/vr/ - Retro Games

8bit Theatre was great but I never saw how it ended.

>>5076839
Technically that doesn't make the cutoff as it started in 2001. The same goes for nearly all sprite comics, as Bob & George sparked off that boom and that didn't start until April 2000.

BUT, we've had sprite comic threads here before so I won't go apeshit over it.

I remember reading the Dragon Warrior comic that was trying to compete with 8bit theater when I was little.

Then, all of a sudden, the author made a comic where the Hero dies and couldn't be revived until the site did better numbers than 8bit theater. After a months, he kinda realized how salty he was being over the whole thing and continued it. But I think that was the death knell of that comic because it didnt last long after that.

>>5076856
Huh it felt older than that. Ahh well.

>>5076864
Ha, I never heard that. That's a prime temper tantrum right there.

>>5076825
Man, Gabe's art style sure has degraded over the years.

>>5076881
>blind or retarded

>>5076883
Have you seen his recent stuff? It looks ridiculous. Sure, his skills have improved a ton, but his current style sucks.

>>5076883
He is vastly better in a technical manner but the style is garbage. Early 2000s PA was the peak of it's style.

>>5076881
His prime was about 2004-05. I don't know how he came to draw those bucktoothed monstrosities he makes now.

>>5076875
>>5076864
the world of webcomics is a world of drama queens, divas & crybabies. it's not that suprising...

>hiimdaisy nuked her past so she could push her original work which will never be as popular as her MGS & persona comics

>aaron diaz is a textbook example of an internet nice guy whose actions are 100% completely motivated by pussy. and the main character of his comic became his waifu/outlet for whatever his fetishes are because he couldn't let go of ashley birch turning him down

>david willis is basically the nerdy fry cook from clerks 2 but with mommy & daddy issues

>kate leth is a mentally unstable person who literally bragged about fucking a married man with cancer at his funeral to his grieving wife & kids

>buckley is a pedo manlet with anger issues that got him blacklisted from almost every con he attended

...and there's a whole rabbit hole of stories just like this.

Was wanting to post some of Tiedrich's comics but hers are way after the cutoff date

>>5076891
>>5076897
Lol

>>5077202
Forget what OP says. So long as what they're about is retro then go ahead and post what you got.

>>5077160
Can you explain David Hopkins to me

holy fuck that comic man I went back to try and read some of it again and just holy jeez wow

Let's get it out of the way.

>>5077160
Source on Kate Leth? I never knew she attended the funeral.

>>5076891
>>5076897
Gabe doesn't care about video games anymore unless its something his sons will enjoy. There is nothing wrong being a good dad, but he's lost all touch with how to be funny.

>>5077394
>>5077202
I love this girl’s silly humor

Nothing beats good Penny Arcade. The comic has sucked since about late 2011, but I still get many a chuckle from rereading my favourite strips.

Here's a very interesting storyline, from 2001. See if you can draw any parallels from it to the modern state of the industry.

1/4

>>5077505
2/4

>>5077509
3/4

>>5077510
4/4.

I hope you've enjoyed this little trip.

>>5077509
It's for this very comic that I was just laughing when those same jocks were screaming "FILTHY CASUAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLS" when the Wii came around.

This is what happens when my mind wanders, and when I have too much spare time

>>5076839
Was it really? I think 12 year old me on the internet was just massively impressed by overly verbose nerdtalk and it probably sucks when looking at it now.

>>5076962
He started taking anti anxiety meds.

>>5076881
The only point when his art looked good was when it looked almost exactly like clerks animated. It was shit before and shit after.

>>5077160
>>buckley is a pedo manlet with anger issues that got him blacklisted from almost every con he attended

Alright but don't live in a /co/ style bubble. People really like CAD.

>Dude everyone agrees with me that Buckley sucks, right guys?
>*crickets*

>>5077581
I'll give credit where credit is due. He has legitimately improved his art, and he did finally acknowledge and find humor in Loss.

I'm still mad.

>>5077605
Huh?

>>5077624
RPG World went on hiatus sometime in 2005 iirc, and Ian Jones Quartey went on to have a career in animation with no plans on finishing the comic. Now he has a show on Cartoon Network so he decided to make a quick epilogue to the comic by having his characters appear in the show in one of the weirdest crossovers ever.

I'm not mad about it like that anon is, but for being one of the few web comics I have fond memories of it's still kinda disappointing there was no true ending that actually wrapped up the story rather than just having a cameo in some kids cartoon.

>>5077581
>People really like CAD.

That doesn't make it good.

>>5077641
Yeah, it's a shame that RPG World never wrapped up back in the day. It was probably the best early video game webcomic, and Ian made it when he was a teenager. After high school he lost interest in continuing the story, but it was great seeing him use OK KO to give some resolution to RPG World. Sadly there were few /co/mrades that even knew about RPG World when that ep premiered

>>5077641
How come the art style of OK KO looks so much more terrible than RPG World?

>>5077712
calarts does that to you

>>5077548
>>5076962
>those old planet halflife/gamespy pics

>>5076825
>fucking webcomic threads
And now we're officially /v/. Congrats. Was fun while it lasted. Adios.

>>5077448
Some more AZ

>>5077756
See you tomorrow, Kiddo!

>>5077716
But he went to school in Manhattan.

>>5077762
This one's my favorite

>>5077762
This is one of my favorites

>>5077435
i don't have the time to search for it right now but she supposedly mentioned it on her social media that she tried to get into the funeral in the hopes of saying goodbye and connecting with the wife but was either stopped at the door or got thrown out.

>>5077581
what does people liking CAD have to do with him being a pedophile?

him sending dick pics to an underaged girl nor does him starting his own gaming convention because his temper tantrums got him booted from most of his local cons doesn't have anything to do with the quality and/or popularity of his work.

>>5077762
>>5077773
Not retro, fuck off

>>5078060
>OoT and Mario RPG aren't retro.
You are the dumbest person alive.

>>5077546
Sometimes I read some stripes from time to time and Clevinger is as good as he always was.

Also it's definitely a contender for funniest gaming webcomic of all time.

>>5078060
Blow it out your ass

>>5078063

>>5078061
>>5078063
>2007
>retro
Take it to /v/

>>5078071
They're based on retro games retard

>>5078073
Well the thread is about retro webcomics, not webcomics about retro games.

>>5078071
You're just outing yourself as a newfag, kiddo. Had you been here for more than 2 months you'd know that we've had multiple, successful web & sprite comic threads here before, and nobody was screaming NO FUN ALLOWED then like you are now. Just go somewhere else if you don't like it.

>>5077448
>>5077762
>>5077773
Not retro, and not particularly funny either. The only halfway funny thing she's ever done is the comics lampooning Bethesda's complete lack of effort into making a believable world, but Bethesda games pretty much mock themselves so it doesn't really take a comedic genius to poke holes into them.

>>5076873
it is older than that, >>5076856 is wrong. it started in 1998

>>5078074
this thread is retarded

>>5078575
He was talking about 8bit theatre, not penny arcade, numbnuts.

Oh I have a few that I've saved from past threads

this one makes me laugh the hardest

>>5079223
this is problematic

>>5079223
>nigga you wearin make-up?
>ye...n..no

Every fucking time

>BobandGeorge
Man, sometimes BnG's boards could produce some good comics too.

>>5079417

>>5079428

>>5077581
Hi Tim.

>>5079434
Aww snap, I remember Robot Masters. A very minor comic in terms of popularity, but still fantastic.

>>5080445
Wasn't that one where the robot masters tried to make a honest living by developing products, and their first idea was building a ButtMobile?
They never explained how you were supposed to get inside of it.

Awkward Zombie has the benefit of almost always being actually about video games, aside from those occasional 24-hour comics she does, with very little shitty lore or drama about her avatar or whatever. Also, she's one of the only artists that seems to understand comic storyboarding or how facial expressions/body language work.

On the other hand, when she gets hooked on a game I'm not particularly interested in, it tends to make for a lot of comics I just can't relate to, which is a drag. There can be not a lot of variety. Another thing is that she seems to make comics based around different friends' jokes/ideas a lot, and these are really hit and miss.

>>5080459
Yes I believe that's right.

>>5078298
Wow, you're so cool.

>>5077505
>>5077509
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>>5077516
Unfunny humor aside, it's amazing and sad how this still holds up.

>>5079417
Bob and George was mostly funny when it was adapting the classic games. The original plots tended to devolve into dumb drama and terrible plotholes centered around the author being a character in his own comic.

>>5081571
God, I hated that shitty Kenny ripoff OC

>>5078074
>>5078071
>>5078060
I honestly think if people like this were banned /vr/ could be great.

>>5077505
what year is this from, seems like something that would have sit around 10-12 years ago.

>>5077769
He probably was encouraged to grey up his art so that the animators working under him could draw faster

>>5081634
>what year is this from
>quoted post says 2001

>>5080465
That's what I've always liked about her comics, none of this "slickly drawn college roommates making nothing but video game inside jokes" crap that a lot of webcomics do

>>5081480
The truth doesn't change.

>>5081571
Dave constantly reminded everyone he just improvised stuff on the spot and he could never understand why his comic was so popular or why so many fans tried in vain to find hidden meanings and secret clues he never put there in the first place.

Dave was probably the nicest sprite comic creator you could ever see.

>>5081769
>you now realize B&G was the Homestuck of the early 2000s.

>>5081795
Dave was a cool guy. Some of his forumites made cool comics as well.
But that place had so many disturbed users, we simply couldn't keep them in check.

"Have I recreated all of them?" still kills me.

>>5081803
Oh, Hi, Rick!

>>5077448
>strageties

garbage

>>5081805
the art/humour from this era is PA's golden age

>>5081815
Hello, random ex BnGer!

All webcomics are try-hard wannabe nerd Big Bang Theory loving faggotry.

>>5081886
Not all of them.
Maybe 99.99% of them, but not ALL.

>>5081084
Wow, you're so butthurt.

>>5076825

>>5081985
That man has a point, most of these are cringy unfunny pop references.

>>5076839
I was pissed off by the ending. It wasn't a sprite comic and done by some other artist. I don't know...it just never sat right with me.

I started reading right around Prontera, so I was on board for about the last 85% of it. There were a lot of jokes that my friends and I will still occasionally throw out there.

>>5077537
Neglected Characters was kino

>>5081674
I r gud at readed

Does anyone ever mention MegaTokyo in these threads? It was godawful, but I liked the forums and it pretty much got me into better webcomics.

>>5083482
Megatokyo is not a gaming comic, it's just some anime nerd's self insert fantasy fulfillment shit.

>>5081607
Theyre the reason /vr/ is great

>>5081886
Not the really good ones like Jerkcity or SUPER MEGA

ITT non-retro webcomic artists dump their own strips anonymously. Less than 10% is actual retro webcomics.

ITT faggot states the obvious

>>5083321
holy shit captain snes is still getting updates

jesus christ

>>5077712
because it's much easier to animate art that looks like OK KO.

>>5077160
>her original work, which will never be as popular as her MGS & persona comics
literally lmfao how deluded can you be? cucumber quest is one of the best-liked webcomics in the entire webcomics community

>>5086256
>the entire webcomics community
That's such a small demographic though. The persona and Metal Gear comics bled over to the gaming community, which is much larger and significant. Sorry mate. You can fool yourself, but you can't fool us. The game comics are forever her legacy.

>>5086231
and it's still fresh good

>>5086231
well not in the past 3 months

>>5078298
>Chrono Trigger
>not retro

>>5086256
hi gigi.

i didn't know that you posted here.