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Giant Bomb #19 | Patrick Wins 2-1
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funkystudent
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I wish there was a retail version of the witness.
I still feel iffy on spending 40 on a downloadable game.
I still feel iffy on spending 40 on a downloadable game.
Yes.
This argument is so dumb. 99% of PC games now are digital only. This whole "Oh but it's a downloadable game" thing needs to go away.
Askherserenity
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So. I'm going to play the Witness and I'm not sure if I should watch the quick look. Any spoilers? Other than a couple puzzle spoilers I guess.
brainzelda
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There's a moment in the quick look near the end that blew Jeff's mind and it was telegraphed perfectly well.
Sleeping Lesson
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I've lived in the glorious digital future for many years now.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Everybody point and laugh at Old Man funkystudent over there
RepairmanJack
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Every time I buy a physical game I end up down the road just buying the digital version because I figure I will play it more if I don't have to switch the disc. I own 2 copies of a few games I don't really play much...
They just go through some of the beginning tutorialish puzzles and walk around the world for a bit. There's not a lot of yucks, Jeff seems into it, and Brad refrains from telling or showing too much. Game looks good. If you're already planning on buying and playing it I wouldn't watch the quick look. Watch it after playing a bit if you really want to.
The worst of both worlds.
stump sock
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the only time I care about physical copies these days is if it's a console game and it's huge. I bought Wolfenstein 2014 on disc so I wouldn't have to download 50gb over PSN
NumberThree
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I like the concept of The Witness but I'm not sure I have dozens of hours of line puzzles in me, no matter how far they take the concept.
Gabe Newell and his knives are on my side so even that doesn't matter to me (not that physical PC versions are a thing anyway).
stump sock
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yeah, $40 and a million hours is kind of a hard sell to me right now, even though it looks pretty good.
im bad at puzzle games though
some would pay $600 to feel like they're there
Sleeping Lesson
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I had a really expensive picture I needed a frame for.
As we left the frame store, I told my wife "you realize we could have bought an Oculus Rift with that money, right?" and she, under her breath, said "fuck".
my wife knows nothing about videogames really (she mostly plays MMOs, but she is more hyped for oculus than anyone I know)
Sleeping "Canary In The Coal Mine" Lesson
Glitchesarecool
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dude what picture required that much for a frame
There are all these anecdotes in VR skeptic threads, where they say "my wife wouldn't want this hideous thing in my house" etc.
However, following Oculus on twitter the retweets are often of new projects with lots of female developers.
i ordered a frame for $27 for my second Bloodborne litho over the weekend.
Sleeping Lesson
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That's a dope nickname I'll take it.
*raising hand emoji* >.<
My god, I hope it was an original Van Gogh for that price.
your official nickname when I make all of you in XCOM 2
The Witness seems confounding. Why make this beautiful island to explore if your only means of interaction is abstract puzzles on screens? Like, what's the point? It's like one of my grandma's puzzle books if it had really nice cover art. Maybe I'm missing he point here.
Like, I'm tempted to buy it cause it seems like a Fez sort of deal, where you have to be there for the zeitgeist, but $40 for a puzzle game seems steep for what's there, even if it's 50 hours long.
Like, I'm tempted to buy it cause it seems like a Fez sort of deal, where you have to be there for the zeitgeist, but $40 for a puzzle game seems steep for what's there, even if it's 50 hours long.
A physical release will happen in the future.
Sleeping Lesson
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You and me both!
You're going to get me killed so fast, huh
I'll treasure you with all my heart, Jimmy on the otherhand
Didn't he say they planned one down the line?
He didn't say that. There could be valid reasons to prefer retail. Such as selling/trading or renting in the first place. I hope retail never goes away.
stump sock
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retail for PC games is a fucking joke. you can't resell them, and 99% of the time it's just faster to punch in the code and download it than install via disc. although I got the collectors edition of XCOM for cheap and that came with some fun doodads
Custom framing is SUPER expensive.
Especially for fairly big art pieces.
I actually got the framing for like 70% off.
It's a highly collectible piece that I think that has been in my family for decades, but the person who had it last didn't take great care of it. So I asked for the best stuff to preserve a very fragile piece of art. I didn't want the minor damage to keep getting worse.
It is probably now the most
only
Sweet, only need to listen to the Beastcast first.
brainzelda
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Knowing Jonathan Blow and how Braid ended up, I'm assuming the puzzles start extending past the screens and into the physical environment itself.
Some of us don't have good internet T_T
Myggen pls catch up.
You need to be the captain of this ship rather than loitering on the poop deck.
I'm trying!
If only my brain was capable of listening to podcasts and doing work at the same time.
Glitchesarecool
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Twin Tails
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Cannot compute.
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