Deathspank Discussion

[corruptbiggins]

I need to get back to playing Deathspank. Haven't been on it since I accidentally deleted my saved game.

[Eduardo]

Originally Posted by Darth Marsden

I love how Kotaku calls it a sequel when both endings to Thongs of Virtue make it pretty clear that The Baconing has to be a prequel for the story to make any kind of sense.

The first five minutes of the game feature the performing of dark ritual (involving bacon!) by a bunch of weirdly shaped cultists to resurrect DeathSpank.

Sadly, doing so provokes the Baconing, and the end of the world along with it! Oops.

Or

A guilt-ridden, old but still very attractive red headed heroine resurrects DS by giving him back the purple thong to finish the quest she couldn't...


Or

Something silly like that. Fill in the blanks.

[Darth Marsden]

Originally Posted by Eduardo

The first five minutes of the game feature the performing of dark ritual (involving bacon!) by a bunch of weirdly shaped cultists to resurrect DeathSpank.

Sadly, doing so provokes the Baconing, and the end of the world along with it! Oops.

Or

A guilt-ridden, old but still very attractive red headed heroine resurrects DS by giving him back the purple thong to finish the quest she couldn't...


Or

Something silly like that. Fill in the blanks.

Play through the ending where you let Sandy live. She mentions another story. I can only assume this is it.

[tredlow]

Originally Posted by Darth Marsden

I love how Kotaku calls it a sequel when both endings to Thongs of Virtue make it pretty clear that The Baconing has to be a prequel for the story to make any kind of sense.

Yeah, but there was this one game series a few years ago where, originally, the story ended in the second game, with an ending that shoulda ended the whole series. But afterwards, 2 more games were made without involvement of the original creator. These 2 games were sequels, too. Not prequels.

I forgot what the game is called, but my point is, if Hothead decided to make a sequel to a game series that Ron Gilbert intended to end in the second game, then maybe it's not such a strange idea? We're talking about Deathspank, here. It doesn't exactly make sense already.

[LuigiHann]

A prequel is effectively a type of sequel, at least in terms of chronological release order.

[tredlow]

Originally Posted by LuigiHann

A prequel is effectively a type of sequel, at least in terms of chronological release order.

The way I see it, there are three types of 'installments'; a sequel, a prequel, and a squeakquel. A sequel takes place after the previous one. A prequel takes place before the previous one. And a squeakquel is something made by horrible people who should be punched.

[Eduardo]

http://www.thebaconing.com

Website live.

[Ignatius]

What's this??



Did they choose the bad ending to be canon?

To tell the truth, im not so excited about this, besides the fact that Ron isn't involved, it seems it's gonna be all sci-fi and futuristic.

[GozzoMan]

Meh, it's not inviting at all.

If Ron was involved, it would be a no-brainer buy.

In line of principle, not involving Ron could still results in an enjoyable game even if probably less enjoyable, as Monkey Island 3. Reviews will tell us if this one is the case.

But I take particular exception for this one: this is different from MI in that DeathSpank as a character/concept was not created during the development of the game, but previously created for the grumpygamer blog by Ronzo and Kutshaialkkkk (sorry, can't spell the name :P)

If they're able to make another game, without even telling Ronzo (as he wrote on the blog), I guess he had to cede them the rights of the character in order to make the first game. This is frankly bad!

[tredlow]

I'm excited. Yes, Ron is not involved, and it really sucks that they didn't even tell him about it, but it still looks interesting. I'm not gonna judge it yet.

Also, this is actually the first DeathSpank game with a PC version announced FIRST!

Originally Posted by Ignatius

Did they choose the bad ending to be canon?

Didn't DeathSpank die in the good ending?

[Eduardo]

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msFbb...layer_embedded

[Ignatius]

Originally Posted by tredlow

I

Didn't DeathSpank die in the good ending?

That's why im saying they made the bad ending canon. It makes no sense at all, the narrator of the first games is an old Sandy, that appears again at the end of the game (if you choose the bad ending the narrator is now Deathspank wich makes no sense since it started with old Sandy), but in this game Deathspank seems to never have been dead, and he has Sandy's head in a jar. (Her name was Sandy, right? IM just saying Sandy but i don't even remember if that was her name, ho)

[tredlow]

Originally Posted by Ignatius

That's why im saying they made the bad ending canon. It makes no sense at all, the narrator of the first games is an old Sandy, that appears again at the end of the game (if you choose the bad ending the narrator is now Deathspank wich makes no sense since it started with old Sandy), but in this game Deathspank seems to never have been dead, and he has Sandy's head in a jar. (Her name was Sandy, right? IM just saying Sandy but i don't even remember if that was her name, ho)

Well, actually, the fact that she was the narrator was only revealed IF you get the good ending. This might mean that, if you get the bad ending, the narrator will remain anonymous. Or, it could just be interpreted as DeathSpank being the one who's telling the story now.