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[Jintor]

destiny raid + shadows of war so far has been preeeeetty good

 

[Antiwhippy]

Yeah Odyssey’s probably gonna end up being that when I’m digging through levels and have already heard the music and such.

I’m happy I finished V3 faster than expected because playing so many VNs wasn’t helping my podcast backlog, hah. Gonna start The Letter next week though cause I’ll fiiiiinally finish the last bit of CxM tonight.

I must say though this year is probably my most VN heavy year in awhile.

Though a couple of them were released last year.

 

[Blitzrules240]

"I never played Evil Within 1"

Then why do the QL Ben...

Also why is this video so dark.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Wait.

Why does Ben have to play TEW1 to play TEW2

He seems to be enjoying it too.

 

[robotrock]

"I never played Evil Within 1"

Then why do the QL Ben...

Also why is this video so dark.

Who on the GB staff has played The Evil Within 1

 

[Blitzrules240]

I dunno.

I'm being nitpicky.

Let's just carry on.

But yeah, the brightness slider in this QL could use a hike up.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Patrick was probably the only one who actually finished it.

 

[BTA]

I must say though this year is probably my most VN heavy year in awhile.

Though a couple of them were released last year.

Yeah, same. Like I’ve always played a few VNs a year, but this year has had a significant dive into my backlog from the past year or two plus a lot of good ones coming out that I’ve played as well. And I haven’t even gone near the Utawarerumono games and people speak really highly of those.

 

[Blitzrules240]

Hopefully I can finish Chapter 2 of Death of the Outsider tonight.

I'm gonna have to play injured but I think I can manage...

 

[nckillthegrimace]

The first Evil Within made me feel sick. The terrible framerate combined with the aspect ratio and general griminess of the picture gave me a crazy headache. I eventually watched a playthrough, and it seems like a pretty interesting, completely unpolished game with basically every horror idea Mikami had thrown in. The sequel looks to be significantly more polished, but that spark of imagination is completely gone.

On Waypoint, Patrick trashed how restricted the first game made him feel, while praising the flexibility of the sequel's combat scenarios even in the early game. But horror should be about restriction, and you should have to earn and plan for flexibility. I was surprised the star of spooking with scoops had such an odd outlook on the action-horror subgenre.

 

[Piston Hyundai]

The first Evil Within made me feel sick. The terrible framerate combined with the aspect ratio and general griminess of the picture gave me a crazy headache. I eventually watched a playthrough, and it seems like a pretty interesting, completely unpolished game with basically every horror idea Mikami had thrown in. The sequel looks to be significantly more polished, but that spark of imagination is completely gone.

On Waypoint, Patrick trashed how restricted the first game made him feel, while praising the flexibility of the sequel's combat scenarios even in the early game. But horror should be about restriction, and you should have to earn and plan for flexibility. I was surprised the star of spooking with scoops had such an odd outlook on the action-horror subgenre.

Patrick likes horror, not survival

 

[Infinite Justice]

dat Rhythm Emotion playing in the Gundam vs QL

 

[nckillthegrimace]

Patrick likes horror, not survival

Oh yeah, he's one of those who likes the aesthetics of fear more than the struggle of conquering fear.

 

[Antiwhippy]

You make patrick sound like the jigsaw killer.

 

[nckillthegrimace]

You make patrick sound like the jigsaw killer.

Well, they both play terrible games for an audience.

 

[Jintor]

the woke gamer could never harm another human being as has been comprehensively established

 

[nckillthegrimace]

the woke gamer could never harm another human being as has been comprehensively established

is his archnemesis the performative woke gamer, who signal boosts with one hand while dm sliding with the other?

 

[broncobuster]

Man i'm happy that GDQ became huge and now makes a ton of money for charity, but I do miss the smaller basement-like venues

Yeah. It’d be neat if they did a third GDQ that’s smaller and harkens back to those days.

 

[Piston Hyundai]

the whole "woke gamer" thing is either the best self-deprecating humor Patrick's ever done or cruel, cruel irony

 

[Chance Hale]

The Evil Within is one of my favorite games in the genre but it’s legitimately difficult and vicious in a way that games aren’t anymore. Having to deal with enemies, traps and rare instant death creatures at once make it incredibly tense. I played on pc so I avoided the technical issues of the console versions.

Story is gibberish tho.

 

[Piston Hyundai]

The Evil Within, if nothing else, is a healthy reminder that I want Jennifer Carpenter in more stuff

 

[Antiwhippy]

the whole "woke gamer" thing is either the best self-deprecating humor Patrick's ever done or cruel, cruel irony

I mean he does go into the origins of it and it seems like he knows.

 

[The Dear Leader]

Yeah the story of The Evil Within 1 is bad, and I think The Evil Within 2 starts with the dumbest most backwards continuation of that story, no one learned anything from the first game and they are all stupid people.

 

[Mechazawa]

On Waypoint, Patrick trashed how restricted the first game made him feel, while praising the flexibility of the sequel's combat scenarios even in the early game. But horror should be about restriction, and you should have to earn and plan for flexibility. I was surprised the star of spooking with scoops had such an odd outlook on the action-horror subgenre.

The first Evil Within is pretty much an action game, though. With the exception of a handful of stealth sequences, the "restriction" in that game was basically "can you shoot these guys good enough so you don't blow all your ammo or have to restart the encounter"

 

[Blitzrules240]

You make patrick sound like the jigsaw killer.

WANNA PLAY A LITTLE GAME?

 

[Jintor]

is his archnemesis the performative woke gamer, who signal boosts with one hand while dm sliding with the other?

Spoiler

the twist is that they're the same person!!!!!!

piston it's obvious kayfabe.

 

[BlackLagoon]

dat Rhythm Emotion playing in the Gundam vs QL

That surprised me. As I recall they started seriously skimping on the music licensing in the latter Gundam Warriors games, which made them feel even more cheap then they already were. No G Gundam is garbage though.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

I'm sad that the only ones of the GB crew that have seen Gundam are Austin, Ben and/or Vinny

Gundam would be so much their shit. Bens seen G-Gundam(The GOAT) but the regular Gundam series are so politically dramatic and it's amazing.

 

[Ashby]

That surprised me. As I recall they started seriously skimping on the music licensing in the latter Gundam Warriors games, which made them feel even more cheap then they already were. No G Gundam is garbage though.

G Gundam IS garbage though.

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

I'm sad that the only ones of the GB crew that have seen Gundam are Austin, Ben and/or Vinny

Gundam would be so much their shit. Bens seen G-Gundam(The GOAT) but the regular Gundam series are so politically dramatic and it's amazing.

One of the reasons why Vinny is the best.

 

[Jintor]

you know it occurs to me that I could have had a reasonable chance to send in a submission for the AusPax wrestling show, get in that, and then close my Kevin Bacon levels to anyone on GB staff

 

[BlackLagoon]

G Gundam IS garbage though.

I think you meant all Gundam but G Gundam is garbage.

 

[Karspankey]

Dude how the hell can people look so young

Like don't get me wrong, I look 16 without any facial hair

But like, there was a new girl at my job, and i giving her the tour of the place. When I got to the bailer, I showed her the bin for the people under 18 you can't operate the machinery. She then says she's not under 18 and I was like oh she must be just over then in my head

and then

she tells me that she is 30

THIRTY

what

So it got me wondering who the youngest gbgaf lad/ladette is

I wonder what the age gap is even like for people who sub to GB

 

[Ashby]

I think you meant all Gundam but G Gundam is garbage.

UC Gundam is one of the 20th century's great epics. G Gundam is silly shonen trash.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

UC Gundam is one of the 20th century's great epics. G Gundam is silly shonen trash.

G Gundam has the best goddamn ending ever

Also THE MAIN CHARACTER SHOOTS OUT A LITERAL KING AS AN ATTACK

I have this bookmarked and refer to it frequently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fUJ6LehQ3I

 

[Antiwhippy]

I dunno, I feel like most gundam series fall short after watching Gundam Seed.

 

[Stoze]

So it got me wondering who the youngest gbgaf lad/ladette is

I wonder what the age gap is even like for people who sub to GB

I'd say that subbing to anything for a price probably puts people in their teens at least, but after the birth of Twitch subscriptions I'm not so sure about that anymore.

 

[Tubobutts]

you know it occurs to me that I could have had a reasonable chance to send in a submission for the AusPax wrestling show, get in that, and then close my Kevin Bacon levels to anyone on GB staff

Are you the new hire?

 

[Blitzrules240]

Wish I had got into Gundam as a kid.

 

[Stoze]

Man I want to get a Switch pro controller for Mario Odyssey, but god damn at $70. That could fuel like all my indie purchases for the rest of the year.

 

[Piston Hyundai]

piston it's obvious kayfabe.

they say the best wrestling characters are the personalities of the people playing them, just exaggerated

 

[Ashby]

Wish I had got into Gundam as a kid.

Watch this

I dunno, I feel like most gundam series fall short after watching Gundam Seed.

I have fun going over the top with dogging on G Gundam but this a legitimately insane opinion.

 

[Salarians]

I'm watching three hours of Danny's Witcher documentaries and it's good

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Wish I had got into Gundam as a kid.

When I was a whee lad of like, 7-8 years old, I remember I asked my dad to get me a toy that was Gundam Death. I had no idea what Gundam was, didn't know i had to build it, but I thought it looked cool as shit.

Then like 11 years later it went full circle as I started collecting Gundam.

 

[Karspankey]

I'd say that subbing to anything for a price probably puts people in their teens at least, but after the birth of Twitch subscriptions I'm not so sure about that anymore.

Stats probably say that they have to have at least one person under 10 who watches their stuff. I wanna know who the G that asks mom and pop for a GB sub is

Wish I had got into Gundam as a kid.

I was so close to becoming a Gundam fan at one point I feel

I had a PS2 Gundam game that I couldn't even progress through past the first level and my parents got me a Gundam model for X-Mas that I never messed with

The pieces were in place

Was there a big Gundam spike in the US during the early 00's ?

 

[nckillthegrimace]

G Gundam has the best goddamn ending ever

Also THE MAIN CHARACTER SHOOTS OUT A LITERAL KING AS AN ATTACK

I have this bookmarked and refer to it frequently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fUJ6LehQ3I

no actually 08th MS Team is better because it's embarrassing for an academic to admit that the show where stereotypes punch each other and scream is super awesome

 

[BTA]

Man I want to get a Switch pro controller for Mario Odyssey, but god damn at $70. That could fuel like all my indie purchases for the rest of the year.

I’m interested to hear why you wanna go Pro? You’re obviously not alone in doing so, but I’ve never really understood why people feel it’s necessary - particularly at that cost. Potential dpad issues aside, Joycons are legitimately some of my favorite controllers.

EDIT:

no actually 08th MS Team is better because it's embarrassing for an academic to admit that the show where stereotypes punch each other and scream is super awesome

You say this as if Austin hasn’t talked about specific moments from it before and also as if, as someone who’s never watched Gundam but has seen people reccomend shows a lot, 08th MS Team isn’t the most common thing people recommend.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

no actually 08th MS Team is better because it's embarrassing for an academic to admit that the show where stereotypes punch each other and scream is super awesome

Actually yeah 08th team is quaint as shit

 

[Ashby]

08th MS Team is solid but it doesn't hold a candle to War in the Pocket

 

[BlackLagoon]

UC Gundam is one of the 20th century's great epics. G Gundam is silly shonen trash.

Tomino can't write dialog or characters worth shit, it's like watching a bunch of people give parallel monologues about whatever bizarre issues he had in his head during production. Imagawa is a damn master storyteller compared to him.