I had some time on Saturday to play a bunch of Front Mission 4. If you take a look at IGN you will see their reviewer gave it a 6.8 while the reader review is a more respectable 8.6. You guys know that we are not in the business of assigning numbers to experiences here at Penny Arcade but if you held a gun to my head I'd have to side with the readers of IGN on this one. I think it's fair to say that Front Mission deserves about a B+.
One, I noticed over at Blue's that Warhammer Online> had been cancelled. Kind of a bummer actually, as I've growin into some enthusiasm regarding the title - it had some interesting Player Versus Player concepts in the form of opposed classes that I wanted to see play out.
You really should be reading Goats anyway, so what I'm about to tell you is something you should already know.
Another odd footnote in this Quality of Licensed Games thing, it would appear - even Transformers has been treated with affection!
Speaking of City of Heroes, the last time I exited the game it began downloading the first content update, called Through The Looking Glass. Don't know how much of this stuff is going to be available to a lowly level four Magic Defender, but it looks like I probably picked the right day to start playing.
This is the pilot for a new series on Penny Arcade, called True Tales Of The Industry. We've always wanted to run a rumor column that was sixty percent fabrications. Suffice it to say, if we are calling forty percent truth good enough, we know enough things already to crack these out until the heat death of the universe.
This was interesting, I thought. Sean Epperson writes:
If you live on the west coast and you’re interested in coming to PAX you might want to think about the West Coast Supertrip! You can read all about here in the PAX forums. These are the basics:
Well, that's something we can work out. We can get you in. In fact, we can three of you in. And getting in is really easy.
I didn’t just stumble upon that skunk picture in my daily search for polecat porn. A kind reader sent me the link because apparently the creator dislikes Penny Arcade(as well as PvP and Sinfest among others). I checked the rest of his site trying to figure out what sort of person he was and found the weasel erotica. People always seem to think it is important that I know whenever they find some website that hates PA. I’m going to go on record right now and say it’s not that big a deal to us. If you don’t mail me every time someone calls me a dick, that’s probably okay.
If you are a fan of Songfight already, then you might already know this. They're doing another one of their live battles down in Tejas on the 18th and 19th of this month - this very weekend - and it seems like quite a treat. I wasn't able to attend the one in my own town, I was on the opposite side of the country, but if you're down near Austin you might want to take a look-see.
Had I just read the reviews of Front Mission 4 and not actually played the demo I might not go buy it today. Thankfully I did play the demo and I know that the reviewers are full of shit. I just want to make sure that others aren't steered away from the game by misleading reviews. If you're still hesitant at least rent it and check it out.
I'm just afraid that Gabe will learn the wrong lesson from this experience. He'll come away from it with a fear of shrubs or young men when all that's required is that he be more circumspect regarding his dalliances.
I have all the information about what's going down at the Guildhall in Texas, and another meet later that night. Here's the data, if you're in the area.
When another man questions your throughput, I mean, it's on. Driving music begins to play and you have to use your crane kick.
I’m a big fan of the new maps for Splinter Cell:PT. I think that they have a visual polish that far exceeds any of the original levels. The Osprey hovering around the beginning of the Bank level is a real treat.