Its funny, I'm of the total opposite opinion. Feel like they are cranking out way too many quick looks of shitty PC games. Liked how Patrick would just completely dedicate himself to some games, even though those segments ran out of steam really quickly for the viewer depending on interest for the actual game.
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Giant Bomb #13 | good and faithful friends ahead
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Chance Hale
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The shitty PC games they quick look aren't really something that could only be done on the platform, it's just a lot easier to put things out on a system with no walled garden. They do most of those because people enjoy watching people play terrible games.
I guess PC rpgs would have been the better thing to say but even then Dave was still on Paradox quick looks and other PC specific stuff.
I guess PC rpgs would have been the better thing to say but even then Dave was still on Paradox quick looks and other PC specific stuff.
I'm still not sure what these mythical PC RPGs QLs were.
I remember Dave doing the Dragon Age: Origins one, and they did Baldur's Gate 2 as a Random PC Game, but other than that I'm really drawing a blank.
Giant Bomb has never been the site for deep coverage of classic RPGs is what I'm trying to get at.
Fantastapotamus
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Is there a good website for downloading trailers? I never really realised that most websites don't give you the option (or at least the ones I frequent)
Chance Hale
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PC Crpgs have only really come back in the time since Dave has left. They popped up here and there, but it's really a genre that kickstarter has had a huge hand in bringing back.
If nothing else Dave just brought a unique perspective to the site in the same way that Jeff does with all of his knowledge of systems like the TG. Dave was behind the scenes but he still showed up in content a lot. Just like how Dan manages to work wrestling into every fucking video Dave's interests in rpgs soaked into a lot of the content he was in.
If nothing else Dave just brought a unique perspective to the site in the same way that Jeff does with all of his knowledge of systems like the TG. Dave was behind the scenes but he still showed up in content a lot. Just like how Dan manages to work wrestling into every fucking video Dave's interests in rpgs soaked into a lot of the content he was in.
Totally. Sure Dave did some QLs of RPGs if he was playing that game at the time, but by no means did they even cover all those kind of games back then. What's missing without Dave is Random PC Game, and they didn't really do many of those the last year he was there and there's no reason Alex and Vinny can't do something like that if they want to (the best Random PC Game features was of games neither Dave or Vinny had played, or if they had they at least didn't remember much of the game).
And of course PoE won't be remembered much come GOTY time, but it wouldn't have been remembered if Dave was on staff either.
Chance Hale
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Is Vinnyvania actually coming back or was the segment on the Big Show just a tease? Vinny made the joke about it being an early morning weekday cartoon and Jeff said to not make promises.
It is. One of the Premium segments they're starting up.
Supposed to come back.
stump sock
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mostly I want some Blight Club
TheMrPliskin
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Yet people still seem to be bothered by it.
Vinny needs to play big rigs.
Jimmyfenix
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new ot smell
NCR Redslayer
NeoGAF's Vegeta
you've doomed us all.
stump sock
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finally, a diet I can stick with
also, not GB related, but check this shit out
press sneak fuck is too good for kotaku imho
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Which is almost weird, cause they always had people.
Dave was into them, Vinny likes them and Rorie actually worked on them (well, on RPGs...kinda)
Glitchesarecool
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i feel ill
Also I feel this line is hilarious coming from Kotaku: "Is it just me or is clickbait way worse when you can’t actually click on it?"
Like it was ever a good thing.
If what you want is deep, continuous coverage of a RPG, neither Rorie nor Dave were ever employees of GB. Or editors. So that limits their time doing actual content severely. Vinny has never played CRPGs much, which I'm guessing is what people are referring to here.
My favourite genre is probably CRPG, but it's been years since I accepted that we'll probably never get much coverage of those games here. We never did when Dave was working on the site either. And frankly I don't care much, the CRPG genre doesn't lend itself that well to entertaining coverage; the BG2 Random PC Game was by far the worst Random PC Game they did.
Chance Hale
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Apparently Glover didn't get great reviews but from that spot they did it's one of the few N64 games that actually holds up to my memories. Game is neat.
Rorie doesn't seem to know where he is half the time so it's not surprising most crpgs don't hold his attention.
Rorie doesn't seem to know where he is half the time so it's not surprising most crpgs don't hold his attention.
I was going to make a similar post. I really like CRPGs, but content with them is generally shit. Too much reading and story that doesn't encourage conversations.
Fantastapotamus
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Facts are boring. You are boring.
Chance Hale
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Renewing my giantbomb subscription was a mistake, the site is nothing but console trash.
Twin Tails
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Fucking casuals.
RepairmanJack
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Just starting Old Game show and holy shit this music!
Twin Tails
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Bump to the bump to the bump to the boom-boom,
Bump to the bump to the bump to the bass-as-as-ase!
Bump to the bump to the bump to the boom-boom,
Bump to the bump to the bump to the bass-as-as-ase!
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I want them to cover more jRPGs because jRPGs are fucking weird and hilarious. cRPGs don't lend themselves to funny quicklooks and since I'm a cRPG fan I already know whether I buy this game or not.
Though their Divinity QL was pretty good.
I just really love how he emphasize "bumble"
I know I'm a few hours late, but you people need to stop going in on Destiny for the 2014. More people on the site liked that game than ever game a damn about Call of Duty. They let that on the list because of Jeff and no one else. If you want to blame anyone for Wolfenstein's 11th place finish, blame Jeff and his weird attachment to COD.
Also, I like CRPGs too, but I know that Giant Bomb is not the place for that kind of coverage. I'd rather they cover what they like than half-ass it.
Also, I like CRPGs too, but I know that Giant Bomb is not the place for that kind of coverage. I'd rather they cover what they like than half-ass it.
RepairmanJack
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The game seems boring as shit though. The music definitely doesn't match the games feel.
Jimmyfenix
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thats a tongue bro
Chance Hale
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My point was they used to have people who didn't half ass rpg coverage. Diversity in tastes(and in general) has its perks. Hopefully the new hire brings something interesting to the table but we will see.
nope
stump sock
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it's not too late to remove this guy from the new OT right?
I knew you were alright jimmy
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
You're a tongue
NumberThree
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The Buck Bumble theme definitely is, as Jeff would put it, a real fucking jam.
Chance Hale
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I don't get why anyone would see a mouth. The tongue goes under the outline of the bomb, mouths don't work that way!
I'd argue that Rorie's coverage of RPGs has been as good as Dave's, if we're looking at QLs. But that's probably a taste thing. I think you're remembering a lot more Dave coverage of newly released RPGs than there actually was. Random PC Game sure, even though there wasn't that many RPGs there. My point is that there was never much coverage of those kind of games at GB, not with Dave there and not after he quit. Patrick only really covered one RPG, Divinity, and it doesn't really look like he has stuck with the genre going by his YT channel/Twitter.
Sure I would like some more of that kind of coverage, but there's never been much of it and we never got more than a QL of those types of games.
Dave designed the logo and said it's a mouth. There is no debate.
https://twitter.com/enemykite/status/502102008954777600
https://twitter.com/enemykite/status/502102008954777600
Chance Hale
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It's obviously anthropomorphized.
Ignore everything I said, fuck Dave.
And I just don't like Rorie that much in terms of video content. Most of the time he seems completely out of it and for the games he looks at he either gets things wrong or talks about how he abandoned the last game they looked at but surely he'll stick with this one. There are a lot more CRPG games out now then there were when Dave still worked at the office. Of course it's silly to imagine how things would have gone if he'd stayed
still undefeated.
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