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[oti]

This episode wasn't the best but I still enjoy BitE a lot. That game is fantastic.

Also, I might be in a minority, but I always watch GB content as my primary point of focus (i.e., not just as background noise).

I only leave it in the background if it's "bad" / uninteresting content to me (in which case i'm more likely to not even watch it).

I don't even listen to the podcast while playing games, since I can't really concentrate on both things and end up missing half of what they talk about - unless i'm doing really simple stuff like the Yakuza big side activities or just grinding for something.

Video games and GB podcasts are the best.

 

[kiguel182]

Persona is special, man.

I fell off BitE. It demands too much attention to be a Zelda in handheld mode and TV in the background game.

Same reason I gave up on the series. I can't have it as background and it kills it.

 

[Data West]

easy solution is to stop playing zelda

 

[oti]

easy solution is to stop playing zelda

At that point I'd rather play Yakuza myself.

 

[Catvoca]

Video games and GB podcasts are the best.

Podcasts have gotten me through many a mediocre game.

 

[robotrock]

I thought it was really boring. I played up until after the prison break bit and kept waiting for it to get good but it wasn't happening. I thought the combat was stiff and the random encounters obnoxious, while the storytelling was all so slow, dull and overly melodramatic. It's a bummer because I did really want to like Yakuza, but I guess it just isn't for me.

Yeah those games often start pretty slow. From what I can tell it seems like 0 gets going faster than any other game in the series series, but even that I kind of had to force myself to play for the first five or so hours. Once it got good though I was pretty hooked.

Yakuza 5 has an insanely slow start. Gonna have to pick it back up when I finish Persona or something but man. It was slow as heck

 

[oti]

Podcasts have gotten me through many a mediocre game.

Me too, especially in the past. Lately I'm trying to avoid mediocre games though.

But Shadow of Mordor for instance should come with a loaded MP3 player full of podcast.

 

[Incandenza]

help i just saw a tumblr post of Bastion lactating

 

[Kimaka]

Most of the GB content (quick looks, upf, playdates) I have as background noise as I do something else unless its a game I'm very interested in. LPs of games I will actively watch. Podcasts are when I am driving, exercising, or grinding in a game.

 

[robotrock]

I need to actively watch more GB stuff. been doing it with yakuza 0 and it's great. totally binged metal gear rising like it was a real deal netflix premiere and that was awesome too

 

[kiguel182]

Podcasts and grinding in Destiny is heaven

 

[oti]

I need to actively watch more GB stuff. been doing it with yakuza 0 and it's great. totally binged metal gear rising like it was a real deal netflix premiere and that was awesome too

I watch QLs actively in general. Many times it's the only way I engage with a game.

 

[ferunnico]

I just bought Persona 5. I had originally decided to wait and instead play one of the dozens of other great and long games I own and haven't yet touched. I am weak...

 

[oti]

I just bought Persona 5. I had originally decided to wait and instead play one of the dozens of other great and long games I own and haven't yet touched. I am weak...

After the 100h+ game Zelda I'll tackle my pile of shame on Steam. The shorter the game the better. I can't do two 100h games back to back.

 

[daveo42]

help i just saw a tumblr post of Bastion lactating

?

 

[Salarians]

help i just saw a tumblr post of Bastion lactating

but why

 

[Hjod]

This episode wasn't the best but I still enjoy BitE a lot. That game is fantastic.

Also, I might be in a minority, but I always watch GB content as my primary point of focus (i.e., not just as background noise).

I only leave it in the background if it's "bad" / uninteresting content to me (in which case i'm more likely to not even watch it).

I don't even listen to the podcast while playing games, since I can't really concentrate on both things and end up missing half of what they talk about - unless i'm doing really simple stuff like the Yakuza big side activities or just grinding for something.

I usually don't do anything else while watching GB content outside of the podcasts, which I usually listen to during commutes. Otherwise I miss stiff. I'm not all that good at dividing attention between engaging content and work. Watching at work usually devolves into not working at all.

BitE this week was good, but I've enjoyed every episode so far.

I'm with you, the only exception is that I listen to the podcast while walking to the gym or while I'm doing cardio. But otherwise their content has my full attention.

I'm enjoying BitE alot so far.

 

[.JayZii]

Started watching the P4 Endurance Run yesterday. I've never watched the whole thing through, but I just watch a smattering of episodes occasionally. Does anybody else get the feeling that Vinny is purposefully playing dumb? Both in messing up his inputs and pretending he knows less about the series than he actually does.

 

[SuperSonic1305]

These Yakuza episodes keep getting shorter.

 

[Tubobutts]

Dan is bad at yakuza fighting.

 

[Moaradin]

Started watching the P4 Endurance Run yesterday. I've never watched the whole thing through, but I just watch a smattering of episodes occasionally. Does anybody else get the feeling that Vinny is purposefully playing dumb? Both in messing up his inputs and pretending he knows less about the series than he actually does.

Weren't they both spoiled pretty early on?

 

[SuperStiltzkin]

I like Megane Kiryu

 

[Guess Who]

Weren't they both spoiled pretty early on?

I think Jeff was spoiled to the

Spoiler

gas station attendant

, but otherwise, not that I know of.

 

[kiguel182]

I have been watching a ton of the P4 ER and the grinding the dungeon episodes are the rough ones. I wish everything could be story stuff.

 

[Tunoku]

I have been watching a ton of the P4 ER and the grinding the dungeon episodes are the rough ones. I wish everything could be story stuff.

Poor Ghoul. Nobody likes him.

 

[kai3345]

i wonder if anyone's made a guide of essential p4 er episodes

 

[Hindl]

i wonder if anyone's made a guide of essential p4 er episodes

Here you go

 

[Zornack]

Fusing episodes are essential viewing.

 

[robotrock]

If you're not gonna endurance run the endurance run then you're not actually watching the endurance run

 

[daveo42]

Fusing episodes are essential viewing.

I started playing P3P while watching the P4 ER during their dungeon "grind" episodes cause they got super boring outside of a few choice sections (lol Hama). Fusion episodes usually made me mad because of their choices on fusions.

 

[Puck Beaverton]

Did Dave ever get to see The King?

 

[SuperSonic1305]

I don't know how you guys can have videos on in the background while playing games. I need to focus on one thing at a time. Paying half attention to two different things sounds like a nightmare.

Dan is bad at yakuza fighting.

Counters and dodging is the antithesis of Dan Ryckert. He's going to have a real rough time later on.

It feels really limited in singular fights too, or at least repetitive. It's best when you have a ton of enemies and just plough through them with cleave attacks.

I couldn't disagree more. One on one is where Yakuza shines.

 

[SuperStiltzkin]

I started playing P3P while watching the P4 ER during their dungeon "grind" episodes cause they got super boring outside of a few choice sections (lol Hama). Fusion episodes usually made me mad because of their choices on fusions.

This is why you leave it on in the background when you do/play something else. You have the endure the endurance run.

Weren't they both spoiled pretty early on?

I don't think early on. But I do think Jeff was spoiled on the true culprit around the 100+ episode mark.

 

[robotrock]

if anyone has like pro level footage of how to properly get through the yakuza fights please share

 

[slightconfuse]

Any word on a powerbomb cast?

 

[Meneses]

I'm with you, the only exception is that I listen to the podcast while walking to the gym or while I'm doing cardio. But otherwise their content has my full attention.

I'm enjoying BitE alot so far.

Yeah, podcasts during commutes are great. My previous job was close to home so I didn't really bother for a while, but now that I have actual travel time, they come in pretty handy / embarrassing when i'm laughing in the subway.

 

[Hindl]

Any word on a powerbomb cast?

It's dead

 

[Catvoca]

Any word on a powerbomb cast?

It's living with Demo Derby now

 

[Eleuin]

Persona is my favorite series but I haven't even played one before. I'm super pumped too

Wat

 

[SuperSonic1305]

I feel like by the end of Yakuza 0 Alex is going to have to recap the whole thing because Dan and sometimes Vinny can't remember anything that happened the week before much less longer.

 

[SandwichMeat]

If Dan locks on to enemies with R1, dodges with X, and only hits triangle when finishing a combo or when the flame icon is in the top right corner he will enjoy the combat much more.

It's clear that once he gets to the 2nd and 3rd heat bar he just spams triangle trying to get heat stuff and that doesn't work.

Also there's no real need to try so hard to get heat actions in every fight, there are plenty of fights and plenty of chances to do cool moves

 

[Curufinwe]

Started watching the P4 Endurance Run yesterday. I've never watched the whole thing through, but I just watch a smattering of episodes occasionally. Does anybody else get the feeling that Vinny is purposefully playing dumb? Both in messing up his inputs and pretending he knows less about the series than he actually does.

No, he barely played Persona 3.

Spoiler

When they get to Gekkoukan he doesn't even recognize it as being from P3.

The spoiler is for episode 100, during which Vinny asks for customizable ring tones in persona 5.

 

[SandwichMeat]

awww geez Vinny really hating on Kiryu

just give it time, Kiryu is awesome and his story picks up soon

 

[Puck Beaverton]

Kiryu is cool, but compared to Majima...

 

[robotrock]

Kiryu is about to be way cooler than Majima just wait

 

[valeo]

Podcasts have gotten me through many a mediocre game.

You make it sound like a chore.

I drop mediocre games as soon as I realise they're mediocre, haha. I use GB podcasts for games like Rocket League

 

[robotrock]

assuming persona 5 lets me grind and overlevel way too hard im bout to do a relisten of the 2016 goty awards

 

[AngryMoth]

Eh I'm kind of with Vinny on that one, Kiryu is the least interesting of any Yakuza protagonist except Saejima

 

[SandwichMeat]

Kiryu is cool, but compared to Majima...

Yea I get it, especially because so much just happened with Majima and not too much seems to be going on with Kiryu. I think the relationships Kiryu forms with Tachibana, Nishki, Oda, Kuze, etc all make for a really enjoyable story as the game goes on.

That stuff does take time to develop tho, while Majima's story is pretty much going 100 mph from the beginning, so I understand being bored by early Kiryu stuff.

Also I've only played zero so that's all I'm basing this off of

 

[Jintor]

Aww shit. I should have set my PS4 to download P5 digital when I woke up.