• Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!

Giant Bomb Thread 2: A thread on a popular internet message board

Status
Not open for further replies.
Heh, I eat up every bit of Giant Bomb content I can, but I've never watched Phantasmagoria, as the game just doesn't interest me and I keep thinking "I'll get back to it later." Of course, it's the most reference piece of content, and everyone says it's the best thing ever.

I must fix this.
 
Duffyside said:
Heh, I eat up every bit of Giant Bomb content I can, but I've never watched Phantasmagoria, as the game just doesn't interest me and I keep thinking "I'll get back to it later." Of course, it's the most reference piece of content, and everyone says it's the best thing ever.

I must fix this.
Click to expand...
The best endurance run.
 
Duffyside said:
Heh, I eat up every bit of Giant Bomb content I can, but I've never watched Phantasmagoria, as the game just doesn't interest me and I keep thinking "I'll get back to it later." Of course, it's the most reference piece of content, and everyone says it's the best thing ever.

I must fix this.
Click to expand...

Duffyside...I think we just witnessed a rape.
 
DF isn't really at its best in video, though. The best part is people describing what their dorfs did -- so what we'd need is either Dave on the bombcast or Dave's Dorfcast.
 
Dave isn't going to hop into DF without any prior knowledge is he? He will at least run through some sort of a tutorial first right?

Hopefully Vinny will be there with him if he decides to go in without. At least there will be good commentary. Or Jeff. Jeff is good if he isn't ornery and actually is somewhat interested in the game.
 
RiccochetJ said:
Dave isn't going to hop into DF without any prior knowledge is he? He will at least run through some sort of a tutorial first right?

Hopefully Vinny will be there with him if he decides to go in without. At least there will be good commentary. Or Jeff. Jeff is good if he isn't ornery and actually is somewhat interested in the game.
Click to expand...

He's been playing it for like a week. Even bought a DF book.
 
RiccochetJ said:
Dave isn't going to hop into DF without any prior knowledge is he? He will at least run through some sort of a tutorial first right?

Hopefully Vinny will be there with him if he decides to go in without. At least there will be good commentary. Or Jeff. Jeff is good if he isn't ornery and actually is somewhat interested in the game.
Click to expand...

He's got
cat.gif


Seriously.
 
firehawk12 said:
O'Reilly put out a Dwarf Fortress book? Really? lol
Click to expand...
I bet the creator is extremely flattered that O'Reilly did that.

obonicus said:
DF isn't really at its best in video, though. The best part is people describing what their dorfs did -- so what we'd need is either Dave on the bombcast or Dave's Dorfcast.
Click to expand...
Dave said last week about him trying for a while to find a way to make Dwarf Fortress compelling. So hopefully he found a way.

edit: It should be a mock parody of Drew's North Korea travelcast.
 
Man, the way they talked it up made it sound like the second coming of sandwichdom or something. :(

Oh well, still can't fault a beef and gravy sandwich.
 
Considering over half the guides on the internet about DF are out of date, it's amazing someone published a book about it. What with UI changes, new mechanics changing up stuff, etc. Though I don't really know how often that game changes.

I've only played DF 5-9 times at this point, and I usually quit before I encounter anything overly interesting. So this should be fun to watch, assuming they don't go too far past my level of knowledge (creating sustainable food, a malitia, a few crazy dwarves stripping naked killing cats and starving to death, etc).
 
For the safari version, at least, there's a promise that the book will receive updates. (Is there a physical version?)

The author's also the guy that wrote this one particularly good tutorial, the one PA linked a while back.
 
The Phantasmagoria and Ripper videos are two of GB's best videos, by far. Amazing stuff.
 
obonicus said:
For the safari version, at least, there's a promise that the book will receive updates. (Is there a physical version?)

The author's also the guy that wrote this one particularly good tutorial, the one PA linked a while back.
Click to expand...
You can get a physical version.

The "beginning" (ui, figuring out what's going on, the logic involved) never really changes and that's make or break time for people new to it. That being in a physical book could really help some people. If you can make it through that then you can look up bone setting or what ghosts think about at the wiki. I don't think it's a big deal that it wouldn't be terribly comprehensive or out of date pretty quickly.
 
Ceebs said:
If only it did not sound like a terrible game from a developer who has made nothing but subpar MMO's it may have some value.

It's tragic what has happened to the D&D brand after Obsidian stopped making them.
Click to expand...

Honestly, if I was Wizards of the Coast I'd be counting down the days until Atari loses its license to D&D. I mean WOC has done everything they can to make the game more friendly to video game mechanics and Atari has done nothing with it.

It should be a giant in the WRPG world, and it's nothing now.
 
D&D has gotten more video-game-like mechanics that are simple enough for humans to parse and use. I'm not convinced it's a particularly good fit for videogames*. Videogames can do all sorts of number-crunching behind the scenes that just aren't a part of D&D 4.


* You could probably do a pretty cool turn-based Ipad game out of D&D 4th combat mechanics.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

GTA VI on Switch 2 Rumor Thread
Rumor  2 3
149
971
MrA replied
The Outer Worlds 2 - Reviews Thread
4 5 6 7 8
368
4K
adamsapple replied
Dan leaving Giant Bomb?
2
68
3K
MagnesD3 replied
Hades 2 | Review Thread
Review  2 3 4
178
4K
HYDE replied
Grubb no longer at Giant Bomb
2
54
2K
ChorizoPicozo replied
Top Bottom