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Giant Bomb 18: Everything is always a surprise on some level
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Sleeping Lesson
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Yep, it's something I've sort of built up for the past couple of years. I am fortunate enough to live alone and have a good sized living room in my apartment.
Strap me in!
Haha, yep, I'm fully invested at this point. I'm thinking haptics and hydraulics are like a $5000 upgrade, minimum. I think I'll just get pedals next, instead
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I'm actually now wondering how VR would work in my relatively cramped desktop setup when every one of them needs extra equipment to know where your body position is.
Episode cliffhangers (and maybe character animations?) are better in LiS.
Tales might make my top game of the year though. The hardest decision I'm currently facing is MGSV > Syndicate or the other way around.
CoolBatteryCharge
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Ha! I had no idea Kerbal had recruiting.
Yo for real, girl was on point. Cincinnati wins the world award for biggest gap between the quality of its name (highest) and the quality of town (lowest).
I don't think I ever heard her before but she was delightful.
I thought Life is Strange played much better than Tales. Better UI, better central mechanic for puzzle solving, no QTEs (seriously Tales uses the same ones since Walkind Dead mash Q then E), actual investigative puzzles, optional content. Tales is Telltale's best game but it's still using that damn engine and still has some of the problems associated with that engine even on PC.
In terms of story I can't really choose. I loved both.
N
Noray
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Any other year SOMA would be top 3 material. It's fucking amazing.
Why though? Don't get me wrong, I love him Tothemoonandbakalar, but.. he's already on a GB podcast (nearly) weekly you know?
I haven't actively played a Telltale game before, so the QTEs did not bother me.
Good point with the puzzles, I agree. The central mechanic of Life is Strange contributes a lot to the puzzle solving and choices.
I'm really glad to have played both (mostly because of recommendations in here). But I have to chicken out of SOMA, a Let's Play of that is the most I could stomach.
EdReedFan20
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Is this longer than usual for GOTY. 18/5 is 3. Since it's over 18 hours, each episode is slightly over 3 hours (don't know how that remaining half-hour is spread among the five episodes). Isn't that par for the course for the GOTYcasts?
skLaFarebear
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Someone mentioned last year was about 12 hours I think. And I don't remember last years being 3 hours each either.
It's longer than usual, yeah. Someone mentioned that it's longer than last year by about 6 hours. The last episode where they discuss the top 10 list is usually the longest, so I wouldn't be surprised if that's 5 hours or something.
Syndicate is a 2012 game, not sure why you're thinking about it for GOTY.
I've got the whole GOTY period off and don't really have any plans, so...
I hope we get another top 10 list by SWERY.
She's been great in everything I've seen. I stumbled across her livestream when Until Dawn came out and the game/stream was entertaining enough that I watched the entirety of it live.
cr_blah_blah
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I'm surprised there's so many people just now finding out about Mary even though it feels like she's been around GB for a while now. I mean, her and Danny have been honorary Duders for years. Maybe it just feels like she's been on more content than she actually has.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I feel like outside of extra life, she has been in barely anything.
Aww man Christmas theme was cool.
Incandenza
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I think I'm gonna play through Earthbound while listening to the GOTY stuff. Always wanted to finish that game.
She's been on plenty UPFs and GB Unplugged: Avalon.
Speaking of Unplugged, I'm guessing D+D is dead? Wasn't the same without Vinny anyway.
Been on a few UPFs, Avalon, a couple of QLs, Bomb After Reading. I'm sure the regulars in this thread knows who she is, but I can understand others having missed that content.
skLaFarebear
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I just go to Adventure Zone for my D&D fix now. If a new D&D Unplugged ever happens, Austin would have to be mandatory.
Austin has said for some time that they're planning something like that. Let's hope it's a 2016 thing.
It's that problem Jeff said about struggling to flesh out a top ten in 2014.
Seriously if Brad hadn't filibustered for Destiny it might have taken them under an hour to sort out their top ten and order.
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so, we haven't started working on it, yet, (not past the conceptual phase, anyway) but i thought ren and i were doing it
if you wanna do it, that's coo', though
Go for it. I much prefer a thread by you guys.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Oh yeah, btw, do you mind if I do something for the bombcast thread.
I know I've said that I'd do one before but I actually have free time coming up now.
Sleeping Lesson
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Depends on the kind of games you want to play. So far my favorite experiences have been sit-down cockpit style games that don't really require much room at all.
Dunno why but when I read that, my mind thought of Mai Valentine instead. She deserves a spot too.
We all have to hope that Austin will continue it.
did I miss one or two things?
edit: ok, that's solved. GOTY 2015 podcast duration.
The GotY podcasts are 18.5 hours long.
Be interesting to see where they film it, the NY studio is basically a closet which really limits their content style.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I definitely require a cockpit
of a different kind.
Nah, in all seriousness, though, I just want to experience it. I want to try all sorts of weird, experimental things. Dunno if I want to do the whole space simulation thing because I'm not really a fan of those games.
I seem to remember there being some talk about it being a podcast. Which is fine by me.
Death Metalist
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Yup and still as good if not better. They deserve more views though, beautiful people.
Wait... You have a Wheel setup or a HOTAS setup?
Sleeping Lesson
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Gross.
I definitely want to try more experiences too, but the "room scale" stuff that has been shown off on Vive is not particularly interesting to me.
HOTAS. I rigged up a new thing on my computer chair, which I posted a picture of on the previous page.
Death Metalist
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Progress in Mario Maker feels like despair. No evening stream. I need time to feel again.
He didn't even play Dan's level yet.
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