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[Xater]

I guess it wont be at PAX anymore

Most people never even noticed that it came out. That game has such a weird history. I still remember people being hyped as fuck for it when it was announced.

Nah, every Twitch channel with enough people in chat is like that.

The secret is to not read chat. Unless you watch a stream that has chat in stream, then you are clearly watching the wrong channel.

 

[Antiwhippy]

But I like seeing the raw humanity of it all.

 

[derFeef]

But I like seeing the raw humanity of it all.

We have this thread for this.

 

[Hasney]

You know, the main James Bond villain, Goldfart

We have this thread for this.

Would anyone be interested in seeing some raw hedgehoganity in this thread?

 

[Antiwhippy]

What is this australian accent bit.

Come back alex.

 

[Meneses]

AC story is convoluted, says the man who calls Metal Gear the greatest story ever told in any medium.

 

[Hasney]

AC story is convoluted, says the man who calls Metal Gear the greatest story ever told in any medium.

I see nothing wrong with these statements

 

[ShaggsMagoo]

What is this australian accent bit.

Come back alex.

Yeah, Vinny's tendency to overplay jokes and bits hits the beginning of the beast cast hard this week.

 

[Liquid Shake]

AC story is convoluted, says the man who calls Metal Gear the greatest story ever told in any medium.

AC story is convoluted. MGS is a succinct and beautiful masterpiece.

 

[Dany]

WHAT
AC story went up it's own ass?

METAL. GEAR. SOLID.

 

[Hasney]

WHa t.

AC story went up it's own ass?

METAL. GEAR. SOLID.

Yes, Metal Gear Solid is a great counterpoint to a story which went up its own ass like AssCreed. Thank you for providing that.

 

[MassiveNights]

I understand Dan's hatred for AC but I think the only ones I haven't finished were AC3 and Unity. The rest held my interest and I really enjoyed 2 and Syndicate.

 

[Hasney]

I still need to play Syndicate, but my batting odds for finishing AC games so far are only Brotherhood and Black Flag, so I'm not holding my breath.

EDIT: Jesus, 60 minutes in and they go back to the voice changer again

 

[Meguro]

The difference is that MGS is a beautiful mess and the AC modern parts are just a mess.
It's not too far up its own ass, it's just bad.

 

[Ventilaator]

AC went up its ass and then that was it. You could spend 60$ every year to look at this thing on the ground with its head up its own ass, just laying there, motionless.

Metal Gear went up its ass and then continued on to create some of the most memorable characters, story moments and gameplay moments ever out of it.

 

[Blitzrules240]

Crash N. Sane QL confirmed via Beastcast 🤗

 

[Joeku]

The difference is that MGS is a beautiful mess and the AC modern parts are just a mess.
It's not too far up its own ass, it's just bad.

I mean, part of the Metal Gear mythos is. Assassin's Creed also has you fistfighting the Pope in Saint Peter's Basilica(?) over a magical artifact after which you descend into some ancient future tech building and a cyber lady talks through that character into a different character 500 years in the future. That was pretty good.

For what it's worth, several AC games have gone up their own ass. AC3's take on American history and the entire back half of that game is a hot load of bullshit. Unity using English accents for the French Revolution is almost offensive in its presumptuousness. Fuck large swathes of this series.

 

[Jintor]

What is this australian accent bit.

Come back alex.

i smiled for a little bit but then vinny kept bringing it back and i wasn't into it

dan is right on sasswots creed

vinny having a minor stroke trying to recall blofield's name was something

 

[ElectronicOldMen]

There's good up-its-own-ass and bad up-its-own-ass and I think Assassin's Creed either swings hard one way or the other.

 

[tryagainlater]

I kinda liked ac3's take on American history and it's fuck you to the founding fathers. Everyone thought it was gonna be an America, fuck yea game before it came out and it was the opposite.

 

[Antiwhippy]

I still need to play Syndicate, but my batting odds for finishing AC games so far are only Brotherhood and Black Flag, so I'm not holding my breath.

EDIT: Jesus, 60 minutes in and they go back to the voice changer again

God you weren't kidding.

I think i missed the context of them doing a yawning British noble pretending to be Australian.

 

[Joeku]

I kinda liked ac3's take on American history and it's fuck you to the founding fathers. Everyone thought it was gonna be an America, fuck yea game before it came out and it was the opposite.

Don't get me wrong, that is cool. There is a bunch of cool subversion in the game, tbh. The weird shrinking of events by inserting Connor into everything was insane, though (didn't he do the famous ride with a drunken Paul Revere?), and it was a thing they continued doing. The way famous Englishmen showed up around every corner in Syndicate was baffling.

 

[LiK]

Best part about AC3 was the Homestead quests and characters. Everything else with the main plot was disappointing and bland.

 

[Meguro]

Best part of AC3 was the tutorial where you played an actually interesting character.

 

[LiK]

LMAO, Margaret is hilarious.

 

[tryagainlater]

Don't get me wrong, that is cool. There is a bunch of cool subversion in the game, tbh. The weird shrinking of events by inserting Connor into everything was insane, though (didn't he do the famous ride with a drunken Paul Revere?), and it was a thing they continued doing. The way famous Englishmen showed up around every corner in Syndicate was baffling.

Honestly, the Forrest Gump stuff is the only part of the assassins creed storyline I like. It's incredibly dumb but I find it funny. I would like there to be no event too small or too big for your character to be directly responsible for. They should keep it humorous though. Ac3 was too self serious about it.

 

[def sim]

Best part about AC3 was the Homestead quests and characters. Everything else with the main plot was disappointing and bland.

Yeah. Connor helping and getting to know his townsfolk made him a likable character- but it's all optional.

The main game is a 10 hour slog with a boring intro character and then 30 hours of the intro character's whiny son. They should have focused on one.

 

[Hasney]

Dan: "I don't want to be shot, it keeps coming up!"

I'm pretty sure he keeps bringing it up.

OK, the voice changer got funny again near the end. And goddamn do I mean funny. Jerimiah needs to come back.

 

[LiK]

LOL, Dan trashing one of Vinny's favorite game series. I can hear Vinny holding back from exploding. XD

 

[Meneses]

The australian bit got old halfway through the first time.

 

[Santar]

Hooooly crap, Jeremiah is now officially the funniest duder ever to appear on a bomb/beastcast. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time

 

[LiK]

Dan saying he doesn't like a game series that is up its own ass. This coming from a hardcore MGS fan, haha

 

[Hasney]

Dan saying he doesn't like a game series that goes up its own ass. This coming from a hardcore MGS fan, haha

Right, coming from someone who knows good story that goes nowhere near ones ass.

 

[MassiveNights]

Dan's favourite film is MacGruber

 

[mnz]

Listen, everyone makes mistakes. But Dan is spot on when it comes to Assassin's Creed.

 

[Phatmac]

Abby please stop. Your accents are just bad. Stoppppp. 😰

 

[Ghost]

Abby please stop. Your accents are just bad. Stoppppp. ��

Strongly disagree. The fact they are bad is exactly why they are great.

 

[Hasney]

Abby please stop. Your accents are just bad. Stoppppp. 😰

I mean it was a voice changer, but yeah, it got old real quick. I almost turned it off when it came back after the hour.

Real glad I didn't turn it off though.

 

[Santar]

Vinny getting that voice changer has been so great! It's given us so much funny stuff like Satan Santa with the small child, evil Resident Evil 7 Vinny and now Jeremiah, the most adult and well adjusted man ever.

 

[Antiwhippy]

God these bits are killing me.

And i don't mean killing me in how funny they are.

 

[MassiveNights]

Zinc is an ingredient in food

 

[Blitzrules240]

Zinc is an ingredient in food

Jesus Christ, Marie. THEY'RE MINERALS!

 

[LiK]

Vinny forcing Abby to improv is painful. Stop it Vincent. lol

 

[VeryGooster]

Dan saying he doesn't like a game series that is up its own ass. This coming from a hardcore MGS fan, haha

Came here to post this shit.

 

[Liquid Shake]

I dunno, I like the forced improv stuff. Even if it doesn't land sometimes. I'm happy that the Beastcast isn't just a second weekly Bombcast.

 

[Rainmaker]

Yeah if they didn't sound like they were having fun I wouldn't care for it but I enjoy it

 

[Antiwhippy]

I mean they didn't really need to do improv to not be a 2nd weekly bombcast.

Sometimes it hits, sometimes it misses, but I find them more funny the more natural they are.

Also accent humour is never funny in itself. It needs to be paired with something else. Look at Jeff's NDX readings and imitating brad for example. Or even jeremiah this beastcast which was slightly redeeming.

 

[oti]

Sounds like unsubscribing the Beastcast was the right idea.

8-4 Week though YAY!

 

[Jintor]

this morning's splatoon direct has me thinking a lot about how good splatoon is

 

[Teddified]

I'm still surprised Vinny never played

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AC

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