#079 - Prologue

[FPLOON]

Did this strip give anyone else the same kind of vibes you got watching Unskippable?

Man, I miss those guys.

I read all of the Crystal's line in Paul's voice...

OT: I feel like the "Shut up" part of the cliffnotes is actually a major plot twist that changes how you see the world afterwards...

Other than that, nowadays, whenever I see the word "Prologue", I think of the phrase "Final Chapter" coming before it...

 

[Eric the Orange]

Did this strip give anyone else the same kind of vibes you got watching Unskippable?

Man, I miss those guys.

They still do a lot of work. Feed Dump is still weekly, as well as monthly Friday nights and Commodore Hustle. And about 30 hours of gaming streaming a week.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

AHHHHHHH

Panel 1 RAD EYES D:

Did this strip give anyone else the same kind of vibes you got watching Unskippable?

Man, I miss those guys.

I really miss having them here too. I still follow the dumps religiously but I definitely miss catching LRR seasons here.

 

[BeerTent]

That last panel suits me and my friends so well.

"Okay, so we need this class, and that class. We need a Nova and a Saren... BeerTent, Could you be-"

"I'M GONNA BE A MAG! "

"We really don't need a-"

"I'M FUCKING MAG! WE DOING THIS!"

---

"Alright, We got an enforcer, we got a good crook and a ghost, now we need a Technician, Beer, you-

"I'M GONNA BE MY ENFORCER-MASTERMIND BUILD!"

"I was really hoping you'd-"

"MINIGUN TIIIMMMEEEE~"

---

I don't play many conventional RPG's.

Question: has BeerTent ever enthusiastically shouted out his name while charging head-long into absolute an certain death for the entire party, a la Leroy Jenkins? From the way you talk about Mr. Tent, it sounds like something he'd (or "she'd", to be fair ) do.

I'm an 'It'. Gaed. Cant believe you got that wrong, im like, so triggered right now.

On a serious note...

I've got a pretty long name, and it just doesnt sound as good as " LLEEEEERROOYYYYYY JJEENKKIIINSSSSSSS!!!" I have shouted his name instead though. Just, I cant seem to get it right. My friends... They just... Theyre the hard part. I just cant get them killed.

 

[Braedan]

God. This sums up RPG storytelling in general. As Mozart once said "brevity is the essence of wit," yet they all blather and blather for twenty minutes trying to wax philosophical when they could just spit it out in a well written manner in two.

 

[Pyrian]

Man, I wish I could talk back like that in some games. Usually the "snarky" option just makes things even more lengthy.

 

[BX3]

God, "Ook ook. Everyone happy. Free bananas" is one of the most gratifying lines I've read in a webcomic for a long time. Even better given how cruddy of a mood I was in before reading this.

 

[vallorn]

Rad has picked the correct class at least, always be The Wizard, if only because magical pranks are the best ones.

Unless it's Dark Heresy you are playing, if you are playing that, keep as much distance to the psyker as is possible and always carry at least 1 extra clip for when he "accidentally" summons a Daemon/ gets possessed/ explodes/ mix and match the previous.

 

[sageoftruth]

Hope he likes poking things with a dagger, because that's pretty much the only thing most JRPG wizards do when not fighting bosses.

Well, that and nuking over-sized groups of mobs.

Only if those mobs actually exist (they often don't) and there's MP to spare before the boss fight, which is also unlikely because not all save points restore MP. MP restoring potions? Heck, we all know the player is going to hoard those just in case.

Very true. I hate how I'm such an MP hoarder.

 

[Dalisclock]

Man, I wish I could talk back like that in some games. Usually the "snarky" option just makes things even more lengthy.

On a related note, I wish it was a standard Option in these games to either turn off the VA or press a button during in-engine cutscenes to administer electro-shocks to characters who say stupid stuff.

No, I'm not thinking of any game in particular. HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

[Dalisclock]

If only certain rpg's have this abridge approach to their story telling plot.

"You are a dream. Your dad is Cthulhu. Walk this tube for 40 hours being all angsty-like and kill him"

or

"The bad guy told us that if we kill him the world will be destroyed. We killed him. The world was(almost)destroyed. Turns out he wasn't lying, deus ex machina notwithstanding".

Feel better now?

Ooh! Or maybe:
"Heroes go on quest to save the world/girl/get treasure/whatever. Turns out the bad guy gets the heroes to make them all powerful, thus the world would be perfectly safe if the heroes just stayed home. Heroes then beat bad guy. The end.

Ironically, you pretty much descibed the plot of 8-bit theater, where the main characters are actually far more dangerous and sociopathic then any of the villians. And yet still strangely likable despite this.

 

[Darth_Payn]

So what else are those crystals for, if not an energy source? And how do you get it from talking floating crystals? Just jam 'em into a battery compartment?

 

[JimB]

"Ook ook free bananas" cracked my shit right up. I laughed so hard I stopped being constipated.

(I really hope that gets used as a promotional blurb.)

 

[JagerBombastic]

I would have gone with what ever has fire, fire in video games is always a winning element for me.

 

[Lazule]

Hey look. It's final fantasy!

 

[Requia]

Won't embarking on a violent quest to defeat the shard corporation cause a massive number of healing potions to be consumed, accelerating the harvesting of crystals? By the time they win there may be nothing left to save.

 

[ArcaneGamer]

God. This sums up RPG storytelling in general. As Mozart once said "brevity is the essence of wit," yet they all blather and blather for twenty minutes trying to wax philosophical when they could just spit it out in a well written manner in two.

Eer consider that MAYBE they have a story they want to tell, and that maybe want some setup? NO! I'm sorry if I come off as THAT GUY, but I'm getting sick of this! We don't hate complex stories because they're complex, we hate them because of how convoluted they can get, or how some parts of that story make no sense in context to it's story, or how we have to look at the game's Codex to understand ANY THING that going on in the story. I'M LOOKING AT YOU, FF13! A story can be complex, but first, it must be easy to understand and we should care about someone in the story, or more importantly, we're curious where it will go.