MassiveNights
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Yeah that thing looks rough. I'm not really sensitive to frame rates either.
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Giant Bomb #23 | See you Space Cowboy...
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Yeah that thing looks rough. I'm not really sensitive to frame rates either.
wild_fire987
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Bringing it back to Giant Bomb, I wonder what Alex is going to give it. I have a feeling that it will either be 3 or 4 stars... The story he told of the hell planet was pretty cool, but it seems that after about 10 hours or so some people get a bit tired of the repetitiveness of the game... I know I was pretty down to get the PC version in a few days, but I've watched a few hours of the game on Twitch/GB and I've kind of fallen of the wagon and will probably wait for a sale now.
I'm pretty sure I heard someone say that during the QL.
Piston Hyundai
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"Vanquish is a tepid and tedious game that simply doesn't deserve your cash during a period chock full of far superior releases."
"Now if you'll excuse me, I have a Dynasty Warriors game to finish."
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I'd rather we talk about the Six.
You are correct.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Shockingly enough, the one time Dan wasn't being hyperbolic was when he was talking about telltale games.
Locked out of the QL studio/cupboard.
Human Trashcan
Banned
He was fucking great, too. His Batman, however, is woeful imo. Bad casting.
Always need at least one Spore every generation,
Also I agree with Jim Sterling on a lot of things.
^^^Wait they got Troy Baker to voice Batman?
So he's now been Batman, Joker and the Arkham Knight. He should just do a Batman game where he does every voice.
He also did Two-Face/Harvey Dent. He is on his way to do a good chunk of Batman characters.
Piston Hyundai
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I'm pleased to announce that BatmanBatmanBatman will only have Troy Baker in it.
He knew they were birds - he just thought they were a subset of mammals.
That will kickstart his audiobook career.
i'm so glad Vinny and Alex were there to defend them even with their flaws.
I found that Dan's rant against Telltale was reminiscent of people on forums ranting against gone home being a game. Like every time something about Telltale is brought up Dan just has to go into how much he hates them, maybe it's rational to him but to me as an observer it's just an irrational hate that he has to get out every time he's reminded of it.
MassiveNights
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Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
The hate is completely rational to me, because I share roughly similar feelings.
Like how the hell does telltale games still have framerate and stutter problems?
I kind of hate this digging. How many reviews has Jim written ober the years? He's now worthless because he gave Vanquish a 5/10 six years ago, I guess.
To be fair to him, they kept asking him about it.
Human Trashcan
Banned
Vanquish isn't that great tho. It has two tricks: knee sliding and slow-mo backflipping. That's the whole game.
As interpreted by Eddie Murphy.
Eh, Dan's hate from what I could tell comes from a more mechanical and gameplay perspective then technical.
Tales from the Borderlands is the only one I personally played so I can't really weigh too much into stuff, but I dunno I will just probably never understand having so much "hate" to rant about a gametype I don't care for.
MassiveNights
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I'm kind of with Dan on Telltale games, I liked The Walking Dead S1 though.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Oh don't get me wrong, I hate telltale game's mechanics and gameplay too.
That's a great reason to disregard someone's criticism of a videogame.
I think the walking dead season 1 is so good because of the story.
I mostly agree with Dan on telltale games. There are bits here and there that really click in terms of gameplay and story. But the rest of the time is slowly going through the God awful feeling telltale engine. It's just not great. Every story moment not tied to an actual choice that had you do some kind of QTE or gameplay is just plain bad and does not feel great. I'd go as far as to say it ruins the momentum.
Life is Strange is guilty of the same pacing affected by the bad engine. At some point I want to enjoy the story but then I feel like "oh goddamn it I have to play this game to get to the next part now".
I mostly agree with Dan on telltale games. There are bits here and there that really click in terms of gameplay and story. But the rest of the time is slowly going through the God awful feeling telltale engine. It's just not great. Every story moment not tied to an actual choice that had you do some kind of QTE or gameplay is just plain bad and does not feel great. I'd go as far as to say it ruins the momentum.
Life is Strange is guilty of the same pacing affected by the bad engine. At some point I want to enjoy the story but then I feel like "oh goddamn it I have to play this game to get to the next part now".
Piston Hyundai
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is it at the very least a great reason to think someone looks like a tool
Especially considering it's just a persona and not really him.
VeryGooster
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Salty Catfish
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On some level I feel like it was because it was novel at the time. I did not have the same kind of enjoyment with any of their other titles I tried. All I could see were the seams of the game, the problem sin the writing, the robotic characters and technical problems.
Yup. Veering wildly off-topic here, but while I don't share all of Jim's videogame preferences, I think he is better at articulating interesting and considered reasons for why he likes or dislikes a game than most games media people, including most of the GB crew. God forbid Jeff should ever adopt a wacky persona though, we would never be able to take his insights into games and gaming seriously again.
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Roughly half of Telltale's output is great, and half is garbage.
Surprise: writing can and does matter in video games. Telltale just exemplifies that.
There's a presumptuous assholeness that leads to disregarding all that, sadly. "It's just a bunch of A-or-B choices and QTEs." Nah, you're just narrow-minded and assumedly think that games are solely mechanics and nothing else.
Surprise: writing can and does matter in video games. Telltale just exemplifies that.
There's a presumptuous assholeness that leads to disregarding all that, sadly. "It's just a bunch of A-or-B choices and QTEs." Nah, you're just narrow-minded and assumedly think that games are solely mechanics and nothing else.
I am definitely a player who enjoys interesting mechanics more than a story, but not evolving their games at all after all this time is really not a great look.
supermetfreud
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Jeff: "...but is it a banger?"
I get what you're saying.
There's only so much Telltale could do mechanically while still producing a Telltale game, though.
It's just giving us a vector for storytelling, not a route for letting us hit a boss hard with a combo system.
They could at least try to make their action sequences feel better. The ones in Game of Thrones were just horrible. That was the last Telltale game I got because I love GoT, but man was that a disappointment. I didn't even finish the season.
Yeah, I'm not gonna defend action sequences.
I have yet to touch GoT or Batman.
TftB was great though *shrug*.
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