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[FluxWaveZ]

I'll get right on that.

 

[daydream]

GoFundDaydream.com

actually, the 'means' part relates to the platform, mostly

i guess my laptop could kiiinda run it but eh

anyway, i can wait

 

[demidar]

considering this is his new obsession, I would say it will never stop until Nintendo stops making them. it'll be up there with WWE and Taco Bell

Can't wait for Amiibo Runs Periscope streams.

 

[Glitchesarecool]

this is why i will never start

Spoiler

until they release card versions of all amiibos

They already have cards for Animal Crossing. You could get started now! And then just keep going!

 

[rudds]

I wonder if Brad beat it. Quite a few of the reviewers say they got stuck and it gets punishing. Must be tough if you are banging your head against one puzzle and you can't run to gamefaqs as a last resort. I have no problem with people posting reviews without finishing, as long as they say how far they got for context.

I did beat it, after one last 14-hour stretch yesterday. By the end of the last area my coffee table was a mess of notes and some cut-up construction paper my gf made to help visualize some of the late-game stuff.

I love the game to death, but the time pressure and lack of hints made for an experience in that last stretch I don't ever want to have with a review again. (To be fair, I really underestimated how long and difficult the last area was going to be, or I would have stopped messing with optional stuff and gone straight there on Saturday.) After that marathon I've got a good thousand-yard stare going on today. What an incredible game though.

 

[Lunar FC]

lmao at this email in the bombcast telling Dan to play Dark Souls however he wants and then immediately after telling him how to play it. Souls fans really will be the root cause of the downfall of civilization.

 

[LiK]

I did beat it, after one last 14-hour stretch yesterday. By the end of the last area my coffee table was a mess of notes and some cut-up construction paper my gf made to help visualize some of the late-game stuff.

I love the game to death, but the time pressure and lack of hints made for an experience in that last stretch I don't ever want to have with a review again. (To be fair, I really underestimated how long and difficult the last area was going to be, or I would have stopped messing with optional stuff and gone straight there on Saturday.) After that marathon I've got a good thousand-yard stare going on today. What an incredible game though.

only 14 hours eh? seems doable.

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

I did beat it, after one last 14-hour stretch yesterday. By the end of the last area my coffee table was a mess of notes and some cut-up construction paper my gf made to help visualize some of the late-game stuff.

I love the game to death, but the time pressure and lack of hints made for an experience in that last stretch I don't ever want to have with a review again. (To be fair, I really underestimated how long and difficult the last area was going to be, or I would have stopped messing with optional stuff and gone straight there on Saturday.) After that marathon I've got a good thousand-yard stare going on today. What an incredible game though.

That makes me excited to get into it. It has been a long time since I let a game totally consume me like that. Forgive me if it's in your review (I'm saving reading it until I've finished the game myself), but what was your total playtime?

 

[convo]

I did beat it, after one last 14-hour stretch yesterday. By the end of the last area my coffee table was a mess of notes and some cut-up construction paper my gf made to help visualize some of the late-game stuff.

I love the game to death, but the time pressure and lack of hints made for an experience in that last stretch I don't ever want to have with a review again. (To be fair, I really underestimated how long and difficult the last area was going to be, or I would have stopped messing with optional stuff and gone straight there on Saturday.) After that marathon I've got a good thousand-yard stare going on today. What an incredible game though.

Can't wait for the podcast, seems Jeff has also played a lot. Will you consider a spoilercast of sorts or the usual 'spoiler warning ' on a future Bombcast?

 

[RepairmanJack]

God dammit, how can I have waited years for this game but suddenly the day before I just want to go to sleep until it's up on PSN.

 

[shortsFortallPeople]

lmao at this email in the bombcast telling Dan to play Dark Souls however he wants and then immediately after telling him how to play it. Souls fans really will be the root cause of the downfall of civilization.

is he at least using DSFix though? He can play it however he likes but at least bump the resolution and framerate up.

Can't wait for the podcast, seems Jeff has also played a lot. Will you consider a spoilercast of sorts or the usual 'spoiler warning ' on a future Bombcast?

i dont know if telling brad how to handle spoilers has ever worked lol

 

[Glitchesarecool]

only 14 hours eh? seems doable.

That's on top of what he played prior to that stretch.

is he at least using DSFix though? He can play it however he likes but at least bump the resolution and framerate up.

I believe he fixed that in or after the first episode.

 

[Lunar FC]

PC yes

PS4 no

The PC version, yeah. I'm pretty sure Blow said no PSVR

Yeah, i'm getting a rift.

is he at least using DSFix though? He can play it however he likes but at least bump the resolution and framerate up.

No idea, haven't watched any of his streams.

 

[daydream]

They already have cards for Animal Crossing. You could get started now! And then just keep going!

yeah, the only reason there's card versions of those is because 'random villager' would never sell enough in figure form. also, inversely, the reason why all the rest don't have card versions, yet. they're gonna ride it out as long as they can with the figures

 

[LiK]

That's on top of what he played prior to that stretch.

delicious.

 

[RepairmanJack]

only 14 hours eh? seems doable.

That sounds like that was just spent on the final area of the game.

 

[Incandenza]

I did beat it, after one last 14-hour stretch yesterday. By the end of the last area my coffee table was a mess of notes and some cut-up construction paper my gf made to help visualize some of the late-game stuff.

I love the game to death, but the time pressure and lack of hints made for an experience in that last stretch I don't ever want to have with a review again. (To be fair, I really underestimated how long and difficult the last area was going to be, or I would have stopped messing with optional stuff and gone straight there on Saturday.) After that marathon I've got a good thousand-yard stare going on today. What an incredible game though.

This just sold me on the game more than anything. I'm a slut for games that give me a reason to use graph paper.

 

[Myggen]

A The Witness spoilercast would be awesome. Dan loves these kind of games too so I'm sure he'll play it. Since there's little to no "story" a spoilercast might be weird, but I think it'll work in that the guys will be able to discuss the games and its best moments/puzzles freely. I'm sure they're gonna dance around it on the Bombcast.

Also, that sounds like one of those old school review experiences Jeff still seem to have nightmares about when talking about the old Gamespot days

 

[LiK]

This just sold me on the game more than anything. I'm a slut for games that give me a reason to use graph paper.

this is the biggest turn off for me.

 

[demidar]

This just sold me on the game more than anything. I'm a slut for games that give me a reason to use graph paper.

I used paper for 999 and VLR, but still this sounds good.

But $40 is quite a steep price...

 

[CoolBatteryCharge]

"Thank you all. We'll see you next month."
- Alex, Powerbombcast, 09-26-2015

Been a long month =(

 

[Salty Catfish]

A The Witness spoilercast would be awesome. Dan loves these kind of games too so I'm sure he'll play it. Since there's little to no "story" a spoilercast might be weird, but I think it'll work in that the guys will be able to discuss the games and its best moments/puzzles freely. I'm sure they're gonna dance around it on the Bombcast.

Yeah, I had the same thought. They're going to be super careful with any kind of Witness talk of the Bombcast so it would be a perfect fit even with few plot spoilers. I don't want to have to wait until GOTY to hear their spoileriffic thoughts!

 

[Death Metalist]

I did beat it, after one last 14-hour stretch yesterday. By the end of the last area my coffee table was a mess of notes and some cut-up construction paper my gf made to help visualize some of the late-game stuff.

I love the game to death, but the time pressure and lack of hints made for an experience in that last stretch I don't ever want to have with a review again. (To be fair, I really underestimated how long and difficult the last area was going to be, or I would have stopped messing with optional stuff and gone straight there on Saturday.) After that marathon I've got a good thousand-yard stare going on today. What an incredible game though.

Please don't get me hyped, Brad. Please don-

I feel like this is going to be a great game to go back to everyday for an hour or two till you beat it so I'd understand why, under the limitations of wanting to review a game before release day hits, you'd feel like you don't want to review it again by the end of it all haha.

 

[justjim89]

"Thank you all. We'll see you next month."
- Alex, Powerbombcast, 09-26-2015

Been a long month =(

There's definitely 2 hours worth of stuff to talk about from last night.

 

[Megasoum]

I wonder how the PC controls work for The Witness? Do you click where you want the line to go? WASD?

 

[popo]

Yep.

Hope this is the cover:

It is pretty and I really like the shadow silhouette thing but that sand doesn't look right. Looks more like marzipan or play dough. I am sure it is real sand (wet sand clumps like that), it just doesn't quite look how my brain expects it to.

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

I assumed the planned retail release was for the PS4 version. PC physical releases pretty much died when they started including steam codes, or a disc with a steam link on, in the boxes.

Steam prices are pretty flexible though. It PSN and Xbone stores were more like steam, I wouldn't lament the death of retail half as much.

only 14 hours eh? seems doable.

 

[Data West]

I sure would like to Witness a pre-load on Steam

 

[funkystudent]

AJ Styles seems like more of a King of Fighters character then a Tekken character to me.

 

[Myggen]

It is pretty and I really like the shadow silhouette thing but that sand doesn't look right. Looks more like marzipan or play dough. I am sure it is real sand (wet sand clumps like that), it just doesn't quite look how my brain expects it to.

For that art style I think it looks really good.

 

[yami4ct]

The Witness sounds amazing and a game I'll be sure to get to sometime over the next year. I'll avoid all the discussion around it until then, but I'm excited to hear that Blow seems to accomplish what he set out to do. Sounds like a really cool thing.

 

[CoolBatteryCharge]

Brad gon spoil it within the first few next Bombcasts

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

AJ Styles seems like more of a King of Fighters character then a Tekken character to me.

I can see that.

 

[Myggen]

Yeah, I hope The Witness is a success so Blow can keep doing his thing. He's such a unique creator in this industry.

On another note, getting Blow on this year's GDC stream would be fantastic.

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

Has anybody played Verdun? I just got it a couple of days ago and was wondering if anybody here played it?

 

[yami4ct]

Brad gon spoil it within the first few next Bombcasts

From what I've read, what makes The Witness cool are the puzzles and there are hundreds of them. It'd be hard to spoil that game to a degree where the experience is super hurt, that is unless you go out of your way to watch LPs and get tons of puzzle solutions.

Yeah, I hope The Witness is a success so Blow can keep doing his thing. He's such a unique creator in this industry.

On another note, getting Blow on this year's GDC stream would be fantastic.

I really didn't dig Braid, but man The Witness seems up my alley.

 

[FluxWaveZ]

Yeah, I hope The Witness is a success so Blow can keep doing his thing. He's such a unique creator in this industry.

On another note, getting Blow on this year's GDC stream would be fantastic.

Wasn't there something about Jonathan Blow wanting to focus on developing his own programming language after The Witness was done? Wonder if success would change his direction, if that was accurate.

 

[broncobuster]

The Witness sounds daunting. But I love puzzles in Legend of Grimrock and what I've played of Talos and The Witness is giving me that vibe.

 

[skLaFarebear]

Wasn't really impressed with that QL. Didn't know the entire game was just going to be panel puzzles and they all looked pretty boring.

Might've just been the early game stuff, but it wasn't really a good look.

AJ Styles seems like more of a King of Fighters character then a Tekken character to me.

Definitely.

 

[Myggen]

Wasn't there something about Jonathan Blow wanting to focus on developing his own programming language after The Witness was done? Wonder if success would change his direction, if that was accurate.

He's been doing that for quite a while now. Might be something he'll want to focus on going forward, would make sense.

 

[Dr_Boris_Goltz]

So does Project Beast talk to Scott Manley or was that a bunch of lies?

 

[TacticalHotdog]

Has anybody played Verdun? I just got it a couple of days ago and was wondering if anybody here played it?

It's alright. There are not a lot of WW1 FPS, so it fills that niche nicely. Gameplay feels somewhere between Call of Duty 2 and Red Orchestra. It's terribly optimized though.

 

[rudds]

That makes me excited to get into it. It has been a long time since I let a game totally consume me like that. Forgive me if it's in your review (I'm saving reading it until I've finished the game myself), but what was your total playtime?

I really wish it had a playtime clock (there should be an in-world sundial for this or something) but I'd bet I put 40 hours into it easy. Finished quite a bit more than you have to in order to open up the endgame, but even after all that there are still entire areas and types of puzzles I don't have access to/understand.

 

[MassiveNights]

This Tumblr comment about Tool that someone sent to Jeff is too much

http://jeff.zone/post/138025057711/says-the-child-that-hasnt-seen-them-live-i-saw

Anonymous asked:
Says the child that hasn't seen them live. I saw them after Radiohead and TSO and they were absolutely amazing. But what do I know? I'm just a musician and recording artist sitting next to a 124 channel sound board.

 

[LiK]

I really wish it had a playtime clock (there should be an in-world sundial for this or something) but I'd bet I put 40 hours into it easy. Finished quite a bit more than you have to in order to open up the endgame, but even after all that there are still entire areas and types of puzzles I don't have access to/understand.

when did you receive your review copy? Witness sounds like Fez. lots of secrets to discover

 

[ratcliffja]

So does Project Beast talk to Scott Manley or was that a bunch of lies?

Their special guest would likely be for episode 8 or 9, as they'd already recorded 7 before their tweet about a special guest.

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

It's alright. There are not a lot of WW1 FPS, so it fills that niche nicely. Gameplay feels somewhere between Call of Duty 2 and Red Orchestra. It's terribly optimized though.

That is what I notice too when playing a couple of rounds of the game. I'm enjoying it, but that game needs some more work on it.

 

[Myggen]

This Tumblr comment about Tool that someone sent to Jeff is too much

http://jeff.zone/post/138025057711/says-the-child-that-hasnt-seen-them-live-i-saw

That has to be someone trolling, because if not that's the most cliche Tool fan comment ever.

 

[BearPawB]

I really wish it had a playtime clock (there should be an in-world sundial for this or something) but I'd bet I put 40 hours into it easy. Finished quite a bit more than you have to in order to open up the endgame, but even after all that there are still entire areas and types of puzzles I don't have access to/understand.

are you gonna keep playing? even after your 14 hour misery session?

 

[skLaFarebear]

"Thank you all. We'll see you next month."
- Alex, Powerbombcast, 09-26-2015

Been a long month =(

Just give it to me already!

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

I really wish it had a playtime clock (there should be an in-world sundial for this or something) but I'd bet I put 40 hours into it easy. Finished quite a bit more than you have to in order to open up the endgame, but even after all that there are still entire areas and types of puzzles I don't have access to/understand.

Awesome. I can't wait to start playing tomorrow.