Giant Bombcast - | 05-01-2012 |

They sure do love Asura's Wrath. I think they are talking about the DLC. I am going to download it and listen the first chance I get.
 
Dang it. I was going to hold off on buying the Walking Dead game on steam because I wanted to wait for them all to be released first. They've got me even more interested in it now than before, though... Must be strong.


I would have grabbed Asura's Wrath already if they would just price drop it. Ryan hit the nail on the head with the not worth $67 thing. Granted, I haven't played it myself, but everything I saw in the quicklook looked amazing, but not worth the asking price.
 
Green Scar said:
I bet Jeff is probably right on with MKVita being the best portable MK but I've seen dudes swear by UMK3 on the DS.
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The online scene for UMK3 on DS is/was fucking savage. Really solid netplay and straight up killers on it 24/7 when I played. The only thing that was bad was the graphics, the resolution was messed up or something.
 
Typographenia said:
I would have grabbed Asura's Wrath already if they would just price drop it. Ryan hit the nail on the head with the not worth $67 thing. Granted, I haven't played it myself, but everything I saw in the quicklook looked amazing, but not worth the asking price.
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I don't know.. I get waiting for a price drop because it's got to drop, but I didn't really feel any buyers remorse. I don't mind supporting crazy stuff like Asura's Wrath at full price, I'm actually glad it hasn't just lost it's retail value a few weeks after release.
 
The turnaround on Asura's Wrath from the first time it's come up on podcast and even the QL is quite remarkable.
 
zoner said:
I'm shocked Asura's hasn't really gone on a major bomba sale. I was sure it'd have one within a month.
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iirc, Brad said on a prev ep that Capcom knew it would bomba so they wanna keep it at full price to make back as much money as possible. It probably explains why $50 is the lowest I've seen for it. That's when I bought it.

Very happy that Patrick loves The Witcher 2. Curious what he thinks of Chapter 3's decisions.
 
LiK said:
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Very happy that Patrick loves The Witcher 2. Curious what he thinks of Chapter 3's decisions.
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Me too. Though I have been increasingly bothered by how uninterested and dismissive Brad seems to be about it.

Whenever they talk about The Witcher 2 it almost seems like he's not even there. I mean, he tends to drone on and on about how amazing some good and great (but not amazing) games are, but The Witcher 2 (a genuinely amazing game) comes up and it's like he enters a coma.

And when they were talking about releases, he continuously ignored Patrick's mention of it and kept saying nothing came out since ME3. Granted, the game came out a year ago but it's a big update on PC and a new release on 360. I just don't understand him.
 
If someone doesn't play a game, it doesn't exist for them. I wish one of them got into Binary Domain, since I think it's the best shooter in years, but I doubt even Jeff played beyond the quicklook. It's whatever random thing that grabs them at the time.

One real problem I've noticed that with reviews they cover most of the big titles, and Alex reviews the dreck, but stuff that isn't as prominant, no matter the quality of it, gets a quicklook and done. Some don't even get a quicklook.
 
The Clippy stuff at the beginning was one of the the funniest moments the podcast has had in a while.

Edit: Scratch that, the talk about what's going on with EVE Online had me in stitches.
 
Aaron said:
If someone doesn't play a game, it doesn't exist for them. I wish one of them got into Binary Domain, since I think it's the best shooter in years, but I doubt even Jeff played beyond the quicklook. It's whatever random thing that grabs them at the time.

One real problem I've noticed that with reviews they cover most of the big titles, and Alex reviews the dreck, but stuff that isn't as prominant, no matter the quality of it, gets a quicklook and done. Some don't even get a quicklook.
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Did they cover MindJack? Quantum Theory?
 
They covered both.

Shitted on both in their quick looks too.

Binary domain doesn't look like it's in the same realm as either of them. It actually looks fun. :P
 
Aaron said:
If someone doesn't play a game, it doesn't exist for them. I wish one of them got into Binary Domain, since I think it's the best shooter in years, but I doubt even Jeff played beyond the quicklook. It's whatever random thing that grabs them at the time.

One real problem I've noticed that with reviews they cover most of the big titles, and Alex reviews the dreck, but stuff that isn't as prominant, no matter the quality of it, gets a quicklook and done. Some don't even get a quicklook.
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Yeah, their format (only cover what interests them) somewhat works against them in that regard IMO.

It's nice for them they don't have to cover The Sims expansions, but it also means they skip interesting B-games now and then. Coverage of AAA stuff is always the least interesting, as everyone plays those games anyway, and those are covered by every other site as well.
 
Before I listen, do I need to be worried about spoilers for The Walking Dead? These guys occasionally have problems containing themselves.

Edit: in reference to the game.
 
RedNumberFive said:
Before I listen, do I need to be worried about spoilers for The Walking Dead? These guys occasionally have problems containing themselves.
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They directly talk about the way you kill one of the zombies. They talk around a few other things and mention some characters from the comics that appear. If you're already going to play it and are super spoiler conscious you might want to skip the Walking Dead section till you get to around to playing it.

I wasn't planning to play it till I heard this section, so I'm okay with it. (I also didn't realize the first episode was five dollars.)
 
ultron87 said:
They directly talk about the way you kill one of the zombies. They talk around a few other things and mention some characters from the comics that appear. If you're already going to play it and are super spoiler conscious you might want to skip the Walking Dead section till you get to around to playing it.

I wasn't planning to play it till I heard this section, so I'm okay with it. (I also didn't realize the first episode was five dollars.)
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Thanks! I don't mind the non-specific general discussions.
 
ArjanN said:
Uninformed shitting on Sniper Elite V2 continues unabated.
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idk man, shitting is a bit of a stretch. I don't know if they've genuinely shat on it during another podcast or something that could be coloring their comments on this one. But they just kind of made fun of the name and moved on.
 
RedNumberFive said:
Before I listen, do I need to be worried about spoilers for The Walking Dead? These guys occasionally have problems containing themselves.

Edit: in reference to the game.
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They only hinted at something later on, but they weren't even terribly specific when it came to the events they covered within the quick look's content. It was more a discussion on the direction of the game down the road, the controls/interaction, and having a well developed protagonist (but without specifics).
 
Live Free or Die said:
Wow at the god of war ascension hate.
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-They said the multiplayer sounds dumb. This is a valid opinion. I, in fact, share the same opinion, although I am welcome to being shown I may have made an initial misjudgement at a later date, and I'm sure they feel the same.
-Jeff doesn't care about God of War. This is also valid. There is a great many series of acclaim he doesn't care about. If you're not used to this by now... well, get used to it, otherwise you'll go insane.

No hate.
 
EchosMyron1 said:
idk man, shitting is a bit of a stretch. I don't know if they've genuinely shat on it during another podcast or something that could be coloring their comments on this one. But they just kind of made fun of the name and moved on.
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Nah, I was exaggerating a bit. They were mostly just making fun of the name I guess. They seemed really dismissive during the latest I love mondays though.

I'm not sure why as IMO it's the biggest release of the week.

Green Scar said:
-They said the multiplayer sounds dumb. This is a valid opinion. I, in fact, share the same opinion, although I am welcome to being shown I may have made an initial misjudgement at a later date, and I'm sure they feel the same.
-Jeff doesn't care about God of War. This is also valid. There is a great many series of acclaim he doesn't care about. If you're not used to this by now... well, get used to it, otherwise you'll go insane.

No hate.
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I thought the God of War MP was fighting vs enemies though? Not fighting each other as the giantbomb guys seemed to think, or am I wrong?
 
RiderKairuu said:
I would like a history lesson as to what he was referring to. I was lost on that part.
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On why Brink devs and other devs are going free to play. Brink was a major critical flop and assumed to be a commercial flop too.So they went free 2 play to make their money back.
Obsidian devs didn't get their royalties from Bethesda for working on New Vegas because their metacritic score was 84 and had to be 85 and above.
Bethesda published both Brink and New Vegas.
Giantbomb gave Brink two stars.

Brad: They (Brink devs) may have sold two and half million but how much of that did they make back
Jeff: Yeah, what did their contract look like
Patrick: Also its less dependant on sales and like Obsidian pointed out, dependant on your metacritic score
Brad: (sarcastically) Yeah we should go see what the metacritic for Brink was
Patrick: My guess is that it was not 85
Jeff: Uh NO
Ryan: So you're saying it was not high enough to get their bonus
Patrick: That seems to be the -
Brad: We saw to that.

awkward pause and uncomfortable laughter

Brad: I'm kidding. Screeching halt on that one.
Jeff: Jesus Christ, Brad.
 
ArjanN said:
I thought the God of War MP was fighting vs enemies though? Not fighting each other as the giantbomb guys seemed to think, or am I wrong?
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I saw a gif of Red Kratos killing Blue Kratos. I think PvE is a thing, yes, but there must definitely be some form of player combat. Maybe it's "KILL MORE EVIL SHIT THAN BLUE TEAM" and you can fuck over the other players on the way by murdering them. I dunno.

Maybe I should read the thread again. :lol
 
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