Giant Bomb Thread The Third: #TeamBrad

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Patryn said:
Walking Dead will take best story. XCOM will take best game.

Mass Effect 3 won't take most disappointing, surprisingly, but it'll place.

Pushmo will be 2012's 2011 GOTY.

I can see Sleeping Dogs being Vinny's personal GOTY.
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Question: Over the weekend I finished episode 3 of the Walking Dead. The way the guys on the bombcast talk about the game I was expecting some crazy choices to be made yet nothing seemed all that earth shattering to me.
I seem to remember Patrick leaning towards episode 3 being "brutal" I must have missed that part, or I am de-sensitized and a terrible human.
When do the choices get interesting / difficult?
 
Xater said:
The QL was godlike.
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Really? I loved the original Sleeping Dogs QL with Vinny and Brad, but I did not enjoy the DLC one. All the technical hiccups detracted from it, I thought. I know often that stuff turns to gold, and there were good moments, but not enough to fill and hour and thirty minutes.
 
Lombax said:
Question: Over the weekend I finished episode 3 of the Walking Dead. The way the guys on the bombcast talk about the walking dead I was expecting some crazy choices to be made yet nothing seemed all that earth shattering to me.
I seem to remember Patrick leaning towards episode 3 being "brutal" I must have missed that part, or I am de-sensitized and a terrible human.
When do the choices get interesting / difficult?
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They don't. The gameplay is not that good, and there's nothing groundbreaking or earth-shattering in there. I think they've played so many shit Telltale games lately like JP and BttF that this one seemed like a masterpiece to them. Is the game well written and fun to "watch-play", yeah, especially if you're a fan. But they do make it sound like the second coming of adventure games when it's definitely not. The decision timer that they say makes the choices hard is more frustrating when you can't even read in time what options the game is trying to give you.
 
funkystudent said:
So is Ryan still working on that AC3 review?
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Either two things are at play here.

1. Multiple play throughs, max level mp character and a critique to kill all other publication's reviews. A commited and dedicated approach to his art.
2. He can't really be arsed.

You decide;p
 
dogmanstaruk said:
Either two things are at play here.

1. Multiple play throughs, max level mp character and a critique to kill all other publication's reviews. A commited and dedicated approach to his art.
2. He can't really be arsed.

You decide;p
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I hear the game is buggier than a turn of the century movie about transportation.
 
brianmcdoogle said:
I don't think so for two reasons. First, the walking dead is a downloadable title, and they seem to have a real aversion to giving a game of the year award to a downloadable title. Secondly, I think that at the end of the day, if they really analyze the game, they're basically going to conclude it is just a visual novel, and the "gameplay" is basic and almost nonexistent. I have really enjoyed experiencing the walking dead this year, and I think if they gave it a best story award it would make sense, but to give it a best "game" award would be a bit silly.

Then again, I haven't played XCOM, and I'm going only by reactions to their podcast.
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I think the downloadable stuff surpassed retail games in quality this year. Torchlight 2, FTL, Spelunky, Mark of the Ninja, Fez, Trials, the Walking Dead, Journey, Hotline Miami (probably missing a few as well), can all hold their own against the retail releases this year.

Brad even mentioned that they were considering doing away with the 'downloadable goty' category, for this reason.
 
sixghost said:
I think the downloadable stuff surpassed retail games in quality this year. Torchlight 2, FTL, Spelunky, Mark of the Ninja, Fez, Trials, the Walking Dead, Journey, Hotline Miami (probably missing a few as well), can all hold their own against the retail releases this year.

Brad even mentioned that they were considering doing away with the 'downloadable goty' category, for this reason.
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Yep, I can already tell that my top 10 for the year will mostly consist of downloadable titles.
 
drizzle said:
Is it true that there was a time that leaked/stolen Sara Lima wearing lingerie pictures were circulating on Giantbomb Chat and they were instaban to whomever posted them? I never seen them, so I always though they were a myth.
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They exist. Never saved the link though.
 
I'm feeling either Fez or XCOM for Goatie. Both got a lot of play from everyone and a lot of discussion.

Mark of the Ninja, Journey, and Walking Dead are sure-fires for the other spots.

Borderlands 2, Sleeping Dogs, Tokyo Jungle and Dishonored are sure to get some mentions, but not everyone played them.

Max Payne is another one I keep forgetting came out this year, but everyone seemed to enjoy it regardless. Spec Ops may get brought up.

And then of course Brad will be the main driving force keeping Diablo 3 up there, and despite not playing a lot Ryan and Jeff seemed to enjoy it enough to allow it to be on the list.

Wild cards are Mass Effect and Asura's Wrath.

And thus concludes my extensive preGoatie analysis.
 
im think like how jeff could not review DC 3 ryan might not review AC3, though he finshed the game i think might just do the review even if ti will not help a lot of people.

also i love how alex finished the AC:lib review before ryan finished the main game
 
Jokab said:
They exist. Never saved the link though.
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Aren't they just some artsy model pictures took by a professional photographer and later posted on her facebook or something? From what I remember, they're all very fancy and good taste. Are those the pictures that ensued the "ban on sight" on giantbomb chat?

Weird. Best community indeed. </sarcasm>
 
Lombax said:
Question: Over the weekend I finished episode 3 of the Walking Dead. The way the guys on the bombcast talk about the game I was expecting some crazy choices to be made yet nothing seemed all that earth shattering to me.
I seem to remember Patrick leaning towards episode 3 being "brutal" I must have missed that part, or I am de-sensitized and a terrible human.
When do the choices get interesting / difficult?
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You have been desensitized. Episode 3 was heartbreaking for me. Midway through I almost quit.

I really hope they do a spoilercast when Episode 5 comes out and they all finish it.
 
RealDeadOne said:
I'm feeling either Fez or XCOM for Goatie. Both got a lot of play from everyone and a lot of discussion.

Mark of the Ninja, Journey, and Walking Dead are sure-fires for the other spots.

Borderlands 2, Sleeping Dogs, Tokyo Jungle and Dishonored are sure to get some mentions, but not everyone played them.

Max Payne is another one I keep forgetting came out this year, but everyone seemed to enjoy it regardless. Spec Ops may get brought up.

And then of course Brad will be the main driving force keeping Diablo 3 up there, and despite not playing a lot Ryan and Jeff seemed to enjoy it enough to allow it to be on the list.

Wild cards are Mass Effect and Asura's Wrath.

And thus concludes my extensive preGoatie analysis.
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Is Hitman supposed to be good? I bet that hits top three since I know several of them love the series.

I believe Brad will make a valiant push for Crashmo and Epic Mickey 3DS but it will be in vain
 
parasight said:
You have been desensitized. Episode 3 was heartbreaking for me. Midway through I almost quit.

I really hope they do a spoilercast when Episode 5 comes out and they all finish it.
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I think if any game is going to get a spoilercast, it'll be Walking Dead. They've all played it besides Jeff and he's going to play it, correct?

Lombax said:
Question: Over the weekend I finished episode 3 of the Walking Dead. The way the guys on the bombcast talk about the game I was expecting some crazy choices to be made yet nothing seemed all that earth shattering to me.
I seem to remember Patrick leaning towards episode 3 being "brutal" I must have missed that part, or I am de-sensitized and a terrible human.
When do the choices get interesting / difficult?
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I think if you have empathy for the characters, some of those choices are brutal. I mean,
leaving Lily on the side of the road? Having to shoot a little kid?
 
Aaron said:
I hear the game is buggier than a turn of the century movie about transportation.
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lol

I traded mine in today after
somehow
beating it this weekend and the GS employee said I was the third person to trade it in today. The other two people also complained about bugs.

Shit's weak.
 
Patryn said:
leaving Lily on the side of the road? Having to shoot a little kid?
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Lilly totally deserved to be left on the road to die after what she did. Everything that went down with the little kid was sad but for some reason had no impact on me other than thinking the right thing to do was kill the kid so his parents did not have to suffer through that. In both instances those events did not feel "brutal"
 
Lombax said:
Lilly totally deserved to be left on the road to die after what she did. Everything that went down with the little kid was sad but for some reason had no impact on me other than thinking the right thing to do was kill the kid so his parents did not have to suffer through that. In both instances those events did not feel "brutal"
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Lily didn't die. She plays a major role in the comics.
 
Dany M said:
I need the opening 5 seconds of ILM

for...personal use
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hope this helps

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GOTY this year is going to be interesting because so far we haven't had a zeitgeist WOW AMAZE 10/10 BEST GAME EVER title like Skyrim that everyone and their dog wanted to play. XCOM is probably the closest thing at GB, but what else? Asscreed III is good but incredibly buggy and a bit sloppy in the story department, Most Wanted is pretty anemic, Halo 4 is great but "it's more Halo", and not everyone is excited for that... unless Black Ops 2 or Far Cry 3 are somehow insanely good there's going to be a way more interesting GOTY discussion at the end of 2012.

Also I wonder if Syndicate is gonna come up at Giant Bomb.
 
BigJiantRobut said:
GOTY this year is going to be interesting because so far we haven't had a zeitgeist WOW AMAZE 10/10 BEST GAME EVER title like Skyrim that everyone and their dog wanted to play. XCOM is probably the closest thing at GB, but what else? Asscreed III is good but incredibly buggy and a bit sloppy in the story department, Most Wanted is pretty anemic, Halo 4 is great but "it's more Halo", and not everyone is excited for that... unless Black Ops 2 or Far Cry 3 are somehow insanely good there's going to be a way more interesting GOTY discussion at the end of 2012.

Also I wonder if Syndicate is gonna come up at Giant Bomb.
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Possibly on Jeff's personal list, but I don't think anybody else played it.
 
Maybe they'll just have to use the skip function, or do a room they already know how. The crew quarters doesn't have a drink room though... they'll probably just do the elevator puzzle.
 
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