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Giant Bomb #14 | I'll Never Forget This!

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DrFunk

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I grew up playing carmageddon - but I don't think I have the desire to play another one again, sadly.
 
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Sleeping Lesson

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Drew needs to stop talking about a Star Citizen feature and do a Star Citizen feature. Arena Commander is actually really fun and more complete than they seem to think.
 
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Sleeping Lesson

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Pretty beefy. Nothing crazy, though. I play at 1080p with a 4690k and a OCed 7970, but my framerate bounces around 40-60 with the bigger dips going as low as the 20s. It's just very un-optimized at this point.
 
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stump sock

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I kind of appreciate that Dan is playing this game in the most boring way possible, and doing a pretty poor job of it at the same time

it's kind of appropriate
 
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Santar

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I really enjoyed the first Carmageddon, the car combat parts of it was fun and I loved exploring the huge stages, finding secret areas and stuff. The car physics were good too, they had good weight to them.
Feels a bit like Dan didn't even give the game a chance in the quicklook.
 
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Brashnir

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popo said:
Jeff and Dan have a nice Father/Son dynamic going in that latest mailbag/trashbag.

Dan: "Can I open these Rikishi pack of WWF cards?"
Jeff : "I mean ... no. There will be cards everywhere."

*points to bag of snacks*
Dan: "Can I open it?"
Jeff: "Yeah sure. Try not to open everything, otherwise we just have open food that we eat one hand of and throw away."

also, mailbag creeper.

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Dan wants Jeff as his GB Dad.

Which means that weekday GB office time is basically weekend GB-GAF.
 
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Megasoum

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Zaph said:
Midtown Madness was the superior.
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Fuck YES...

I played hundreds of hours of 1 on 1 CopsVsRobbers in Midtown Madness 1 with my friend.

We played so much that we knew by heart all the spawn points for the gold, police station and hideout on the map lol.
 
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Xater

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Jimmyfenix said:
i was always an interstate 76 guy
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Interstate 76 was great but also nothing like Carmageddon. It was more a car combat game not a racing game. Carmageddon at it's core was a bad check point racing game that added two more possible victory conditions.
 
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Archaix

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Poor Dan. Working for Giant Bomb for less than a year, and Jeff's already convinced him that the early Twisted Metal games and car combat as a whole were no good. He's defeated. Soon he's going to be ranting about Waluigi and Yoshi being non characters.
 
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Piston Hyundai

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Archaix said:
Poor Dan. Working for Giant Bomb for less than a year, and Jeff's already convinced him that the early Twisted Metal games and car combat as a whole were no good. He's defeated. Soon he's going to be ranting about Waluigi and Yoshi being non characters.
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2 is the only good "early" Twisted Metal.
 
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Haunted

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There's no sense of speed, there's not enough going on, the game doesn't look good enough for a 2015 game.

Since it's a Kickstarter, it's already a success that it exists. Feels like a game for the backers... and the backers only. Jeff's summary at the end seems appropriate.
 
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Infinite Justice

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Archaix said:
Poor Dan. Working for Giant Bomb for less than a year, and Jeff's already convinced him that the early Twisted Metal games and car combat as a whole were no good. He's defeated. Soon he's going to be ranting about Waluigi and Yoshi being non characters.
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??

But he came to that conclusion on his own though with the whole "he was younger" stuff.


And the site is down for me :/
 
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giant_frying_pan

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A couple of hours in, I can see why Jeff is enjoying Splatoon. It has nifty 'traversal stuff' and strafing in the ink feels like drifting!

Bit behind on this thread, are they thinking of doing a live Quick Look for it? I think the video embargo ends today...
 
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mnz

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Chuck said:
There's a dog man in that mad max game trailer o.o
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image.php
 
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razgriz417

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Heh didn't Drew say on the bombcast that he was looking to upgrade his video card for Witcher 3? Guess that GTX 770 came at the perfect time lol
 
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Glitchesarecool

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While we're on the subject of old games, does anyone know the name of an endless-runner styled game where you were a spaceship on platforms? You could hop and move left and right, and basically had to dodge the holes/ledges as you flew along.

Myggen said:
I have such fond memories of playing that game with my brother back in the day.
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I remember laughing at the showering hedgehogs.
 
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tesqui

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Sleeping Lesson said:
I'd hope Drew would upgrade to something better than a 770, though. Might as well upgrade to something that's not already 2 generations old.
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I thought 700 series was 1 gen old? I think the 800 series was just laptop video cards.

but I would totally take the 770. it's not bad by any means. If it's got good vram (3-4gb) then he should be good to go.

edit: it appears 770's only have 2gb. I would probably want something more for an open world game like witcher 3. You probably won't get a constant 60 with that card unless you lower the graphics settings a good amount. I assume @ ultra you would be around the 30 fps range.
 
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hamchan

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Sleeping Lesson said:
You're right, it's only a generation old and you can't beat free.

But it's not a card you upgrade to to play Witcher 3.
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It's more than good enough to outstrip the consoles and keep a stable framerate with decent settings. If I was Drew I would totally take the free card then he can wait for the next gen of Nvidia cards.
 
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Megasoum

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Sleeping Lesson said:
You're right, it's only a generation old and you can't beat free.

But it's not a card you upgrade to to play Witcher 3.
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I'm playing Witcher 3 on a 770 and I ended up capping the FPS at 30 cause I was tired of running between 45 and 50.

I get to run it at ultra (everything maxed out except hairworks) at a solid 30 tho.
 
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stump sock

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I have a 660ti and frankly it runs almost anything at 60fps if you're willing to knock back some post-processing.

but I'm gonna upgrade to a 970 at some point in the next few months.
 
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Sleeping Lesson

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I remember during the Whiskey days, Will would have like $3000 in video cards just collecting dust because manufacturers sent them. I'm sure there's a similar stash somewhere in the CSBI offices.
 
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shadyspace

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popo said:
Jeff and Dan have a nice Father/Son dynamic going in that latest mailbag/trashbag.

Dan: "Can I open these Rikishi pack of WWF cards?"
Jeff : "I mean ... no. There will be cards everywhere."

*points to bag of snacks*
Dan: "Can I open it?"
Jeff: "Yeah sure. Try not to open everything, otherwise we just have open food that we eat one hand of and throw away."

also, mailbag creeper.

http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/6/61169/2752889-creeper3.gif
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You also had that big brother-little brother moment where Dan started annoying Jason so Jason kicked him. That cracked me up.
 
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