Weekly Webcomic Wrapup gets a Reality Check

Damn, I clicked the wrong one. And it's a poor comic as well: though I haven't seen Walle, so it maybe made of more funny than I currently understand.

I hope that means "Fuck the what?"

G vs R got a smile out of me.

My vote HAD to go to VGCats though.
HAD to.

Strong field overall, but goomba v. roomba had enough simple absurdity to give me a hearty belly laugh. HBL

VG wasn't really funny, it was just good commentary.

Not really. It's forcing people to actually choose the best comic rather than go "this is the series of comics I like".

DUUUUUUUR HUUUUR VG CATS BASH NINTENDO, THAT MAKES ME HAPPY, ME VOTE FOR VG CATS

They just recycled the PS3 version of the same exact joke.

4MyFriends: I have been a Nintendo customer for 20 years, so me voting for that comic is especially poignant. Why are your panties in a bunch, it's just a comic, relax kiddo.

Well goodbye, old poignant Nintendo customer! You couldn't hold up the Gamecube even if you tried!

The awesomeness was compounded by the fact that I just saw Rescue Dawn a few days ago and they totally connected.

My condolences to all the peas, but that strip made me hungry.

*exuberance

Oh, you mean the very minor but very vocal group?

Yep, that's the one. Yet ironically, the same very minor and very vocal group that supported their ass for 10 years and will still, somehow, be around when Martha Steward quits giving a fuck about video games.

What? Is that the same group that are crying over the loss of FFXIII exclusivity? Some people should not be allowed to live.

"Oh, you mean the very minor but very vocal group?"

You're apparently just as disconnected from the gaming community as Nintendo is. Minor but vocal? The backlash was fucking huge, moron. Everyone and their mother was disappointed by that conference. Before that conference, I was the biggest Nintendo Defender on this site (besides Fernando, of course). I'm not gonna defend what went down these last few weeks, because its the fucking undependable. I appreciate the apologies from Nintendo and shit, but here's the thing you don't understand.

It's not the fact that I didn't hear enough about hardcore games at the conference. Mario/Zelda/Pikmin sounds pretty nice.

It's the fact that, instead of spotlighting those games, or at the very least devoting more than one sentence to those games, they spotlighted a bunch of casual bullshit. If that doesn't prove which market they're concerned about more with, then there's no convincing you.

Yeah, console warriors do tend to annoy in general...

great job comprehending what I said...dumbasses

"It's the fact that, instead of spotlighting those games, or at the very least devoting more than one sentence to those games, they spotlighted a bunch of casual bullshit. If that doesn't prove which market they're concerned about more with, then there's no convincing you."

So will you change your tune when they hold another conference this fall, like they did last year when they announced Monster Hunter 3 and Sonic in Brawl?
Who cares what they highlighted at E3. They've explained their reasoning, and it's sensible enough to me. Folks like us WILL follow them whenever they are set to announce any kind of conference.
So if they want to use the one show where the new market pays attention, then more power to them. I don't agree that they should have gone with such a narrow focus, but in NO WAY does that suggest they aren't focusing on their base anymore.


I'm also tempted to agree with the vocal minority bit, just because...well...really it's just a bunch of nerds on the internet complaining. There really aren't THAT many of us.
However, it was a hell of a backlash, seeing as this is the first time I think I have EVER seen Nintendo respond to something like this. Usually they just kind of go back into their cave and stay quiet until they have something else to say, whether people like it or not. Definitely a case of the mouse that roared.

If you notice we took a 2-week hiatus for E3. Bi-weekly webcomic wrapup edition? I'll consider it. You, sir, are a genius

My thoughts exactly. It was an actually good CAD comic but for reasons unknown to me Tim had to explain to us why the joke was funny.

I stopped finding CAD funny a long time ago. The guy just sucks ass at comics or do I have to start linking the miscarriage crap again?

I hear you. This brought a tear to my eye as well:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=L3mFj5M3Cbs

Sure, if you haven't seen that joke 100 other times.

just like you haven't seen the poorly executed joke in this week's VG Cats, but it didn't stop you people from voting for it.

Hey, I didn't vote for VGCats.

They literally explained the punchline (which has been done many times before). That was one of the least funny comics I've ever seen.

B^U, Magik.

yep, haven't seen THAT joke before

http://www.cubetoons.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=47&Itemid=38

Yes we picked it solely because it bashed Nintendo. Thats why I voted for CAD too. Never mind that its funny.

I think ill borrow a line from MNC, Suck my dick you fanboy motherfucker.

Poor wittle babwy! Sniff Sniff.

Even I thought VG cats was funny this week

Does that mean that I hate Nintendo?

If you excuse me, I've got a Wolf that needs to be taught magical brush techniques.

Oh, right, because there's no way some of us actually find VG Cats funny, what with its great drawing style and awesome use of parody/satire. Did it ever occur to you that Scott actually IS/WAS a Nintendo fan? There's a reason almost all his comics are Nintendo-themed, and not just Nintendo-bashing. He's in the business of making funnies, not console warring like you.

Anti-nintendo fanboys do find it funny. Nintendo fanboys don't. Seems normal. Many times, anti-ps3 and anti-360 comics have had the most votes. Let's be fair now.

Personally, I think the cartoon is missing the point, and the point it DID make was belabored, but I can see why the same people who have been saying "SCREW NINTENDO" over the past two weeks would find it funny.

"Even I thought VG cats was funny this week

Does that mean that I hate Nintendo?"

Not necessarily, it could also mean you have a very 'warped' sense of funny, but I'm going with hater