Stolen Pixels #241: The Gaming Afterlife

[lostforever]

Ha ha ha ha! Bravo, bravo, that was magnificent!

 

[Khornefire]

Both the comic and the original joke are brilliant. An excellent strip!

 

[BobisOnlyBob]

I dunno, I think "I'm an underwater football player created by ghosts who travels through time to fight my dad, who has become Satan" is a better story than "I am a space marine, aliens are bad"...

But this is still one of the best you've ever done, Shamus

I gotta agree with this sentiment right here. JRPGs have the absolute best and worst of writing, sometimes (perhaps often!) in the same damn games. The premise is ludicrous, the execution is formulaic, but it's still a damn sight more imaginative that the drivel that [Average Western FPS Developer] spools out.

Just to be clear: Squeenix utterly deserve their places on both lists, but I'm pretty sure I could find and example that would make them a little more like Bioware and Dialog.

 

[GeorgW]

Absolutely brilliant, my favourite stolen pixels ever!

 

[The Critic]

Quite simply the best Stolen Pixels comic I have ever seen. Well done, Mr. Young, Well done.

 

[Operations]

Excelent job

Capcoms cutscenes can sometimes be so bad they are good though, Resident Evil was ace

 

[Kelethor]

Well Done!

 

[The Random One]

This is your best SP comic, sir. I laughed out as soon as I saw where you were going with it and I laughed out again when I finished reading it and I laughed out again when you pointed out Bioware is in the same place in both.

I don't know if anyone pointed out in the comments but I know a worldwide version of the joke: Heaven is having a British home, a German car, an American's salary, Japanese food and a Brazilian lover. Hell is having a Japanese home, an American car, a Brazilian's salary, German food and a British lover.

 

[Weaver]

I still maintain that Blizzard's release schedule is much worse than Valves.
At least Valve can regularly put out games, even if it's not the one people have been screaming for (episode 3).

 

[TerribleAssassin]

"But basically the jist of it is that Italians are all tossers."

I was anticipating that...


And also, made me laugh quite hard, how you keep up the weekly funnies is impressive, good stuff!

 

[Firepowered]

What? we have Greggs, steak pies, and invented the Fish and Chip shop!

*storms off angrily*

You don't like Meat Pies? Cornish Pasties? Haggis? Scotch Egg? Fish and Chips? Yorkshire pudding? Sunday Roast? Eel Pie? Steak and Kidney Pie? Really bad Curry?

Oh yeah I see what you mean.

And especially the french lovers...

Well, I suppose I could have gone for better restaurants during my travels in England.
Unfortunately I was on school trips, and eating fish and chips only for one week straight leaves a REALLY bad impression of the local food

 

[Firepowered]

Even though its a european saying, I would say that in Heaven the military equipment is made by the U.S. and the technology is designed by Japan.

What's the use of military equipment when you're in Heaven?

 

[Silva]

Great joke. It could've gone without the random company choices though. They feel like they came off the top of your head rather than from some very deep thinking (the best humour I think has some serious background thought behind it, and maybe this did, but it feels random to me).

For example, you could've had the folks behind Duke Nukem Forever for the Hell release schedule - obviously.

 

[Ashsaver]

In Heaven,Marketing is done by anybody except.....In Hell,Marketing is done by Bobby Kotick.

And yep,Obsidian's stories are really good,too bad their games are a bug nest. Perhaps they should merge with Bioware,like Square and Enix did....hmmm....Obscureware? Biodian?

 

[Random Argument Man]

(no, french aren't good 'lovers', but they make more 'love' than the entire europe)....

Continue à penser comme ça. Les mensonges ne sont pas une bonne manière pour faire une bonne impression à un français.

On comic* It took me several minutes to stop laughing. That was great.

 

[greenflash]

BEST ONE IN THE HISTORY OF EVERYTHING.

 

[Doug]

I dunno, I think "I'm an underwater football player created by ghosts who travels through time to fight my dad, who has become Satan" is a better story than "I am a space marine, aliens are bad"...

But this is still one of the best you've ever done, Shamus

I think its more a case of "I am a space marine, aliens are bad" is at least simple, understandable, and has a logic to it. The other one just sounds like something a 4 year old would put together.