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Giant Bomb 18: Everything is always a surprise on some level
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That and Flight Club where poor Drew had to play the straight man.
The beginning of this video remains the best thing ever
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-46OrsGYOEM
skLaFarebear
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Cheesy but super hype?
nckillthegrimace
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So I'm watching yesterday's Life is Strange playthrough, and I'm like of course three men are going to have these girls kiss. Nothing wrong with that, but that was probably the fastest and least debated decision of the playthrough.
Ha ha ha ha ha!
LurkerPrime
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What's up.
No HF Blade, no deal.
Yup. They did a fantastic job with Jetstream Sam. It was my dream coming true when I discovered his DLC. It's such a blast to be able to play as him.
Platinum knew.
nckillthegrimace
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I was shocked that the DLC for Rising was so good. Also free, so that helped.
I was going to bring this up in the Battlefront quicklook, but shooting laser guns never ever ever feels cool. Reloading them or 'deheating them' is even lamer. That is my biggest problem with all games with laser guns. The only exception is hot concentrated death like Hammer of Dawn or the unicorn in Red Faction Armageddon
I remember playing New Vegas with an energy gun build and it felt so so s obad. Even worse than my equally bad Fallout 3 idea character, melee weapons build.
I remember playing New Vegas with an energy gun build and it felt so so s obad. Even worse than my equally bad Fallout 3 idea character, melee weapons build.
SatelliteOfLove
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"Handful of Action" is the greatest line.
broncobuster
Banned
Ending of 3 and beginning of 4 are my top moments of 2015, edging out Junes theme in Persona 4 Dancing All Night.
The Last Wish is really good. I think Sword of Destiny is a little weaker, but I'm enjoying Blood of Elves a lot.
LurkerPrime
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Agreed with the above; The Last Wish is amazing. They're all really interesting stories, though the Butcher of Blaviken one really sticks out in my mind as a winner.
Funny you mention FNV, because Energy guns were my favourite due to their propensity for disintegrating their targets. The goo corpses always looked cool.
Anyways, the answer to this problem of "lame reloads" is, of course, to abolish reloads/"cooling" entirely. Applying such conventions to laser weapons is a failure of imagination on the developer's part. Make it like the Dark Forces games: you either have ammo or you don't, and balance the game according to that paradigm. In other words, Doom must return for real.
Funny you mention FNV, because Energy guns were my favourite due to their propensity for disintegrating their targets. The goo corpses always looked cool.
Anyways, the answer to this problem of "lame reloads" is, of course, to abolish reloads/"cooling" entirely. Applying such conventions to laser weapons is a failure of imagination on the developer's part. Make it like the Dark Forces games: you either have ammo or you don't, and balance the game according to that paradigm. In other words, Doom must return for real.
I'm not sure if it's the quality of the translation, the strength of the source material, or just the fact that I don't really read a lot of books, but I'm just really enjoying the writing and worldbuilding with it all. Like, I've seen the striga fight a dozen times from the opening cutscene in Witcher 1, but reading it out was really enjoyable. Or finding out how Geralt came to be the Butcher of Blaviken. It's just so descriptive and brutal.
Apparently one of the stories they're focusing on with the recently announced movie is The Butcher of Blaviken bit. Lord knows they won't do it justice, but my interest is certainly piqued.
tryagainlater
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I'm reading Sword of Destiny now and really enjoying it. I hope the whole series is translated.
There are fan translations of the last few books if you can't wait for an official one.
The two short story collections and first three novels are. Wikipedia tells me the last two novel translations are coming in 2016 and 2017.
cactrotofrbc
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Drew: "He's anime, sir!"
LMAO that revengance gameplay awesome
LMAO that revengance gameplay awesome
nckillthegrimace
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The next bullshit half-release interquel stars Aqua, so that pleases me. She's a great big sister character, fixing everyone else's screwups with her superpower of being the only levelheaded person in the Kingdom Heart's universe. Also, real talk, I just beat BBS HD and that instrumental Hikari is like top ten video game music. Ignore the fact that Simple and Clean plays during the credits and not the instrumental...it's still great.
Twin Tails
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All this Rising talk made me get it on PC. I should of had it already though.
ratcliffja
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Yeah it's not that. I should just listen to a podcast again and report back but it might take a while to hear it.
Haunted
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Austin comparing Xenoblade Chronicles X to Deadly Premonition on the latest Beastcast elicited an audible "what the fuck?" from me.
I really didn't like Deadly Premonition so I'm kinda hoping he's off the mark there or that he made a somewhat unique, personal connexion between the games that I might not be able to see.
I really didn't like Deadly Premonition so I'm kinda hoping he's off the mark there or that he made a somewhat unique, personal connexion between the games that I might not be able to see.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
He's talking about the sidequest with people around the world so I think he's only comparing them in that sense. Like how deadly premonition has sidequests for everyone in the town.
Metal Gear Rising is more true to the series than MGSV.
... At least the cutscenes are.
I watched RPCG Phantasmagoria yesterday, they were a great team.
There are several issues which could be the reason in your case (http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/bug-reporting-33/giant-bomb-roku-app-1784003/, http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/bug-reporting-33/kodi-not-playing-videos-any-more-1786600/). I suggest trying an updated version which contains fixes for the original whiskey media app. Here's a fresh package with fixes from yesterday: plugin.video.giantbomb-5.0pre_20151121.zip
Then I'm curious why it only stopped working so recently.
There are several issues which could be the reason in your case (http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/bug-reporting-33/giant-bomb-roku-app-1784003/, http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/bug-reporting-33/kodi-not-playing-videos-any-more-1786600/). I suggest trying an updated version which contains fixes for the original whiskey media app. Here's a fresh package with fixes from yesterday: plugin.video.giantbomb-5.0pre_20151121.zip
Haunted
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Hopefully this is either done better or just as optional in Xenoblade as it is in Deadly Premonition, I'm not crying foul just yet. Just always a concerning comparison to drop for me because I didn't find much to like in Deadly Premonition.
That said, he mostly described the sidequests in X as fetch-quests, including those dealing with relationships between NPCs , so maybe they can be mostly ignored like in the previous Xenoblade.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I think he's also referring to that japanese style of very stilted, canned animation heavy animation that deadly premonition has.
Me? Me? Is it me? Me? Me?
Love that sort of stuff too personally.
Me? Me? Is it me? Me? Me?
Love that sort of stuff too personally.
LurkerPrime
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I've been on an unintentional media blackout for XBCX, so the customised mech stuff + NPC stuff sounded great to me, personally. Game's gonna rock.
NumberThree
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Well Ian said on Extra Life that their company isn't doing that well, so the dream is alive.
No it's not.
skLaFarebear
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He was referring to it in the sense that the cutscenes have some weird stilt in character's animations and some of the dialogue with the random NPCs gets pretty goofy in a way that reminded him of DP. That's about as far as the connections he made go.
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I've been on an unintentional media blackout for XBCX, so the customised mech stuff + NPC stuff sounded great to me, personally. Game's gonna rock.
Such sensual idling.
skLaFarebear
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I just finished writing my type up for the xeno development history/lore correction. Now I just have to remember where to send it to.
I'll probably finish the podcast tomorrow or monday and grab the link from there.
I'll probably finish the podcast tomorrow or monday and grab the link from there.
Twin Tails
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Drew commenting over crazy cutscenes is sorely missing from MGSV.
The Technomancer
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Oh man the first Revolver Ocelot fight in MGS1 looks frustrating as shit...
With all of the chatter on the Gaming side, I jumped back into Bloodborne. I never felt like I was making that much progress previously, so I dropped it a while back. Everything has come back to me fast which is neat. My only problem is that, since I just came off The Witcher, I find myself randomly firing my gun because I'm looking for witcher sense or using items when I mean to attack. It's very strange.
skLaFarebear
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Thanks!
Twin Tails
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Just cause.
Zohar! (I don't know much beyond Xenogears, Xenoblade and some wiki stuff I read) I hope your full essay makes it in the podcast
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
RPG: Daggerfall
Yep, really shows Dave's ability to save and load. I find the Daggerfall videos boring, Ripper, Phantasmagoria and Crusader is much better: http://qlcrew.com/?vid_type=randompc
The Daggerfall ones are great. Can't really go wrong with any of the random pc game videos but Dave Fortress (where he plays Dwarf Fortress) might be my personal favorite. This is all assuming you are a premium member.
I just remember it being a real war of attrition
Death Metalist
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Because it's a spin-off and not a main line game even though it takes place after 4. It's taken as a spin-off and Kojima doesn't even mention the events of the game when we see the entire timeline at the credits of MGSV.
Much like Ac!d I didn't care for it. However, knowing this is made by PG made me approach it and I'm glad I did because it's a fantastic, over the top hack and slash game with memorable bosses, sweet ass soundtrack and a very satisfying gameplay all around especially when you upgrade. Maybe Dan will change his mind when he sees Drew go through it all because it's full off awesome and ridiculous moments.
There's nothing like parrying, doing sick fast combos then slicing and dicing all within 5-10 seconds.
The best compliment I could give to MGR is that they made the shit Raiden does in 4, playable. Looks like imma have to play it now after all this talking. I hope PG makes a sequel.
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