Giant Bomb #8 | It's a Hit!

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Holy shit Dan is a human trainwreck. Its baffling how someone who is 30 can have lead such a sheltered existence, but at the same time he has this sort of child like amazement of the world. Its truly amazing when it spouts his absurd opinions, but he fully commits so much that you have to respect it. He is a true story teller and no matter how cringe worthy they can be they are just so entertaining.

I imagine Dan to be a Mr. Magoo sort of person, just happily going on through life while everything falls apart around him
 
Tucah said:
Here's Vinny talking about a naked dating show.
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:I

alr1ght said:
Okay, I've got the youtube channel set up. Good lord, they make it difficult now. I seemingly have a 3 new youtube accounts. Whatever.

Here it is
https://www.youtube.com/user/giantbombunarchived
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If you would like to contribute (no juniors, and be active in this thread), PM me.
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Great job with all the organising the archiving.
 
Watching some of these unarchived videos for the first time, that whisky media basement office is weird as hell...

Fair play to whoever is managing that channel btw! I got into GB sometime after the takeover, so had no idea what stuff was like before then.
 
I bloody well hope Dan & Drew cut the loading times out of those PlayStation demos, those things were the stuff of nightmares!

And this is coming from someone who spent his early childhood loading C64 games from cassette tapes!
 
Before I had a basic understanding of how demos worked, I used to play the Tekken demo over and over thinking I could somehow trick it into letting me play the whole game.
 
Kelas said:
Before I had a basic understanding of how demos worked, I used to play the Tekken demo over and over thinking I could somehow trick it into letting me play the whole game.
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I blame WinZip for this sort of misconception.

Also, IIRC, the Just Cause 2 demo actually had this sort of thing. It is a strict 30 minute timed demo, but there's some way to trick or disable the timer for unlimited play. The demo is only a small chunk of the game, but since it's largely repetitive anyways I guess that's almost like giving away the entire thing.
 
Kelas said:
Before I had a basic understanding of how demos worked, I used to play the Tekken demo over and over thinking I could somehow trick it into letting me play the whole game.
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I had a similar experience with the Mortal Kombat 2 demo on PC. Since you only could select Scorpion and Liu Kang, I figured that the "random" would let me pick another fighter. The game would constantly crash when the randomizer landed on a different character, but it actually worked for all the ninjas. Obviously it was a big chore trying to get a real two-player match with sub-zero and reptile, but it was really exciting.

Probably a known fact, but I really felt I discovered something there back in the day.
 
rogue_pigeon said:
I bloody well hope Dan & Drew cut the loading times out of those PlayStation demos, those things were the stuff of nightmares!

And this is coming from someone who spent his early childhood loading C64 games from cassette tapes!
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Don't think of them as load times, think of them as opportunities for Great Moments In Ryckert History stories.
 
I have a ton of old PS2 demo discs that I found a while back, and played all of them a year ago. Thought about making a thread, but didn't want to bother writing up thoughts on like 100 different demos. Pumped for this feature
 
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My cropping is uneven, i disgust myself.

Fixed it.
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This is a fantastic idea. We've had Dan for, what, a month and we already have three new premium series - the demo thing, WoW and Mario Party, in addition to tons of regular QLs thanks to him and GBeast getting setup properly. Dan is exactly what the site needed.
 
I have to say, Drew and Dan are an amazing team. Pretty unexpected too.
With Drew making more video stuff now, it's almost like they hired three guys. Pretty excited about that
 
Demo Derby is a great idea and a great name. Demo discs were the best thing about Playstation. This is going to be like a second trip through Game Room but without the busted avatars. Most of the games are probably going to be garbage, but I'm sure Dan will be gleefully running through even the jankiest 3D platformer and enjoying those awful attempts at moving the 2D brawler to 3D. Plus he'll be forced to try a whole bunch of JRPGs if he's committed to playing all the games on the disc. All of this is good.
 
Tucah said:
This is a fantastic idea. We've had Dan for, what, a month and we already have three new premium series - the demo thing, WoW and Mario Party, in addition to tons of regular QLs thanks to him and GBeast getting setup properly. Dan is exactly what the site needed.
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His job isn't going to meetings, booking appointments, taking interviews, or writing reviews. It's creating video content. And he is doing a damn fine job at it
 
I played this one demo disc which had Wipeout 2097 on it for 20 hours easy. The demo race only lasted two laps instead of the usual four laps for the Rapier speed class, and you started in last place so coming in first was almost impossible. It took me thousands of attempts.

This is it. The demo had the same music (Body In Motion by Cold Storage), so it's burned into my brain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JS2dTBXfLE
 
For the dudes grabbing the twitch archives: I can use the Twitch API to produce a list of direct URLs to every .flv file for all the broadcasts, if that would be of any use to you? From there you should be able to just plug the list into a download manager, or loop over the URLs if you're Linux inclined.
 
Zaph said:
Someone already took care of that. It's really useful http://www.twitchtools.com/video-download.php
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Yeah those tools are out there, but someone still has to plug in each individual broadcast link to get the URLs for that one archive, and there are 514 archived streams on the Giant Bomb twitch account. I'd just be able to save someone a whole bunch of copypasting.

If it's not needed though, that's cool, means I don't have to get up and go to my PC.
 
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