Videogame webcomics frustrate me ...

In which I am mean again. by Pipistrellus on 2009-08-10 07:16:00 UTC Reply

Okay--post your least favorite webcomic(s)! I came across this sad thing through a friend of a friend on LJ. They assured me the guy who makes it is genius; turns out, not so much.
Link:http://www.drunkduck.com/SouthOfSanity/index.php
I also harbor no love for Ctrl Alt Del or VG Cats.
I've read somewhere that instead of pushing the medium above and beyond, webcomic creators have simply fallen into a Pit of their own, a gaping void of video game references and copy-pasting.

Re: In which I am mean again. by Seranis on 2009-08-11 14:11:00 UTC Reply

http://yamete.smackjeeves.com/comics/

This. It's basically a bunch of teenage girls drawing theirselves as slim bishies and being "cute".

At first when I was younger and hungry for acceptance for my sexuality, I thought the idea was novel and cute. Now I see the authors are annoying, screechy little girls.

This ended with me trollin' the founder as an Anon via email, but unfortunately she guessed who I was correctly. (This would be no problem, but she was very convinced and planned on just bitching about it to whoever.) and I wound up having to fake a heartfelt apology to make sure she wouldn't whine about me to any more intelligent people I may socialize with in the future.

Re: In which I am mean again. by Pipistrellus on 2009-08-11 15:30:00 UTC Reply

I wonder if there is an LJ community dedicated to the bad webcomic. There was a Blogger site that bashed the more popular shitty webcomics, but they haven't updated in over a year. It's still hilarious, and they do some very good break-downs of just why the comics suck:
http://badwebcomics.blogspot.com

Re: In which I am mean again. by Paladin on 2009-08-11 17:14:00 UTC Reply

Meh, I haven't read Bad Webcomics since they spent not one, but two entries bashing Dresden Codak. The comic has its faults, but it doesn't deserve that sort of treatment.

Earthsong. by Vixenmage on 2009-08-11 06:23:00 UTC Reply

I dunno why that comic annoys me so, or why I keep reading it anyway. Just something about it sets my teeth on edge.
Hmm... by Kd7sov on 2009-08-10 14:15:00 UTC Reply

I don't know that I have a least favorite. I mean, there are some I've drifted away from because they didn't interest me - Goblins, 8-bit Theatre - but I can't think of any that would prompt me to say "you don't want to read this".

Well, maybe Unicorn Jelly and its spinoffs. Maybe.

~~Generic Surface :P~~
Videogame webcomics frustrate me ... by Laburnum on 2009-08-10 12:21:00 UTC Reply

... because a lot of them, e.g. Penny Arcade, give the impression that they would be very funny if I had the faintest idea what they were talking about. (I don't play any videogames beyond Diner Dash.)

I used to like the work of Ralph E Hayes. That got old fast. If I'd agreed with even one of the political rants he put in the comic, maybe I'd have kept reading them longer - I don't object to "Ozy and Millie", which does a similar thing on the end of the political spectrum that I agree with. I kept reading "Tales of the Questor" till he started sticking unrelated pages featuring his latest blathering in there. Though I gotta admit, much as I despise him on a personal basis, the guy draws better comics than I do.

Oh, yes, Penny Arcade is funny... by thejadefalcon on 2009-08-11 13:24:00 UTC Reply

if you get the references. Fortunately, I do with the majority.

Try Darths and Droids or DM of the Rings. Those use Dungeons and Dragons for their references, so that's old enough you might get them.

I don't know... by Bailey Matutine on 2009-08-12 17:58:00 UTC Reply

I get most of the references, but I still don't find most of their stuff to be funny.

They seem to be... trying too hard? I dunno. Just don't find it funny.

I presume you're talking about Penny Arcade? by thejadefalcon on 2009-08-14 10:50:00 UTC Reply

I have looked at them for a while (banned at the library), so I can't comment. However, when I did read them, I found them brilliant. Then again, they have been going for ten years. Maybe they're running out of Steam? (Bad pun. Must be shot.)

I also don't find Steven Lynch funny... by Bailey Matutine on 2009-08-14 23:48:00 UTC Reply

and people are constantly telling me how hilarious he is, so it could just be me.

Who's Steven Lynch? by thejadefalcon on 2009-08-15 10:20:00 UTC Reply

And what about Jasper Carrott? Davy Allen? Billy Connelly?

I don't play D&D either. by Laburnum on 2009-08-11 23:58:00 UTC Reply

I've tried a couple of times with the board-game version, but I just don't have the attention span to sit through all the dice-rolling.

What? by Bailey Matutine on 2009-08-12 18:01:00 UTC Reply

I've been told I have the attention span of a badly concussed ferret (which I understood to mean very short, from the way they said it,) but I've always found the dice to be the part I can pay the most attention to, because mine are in pretty colors and they make amusing noises when I roll them.

I'll occasionally interrupt the plot to tell people that I just rolled my birthday on the dice or something similar.

Dice-rolling by Neshomeh on 2009-08-12 19:56:00 UTC Reply

The dice shouldn't make up that much of the game, anyway. Most of it should be... well, role-playing. Funny, huh? The dice are just there to make sure people don't just do whatever crazy/stupid/impossible things they can think of, especially when it comes to fighting. Though the fights do tend to drag on sometimes what with everyone taking turns. Oh well. In any case, a good GM doesn't let the dice get in the way of the game.

~Neshomeh, who has a lot of experience with tabletop gaming.

We had the mass-produced boardgame version. by Laburnum on 2009-08-13 00:35:00 UTC Reply

That was ALL dice-rolling. It was kinda like Snakes and Ladders but with goblins ... Bo-ring. I've heard the "real" game is better, but I don't have the money to spare to buy the sourcebooks.

Well then, here's a link to the SRD, by Bailey Matutine on 2009-08-13 04:05:00 UTC Reply

Which is like the core sourcebooks, but missing critical information like how much experience is needed to level up, or how much gold you get to starts with, which your GM should be telling you anyway.

http://www.d20srd.org

It's basically a thing so that only the person running the game needs to actually have the books.

See, using this, somebody could tell you they were running a game starting at level 8, and that you could have 1,000 gold worth of stuff, plus one single item worth anywhere up to 9,000, because you were caught in a shipwreck and all your stuff got lost except for that one thing you saved, and you could go ahead and make a character for it, say, a dwarven barbarian whose one item was a +2 battleaxe, and who is very, very glad that they managed to cling to those barrels full of food which, along with the rope used to lash them together, comprise the rest of your stuff, because otherwise they would have drowned.

... I now have an idea for the next campaign I'm going to run.

Also, after your description, I have no desire to play the board game.

Have no fear... by thejadefalcon on 2009-08-12 10:27:00 UTC Reply

because both of them mock that too.

www.darthsanddroids.net

I forget DMotR (the original idea), but the link is somewhere early in Darths or possibly in the FAQ.

I only get the old-school references. by Pipistrellus on 2009-08-10 17:42:00 UTC Reply

Pretty much anything Mario, Sonic or Zelda-related gets a chuckle from me in Penny Arcade. The rest is all vague drabble. I might get a Metal Gear ref.

Really? by Seranis on 2009-08-11 13:55:00 UTC Reply

I mean, not even Portal?

*has just replayed for the tenth time* by thejadefalcon on 2009-08-14 10:48:00 UTC Reply

*twitches*

*begins to sob at having to break GLaDOS's heart*

I have had multiple people try to convince me... by Bailey Matutine on 2009-08-14 23:50:00 UTC Reply

that it's possible to escape into the complex to the cake instead of killing GLaDOS.

Nice in theory, but I don't see where it could be done.

It is... by thejadefalcon on 2009-08-15 10:22:00 UTC Reply

and you can also manage to not sacrifice the Weighted Companion Cube. There are YouTube videos of both.

The problem? Both use the 'noclip' cheat.

Re: Really? by Pipistrellus on 2009-08-11 15:27:00 UTC Reply

Nope. I am almost strictly old-school. Or I play multi-player games on Wii. Okay, I have played Neverwinter Nights and found it to be fun, and I like some fighter games and a few superhero games for, like, the PS2.