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Giant Bomb #6 | You'd be hard pressed to find 10 better threads this year.
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firehawk12
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Are they still planning a membership sale in January?
CambriaRising
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Uh what?
DmC made him a believer.
I'd love to see Brad play through Bayonetta.
Bayo, Vanquish or MGR on Hard and above. It would be great with Vinny commentary over the ridiculous stuff.
SteveWinwood
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That would actually be hilarious.
I sent Mat an E-Mail, hope I don't miss UPF today
No sir, I can read my date correctly in may paypal, email, and bank account.
Just checking. I know you europeans love to write your date wrong
Deactivision
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I'll admit I haven't seen much of these guys, but based on that video I can't understand why I'd ever want to. The guy playing made almost no attempt to even understand the game and demonstrated no gaming skill or unique perspectives. I understand not being interested in the game for whatever reasons but it just came across as whiny and lazy, and misinformative on top of that. Lame.
Normal difficulty is fine for a first playthru of any of those games (and of course on Bayo it's compulsory). I think Bayonetta or MGR would be much more interesting to watch than Vanquish.
What Brad and Vinny should be doing as a premium feature is playing REmake on the WiiU. There really couldn't be a more perfect pair to play/talk about that game, and it still holds up graphically thru HDMI or on the GamePad.
What Brad and Vinny should be doing as a premium feature is playing REmake on the WiiU. There really couldn't be a more perfect pair to play/talk about that game, and it still holds up graphically thru HDMI or on the GamePad.
giant_frying_pan
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Any reason why they missed the PlayStation Now [and] sales figure stuff as it happened? Was that announced in a separate presentation?
[EDIT - This is a question to anyone in the thread and not necessarily just you, FStop!]
What they listened to was Sony's CES conference. Where the PlayStation news was announced was the day after, during Kaz Hirai's keynote.
Bombcast was recorded on Monday. The Kaz keynote with all that stuff was on Tuesday.
Jeff has been in a nasty mood for a while now. He used the word "hate" many times during GOTY deliberations for the most bizarre reasons. Like, really, you HATE the effect used in the Amnesia OST? Chill out...
Like any game then.
giant_frying_pan
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Ah, I see. Obviously I know their recording schedule (I'm the one always being snarky about people complaining about the Bombcast being late/early when it rarely actually is!) and I heard Kaz talking in the bit Jeff mixed in on the podcast and assumed that was 'his' presentation.
Thanks bsigg for the reply as well!
MonsterDunk
Giant Bomb eSports Editor
I don't think I've ever heard the Amnesia soundtrack, so I'm not really sure what you're even talking about here. But don't let that stop you!
You mean when Patrick gave the example during the deliberations? I think it was simply a reaction to that style of music being unnerving.
Dunk'd
ShockingAlberto
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Ryan liked it for the spectacle and I think the same is true of Jeff and Rising. It's a shame that none of them ever want to scratch deeper than the surface on character action games.
It's probably one reason DmC and Ryse appealed so greatly to them, you don't have to go deeper to receive positive reinforcement.
giant_frying_pan
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It's probably for the best that you've popped in today Jeff and not last week when the topic of conversation was the 'best-of' alt.sports.gerstmann
(Please don't ban me, EmCee :'( )
(Please don't ban me, EmCee :'( )
Based just on that quick look I have no interest in ever picking it up if/when I get a WiiU. I would have wanted something more like Wario Ware with ONLY the really remixed stages, coming at me fast.
EmCeeGramr
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"Junior Member" is undignified for a man of Jeff's stature.
Hear hear
Oh yes
funkystudent
Member
As eSports editor does Jeff spend his days removing any sign of eSports from the site Brad tries to sneak in?
Except for that god damn World of Tanks tournament ad of course. Got to pay the bills and answer the call of eSports!
Except for that god damn World of Tanks tournament ad of course. Got to pay the bills and answer the call of eSports!
Ryse appealed to them?
Brad definitely liked it. Forgot if the rest played or liked it as much.
TheBaronOfNA
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Only Brad, as I remember.
The QL was basically Brad trying to justify Ryse to Vinny and Jeff.
Incandenza
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Glad to see you're using your powers for good.
I dunno, I feel like Jeff likes to troll their enthusiasm at times. It's funny. I don't remember this specific convo that well.
Subscription thing seems fixed. Thanks Matt!
And The Last of Us. And generally everything on the internet.
And The Last of Us. And generally everything on the internet.
Jimmyfenix
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Me and Jeff agree about Yoshi's island.
As he should.
TheBaronOfNA
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Eh. Although I will not describe Jeff as a "speed run level" player, I would not say that description applies to him, specially about retro games.
Oh God, that stupid thing makes me renew my subscription more than anything else. Also every time I hear it I am more convinced that it is Chris Waters who is doing the voice over.
Just give him his old Neo-Geo avatar back. That's what it was originally before.
Risible
Member
For the love of all that's holy, please give him a Yoshi's Island avatar. It's his favorite game, I swear!
Jeff's had a rough year, if he wants to hate on things let him hate.
Deactivision
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I'm not saying he doesn't possess skill, just that it wasn't on display in the video -- probably due to his disinterest, which was palpable. I guess he was decent at Excitebike.
I still think the video was lame though. He certainly hadn't put much effort into learning anything about the game to communicate to the audience. I just have difficulty comprehending the purpose of a video like this -- uninformed guy plays game he has no interest in. It may make sense in context if you're already a fan for other reasons, but to me it seems like they're doing their viewers a disservice and wasting everyone's time, including their own.
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