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Penny Arcade Adventures Demos

Post by Dan @ 01:56pm 22/05/08 | 18 Comments

Hothead Games have released the first episode of Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness - an action title based on the popular web-comic of the same (but less exhaustingly subtitled) name. As is generally the way with these newfangled episodic games, the (unlockable by purchase) game client also acts as a playable demo, one which you can download for trial locally from AusGamers in Windows, Linux and Mac flavours.

Internet connected Xbox 360 can also find the demo and purchasable full episode now available from the Xbox Live Arcade.

penny arcade on the rain slick precipice of darkness

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trog
Posted 02:40pm 22/5/08

Cross platform for the epic win.

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ravn0s
Posted 02:47pm 22/5/08

will laugh if its shit.

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Midda
Posted 02:54pm 22/5/08

If you buy the game, do you have a license for any platform, or just the platform you bought it for?

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Dan
Posted 03:08pm 22/5/08

My guess would be that windows/linux/mac would be unified while the x360 would most definitely not be. Might want to look into it properly before buying if you're concerned though.

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Midda
Posted 03:13pm 22/5/08

Yeah, well if the PC/Linux/Mac one is all the one thing, I'll definitely buy it, just to support that sort of business model. I love that they've made it multi-platform from the get-go.

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darkjedi
Posted 03:43pm 22/5/08

Think I'll be buying the first episode just to support them - The stuff I've seen of it sound like it's a bit of a laugh.. Beyond that, then just depends on how good it turns out I guess.

Massive props for the fact it's available for Windows, Mac, Linux & XBLA. If only more developers gave this sort of love (But I'm guessing it might be due to the platform the game runs in, but who knows).

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d0mino
Posted 04:40pm 22/5/08

lulz no ps3.

i am keen on this though, been reading PA for years.

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Ski Free.exe
Posted 04:50pm 22/5/08

They develop under torque so they can easily port it across all the platforms it supports. So PS3 and Wii versions would be kicking around except they have poor online delivery systems.

It's a great game but I can't imagine enjoying it too much unless you're into the comic. The battle system is like Final Fantasy 7's with Mario RPG-esque timing challenges.

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Midda
Posted 05:11pm 22/5/08

lulz no ps3.

I don't think the Torque engine supports PS3.

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Tollaz0r!
Posted 05:45pm 22/5/08

I enjoy reading Penny-Arcade, although I find their recent stuff to be less amusing then previous years.

I should find the funnies in the game, so I'll have a looksy at the Demo.

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Mr Hardware
Posted 06:18pm 22/5/08

whats this about torque?

last edited by Mr Hardware at 18:18:41 22/May/08

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Tollaz0r!
Posted 06:57pm 22/5/08

Wow, that demo was incredibly short.

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Ridah
Posted 07:22am 23/5/08

Uh, what are you guys smoking? There already are Torque engine games on the PS3. Rocketman (capcom) is a PSN release which is based on torque engine with full mp support.

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Ridah
Posted 07:24am 23/5/08

More info about rocketman..

http://au.ps3.ign.com/articles/818/818216p1.html

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d0mino
Posted 09:17am 23/5/08

i played the demo of this last night on XBLA, the art is pretty awesome, and the whole thing stays very close to the PA comic humour. So if you are into PA you will definately get a kick out of this.

As for the gameplay, its pretty stock standard jrpg stuff, except for the fight mechanic. You run around doing fetch quests and doing things like kill X amount of angry trashcans. The fight mechanic is a bit different to your usual turnbased JRPG stuff. Its not quite turnbased, its timebased or something. Each action is timed (Item, Attack, Special move), after you do a move the timer is reset and you have to wait for the time to refill. So you can pretty much do any move at any time as long as you're meter is full. Kudos to them for having a bash at doing something different with it but i don't think it has been properly executed just yet.

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WetWired
Posted 09:24am 23/5/08

its pretty stock standard jrpg stuff

There goes any chance of me enjoying it then

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Midda
Posted 10:28am 23/5/08

JRPG? I'd say it's more like a point and click adventure game with turn-based battles, and even the battles are more like Paper Mario than Final Fantasy.

I'm definitely buying this game when I get home tonight. It's fucking awesome, I got a good laugh when I talked to the first person I saw, and all they said was "HOLY FUCKING SHIT, DID YOU SEE THAT GIANT FUCKING ROBOT?!"

I also loved how you use an orange in battle to distract the Fruit Fuckers, and they say stuff to each other like "Oh man, you've gotta let me in on that." Brilliant.

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d0mino
Posted 10:38am 23/5/08

so wet, you're not enjoying lost odyessey then ?

I forgot to mention that i bought PA last night.

i think you can get past any probs you have with the gameplay if you are into the comedy and the story.

and midda i relayed that exact part of the game to a mate at work!

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