Pillars of Eternity, Already in Progress
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Pillars of Eternity, Already in Progress
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Hi everyone. Long time "lurker"; I felt the need to register to express how awful this comic is. I feel bad to register with such a profoundly negative purpose, but ESCAPIST - get your act together.
Aaron Williams, people are saying your work elsewhere is good. This certainly is not.
Aaron Williams, people are saying your work elsewhere is good. This certainly is not.
Person above me is correct; this comic's crap.
A web comic is a visual medium, but all of FFN's 'humour' is delivered in really big speech bubbles. Nobody can be bothered wading through all the text to find whatever the gag of the day is.
Take a look at Critical Miss on this website; they well understand the point of visual gags for a web comic.
A web comic is a visual medium, but all of FFN's 'humour' is delivered in really big speech bubbles. Nobody can be bothered wading through all the text to find whatever the gag of the day is.
Take a look at Critical Miss on this website; they well understand the point of visual gags for a web comic.
Seriously, escapist, this is shit.
I tried to like it this time, but it's just not that funny. If you're so desperate for content, then why not bring Unforgotten realms back as a webcomic? People would actually be excited for something like that.
Not this giant wall of text with uninspired characters that never emote.
I tried to like it this time, but it's just not that funny. If you're so desperate for content, then why not bring Unforgotten realms back as a webcomic? People would actually be excited for something like that.
Not this giant wall of text with uninspired characters that never emote.
...I don't get it.
There are not a lot of posts ahead of mine but people seem to really not like this comic. I'm...indifferent about it but can someone explain to me what the joke was? I feel kind of dumb having to ask but I'm going to feel even more dumb if I can't figure it out.
There are not a lot of posts ahead of mine but people seem to really not like this comic. I'm...indifferent about it but can someone explain to me what the joke was? I feel kind of dumb having to ask but I'm going to feel even more dumb if I can't figure it out.
That's kind of what I thought but panels #2 and #3 confused me. I suppose that makes sense still since the PC is trying to convince the NPC that what he's doing is not evil (like your lock picking example).Corey Schaff said:
Either way, thanks for the quick explanation.
This strip is pretty awful. CAD-tastic proportions of awful. All wordswordswords, zero expression and no punchline. Comedy is but a happy accident for these people.
Criticism equals hatred, and haters are stupid. How mature.008Zulu said:
I don't get it either.
Can someone explain the continuity between the panels?
I guess doing anything for XP could make someone an inhuman abomination. I suppose. But, I don't really recall there being a lot of pointless slaughtering in Baldur's Gate 2, unless you purposefully played it that way?
And the deleting? What's that about? It would make thematic sense if he was threatening to pick-pocket/kill the NPC for questionable XP, but what....
Can someone explain the continuity between the panels?
I guess doing anything for XP could make someone an inhuman abomination. I suppose. But, I don't really recall there being a lot of pointless slaughtering in Baldur's Gate 2, unless you purposefully played it that way?
And the deleting? What's that about? It would make thematic sense if he was threatening to pick-pocket/kill the NPC for questionable XP, but what....
Add another to the pile of dislike.
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Watterson meta'd this point once and only once because he's right - this format is terrible for comics.
If you insist on dialogue-or-monologue-only jokes, at least take cues from <link=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comicsandcosplay/comics/critical-miss/10024-On-Reviews>Critical Miss, where he gives some panels for the characters to emote, make dumb faces, and play around with the word balloon format.
Comics are a combination of visual art and text. Use both. If your comic can be converted to plainitext using a single line of context ("The PC completes a sidequest in Pillars of Eternity") and then nothing but written dialogue, you're not doing a good job. At least the aforementioned Critical Miss comic requires extra lines to describe Elliot's actions and Erin's expressions.
http://i51.tinypic.com/1yo0uh.gif
Watterson meta'd this point once and only once because he's right - this format is terrible for comics.
If you insist on dialogue-or-monologue-only jokes, at least take cues from <link=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comicsandcosplay/comics/critical-miss/10024-On-Reviews>Critical Miss, where he gives some panels for the characters to emote, make dumb faces, and play around with the word balloon format.
Comics are a combination of visual art and text. Use both. If your comic can be converted to plainitext using a single line of context ("The PC completes a sidequest in Pillars of Eternity") and then nothing but written dialogue, you're not doing a good job. At least the aforementioned Critical Miss comic requires extra lines to describe Elliot's actions and Erin's expressions.
Haters as opposed to Likers? Or is this what we call fanboyism, or an apologist? Bloody oath. Anyone else want to use these stupid labels?Versuvius said:I thought it was pretty funny. Haters can feel free to not read it. It takes no time or effort to do so
This comic already had it's three strikes two strips ago, but five bad comic strips in a row is certainly impressive. This comic series has been going on since 2001, and it still violates the cardinal rule of y'know, making them good: Not flooding the page with wordswordswords.
At this point, I am only really reading them to see how awful they are.
At this point, I am only really reading them to see how awful they are.
Yeah, I'm sorry to say I don't find these particularly funny, either. People said in the comments of the earlier ones near the start of the series, that there are really clever and funny strips on the main page, but if The Escapist only gets the runoff, then I don't know why I'd want to read this series here. Or there, honestly, because what we see here doesn't put the comic's main page in a particularly positive light, either. I guess it wouldn't matter to folks who are already fans of the comic, but to those of us who didn't know it yet, this is not the best advertisement.
Uh oh, someone didn't pass Criticism 101 OR read the terms that he agreed to when he made his account!justmyopinion said:
If you honestly think that you're in the moral superiority because you like a comic that's all words and no comic, then I weep for the future of the medium, albeit not mankind (I'm not THAT dramatic). Read a Bill Watterson interview or two, you'll figure out the real problem we have with it.