The Future

Right from the start; this website was merely an experiment and it continues to be so. We don’t know what is going to happen in the future but we can at the very least let you know some of our thoughts and plans.

The Comic
We plan to use the comic as a means of experimentation. Dont always expect a good joke or a whack at british culture. We want to try different things and find out what works for us.

Other Works
Whilst the comic is the main focus we plan to work on a new comic idea in the mean time. One with actual story and background. Nothing is set in stone yet.

At the hospital!

Im currently at the hospital looking after my nephew as he has had is tonsils out. Also posting this on my mobile so exscuse the spelling and grammar mistakes.

This whole experiance has taught me one main thing though and that is I am bringing up my nephew right as the first thing he says to me when he sees me is “I couldnt connect to our minecraft server.”

I love my nephew.

Hope for ‘Dead Island’

The trailer for ‘Dead island’ raised in me some interest immediately for a game I’d heard nothing about, I can’t recall seeing in film or game the spectacle that is reverse run footage of a small girl being thrown backwards out of a high window in slow motion.
The trailer is very well put together and manages to evoke something of an emotional response as the sections wind themselves together against a melodic piece of orchestra and you are let in on the real tragedy of the scene. A trailer like this really gives you hope that this might be a really good game but you then remember all the times you’ve been let down before, those awesome cut sequences that hyped you for a game only to pick it up and find a tangled mess of lack lustre game play, unoriginal concepts and terrible execution, for reference see many Square-enix games.
From what I have gathered ‘Dead Island’ will be a sandbox game with a focus heavily set to survival with improvised weaponry, fire arms a scarcity and ammunition for them even more rare, a four player drop in and out co-operative element to play against a sea of George Romero style zombies. I really like this concept and hope it will not succumb to temptation and become a frag fest and execute its melee uses with more pizzazz than other survival horrors such as pipe swinging Silent Hill.

The game will have to do something else if it going to stand alongside the reigning goliath of Zombie games, Valves own ‘Left 4 Dead’ franchise and not drop off the radar into the already swollen, bloated and seeping mass of zombie slugfests.

Well enjoy, I did.

-Perils.

Wallet 2.0

Been looking for a new wallet and I finally found one which is awesome! Sadly… I don’t know where to buy it anymore. In my search I found out about the Wallet 2.0 developed at this website but alas the website is no more so unable to purchase my new means to contain my currency and assorted doodads.

So I am taking other Geeky style wallet suggestions or even a location to buy one of these Wallet 2.0’s. Just leave a comment!

Super Bowels!

Yes, I spelt that correctly. You have to have super bowels just to get through the Super Bowl. That is of course if you actually watch that Rugby for Pussies. This is the reason we didn’t update yesterday. R I Perils has been away over the weekend getting shit faced and I am of course envious.

Still we should have a comic up by the end of the day. I plan to write a few articles soon about some of the things I have been doing. Also might try and get our resident artist to do the same… if he isn’t still hung over.

Sickness…. A Winter Wrap Up

Well the winter has ended and so we get ready for the spring. Sadly I have been constantly ill with colds and chest infections. What has been worse is that my entire family has had it too so not only have I been trying to get better but been nursing them all back to health aswell.

I’d like to blame the lack of comic this week on being ill but to be honest we have just all been far too busy with real life.

I will say this now that I do not intend to let the comic fall to bad updates once in a full moon like other web comics have. Just now and then we do have to deal with our real lives or as a geek, lack thereof.

In the mean time enjoy your Winter Wrap Up


WE ARE NOT ANOTHER WOW COMIC!

Seriously, we aren’t. We tend to do comics on whatever takes our fancy at the moment… and at the moment with Cataclysm details posted everywhere it’s hard not to chime in with the rest. Some might say we are being conformist… I say Skibby skibby doo doo Mcgru.

Suffice to say… the next few comics will be WoW related. After this we will be back to our normal programming. In fact we plan to flesh out the town Hollowbrook in which Kathy and Victoria resides.

For now though I want to say a huge thank you to our resident artist R-I-Perils For those who want to know, R-I-Perils does all the art and most of the writing. I myself work on the website and, rants and some comic writing.

Well that’s all the information for now. Feel free to register and account and make some comments! Best way for us to refine and grow.

International Release Dates

SUCK

Seriously, they do. Once in a full moon; the UK will get something before the US but this is when the Queen is caught in a sex scandal, the Pope decides that paedophilia is wrong and the North stop loving Ant and Dec.

So yes… rare. I won’t mention Oz though, I know Yahtzee has that covered. The latest game of much want for me is Civilizations 5. Released in the US on Sep 21 and not released till Sep 24 for those in the UK. As most of you know by now, the wait was hell. Luckily for me I decided to make Steam think I was in the US (DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING).

So I managed to play Civ 5 on US release day. I know, I know. I’m a bad man and I should feel bad. I’m sorry but it’s thanks to archaic UK law that our release dates have to be on a Friday whilst US get to keep Tuesday. I shall have to push this forward with The Pirate Party UK at some point.

Anyway, for those wanting a little help in convincing Steam you are somewhere else just drop a comment. Otherwise please support your local Pirate Party.

The Console Saga Continues!

A long time ago in a galaxy not so far away, we had computer games that were in-depth not just in story but also in game play. We had simulator franchisees that prided themselves on creating a realistic simulation within the fantasy world they belonged to. We had FPS’s that required you to aim at the target and shoot instead of a large glorified crosshair that would auto aim at anything within the reticule.

These were the days of PC games. We are now in the year 2010 and I am sad to say that this decade brings the death of these games. If you walk through a computer game store on the high street all you get now is console games. If you are lucky, one or two will still have a shelf dedicated to PC games but it will be unkempt and forgotten.

It’s not the stores or the online distribution that’s killing PC games though; it’s the game developers and the console generation. I recently did a review on Supreme Commander 2 and this is an ideal example of over simplifying a game so it could be released on PC and Console. The majority of games now are being designed primarily with Consoles in mind to an extreme point that they are dummied down husks of their former selves.

Mech Warrior once was a proud franchise where you were in command of an awesome titan of metal and weapons of mass destruction. This was one of the first franchises to fall to the Console Saga. As Microshaft released each sequel you could see how they simplified the game progressively. It went from managing core temps and building custom Mechs to arcade action grabbing powerups for damage buffs. The only way to get a good Mech Warrior experience now is to play one of the old outdated games or play mods. I would like to state now that the mod Mech Warrior Living Legends for Crysis is quite epic.

Pc Multiplayer games are getting the exact same treatment. Remember the days when going into multiplayer brought up a list of servers showing map and game types including number of players on each server? Well those are gone the way of the Dodo.

Now you get Bioshock 2 and the new Aliens Vs Predator now with inbuilt LOBBY on LOBBY action. Who needs to pick a server when you have a match making service that randomly puts you on servers the other side of the world with lagtastic action! Lobby systems are made for consoles to make it easier for them to find a multiplayer game. For PC’s its being thrust into multiplayer hell where your only winning choice is not to play.

I just hope this saga doesn’t continue.