To this very day I still get mail asking me the outcome of this VERY special Penny Arcade cartoon. It’s a candid, behind the scenes look at something or other. We got together the other night to discuss our feelings about the game over messenger and then figured, why should we do any extra work? Let’s just post the chat log. What we did deliver though is something I think is even better.
Well I said that Batjew and I would deliver a full review of Herdy Gerdy today. We’ll be restocking other shirts (and introducing new ones, zero to drunk, etc.) as we can fund them, but the shirt that sold out first seemed like the best place to start. Hey! Wang-Fu shirts are again available, in any size your mind can envisage. “I thought I saw him over there,” I say, barely concealing my glee. I like to click and click on monsters that haven’t done shit to me, sell their organs, and then find other monsters that look like the other one, and ask them if they’ve seen their friend Bob. The shine still hasn’t come off, so I’m still making a jubilant noise when I travel from zone to zone, or move the camera around. But taking that gelatinous mass they give you, and working it into something worthwhile - it’s the first twenty levels of these games that I cherish the most, and I’m right in the middle of it. By way of example: I was slain outright by an evil ball of cotton, which I can tell you from personal experience makes you feel like a big, big pussy. Like any offering from this genre, you begin your adventuring career without any money, possessions, or motor skills, like a very tall baby.
The scenery, characters, and hats are wondrous to behold, and to look at them is to let your eyes eat. My experience with it so far has been that it runs real well - and there’s a good chance you’ll be charmed by the feel, situated as it is somewhere between Precious Moments and Final Fantasy. You really can’t beat free, and if you have even a cursory interest in things Massively Multiplayer you should treat yourself to it. There’s links when I look there now, but good luck getting anything from their distant machines - if you’d like to try this thing out, I’d recommend trying to grab it from FilePlanet or Khabal Gaming, where I got it. I signed up weeks ago, but I couldn’t find any place on their own (belabored, foreign) site to get the beta client. People have been telling me for months to hop on-board the Ragnarok Online MMORPG train, and ride it to wherever. I’ve received mails all day countering these claims, and I’ve collected them in the comments section below. Granted, she knows less about this stuff then the idiots at EB, but she seemed to know what she was talking about with this… as if she were told by superiors to tell us specifically about it.” The Nintendo rep came in to our store to tell us about this. Nice how they tell us now? Or in this case, just not tell the actual gamers anything at all. It can download/upload files, but it won’t actually act as a ‘controller’ or a ‘secondary display’ for the GC. The most we are going to see out of the GBA-GC link is the kinda stuff in Sonic Adventure 2/Sonic Advance. Nintendo is currently downplaying this sort of ability because, as it turns out, it’s not possible. Things like using the GBA as a display, or secondary controller, though? The Nintendo Rep came by (PA reader) Belabor‘s store, to hard-boil my lofty dreams while they were still in the egg. In my most recent post, there was wild gesticulation as I imagined what a united GBA and GameCube might be able to accomplish.
Let’s try to keep a level head about this. Don’t think that I mean unbroken and uncouth continuity though, God no. Today’s comic product does reference an older item, and some newer strips will probably reference this one. With the newest Jedi Order book just around the corner, the announcement of Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, the recently released Episode 2 trailer, and the imminent Jedi Knight II, it seemed as though a Star Wars strip was probably in order. Sorry about the trouble, it’s nice to have you with us and that behind us. Many of you were getting in just fine, hooking up to the other of the two servers, and many of you were (more than likely) just timing out. It takes two HTTP servers to keep the site running smoothly, and the main one - the one I publish updates to - is housed at a co-lo facility that was having some kind of router problem.