Giant Bomb #8 | It's a Hit!

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Zaph

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Destiny still does absolutely nothing for me. All the MMO-like stuff just turns me off. I can enjoy games like Borderlands or PSO2 if I'm playing with friends but alone they're just the most boring things ever.

They're the FPS answer to Diablo - which is why I love them. But yeah, some people can't play Diablo alone either, and I totally get it.

But for the rest of us - numbers, Numbers, NUMBERS.

Is this comment related to the GBeast stream? Because if it's not, it's incidental as fuck [NSFW]. I haven't watched the archive yet so I can't be sure..
Yes, Cara talked quite a bit about hentaiphd during the stream. It was... illuminating.
and Rorie nearly had an aneurysm.

Watch it.
 

daydream

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no steve in sight, yet :/

Is this comment related to the GBeast stream? Because if it's not, it's incidental as fuck [NSFW]. I haven't watched the archive yet so I can't be sure..

Haha, it's referring to the Beast stream AND, by extension, that article. :)

(Also, it was a rhetorical question.)
 
Yes, Cara talked quite a bit about hentaiphd during the stream. It was... illuminating.
and Rorie nearly had an aneurysm.

Watch it.

Yeah I'm watching it, I'm just devoting this night to DOTA TWO INTERNATIONAL FOUR.

GBeast stream archive will be good for tomorrow's hangover!
 

Zaph

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Was rorie really freaking out? Because of the chat I guess?
Nah, I'm exaggerating a bit. He was just very terse with people in chat and shutting down certain conversations before they escalated. Having the double whammy of women on stream and hentai discussion put him on edge a bit.

That said, curiosity got the best of me and I went through twitter mentions for both guests after the show. Everyone was... really fucking nice. Probably helped it was a premium only stream, but was still good to see.
 
Nah, I'm exaggerating a bit. He was just very terse with people in chat and shutting down certain conversations before they escalated. Having the double whammy of women on stream and hentai discussion put him on edge a bit.

That said, curiosity got the best of me and I went through twitter mentions for both guests after the show. Everyone was... really fucking nice. Probably helped it was a premium only stream, but was still good to see.

A twitter search after this past week's podcast showed there was nothing but positivity about Samantha's guesting on the show. A ton of people tweeting her directly to say how much they enjoyed hearing from her or just general praise of the episode in general. I only saw this cause someone pointed it out in comparison to the apparently shitty comments section but it's cool to see.

Also I didn't say at the time, but I too enjoyed Samantha on the show, really interesting and entertaining discussions. From the part of the pre-UPF stream I caught, Tina & Cara were great too. It's good to be getting some new blood in GB content.
 
"New hentai game coming out so Cara is Skyping in, Cara, are you there and how was the game?"

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no steve in sight, yet :/



Haha, it's referring to the Beast stream AND, by extension, that article. :)

(Also, it was a rhetorical question.)

Kessler's got a costume going because of course he does.

Rorie didn't seem like he'd had an easy day at the start of UPF.

He's had that lately...
 
A bit late but



How's the event?



Also Destiny really reminds me of a reskinned halo with loot so far.

Nothing is really wrong with that tbh since i love Halo's gameplay.

Actually, i've heard the gunplay does not feel much like Halo's at all. Can someone who has played the alpha/beta give more insight on if this is the case?
 
Actually, i've heard the gunplay does not feel much like Halo's at all. Can someone who has played the alpha/beta give more insight on if this is the case?

You're aiming down sights a lot so in that way it's got a different feel than Halo. The actually feeling of the shooting does evoke Halo, in terms of how the guns "handle" and such.

Other than that I'd say the actual gameplay doesn't feel too much like Halo at all. The game itself does have a vaguely Halo feeling in places, where the environment & music line up to make it seem like you just might be playing a Halo game.
 

KingKong

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It looks incredibly bland, I dont get Jeff saying that it's satisfying when he's just aiming down sights with this low recoil rifle. Then again, he liked Syndicate
 

sixghost

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It looks incredibly bland, I dont get Jeff saying that it's satisfying when he's just aiming down sights with this no recoil weapon. Then again, he liked Syndicate

That's how all games like that have felt since 2009 though. If you haven't given up on console shooters yet, you probably enjoy that type of shooting.
 

Zornack

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The gunplay doesn't really feel like Halo but the enemy encounter design is classic Bungie.

To some degree. The Wizard aren't really like anything we've seen in Halo and Halo didn't have bosses or super-mobs that take quite a few bullets to down, except I guess for Hunters, and those all make the encounters feel quite a bit different from Halo.

The gunplay isn't anything like Halo though, yeah.
 

Rainmaker

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The Powerbombcast HAS to watch Bash At The Beach 2000 at some point. My favorite bad wrestling PPV ever. December to Dismember is just cruel.
 
Actually, i've heard the gunplay does not feel much like Halo's at all. Can someone who has played the alpha/beta give more insight on if this is the case?

You're aiming down sights a lot so in that way it's got a different feel than Halo. The actually feeling of the shooting does evoke Halo, in terms of how the guns "handle" and such.

Other than that I'd say the actual gameplay doesn't feel too much like Halo at all. The game itself does have a vaguely Halo feeling in places, where the environment & music line up to make it seem like you just might be playing a Halo game.

hmmm

hopefully i'll get to try it once its released.

The gunplay doesn't really feel like Halo but the enemy encounter design is classic Bungie.

To some degree. The Wizard aren't really like anything we've seen in Halo and Halo didn't have bosses or super-mobs that take quite a few bullets to down, except I guess for Hunters, and those all make the encounters feel quite a bit different from Halo.

The gunplay isn't anything like Halo though, yeah.


i guess this was what was tipping me off since some of the ai movements remind me of it and the Captain is like a re skinned elite (complete with shield to destroy first lol). Also the music kicking in during a fight, etc.
 

Rainmaker

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Is new blood rising on the network? Where Goldberg didn't follow the "script"?

Yeah... That New Blood storyline had so much potential too but it never really stood a chance in that climate. And yeah, Goldberg "went off script" and it got real, brother. He didn't want any part of that Jacknife after being injured from that mysterious motorcycle accident. The Reality Era truly began that night.
 

stormthecastle

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The gunplay doesn't really feel like Halo but the enemy encounter design is classic Bungie.

I would say the character movement is classic Bungie as well. As soon as I got the beta downloaded and running I started jumping around all those ruined cars, enjoying that floaty jump.

Having an infinite sprint is a nice change from the three second sprint from Reach though.
 

erawsd

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It looks incredibly bland, I dont get Jeff saying that it's satisfying when he's just aiming down sights with this low recoil rifle. Then again, he liked Syndicate

Eh, I'm not big on ADS shooters but I think the enemy and area design are good enough that it makes it a lot of fun. Unfortunately, Jeff picked normal mode which is a huge step down in enemy AI, they basically just stand out in the open waiting on a bullet shower. On Hard they are much more aggressive and defensive.
 

PBY

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Not a fan of dan in QLs. Just asks a ton of questions relating to the game and makes random exclamations about the in game stuff.

I dunno. Don't really go to QLs for info. I miss the fuckery.
 
Listening to the PowerBombcast and Dan's suggestion for the next thing to watch sounds fucking brutal.


the next episode should be fun.

I like that the two "homework assignments" so far have been from the period of time when I wasn't watching. I stopped somewhere between Mania 18 & 19 and didn't pick it up again until like 4-5 years ago so it's cool to have an excuse to check out some random events from back then.
 

TylerD

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Did no one notice that the guys voices were pitched lower on UPF? I came home a bit buzzed and lost my shit during the sumo game. Its hilarious.
 
I like that the two "homework assignments" so far have been from the period of time when I wasn't watching. I stopped somewhere between Mania 18 & 19 and didn't pick it up again until like 4-5 years ago so it's cool to have an excuse to check out some random events from back then.

i haven't watched wrestling in years but the podcast and the concept of the network tempts me at times to return.

Or maybe i should continue to listen to the pain of others LOL.
 

Chuck

Still without luck
Before I started it, I was worried they might take Alex's hosting of the Power Bombcast away since everyone else is just going to be in that studio going forward. But then I heard him coming to us live over a string bean can, and thought maybe they could have let someone else take it for just this week. >_>

He definitely needs to continue hosting because he does such a good job.
 

Megasoum

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All right, I got myself an XB1 finally today. I added Jeff. What are the other guys' gamertag so I can follow them? I tried rudds and bradxor but didn't find anything.
 

Megasoum

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I think it's Brax0r and drew is funkify iirc

dan is phukmustard420xx

Ah right, I wasn't l33t enough for Brad lol.

I searched for "DannyODwyer"... Wasn't sure it was the right one until I compared games and saw he played F1 games, Rugby and Sensible world of soccer lol...yuuupp that's him.

I found Drew but he doesn't have an XB1 so I don't want to send him an actual friend request on 360, I'm not that creepy lol.
 

Zabant

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"Ugh, Russian AI, I bet at some point the AI will go wild and go into Rampancy as that's all Bungie can write about"

Holy hell Jeff that's some reductionist shit right there.

The rampancy didn't even have much of a role till Halo 4 which was a 343 game.
 
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