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Giant Bomb #22 | Drew, F*** This Tank
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broncobuster
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What that also a video explaining it over footage of them fumbling with Star Fox Zero?
nckillthegrimace
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I refuse to believe that someone who has been playing games for decades is so inept that they can't figure out Star Fox Zero's controls.
sammyCYBORG
Member
Jesus. Even the most pretentious people in my university English classes would have cringed watching this.
Playing games on video is hard. I don't want to be too critical of people having a hard time playing and talking on a mic about it.
On the other hand, that DOOM video.
Some sort of pomade. I'm guessing American Crew since it's so ubiquitous. I'd go for a Baxter of Calfornia Clay pomade since it holds better.
Yup, that`s the answer he`s given before.
MassiveNights
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People get so angry about Polygon, it's pretty funny.
Different strokes and all that.
Different strokes and all that.
Shiny Llama
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It's less that it's shaken up the genre and more that it applies Blizzard's design principles to it. Stuff like not surfacing a direct k/d ratio and only highlighting good play is a really interesting approach to take.
funkystudent
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I think that was what he was using during the early days of Brad Stylemaker when he looked he fell out of a 90's Val Kilmer movie.
Maybe he is still doing that or something else.
Oh... I know how to get a answer!
Hey Brad! Nice hair. What you using to style it these days?
broncobuster
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Sometimes it's the little things. Rather than having kills and assists, all who contributed get the kill point. Healers can be players of the game without killing another player.
nckillthegrimace
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I don't think he was filmed playing.
Overwatch isn't really shaking things up, it's just taking a lot of the ideas going around right now in terms of making competitive shooters friendlier and doing a really good job handling those features. Combine that with good character designs and Blizzard's innate popularity and it's not a surprise it took off.
A lot of what Overwatch is doing is a lot like what Splatoon did for Third-Person shooters. It's obviously not directly inspired by it, becasue it's been in development for a lot longer, but it's definitely where the genre is headed in general.
Keyser Soze
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Is Vinny having a breakdown?
MassiveNights
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CBS closing Gbeast confirmed
stump sock
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don't mistake disinterest or bewilderment for anger. I find them puzzling and sometimes bad, but they don't make me angry.
giant_frying_pan
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Windows 10 Strikes Again.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
Not updating to win 10
I am dissapoint
I am dissapoint
As a giant TF2 fan back in its heyday it's honestly kind of frustrating to me that people see this kind of stuff in Overwatch as revelatory when it takes a lot of it from TF2. Like, Austin and some other folks on my Twitter feed were talking earlier about how Overwatch de-emphasizes hitscan weapons, and the good hitscan weapons have drawbacks, and there's damage falloff, and spacing between opponents is important, and I'm just sitting here thinking "TF2 did literally all of this years ago!"
Don't mind me, old man yelling at cloud.
stump sock
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so uh, what's happening? the usual BEAST technical difficulties?
shiny llama's point still stands though. TF2 still had a scoreboard. the obscuring of all points and whatnot in favor of a more holistic "here's what you guys did well" is kind of a fresh take in a genre without many fresh takes.
shiny llama's point still stands though. TF2 still had a scoreboard. the obscuring of all points and whatnot in favor of a more holistic "here's what you guys did well" is kind of a fresh take in a genre without many fresh takes.
Keyser Soze
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Vindows 10
It's fun to poke at them, but I don't really care that they publish stuff I consider dumb. The only thing that even makes me slightly perturbed about them is that I think they're wasting some real talent they have on staff.
MassiveNights
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I don't follow Polygon but I'm totally cool with their output. I would rather the odd outlandish Polygon video than the million people lining up to call them pretentious because it's not "about the gameplay" or ready to make bad jokes about english lit students.
Nah I totally agree. I was saying the same thing a few weeks ago. Overwatch just does it so well though.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
Same, but it's kinda Valve's fault for really not having a team invested in updating TF2. Horizontal management strikes again.
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
I don't like The Dangler. I can't understand how HR let them get away with a noose shaped mascot.
The Dear Leader
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As sure as the sun rises, chat is fucked.
ShadowSwordmaster
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What the hell is the Dangler?
The TF2 scoreboard didn't show kills or KDR, though. (Well, it shows your own kills, but not others'.) You get points for teleporting teammates, or extinguishing fire on teammates, or healing, etc. etc., so it awards you for all kinds of positive teamwork and de-emphasizes kills.
Also, TF2 has pretty much been ruined by cheaters for quite some time now, hasn`t it. That vac ban should help for a while, but they`ll find another way.
MassiveNights
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Damn, sweet vidya card update.
Felix Lighter
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I just messed with the update over lunch and the UI stuff is much better organized. The one thing I would do though is move bombs and potions to the first or second tab.
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
Just a bunch of tied cables that hang down from the ceiling.
I really want to upgrade my GPU but the UK prices are insane.
I don't think Valve could've made TF2 into Overwatch without alienating their current player base. They make so much money on that thing, there's no real point in making massive changes to attract new people.
MassiveNights
Banned
The map is the most improved thing for me, plus R3 to read something.
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
Thank You for info.
Keyser Soze
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I wish Austin would stop talking over Vinny all the time
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
At that point it would be TF3. The game and Source is just so old, but there are many tweaks and issues they could have fixed to keep it fresh for the userbase.
The Dear Leader
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I have the smallest nit pick about the new 1.21 update for The Witcher 3, I wish the new non-auto centering camera had a option to turn on auto center when on Roach, trying to control the camera and hold A is difficult.
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