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Giant Bomb #14 | I'll Never Forget This!
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LurkerPrime
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Jeff pretty much said in the Quick Look that they were displaying it to show how bad it was, lacking in any redeeming features. It's like a PSA: Let go of your Hatred.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Did they pick the name charisma.com because it automatically generates a link in a forum post? Kind of genius actually.
Except that the website by that name isn't theirs
Sleeping Lesson
Member
Automatically generates a link to a website that isn't theirs? How devilishly clever of them!
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Oh weird, I could have sworn I clicked on a link in this thread earlier that took me to their site.
Pretty sure Gaf just does that to anything that ends in a .com
Sleeping Lesson
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When I did it earlier, I noticed that it auto-linked and quickly edited it to be an actual link to their website
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Oh I know about that. Guess that thinking about someone deliberately linking to the band's site to cover the fact that their URL name doesn't actual go to their band's site left me a little gobsmacked at how weirdly meta it was.
Big sites not covering the game kinda helps out the devs. If they didn't cover it, there're people that would think "Holy shit, this game is so hardcore that sites won't even show it! Gotta check this out", whereas if they show it, some of those same people would say "Huh..The fuck was all the controversy about? This kinda looks like shit."
Sleeping Lesson
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I feel like I didn't get enough Splatoon coverage on the site. There aren't a lot of games these days that I'm super interested in but can't play, so enjoy them vicariously through Giant Bomb.
Jeevesmeister
Banned
I think I like Hatred more than I hate it. At least I think, unintentionally or not, it's message is more relevant than some meandering nonsense like Sunset - games writers got paid to write outrage pieces which advertised it to the base of gamers who have grown frustrated with the modern state of games criticism, creating sales for the developers, Steam got their cut as well, and at the end the only people that got burned where idiots dumb enough to buy the game, and indie developers innovating in the medium that would have actually benefitted from the coverage.
The protagonist is a hilarious dipshit to laugh at and there's a bit of fun to be had running around the map from police/SWAT/army and using the close quarters to back yourself into a tiny room and making a last stand as waves come flooding in, tearing the structures apart in the firefights. It's a game that I think with a better focus and different themes would have been pretty well received, but good on them for showing what a disingenuous shitshow the media's relationship with critics is in right now.
The protagonist is a hilarious dipshit to laugh at and there's a bit of fun to be had running around the map from police/SWAT/army and using the close quarters to back yourself into a tiny room and making a last stand as waves come flooding in, tearing the structures apart in the firefights. It's a game that I think with a better focus and different themes would have been pretty well received, but good on them for showing what a disingenuous shitshow the media's relationship with critics is in right now.
you should work on the "can't", it'll be worth it
SlowRevolution
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the black and white in hatred looks weird. it's just a grey mess.
I like it. Contrasts nicely with the sirens.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Guys the Witcher 3 looks pretty good. Should I get it?
Twin Tails
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Sleeping Lesson
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I knooow. I was holding out until Zelda, but now it seems ages away and I might get a Wii U sooner.
Been playing it and loving it. The side quests are better than most open world games' story quests. It really made me realize just how cookie cutter Assassin's Creed games are.
every quest is unique or has its own feel. even the minor ones with the ! are sometimes really cool and short. it really feels like they put a lot of love and care into the quests. all other games are pretty shit compared to it.
one of the ! quests is actually recurring and made me laugh.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
That's a resounding yes from the sounds of it. PS4 version or PC version(Which my PC would struggle running?)?
Yeah, it definitely seems pretty damn good. I watched someone do the 3
Crone quest and it seemed pretty interesting. I wonder what the choice of letting the tree spirit out would lead to?
My interest is definitely piqued.
If your PC can't handle it, PS4 is fine. That's what I'm playing on.
y e s
With the Steam Refund program I would recommend downloading it and just giving it a whirl. I was in your position except I didn't have the refund program so I went for PS4. I was hesitant but it was my only real option and I asked people in this thread and sure enough there are definitely some hitches in the PS4 version, unfortunately. It is mainly in the cutscenes but there is slowdown in big fights so just keep that in mind. Other than that though it's been quite smooth aside from a bug at the start where it wouldn't load past the intro, but that was an easy fix.
Jeevesmeister
Banned
The Witcher 3 is the greatest Gwent client ever created.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Might go for the PC version then. Hrm.
I wonder, is there like a client to see if your computer can handle a game for W3?
Here's the archived Massive Chalice stream with Brad and Mary. Or the twitch recording if you prefer that to the Gamespot player.
LurkerPrime
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This is closer to the truth than most realise.
Looks like the universe is continuing to smile on Dan.
There's nothing more satisfying than watching your opponent putting down a fucking huge monster deck chain with Commander's Call on the melee level and just dropping a scorch on that mess.
There's nothing more satisfying than watching your opponent putting down a fucking huge monster deck chain with Commander's Call on the melee level and just dropping a scorch on that mess.
Twin Tails
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grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
I believe so. My longest day is just E3 from Drew's perspective so it covers the production of those separate round up videos.
Save money on cab fare if he only needs one stop!
That said, getting shitfaced in a Taco Bell sounds pretty depressing and is not something I can envisage him doing.
This is Dan Ryckert we're talking about.
Sounds like you'd be sucked in by Puzzles and Dragons.
I don't know about the Steam Refund thing. I bought a game which was advertised as a Mac title when I bought it and it doesn't have a Mac version. So I have zero playtime on it. It has now been 3 days? (Not sure when the refund program was introduced) anyway, I am still waiting for a response. So far it seems as shit as the usual Steam support.
close to the edge
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http://gb-stats.wambo.at/
I made a thing that shows some (2, for now) graphs about Giant Bomb videos. Open for suggestions about what to do next. Right now I'm working on something that displays the number of quick looks each member has been involved in, but that'll be pretty inaccurate because the data for who is in a video is not in the GB database, so it's not in the API either. I can only try to parse the deck text for the video, which will lead to things like "Jeff Bezos" counting as Jeff and so on.
I made a thing that shows some (2, for now) graphs about Giant Bomb videos. Open for suggestions about what to do next. Right now I'm working on something that displays the number of quick looks each member has been involved in, but that'll be pretty inaccurate because the data for who is in a video is not in the GB database, so it's not in the API either. I can only try to parse the deck text for the video, which will lead to things like "Jeff Bezos" counting as Jeff and so on.
That's really cool!
Maybe you could hook into whatever database is used for the site that lets you select specific GB hosts and pull up videos? Dunno who runs it, though...
I started playing it on hour ago and yeah It's pretty rad.
Twin Tails
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I have it downloaded, will try it out someday.
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