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Giant Bomb 18: Everything is always a surprise on some level
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JPBrowncoat
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It was 8v8 in Halo 3 and Reach for sure.
Also I played some BTB in Halo 5 and their forged up maps look bad. They look like they're missing textures.
Keyser Soze
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They are moving the site downstairs. It will probably load slower now as there is always worse reception downstairs
randomlyrossy
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It's pretty crazy how bad they look compared to the rest of the game. Some don't look much better than the maps they're remakes of.
I bet this is why Dave hates Giant Bomb nowadays.
DoAX is fluff trash, and that's totally OK. I have no interest in it, but I can understand the appeal of things like that and have indulged on occasion. I feel the same way about it as I do most H-Games. DoAX knows what it is and leans into it and that's totally fine. I feel like the vast vast majority of people asking for better representation in games feels similar.
TheMrPliskin
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That first idea sounds like it would have been cool if it had decent execution, the second idea just sounds terrible from top to bottom. That definitely surpasses the DS2 hallucinations in terms of sheer annoyance.
stump sock
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like rossy said, there were only a few of them, but we got hung up on them for too long. especially since there are certain enemies that can land a OHK on you if you're not careful. the rappelling scenes were pretty bad in co-op too, since your odds of failure were doubled. It really did feel like a lot of the co-op was thrown in haphazardly, especially odd since they used that as a major bullet point.
It is about the same week as the last two years. They need to have the podcasts done first and then the bulk of any video finished by the second week of December so that the producers can cut it all together in time.
Stop making excuses for them. Everyone knows that the internet pipe comes in to the building at ground level so has less distance to travel. Although uploads should be ever so slightly slower as the effect of gravity several floors up will make it accelerate faster from the off.
That was the suggestion. SF seems like a non starter.
stump sock
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is there supposed to be a pre-holiday stream today? GBE to the rescue maybe?
TheMrPliskin
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It's kind of funny to hear that the co-op feels tacked on when you play it because I remember playing it solo and feeling like it was made with co-op in mind.
Brad seemed to be recording a couple of bombasticas, maybe to spread out during the break or something.
Vinny talked about it on Friday I think. Nothing set in stone though, so who knows.
Ditto. As a solo player, there were constant reminders you should be playing co-op.
The weird thing is that barring Gears of War, did any of those co-op focused shooters actually hit big?
avengers23
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Is there going to be a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale on merch this year, or was the recent sale going to be it?
TheMrPliskin
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Would you count L4D and Borderlands? They're pretty different beasts but they're also the only shooters I can think of where co-op is one of it's main focuses and it did well.
L4D is its own thing.
Borderlands is debatable. I was more thinking things like Army of Two and Kane and Lynch. Borderlands is more open and loot focused.
But you're probably right, and I should count it.
skLaFarebear
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Halo Reach was a Co-op shooter and with Halo 5 its essentially a Co-op franchise now.
TheMrPliskin
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Kayne and Lynch and Army of two were definitely the games that I was initially thinking of and I don't think any games like that took off. To everyone's surprise nobody is talking about Hunted the Demons forge or Quantum Theory.
I feel like this is a goof that flew way over my head.
Death Metalist
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It's always been about the co-op ever since the first one. However, ever since Halo 3 they introduced 4 player co-op instead of 2.
stump sock
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Jeff's N-Gage collection is the best thing.
throwing unboxed prototype games around like trash is cracking me up
throwing unboxed prototype games around like trash is cracking me up
skLaFarebear
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Oh right. Forgot its had co-op since one. I can't believe i forgot when i played that shit all the time with friends.
I don't think it was a goof. Especially in this thread of all places, where they literally play Halo co-op for charity every year.
Piston Hyundai
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To be fair, I'd be a liar if I said I never intensely judged someone based on their avatar.
stump sock
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my point is that an avatar is something you pick for yourself as a way to represent yourself. it's not something you're born with. if someone thinks you're a creepy weirdo for having a drawing of a semi-clothed child as your avatar, there's a pretty easy way to fix that without thinking you're being persecuted.
Twin Tails
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skLaFarebear
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Hey man, I've been unable to change my avatar ever since I got duct taped to this chair. Show some sensitivity!
TheMrPliskin
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I suppose you forget some things when your brain is just a place to store Xenocross knowledge.
Finished reading this article on AV Club about Nintendo Game Counselors. Pretty entertaining read, some of the stuff sounds straight out of an 80's comedy.
I loved in that FB stream where Drew holds up 5 copies of the same N-Gage game and then asks Jeff, but we had to scrounge for capture gear?!
I loved in that FB stream where Drew holds up 5 copies of the same N-Gage game and then asks Jeff, but we had to scrounge for capture gear?!
skLaFarebear
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When Vinny reads my correction on the Beastcast, none of you will ever have an excuse to call it Xenocross ever again!
I finished Until Dawn recently, so I'm finally checking out the GBE Playdate. I can't help but sometimes get anxious about the decisions I see other players make when playing games, but I don't usually voice it since everyone has their own way of going about things.
But, man, Alex...
. He seems pretty tense throughout this whole thing, though, so that might explain some of his confusion regarding what the game is trying to convey to him at times and his constant paranoia.
But, man, Alex...
FINGERS
TheMrPliskin
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But Xenocross is a better name than whatever the new one is called, don't take this away from me.
He definitely got way better with that stuff as they got further in but early on he definitely seemed real anxious about messing up.
stump sock
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if someone's going to make fun of you for having an avatar of a b-tier christopher walken movie then they need a better hobby
skLaFarebear
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Jeff should go back to being blonde.
I'm taking everything away from you and stepping on it.
It's also A-Tier for Jay Mohr and that guy from Big Bang Theory. That counts for something.
TheMrPliskin
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Well now you've
Xeno
I'm actually hoping that Vinny reads your email as I need a brief lore catchup before I play the new one.
skLaFarebear
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There is no catchup. This game as far as everyone who hasn't played the game knows is its own separate thing with little easter eggs of previous games. You can totally go into XBCX without having played any of the previous games Monolith made and be at the same level of knowledge as everyone else. You'll just miss out on the tiny easter eggs that I mentioned.
stump sock
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damn straight man
TheMrPliskin
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Huh, I didn't know that it went full Final Fantasy with each game. I assumed that while they weren't direct sequels there would be some connections between games.
Piston Hyundai
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I get you, but I think there are people upset that don't want to be written off because of the avatar they went with. Not necessarily too much to ask, but good luck having that happen.
And as petty and stupid as that Play-Asia stuff is (why would an import website be so upset about a game not coming stateside?), I gotta say that raising a firestorm about something like this probably isn't going to do much but give that shit oxygen and net PlayAsia more support than it loses.
It's why Donald Trump is going to be our next president.
I dunno, man. Dude has to be in a chair in King of New York at some point. Hell, Walken's in a chair for about most of his screentime in True Romance, and that's the best part of the movie.
Death Metalist
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skLaFarebear
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Only for Xenogears and Xenosaga. For obvious legal reasons, Xenogears and Saga aren't technically confirmed to be related (Gears IP owned by Squaresoft, Saga IP owned by Namco), but there are tons of story elements/references/easter eggs that point to Xenosaga being a prequel to Xenogears.
Xenoblade however started off as an entirely different game (Manado: Beginning of the World) and was changed to Xenoblade later so there's pretty much no references/easter eggs. I believe XBCX is set in the really distant future of XB, but I won't know until I actually play it.
stump sock
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wait, you're right, I take back my previous vote
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