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Comic #59- Orphans

Posted by Tyler Rhodes at 9:17 PM

22 comments so far

JauntyHat
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look at ALL that great stuff to do in their new Home. They’re so glad they finaly have something to do.

September 2nd, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Lance20000
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well its better than being street urchins

September 2nd, 2008 at 9:38 pm
dave
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haha I love it. All there is to do is bowl.

September 2nd, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Xerxes
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Where are the people who analyze the strips. This is the first time I really need it.

September 2nd, 2008 at 10:08 pm
ittekimasu
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Great comic, maybe one day all of us orphans can go and stay with mister playstation

September 2nd, 2008 at 10:09 pm
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I literally laughed out loud at this. Brilliant!

September 2nd, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Sharpless
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I’m guessing this has something to do with either Home and/or backwards compatibility? Yes?

September 2nd, 2008 at 11:39 pm
LoSes
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I think it’s about Sony’s Home being clamored for but having little to do in it

September 3rd, 2008 at 12:22 am
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One more thing: Those are some bizarre looking bowling pins. Did they have to use bottles instead?

September 3rd, 2008 at 12:47 am
myshoescramp
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I’m baffled by this, I can’t tell what the orphans are supposed to represent. Idependant developers that want to make their games for the console? bah, I don’t know

September 3rd, 2008 at 12:50 am
jamespatrick
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Playstation Home I believe.

If anyone has been in the Beta the Bowling game is pretty infamously bad. There’s no animation of your character throwing the ball. And the ball just magically gets thrown down the lane.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-3NI-RmIG0
Watch that to see what I mean.

Home isn’t finished and will be released this year in that state is what this is getting at.

September 3rd, 2008 at 1:32 am
aett
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I think that the orphans are supposed to represent PS1 games. They’ve released a good deal of them over in Japan, but hardly any at all in the US.

September 3rd, 2008 at 3:04 am
Blue-Balloon
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When I first saw the teaser for Home I got super excited (mostly because it ran with the Little Big Planet trailer). Then I never heard of it again.

It’s good to see kids can bowl at least. But I don’t have a PS3 so I guess that doesn’t really matter to me.

September 3rd, 2008 at 3:24 am
Kit
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Actually, the beta for Home just opened up to most of the people that downloaded the home theme from the Playstation Store, I’m assuming this has to do with that fact.

But all in all, I’m quite impressed at how well Home seems to be working on a social level. I’ve met a few people on so far that have been nothing but polite, and had a relatively good experience of the whole thing, despite my reservations. I wish there were more clothing and furniture options but… That will come with time. The feature that allows you to see what other people are playing and join them in that game at the press of a button is incredibly useful.

Alright- that’s enough from me…~

September 3rd, 2008 at 4:01 am
Flint_A
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PS3 had promised from the start that it would offer backwards-compatibility with all PS1&2 games. However, they’re now making cheaper versions that do not offer backwards-compatibility.

I think the orphans may be representing that.

September 3rd, 2008 at 7:58 am
Malignant
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Naw, the orphans are Sony fans/people who own PS3s. Sony said that home would be amazing, yet it still hasn’t been finished and there’s apparently nothing to do in it.

September 3rd, 2008 at 11:03 am
Ina
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I don’t think the orphans are supposed to represent anything. This is clearly a stab at Home, which was supposed to be out almost two years ago.

September 3rd, 2008 at 5:17 pm
MK
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Lolz, yep I agree it’s about PlayStation 3 promising to be a home of BC content (Phil Harrison promised BC would always be a “key value of the PlayStation brand”) and the reality of there being no way to play old games via disc and the online store in many territories sucking complete balls by being empty. Gg vidcons. :-D

September 3rd, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Vil
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indeed, the orphans are Sony fans who don’t yet have a “home” like the xbox live.

Mr. Playstation let’s them in, but it is unfinished and all there’s not much to do.

September 4th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Azmat Shaikh
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I guess intelligence is not a requirement to get online. The comic is talking about the HOME beta.

September 4th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
lavkian
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“The feature that allows you to see what other people are playing and join them in that game at the press of a button is incredibly useful.”

I honestly don’t wish to flame here, but was this truly not an option until now? The 360 has had that ability since launch and I can’t imagine not having been able to join whoever’s playing CoD4 at a moment’s notice…

That said, the orphans in the comic clearly parallel the peas in one of the more recent VGCats comics in that they are loyal fans who have been abandoned by what they believed was their one true savior.

Which is why console fanboyism is silly.

September 5th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
dude
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put simply, ps3 home is just second life on the playstation
the only things that are added are things that would be almost necessary for it to be on a console
seems kinda like a waste of time to me

September 5th, 2008 at 10:13 pm

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