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Giant Bomb 18: Everything is always a surprise on some level
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Fuck me, now I can't unhear it.
Spring-Loaded
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"I don't know, it's _____"
funkystudent
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But Brad has never really done that. He always has people on his side, it's never him vs. everyone else.
I'm pretty sure Brad's infamous Minerva's Den vs. Lair of the Shadow Broker filibuster was basically him vs. everyone else at the start. It was a straight-up 12 Angry Men style debate where he slowly turned everyone to his side, one by one.
Last 2 what?
They disabled API access over outdated TLS versions a few weeks ago. The kodi plugin got updated, you need to switch to HTTP only in it's settings: https://github.com/jimporter/giantbomb-kodi
The last two nows, c'mon, Jaina, get with it
Keyser Soze
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"You know, Ellie, we really are The Last 2 Nows."
Just checked my installation, giantbomb 5.0.0pre does not play HD (but High works).
Edit: Updated to the very latest version and now everything's fine again.
BreezyLimbo
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Link to this? Sounds amaxing
Brad was right.
Twin Tails
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Just so you don't feel alone: I think you're right on every point, and I already sold my copy being not even close to the ending. Worst disappointment of this entire generation so far.
This was a hilarious segment. However, since playing DKTF this year, I have to agree that the game has an incredible soundtrack.
Keyser Soze
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In here somewhere...
http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/giant-bomb-game-of-the-year-2010-day-two/1600-198/
I am digging around now!
edit - it is at the start!
Incandenza
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Man, that Life is Strange episode ending sure seemed to have a big impact on the Beast crew. Cool to watch.
Funniest part about that particular goty discussion was Jeff on the bombcast after the holidays when he finally got around to playing both, and being like 'fuck, if that's the supposed best dlc of the year contenders, let's just scrap the category'.
Lol do you know exactly which bombcast that is? I need to hear that convo
Can't remember exactly, but I think it might have been the first bombcast he was on in the new year, so maybe this? http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/giant-bombcast-01-11-2011/1600-207/
DigitalFoundry says there's nothing special about the Star Wars games - it'll be exactly the same kind of principles behind the rest of the PS2 backwardscompatibility. So trophies are in, video recording/screenshots/streaming are in, Remote Play are in! For me, this could we what settles the age old Persona 3 FES vs. Persona 3 Portable dilemma - I'll just play FES on my Vita via Remote Play!
I kind of just sleep walked my way through my last 20 or so hours through TPP. So many of the missions are just by the numbers and boring. And some of the boss fights they throw at you later on go against everything the game seemed to be going for.
My biggest pet peeve in any game is filler busy work type shit that permeates something like Dragon Age Inquisition and TTP. A lot of the content is not really meaningful or attempting to tell a story in any way. It mostly exists just to pay hour counts and keep you doing stuff, rather than respecting your time and giving you something worth seeing.
That's why I love what the Witcher did. Many of the quests have worthwhile stories to see, with character arcs and subversive writing that takes you from point A to B with twists along the way. I rarely ever felt like I was doing something just to grind out some type of currency or experience. I genuinely enjoyed the quest designs and story telling and that was enough for me to rarely ever get bored with anything in the game.
If they do this I really hope they play the MSX Metal Gear and then immediately follow it up with the NES Metal Gear because I did that my first time and it was the closest i've ever felt to being in a waking dream.
It looks like Metal Gear, it plays like Metal Gear, but nothing anyone says makes sense. Better check jeeps for rations, oh okay now im in some new part of the jungle why are there all these buildings. Jungle maze? Jungle Maze???? Better check this jeep for am-oh okay im in a new part of the jungle. What is the scorpion desert from halfway through Metal Gear doing here? I gotta check this jeep fo- was this a big circle? Where am I. What is going on. The Blast Suit protects me from the High Powered Windows what the fuck does that mean Big Boss.
haha woops
last 2 days
but thanks!
edit: well hm, the plugin i'm using says its made by whiskey media and its at v3.5.1
this must be some outdated plugin i guess?
Twin Tails
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DigitalFoundry says there's nothing special about the Star Wars games - it'll be exactly the same kind of principles behind the rest of the PS2 backwardscompatibility. So trophies are in, video recording/screenshots/streaming are in, Remote Play are in! For me, this could we what settles the age old Persona 3 FES vs. Persona 3 Portable dilemma - I'll just play FES on my Vita via Remote Play!
But FES still doesn't allow control of teammates so it is the inferior version.
The Technomancer
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Ughhh I have so much to catch up on, fuck flying
SatelliteOfLove
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I hope people have playlists for the others to listen to beforehand for that. Jeff only had to bring ONE SONG to bring home the gold.
ratcliffja
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There's one word that Jeff uses in essentially every discussion that never seems appropriate, but for some reason I can't think of it right now. It is something like "supposedly" but I'm pretty sure that's not it. It's definitely indecisive language kind of like how he always says "I don't know" and ends sentences in a questioning tone.
Keyser Soze
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Brad's filibusters is even better than I remember it
tryagainlater
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I don't think this is what you're thinking but I have noticed that if Jeff says "theoretically", he's guaranteed to say it 4 or 5 more times within the space of a few minutes.
This is where listening to these guys for hundreds of hours gets us.
giant_frying_pan
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Jeff's instagram feed is a real treasure trove of junk right now.
BreezyLimbo
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Thanks! Keyser! You are the best made up villain on Gaf
TheMrPliskin
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Also no FeMC so therefore it's terrible.
Twin Tails
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I feel the same way. It's a technical marvel with all the depth of a kiddie pool. For the first week or so I was enchanted, but the cracks really start to show once you get to Africa.
Mister Negative
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The thing about MGSV is that it plays great in the exact same way that Ground Zeroes played great. This time, though, you have an immense toolbox at your disposal, and zero reason to delve into it any deeper than a tranq gun. I honestly think it's a failure on the part of the devs to not encourage the use of varied weapons.
It's also possibly the worst excuse for an "open world" I've played in recent memory. You can explore a huge map! Maybe you'll find...uh...an outpost! or some flowers, maybe!
There's no interesting sidequests to be found. No interesting characters to interact with. Nothing to do. MGSV feels good to play, sure, but much like Destiny, "feeling good" isn't a good excuse to get you to slog through 40 hours of repetitive gameplay.
It's also possibly the worst excuse for an "open world" I've played in recent memory. You can explore a huge map! Maybe you'll find...uh...an outpost! or some flowers, maybe!
There's no interesting sidequests to be found. No interesting characters to interact with. Nothing to do. MGSV feels good to play, sure, but much like Destiny, "feeling good" isn't a good excuse to get you to slog through 40 hours of repetitive gameplay.
I thought that was just Brad vs. Vinny. Jeff hadn't played either and I don't think Ryan cared which way it went.
BreezyLimbo
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I'm pretty sure that Pikachu might be worth something
Death Metalist
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The open world is mostly used for the interconnected bases and giving the player diverse ways to infiltrate a base in whichever way they see fit . I don't know what other thing there has to be for the player to do since you're already doing your part in gathering resources and building your army while going through the campaign, things that directly affect the gameplay because you're gaining new shit very often by doing just that.
Finding unconventional ways to take out enemies/bosses will always be satisfying to me or finishing a mission in minutes when it previously took you 15 minutes because you have a new set of things to experiment with that leads you to your goals quicker. I still don't see how this gets compared to Destiny when the only thing satisfying about Destiny's linear as fuck path is the shooting, you don't even get to have sick rare loot and if you ever did(RNG), it won't change the gameplay dynamically. Not when you can for instance get the buddy upgrade for your walker that lets it automatically do shit while you do something else or when you get Quiet's best sniper in the game that just goes through everything, even tanks or how about when you fully level your stun arm then you could shoot lightning from the sky? That's just a few examples.
I find the only big negative in the game is the side ops are not as diverse or lets say creative like PW. However, they are good in that they get you straight to the point if you want strong soldiers, quick GMP and the like. It's also a good way to feel like you made good progress to your motherbase if you don't have time to spare.
I feel that the bosses are better than PW because in TPP it gives you the option to do a ton of shit to win or in some cases you could just GTFO and not fight them even lol. I really don't see how people say GZ is better than TPP when the animation and how much tighter the controls are trumps GZ. Heck, GZ's daytime alone looks like shit. I went back to playing GZ after TPP and I only kept feeling like a ton of shit has been missing when I wanted to do a specific thing that I couldn't because I wasn't playing TPP.
Now about the story which is the biggest controversial thing about the game and I believe if the story wasn't as controversial then most people wouldn't be so down and the game but at the end of the day, it's subjective. I enjoyed it even though the execution was not all there, I got what Koji was going for and I dug it. It's definitely not the strongest point of the game by far but everything else is damn good save for the recent FOB updates.
Edit: I find it interesting that people nowadays are stealing other peoples nukes and disarming them going by the MGS5 thread. I never did that but it sounds sick haha.
Edit2: I forgot about MGO which seems to be a good MP since they patched the fuck out of it. I never tried it though as I have no interest in the MP save for the few hours I played when it released. In short, there's too much game here and most of it is pretty damn good.
That's definitely something!
Twin Tails
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This seems to be the most rare pikachu card. (It has sold.)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pikachu-58-...D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pikachu-58-...D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
Keyser Soze
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I think this one has it soundly beat...
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/POKEMON-1998...RADED-PSA-9-MINT-THE-HOLY-GRAIL-/181855631507
nckillthegrimace
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Once they finish MGSV (and Rising!), the crew should grapple with the only series with more convoluted lore than MGS...
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