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[Falifax]

Not to mention Building The Bastion and the Skyrim marathon. Although I guess Alucrid means a recent appearance!

Sure!

 

[stump sock]

not having alexa sit in on that shadow of mordor dlc was a missed opportunity

I actually forgot GS hired her

 

[jgminto]

octocamo da goat

octocamo and sneaking through two sides that are occupied with potshotting one another is sooooo gooooood. A heavily defended facility with regular patrols is one thing, but sneaking through a chaotic area through disguises and camo and other stuff is way cool

Shame you only get to do that for 2/5 of the game.

 

[Zombie James]

I actually forgot GS hired her

I sure haven't.

 

[soundscream]

Great scene. Great movies. People confuse me.

The only thing interesting about it is trying to understand how the SFX have gotten worse with every movie since the Fellowship.

 

[PinkCrayon]

not having alexa sit in on that shadow of mordor dlc was a missed opportunity

Sure wouldn't mind an Alexa/Brad Middle-Earth Cast.

 

[SteveWinwood]

whos alexa

 

[Glitchesarecool]

That Modor video was bad. History was great but it caused Brad to just run back and forth for 15 minutes doing essentially nothing. Would have liked to see a little more about the DLC.

 

[shwimpy]

Sure wouldn't mind an Alexa/Brad Middle-Earth Cast.

...and Dan to shit all over it? Right?

 

[Myggen]

That Modor video was bad. History was great but it caused Brad to just run back and forth for 15 minutes doing essentially nothing. Would have liked to see a little more about the DLC.

There's not much more to see of that DLC, from what I gather. What you see is what you get.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

...and Dan to shit all over it? Right?

yeah!

 

[Kelas]

whos alexa

https://twitter.com/AlexaRayC

She was at Polygon, then left and joined Gamespot like a month ago or so. She's been on Bombin' a few times.

 

[Glitchesarecool]

There's not much more to see of that DLC, from what I gather. What you see is what you get.

Oh. That's a little sad.

 

[mnz]

She was the one hyping up Shadow of Mordor on one of the E3(?) casts.

 

[Keyser Soze]

Meanwhile at Giant Bomb...

 

[Bacon]

Dan and drew putting in overtime. These two are the mvps of giantbomb.

 

[funkystudent]

God Speed Drew.


I hope they discuss the MGS2 end up on the next bombcast. Or record some kind of special post MGS2 play through spoiler thing before the break.

That ending is a very special thing. Seeing someone react to it for the first time and try and suss it out would be great.

 

[jgminto]

I'm so hype.

 

[TraBuch]

Does that Shadow of Mordor DLC look like it's worth picking up? Although I platinum'd the game, I don't think I'd be all that interested if it was just more of the same.

 

[Myggen]

 

[TumblingHippo]

I remember the first time I got to "that part" of MGS 2. It was midnight. Parents went to bed, and then "it" started happening.

As a kid that legitimately unsettled me, as I had no idea what was going on. I didn't even know about the Raiden bait and switch at the beginning either, going into it.

Say what you will about MGS 2 (all things that are very valid) but when gaming and yourself were still younger back then, it was quite a memorable experience.

 

[Keyser Soze]

Does that Shadow of Mordor DLC look like it's worth picking up? Although I platinum'd the game, I don't think I'd be all that interested if it was just more of the same.

It is very much more of the same.

What did you feel after the Platinum

A) Thank fuck that is done with
B) That was great, I could keep going

If B, then you should still enjoy it.

 

[TraBuch]

It is very much more of the same.

What did you feel after the Platinum

A) Thank fuck that is done with
B) That was great, I could keep going

If B, then you should still enjoy it.

I felt "That was great, but I think I'm done with the game".

If it's just more of the same, I'll probably pass.

 

[MetalGuardian]

I dreamt quite vividly last night that I was Dan, vehemently defending the GC version of Animal Crossing, on a Bombcast from July.

It turns out consuming this much back catalogue of premium content in such a short period of time has dangerous, mind-warping effects. Especially when paired with booze.

I bet Dan doesn't even like Animal Crossing

 

[popo]

Meanwhile at Giant Bomb...

Get a fucking hair cut, hippie!

 

[Hot Coldman]

The GameCube version of Animal Crossing is really good, to be fair. Best implementation of holidays, and it has NES games. NES games!

New Leaf is obviously the best one, but the Gamecube game isn't far behind. Wild World is pretty good, Let's Go To The City can burn in hell.

 

[The Dear Leader]

Get a fucking hair cut, hippie!

I see what you did there.

 

[broncobuster]

Dan's reaction to Rorie's offhand MGS2 spoiler with Drew sitting next to him on UPF is great.

 

[Myggen]

I dreamt quite vividly last night that I was Dan, vehemently defending the GC version of Animal Crossing, on a Bombcast from July.

It turns out consuming this much back catalogue of premium content in such a short period of time has dangerous, mind-warping effects. Especially when paired with booze.

I bet Dan doesn't even like Animal Crossing

He does in fact really like Animal Crossing

 

[tryagainlater]

Good work, popo.

 

[Glitchesarecool]

I haven't played any MG games, so this should be just as much a mind fuck for me as Drew, by how things sounds.

 

[Felix Lighter]

I haven't played any MG games, so this should be just as much a mind fuck for me as Drew, by how things sounds.

It should be great right out of the gate. I cannot wait for Drew's reaction.

 

[Myggen]

For those who haven't seen it: Jeff was on The Lobby this week to talk about the past GOTY awards, disagree with more or less every GOTY game since he was fired

 

[Hot Coldman]

Gamespot's GOTY choices got a lot braver once Jeff left...

 

[Incandenza]

The GameCube version of Animal Crossing is really good, to be fair. Best implementation of holidays, and it has NES games. NES games!

New Leaf is obviously the best one, but the Gamecube game isn't far behind. Wild World is pretty good, Let's Go To The City can burn in hell.

Agreed, although New Leaf's holidays might actually be better than the GC version. In New Leaf holidays like Toy Day, Thanksgiving, and Halloween are crazy month-long events that involve the whole town lots of unique store items.

What the original does have over NL is distinguishing between getting fetch quests and just chatting when you talk to villagers.

 

[Myggen]

Gamespot's GOTY choices got a lot braver once Jeff left...

"That game got a 10 and thus had to be game of the year, because what would we be doing if we didn't...Jesus, did we really give it to Chrono Cross?"

 

[Loxley]

Gamespot's GOTY choices got a lot braver once Jeff left...

The reactions last year to GS giving A Link Between Worlds their GOTY were quite something. The nerve of them to give such an award to a handheld game. How dare they.

 

[Jimmyfenix]

Greg dissing demon souls

 

[randomlyrossy]

I don't think Drew gets enough credit for how fucking funny he can be. I'm catching up on Metal Gear Scanlon and he just came out with this gem so quickly, it was hilarious.

"I'm like you, I have no name"

"My name is Raiden & also Jack, so...."

 

[Jimmyfenix]

We need a soundboard of Drew noises and impersonations. I truly believe he can out do Sgt. Larvelle "Motor Mouth" Jones

 

[newjeruse]

Hearing Brad explain LoTR to Dan was pretty frustrating. Dan once again was done in by his need to reduce every concept to a single sentence.

 

[The Dear Leader]

This Shadow of Mordor DLC QL makes me want a long ass podcast of Brad explaining LOTR/The Silmarillion lore to Dan.

 

[giant_frying_pan]

The reactions last year to GS giving A Link Between Worlds their GOTY were quite something. The nerve of them to give such an award to a handheld game. How dare they.

Jeff in that Gamespot video though had nothing but praise for it and even defended the decision against that backlash.

 

[Tan]

Gamespot's GOTY choices got a lot braver once Jeff left...

yes

 

[Massa]

The reactions last year to GS giving A Link Between Worlds their GOTY were quite something. The nerve of them to give such an award to a handheld game. How dare they.

GOTY awards always bring out the man-children.

 

[Myggen]

Journey is a good GOTY pick, even if it wasn't my favourite game of that year. Jeff's story about that game from the Bombcast is pretty great, how he couldn't pick that game up again because of the disappointment of the person he played with dropping out of the game pretty close to the end. Speaks to how emotional that simple mechanic could be.

 

[ZanzibarBreeze]

So are we likely to see Metal Gear Scanlon over the weekend, or is that a Monday thing?

 

[Myggen]

So are we likely to see Metal Gear Scanlon over the weekend, or is that a Monday thing?

They said on UPF that it would go up next week, but nothing more concrete. It's probably two episodes, and I wouldn't be surprised if they put it up on Wednesday and Thursday or something like that because they're only in the office until Tuesday, and the GOTY stuff begins on Friday.

 

[Piston Hyundai]

how bad is it that when VanOrd mentioned that it was just like that one different strokes episode, I immediately thought the bike shop one

 

[ZanzibarBreeze]

They said on UPF that it would go up next week, but nothing more concrete. It's probably two episodes, and I wouldn't be surprised if they put it up on Wednesday and Thursday or something like that because they're only in the office until Tuesday, and the GOTY stuff begins on Friday.

Ah; good to know. Thanks!