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Giant Bomb #6 | You'd be hard pressed to find 10 better threads this year.
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Whhaaaaat.
terrdactycalsrock
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It really was the better game
EmCeeGramr
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yeah i can't imagine a game filled with mediocre combat getting goty
Phew, because there are just so few of those!
ZING!
Keyser Soze
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Vinny is going to suck at Dark Souls in 2014,,, I keep wishing he could make the time to finish it in pre-Xmas
2 hours, and he is done!
2 hours, and he is done!
forgeforsaken
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The problem to me was, SR3 was clearly the Giantbomb GOTY. Not best game, or any of that,but the game that most resonated with the staff of the site and the one they all seemed to like the most. Skyrim felt like the safe choice, from a line of thinking like "people wont take us seriously if we pick SR3." Which seems completely misguided for them as a site. It was a bit of them being afraid to be who they were to try and fit in, when they are at their best when they are the rebels of the industry.
I understand he's probably busy editing GotY stuff, but he's so close to the end.
funkystudent
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I get the humour in SR3 scratched a very specific itch for Jeff and Ryan but other then that it had maybe 5 worthwhile missions in the entire game.
Definitely had similar vibes. Saints fell more in line with the overall personality of the site, in my opinion.
And how many did Skyrim have?
LackingSaint
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SR3 and Skyrim both had some very monotonous elements but on the whole I played SR3 to completion and came out happy, whereas at a point I just kind of shrugged off Skyrim and forgot most of what I did.
eot
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Yeah it's a bummer, shouldn't have bought a 1 month sub :|
Don't have any real interest in the other premium content.
super-famicom
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Big LOL at the title of Patrick's upload: Jeff Gerstmann's 2014 Game of the Year Is Here
Have to think about it for a bit, but it was pretty crazy how on the nose they were about the Bioware thing.
Early access perhaps?
Microtransactions on the level of the Xbone launch games puts a pretty bad taste in my mouth.
What's this Bioware thing?
BobTheFork
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I guess it's time to bail on the Bomb for a week. I've never listened to any of the GOTY podcasts after about 20 minutes a few years ago. The video pieces they do have always been great but I can't stand listening to the debate that goes into the lists.
Oh yeah! Forgot about all the Fake Betas rendering the term almost meaningless
Maybe something to do with all the crazy apologies this year, though probably 'free to pay'.
What'll they call 'worst industry trend' this year?
The Dutch Slayer
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That's too classy for the shitshow and insanity that will inevitably follow lol
giant_frying_pan
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Came to post. Well done Andrew Allen! Captures the open mic poetry night aesthetic perfectly!
I can just imagine a beatnik Brad Shoemaker dropping a hipster Haiku about how your game isn't better than Brothers, brother!
BobTheFork
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Was MineCraft the game that started the early access trend as a concept?
I think it's great for the devs but you are paying full price for an incomplete game that may not take choices and directions you like at the end.
I think it's great for the devs but you are paying full price for an incomplete game that may not take choices and directions you like at the end.
Personally, I think it's just as bullshit as the micro transaction trends lately except I'm hearing far less complaints about it.
Remember the good old days when we got free demo's of already completed games?
Giant Bomb not producing enough content.
Broken-ass games is going to take it in a landslide. Sim City and Battlefield 4 were both released this year.
What do you mean by fake betas?
Calling a demo or 'server stress test' a beta for marketing purposes as opposed to a game that is actively in development like Kerbal, Starbound or DayZ
Don't listen to this guy, the real Giant Bomb GOTY theme song (as filibustered by Brad) is this.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Heh.
But still, for both games with terrible combat in them, I've got to give skyrim an edge over SR3 just due to the world being far more interesting than the snoozefest that is steelport. Or any GTA style open world.
Mikey Jr.
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Hey guys, hope you guys can find a vid for me.
I am looking for the video they made right after the Sony E3 press conference 2013.
They were outside in the dark. I THINK Will Smith from tested was there, not 100% sure on that though.
Anyways, I cant find that fucking vid for the life of me.
I am looking for the video they made right after the Sony E3 press conference 2013.
They were outside in the dark. I THINK Will Smith from tested was there, not 100% sure on that though.
Anyways, I cant find that fucking vid for the life of me.
nckillthegrimace
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Yeah, probably microtransactions, specifically game-specific currency nonsense.
close to the edge
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The idea with the early access stuff is that the community has more of a hand in the development of the game, since it's still so early. How much of this is actually the case (and whether that's a good thing or not) depends very much on how the developers take feedback. I'd imagine it's a lot different when you're developing an alpha version of a game with a couple of friends giving you feedback (< 10 people probably, for an indie game at least) or with a whole community (1000+ people).
Wait, is that this years theme? How do you know?
Mikey Jr.
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Ohhh....I saw that video, but I thought it was just a behind the scenes type thing about how they film the conferences, etc.
Didn't know there was any sort of discussion in there. Thanks!
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