By Tim Stone on September 7th, 2008 at 12:10 pm.
From summer 07.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Strafe Left: The Formative Years #46
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07/09/2008 at 12:15 Ketch says:
That really did genuinely make me chuckle!
07/09/2008 at 12:18 Little Green Man says:
oh I remember this one. Ahh…
07/09/2008 at 12:43 Trezoristo says:
Nice one :). Doesn’t show up in the taglist though..
07/09/2008 at 12:53 The Hammer says:
Hahaha. That’s gotta be one of the best Strafe Lefts. The horde one in particular made me laugh.
07/09/2008 at 13:07 duel says:
i beleive the only thing that MoH had running for it was the ability to ‘drop in’ :P
07/09/2008 at 14:12 Turin Turambar says:
Great WW2 shooter, btw. Just awfully short.
07/09/2008 at 15:18 Tomlin says:
Emm…this is actually funny to someone ?
07/09/2008 at 15:52 zeh says:
No, Tomlin, everybody who posted before you is just faking it.
07/09/2008 at 16:22 The Shed says:
Very good. As always it took me a few seconds of pondering, then chuckles ensue.
That’s right- break the Nazi Jenga!
07/09/2008 at 16:34 Garreth says:
Very nice strip. I hated that warehouse level with about 200 snipers, each one able to draw a bead on your forehead the moment you stepped out from cover.
07/09/2008 at 16:57 A-Scale says:
AHHHAHAHAHAAHAH!
07/09/2008 at 16:59 Nick says:
Tomlin – believe it or not, not everyone has the same sense of humour, or taste in music or anything.
Some people even found Will & Grace funny.
( <3 Strafe Left – any chance of new ones being made for RPS since the great censorship scandal of PCG?)
07/09/2008 at 17:03 onkellou says:
Excellent, one of the best ones yet. :D
07/09/2008 at 17:09 Larington says:
This one always makes me laugh a lot when I see it.
07/09/2008 at 17:13 spd from Russia says:
airborn eh? horrible game
07/09/2008 at 17:48 Paul B says:
Another vote for a new Strafe Left strip for RPS. +1
Also, would like to see the Strafe Left MUD dungeon one where there were funny comments for the different ASCII characters encountered in such a dungeon.
07/09/2008 at 17:59 Heliocentric says:
that one has been on rps check the backlog. Airborne had a lovely demo, but i played it twice and saw through it.
07/09/2008 at 18:44 changeling says:
Great strip.
I am a pcgamer subscriber, and was just wondering why exactly Strafe Left was stopped (at least withing the mag). They are genuinely funny, and it was a shame when then ended.
07/09/2008 at 18:58 Kast says:
Scandal? I used to subscribe to PCG (stopped cause of money and cause I could get most of the information I needed from RPS and other sites) but never went on the forum, so I guessed I missed something.
07/09/2008 at 21:31 Paul B says:
Thanks Heliocentric. Found it – No 30 was the ZASCII one. Haven’t been a RPS reader for that long – only about two months – so I’m off to check the Strafe Left backlog.
As to why Strafe Left stopped in PCGamer check out this RPS link:
http://tinyurl.com/6lxtho
Tim Stone quote taken from link:
“To cut a long story short, last month’s cartoon (the TF2 history of the Twentieth Century one) had a run-in with the PC Gamer censor. A number of elements deemed potentially offensive to a “significant number of readers” were removed. I strongly disagreed with the action, and pulled the plug on SL partly in protest and partly because I realised I couldn’t put my heart and soul into future cartoons knowing they might be mutilitated by a ridiculously timid censor.
07/09/2008 at 21:47 changeling says:
ah. okay, thanks for the insight
07/09/2008 at 23:17 The Shed says:
I vouch for another Sleft. Great idea Nick.
08/09/2008 at 08:52 357SIG says:
Honestly I wish MoHA had never included online support from the beginning. Online play was terrible (on the pc at least, not sure about the console crowd) lacking in every way. In sharp contrast i found the single player to be a superb experience, it wasn’t perfect, nor the best game I’ve ever played but I was having a good enough time not to care. Too bad it wasn’t longer.
08/09/2008 at 17:05 Nick says:
First and last MoH game I played was Allied Assault. Truely terrible game.
08/09/2008 at 18:50 Chris R says:
So where’s the TF2 history of the Twentieth Century that PC gamer censored?
Also:
Yahtzee “reviews” MOH: Airborne
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/12-MOH-Airborne
Oh yeah, and I actually didn’t mind MOH:A… I had quite a bit of fun dropping into new areas each time I played. But it was criminally short, glad I borrowed it from a friend…
08/09/2008 at 19:12 Fumarole says:
You can find the censored Strafe Left here:
http://bay01.imagebay.com/full_view.php?view=27887_whyilovepcgamer.jpg
It’s quite good, and hardly offensive… until one sees that the suicide messages are backwards.
08/09/2008 at 22:14 Chris R says:
Thanks Fumarole,
I really liked the TF2 Guide to History!! Someone thought that would be offensive? Lame-sauce.
It actually reminds me of the WW2 as an RTS chat transcript:
http://www.strategypage.com/humor/articles/military_jokes_20057151.asp
08/09/2008 at 23:17 Pod says:
I think Timmy Stone should make more Strafe Lefts and get them up on here.
08/09/2008 at 23:54 Dinger says:
Dang. I’d bail too if they blocked that one, not for any high-sounding principles, but because the people making the calls were clearly idiots.
09/09/2008 at 06:43 emil says:
lol SL is retarded and totally unfunny. I think the worst aspect (as seen in the unapproved edition) is that the British authors perpective is so incredibly potato.
09/09/2008 at 08:44 Crane says:
Incredibly potato? What?
09/09/2008 at 11:10 spd from Russia says:
TF2 Guide to History is indeed controversal. joking about stuff like Hiroshima and other horrible events? I dont know …
09/09/2008 at 19:48 marilena says:
I remember having a very low opinion on Strafe Left when it first started in PCG, many of them were duds back then (or maybe I just didn’t get them).
Some of the ones I’ve seen on here were excellent, though, and, after looking at it, I would say that the TF2 Guide to History is the best. It’s genuinely brilliant, it gives so much food for thought in just one image.
And no, it’s not mocking Hiroshima. If that’s what you think, you missed the point.