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[Bacon]

Wow jeff is on top of his game in Mario party 2. This is hysterical.

 

[ThreePiMatt]

Wow jeff is on top of his game in Mario party 2. This is hysterical.

Being on top of your game in Mario Party doesn't mean a whole lot given how much random shit can happen. Like, say someone landing on a block and just being given a Star for no reason.

 

[Volotaire]

Escape Dead Island's VO and dialogue is terrible.

 

[Jams775]

I sent Dan Ryckert an idea for something to help with Drew forgetting things during MGS. If you're reading this, Dan, please check your PMs!


EDIT: I originally typed "Drew Ryckert." It's like if the two of them did the fusion dance from Dragon Ball Z, but better-dressed and vomiting.

I'm curious. What's the idea? Drew's made a bunch of manuals for starting planes in those sim games, I'm surprised he hasn't tried that in MGS. It'd probably be helpful for all the things you can do in it.

 

[Haunted]

Anime wishes it was wrestling.

wrestling is anime for americans

Sometimes it is wrestling.

 

[alr1ght]

Hey look what came out today, a new Kinect game.
http://www.giantbomb.com/rabbids-invasion-the-interactive-tv-show/3030-48193/

We better have a QL by tomorrow.

 

[kadotsu]

Hey look what came out today, a new Kinect game.
http://www.giantbomb.com/rabbids-invasion-the-interactive-tv-show/3030-48193/

We better have a QL by tomorrow.

Isn't this game incredibly boring. The last time I saw it the only mechanic was point and shoot.

 

[Archaix]

A game based on the TV show Rabbids Invasion

 

[Glitchesarecool]

.

Nickelodeon.

 

[justjim89]

Can't even fault Drew for being so bad at MGS2, both control-wise and design-wise it's aged nearly as poorly as MGS1. The controls for doing extremely simple things are just awful, especially compared with modern stealth-action games. Having an overhead camera to navigate complex locations while getting spotted by enemies completely outside of your range of vision is just way too disempowering to the player. Subsistence converting to a proper 3rd person camera was a revelation years overdue for the franchise.

I love MGS as a series but let's not act like it plays well. Especially for new players. Especially in the year 2014.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Eh, but there are really simple things that he's missing, like using the box to hide from enemies, and even straight up admitting that he didn't want to tranq guards because he thought that it might make things too easy. Like, c'mon now.

 

[Kirlia]

Hey look what came out today, a new Kinect game.
http://www.giantbomb.com/rabbids-invasion-the-interactive-tv-show/3030-48193/

We better have a QL by tomorrow.

The Rabbids need to die.

 

[Dany]

The next podcast is where Ryan passes. Dammit
6-25-13 is the last podcast with him. It's great

 

[Anjin M]

The next podcast is where Ryan passes. Dammit
6-25-13 is the last podcast with him. It's great

The memorial cast the next week is so amazing. I don't know how many times I have listened to it.

 

[The Dear Leader]

The memorial cast the next week is so amazing. I don't know how many times I have listened to it.

That part when Vinny starts to choke up man, that was a hard ass bombcast to get through.

 

[Alucrid]

dan thought big league chew was supposed to represent grass that outfielders ate

goddamn...

 

[pirata]

I'm curious. What's the idea? Drew's made a bunch of manuals for starting planes in those sim games, I'm surprised he hasn't tried that in MGS. It'd probably be helpful for all the things you can do in it.

I kinda wanted it to be secret and people not know about until it popped up in a video (not that I have very much hope), but whatever. Here's the idea:

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It's become apparent from the last few Metal Gear Scanlons that Drew's inability to remember mechanics and story are a huge issue that is hampering the experience of everyone involved. I had kind of a screwy idea earlier today for something that might help him, and if not, it could still be entertaining. Why not get a small white board and dry erase markers for Drew to write/draw with? He (or both of you) could make notes about game mechanics, controls, the plot, mission objectives, or just draw pictures of boobs.

At the beginning of each episode, y'all will hold the white board up to the camera or show a picture of its current state in the video, and Drew will have to try to remember why he wrote all the stuff down in the previous episode(s). By the end of MGS2, it'll hopefully look like the scribblings of a whacked-out conspiracy theorist.

Anyway, just putting the idea out there. I'm really enjoying the series so far, even if I do end up yelling at the computer screen a lot.


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I was also wondering if Drew could put his manual-writing skills to the test. I'm pretty sure Metal Gear is less complicated than playing a goddamned helicopter!

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

dan thought big league chew was supposed to represent grass that outfielders ate

goddamn...

Incredible.

 

[shwimpy]

Ahh, the Katie Vick storyline. Wrestling is so dumb.

 

[AcridMeat]

Oh my goodness the Ninja boss fight. This series really is Breaking Drew.

edit: HOOOLLLYYY SHIIIIT

Spoiler

dying when the life bar was completely gone already, what the fuck this game! hahahaha

 

[so1337]

I love MGS as a series but let's not act like it plays well. Especially for new players. Especially in the year 2014.

There's no need to act. It plays well.

I won't deny that there's a lot to keep track of, though. If your usual interaction with a videogame is pulling the left trigger and then pulling the right trigger, this ain't that.

 

[Balb]

Keep in mind that Drew isn't playing the game like you guys originally did. He can't really experiment with controls and all that because he feels the pressure of constantly having to move forward.

 

[Keyser Soze]

I used to wrestle whole matches with a big teddy bear when I was young. I redid the whole of Bret Hart v. Davey Boy Smith (SummerSlam ‘92) when I was 8.

I wish I could love wrestling enough to play with a giant bear again. :/

 

[Kelas]

Watching the escape dead island ql, dan complains about the game not remembering/saving collectables you found before you died, and I immediately thought of the same problem in Bionic Commando (that I think Jeff complained about in the ql of that game or on a podcast around that time). Then a few moments later they talk about the developer of this game -- fatshark, formerly grin -- and the game grin developed, Bionic Commando. They had 5 years to fix the damn collectable problem!

 

[blainethemono]

that Dr. Strangelove reference in the WWE 2k15 QL mere months after the "we do color now" in reference to b&w movies

Dan is a fucking genius troll confirmed

 

[Haunted]

I wish I could love wrestling enough to play with a giant bear again. :/

 

[Jimmyfenix]

that Dr. Strangelove reference in the WWE 2k15 QL mere months after the "we do color now" in reference to b&w movies

Dan is a fucking genius troll confirmed

Dan is the hero we do not deserve.

 

[giant_frying_pan]

I used to wrestle whole matches with a big teddy bear when I was young. I redid the whole of Bret Hart v. Davey Boy Smith (SummerSlam ‘92) when I was 8.

I wish I could love wrestling enough to play with a giant bear again. :/

Did you do the j-o-b to the t-e-d on the p-p-v?

 

[Majine]

Oh god, the "Jeff Gerstmann and titties" tumblr. It's literally what it says it is.

 

[tryagainlater]

Do you think we'll get Mario Party Party 3 before the new year?

 

[Jimmyfenix]

Do you think we'll get Mario Party Party 3 before the new year?

Do they even have a copy ?

 

[SlowRevolution]

Do they even have a copy ?

if not, hopefully they just buy one themselves this time

waiting for a fan to send a game for a premium series has always seemed kind of shitty to me. I get the whole "oh it's so bad we don't want to play it, but if you send it in we won't have a choice!" act but let's be real, it's a popular series that probably gets a ton of views, and people are already paying to watch it in the first place. it's not like they're doing us a favor by making it.

 

[Volcynika]

if not, hopefully they just buy one themselves this time

waiting for a fan to send a game for a premium series has always seemed kind of shitty to me. I get the whole "oh it's so bad we don't want to play it, but if you send it in we won't have a choice!" act but let's be real, it's a popular series that probably gets a ton of views, and people are already paying to watch it in the first place. it's not like they're doing us a favor by making it.

I don't think Dan was even relying on someone to send it in, some people just want to speed up getting content like that.

 

[Myggen]

if not, hopefully they just buy one themselves this time

waiting for a fan to send a game for a premium series has always seemed kind of shitty to me. I get the whole "oh it's so bad we don't want to play it, but if you send it in we won't have a choice!" act but let's be real, it's a popular series that probably gets a ton of views, and people are already paying to watch it in the first place. it's not like they're doing us a favor by making it.

This is one of the silliest uses of "kind of shitty" I've seen.

 

[Bacon]

Mario party 3 probably costs a nickel at this point. People are always sending in random stuff that they hope gets played(fmv games for vinny, etc). at least we know Mario party is a continuing series (hopefully).

 

[SlowRevolution]

This is one of the silliest uses of "kind of shitty" I've seen.

in the context of "website making dumb videos about games"

 

[ArjanN]

that Dr. Strangelove reference in the WWE 2k15 QL mere months after the "we do color now" in reference to b&w movies

Dan is a fucking genius troll confirmed

Yeah, but he also mentioned he hasn't seen Under Siege.

 

[Haunted]

Gamespot surely must have all the Mario Parties in their vault.

 

[Curufinwe]

San Fransisco is in the Pacfic Rim, and more importantly the Pacific Ring of Fire.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ring_of_Fire

 

[Renpatsu]

Mario party 3 probably costs a nickel at this point. People are always sending in random stuff that they hope gets played(fmv games for vinny, etc). at least we know Mario party is a continuing series (hopefully).

Eh...

You put Mario in the title plus the fact that it came out on Nintendo 64 and I guarantee that the game price will have sky-rocketed by now.

 

[Tamanon]

Yeah, but he also mentioned he hasn't seen Under Siege.

I can't possibly believe that. Is he anti-Seagal?

 

[Myggen]

Eh...

You put Mario in the title plus the fact that it came out on Nintendo 64 and I guarantee that the game price will have sky-rocketed by now.

It's not free, but it's not very expensive either.

 

[daydream]

It's not free, but it's not very expensive either.

They should obviously get the JP version and have Shoemaker-kun translate.

 

[Jimmyfenix]

They should obviously get the JP version and have Shoemaker-kun translate.

I remember when Rudds played through the Japanese version of FF12.

 

[TharpDaddy]

Gamespot surely must have all the Mario Parties in their vault.

Jeff destroyed any copies in the building after the first Party.

 

[Data West]

Still on Mario Party?

Get back to me when you're ready for a real man's party game. When you truly want to hate the people you're in the room with.

 

[Hot Coldman]

Oh god, the "Jeff Gerstmann and titties" tumblr. It's literally what it says it is.

This is great. Still not a patch on that one tumblr girl who put Brad's face on each nipple, though

 

[Myggen]

This War of Mine QL

 

[RepairmanJack]

This War of Mine QL

Have to check this out later. I was just listening to the Thumbs podcast talking about it and it sounds really interesting.

 

[kiyomi]

last post on the page idk