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[Real Hero]

nah Abby and Dan need to go west.
Ben goes east.

perfect.

are you trying to kill giantbomb?

 

[Hasney]

No bombcast today?

It's never on the schedule until they get in the office on the day it seems.

 

[Lari]

I wouldn't change a thing on the east team, they are incredible together.

 

[Data West]

Enslaved and DmC are both middling to bad games, Brad loved both. Heavenly Sword is a bad bad bad game.

DmC is a good game

Enslaved is a bad game

 

[Diprosalic]

are you trying to kill giantbomb?

i think i just fixed it

 

[imBask]

"oh the west team sucks so let's DESTROY the east team"

That's the most american line of thinking of all time

 

[kiguel182]

Jeff and Brad in the East could be fun.

Edit: also, imagine a Demo Derby with Jeff, Dan and Abby!

 

[Basileus777]

"oh the west team sucks so let's DESTROY the east team"

That's the most american line of thinking of all time

Yeah Americans, those famous socialists.

 

[Lari]

Get all of Giant Bomb inside a missile silo. That's the optimal way.

 

[robotrock]

Your fantasies will never be realized gbgaf. Stop this at once.

 

[Data West]

Jeff and Brad in the East could be fun.

Edit: also, imagine a Demo Derby with Jeff, Dan and Abby!

"I wasn't alive when this came out"
k i imagined

 

[MadLaughter]

So what GB person do you feel like your game tastes most align with?

For me, it's Vinny. Sometimes I get trapped in a similar 'collectathon' mode, I too think ME2 is one of the best games of all-time, and I usually tend to be on his side of things come GOTY.

 

[Incandenza]

There's an interesting history of games lying to players. Strategy games do it a lot, e.g. in Civ 4, I think it is, the AI actually doesn't suffer from fog of war--their individual units always have visibility of their full movement range when deciding where to go. And in XCOM 2, the aim percentages displayed to the player are all lies (except in the highest difficulty, again IIRC) in that they are actually higher than shown; there's a pity bonus added for every miss. Another one jumping out at me, though not a strategy game--Resident Evil 4 has an adaptive difficulty mechanic, where it gets easier or harder based on how you perform. I believe all were mentioned in interviews or postmortems somewhere.

It's a design decision to make the game more playable somehow.

Modern Fire Emblem games (except Echoes) also lie about hit percentages.

 

[Lari]

So what GB person do you feel like your game tastes most align with?

I have an undying love for Zelda and Mario, so probably Dan.

 

[LiK]

DmC is a good game

Enslaved is a bad game

DmC was pretty incredible.

Enslaved was a great experience.

 

[imBask]

So what GB person do you feel like your game tastes most align with?

For me, it's Vinny. Sometimes I get trapped in a similar 'collectathon' mode, I too think ME2 is one of the best games of all-time, and I usually tend to be on his side of things come GOTY.

Alex because I love saint vitus and hate everything else

 

[Hasney]

Jeff and Brad in the East could be fun.

Edit: also, imagine a Demo Derby with Jeff, Dan and Abby!

I mean, it would be no Jeff, Brad and Ben based on the last one they did, so that would be a bummer.

 

[oti]

Throw them into a safe house and they only get food if they produce content.

 

[OdysseusVA]

So what GB person do you feel like your game tastes most align with?

For me, it's Vinny. Sometimes I get trapped in a similar 'collectathon' mode, I too think ME2 is one of the best games of all-time, and I usually tend to be on his side of things come GOTY.

Vinny

He's the only one with good taste and finished The Witcher 3

 

[Human Trashcan]

So what GB person do you feel like your game tastes most align with?

For me, it's Vinny. Sometimes I get trapped in a similar 'collectathon' mode, I too think ME2 is one of the best games of all-time, and I usually tend to be on his side of things come GOTY.

Probably Brad? I don't like RTS/DOTA much but I think we have similar sensibilities in a lot of other areas, aside from his "is Mario Maker a game?" nonsense.

Brothers wasn't that good though

 

[Oakinn]

So what GB person do you feel like your game tastes most align with?

For me, it's Vinny. Sometimes I get trapped in a similar 'collectathon' mode, I too think ME2 is one of the best games of all-time, and I usually tend to be on his side of things come GOTY.

I like shooting things so I'll say Jeff. But there are times where I'm so against his view on a certain game it's frustrating.

 

[Hasney]

Throw them into a safe house and they only get food if they produce content.

I hope u like DOTA

 

[Death Metalist]

So what GB person do you feel like your game tastes most align with?

For me, it's Vinny. Sometimes I get trapped in a similar 'collectathon' mode, I too think ME2 is one of the best games of all-time, and I usually tend to be on his side of things come GOTY.

Brad/Vinny, give or take.

 

[BTA]

So what GB person do you feel like your game tastes most align with?

For me, it's Vinny. Sometimes I get trapped in a similar 'collectathon' mode, I too think ME2 is one of the best games of all-time, and I usually tend to be on his side of things come GOTY.

Of all staff ever? Austin with a little bit of Patrick.

Of current staff? A combination of Vinny and Alex; I'm way too completionist/collectathon-minded, but my taste in games reflects Alex's a bit more.

 

[daveo42]

I hope u like DOTA

Sounds like they hate food.

 

[Teddified]

No one probably reflects my tastes too well, but it would be vinny cause of Witcher 3 and OCD collectathons probably.

 

[imBask]

Of all staff ever? Austin with a little bit of Patrick.

You monologue about unrelated things for an hour AND you talk over everyone else?

 

[TraBuch]

So what GB person do you feel like your game tastes most align with?

For me, it's Vinny. Sometimes I get trapped in a similar 'collectathon' mode, I too think ME2 is one of the best games of all-time, and I usually tend to be on his side of things come GOTY.

Whichever one of them is hyped for .hack HD and literally shouted in joy when he or she learned that a brand new volume 4 would be included with the trilogy.

 

[robotrock]

You monologue about unrelated things for an hour AND you talk over everyone else?

Do you really have to make some variation of this post every time someone brings up Austin

 

[Teddified]

Whichever one of them is hyped for .hack HD and literally shouted in joy when he or she learned that a brand new volume 4 would be included with the trilogy.

so no one.

 

[imBask]

Do you really have to make a variation of this post every time someone brings up Austin

yes now let me explain to you why by starting in 1845

 

[Hindl]

I have an undying love for Zelda and Mario, so probably Dan.

Shit probably me too.

I guess Dan, with Jeff's attitude toward hating games that keep me from getting to the action and desire to see the numbers go up, and Brad's Dota obsession

 

[daveo42]

So what GB person do you feel like your game tastes most align with?

For me, it's Vinny. Sometimes I get trapped in a similar 'collectathon' mode, I too think ME2 is one of the best games of all-time, and I usually tend to be on his side of things come GOTY.

Probably a mix of Vinny and Alex at this point.

 

[oti]

I hope u like DOTA

No water for you!

 

[BTA]

Dan is the biggest power consumer.



Thanks for the heads up. That bit about side quests sounds depressingly bad. I enjoyed most of the side stuff in Automata.

For what it's worth, I've been playing it in bursts over the past few months (and have not played Automata) and the side quests have been totally fine to good. I only have a few left after getting ending B last time I played, and they are a little tedious looking, but I've decided to Plat it so I'm going to be dealing with a lot of farming while listening to podcasts anyway. So that's not a big deal. Just do the ones that appeal to you and you'll probably not have an issue.

 

[alr1ght]

Jeff and Brad in the East could be fun.

Edit: also, imagine a Demo Derby with Jeff, Dan and Abby!

"What is a demo disc?" Hell, "What is a demo?"

 

[BTA]

You monologue about unrelated things for an hour AND you talk over everyone else?

Is there a reason you decided to turn me talking about my game tastes aligning with theirs into a completely unnecessary (and incorrect) insult, or was it just to be shitty?

 

[DanLongman]

So what GB person do you feel like your game tastes most align with?

For me, it's Vinny. Sometimes I get trapped in a similar 'collectathon' mode, I too think ME2 is one of the best games of all-time, and I usually tend to be on his side of things come GOTY.

More me its Vinny with a mix of Dan. I love Adventure games.

Story is king for me in games, but most of Dan's favourite games I also love.

 

[Oakinn]

Let's make this thread the most positive GB thread of all time

.

 

[alr1ght]

So what GB person do you feel like your game tastes most align with?

Easily Dan. Huge Metal Gear fan as well, and he doesn't seem to give a shit about collecting worthless garbage or watching numbers go up like the rest of them.

 

[LiK]

Vinny is my gaming spirit animal. We like 99% of the same things. Flower will always divide us.

 

[imBask]

Is there a reason you decided to turn me talking about my game tastes aligning with theirs into a completely unnecessary (and incorrect) insult, or was it just to be shitty?

nah i'm shitting on Austin, I wasn't targetting you. I'm sorry, Oakinn is right

.

 

[TraBuch]

so no one.

Well shit. Uh...Whichever one of them played Trails of Cold Steel and was fucking blown away by the ending and waited impatiently for part 2 and preordered it on Amazon but was so impatient because it wouldn't get to his or her house until around six that he or she drove for an hour until he or she could find a store that was carrying the game and then went home and played it for eight straight hours and then finally went to sleep only to wake up an hour later because he or she really fucking wanted to play more Trails of Cold Steel 2 so he or she called into work and said he or she was sick and then went to the living room and proceeded to play the game for another ten hours straight?

Which one of them did that? My tastes are like that person's.

 

[BTA]

nah i'm shitting on Austin, I wasn't targetting you. I'm sorry, Oakinn is right

I never said the completely unnecessary and incorrect insult was directed at me.

 

[imBask]

I never said the completely unnecessary and incorrect insult was directed at me.

Then you're correct it was me being shitty, again sorry!

 

[peaceland]

So what GB person do you feel like your game tastes most align with?

For me, it's Vinny. Sometimes I get trapped in a similar 'collectathon' mode, I too think ME2 is one of the best games of all-time, and I usually tend to be on his side of things come GOTY.

A mix of Dan and Alex.

 

[Liquid Shake]

So what GB person do you feel like your game tastes most align with?

For me, it's Vinny. Sometimes I get trapped in a similar 'collectathon' mode, I too think ME2 is one of the best games of all-time, and I usually tend to be on his side of things come GOTY.

I like JRPGs so nobody really but for the most part Dan because of Metal Gear and my sadistic love of Mario Party with friends.

 

[BearPawB]

Brad and Alex

 

[MadLaughter]

*Tried to post the 'who do you align with more' question as a fun diversion from weird east vs west duder judgements*

*it just led to different duder judgements*

 

[Ashby]

I still got half of the 1099 Bradcast to listen to.Yesterday's Murder Island. The Waypoint podcast where they talk about the Nick Robinson stuff. Today's bombcast. The new Mr. Plinkett review. I work ten hours a day, somebody turn off the content hose!