn't a pleb, and could play it. Looks good.

Lucascraft · February 2014

Looks like the Bone is getting it's first killer app.

Us PS4 owners are still waiting for ours. Hint: Killzone wasn't it.

dead.juice · February 2014

Great comic, one of the funniest in a while.

AlwaysTheBigSpoon · February 2014

Titanfall must be that good. Haven't felt like that since maybe Uncharted 2 Multi. Might not be able to play it. Will try it with my rig (AMD A10) but I doubt it could handle it.

Lucascraft wrote: »

Looks like the Bone is getting it's first killer app.

Us PS4 owners are still waiting for ours. Hint: Killzone wasn't it.

Nope. It certainly wasn't. Had some hopes for Killzone. I was hoping it'd be like about terrorism at home, especially with that first gameplay trailer, but story was never one of the good features of Killzone.

Don't think Titanfall needs that much of a story because Mechs. Which does make me wonder if Hawken will be able to give me that Mech-fix, not as a second choice Titfanfall but just to fulfill that "robot-on-robot mech battles."

There's Destiny but it seems like it doesn't have that heavy metal gun feel.

Aegeri · February 2014

I wonder if Tycho is right about his list of games in the newspost. I hadn't even remembered they did MoH, then CoD, then Modern Warfare and each time redid norms amongst both FPS games and particularly in the popularity of WW2 and then Modern War settings.

I am not going to be unhappy if Titanfall inspires more science fiction FPS games of its ilk and less bland, generic MMS.

Dragkonias · February 2014

Aegeri wrote: »

I wonder if Tycho is right about his list of games in the newspost. I hadn't even remembered they did MoH, then CoD, then Modern Warfare and each time redid norms amongst both FPS games and particularly in the popularity of WW2 and then Modern War settings.

I am not going to be unhappy if Titanfall inspires more science fiction FPS games of its ilk and less bland, generic MMS.

But how long...how long before the SciFi FPS is the object of scorn?

Aegeri · February 2014

About the time that it is ready to be torn down and replaced with something else.

Probably WWI or WWII.

Then the cycle begins anew.

Zxerol · February 2014

Given the choice between eternally playing games where I could stomp on motherfuckers with a giant mech versus picking out which sick new ACOG I can slap onto my M4 derivative, I'd much sooner choose the former, I reckon.

Aegeri · February 2014

Call of Duty: Agincourt.

TechieZero · February 2014

Am I the only one who thinks TF wasn't that awesome?

Robots shooting at each other...Mechwarrior, Earth Siege etc...
People shooting at each other...ummm way done.
People alongside their vehicles...Unreal, BF 2142!!!
AI people...way done.
Cards you can use in game...Painkiller

Was it fun and done well? Yes.

Was it awesome? No. At least have destructive environments...geez.

marsilies · February 2014

Aegeri wrote: »

I wonder if Tycho is right about his list of games in the newspost. I hadn't even remembered they did MoH, then CoD, then Modern Warfare...

I'm not sure why you would doubt him, but for reference:
http://www.polygon.com/2013/6/18/4442424/new-insights-reveal-west-and-zampellas-damaged-relationship-during

The article also delves into a little-known story from [Vince Zampella and Jason West]'s early careers, when they worked at a developer called 2015. While working at 2015, the two led an effort to create EA hit Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (2002) for PC as a contract job. As the game came to completion, they left the company taking most of the talent with them. The new studio, called Infinity Ward, was funded by EA.

So to be clear, they were responsible for MoH: Allied Assault, and not the MoH series as a whole.

Infinity Ward made COD, COD2, COD4: Modern Warfare, and COD:MW2 while they were at the helm. After that, Zampella and West left and formed Respawn, again taking most of the talent with them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_Ward#2010_employee_firings_and_departures
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respawn_Entertainment

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