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Giant Bomb 18: Everything is always a surprise on some level
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I could really go for some twizzlers right about now
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santeesioux
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So are we getting Metal Gear Rising Scanlon after 5 then?
Keyser Soze
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Film it and air it over Christmas! Merry Christmas!
santeesioux
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He could probably beat it in about 5 episodes, so that could work.
ashbash159
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Watched the 12 hours of the GB West duders extra life stream. Don't think I could watch the 50+ hours of the other people. Any highlights worth watching?
SlowRevolution
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All the other streams were way better than that one, I'd try to check them out eventually. They're good background noise.
Drew/Alexis playing through Halo 5 is totally skippable though, other than Danny stopping by.
Until Dawn and Drew/Alexis/Mary/Ian playing the bomb defusal game was good.
Depends on taste. I skipped the SF one and watched the others. Vinny playing Kerbal is great, Austin's whole stream is good, Drewlexis and the continuing tale of John Halo.
Watch Lang's Until Dawn playthrough
Yes, it is. I watch them every now and then. Very enjoyable, great reactions, discussions and really remind me of the great times I had with this series growing up.
In the words of Dan, it's the best.
This .gif still gets me every fucking time.
Seconded. That playthrough was probably the most invested I was at any point in the Extra Life streams.
tryagainlater
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MGSV ruined both Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Scanlon.
Wonder if Drew is any good at character action games. It would be fun to see him play it.
Wonder if Drew is any good at character action games. It would be fun to see him play it.
funkystudent
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Watching MGScanlon V just hammers home how repetitive MGSV actually is for me.
Go here. Extract / kill this person (Or extract the person you are meant to kill for cool points so you will just do that) and a maybe 10 to 15 cut scenes in the entire package. Also the entire game is set in a desert. Or Africa in a savana which is the same as the desert but a bit more green.
Doesn't helped my time with MGSV was bookended on both sides with a bunch of Wticher 3 which has the most story and a whole bunch of environmental variety and does a great job constantly trusting you into new settings with new characters with new problems over its 50+ hour run time.
MGScanlon V also hammers home just how awesome the previous MGS games are. So much cool shit in each of those games. Cant really say the same for V.
Go here. Extract / kill this person (Or extract the person you are meant to kill for cool points so you will just do that) and a maybe 10 to 15 cut scenes in the entire package. Also the entire game is set in a desert. Or Africa in a savana which is the same as the desert but a bit more green.
Doesn't helped my time with MGSV was bookended on both sides with a bunch of Wticher 3 which has the most story and a whole bunch of environmental variety and does a great job constantly trusting you into new settings with new characters with new problems over its 50+ hour run time.
MGScanlon V also hammers home just how awesome the previous MGS games are. So much cool shit in each of those games. Cant really say the same for V.
Glitchesarecool
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MGRyckert can save it.
funkystudent
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Dan should play though the MSX games on the site.
He has already played Revengance so maybe Drew can do that.
Also how many times has someone played though the opening of MGR on Giant Bomb? Its happened a few times. I dont blame them. That opening is sick.
Piston Hyundai
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Metal Gear Ryckert 2: Danzibarland would be pretty dope.
My thoughts exactly. I've tried to stop seeming like such a Witcher fanboy, but it's truly night and day how much effort and care went into TW3 vs. MGSV. MGSV has maybe three different mission types in two different areas, plus the worst "boss" encounters of the whole series. Maybe the worst in modern gaming since Human Revolution. Barely any story. Barely any characterization.
Hell, I'd go as far as to say Ground Zeroes is a more well rounded package than Phantom Pain. It baffles me how people can act like it has dozens and dozens of hours worth of exciting content. It has maybe a single dozen hours of decent content repeated exponentially.
And it's positively dull to watch for MGScanlon. I put it on in the background while doing other stuff and treat it like a podcast.
I know it probably won't even be brought up in the conversation, but MGSV is easily the most disappointing game of the year for me.
I feel the same way, was super excited for it but it was easily the biggest letdown of the year.
Death Metalist
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Eh, it's like the best of both Mercenaries and MGS combined into one. Just like Mercenaries, taken at face value it's just you killing 12 wanted people but the fun of doing so is the freedom and creativity in the ways that allow you to do that in a sea of shit loads of games that restrict your ass. In the end it comes back to the player and how creative they are to use the sandbox and tools to their desire.
This and SMM are the games I enjoyed so damn much. Story is subjective but I liked it even though the execution was not all there.
How Drew never breaks character is amazing.
I'm on the opposite end of the MGSV/Witcher 3 debate, finishing up the Witcher 3 right now and it still feels like a total slog through the whole thing. The last third of MGS dragged a little bit but the gameplay was so sweet up until that moment that I didn't really mind. The Witcher 3's combat though has literally been the same thing for the last however many hours I've played it for. I also don't know why I do the fist fights and racing as that is easily some of the worst shit ever
At launch those horse races were completely fucked, really just glitchy messes.
I hope they've fixed that since then but it makes me annoyed just thinking about them.
funkystudent
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The problem with W3's combat is they do a shit job with the leveling system.
If you actually dig into it you have a bunch of stuff at your disposal Unfortunately since they do such a poor job and you level up so slowly you just put points into leveling up your existing attacks and spells and not into different stuff.
Gorse races in Wticher are bad though. But so is every racing part shoehorned into every open world game ever.
That being said I was getting pretty bored of MGSV gameplay towards the end as well. Since non lethal is the way they push you to play if you want to expand MB it gets a bit old.
They tried to change it up by having the bad dudes wear different clothes later in the game but at some point you get a sweet sniper tranq sniper rifle.
If you actually dig into it you have a bunch of stuff at your disposal Unfortunately since they do such a poor job and you level up so slowly you just put points into leveling up your existing attacks and spells and not into different stuff.
Gorse races in Wticher are bad though. But so is every racing part shoehorned into every open world game ever.
That being said I was getting pretty bored of MGSV gameplay towards the end as well. Since non lethal is the way they push you to play if you want to expand MB it gets a bit old.
They tried to change it up by having the bad dudes wear different clothes later in the game but at some point you get a sweet sniper tranq sniper rifle.
I'm still skeptical. It's not like Jeff's favorite game is guaranteed the spot. Has anyone else besides Jeff and Dan played it much? I know Drew made that one level, but I haven't heard him mention it since. I still expect MGS to be GOTY since everyone(unless I'm forgetting someone) there has played and enjoyed it.
I've liked most of the big games this year so I don't think I'll be disappointed regardless of what comes out on top. The only thing I will be disappointed about is the inevitable dismissal of TW3 from the top 10 early on.
Drew was there for both of the Giant Bomb Makes Mario streams. If anything, I think he'll support either MGS or MM without taking sides
Watching Drew play MGSV is boring cos he's bad at it and ends up having to just shoot everything. It's way better when you actually try some sneaking and mix up play styles, it has a lot of room for that.
It's funny where MGSV is on the interactive movie vs gameplay with no story scale
It's funny where MGSV is on the interactive movie vs gameplay with no story scale
Incandenza
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Horse races and fistfights are pretty much the only things I'm skipping in TW3. Well, that and some of the treasure hunts.
funkystudent
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GOTY will come around and Withcer 3 will get tossed aside pretty quick because no one outside of Dan has put many hours into it and Dan is being a twit about not wanting to play any more even though he is literally 1 mission away from what the game has spend 50 hours building towards.
I am OK with that.
BUT if MGSV isnt part of the Most Disappointing game discussion I will be hella disappointed. It doesnt need to "win". It just needs to be part of the discussion. That game is this years Destiny for me. I dont understand how they made such a bizzardly shadow and incomplete game. I dont understand why some people are super unto it. Its a shadow of the developers former work and now after a few months of patches has this seedy undercurrent of micro transactions to it.
Oh and Destiny not winning most disappointing game last year is still a bummer. Destiny is still a bummer today after 3 a year of work. Who the fuck even remembers Watch Dogs?
I am OK with that.
BUT if MGSV isnt part of the Most Disappointing game discussion I will be hella disappointed. It doesnt need to "win". It just needs to be part of the discussion. That game is this years Destiny for me. I dont understand how they made such a bizzardly shadow and incomplete game. I dont understand why some people are super unto it. Its a shadow of the developers former work and now after a few months of patches has this seedy undercurrent of micro transactions to it.
Oh and Destiny not winning most disappointing game last year is still a bummer. Destiny is still a bummer today after 3 a year of work. Who the fuck even remembers Watch Dogs?
Yeah I went with a Signs build but having to put points into skills that you then never end up using just seems kinda shitty? Like I'm literally putting filler points into shit that I will never use just to unlock the next tier of skills.
My main beef with the horse races is the fact that I don't ever have a clear idea of how long I have until the finish line, which makes controlling the stamina pretty arbitrary since if I stop to recover for too long instead of just sprinting to the end I just wasted a bunch of time.
No-one on the crew considers MGS V to be disappointing in anyway, so I see no reason for it to be up for discussion.
The only thing they may talk about is all the microtransaction stuff and the updates the game has been getting.
Piston Hyundai
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I think most of the staff will prefer MGSV over Mario Maker. If you had another duder who was as enthusiastic about the game as Dan or Jeff, I'd say you're right, but I think #1 will be MGSV.
That said, I totally agree with Jeff's comment. I don't think I have ever been this into a Nintendo game in my entire life. It could be the only Wii U game in existence and I'd still buy the console.
A Sentient Keyboard
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Showing MGR's anime cutscenes just after Starcraft 2's anime cutscenes does not favor the latter.
What's up.
What's up.
Mario Maker had the biggest highs among the staff but if the argument gets to "what game can we as a group say we all really had a great time with?" then I think they'll go MGS V.
funkystudent
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I love how parts of Kojima Productions planned Metal Gear Solid: Rising got reused in Revengance and TPP.
The return of Vulgin in TPP was actually planed for MGS RIsing. He was going to be a cyborg kept alive by the patriots. Also Boris from Revengace was going to be a key part of Big Mamas organisation who Raiden was working for but other then that they dont reuse many story points, just character designs.
I bet there is more stuff. I would love to know more about that cancelled game.
The return of Vulgin in TPP was actually planed for MGS RIsing. He was going to be a cyborg kept alive by the patriots. Also Boris from Revengace was going to be a key part of Big Mamas organisation who Raiden was working for but other then that they dont reuse many story points, just character designs.
I bet there is more stuff. I would love to know more about that cancelled game.
OdysseusVA
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I just don't know how the Beast crew is going to go. I have no real sense for what they feel strongly about this year. Again, I was checked out of the podcasts for most of the summer and early fall so I may have missed something, but everyone's MGSV reaction these days seems to have cooled off to "yeah that was great"
SlowRevolution
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If Mario comes down to Jeff/Dan vs Brad they have no chance.
The drinking game for Jeff saying "top to bottom" will be good though.
The drinking game for Jeff saying "top to bottom" will be good though.
hahahaha, so true
lmao yeah but I think he elaborated later (UPF maybe?) that there was one dude who was holding up WoW vs Rome: Total War and wouldn't budge on giving it to WoW
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