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*intro music*

Jeff : Hello everyone, it's Wednesday! Welcome to the first in a new series of the Breaking News Reaction-cast!

I'm your host Jeff Gerstmann and today we have Brad and Dan in the studio, along with Austin via skype from the east coast, to talk about Fallout 4! We all knew it was coming and the trailer dropped a few hours ago. No gameplay footage but it looks real nice and ... I don't know about you guys but ... It totally looks like Fallout!

Brad : Yup

Dan : Yup!

Jeff : Okay! Austin, any thoughts as our brand new news editor?

Austin : As a Phd student I can, academically speaking, say it looks a lot like Fallout.

Jeff : Alright! That's it for today. Look out for more Reaction-casts in the future as more news breaks!

*The Breaking News Reaction-cast is brought to you by Square Space. Build it beautiful!

 

[EmCeeGramr]

Nah, I can find actual posts from actual neogaf users doing this. I remember a mod praising Chinatown Wars through the roof then a month later 'man that game's a piece of shit' in another thread.

Really


who

 

[ScottSullivan]

Hey, won't find any argument here. Infinite is one of my favorite games ever, and I think it's a milestone in gaming.

But some people just looooath it.

I thought the game was perfecly fine, enjoyed it and completed it, but I don't agree about it being a milestone in gaming, what was it for you? I feel like it didn't deliver on its premise or story at all

 

[Freedom = $1.05]

yo, you find me that post about chinatown wars because that person needs shaming. I enjoyed that game much more than vanilla GTA4, the story was shit but the game was fun as hell.

 

[Data West]

I finally watched the Fallout trailer. God damn, not even 2 minutes in and I see that janky as fuck run animation lololol.

Oh well, I'll still like it and this generation has taught me I'd probably rather have bad animations than overly animated animations.

 

[jaina]

its first 5 or so hours are amazing, possibly one of my favorite game experiences ever.

it's that last 8-10 hours of playing through a mediocre fps with waves and waves of enemies that was tiresome even at release. I've recommended that anyone who was even mildly interested in playing it to drop the difficulty to easy and just enjoy the ride.

at least those 2 campaign DLCs were pretty enjoyable.

Easy mode is a god's end for games with mediocre/monotonous combat.

yo, you find me that post about chinatown wars because that person needs shaming. I enjoyed that game much more than vanilla GTA4, the story was shit but the game was fun as hell.

I've never played a GTA so close to completion as Chinatown Wars.

 

[Noray]

The ride isn't even enjoyable by then. You've seen pretty much everything the game has to offer except the new and exciting ways they found to ruin the story that had promise earlier.

I thought the story fully delivered on its high concept premise. It dropped the ball in spots, notably with Ghost Mom and the Vox Populi (problematically so), but goddamn I love the atmosphere, music, aesthetic, Elizabeth, Songbird, just the way that the last hour of the game plays out. I understand why some people don't like it but I also think the backlash has made some people kiiiiind of crazy harsh on it.

 

[Glitchesarecool]

Bioshock Infinite was infinitely more interesting in that first trailer than the game turned out to be.

That said, I still had a good time with it, and Songbird is best protector. Great intro and climax.

 

[Infinite Justice]

WTF is wrong with the animations in that ODST Quicklook?

Is it the game showing its age?
The GB video running at 60?
I'm going fucking crazy?

 

[stump sock]

WTF is wrong with the animations in that ODST Quicklook?

Is it the game showing its age?
The GB video running at 60?
I'm going fucking crazy?

sort of
yes
not for me to judge

IIRC they did that on purpose to match the modeled faces/go for some kind of aesthetic but that doesn't make them not goofy as fuck

 

[Data West]

They talked about the ODST weird ass face animations when the game was coming out on the Bombcast. I remember Jeff mentioning it.

The game's ugly. Always has been. Foggier than GTA IV probably.

 

[CoolBatteryCharge]

Played through Bioshock Infinite twice during launch week without seeing people's criticisms and I loved it. Only started to doubt myself when I saw people online talking about it.

But then I realized fuck that. Those two playthroughs were amazing for me when all I had was myself and the game in those experienecs and people's criticisms online could not take away from that.

 

[def sim]

WTF is wrong with the animations in that ODST Quicklook?

Is it the game showing its age?
The GB video running at 60?
I'm going fucking crazy?

Nah it really did animate like an adult swim claymation show. It's so exaggerated that it's likely an intentional thing.

 

[FStop7]

I wish they would record a micro podcast just to talk about the Fallout trailer.

"Welp."

"That's some Fallout-ass-Fallout."

"Yep."

"..."

"..."

"Buy a NatureBox!"

 

[Freedom = $1.05]

"Welp."

"That's some Fallout-ass-Fallout."

"Yep."

"..."

"..."

"Buy a NatureBox!"

become a premium member, avoid the ads

 

[FStop7]

become a premium member, avoid the ads

I am premium and the ads are funny, how else do I keep up with Brett's antics?

 

[Jeevesmeister]

Infinite is hilarious because its idiot savant Ken Levine trying to move up from a shallow critique of Randian nonsense to the legacy of racism in America and managing to completely fall flat on his face and horribly appropriate the legacy of slavery which black America is still suffering from the effects of, while profiting from it both financially and critically to great ends, thus only cementing how pathetic it is to try and take a well to do white videogame creative director seriously when it comes to commenting on race.

Also it was a terrible shooter, mechanically. From making Elizabeth invisible to enemies to reducing all the plasmids to boring-ass AoE attack variations, it was a visually pretty yet simultaneously vapid game that should have been dumped in a bin.

 

[mnz]

Remember Thursday Night Throwdown?

Remember The Old Games Show? That was a great way to spend a wednesday evening.

 

[Noray]

I understand why some people don't like it but I also think the backlash has made some people kiiiiind of crazy harsh on it.

Infinite is hilarious because its idiot savant Ken Levine trying to move up from a shallow critique of Randian nonsense to the legacy of racism in America and managing to completely fall flat on his face and horribly appropriate the legacy of slavery which black America is still suffering from the effects of, while profiting from it both financially and critically to great ends, thus only cementing how pathetic it is to try and take a well to do white videogame creative director seriously when it comes to commenting on race.

Also it was a terrible shooter, mechanically. From making Elizabeth invisible to enemies to reducing all the plasmids to boring-ass AoE attack variations, it was a visually pretty yet simultaneously vapid game that should have been dumped in a bin.

QED

 

[Glitchesarecool]

QED

It's like videogames can't be just fun. They either have to be perfect or never released.

Weird times to be alive.

 

[mnz]

Nah, it's the game's own fault. Infinite does a lot of "look at this political thing in a video game" and then doesn't do anything with it. The thing a good writer would do.

 

[Zebetite]

but not better than Oblivion

it's almost as though bethesda has been putting out consistently worse games than the one before and it's almost physically impossible for me to be excited about fallout 4 at this poin-- i mean, what????????????????????? yeahhhhh FALLOUT FOUR

It's like videogames can't be just fun. They either have to be perfect or never released.

Weird times to be alive.

if critical discourse on a game at the time of its release suggests that the game is, in fact, perfect, or some approximation thereof, and then it is subsequently very, very, very far from perfect and you have been lied to across the board and now you're out sixty dollars and didn't really gain anything by playing bioshock infinite that you couldn't have gotten by spending your sixty dollars on any other trifling form of entertainment, like, say a ball in a cup

then yes, maybe it would be for the best if bioshock infinite had never come out.

 

[EdReedFan20]

HYPE!

IT BEGINS!

 

[LiK]

Remember The Old Games Show? That was a great way to spend a wednesday evening.

Good ol days

 

[daydream]

e3 for me consists of gb streams and treehouse streams

it's a hell of a week for streaming if anything

 

[klonere]

looking forward to 2017 when I can play Fallout 4 with a variety of bug fix packs, graphics overhauls, DLC packs and comprehensive gameplay tweaks.

The odds of Obsidian getting to do the next Fallout after this are spectacularly low right?

 

[Jeevesmeister]

it's almost as thought bethesda has been putting out consistently worse games than the one before and it's almost physically impossible for me to be excited about fallout 4 at this poin-- i mean, what????????????????????? yeahhhhh FALLOUT FOUR

Imagine an industry where everyone ripped off and chased after Dragon's Dogma instead of Skyrim and how much better off the medium would be right now.

Instead, well, we're getting excited for a fucking Gamebryo trash heap in 2015.

 

[Data West]

I didn't know there were people who thought Oblivion was better than any Bethesda game.

 

[Myggen]

HYPE!

IT BEGINS!

 

[Freedom = $1.05]

I didn't know there were people who thought Oblivion was better than any Bethesda game.

I had a missions where i was supposed to bring a dude with me to some location. I saved, came back to the game a day or two later, and the dude was gone. It was a mainline quest, i couldnt continue without taking this guy to wherever.

I was 15 hours in, and i basically bugged out of the game. Now i rotate save files and never play oblivion, that's how i fixed that issue

 

[Brakke]

Jeff writing up new Skylanders.

Hiring Austin reminded him that GB has a news CMS.

 

[repeater]

I don't believe this Tumblr answer from Jeff got the attention from the thread that it deserves:

Anonymous asked:Fury Road is garbage. Everything is garbage. Mediocrity passes for quality now I guess. Don't waste your time/money.

Unplug! Yoga is the only thing that matters! Sit in a dark room and consume nothing! Just be!

I can hear him doing that answer in that special parody voice. So good.

 

[Chance Hale]

The entire Dark Brotherhood questline in Oblivion is great whereas I find it hard to remember anything in Skyrim. Fallout 3 had lots of memorable stuff too, great introduction, the trip into the B/W fantasy world, Megaton and the tower related to it, killing Three Dog changing the main radio station of the game and so on. Fallout New Vegas is certainly a more involved, interesting game with far more dynamic quests and factions but Fallout 3 is really fun in its own right.

The only thing I remember being disappointing about Fallout 3 was the Operation Anchorage dlc as I lived in Anchorage, Alaska when that came out and it brought nothing of the city to the game.

 

[stump sock]

I didn't know there were people who thought Oblivion was better than any Bethesda game.

it was mindbending when it came out. even though it was basically a "for babies" version of Morrowind in a lot of ways, the scope and beauty of the game combined with a legitimate feeling of it being a "living" world is something that can't be overstated. by modern standards it may not be super memorable, but it's a monument to a time where Bethesda were on the bleeding edge of what a modern RPG should be

The entire Dark Brotherhood questline in Oblivion is great

probably my single favorite thing they've ever done in any game.

 

[Teddified]

Almost time for Brad to fight a Dog for 2 hours again

 

[LiK]

Almost time for Brad to fight a Dog for 2 hours again

They should just rename it Bradborne Tears

 

[stump sock]

Almost time for Brad to fight a Dog for 2 hours again

my 3DS is waiting to take up 70% of my attention while he does it, too!

I hope he beats it first try

 

[LiK]

my 3DS is waiting to take up 70% of my attention while he does it, too!

I hope he beats it first try

Yup, I wanna see the next boss whoop his ass even harder. Haha

 

[Freedom = $1.05]

wait, the flaming nom nom dog isn't the end of this?

oh boy

 

[Quenk]

wait, the flaming nom nom dog isn't the end of this?

oh boy

I think he said that normally there are three levels in each dungeon and this one is the second. Though chat was saying that flaming nom nom dog is the hardest boss.

 

[Myggen]

chat

 

[LiK]

wait, the flaming nom nom dog isn't the end of this?

oh boy

One more boss in this dungeon. Then the final dungeon has 3 more bosses. BLB version 2 almost made me cry. Godspeed Bradley.

 

[Brakke]

"Things Could Get Weird, Don't Panic"
The Giant Bomb Story

 

[klonere]

Morrowind is the best Bethesda game by a long way. Still dip in and out of it every few months to try out different stuff. The best balance between the insanity of Daggerfall and modern Bethesda design principles. No better game to get you totally immersed in a foreign, alien land while giving you near complete freedom to fuck around.

 

[Kelas]

Morrowind was amazing. I remember getting into modding with that game, and though I never made anything reallly great or involved with it, I did make this sick fast travel and loot storage system. I just put a trapdoor everywhere I wanted a fast travel point on the map, and they all pointed to this massive room I built, which itself had a bunch of doors, each pointing back to one of those trapdoors. The room also had a bunch of chests to put my stuff in.

It was also fun setting up fights between different creatures to see who'd win.

 

[Zaph]

Jason is being far too helpful and informative. Stop, you're just delaying salty brad.

 

[stump sock]

ugghhhhhh Brad's already being his own worst enemy

"but I can get two hits in" if he does something 10x riskier instead of playing smart

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Shit I should really catch up on episode 2 of bradborne

 

[Glitchesarecool]

are we really going to watch two more hours of this

 

[mnz]

Shit I should really catch up on episode 2 of bradborne

Only if you're really really bored