MiniBossBattle
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I picked on this too.
I wish i never learned that the Bombcast was recorded on Monday. Its like learning how sausage was made. I will still consume and enjoy it but know what they do to get the product out.
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I picked on this too.
I wish i never learned that the Bombcast was recorded on Monday. Its like learning how sausage was made. I will still consume and enjoy it but know what they do to get the product out.
shadyspace
Banned
More importantly I want to know what the guys think of the new Batsuit
EmCeeGramr
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Really annoying how the site has been doing this. Their live player is great (though they were using youtube here) but you can't pause/rewind during a live show because you'll just get booted before it ends for you. I get home from work after most of their live content has started and now I just have to wait for the archive instead of going back ~45 minutes and watching to the end.
Question is, have you (and others who's saying this now) been feeling this way before today and/or whatever pretty recent news that also dropped on a tuesday which they missed? If not, it's probably not a big deal because they've pretty much always recorded it on a monday (and sometimes on a tuesday, but I get the impression that it's like 8-9 monday recordings for every tuesday).
I personally prefer to get the Bombcast earlier on a tuesday, so monday recordings are cool by me. And don't really see the need to suddenly begin recording it later in the week than tuesdays at the latest.
EmCeeGramr
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I've been noticing it for years.
Jimmyfenix
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I want to know Dave from Chicago's opinion on it.
shadyspace
Banned
The short ears make this Batman impervious to BatTech. He'll hate it.
Fair enough! I've never really noticed them missing a lot of news because they record on mondays, but I guess it happens. Ah well, since it's a Vinnycast maybe we can hope that he records some 15 minute thing at the end or something?
SatelliteOfLove
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I wonder if meetingsmeetingsmeetings keeps them from doing it on Tuesday afternoon reliably.
It happens a handful of times every year.
Honestly, unless news breaks over the weekend or early Monday morning (almost never), the news portion of the Bombcast always feels stale. Sometimes there are whole stories not discussed because they simply forgot (wasn't there some recent Nintendo news this happened to?).
One of the few interesting things about TNT was that it would sometimes act as a good supplemental podcast when this stuff happened.
As far as I understand, they began recording it on mondays long before they moved to CBSi.
It's not uncommon for them to talk a bit about news during UPF. That's where they first discussed Project Beast and the Sony's E3 plans "leak," if I'm not mistaken.
paradox121
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This is a sad day for future Giant Bomb Kinect Quick Looks.
Look at it this way - the Kinect games that do come out will be so crappy, rushed and under developed that they'll be perfect Quick Look material.
Jimmyfenix
Member
Well today is awesome. Just loaded up uPlay and i forgot i had Far cry blood dragon Yiss!
They won't?
From what I recall, they switched to Mondays for recording because when they used to do recording -> editing -> uploading all on Tuesday it pretty much took up an entire day for Ryan.
I honestly can't remember them saying a single positive thing about the kinect.
Alex and Patrick didn't exactly spin it on their short reaction podcast.
http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/lets-talk-about-microsofts-big-xbox-news-today/2300-8877/
Looks like Patrick was on the Bombcast lol.
Looks like Patrick was on the Bombcast lol.
Well Jeff (from his tweet), and Patrick and Alex (from Bombin with the A.M) have certainly not 'spinned' anything they have said.
I don't know where this is coming from.
santeesioux
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Do people still think they're Xbox fanboys or something?
Baron_Calamity
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Its been a few years but they were just more energetic about the industry and its happenings.
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Just looks like he is trying to find another "secret sauce" ala Cloud, secret GPU, secret RAM and anything else any number of people wanted so that the XBone was on par with PS4.
Jeff on Twitter and Patrick on the reaction show both talked about liking using it to navigate the UI, which appears to be the common feeling (including mine).
They've never been fans of the motion control stuff, however, and Alex rightfully pointed out that there have basically been no games designed solely around motion control barring Kinect Sports Rival, which was pretty much pushed out to die.
The conspiracy theory about how GB won't badmouth Harmonix or Double Fine.
His main whistle blower source seems to be in EA, I would not be at all surprised if the same source heard the MS DRM news first and passed it along.
It isn't that they shouldn't talk about it - just not sure it is big enough that they lose much by talking about it next week when Jeff can also join in.
A lot of breaking news does seem to come out Tuesdays but if you went and collated the data I bet it breaks on a selection of other weekdays almost as frequently.
Is it possible that they just enjoyed that game more than most people? Witness Jeff and Syndicate.
Yeah news breaks way too often late monday/early tuesday to not notice it all the time. Podcast recorded on Friday would probably be the best because for the most part nothing happens on the weekend.
That game got good scores everywhere, also I don#t think they have a unhealthy relationship with Double Fine.
Muir is fine but that TNT with all of the Double Fine staff felt weird.
Slightly below the Metacritic average too. Those colluding bastards.
(Unless you were offering that as an example of them treating a Double Fine game perfectly fairly, in which case I wouldn't be snarky.)
look at this PC port of a game we were all disappointed by!
Freedom = $1.05
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The real crime was giving The Cave 3 stars. It was trying to be a puzzle platformer with a sense of humor but it its attempt to juggle all of those things it failed miserably at all of them.
But seriously, them never reviewing Dance Central 3 was probably the shadiest of shit given that they ripped it a new one not too long ago.
But seriously, them never reviewing Dance Central 3 was probably the shadiest of shit given that they ripped it a new one not too long ago.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Am I in an alternate reality where Iron Brigade was a terrible game, hated by everyone but GiantBomb?
To me The Cave is the perfect "3 star" game.
To me The Cave is the perfect "3 star" game.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
then I must've imagined all of those dance central and rock band reviews. Which, btw, i didnt have an issue with until they skipped reviewing Dance Central 3, which kinda rubbed me the wrong way.
Yeah, i was only being facetious with it not being 3 stars. It's very much a meh game that does some things right but is mostly middling.
BUNTING1243
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Wasn't that more Jeff being lazy/having nothing to say about another Dance Central game?
Well, I remember he had plenty to say about it on the podcast, and none of it was good. Whatever though, I don't think him not reviewing it was shady. I'd prefer they just abstain from reviewing games made by their close friends anyway.
Jimmyfenix
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Greg is obviously on the payroll
Honestly, I remember that podcast and it felt like he was deliberately being extra vitroilic as if to make up for what he felt like was a bad move to not review the game.
It almost felt like he was trying to be like "Hey, I will TOTALLY tear apart a game that my friends made see look how much I hate this?"
Maybe I was looking into it too much, but I remember it feeling like he put extra effort into making sure he was rotten on the game.
Jimmyfenix
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Good! Kasavin back on Gamespot!
firehawk12
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It is too bad that the SF office can't just jump on and do a short show about the news. But I assume Jeff is out, and Brad and Vinny probably don't have much to say, so why bother.
Our memories of that podcast are very similar.
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