It doesn't air on tv in the UK.
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Giant Bomb 18: Everything is always a surprise on some level
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It doesn't air on tv in the UK.
Ah gotcha
Damn poser. All this time he has been pretending to to be one of the people.
This is what I'd hope for. DVD or streaming. The latter would probably be easier internationally, since I think they put that From Dusk 'Til Dawn show on Netflix outside the US already.
skLaFarebear
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UC timeline. The orginal gundam (though i prefer the original trilogy movies), 08th MS Team, Zeta Gundam, War in the Pocket, Char's Counter Attack, and Gundam Unicorn is a great order to go through. 08th MS Team and War in the Pocket are side stories so you dont have to watch them, but they're great shows on their own.
Skip ZZ. Everyone, even Austin says its real bad.
funkystudent
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Dan really should finally get around to watching Lucha Underground
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOaZ2tbDhis
edit.
Oh wow. Didnt realise this was posted here.... and sparked some kind of discussion about piracy and the moral grounds of it in places where it the product is not legally available. K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOaZ2tbDhis
edit.
Oh wow. Didnt realise this was posted here.... and sparked some kind of discussion about piracy and the moral grounds of it in places where it the product is not legally available. K
NumberThree
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Rey Mysterio was the coolest dude around when I watched WWE, so him being with Lucha Underground is pretty cool.
Yeah I suspected as much.
Rey has no knees, is slow and should actually really change his style. He has not been exciting to watch for years.
Do you watch AAA?
BUNTING1243
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I was all excited to watch Kerbal and now my Sunday is RUINED.
Death Metalist
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Twin Tails
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Patrick comebacks have been ruthless.
tryagainlater
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Looking at Patrick's comebacks and thinking back to the vagina bomb incident in last year's GOTY, is Patrick the only person who can get Dan to shut up? Why did he have to leave?
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Backfoggen
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What an odd way to play.
I am currently playing Bloodborne in that position.
Twin Tails
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Spring Breakers
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I mean the best way to get Dan to shut up is to not play his levels.
But guess who needs that youtubers/twitch exposure?
Night on Earth
OdysseusVA
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After Erf
Twin Tails
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So is Drew just going to get spoiled in GOTY talk on MGS plot? Not that it matters anyways.
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Deleted member 10571
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I play similar to that sometimes :/
Didn't stop them before, if Drew doesn't want to (or Dan forbids it) he's just gonna leave the room for spoiler talk I guess
randomlyrossy
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Got a link or able to elaborate on that? I skipped a lot of last years goty to avoid spoilers and just been reminded I really should go back to it.
weirdo!
Well
Drew has already figured out the Venom Snake twist so I don't know there's much but the Quiet stuff left to spoil him on. My guess is they do it.
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Deleted member 10571
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You should have seen me with the Wiimote/Nunchuck. I didn't even know those positions were humanly possible.
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Noray
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Checked into Metal Gear Scanlon for the first time in weeks out of curiosity to see where they were. Skip ahead to a random point to hear Drew and Dan talking about how shit Phantom Menace is while Drew is sprinting full-speed at an enemy encampment, gets spotted, and is still using the Riot SMG.
I closed the tab.
I closed the tab.
The Dear Leader
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Lol, that about sums it up for me too.
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Deleted member 10571
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Not Drew's fault, game's a crappy stealth (and Metal Gear) game.
Come at me!
don't come at me
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Yeah, that's what I've never gotten too. It's not like drew was repeatedly being punished for how he plays so why do people want to see him change it?
Game is just ridiculously forgiving.
Game is just ridiculously forgiving.
The Dear Leader
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at first i was like im bout to come at em, then i was i like ayyyyy.
No need. You're not wrong.
CoolBatteryCharge
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As much as I still enjoy MGScanlon, the annoying thing for me is almost every episode has a moment or two of "oh, that guy's waking up already?!" The game is forgiving, but Drew is making it harder for himself because of Dan's advice.
Have you seen the Bombastica from Saturday?
LurkerPrime
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Yeah, I was just about to say that stealth really doesn't matter at all. You'll face more enemies if there's an alert, sure, but it's not like they're ever truly difficult--more of a timewaster than anything. This is compounded by the environment, which is designed to be a sandbox more than a level... which makes sense, but really brings the game down due to the sheer repetition of playing.
That said, Riot SMG is such a weird choice. It's been a while, but IIRC rubber bullets can't penetrate any armour so any advanced enemies suddenly become your worst enemy; worse still, the KO is short and the SMG's accuracy is garbage. It's like the very worst weapon to use, except in two particular mid-game missions where lethality is absolutely not an option.
MGSV is a lot like Shadow of Mordor in my mind. Fun gameplay that you can spend hours immersing yourself in, then ending abruptly with a wimper. Afterwards, you look back at it and wonder what you spent all of that time even doing.
Antiwhippy
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It looks like pretty much the only way you'll get any challenge out of the game though.
I mean, no game will ever be a better stealth game than Thief 2, but game designers should at least aspire for 2nd best.
Like, MGSV should have been one of the greatest games of all time. Almost all the pieces are in place. But instead it's this super-easy, ultra-forgiving "Make your own wacky fun!" gif fodder. I wish they'd at least allow you to turn on the difficulty modifiers for repeat missions on for any mission you like. That would at least add something to play the whole game like that. Maybe that's what mods are for, but still. Just another example of poor decision-making surrounding that game.
That's not even taking the bullshit story, abhorrent writing, gross-ass Quiet stuff, online tax microtransaction stuff. Even with all that aside, MGSV is probably the most disappointed I've been in a game in the last decade. And I played Thi4f and Hitman Absolution on release.
Like, MGSV should have been one of the greatest games of all time. Almost all the pieces are in place. But instead it's this super-easy, ultra-forgiving "Make your own wacky fun!" gif fodder. I wish they'd at least allow you to turn on the difficulty modifiers for repeat missions on for any mission you like. That would at least add something to play the whole game like that. Maybe that's what mods are for, but still. Just another example of poor decision-making surrounding that game.
That's not even taking the bullshit story, abhorrent writing, gross-ass Quiet stuff, online tax microtransaction stuff. Even with all that aside, MGSV is probably the most disappointed I've been in a game in the last decade. And I played Thi4f and Hitman Absolution on release.
Fuck... That's on the list too lol
skLaFarebear
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God damn.
The Technomancer
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It is staggering to me that fifteen years later I have not played a stealth game that seemed to learn the level design lessons from the first two Thief games. I love the genre, and I'm pretty sure I'm not missing something, but while that sort of level design is difficult its certainly not an insurmountable challenge and I don't get why no-one else is playing in the same space.
Right? It's baffling. It's not even nostalgia for me, because I first played the Thief games 4 years ago. But what's so hard about designing levels as functional places first? Every place you sneak into in Thief 2 feels like a functional building with believable level design and a consistent logic to it. What's so absurd about designing your stealth game protagonist to be an inherently vulnerable rogue that necessitates sneaking instead of a god damn action hero? Ugh, fuck.
I'm gonna reinstall Thief 2. Or play some more Neon Struct. That's the closest any game has come since.
I think companies feel that players get frustrated if they get discovered while sneaking, so they have to give the player the ability to survive detection even if they aren't the most skilled.
I hate the term "dumbing-down" but it's definitely part and parcel in the whole idea of making things more accessible. It's similar to how companies are more and more restricting character creation and character builds so as to prevent the player from crafting a stunted character (e.g. the jump masters from Oblivion).
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Noray
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I think you're wrong on both counts but I don't care for that discussion, no one is going to change anybody's mind anyway.
Although I will just say I don't really get the complaint that the game is forgiving of being detected. Sure it is, but if you want to play stealthy, you're rewarded for doing so in the form of better ranks and have every tool at your disposal for doing so. If you want to arbitrarily limit yourself to no-kill no-alert runs anyway, why does it matter if the game also allows for firefights?
Also, MGS4 was pretty much the same way, so it seems weird to pretend this is some new thing. Also also, Snake has always been pretty durable and every game has had a ton of (lethal) weapons, it's just that the controls for shooting and related activities have been shit until MGS4. Going Rambo has never been specifically against MGS doctrine, and saying so is pretty much entirely revisionist.
Guess I rambled on anyway. Dangit.
I think it's fine that MGSV lets you impose your own standards for stealth. I 100% it as a pure stealth experience and the game gave me the tools to do that. But if someone wants to Rambo their way through it, so be it I guess. Sort of how I treated Dishonoured.
I mean, we still have Klei's games if we want mandatory stealth.
I mean, we still have Klei's games if we want mandatory stealth.
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