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Giant Bomb 18: Everything is always a surprise on some level
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Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I can't even imagine how annoying Fallout 4 would be if I would care about the base building.
it has some really good sidequests and reveals. I hate the factions tho. always dumb to make us choose one over another. it's been played out.
I would have more fun with it if it didn't require so many damn parts to enjoy. collecting junk is not fun.
My guess is that he didn't finish Xenoblade. He's clearly the only person on staff who would give XBCX the time of day, and I'm really happy he liked it enough to get to the Skell stuff, which it sounds like is where the game becomes full on RAD. I'm mostly glad that someone at GB played that game, compared to the original which was also very rad, but no one played at all.
I mean, even the fact that he's gotten that far in that and said he's spent over 30 hours and all this stuff he's said he's done in Fallout 4. I didn't expect him to beat either and I'm still amazed he's had time for both because I know he does the school and work thing.
I've got Fallout 4 and feel like I've barely touched it due to work and Xenoblade's coming tomorrow. Not to mention if Yakuza shows up before the end of the year... No idea where to find the time.
I know a guy.
BUNTING1243
Banned
I can't link because I'm on mobile but Kotaku recently had an essay by Patrica Hernendez (probably butchering that) about how Fallout 4's interactions always boil down to violence. It really sums up my problems with the game, it's still my favorite thing I played this year but I feel like the interactions with other characters feel way less open than before
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Why restrict it to one thread? My righteous fury will need a lot of space to breatheYou will probably still have the GB GOTY thread for that
well, not all. if you have enough Charisma, you can just talk your way out of some of them.
Hey! Be happy with the rest of us who can take their time with Witcher 3, because there's only a minor chance for GOTY spoilers.
skLaFarebear
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Gonna represent my TitSBoys and beat everyone else over the head with a stick.
RepairmanJack
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I had the same issue. not only did it make me want to see it less but it made it seem like it was even less necessary. The trailer just seemed like most of the plot points just without the details.
broncobuster
Banned
I gave up on it after the initial sanctuary quest. My base is twelve beds stuffed into a room, and another filled with boxes to categorically store my weapons and armor. The town's sole generator powers lights in my storage room.
even with a stick, you'd probably fare better than fucking #teamknife
Twin Tails
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I'll bring the sharpened edged metal bat.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
If I would actually be able to build a nice looking village I would maybe bother but since I can just build half-destroyed houses anyway.....eh. Also, it's just so dumb that I have to assign people to things, the game should just do that automatically. Not like there is any skill or management involved anyway.
ThreePiMatt
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Over the holiday my cousin mentioned that he digitized all our old family videos and to bring a external hard drive to Christmas and he'd copy them over for us. I have him an earful about how he should be uploading that to the cloud instead. He really has no excuse either, he's 30 and teaches computers and robotics to high schoolers at a fairly affluent school. Relying on ancient technology like "external hard drives" is ridiculous.
Agreed! I don't know if it's his nostalgia over these old favorites or the fact that he's recording solo or something else, but he just seems so relaxed and happy, it's a joy to see. Also as someone who's roughly the same age as Brad I can really recognize my own reactions to the games as they came out in Brad's recollections. Like the concept of a FPS set in the Star Wars universe being such a mindblowing revelation e.g.
I'm just kidding around here, I actually haven't started W3 yet. Though I'm sure when I do, it will rank high on my personal GOTY list for 2015. Though I'd never dream of shitting up the thread if a game I liked didn't rank as highly on the GB GOTY list as I wanted.
Except for Bloodborne.
Bloodborne's special and there will be HELL TO PAY if it doesn't win GOTY.
Bloodborne's special and there will be HELL TO PAY if it doesn't win GOTY.
Piston Hyundai
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man I really need to get this Genesis Collected Works book that Jeff showed off on UPF
Glitchesarecool
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He should be doing both, actually, if one really wants to take care of family videos.
Actually I'm now just realizing that this was sarcastic. I think.
Errant Signal probably describes it best how Fallout 4 essentially killed any aspect of roleplaying a specific character and how the focused has changed more onto what the player themselves want to do. I loved the game but it's simply not an RPG anymore. At least not in the same way.
shortsFortallPeople
Banned
hey, if youre gonna ignore me over Quake 2's soundtrack then no one wins
no one wins
Agreed! I don't know if it's his nostalgia over these old favorites or the fact that he's recording solo or something else, but he just seems so relaxed and happy, it's a joy to see. Also as someone who's roughly the same age as Brad I can really recognize my own reactions to the games as they came out in Brad's recollections. Like the concept of a FPS set in the Star Wars universe being such a mindblowing revelation e.g.
His and jeff's enthusiasm about Banjo Nuts and Bolts pushed me into getting rare replay during black friday. Now my backlog has increased by a dozen decent games!
Playing PDZ online again was a literal laugh out loud moment for me. Man, to think i thought that game played well online back during the 360 launch window
BreezyLimbo
Banned
So how's Forza 6? Should I get it while it's on sale or wait?
I've:
Never played a Forza before
Playing through Fallout 4
Have Sunset Overdrive
I've:
Never played a Forza before
Playing through Fallout 4
Have Sunset Overdrive
cr_blah_blah
Member
Mainline Forzas are boring and sterile as fuck. Get Horizon 1 or 2.
ThreePiMatt
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It was a semi-sarcastic earful, but I still think the idea of swapping around an external hard drive to share files is a little dated.
At the moment, the only optical drive I won that is actively useful is the CD player in my car. I don't have any recent consoles and my older consoles have long been boxed up. By the end of the year my PC will be hard drive free when I replace that last 1TB drive with probably a 512ish SSD. Death to mechanical storage, I say.
Googled, it looked cool, then I saw the price and went nope http://www.amazon.com/dp/0957576811/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Which other two? They do a billion. MBmBaM is an all-timer. The Adventure Zone is the best in a long series of DnD podcasts on the internet. There are others.
maverickjesus
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Its an amazing book, extremely high quality for a Kickstarter. If you didn't buy in from the start you kinda missed the boat though.
Bunker Buddies and Sawbones.
Errant Signal is always great at breaking this stuff down. Yeah, to me it was no longer a RPG at all. Just a bad open world shooter. If I wanted that I'd rather play Far Cry 4 which is not a buggy and janky mess.
need to check it out. I like people analyzing games.
ashbash159
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I need to sell mine if I can get that much from selling it!
the fuck
is it out of print or something?
edit: it's £35 here: http://readonlymemory.vg/shop/book/sega-mega-drive-genesis-collected-works/
Incandenza
Banned
It's so bizarre because Fallout 4's gameplay focuses on emergent creation and Reddit-post-generating wackyness at the expense of story/world consistency, and yet Fallout 4's story depends on having a believable world and down-to-earth player character more than any other Bethesda game. All the design decisions in that game run totally perpendicular to each other.
StopMakingSense
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I think it's fairly clear that Austin spends the most time playing games out of the whole group.
Sawbones is great.
shortsFortallPeople
Banned
i mean if my job was to play games you bet your ass i would, well, i would play games.
It's hard for the average joe with a 40 hour work week, a partner, and general life obligations to play those huge games in a short span of time. I have an hour, maybe two tops a day that I could get gaming done. Hell, i schedule longer games for when I have staycations, things like New Vegas or Dark Souls for example. I just want to be able to play long sessions of them instead of small bits per day
it's easier to do it if you could play games as part of your occupation, though.
broncobuster
Banned
Fjolle
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The amazon is hopefully the limited edition? Or two amazon bots gone wild.
stump sock
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BUNTING1243
Banned
Drew has played 500 hours of Xenoblade, it's just no one asked him about it.
Hmmm, should I get it? My December is already packed.
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