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Giant Bomb 18: Everything is always a surprise on some level
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Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I still want to see the part with male female copulation that I've heard so much about.
I feel like there's a lot I can learn.
I feel like there's a lot I can learn.
Nice!
And then onto drew's ocarina of time playthrough with Jeff by his side. Good plan jintor
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Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
If you want your premium shows to be dropped after a few episodes then sure, Jeff's the way to go.
jartimes is about the exact right format for jeff really
Yes, between Christmas and New Year
cool thanks
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I mean I don't blame him, he's probably busy with actual managerial stuff. But Dan and drew seems to be the only ones who could do a regular, long running feature in the San Fran office.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Jeff sounds STOKED about that
At least he is aware now. Somebody contact Dan about it, if anybody can make this happen it would be him.Tumblr said:
Stop trying to disturb the sanctity of Mario Party Party.
there's always next year's extra life
I like dan but I couldn't watch another long series with dan.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
How is that even possible?
N
Noray
Unconfirmed Member
"I don't even know where to go. The game doesn't have any waypoints. I don't wanna blame the game but it's just obnoxious, you know?"
Drew is bad at games
I mean, besides the fact eight people moving just takes longer, I assume you near double your chance of extra mini games and events (assuming Mario Party 8 has those).
And when they get to the Water Temple it becomes a Breaking Drew.
Maybe it's too late now, but the first three videos are on YouTube.
I've been having more issues lately with the video player than before, specially during livestreams. No sound, no video, only working in HD/SD, etc... I have no idea what's up with that.
Yeah I'm on the last one so no Youtube. Anyway, it's watchable but annoying.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I mean, I don't wanna be that guy, but.. can we really be sure of that, though? Is there any evidence in the "Breaking Bradborne" videos that it wasn't just Jason holding the controller all along? I'm just saying.
Follow the money
well the main framework of the game is the same, so these are the variables that determine a game's quality:
- design of the boards (in the broad sense, so incl. visual design, items, board events, stuff like capsules, etc.)
- quality and variety of minigames
- turn speed/general pacing
- bonus star rules (these will become random at some point as opposed to the three fixed bonus stars we've been seing so far - a ridiculous change)
- variety of modes (super duel mode redeems 5 a bit, for example)
- presence or absence of waluigi (the only part where 2 takes a hit)
obviously the first two points are the key differentiating factors
9/island tour/10 are different beasts entirely. ndcube reworked and assimilated them toward the wii party rule set which worked pretty well for wii party (the first one, anyway) but completely sucked the fun (as in, the modicum of fun that was left) out of mario party. at least they recovered from the abysmal minigame quality demonstrated in 8. funny enough, the relatively brisk pace of the new ones will shorten the suffering for the crew, however, this is only due to them playing 50 goddamn turns in previous ones which, well - let's just say i played hundreds of hours of mario party 2, multiplayer and solo, as a kid and i never, ever, ever did less than the minimum amount of turns (which is 20). so that will skew their perception of the newer ones, for sure
but to answer your question, 8 fails to have interesting boards (with maybe one exception) and the minigames are awful, both from a design perspective and a technical perspective (clearly the team working on this hadn't quite figured out the wiimote, yet, like the main teams had, so control is super janky)
Incandenza
Banned
Is Brad's character even in a good position for the Bloodborne DLC? He'll have to play up to Amelia in NG+, right?
It would be hilarious if it's Jeff doing the QL because he's the only one that stopped playing the game before triggering
the Blood Moon
Didn't even think of that. He originally stopped playing when he couldn't beat Rom, right?
I think so.. I remember him talking about beating Amelia, and in the follow-up video with Brad and Jason he was running around in the Forbidden Woods. I think he beat
The Shadow of Yharnam
GB trophy list spies - get on it!
SatelliteOfLove
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That's the kind of brainstorming we need around here!
stump sock
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like, I know a shitload of Star Wars stuff, but as it turns out, I give even less of a crap about the prequels than I thought I did, because I didn't realize there were only two sith in the whole universe. I thought it just meant that they were always in groups of two.
I know the space worm is an Exogorth. but I didn't know the sith rules.
Death Metalist
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Fjolle
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From the promo:
Armed with a fancy new whirligig, Brad and Jason see what's up in good ol' Yharnam.
The (Hunter's) dream of more Jeffborne is dead 
The (Hunter's) dream of more Jeffborne is dead
As dead as Brad's Extra Life stream
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