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Giant Bomb #24 | In the beginning...
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Berserking Guts
Member
The last minute of an average OW game always feels like mario kart rubber banding to me. It's like collectively (even randoms) just get their shit together and crush defense.
I know it's not but it just seems super artificial and kind of sours me on the game.
Why would they get rid of their best show?
Berserking Guts
Member
It wouldn't surprise me if theres some background math shenanigans going on in that last minute though lol
I'm being facetious, but at the same time, I've played against some seriously abysmal teams who somehow turn into absolute monsters in the end.
they're not getting rid of demo derby or game tapes or uh...
not if they're trying to e-sports
Glitchesarecool
Member
This is yami4ct levels of terrible opinions.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
OH RIGHT! That was a thing! At least at some point.
The reason that the last second push is often more successful is in the nature of it being the last second. Literally everyone on the enemy team must attack at that time.
If there was two minutes left maybe the pharah or the mercy don't commit. But at the last second everyone must go and all ultis must be used and basically the game clock just coordinates the enemy push for them.
They could have won with the same push earlier, but they're just not coordinated enough.
If there was two minutes left maybe the pharah or the mercy don't commit. But at the last second everyone must go and all ultis must be used and basically the game clock just coordinates the enemy push for them.
They could have won with the same push earlier, but they're just not coordinated enough.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Also the spawn point is always closer for the defenders at the end.
Death Metalist
Member
Too many to mention obviously but what came to my mind first are these.
Fortune Street & Unprofessional Fridays: 12/05/2014
that shit's good
This just made me remember that Dan and Patrick worked for Giant Bomb at the same time at a point.
I had totally forgotten that fact. It feels like Patrick left ages ago.
MassiveNights
Banned
WoW has consumed me but it's soooooooo good. World Quests, fucking World Quests.
Puck Beaverton
Banned
I'm late to Dan's hatred for Yakuza but did he start with 3? That's the only way I can see him disliking the series if he started with the orphanage stuff.
Even then, he still likes Shenmue. Must be nostalgia.
Even then, he still likes Shenmue. Must be nostalgia.
yup it's so annoying. Lost a bunch of match where we were holding all the points to overtime (but they eventually got them all) on defense and proceed to die on the last point (despite taking the first few points with ease)
This thread in gaming made me do a double take, thanks coldman hot
I remember a Ghost Trick QL but I don't really recall any AA QLs (and they still haven't bloody QL'd any ZE games yet even though ZE3 came out on PC...)
I remember a Ghost Trick QL but I don't really recall any AA QLs (and they still haven't bloody QL'd any ZE games yet even though ZE3 came out on PC...)
BreezyLimbo
Banned
not 100% sure about the rules on posting YT lins or promoting things you made, but this video isn't monetized or anything... I will remove the link if needed
Finished my GB animation Project, 80s style cartoon intro for the guys... just for fun
https://youtu.be/pIgGTX6tR6M
made a blog about on the site too if you want to see it:
http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion-30/giant-bomb-animation-project-unofficial-classic-1801738/#3
Again, just for fun, thought people might want to see in this thread
that was fun. Wouldn't say it flowed particularly well and I'm sad Austin didn't make the cut, what with leaving and all, but still fun
his Chinese, at least for food dishes and stuff, is also relatively accurate. I assume that's his s/o's influence.
While they have similarities, Shenmue and Yakuza are very different games with a very different focus. Maybe it is just nostalgia for him, but liking Shenmue is certainly no guarantee you will like Yakuza and vice versa.
Yeah. The similarities between Shenmue and Yakuza are surface level at best, and they diverge pretty heavily in several places.
Yakuza is actually more of a crime soap opera; focusing on the locale of a certain area and the characters within it. The series may go other places, but all roads lead back to Kamurocho, will mainly focus on a core cast, and is very melodramatic in tone.
Shenmue has a lot more emphasis on travel and has its roots in Wuxia literature, although the first game is a super slow-burn Japanese detective story at heart. A lot of what Shenmue is about is personal and spiritual growth, against a background of martial arts and travelling through China. The tone is a lot more exploratory than Yakuza, and uses action a lot more sporadically too, except in Shenmue II's
Kowloon sequence which is effectively The Raid.
Dan didn't play Shenmue II though, so I've got not idea if he prefers Shenmue's approach for what it is over Yakuza.
broncobuster
Banned
Shenmue has more in common with adventure games. Yakuza is an action RPG.
Mm, I dunno. Shenmue is structured like an RPG, even if it isn't obvious. It still deals in "quests" and "towns", and then there are more overt RPG mechanics with the move training and buying items like move scrolls to enhance your combat (equivalent to buying a new weapon, I suppose).
I don't know if they're set for the whole duration, but it seems like they will be going up at 6am est everyday.
Piston Hyundai
Member
EdReedFan20
Member
Nostalgia is a powerful, powerful thing. I'm sure there are plenty things we all enjoyed from our youth that we look back with great fondness, even though in hindsight the things we enjoyed were not always of the highest quality (that's not to say Shenmue isn't- I've never played it). I'm sure there are movies/games many of us have in our home libraries that we only bought because we enjoyed them as children, but would much easier see their faults today if they were newly released.
Well Pat Baer agrees with me and that's all I need.
Last year's PAX Prime/West show.
That pairs up well with his Twitter profile pic
Salty Catfish
Member
That was the PAX Rumble 2015, and yeah, everyone had to chill out on the street while the fire department showed up.
Vic_Viper
Member
where is this coming from?
Some people are vocal about disliking UPF. That's all.
TheAbsolution
Member
So I just resubbed to premium for Game Tapes.
Why do these take so long to come out? They're literally my favorite premium content that they put out.
Why do these take so long to come out? They're literally my favorite premium content that they put out.
My first upf as a premium member was the pongs one, it has been downhill since then.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
UPF is the best content in the site
fight me
fight me
Go home, Breezy. You're drunk.
There is an endurance run now again.
I mean, I get why people don't like UPF most of the time. That was certainly a high point.
But cancelling UPF will not mean more time for other content. It's not like they're going to replace it with a more structured weekly show. If anything, no UPF just means one more day that they may or may not do something else.
Death Metalist
Member
Yup, there are a few here that enjoy all the content they put out(me included) but hey, everyone is free to feel how they feel about said thing and that's fine. I certainly find the content discussion always interesting even if I don't share the same feelings.