Just got to this part of the QL now and I'm fucking dying here. Soo funny, holy shit. Fucking classic.
The Giant Bomb Quick Look Thread 2
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Just got to this part of the QL now and I'm fucking dying here. Soo funny, holy shit. Fucking classic.
BlazeHedgehog
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Alex seems like a decent enough guy and I really think a lot of people are too harsh on him, but as others have said, when he's with the rest of the GB crew he has a tendency not to leave well enough alone. There's a lot of "Jeff said a funny thing, I have to say something funny too!" It kills a lot of the humor.
But when he's not constantly losing a joke competition, it is easy to see why Alex is part of the GB crew. On his own, he's a great writer and a funny dude. He is just not really the best spontaneous comedian.
Broder Salsa
Banned
Not hating on him but I rarely ever actually read anything on giantbomb, I watch their videos and listen to the bombcast and on there he never seems to blend in well at all, all his jokes with long silences following them.
Don't really agree with this, Drew, Dave and the tested crew always fit in well and even Sessler on the bombcast was just fantastic and someone I would have loved to see with giantbomb.
LiveFromKyoto
Member
The copilot...I was coughing I was laughing so hard.
Drew's hiding and peeking totally killed me.
Typographenia
Member
Oh man, between Ravaged, Sleepy Dogs, and Aerofly, I had a great time watching quick looks this week.
Aerofly looks really basic, but, like Drew said, a nice go-to for a flight game if you just want to fly around some. That kid in the back was freaking me out, and Dave suddenly being okay with him because he was wearing shorts was great, hahaha.
Pid looks about the same as it did before. Not really my type of game, but it seems okay.
Edna and Harvey looks worth investigating. I saw something about the game a while back, but I forgot about it. Threw it on my gog wishlist.
Anything worth seeing the in Assassin's Creed QL? I'm not a fan of the series, and I really don't care about the QL for it. However, if there's a good moment or two, I'll bite the bullet and watch.
Aerofly looks really basic, but, like Drew said, a nice go-to for a flight game if you just want to fly around some. That kid in the back was freaking me out, and Dave suddenly being okay with him because he was wearing shorts was great, hahaha.
Pid looks about the same as it did before. Not really my type of game, but it seems okay.
Edna and Harvey looks worth investigating. I saw something about the game a while back, but I forgot about it. Threw it on my gog wishlist.
Anything worth seeing the in Assassin's Creed QL? I'm not a fan of the series, and I really don't care about the QL for it. However, if there's a good moment or two, I'll bite the bullet and watch.
Empty Space
Member
The AC3 quick look is boring you can skip it if you're just looking for laughs.
Typographenia
Member
That's all I needed to hear. Thanks, Empty Space!
chickdigger802
Banned
Pretty much, but man his writing is easily my favorite of the staff. Masterful levels of snark.
I was about to say the same thing. I think Alex is probaly the best review guy on the site, but as other people have said he's not super entertaining on videos, except when he did the Epic Yarn QL, that was great. If nobody has seen that one you should go back and check it out, Alex comes across as a lot more silly on that one.
Quick Look: Halo 4 (Jeff/Brad) (1:13:54)
pharmboy044
Member
Spoilers in that Halo 4 quicklook?
Of course there is
pharmboy044
Member
I guess I wanted to know how much of the campaign do they spoil.
They show a big part of mission 4 including cutscenes.
pharmboy044
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Thanks.
ShockingAlberto
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I don't know that I would call Alex a great writer.
He's able to express is thoughts and criticism in to writing acceptably more often than not. Those thoughts don't always make sense, but that's Alex for you.
He's able to express is thoughts and criticism in to writing acceptably more often than not. Those thoughts don't always make sense, but that's Alex for you.
Typographenia
Member
Yup. That's a halo.
The halo series continues to not sell me on it, but whatever. It looks like a good entry into that franchise.
Looking forward to Drew on TNT. Hopefully it will be more out there.
shame there was no Drew or Alexis on the Halo 4 quick look.
I'm pretty sure Jeffrey will give CODBLOPS2 a free pass on everything he is complaining about halo 4 doing next week. kind of baffling that he is the one driving the QL. (I never played much of COD spec ops but spartan ops seem the same to me)
I'm pretty sure Jeffrey will give CODBLOPS2 a free pass on everything he is complaining about halo 4 doing next week. kind of baffling that he is the one driving the QL. (I never played much of COD spec ops but spartan ops seem the same to me)
cuevas. PhD.
Member
Jeff gave Halo 4 four stars.
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
Doesn't sound that Jeff is actually that exited for BLOPS 2. Or at least not for the things that entirely COD
Empty Space
Member
So does anybody know how big the story spoilers are from the level they showed of Halo? I'm just being cautious after AC3 although I think Jeff has more discretion than that.
razgriz417
Member
Well if you have an amex card, you'll get $35 of those $60 back just for beating the game...Really the only reason I'm not waiting for a price drop haha
Drew and Alexis are probably far too busy, and you would want Jeff to QL it because he reviewed it.
its cool that Jeff is self aware enough and can write a review from the point of view of 'if you like Halo you'll like this', but it seems a bit baffling to give the review/QL to someone who just straight up doesn't enjoy the franchise when there are plenty of other people at GB who do.
i'm not so much bothered about 'bias' or anything like that, it just doesnt make for a great quick look when its non-stop complaints about Halo from someone who doesnt like Halo. the complaints really don't hold much weight given how much Jeff likes COD and it does the same things he is complaining about here, it just boils down to the fact that Jeff enjoys the COD combat more.
slaughterking
Member
I really loved the first Halo game. Everything after that did not excite me at all and judging by that QL Halo 4 won't change that.
IMO, there wasn't any real big spoilers, especially not as big as the AC3 Spoiler.
Empty Space
Member
Thanks!
Jeff doesn't care much for Halo 4 does he? I don't remember him being this cold with Reach.
Absoludacrous
Member
A lot of it sounds like end of the generation franchise fatigue. If I were a betting man, I'd guess he gives Blops2 at 4/5 with the exact same criticism (had a chance to change the pace, plays too much like older CoDs).
Honestly, I kind of feel the same way. I'll play Halo 4 tomorrow, and I'm sure I'll like it, but it seems like a lot of wasted potential to rehash a lot of the same stuff again when they had the perfect launching point to try a new direction.
Something I've noticed about GB reviews (and this generational fatigue) is that they'll give games 4/5 stars and then talk about them on the podcast as if they couldn't wait to be done with them - and this will include the reviewer, not just the other dudes.
I was thinking about Ryan's comment to Patrick not to even bother with AC Revelations. yet that got a 4/5 review. And now Jeff's recent comments on Halo 4 or his previous COD talk. or Brad giving UC3 5/5 and then the commentary on the show is mostly middling...
I think I heard Brad make a comment about MoH2 being straight up bad or poor on a recent podcast. yet that game got 3/5 stars, which I usually consider to be acceptable or decent. I know Brad talked about how he was waffling between 2 and 3 stars. Listening to him talk about it on the show, I would think a 2/5 is how he actually feels about it.
I dunno. I guess I would like them to score from the gut a little more and give out some lower scores to have the scores match up with their podcast commentary. I get the feeling (and this could be wrong) that they might be second guessing themselves and trying to find "silver linings" with the basic mechanical things a game does right and giving out an extra star when, in their gut, they don't really like the games as much.
I was thinking about Ryan's comment to Patrick not to even bother with AC Revelations. yet that got a 4/5 review. And now Jeff's recent comments on Halo 4 or his previous COD talk. or Brad giving UC3 5/5 and then the commentary on the show is mostly middling...
I think I heard Brad make a comment about MoH2 being straight up bad or poor on a recent podcast. yet that game got 3/5 stars, which I usually consider to be acceptable or decent. I know Brad talked about how he was waffling between 2 and 3 stars. Listening to him talk about it on the show, I would think a 2/5 is how he actually feels about it.
I dunno. I guess I would like them to score from the gut a little more and give out some lower scores to have the scores match up with their podcast commentary. I get the feeling (and this could be wrong) that they might be second guessing themselves and trying to find "silver linings" with the basic mechanical things a game does right and giving out an extra star when, in their gut, they don't really like the games as much.
I think their explanation was pretty succinct. It's another Halo game, and there's nothing wrong with that, but it's doing barely anything new and stuff that it does new is basically taken from a different shooter series that also is doing nothing new.
::Shrugs:: Halo for the Halo people, but I can't see why, if you haven't gotten into Halo prior to this, why you would start now.
bearythebear
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The rating is more for how much they think a general audience will like it. It's more of a buyers guide. That's why you gotta read the actual review.
Jeff also gave Crysis 2 a 4/5 but later in the year he acts like it's not a very good game. They do that a lot.
Peoples opinions can sour after a while. There have been plenty of times where I've done the same thing. They might also round up. If they think a game deserves 2.5 then they give it 3.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
I don't even look at their scores any more. Their scoring system doesn't have enough granularity.
This I understand. But that usually takes a bit of time. Sometimes they'll talk about a game quite negatively the week it's being reviewed or shortly afterward. makes me question why a game got the score it got instead of something lower.
I'm all about low scores. I don't give a shit if a game is mechanically sound if it's boring me to tears. Score from your gut.
It probably comes from the need to stay objective in a review. Reviews that are emotionally charged generally come across as amateurism or kneejerk because they aren't taking both the pros and cons of the game at equal value; it's why so many reviews from so many different publications sound the same. The nice thing about Giantbomb is that you do get that extra layer where they will lay into a game's flaws in a more personalized way than you would see otherwise. No one harps on pros because they're pros, they are the pleasantries, they are the things you like and often take for granted because they don't annoy you, so you put them on a bulleted list of things that don't annoy you and continue. But it's easy from an overhead view to go on and on about a game's flaws than it is to go on an on about what a game does right without sounding like your simply fellating it.
It's one of the reasons why Quicklooks are so interesting. Jeff doesn't seem to hate Halo 4, he just seems tired of the genre and disappointed that it doesn't do more. It feels a little bit more honest than what you get when someone has time to sit down and think about their thoughts for a massive amount of time.
Hell, when I was playing AC3 earlier this week, my twitter feed was awash with lambasting the game, the people making the game, the artwork of the game, the mechanics of the game, etc etc. Now that i'm almost done with it, I've seen the good and the bad and I hate it less, and I've had fun with it, but the stuff that sticks out the most about it was that buggy, slow, plodding, ill-defined first 4 hours.
Empty Space
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Crysis 2 is understandable, but what I'm noticing and a lot of other specifically with all these end of the year game is that we get reasonably good score, but come the podcast and Quick Look the guys just don't seem to care. This has happened with Borderlands 2, Halo 4, Dishonored, and Most Wanted. That seems really strange to me I can't help, but wonder if Jeff got into another of his burned out periods where he doesn't want to play games and its effecting everybody else.
slightconfuse
Banned
i share the same opinion as jeff, they played it to close tot he chest wit this game.
the idea of master chief alone on some mysterious planet with a crazy cortana in his head sounded exciting.
the idea of master chief alone on some mysterious planet with a crazy cortana in his head sounded exciting.
Absoludacrous
Member
That's what I was hoping for. They could have done some really cool stuff with the sense of isolation and dread that comes with being by yourself on an alien world.