Infinite Justice
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Its really ironic that the PC couldn't brute force its way through those issues like always, especially since the consoles handled them well enough.
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Giant Bomb 18: Everything is always a surprise on some level
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Its really ironic that the PC couldn't brute force its way through those issues like always, especially since the consoles handled them well enough.
stump sock
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if I'm not mistaken, it's because no matter how many resources you threw at the game, it would try to use them all. I remember someone posting a screenshot of the game trying to use about 2gb more vram than their card even had.
skLaFarebear
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The ending of Adventure Zone episode 4 had me laughing so hard that i had to pull over on the side of the road for a few minutes. So good.
Felix Lighter
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If I had to speculate, I'd say Rocksteady utilized the single memory pool in someway to work around the issues, since their ultimate responsibility was the console versions. WB then handed off porting duties of the PC version to a separate studio with a much smaller budget without concerning themselves about Rocksteady's optimizations in a split memory pool situation. The "solution" ends up being that the PC version requires insane amounts of both system and VRAM, more than any other game that I am aware of.
Is that the "you solved my 'two dwarves' puzzle" thing? I love the punchline on that goof.
I didn't want to mention it in the video, but both of the early game saves I had were right before major plot points (one of them a huge spoiler) so I couldn't do any story missions in the QL at all, and I just didn't have the 3-4 spare hours to replay up to a better spot before we recorded. Having already completed all the side stuff in that second hub didn't help.
One of those situations where the simplified save management on the Xbone bites us in the ass. On the PS4 you can copy a save off to USB whenever you want, so keeping early game saves for QL is trivial. You're kinda at the mercy of Xbox games that autosave constantly and don't give you many options for manual saves though. I wasn't thrilled with it but tried to make the most of it.
skLaFarebear
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Yuo. And then when the Black Spider fell into the Pit and Griffin kept making echo falling noises for like 3 minutes straight and everyone was cracking up. That whole sequence including Justin discovering the concept of ground beef along with cheese was so great.
That song is so perfect for the Adventure Zone.
Keyser Soze
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It was my thread and I didn't make it into the top 40. Jeez.
Fun statistic: the top ten posters were responsible for 24% of all posts in that thread.
Where's Ryan
I miss the big guy, but if we add him we would also need Patrick, Dave, Alexis, and so on. I don't think that focusing on the current crew is a bad thing.
tryagainlater
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We a tomb being raided in the QL which is all that matters.
What the hell? Hahah.The crossover dan's been waiting for
There's a very big difference between why the others left and why Ryan left. I'm not going to turn it into a big deal but that comment rubs me the wrong way.
Keyser Soze
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You know, Lara, we really are the last Tomb Raider
giant_frying_pan
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Rooney did the 'female celebrity spectator*' thing and slapped him when he should have done the 'male celebrity spectator' thing and slugged him.The crossover dan's been waiting for
*Ronda Rousey excepted
stump sock
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and it's one of those things that only affects a hilariously small demographic (you guys and anybody else trying to show edited gameplay), who happen to have a disproportionately large viewer base. so they have little reason to change it, despite the fact that you guys are responsible for thousands of people's first impressions on a lot of games.
Keyser Soze
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Rooney is a plant, and you are all marks thinking that's a shoot. If he gave Barrett colour hard way, he would have gave him a legit receipt.
Yeah it's a pity. But thanks for doing the ammendment, I think that was necessary for a better understanding of the combat. So we pretty much only missed how the cutscenes look.
Yeah, like I said, it wasn't bad by any means. Just a bit unusual. That cloud save situation is annoying.
Anyway, I'm just super happy and proud that both you and Dan seem to enjoy the game so much.
Thanks for the inside scoop, Brad.
True, but I responded that way to avoid my first answer that I actually would have found that pretty morbid.
TharpDaddy
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Who needs Danny Scoops when Brad is bringing us the true hot scoops?
They should bring back the lady who said "Welcome back to my humble abode. Feel free to take a look around". That was a good Lara voice.
giant_frying_pan
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To be fair, most Premier League players are world-class sellers...
Tharp, your current avatar actually reminds me a lot of your prior (cat) avatar. Like, they have the same expression or something.
stump sock
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fucking hell man
TharpDaddy
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Yup! That's why I chose it.
skLaFarebear
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Cool, premium on sale just when my sub was about to expire. Time to pick up for another year.
humble abundle
giant_frying_pan
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At this point, I think my sub expires after the heat-death of the universe.
As dedicated as Rorie is, he probably won't be around then (Fridge-Kun can only go so cold...)
humble adobe
Now? That's so random. Now if I could just find a PS Plus sale, I'd be set.
Go to bed, daydream. You're drunk.
skLaFarebear
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When I get out of college and hopefully have a full time job, I'd be glad to sub for multiple years. But between the things I'm already subbed to like WWE Network, Crunchyroll, PS Plus, Xbox Live, etc. I just don't have the money atm to do that.
Same here, when does the sala stop?
skLaFarebear
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Yeah, I know they do it around black friday time so it is weird its happening now.
Could go through Black Friday weekend maybe? Not sure, it doesn't say.
Like and subscribe, Keyser. Like and subscribe!
I would ask how many months you've been on the $5 plan, but you probably already understand the error of your ways.
I've noticed the GB guys mention MST3K as an influence and sitting on this has been killing me.
Oh man, that's awesome. Congrats! I fucking love MST3K .
Me too, dude. I really hope it floats. Joel wants to do some awesome stuff.
yeeeeeep. underemployment will do that to you.
That's just the new economy, man. Everyone has to work a regular job, a freelance job, run a small business selling stuff, and work social media for all of it. Such a grind!
My wife's parents have pensions. Pensions! Can you imagine?
Incandenza
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That's very exciting. Between this and Mr. Show, a lot of GB's biggest influences have been making a resurgence this year.
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