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Giant Bomb #6 | You'd be hard pressed to find 10 better threads this year.
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I would buy all of the subscriptions to make this happen.
That's why.
Keyser Soze
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Honestly, I'd like Danny O'Dwyer to move over to Giant Bomb rather than Jeff Green coming in - although both would be great picks (very hard to pick people to add to GB, but those two work).
Danny even has his own Jar time already
Danny even has his own Jar time already
I agree completely. I watched the whole quick look but damn was that not the most boring thing I've seen in a while.
Infinite Justice
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watching the Shadow Fall quicklook and i almost died at the section with the OWL and the Train LOL
The dumb stuff like that is why i love watching Giant Bomb
The dumb stuff like that is why i love watching Giant Bomb
funkystudent
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The probably with Danny is he is trying so hard to be Jeff and Ryan he wouldnt bring anything to the table.
At least he has the Irish accent to help keep things from getting to Kessler levels.
Also Killzone SF.
Die Squirrel Die
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Were they really launch games though? They were US launch games but that didn't happen until about 9/10 months after the Japanese launch so they had all that extra time with locked down hardware to work to, which falls outside Brad's point about launch software being developed to a moving target.
not at all. not even close.
TemplaerDude
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I really strongly dislike the way Knack looks. Just look at this thing. Why is it so...shitty
Probably because it's launch title.
I dont mean the graphics, its design. All kinds of weird unconnected parts that are kind of like a face and arms but not really and some of it is wooden and other is metal and theyre all different geometric shapes
Fun Factor
Formerly FTWer
That is an insult to both Killzone & to Kameo.
He's made of all your favorite default 3D shape models!
Netrunner2k2
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Yeah, the design (and voice) of the character is awful. Don't know what they were thinking.
If we've learned anything about Giant Bomb over the years, it should be that pestering the guys about something you want them to do is probably the best way to ensure it doesn't happen. I'm sure they have a short list of candidates and hear the same things everyone else does regarding employment situations.
I would appreciate another core member in the SF offices after the craziness of this year, but there's probably dozens of reasons why it can't happen or when it can. Businesses are weird like that.
Yeah but that team doesn't really have a good excuse since they were working with the guy who designed the damn system.
fizzelopeguss
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trickstyle, ready to rumble, sonic. the dreamcast launch was a fucking visual tour de force and i was primarily a pc gamer too.
How do you feel about Rayman?
No but if I had to guess, it's Dec kits
funkystudent
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GB probably has a debug unit.
Dat CBSi backing. No bitching on twitter required for them.
razgriz417
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I am not sure that is true. I mean if you tell them "cover this game" then Jeff can dig in and be stubborn but with really important decisions I think they will do what they think is best and ignore what anyone says to them one way or the other.
I mean people were hassling Jeff about employing Rorie for almost a year and he only got in when there was a natural job opening. He didn't shoe horn him in just because they are friends and he didn't black ball him just because the community was demanding it.
Gamespot said - in conjunction with the HDMI problems - that their retail unit ran for 7 hours straight on the live stream. I imagine CBS as a whole got at least one dev unit for running preview code but it could just be that Sony gave out legal waivers saying they would not sue anyone bypassing HDCP for the duration of launch publicity. I ain't no laywer ...
Thx for that. Seems he was taking questions from the chat - which makes a lot more sense. When you mentioned it I imagined him issuing a public "come get me". He also seems to think it was unlikely to happen.
He was wrong when he said GB don't need more staff though. They are stretched really thin when just one of them is out of the office for wnatever reason. Needs to be the right person but they could use some cover.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Wow. No, not quite. Just vanilla videogames fun.
It seems like the whole Knack changing sizes was at one point much more ambitious, but somewhere along the way they had to make a decision and essentially scrap it entirely. They purposefully avoided dealing with the design issues that arise when having to account for various sizes of Knack at any given point by not making it dynamic at all. There's no incentive for remaining small Knack so you just pick up the handful of predetermined relics along the linear path. And just to make sure that if that wasn't all enough to prevent stuff from fucking up, they shrink Knack down before the start of any boss. Game looks like butt.
Booker Dewitt
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How? Looks like the only thing Knack has over Sklanders is difficulty and it being a singular purchase. Other than that, Swap Force doesn't look that far off graphically and immediately has more depth with the different characters and their own abilities and upgrade paths. Also the optional stuff in the levels are more than just "knock down this wall."
Yep. It was pitched initially as the thing that set the game apart, and it ended up being a completely inconsequential throwaway.
Oh lawd make it happen yall
I've played Knack for, maybe, thirty seconds at a Sony store a few weeks back and not at all for Skylanders. I only know of it from GB podcasts and quick looks. From what I've seen, Skylanders' depth is hidden behind figurine purchases while Knack seems to be a middling, but competent pattern based action game. The latter I'm more familiar with.
In that sense, I think Knack looks better. Like I said though, my exposure to either game is limited. Maybe I'm wrong.
I like how Rayman looks but theres not a lot of similarity other than spaces between the arms/legs/head/torso
TemplaerDude
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My statement still stands.
paradox121
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I recently replayed the Jak trilogy thanks to PS+ and watching the Knack quick look reminded me of it mainly due to three things:
Unfair difficulty - By this I mean the combat itself doesn't necessarily seem challenging, it's just a case of enemies one-hit killing you, which, particularly for a family centric game, is unnecessary
Bad checkpointing- Which always feels as if developers just totally underestimate the difficulty of sections.
Double jump ledges- Seeing Jeff do that thing I think we've all done where you jump at a ledge logically thinking you'll have enough height to clear it, only to find, for some reason, it requires a double jump, is such a weird archaic thing. Tiny in the long run, sure, but it immediately struck me as one of those old school platforming grievances that got on my nerves.
Unfair difficulty - By this I mean the combat itself doesn't necessarily seem challenging, it's just a case of enemies one-hit killing you, which, particularly for a family centric game, is unnecessary
Bad checkpointing- Which always feels as if developers just totally underestimate the difficulty of sections.
Double jump ledges- Seeing Jeff do that thing I think we've all done where you jump at a ledge logically thinking you'll have enough height to clear it, only to find, for some reason, it requires a double jump, is such a weird archaic thing. Tiny in the long run, sure, but it immediately struck me as one of those old school platforming grievances that got on my nerves.
Brad's streaming the Resogun final boss attempt
http://www.twitch.tv/bradshoemaker
Edit: Brad called it "Pretty alright".
4/5 stars confirmed.
Edit edit: Jeffs playing Killzone in the background and just screamed "UGHHHH SO BORINGGG"
3/5 confirmed.
Edit edit edit: Jeff just said "Fuck this shit."
2/5 confirmed.
http://www.twitch.tv/bradshoemaker
Edit: Brad called it "Pretty alright".
4/5 stars confirmed.
Edit edit: Jeffs playing Killzone in the background and just screamed "UGHHHH SO BORINGGG"
3/5 confirmed.
Edit edit edit: Jeff just said "Fuck this shit."
2/5 confirmed.
Zombie James
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