SatelliteOfLove
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Giant Bomb #11 | Thanks for the Spelunkin', the Spookin', and the Scoopin'
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These will never not be funny.
If the Patrick leaving thread is any indication, we are headed toward a category 5 shitstorm no matter who gets the job.
That would be incredible.
Sadly Justin is in West Virginia and I don't see him moving.
call_kotaku
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I think a third hire in NY would be necessary for a GBE podcast; I can't imagine an Alex and Vinny podcast working that well
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I imagine the worst.
Vinny:And welcome to the new year guys! We hi-
New Hire:We're going to be playing stealth games.
Vinny:Uhh, yeah, we're definitel-
Hire:Vinny I made you a blended drink of stealth. Drink it.
Vinny:I don't feel comfortable doing that, haha, maybe we ca-
Hirerink it, Vinny.
Jaffe's latest salty outburst posted?
Assuming he won't be on the E3 podcasts this year.
I don't blame him. As much as I love Giant Bomb, what they do is way easier than making games. So they should be more respectful to game developers, even mediocre ones.
funkystudent
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We all make mistakes.
Plus Polygon (and the entire VOX media family of sites for that matter) is clearly going though a rough patch so now would be a perfect time to bail out. Things are only getting worse over there.
Sadly I do not think its gonna happen. I think dude has mentioned that not having to move and working from home was a big part of that job for him.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Do you understand how critique works?
It doesn't work by giving developers sympathy points.
Yeah, you don't get a pat on the back for effort if you do a crummy job, that's not how the world works.
You serious right now?
bullllllllshit
Critique is fine, but being overly crass and cynical isn't.
General rule of thumb: if you wouldn't say it to the person's face, don't say it.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I think your posts show a lack of understanding of how an opinion works.
Whoops, I said it to your face.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
This Year's podcast clip show thing for Giantbomb 2014 is out. I'm looking forward to seeing what highlights he picked out.
ReginaldXIV
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I dunno about doing a UPF together because of the 3 hour timezone difference. Maybe bring back TNT and play whatever hit multiplayer game just released together at an earlier time in the day?
How so?
Exactly how are they being crass or cynical? You can say that about anybody who says something negative about another person's work. If you don't have the back bone to face negative criticism than you are in the wrong line of work. Most people would have a hard time saying someone's work is bad to someone's face. So we should avoid saying anything negative about a person's work? You will offend someone no matter what if you rate a game they worked on as bad.
BreezyLimbo
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GB is free to say that they think the game looks edgy, and that the gameplay looks boorish. They don't have to be respectful to any game developer, to the point where they'd be afraid to voice that said opinion. It doesn't matter if the developer is mediocre or good, criticism is an open playing field.
I've heard them say basically "it's amazing any games ever come out" a bunch before on the podcast, in regards to how difficult game development can be and all of the potential problems. So I'm sure they get that.
But if they think a game looks shitty...I mean they should say so. That's why people listen, right? To hear their honest opinions.
Though I didn't realize Jaffe was making a new game so I clearly missed the Bombcast episode in question.
But if they think a game looks shitty...I mean they should say so. That's why people listen, right? To hear their honest opinions.
Though I didn't realize Jaffe was making a new game so I clearly missed the Bombcast episode in question.
firehawk12
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Holy shit, the Giantbomb compilation is almost 12 hours long. lol
http://www.thisyearcollection.org/2015/01/95-giant-bombcast-2014.html
http://www.thisyearcollection.org/2015/01/95-giant-bombcast-2014.html
They aren't even being disrespectful, they haven't attacking game developers directly. They never said thing like, "Jaffe sure is a tool." Games are not people, they are products.
That's like 1/12th of the year lol
I'm set for the next couple of days of workout woot
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Hahaha, that's one way to look at it.
I guess so. I'm just saying I don't blame him for being hurt, especially when he's leading the team of people working on the game.
Yeah, and to be fair, Giant Bomb's critique of Drawn to Death wasn't even that harsh. They basically just said it looks juvenile. GB is pretty good about being respectful to game devs. But some professional critics have humongous egos, when they wouldn't even have a job if it weren't for creators putting their blood, sweat, and tears out there for the whole world to see. Jaffe gets shit on all the time, so I don't blame him for cracking occasionally.
ZanzibarBreeze
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Listening back through the best-of... that Terminator 2/3 moment with Dan and Jeff is fantastic.
When Dan says 3 is better than 1 -- that indignation from Jeff. Man.
When Dan says 3 is better than 1 -- that indignation from Jeff. Man.
Oh nice, so glad these are still happening. This guy does a great job with them.
I hear ya. I could never be a creative type, I'd get fired for responding to criticism within like a month :lol
Mowki Kowski
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After watching the Bomb Squad play Mount Your Friends so much I decided to try it while I had a bunch of my cousins over. If you're not playing in Space mode you're playing it wrong!
Also I think the game gets way funnier when you mute the music and just play the Interstellar soundtrack in a separate window.
Also I think the game gets way funnier when you mute the music and just play the Interstellar soundtrack in a separate window.
The Dear Leader
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bennyhilltheme.mp3, you can thank me later.
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Deleted member 30609
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that episode with Drake was my favourite of the year, probably
This will be excellent for the 6 hour drives to and from San Antonio for PAX South.
Yeah, and to be even more fair, the game's entire aesthetic is quite literally juvenile by (presumably) intent. A teenage metal-head's notebook doodles are obviously going to be juvenile, since said fictitious teenager would be a juvenile.
That said, I think they did the aesthetic disservice with the game they're making out of it. When the trailer first came up, my mind started racing with all the rad 2-D side-scrolling or page-navigating (Comix Zone-like) stuff you could do with that aesthetic and having hand-drawn obstacles and enemies, or maybe something top-down like Calling All Cars, which was a very underrated game. Instead, they made an arena shooter out of it, which would be fine in and of itself, but I don't think that art style translates to a fully-navigable 3D world at all. Everything just looks out of place and wrong.
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Deleted member 30609
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It's insane to me that Patrick's goodbye post isn't on top of the stack.
soundscream
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A large chunk game developers get the same or worse thrown at them, and the majority don't respond. He isn't some special case and some of the heat he gets is do to his own actions.
Maiden Voyage
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I was guessing based on things I've heard Patrick say on old Bombcasts or had written somewhere. Basically, he said GB was the only outlet in gaming press he wanted to work at and if he couldn't go there he was leaving the gaming side of things. This was a vague memory so I could be way off. Judging from that poor recollection my thought was either that he was leaving gaming press altogether or that he was going to a place like the Tribune to cover entertainment media, games or otherwise.
Just a guess, though.
ZanzibarBreeze
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The CAH people starting some kind of site and Patrick being a part of it still sounds the likeliest bet to me, if only because of all that talk and imagery of the CAH studio space in Chicago that he's been a part of. But what do I know!
There have been some GB Windjammers mashups before. So if it were me I'd go with something that hasn't been represented before.
Patrick specifically talked shit about Jaffe personally when they were discussing the game. He said something like "Jaffe is like an old guy who thinks he's still cool." I forget if he said more than that.
I don't get why so many people seem to think Patrick stepped over the line with this comment and you shouldn't criticise devs personally. Movie critics will often insult Michael Bay, music critics will criticise eminem for not growing up why are game devs so special that they can not be criticised even someone like Jaffe who has built most of his fame from his outspoken personality rather than his games, since he hasn't had a significant hit in a decade now.
soundscream
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Comes off as an old guy trying to be cool was the quote. And Jaffe is old enough to not be a part of the special snowflake generation and take that personally.
Obviously they need fighting character names and appearances. So far I've locked in:
I need help with these guys
- Jeff - Dr Tracksuit
- Ryan - Nachoboss
- Vinny - Small Businessman
- Patrick - Scoops
- Drew - Solid Scanlon
- Alex - The Wolf
- Jason - A.Striker
- Dave - Hardcore Dave
- Will + Norm - The Testers
- Jeff Green - Black Dragon
- Luchadeer
I need help with these guys
- Brad - #teambrad? Rudds?
- Dan - Colonel Ryckert?
- Rorie - The Frail?
- Alexis
- Danny O'Dwyer
- Dave Lang
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