Steve Blum is as foul as ever.

How come NO ONE can get gordon's hair right?

It's definitely funny and I get that it's supposed to be over the top. But after a while I take a break because I can only handle the silliness for a short period of time.

I am definitely getting old.

HEY LISTEN!

The drawing of Grayson is seriously bad in this comic.

@Dead Herald: Touche

Iirc, wasn't the entirety of House of the Dead: Overkill a giant parody of Slasher B-Movies?

Given that, perhaps the rampant expletives were made on purpose to turn people off to "badass swearing".

HotD:OverKill gave me the feeling the level of swearing was too excessive and merely there for people who still think cursing at that level's awesome. And the South Park episode put it best, saying curse words too much ruins the novelty of them. It makes them seem pointless.

@PT: Constant swearing isn't viewed by all as silly humour. To me, it feels immature to the point that only someone under 18 would find it great. As I stated, in House of the Dead:Overkill, they pulled the same stunt. An episode of South Park poked fun at this with the knights of standards.

"Playing it on PC however can be a irritating experience."

No, it isn't. Take off the rose-colored PC fanboy glasses.

Slippy was more tolerable when he just croaked at you. And you could let him die.

@TheMaskedMan: Foox!! Get this guy off me!

Aaaaaaahhhh!

2 bucks that cut off "uck" on the left says "duck"

Painkiller, you'll certainly need one.

Seriously, you'll get a headache from the concentrated awesomeness. XD

@Cenequus: Giving characters personality via dialogue is all good and fun until they won't shut up.

'I swear to god Slippy if an enemy fighter gets the drop on you again I will shoot you out of the sky myself.'

There is a fine line between banter and blather.

I find it pretentious for people under 27ish yr to be so over this kind of humour. Bulletstorm is the kind of chill out games that people should play more often sure Half Life has better story but I'd rather play some Painkiller/Serious Sam/Duke Nukem and have a laugh.

Fuck Bulletstorm, and fuck Cliffy B. If you treat us PC gamers like trash then don't be surprised when we pirate your shitty game

I thought that the swearing wasn't to noticible until I noticed the fact that every swear when there was a swear was dick.

seriously though BUY THE GAME! the multiplayer is hit and miss but the campaign is beatiful.

Shit, didn't know Nick starred in Bullet Storm!

anyway, people oughta relax more, i believe bulletstorm uses teh cursings and all to make humour, as some mentioned here.

i think people aren't understanding jo's point of view about bulletstorm. i believe he's merely making a joke about the contrasts between the two protagonists of these two games: while one is a silent cientist, the other is a foul-mouthed space pirate. he's not saying he disliked the game, i think.

@Radar

It's not about making them hardcore and badass. It's just a silly humour, that's all.

Uck, now I may not pick up Bulletstorm. I'm okay with swearing, except when every other word to come out of the protagonist's mouth is a curse word, it seems like the creators were trying too hard to make the game seem "hardcore" or "badass". House of the Dead:Overkill did that and put me off.

@Hex: As a rule, I don't tell other people what they should like or dislike. If you think Half-Life 2 is fun, then who am I to tell you not to play it. Just let me rant though, it helps me cry in my pillow less at 3am.

@Common Sense: "Otherwise, the game is beautiful and skillshots are ingenious."

YEP, HE SURE DIDN'T LIKE THE GAME OVERALL.

I hate excessive swearing too. It makes the swear seem less powerful to the point where you might as well say "darn," "crap," or "scum."

For comedic or paradoy purposes, it can work if used right. For action or drama... not so much.

I will buy a over the top game in the vein of Duke Nukem where I play as a totally wasted space pirate. Oh goddamn he cusses a whole lot, the whole point of the game is lost on me, better go wank off to valve again for being ~so original~

Half-life 1 and 2 were great. You never saw Freeman's face or heard his voice, so the only character you really had to be was yourself, given the name 'Freeman' so that other characters could talk to you at all. That plus a minimalist HUD, a strong plot, and varied gameplay made it great.

@Dead Herald: Well, I don't agree with your opinion, but I'm glad you at least explained why- oh wait.

Thank god for censoring options...

@MasterOfMagnet: if so then won't this make this comic a equivalent to epic movie adding in a Borat joke?

@Regnar
so, "When it's done"?

Don't you get that same dialogue with online game play?

I really, really wish they would bring out Episode 3 already. I could care less about Portal 2 and TF2 updates.

@Lucky: I didn't like Half-Life 1 either. HL2 I loved, but HL1 seemed tedious all the way through.

am I the only one who thinks that shooting shouldn't take a back seat to platforming in a shooter?

@PT

You're right. THERE IS NO COMPARISON! :D

Love this one!

A protagonist should only talk if they have something important to say. Like explaining that they've covered wars, you know?

Honestly, I happen to mostly prefer silent protagonists for FPS games. Mainly because all of that cussing and talking can get distracting when I'm trying to locate where people are shooting from. And if I want storyline, I don't play FPS games to begin with.

Well, with one possible exception...

You don't need a better PC, it runs on the goddamn UT3 engine and that runs on fucking anything.

MINE

Gordon Freeman was indeed a silent character but do we knew what he was for real when we know what he was thinking in all his trip outside Black Mesa?
http://www.youtube.com/show?p=bYPdeqBaYDg

Freeman's mind, Machinima series :3

Just kidding about the first paragraph, We miss you Gordon.

Jesus Christ get a spell checker. this is the worst blurb yet

I just completed Bulletstorm today and while it isnt the greatest FPS or has the best storyline, it is the funniest and I laughed all the way though it.

@Daka: Bad writing is still bad.

@lucky
mabey it's because i've never played half life one, but i agree, the only parts i've found stood up to the massive praise was Ravenholm. Ravenholm kicked ass.

Half Life was the first game to use scripted events to tell its story, theres practicaly not one event in Half-Life that takes control away from the player. Plus Dr. Gordon Freeman is a science nerd taking on the Marines and an Alien assault.

@Lucky: To each, his own.

@Lucky: Yeah, I don't get it either. It's not the dullest game I've ever played, but it's not all that interesting. Props for the physics engine which is good and all. But aside from that the game play is standard issue FPS and the writing and characterization is fucking horrible.

I still fail to see the appeal of Half Life. In my whole gaming experience I have never been more bored than when I was playing through that crap some of you people call a game.

HL ep 3 will come soon.

oh and anyone seen Tera's Loli upskirt action?

wow this site is memoryleaking like a MOTHERFUCKER.

time to remove it from my favorites.

Bulletstorm is mostly satire and if you listen closely it will insult the target audience for the dialogue.

@PT: All protagonists are tools, as they are fictional characters who exist solely for the purpose of bringing pleasure of thousands of people sitting at their computers.

I miss HL too : <

If i'm reading that right "Superior breed of pc games" ? -_-
meh, does bulletstorm have the millions of different guns like borderlands had?

Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, Tits.

Wow, Jo did really surpass himself with his engrish.

@regnar
Awesome! this means that Ep. 3 is not too far now!

that gun is weird. it's like an ak47 with a shotgun pump attached to some futuregun handle

Well... Buetstorm IS a parody of action and shooter cliches, so maybe this is to be expected...

you should play some different games.

Duke Nukem is not amused by your "Free Man".

Wait...what kind of swearword is Dicktits?

@Mac

Please don't tell me you've just compared Gordon Freeman to a soldier drunktard. PLEASE

@Cirno
o_o

Love the beginning (esp the assassination part). Then it went to the same old shoot and follow the coridor stuff while listening to tough guy speech. Well, the last part would be great (loved the general more than The Hero) if not for the cliffhanger ending... duh!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH0KH9F4He8&feature=feedf
That is all.

WHAT! Encrypted config files? They're nucking futs!

Something about putting a head fucking plant on a dude then impaling his balls with manually controlled explosive bullets or whip grabbing them from 60 yards and perforating their skul into nothingness then kicking em off that 1000ft cliff, but...

finished the game in 8 hours...time well spent...
was friggin' hilarious...loved the part where he kicked the sign and the "forbidden area" got half destroyed and the part where you escape the bomb room and land in the bomb room again...

The amount of insults in this game is horrifiying, its like they try to sell this to children who think every swear word is cool beyond definition. i cant go 3 steps without some brutish and pointless insults being spewed like vomit.

I'm pretty stoked with Bulletstorm, I find them hilarious and silly, maybe not day 1 purchase, but I'm going to get them for sure.

wait wait wait what's that about no mouse? D:

i agree

Silent protagonists are a sort of crutch, but they're an important one. They remove the awkwardness of having words put into "your" mouth, and that counts for a lot if you want the plot to feel unintrusive (see Half-Life and Demon's Souls, where the protagonist speaking would be inherently awkward)

The Silent Protagonist. A moronic concept that has only been properly utilized twice in the entire history of gaming. And Half-Life was NOT ONE OF THOSE TIMES. If anything Half-Life is a glaring example of the worst way to implement a silent protagonist. BTW, twice would be Metroid Prime and Doom.

@PT
Yeah i can already see that his apinion is grate.

If he has nothing to say (except for swearing) he should just stfu.

Another one added to the mute list.

I actually hit my own mute button after a while if I'm swearing too much

@PT

While silent protagonists may be boring, "tough guy" protagonists are annoying. One can only hear forced expletives for so long.

HL: 1 BS: 0

Silent protagonists are boring. They literally are only tools, following others without any kind of opposition or opinion of their own.

What do you mean "playing FPS without a mouse"? Bulletstorm works well with a mouse...

Thanks for the warning, Jo.

you will get Ep. 3 when Duke Nukem Forever comes out

Which will come out first? Episode 3 or Black Mesa Source?

Gordon has brown hair, actually.

We all miss him engie-tan ='(

I want Ep. 3 already. D:

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