By Tim Stone on August 10th, 2008 at 1:30 pm.
From last summer.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Strafe Left: The Formative Years #42
Comment on this story
You must be registered and logged in to post a comment.
XHTML: Allowed code: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>
Search
Read our finest words
Respond to our gibber
- nootpingu86 : “For my part, I think it's ridiculous to find the sublime in most games because of the content on display. The medium can do whatever ...” on The Sunday Papers
- Consumatopia : “@sinister agent, your original argument was "Demanding status updates is just a waste of their time that they could spend making the goddamn game." Kadayi ...” on The Sunday Papers
- Sinderlin : “@jaheira Gabe Newell made several statements and anouncements regarding the planned trilogy of "episodes". I can understand your reluctancy to call those "promises" as a ...” on The Sunday Papers
- Hoaxfish : “there's always that opposite example of player/character intelligence... a player (or DM) using a character that is supposed to be a genius by their stats, ...” on The Sunday Papers
- Vinraith : “I'm a little confused as to why an obvious troll is in the Sunday Papers at all, let alone the first article.” on The Sunday Papers
A flamethrower won’t be of any help in that situation.
Noclip, however, is another matter entirely. Great one, this.
report
Agreed. Ultra-spiffy. Oh, the cumulative hours I’ve spent trying to bend the dev-console to my will.
report
bah, fight your way out in a shower of death.
idkfa! idkfa! idkfa!
report
Which game?
report
Hilarious, and also slightly creepy.
report
half life had this form of console prompts, but so did a number of other games. The prison may just be a tool to tell the joke rather than a reference to a game.
report
I’d say TF2, but the command to bring up console here is different.
report
now THAT, is awesome.
I’d say HL2
report
There is no knife in HL2
report
Like the other guy siad about the prison, it’s most likely just a tool to tell the joke, does anyone know a game that includes health, armor, flamethrowers, rocketlaunchers AND machine guns?
TF2 don’t have armor.
HL2 don’t have knife.
Have fun figuring the rest out.
report
It’s obviously a reference to the cult classic Dutch FPS “Zwart Brood”.
The prison escape section was notoriously glitchy and most people just noclipped out of the starting cell to get on with the rest of the game.
It was also infamous for having possibly the worst flamethrower graphics in any game, ever.
report
ctrl alt makes it a doom 3 or quake 3 engine game
My bet is RTCW
report
Guys. It’s just a general videogames joke. Not based on any game.
report
I agree with Thiefsie, because RTCW started you out in a prison cell, had a ctrl alt ~ console and had all of those weapons available, although flamethrower only in MP.
report
heres something else to do your noodle in – If the prisoner needed a pen to write no_clip on the wall, hows he going to key the command to undo it, since the pen has dropped on the floor.
Not that it needs any serious thought, just saying, is all.
report
Grand Theft Auto 3?
report
@Larington – I think that’s just him taking notes on what commands work and which don’t, like when you try to guess cheats in games.
report
I think a lot of people found it funny for their own reasons, but a lot of people didn’t ‘get the joke’ of a gamer who by either being in prison or perhaps before they got there (and potentially why he was in the cell in the first place) found himself losing his sense of reality and starting trying to enter in codes to GTFO of prison. Ala the matrix or something. What game it comes from specifically isn’t as important as the general understanding that most games had these codes, it would have made just as much sense if a guy on death row started to do a Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right “B” “A” dance, hoping to survive it.
I killed the joke by posting this…
report
This was one of my favourites. Go Strafe Left!
report
Wolfenstein 3D! (Screw RTCW)
report
@caramelcarrot
Thats true, personally I interpret the positioning of the pen and the no_clip command as being associated, though I’m probably trying to read too much into the joke and should just appreciate it on face value.
report
I love how he, as it seems, almost went mental trying to spell invisibility, but then had the noclip epiphany.
But then again, he maybe just saved noclip as a last resort, seeing as it’s probably widely regarded the most inelegant solution ;)
I still remember the first cheat I used in a pc game, ever: dnstuff
Aaah good times.
Also, I did the first noclip in years last week trying to avoid something I believed to be a bug in Bloodlines. In the Canals when you are on the way to the Nosferatu place, there is that Vampire which is in a fight with two monsters. According to a walkthrough you can actually help him survive and then meet him later on.
After failing to do so about 20 times I noclipped to the baddys, killed them, then noclipped back and triggered the scene, only to watch him standing on the corner for a few seconds until he eventually vaporized.
Damn.
report
I believe it is referencing Hello Kitty: Roller Rescue for the x-box
report
‘ I interpret the positioning of the pen and the no_clip command as being associated’
Made me chuckle. Now you mention it, it does seem to indicate the wall was infact the ‘console’.
But yeah i think this analysis is going a bit farther than intended lol
report
sv_cheats 1; save quick; load quick
god
notarget
impulse 101
ch_create_jeep
Hooray!
report
People are looking into this too deeply.
report
The prisoner escaped by noclipping. It’s not a cryptic crossword!
report
I’m just having fun with what I see before me, like someone trying to read more into the lyrics of a song despite the fact they know there isn’t anymore to read.
report
Funny, I’m re-reading ish 177 right now. Yet another great Strafe Left.
report
Hey, this one was actually clever! Seems he got it right too.
report
WELL PERSONALLY, I think this is a deep profound statement about the human will to overcome oppression and facism and bla bla bla HE USED NO CLIP TO ESCAPE. End of.
report
but as has been said, how does he use no_clip again to be able to touch things and walk on land and bathe and stuff
report
Today on Rock, Paper, Shotgun: High-Functioning Autism Day.
Incidentally it’s a brilliant comic.
report
I lol’ed.
report
that is just great!! haha
report
This is by far my favorite Strafe Left yet.
It’s so nice to be in on an in-joke.
report
What people are clearly missing is that the guard has a question mark over his head, clearly indicating that he is in fact a quest-giver, and this is World of Warcraft.
Edit: Aww, it stripped out my fake sarcasm tags.
report
I’d hazard a guess that it’s not meant to be any particular game, and that the “commands” are simply supposed to be familiar enough to anyone who’s used an in-game console for the joke to work.
SL can be hit and miss but this one is brilliant. Cheers for posting it!
report
Good job Larington. You should write a story. About that guy. Or do like a Skylark-esque battle between no-clippers. It’d be great.
Clever comic too.
EDIT: “and bathe and stuff”
Now THAT I lol’d at.
report
“Today on Rock, Paper, Shotgun: High-Functioning Autism Day”
That was actually even funnier than the comic.
report
falta :
give god_mode
give all
give all weapon
god
god_mode
restart
report