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[stump sock]

It'll just end with everybody rushing for Jeff's knife drawer

 

[Luminaire]

Probably just play one game of each, which would be a lousy but suitable finish to the series.

I think one game would be like 30 minutes. I demand my 4-hour Mario Party streams!

 

[KingKong]

I think one game would be like 30 minutes. I demand my 4-hour Mario Party streams!

do first to three wins

 

[stump sock]

do first to three wins

Knife Party Party

cutcutcutcutcutcutcutcut

 

[oti]

I missed the Giant Bomb C team (VICE gaming) podcast announcement being a thing. Another show to add to the long list of weekly podcasts I listen to.

I don't know man. I love both these guys but they need more grounded counterparts for their esoteric monologues about feelings in video games and stuff.

 

[Antiwhippy]

I don't know man. I love both these guys but they need more grounded counterparts for their esoteric monologues about feelings in video games and stuff.

Dan ryckert on the rotating chair when he moves to new york.

 

[Jintor]

I'll forever mourne the loss of Team Beast but we had 51 good episodes

I'm still vaguely putting together that best of Beast btw

 

[oti]

Dan ryckert on the rotating chair when he moves to new york.

Austin: The fact of the matter is that this wallpaper simulator called "Babies Wallpaper Simulator 2016" managed to make me feel vulnerable like a newborn just as Socrates described in his letters to his followers and that's why "Babies Wallpaper Simulator 2016" is a better video game than The Witcher 3.

Patrick: I agree that just like Alighieri's description of hell "Babies Wallpaper Simulator 2016" does indeed provoke something deep inside your heart that no other game, especially not The Witcher 3, manages to do.

Dan: So yesterday I saw a naked man on the train. Wiener out and everything!

 

[Death Metalist]

Watched Mary's stream of that Space Janitor game, what a weird ass fucking game.

There are some good young fighters coming up but I'm not interested in Mayweather whatsoever.

I also tend to watch UFC over boxing these days.

Same here.

Almost caught up on content, the gbeast game dev academy was a treat.

It's really damn good. I hope they continue on it in the future.

I'm sorry, but before I answer any of those questions, I'm gonna need to know which Giant Bomb member you would want to be your dad.

Jeff, Mr. G-Man.

The time between Ryan passing away and Dan + Jason being hired was way way worse than now.

While I cannot judge the quality of that timing since I stopped following GB for nearly a year after Ryan passed away and this is coming from someone who's been watching/following the guys since late 2004, so yes, in a way, I agree that it's probably way, way worse than now by a mile.

Stealth new Vice Gaming Podcast....I don't know who these guys are though.

https://vicegamingsnewpodcast.simplecast.fm/

Listened to it earlier today, damn good stuff. Even as a guy who's not American.

We're in agreement that drew needs to play rising before the election season is over right

YES pls.

Listening to Beastcast again. Episode 69! I love Beastcast.

Watch No Man's Sky QL then listen to Beastcast episode 64.

It'll just end with everybody rushing for Jeff's knife drawer

 

[Antiwhippy]

I'll forever mourne the loss of Team Beast but we had 51 good episodes

I'm still vaguely putting together that best of Beast btw

I mean they're still pretty good? I thought the ryckert ones showed great promise.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

They'll make up for a lack of time with Mario Party 9 and 10 by rounding it all out with a rousing game of Sonic Shuffle.

 

[EdReedFan20]

They'll make up for a lack of time with Mario Party 9 and 10 by rounding it all out with a rousing game of Sonic Shuffle.

And Crash Bash.

 

[LurkerPrime]

They'll make up for a lack of time with Mario Party 9 and 10 by rounding it all out with a rousing game of Sonic Shuffle.

When they finish with MPP they need a Fortune Street Super Party Party.

I need it.

 

[KillerDark]

Listening to Beastcast again. Episode 69! I love Beastcast.

Welcome to the GB family haha. Beastcast is awesome!

 

[pizzacat]

Is sonic shuffle a real thing or am I being meme'd on

I sort of blocked sonic the hedgehog from my google searches so I really wouldn't be able to know

 

[Death Metalist]

Is sonic shuffle a real thing or am I being meme'd on

I sort of blocked sonic the hedgehog from my google searches so I really wouldn't be able to know

You're better off not knowing.

 

[Mr. F]

Randomly watching old quick looks, this is now applicable.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

Is sonic shuffle a real thing or am I being meme'd on

I sort of blocked sonic the hedgehog from my google searches so I really wouldn't be able to know

http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_Shuffle
http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Sonic_Shuffle

Sonic Shuffle Review
The combination of the unbearable load times, the smattering of minigames, and the poor minigame design make Sonic Shuffle a boring diversion at best.
by Ryan Davis on November 17, 2000

In Mario Party, Sonic Shuffle's primary competitor, the minigames make up the bulk of the game time, and the board game is simply a means to access them expediently. Such is not the case in Sonic Shuffle. The spaces that trigger the minigames are sparsely scattered across the board, and it is by no means necessary to play the minigames in order to complete the game. In fact, it's entirely possible to go through a game of Sonic Shuffle without playing a single minigame. The minigames, once you actually get to one, have the tendency to be confusing and pointlessly complex. The joy of minigames comes from their ease of play - anyone can pick them up, and from there it's simply a four-way test of skill. In Sonic Shuffle, more often than not, the minigames are a test of who can decipher the needlessly bewildering gameplay first.

Those looking for a Mario Party equivalent will be brutally disappointed with Sonic Shuffle, and they are better-off looking for another outlet for their four-player gaming desires.

4.5/10

 

[EdReedFan20]

Randomly watching old quick looks, this is now applicable.

Crazy that that Quick Look happened soon after Dan joined Giant Bomb.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/screen_medium/0/31/2889363-vf_shenmue_er_19.jpg

 

[Jintor]

I mean they're still pretty good? I thought the ryckert ones showed great promise.

It's like going from SSS rank just to S rank. It's still frigging good but it's not the same

 

[jgminto]

http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/screen_medium/0/31/2889363-vf_shenmue_er_19.jpg

I wonder how long it will take for Vinny to completely stop giving a shit with the forklifting.

 

[Lunar FC]

Is Horizon 3 available on the windows store for any of yall?

 

[Tubobutts]

Austin: The fact of the matter is that this wallpaper simulator called "Babies Wallpaper Simulator 2016" managed to make me feel vulnerable like a newborn just as Socrates described in his letters to his followers and that's why "Babies Wallpaper Simulator 2016" is a better video game than The Witcher 3.

Patrick: I agree that just like Alighieri's description of hell "Babies Wallpaper Simulator 2016" does indeed provoke something deep inside your heart that no other game, especially not The Witcher 3, manages to do.

Dan: So yesterday I saw a naked man on the train. Wiener out and everything!

You need to work on your Patrick if you want your slash fiction to be believable.

 

[Cindi Mayweather]

http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/screen_medium/0/31/2889363-vf_shenmue_er_19.jpg

Yesssss ahahaha

 

[Death Metalist]

Is Horizon 3 available on the windows store for any of yall?

I'm seeing it on the Xbox One store so, it should be on the windows store as well.

 

[BTA]

You need to work on your Patrick if you want your slash fiction to be believable.

Austin literally doesn't talk like that at all either. Just because he approaches things more academically doesn't mean he speaks like someone trying to bullshit their way to a longer essay for their high school English class.

 

[Jintor]

The House Always Wins

 

[EdReedFan20]

Austin literally doesn't talk like that at all either. Just because he approaches things more academically doesn't mean he speaks like someone trying to bullshit their way to a longer essay for their high school English class.

Yup. And while I respect him greatly, the only time I've ever really noticed anyone actually speak that way in a review was when Adam Sessler reviewed The Last of Us, and that was after someone edited down his video review to highlight what they felt was the most pretentious moments.

Edit- Here's that video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B90frJAHoB8

 

[broncobuster]

I wonder how long it will take for Vinny to completely stop giving a shit with the forklifting.

Shenmue already broke Vinny. Had it not, maybe he'd get into optimizing a path at first only to be worn down by how long the section lasts.

 

[Data West]

fortune favors the bold

 

[Piston Hyundai]

I think it's worth pointing out that Sonic Shuffle is made by Hudson, so it's technically a Mario Party game.

 

[Anjin M]

I think it's worth pointing out that Sonic Shuffle is made by Hudson, so it's technically a Mario Party game.

Makers of terrible games make another terrible game? Say it ain't so!

 

[Lijik]

if they play sonic shuffle the dreamcast needs to be set to christmas day so the tutorial fairy character gets replaced by nights

 

[Cindi Mayweather]

Makers of terrible games make another terrible game? Say it ain't so!

Um.

Hudson made Bonk, Bomberman, and Adventure Island. Maker of terrible games, really?

 

[Antiwhippy]

I mean they did make terrible games.

Not exclusively made terrible games.

 

[Cindi Mayweather]

I can't think of any company that hasn't made a terrible game besides maybe Blizzard.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

I can't think of any company that hasn't made a terrible game besides maybe Blizzard.

Blizzard kinda cheats though

They wait a while to jump into a 'genre'. Then when they release it, it's more polished than a diamond.

I like them for that.

 

[Antiwhippy]

And yet the only games I've ever cared enough to play from them is warcraft 3 and overwatch.

*shrug*

 

[EdReedFan20]

I can't think of any company that hasn't made a terrible game besides maybe Blizzard.

Well, if we're going by overall critical reception, I don't think Naughty Dog (at least since they went PlayStation exclusive) has released a critically panned game (Jak X Racing being the closest to one). Another Sony Studio, Santa Monica has never released a general consensus panned game, at least those made in-house (they've only developed six games in-house- Kinetica, God of War Trilogy, God of War: Ascension, and God of War (2017))

 

[BreezyLimbo]

And yet the only games I've ever cared enough to play from them is warcraft 3 and overwatch.

*shrug*

Not everyone is blessed with good taste.

Spoiler

I'm kidding I love you

 

[Cindi Mayweather]

Well, if we're going by overall critical reception, I don't think Naughty Dog (at least since they went PlayStation exclusive) has released a critically panned game (Jak X Racing being the closest to one).

Eh, Jak 3 was pretty light on content and Jak 2 is pretty controversial, no? Not that I'd say it's terrible.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Well, if we're going by overall critical reception, I don't think Naughty Dog (at least since they went PlayStation exclusive) has released a critically panned game (Jak X Racing being the closest to one).

They did make way of the warrior, a critic's darling.

 

[EdReedFan20]

Eh, Jak 3 was pretty light on content and Jak 2 is pretty controversial, no? Not that I'd say it's terrible.

Critics still were generally favorable towards them. Jak II got an 87 from Metacritic/87.83% from GameRankings and Jak 3 got an 84 from Metacritic/85.33% from GameRankings. Like I said, their lowest (at least since they went PlayStation only) was Jak X Combat Racing with 76 from Metacritic/77.01% from GameRankings.

They did make way of the warrior, a critic's darling.

That was before PlayStation, but yeah. Looking on Wikipedia, it appears it was their worst game. As that game was released in the early days of the internet (1994), there's no general consensus score, but it probably would not be all that great. Their other pre-PlayStation games seemed to fare better.

 

[Piston Hyundai]

Hudson has probably made more bad games than good, but I still miss them.

 

[LurkerPrime]

Bomberman 64: The Third Attack would have been so good.

 

[NumberThree]

if they play sonic shuffle the dreamcast needs to be set to christmas day so the tutorial fairy character gets replaced by nights

Wait, NiGHTS is the name of the main character?

 

[repeater]

I'll forever mourne the loss of Team Beast but we had 51 good episodes

I'm still vaguely putting together that best of Beast btw

Yeah, like others have said I think the Beastcast (like the Bombcast) is still good, but.. man, the chemistry of the OG Beastmen was something else and will not easily be replaced.

A Best of Beast would be awesome, I'm now very much looking forward to you finishing that project!

Candidates, the question on everyone's mind is: UPF, should it go or should it stay? What are your thoughts?

Question is pretty moot, El Commendante Jefe expressed on the last Jartime that it's one of his favorite things they do, so it's probably not going anywhere (which is fine by me, I enjoy UPF for what it is).

 

[NumberThree]

Question is pretty moot, El Commendante Jefe expressed on the last Jartime that it's one of his favorite things they do, so it's probably not going anywhere (which is fine by me, I enjoy UPF for what it is).

He also said it gets a lot of views.

 

[Strax]

He also said it gets a lot of views.

Compared to what tho?

Its the only thing they have on a schedule every week besides the podcast.