Backfoggen
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Part of me wants Bloodborne off the list so they uphold the tradition of never having any of the From Soft RPGs on there.
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Giant Bomb #17 | Baby Dan Wyckert
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TheMrPliskin
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Brad, Alex and Vinny all really liked that last Tomb Raider as well. It will probably be a strong contender.
I seem to remember him not being too hot on the demo he played at E3 but after playing the MP beta he started to enjoy the gameplay. If the campaign does some cool interesting stuff then I could see it as a candidate.
EdReedFan20
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Tellin' it like it is.
Just imagine if Scoops was still with GB. The GOTY discussions for this game would've been something amazing. We got a hint of it with the discussion about Ground Zeroes last year. I think MGSV is a good bet to get GOTY (but SMM is a close second). I think if Patrick was still there, SMM would've been pushed to #1 easily.
ratcliffja
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What do you mean? What was I thinking trying to use it for this game, buying the controller at all, or using it improperly? My main issues are that the d-pad is a lot harder to use and especially that the track pad is so much harder for precise aiming with the default setup. I think that in theory it would be better if MGS allowed simultaneous mouse/stick usage, as the track pad seems to be a lot better at simulating mouse input than right stick input.
Edit: As a hardcore Nintendo fan, I have to say that I've enjoyed my time with MGSV a LOT more than Mario Maker so far.
petethepanda
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Catching up on my QL backlog. Watched the Undertale one on Friday, thought it seemed interesting, and started playing on Saturday... by Sunday night, 18 hours on record. I can't remember the last time a game so immediately asserted itself as one of my absolute favorites (or the last time I spent so much time playing a game in a weekend, for that matter). One of those rare things that feels like it was custom-made for you.
Some people can't handle a single mission without cutscenes in MGSV because they've come to like MGS style cutscenes. The ratios are entirely subjective and dependant on the players history with the games. It sad to have less story than usual.
I believe if they just had a reasonable actor even if it wasn't Hayter, they sure as hell could have made much more story stuff than the little time they could get with Kiefer.
Hopefully Kojima learns that some multi-million hollywood actor isn't super suited to an actual game that lasts for dozens of hours.
i love their muppet voice for adam
The Dear Leader
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Yeah Undertale is pretty incredible, it does such unique, funny and interesting stuff that it will most definitely be on my GOTY list somewhere. We need more games like Undertale that's for sure. Just from the one play through I've done I can say that.
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Noray
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I'm loving it as well, no other game has probably ever made me laugh so consistently (though Tales from the Borderlands also has a good track record there), but for some reason I can't really play it for more than 45 minutes at a time. I fully expect it will be one of my favorite games this year though.
Tellin' it like it is.
Patrick going Full Patrick. 2, 3 and 4 have just as much "garbage" if not more.
My top 2 so far are Bloodborne and MGSV.
Haunted
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Haha, that's true.
MGSV's biggest problem isn't even the garbage story in particular, or the bad writing or the poor pacing - it's all the gross stuff surrounding the (brilliant) core gameplay loop. The treatment of women, microtransactions, F2P timers, threat generation systems, real money insurance all in a full price game. A publisher that actively made the game worse with their patches trying to extract additional revenue
I could see the current GB crew (except Austin) not really wanting to get into all this gross stuff, handwaving it away and saying that core gameplay is the thing that counts the most for goty considerations, and shelving its external issues to some secondary category like please stop or check yourself - but my personal opinion is that it'd be really disappointing for them to give a goty award to a game like MGSV if you consider the total package.
Patrick also hated the story in 2 and 4. 2 and 3 at least have some good to outweigh the bad too. MGSV has so little in the way of story and it's all bad.
MGS4 of course is a garbage game with a garbage story that insists on elaborating on its garbageness. He should have expected nothing better.
ratcliffja
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Apparently Scott Steiner is following Dan on twitter... how does this stuff happen with him?
The reaction to MGS V's micro transactions is, in my opinion, totally overblown. People talk about them like they are a huge stain that ruin the game when they are actually completely missable and totally inconsequential.
MM's garbage sorting and sharing features are much more of a nuisance than V's micro transactions.
MM's garbage sorting and sharing features are much more of a nuisance than V's micro transactions.
pantsattack
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I agree. I created a FOB but just ignored it after that and never got invaded.
The rage about them (and the story) is a lot of fun to witness, though. Reading some of the posts in the spoiler thread I can imagine the foam coming out of these people's mouths and falling on the keys as they type.
tryagainlater
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I'm fairly confident that at GOTY we'll here more negatives about The Witcher 3's patches messing around with framerate and giving the EXP bug than any of the game ruining shitty patches in MGSV.
This is a great listen. But once again, it's shocking Midway survived as long as it did.
Just finished last weeks Bombcast and Jeff sold me on the Blacklist. I'll check it out.
And what the hell is bocce and why is there a game of it?
And what the hell is bocce and why is there a game of it?
The Dear Leader
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If you're talking the GB GOTY, I don't think any of them have been paying close enough attention to that to make much of a difference. I mean a game like Destiny that took a year to release a $40 patch to make the game decent got 10th GOTY last year so the Witcher 3 should be fine.
brainzelda
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Ori is #1 without a doubt for me this year. Every other game I've played (or will play, most likely) this year, have all had little caveats that grind my gears (performance and itemization problems in Witcher, poor back half and story pacing for MGS, etc.).
Ori, however, was pure bliss start to finish. Very rarely do I finish a game and say "wow, I literally cannot think of anything bad to say about that game".
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
I hope not, between their patch support and DLC, the Witcher 3 has only gotten better and better. Yes, it was frustrating that it didn't ship in the state it currently is, but it was acceptable from the start. I can understand how wanting to wait for the next patch might be disruptive, but that is a personal choice more than a criticism given that overall the game has been improved (only talking ps4 here).
Yeah MGSV is far better than the other games in terms of its story nonsense. Mainly because it doesn't have any. There isn't much moralising or philosophising or gun wanking.
Oh and 2's story is a masterpiece. The writing and translation are weak, but the actual story, themes and metanarrative are top notch. Its story isn't good for a videogame, it is good as a videogame.
i love the fantasy world this trailer depicts of bocce ball being played somewhere that isnt the backyards of bored middle aged couples
I agree with you. Undertale and Rocket League are other games that came out this year that I have a hard time finding negatives for.
i love bocce ball.
But i usually play it outside in a big back yard rather than in some sort of official arena.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
The beginning of Undertale pretty much sucks. I stopped after about 45 minutes of it.
Only people over 70 play that here in Norway. Or so it feels.
Also, the vodka GB got in the mail now looks like a crime against humanity:
TheMrPliskin
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And the last hour is one of the better end sequences in recent memory.
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Noray
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Full Patrick was Patrick talking about Wolfenstein TNO last year. "It's pretty depressing that there's a new Wolfenstein game, and it's almost more depressing that it's pretty good."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIHmup1cPPw
Wolfenstein TNO is so good. "Sometimes Christmas, sometimes birthdays."
I don't agree with that at all but it does get a lot better right after that. As soon as you meet Sans and Papyrus.
OdysseusVA
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Hmm
JV is saying it was Adam's idea for the cheese fountain and Adam said it was JV's?
And the canned soup power move lol
Hyrule Warrior
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I hate Mondays...it's like the one day after all the day's BS that I really could use some content, and there's nothing really worth watching.
Fantastapotamus
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I don't understand how Twitter works. I have posted maybe 50 tweets or so, but for some reason 13 people are following me. Why? Who are you and why do you follow me?
Why is a marketing manager from Microsoft (allegedly) following me?
One of them is Sweary who probably just follows me cause I follow him and he is cool and nice dude, but the rest? I don't get it. Is it just a virtual dick thing? Like, "Yeah, I have 5000 followers on Twitter"?
I'm too old for social media, and I'm 27.
Edit: Oh right, the reason I posted this was cause a guy called "Jeff Kerstman" now follows me, which was pretty confusing when I read the message at first.
You spelled 3 wrong but it's alright, I know what you meant.
can you follow me?
Probably mostly bots.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Only if you follow back. Gonna push into the 20 follower region soon if I keep it up.
Or maybe my few tweets are just soooo good, and I never noticed.
EdReedFan20
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If you look at the accounts that follow you, you can easily tell if it is a spam account. If it's just tweeting links and not interacting with anyone, it's likely a spam account.
I assume you are not a middle aged man from the Mediterranean
sammyCYBORG
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It might be wishful thinking on my behalf, but I can see Patrick going back to GB one day.
He's kinda still a part of it with the way he interacts with the guys, which is great. His loss is still felt on the site and I'm going to remain hopeful that one day the stars align.
At least we have his YouTube channel in the meantime.
He's kinda still a part of it with the way he interacts with the guys, which is great. His loss is still felt on the site and I'm going to remain hopeful that one day the stars align.
At least we have his YouTube channel in the meantime.
funkystudent
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Dan might be followed by big poppa pump but I am followed by Domino, one one half of 2006 Smackdown tag team Deuce and Domino.
I dont know how that happened. I dont tweet often and I unfollowed almost all wrestlers because they never shut up.
I dont know how that happened. I dont tweet often and I unfollowed almost all wrestlers because they never shut up.
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