Giant Bomb GOTY 2014 - Destiny Has Brought Us Here
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LurkerPrime
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They just kept sending the paycheques. Did no one notice that?!
No quotes because I'm QUOTING FROM MEMORY.
Very inspired video... I bet Alex could at least find work as an actor in that terrible, dark timeline.
TharpDaddy
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That's a weird one imo because that's just a product of the genre. Dota, League of Legends, Smite, etc. have all had massive changes over the year, as have games like WoW and Marvel Heroes. League is a bigger game (11.5 million concurrent for WC4 compared to "more than 2 million" for TI), WoW has had more dramatic changes with a whole expansion, massive stat rebalances, sweeping class changes, etc. So if we're going by criteria of changes and size those games should be on there as well. You have to look at the game itself rather than the moba genre being impactful, otherwise there are better games to choose based on popularity or # of changes.
I never experience any frame rate problem with 4 players mk8.
AwakenedCloud
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Is Walking Dead 2 Season Two a strong enough contender for it to be brought up during the Best Story category? I haven't gotten around to playing it.
LOL I know! Like, if they're not going to speak literal facts for the entire three hours, why do they even podcast at all? Games journalism is so fucking stupid.
VibratingDonkey
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They're visually racist against racing games. It's a rote thing that racing games look good and realistic. And all of them are reaching for that same style. Except Mario Kart.
But Driveclub is arguably the most accomplished of its type and arguably should've at least been on the deliberation list.
I dont think enough people played it.
Master_Funk
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I really hope they don't forget about TLOU: left behind in these discussions. It really is one of the best things released in 2014
Basileus777
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The people that did play it didn't love it.
Also I don't think TWD Season 2 was very well received.
It will probably be brought up, but no one on staff seems very fond of that game, so I doubt they'll go into much detail. But the best thing to do is to just assume that every game will get spoiled, these podcasts are spoiler city.
ST2K
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Alex and Patrick didn't like it, and I think they're the only ones that played it.
Alex's hate for TTG's stuff this year kinda bums me out.
IIRC, Patrick and Alex both disliked the story. The rest of the cast probably didn't play it.
Alex and Pat have been really down on it and Jeff doesn't like WD. Wouldn't be surprised if they don't discuss it much if at all.
But who knows- stay on your toes!
Edit: beaten. Posting from phone
EmCeeGramr
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that sure is a sentence
Actually it might have been that one. Beware!
Keyser Soze
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DAY TWO IS GO!!
The Dear Leader
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Driveclub is the new Kane and Lynch of Jeff's career, GG Gianbomb, you had a good run.
On a serious note though, I think it would kind of be shitty if Driveclub got nominated or won after having it's key graphical feature added in months later a patch, if anything Driveclub deserves to win most needing of a delay award.
On a serious note though, I think it would kind of be shitty if Driveclub got nominated or won after having it's key graphical feature added in months later a patch, if anything Driveclub deserves to win most needing of a delay award.
Jimmyfenix
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TEAM THARP!!!!
This one includes most disappointing game, oh this is going to be fun.
LurkerPrime
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Yeah, that was weird. I'm not exactly sure where the whole turn-based strategy = not RPG sentiment was coming from, but at least Vinny tried to set the record straight.
The comparison to XCOM was completely irrelevant. Aside from being turn-based there's very little actually in common with the two.
It's clear from their final conversation on the award Drive Club would not have got it even if they clearly hadn't remembered it existed. It's a driving game that looks good but has no real style or pleasing astethic.
In the end GB GOTY is fighting a corner and no one cares about Drive Club. Mario Kart would likely be their favourite looking racer.
In the end GB GOTY is fighting a corner and no one cares about Drive Club. Mario Kart would likely be their favourite looking racer.
nckillthegrimace
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If you have 3 or 4 players it goes down to 30, which is the same framerate as GTA and Destiny. At all other times, Mario Kart is 60--twice as much as those games.
CosmicQueso
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Or most disappointing in a lot of ways, with the botched launch, the delayed PS+...
slightconfuse
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Glad Ginny got to use that bug out bag finally
soundscream
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Holy Shit Vinny in the woods.
Jimmyfenix
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vinnie is the man
Johnny Ryall
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DREW 
i'm not sure what a wet windshield has to do with a game being boring or not.
Jimmyfenix
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Vire
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I'm not sure what being "boring" has to do with best visuals.
ok
broncobuster
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Time stamps will be appreciated. I want to hear how they got to that most disappointing without ruining the Captain Toad story.
Jimmyfenix
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#teamtharp
Visuals come down to personal taste. If they find the look boring then it doesn't look good to them.