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Giant Bomb #6 | You'd be hard pressed to find 10 better threads this year.
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Patrick says: "It takes quite a bit to scare me. Granted, there’s a good reason for that: I’ve seen it all."
Riiiiiiight.
Also videos have pre-roll ads. $$$
Riiiiiiight.
Also videos have pre-roll ads. $$$
He said he had problems streaming it, and he'll get back to it later probably. Hopefully soon, SCP is pretty cool.
RomanticHeroX
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I love the concept of Spookin, but I wish it was way less focused on indie stuff. There's a gem in there, occasionally, but there's like nine bad games for every good one. Michigan or Rule of Rose or Siren would all be as new to most of the audience, but they're also interesting games.
Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
not even secretly. Condemned was awesome
The Dear Leader
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Patrick sure does talk alot of game about he's a horror game pro, and it's so hard to scare him, yet every Spookin' dude turns into a bitch 5 minutes into the first game.
Cannon Goose
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Why does the Gamespot player not blow up to 1280x720 when you enlarge it? The GB player does.
Funchameleon
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God, yes, I had to scroll SO far to read this post even. My finger is exhausted.
Hey dude, you don't have to be so hostile towards him about it. I disagree with him about the design but that doesn't mean I should be acting like his thoughts are so meaningless. It's one thing he doesn't like. That's fine. You don't have to be a jerk about it.
funkystudent
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Maybe gamespot isnt using the exact same player.
Arent they rebuilding the GB player to not suck hot death as well?
Hopefully if they do they still have the player enlarge appropriately. Ideally when the player is enlarged there should be zero scaling on the video.
Infinite Justice
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never knew that.
Hopefully one day i'll get to try out the Rift
IIRC Alexis said the Gamepsot player is the new version and that should be the one that will be on GB eventually (or at least it will be based on it)
Funchameleon
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Perhaps if you're going to make such harsh calls as "God Alexis went overboard" you should expect to be met with equal criticism, especially if you didn't know what you were talking about in the first place.
Anyway, as I was saying, Alexis did a bad job because there's not enough purple on the page.
SteveWinwood
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why is everyone overreacting about everything
Man, thats fantastic - Gamespot player doesn't work for me at all in any browser.
RomanticHeroX
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Me neither.
Funchameleon
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Do you use any kind of browser agnostic adblock (like a hosts file)? Gamespot straight up won't load videos now if you block their ad provider.
The bosses are really easy, once you get the pattern. Checkpoints before the bosses wouldn't fit with the theme of the game. Half the fun is the tension of finally getting to the boss and realizing that if you screw it up you'll be all the way back at the last checkpoint.
I dislike the amount of spaces between each grid on giantbomb and gamespot, it makes the site feel empty. I dislike the large fonts and the large images that link to other pages. I do not need a 1200x700 video prompt. It feels designed for a tablet.
It looks slick though.
Sure, but having such a long lead up to a boss that can kill you so quickly doesn't give you the time to learn.
I guess my issue isn't necessarily that the checkpoint isn't immediately before the boss but that it's so far from it. It seems tedious instead of punishing and difficult.
MrTroubleMaker
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Me too, same for the GB player. I have to either use the youtube player or download the file.
Nope, and i tried it with disabled adblock. It's all down, nothing shows after the four bars, just a black void.
SteveWinwood
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hey guys i havent played this game
or know anything about it
but here i think this is better than what the creators thought up
or know anything about it
but here i think this is better than what the creators thought up
I have AdBlock, it's disabled on gamespot (I use the adblock the other way around: I only enable it for specific sites), I see the ad and... there's no video after that.
overall a great experience that only gamespot could've provided.
Funchameleon
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I can see where you're coming from on each of these points and you didn't have to insult the judgement of certified chill dude Alexis to make them! Cool.
Infinite Justice
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not even an ad?
this is exactly what happened to me then I messed with the video quality and that apparently allowed the video to reload and then play.
Maybe that might work?
It feels that way because it is. Every site is designed for tablets now, with huge whitespaces on the left and right of every page. Every big site that wants to reach a big audience is built with portrait mode in mind. Tested redesign and Polygon are the same way.
I don't know who are these people that browse the internet on tablets.
Ok, i got it to work. It works when adblock is disabled/uninstalled in firefox. It also kinda works when i disabled adblock on whole gamespot, but the video won't start after clicking play on the video - after that you have to click pause and play button.
And now it autoplays everytime. It's weird.
EDIT: and it works in IE
And now it autoplays everytime. It's weird.
EDIT: and it works in IE
Cannon Goose
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Sweet fucking christ, the HD download for Breaking Brad is 5.3GB!
MrTroubleMaker
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yay!
To be fair, the guy completing in 30 minutes probably spent at least a dozen hours mastering the game. I'm 8 hours in and keep getting stuck at the level Brad is on. Haven't even seen the second boss yet.
I've seen him. He's an asshole.
SteveWinwood
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I only caught the end, but my favorite is how he quits, doesn't figure out the level select at which point he RESETS and doesn't read the warning about how that resets ALL PROGRESS and then he can't level select no mores.
I've done that by accident a good 3 times now, but beating the first level after you've really ran it is trivial. I can do it super fast on my first try with no hits and all chests now.
I've done that by accident a good 3 times now, but beating the first level after you've really ran it is trivial. I can do it super fast on my first try with no hits and all chests now.
In no way am I saying it's trivial. I'm just marveling at how games like this can stretch out 30 minutes worth of levels over so many hours.
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