Penny Arcade on Manhunt 2

November 5, 2007
The Penny Arcade crew looks at Manhunt 2 in its most recent comic.

Funny stuff... 

Jump here for the rest of the comic.

GP: Thanks to correspondent Andrew Eisen for the heads-up on this one...
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So...someone else figured it out. Good.

I am the purple wedge.

I'd say the proportion of gamers is actually smaller.

Oh. So very very true. Count me as the one in purple.

Hear that JT? Manhunt 2 won't corrupt us because most of us don't actually care about the game. You had nothing to worry about from the start.

Just remember to update the link to http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/11/02 for the archives! :)

Ahahah, pretty much accurate. =D

I remember I had quoted them a few days back.

I'm in the purple too.

Well I can proudly as I am NOT in the purple XD

Don't you guys see, though? Penny Arcade is in cahoots with the video game industry. They made this comic so that the watchdog groups will THINK gamers don't care about Manhunt 2, and while the adults look the other way, all the children will be free to play the game and train to be killers!

Hooah indeed!

Leave it to Penny Arcade to really hit the nail on the head.

LMAO, thats a good one.

As always, Gabe and Tycho are right on the money. The media may be focusing on Manhunt 2 but most of us right now are talking about games like Crysis, Hellgate: London, Guitar Hero III or Rock Band. Bravo, guys. :)

Gotta love the guys over at Penny Arcade. So true. So funny.

@ Black Manta

Don't forget Assassin’s Creed, Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Final Fantasy 13 (a friend tells me Versus may still be released this year), Halo 3, and a host of others.

.......wow..... at least penny arcade hit it right on topic

No they didn't. That purple wedge is WAAAAAAAAAAAY too large.

Can we see one for the number of people who are going to buy the game?

"Can we see one for the number of people who are going to buy the game?"

And not for "stings"

yeah I am not in either wedge, nor is my roomate or any of my co-workers, who are in the majority as gamers. We all went out and picked up GHIII or Ratchet, or are playing Tactics on our PSP's.

To Gameboy;

Don't get your hopes up buddy. I can guarantee you that game isn't coming out this year.

@valthun

I went and picked up Bladestorm. I'm loving it in 1 hour.

@ valthun

Yeah, I know. It's all rumor and whatnot. I don't really expect they'll release it too far from the release date of FF13, but you never know. I honestly can't find any concrete info on that. Guess I'll just wait and see.

@ chris

"I’d say the proportion of gamers is actually smaller. "

I agree

I prefer my RTS's anyway.

The chart has an unaturaly large purple part. My reseach gives me a Graham number for the yellow/purple pixels ratio. Or a DNC error. More common.

The link up there needs to be changed to: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/11/02

Otherwise it jumps to the most recent comic, which is no longer the Manhunt one.

I loved Manhunt 2. 9/10. Hooah!

I bought it, so count me in the purple wedge. Better than I expected, but certainly not a GOTY contender or anything. I'd say a solid 7.9/10.

What about a section for gamers who don't care about Manhunt 2?

Who'd care about Manhunt 2? It's only media hype, as if they treated it like Bin Laden.

I'm not sure if I count as the purple wedge or not. I care about the fact that people are trying to censor it and demonize video games at large by association.

I don't care about it from the perspective that I want to play it, especially after the middling reviews it's been getting.

If pirate TV and radio were legal this media hype could've been suppressed.

@ GP

CyberSkull's right, the link you have up is now to the wrong comic, and it's still on the main page

Manhunt would have passed away in silence if not for all the whining from the media. Now it has gotten massive free marketing.

Also; Penny Arcade is, as always, spot on.
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