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Giant Bomb #25 | A Fun Time with Friends
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Human Trashcan
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For my money, most disappointing is SF5 (for myself and the crew, in all likelihood), but hottest mess is NMS. And I say that in spite of SF5 installing a goddamn rootkit on PCs.
Sleeping Lesson
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I just feel like SFV had much greater mindshare at Giant Bomb. No Man's Sky is really most disappointing and biggest mess, but I just feel like after release GB kind of ignored it.
That rootkit though... too damn funny.
I'd love that!
Wow, I was just thinking they should do this.
MM1 is so rough that it's going to take multiple videos.
broncobuster
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Capcom has made a number of blunders but never making a Mega Man Powered Up 2 is up there.
Exterminieren
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They are wrong. They say they care about the lack of a dumb arcade mode bit come oooooon who cares about that really?
Sleeping Lesson
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They.
Everyone is crazy but me
It's more about the other stuff like no story mode, needing to play survival to unlock colors, costumes and stage pricing. The gameplay is there.
Exterminieren
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The initial game was disappointing, and it just wouldn't stop disappointing all year long. It'd be high on my list, and I wasn't as hyped for it as some of those guys.
I agree.
I know.
That's why it's the hottest mess. Not the most disappointing.
The Right Deal
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I feel like hottest mess is the more external category, as in the blowback from the gaming community in general, which NMS easily has locked up. Most disappointing is more personal, and SF V is a strong contender based on Jeff and Jason's comments. Though the Pro is coming in as a late game dark horse for that category.
Sleeping Lesson
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Do they talk about the PS4 Pro in a negative light on the Bombcast? I haven't finished it, but have no idea where this Most Disappointing talk is coming from in relation to the Pro.
Human Trashcan
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Everything except the fighting is bad. Survival mode is awful. The netcode is... okayish, but matchmaking is slow. It had no content.
Bottom line, unless you have people to play with locally, it's kind of a bummer, doubly so at launch. They did the bare minimum or less in every category.
I understand where you're coming from, but you have to see why it would be disappointing to a lot of people. Hell, it didn't even have proper party support at launch. Even now, the store has such an awful interface, it's like they don't even want to sell you things. Like, how are you gonna launch a fighting game without even a basic vs CPU option? It was clearly rushed.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I feel like people were more excited about the 8th re-release of Street Fighter IV than Street Fighter V. That game came and went and nobody cared.
brainzelda
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Most disappointing is hard to judge for the GB crew because almost none of the crew really gets hyped for anything anymore (with good reason). They always stay pretty even keel through the pr cycle of a game, so they rarely board the hype train. The only one I can think of that had high expectations of anything this year is Jason with SF5, so it may win by default.
Remember what happened the last time they (Dan, specifically) spoke ill of Sony? Boyes got all twisted over it on the after hours show.
Sleeping Lesson
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Oh that's right, and he gave Dan that bloody lip. I remember now.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
What if Shenmue sweeps in and wins both "Hottest Mess" and "Most Disappointing". I think there is a real chance that could happen.
And threatened him with the knife
The fighting is god-tier and it's a fighting game.
The content was bad, selling it for 60 was a terrible idea. But the fighting was still god-tier.
The netcode worked perfectly for me on PC.
I don't care about the store.
I agree that the way Capcom handled this game was atrocious. That doesn't change the fact that the game delivered on what is the most important thing: the fighting.
What makes the actual game a pile of rank garbage?
Isn't the fighting the actual game?
People like to bash on SFV for no good reason. I get the content was sparse at the beginning and again, Capcom deserves to be criticized for ruining this game's perception, but it's still the best fighting game out there.
I guess I see what you mean? Like, the fighting is great, so then the other elements around it should be great to complement that? I see.
It's still a fighting game, however, and if most of one's time with it is spent fighting someone else and that's at least the part that has been well executed on, that's a good thing.
You say that like everybody wants the same things out of a fight game. After the last 2 MK games a story mode like that is a must for me to even think about buying the game at $60
Pretty sure SFV's story mode is longer than MKX's.
Sure, but if most of your time isn't spent playing against people online, then it fails to meet minimum standards set by decades of the genre and that series itself. It's a huge step down if you don't want to get competitive online.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Wasn't Destiny in the running for "most disappointing"? And the shooting in that game also felt great. Sooo......it's gonna happen oti, whether you like it or not.
I don't get it
I don't get it
It's got length but not girth.
This isn't the "Games I would gladly pay $60 for award".
And your point doesn't make much sense. You don't want a fighting game, you want a story mode. That's alright, SFV has that after a free update. But the most important part still is the fighting itself.
It's not great. Then again, I wouldn't necessarily say MKX's compares favorably to MK9's, either.
That's totally different.
Saying SFV is disappointing in the same way Destiny was disappointing is like saying chess is disappointing because there's only one board to play on.
LurkerPrime
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The SFV Malware patch keeps it in the conversation.
Kind of curious if the Palmer Luckey stuff will be tackled at all given the... recent events, though.
Kind of curious if the Palmer Luckey stuff will be tackled at all given the... recent events, though.
close to the edge
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Real most disappointing thing this year: When Peter Stormare was going to be on the E3 podcast but then had to cancel.
So what you're saying is that the game was a mess at launch?
Sleeping Lesson
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Ooh good pull
Legion, Horde, main character looking very much like Grom Hellscream and his name is Durotan, the Dark Portal, Pit Lords; even the website reminds the old World of Warcraft website.
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