That's interesting because I was planning to put it on your "Top 10 Favorite Movies of ALL-TIME!!!" list, too. Pete Rose doesn't get it on his list, though...
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That's interesting because I was planning to put it on your "Top 10 Favorite Movies of ALL-TIME!!!" list, too. Pete Rose doesn't get it on his list, though...
My problem (not really that similar to yours) was actually just due to the $2 Monoprice HDMI port-saver (a little female to male adapter with a hinge in it) I was using. Pulled that out of the chain and the signal cleaned itself right up.
Alien Isolation Quick Look. Sorry if already posted.
Watching this QL, maybe I need to try out this Alien game after all. A bit sceptical about the game being as long as it is, but fuck it.
edit Also agree with Dan about disliking when games take control over you at moments like what happens about 17 minutes in the QL. Much cooler if it leaves it up to the player to either watch a scene like that or walk away.
Will do!
edit Also agree with Dan about disliking when games take control over you at moments like what happens about 17 minutes in the QL. Much cooler if it leaves it up to the player to either watch a scene like that or walk away.
Will do!
Haunted
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Alex Navarro will remember that.
There's a real arc to my feelings on that game over the course of the video. If you're cautiously interested in it, you should watch the whole thing to see what I mean.
Wibblewozzer
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Trying to think of a game and figured easiest to just post it in here.
What was the 2D, sprite-based PC game Brad and someone else played that was really grindy by nature? It was out in grass and forest-y areas, I believe, and it was pretty much just collecting drops to turn in quests. I think they were trying to collect things for a witch? Was possibly early access and I think the characters had different abilities with something on a cooldown.
Anyhow, I can recall the Quick Look and randomly thought I'd look into it after glancing at Hero Siege on Steam and thinking it looked somewhat similar to what my memory remembered of this mystery game.
Thanks for the help.
What was the 2D, sprite-based PC game Brad and someone else played that was really grindy by nature? It was out in grass and forest-y areas, I believe, and it was pretty much just collecting drops to turn in quests. I think they were trying to collect things for a witch? Was possibly early access and I think the characters had different abilities with something on a cooldown.
Anyhow, I can recall the Quick Look and randomly thought I'd look into it after glancing at Hero Siege on Steam and thinking it looked somewhat similar to what my memory remembered of this mystery game.
Thanks for the help.
there is a reason why Yoshi's Island is looked upon so fondly...
Fattony12000
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Infinite Justice
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Is that Vulcan Raven's new job now?
Secrets of Grindea perhaps?
Wow. That's colourful.
Some of the Shocktober stuff was always gonna be Premium, article and podcasts. Fits with the theme of everything non video game related being Premium on the site, more or less.
Zero-Crescent
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Tokyo, or The Grid?
Wibblewozzer
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That's the one. Thanks. Don't know why I thought it was Brad since it's Patrick and Alex on the Unfinished.
And no wonder I couldn't find it when I tried searching for "Grind" on Steam since it's not on there and I also tried Googling something like "Giant Bomb Quick Look Grind" seeing as how it's an Unfinished.
Anyhow, thanks.
yep, that's japan.
EDIT: Vinny's response to this is pretty great: "@drewscanlon ...Chie used to love kicking tanks like that. Miss ya baby! Call me!"
Haunted
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sugoi
call_kotaku
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Reading the Driveclub OT is sort of bizarre, like a bunch of people deflecting all criticism with "it's more realistic that way" or "it's meant to appeal to the casual gamer" as if Driveclub was the perfect pinnacle of both, and it's for a game I'm assuming none of them have played at-length.
I guess it just comes with the territory with console exclusives, and the Ryse defense force was probably worse, but it's just a part of the internet I've avoided for a long time.
I guess it just comes with the territory with console exclusives, and the Ryse defense force was probably worse, but it's just a part of the internet I've avoided for a long time.
This is raving territory. Snakes don't belong in a robot restaurant.
After playing a few races, Driveclub is a very...strange fit. It's the most narrow slice of audience I've seen a racing game target. Not really an arcade racer, with penalties for course and car collisions, so you can't really say it appeals to major Motorstorm fans or any casual racer. Not really a sim, as there's no tuning or options to turn off safety components on the car, so it's not going for the upper level Gran Turismo/Forza crowd.
This is an arcade-like racer, tuned to be more in line with sims, that really isn't for die hard sims or die hard casual racers, but for someone who fiddles occasionally with GT/Forza and wants sim elements in their arcade racers.
It doesn't surprise me that Jeff, who hates clinical racers like GT and has fallen out of love with Forza, would hate this game. Or if someone who loves Motorstorm would hate this game. Or a large portion of the gaming audience hated this game.
It's actually kind of perfect for me, but yeah, I can easily see why someone would not like the game. They should have gone all out Ridge Racer-style gameplay. But what it is, yeah, it's good. I have no idea why they thought targeting this narrow of an audience was a good idea though.
Too perfect ha.
Jimmyfenix
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I miss drew 
Honest question, do any of you like that a game like the Alien game just has manual saves at certain spots? I guess that you could argue that it adds tension, but shouldn't that come from the game and not the save system? I just can't stand the feeling of losing 30 minutes of progress just because of some mistake or some random shit. Either have more frequent auto saving, or let me quick save. Manual saves only in a game like that is almost enough for me not to want to play it because I know it's gonna piss me off.
Infinite Justice
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Seems they were aiming for that PGR audience (which wouldn't be surprising since a few members are on the team) but the thing is that the PGR audience kinda went away by the fourth game of that series.
I get the feeling that they felt this would appeal to everyone at some point, and eventually realized (hopefully long before reviews started hitting, but after it was too late to do anything about it) that the decisions they made actually alienated huge chunks of the potential audience. It doesn't look like a badly made game at all, it looks like a very well made incredibly mediocre game if you aren't part of that narrow chunk they left who wants this specific weird halfway sim racer.
I didn't even realize that they have collision penalties though, that's just fucking dumb. Make the game enough of a sim that collisions are punished by the way it affects your car, not just by throwing time on the clock.Or don't penalize it at all and (like Jeff mentioned in the Quick Look) just design the tracks to penalize poor driving.
Jimmyfenix
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I hope the crew check out pix the cat. It is a plus game and it looks crazy!
Would Brad be willing to get through PT if it were for the kids?
He wouldn't have to do it alone if it is absolutely impossible for that baby to grow up at that point.Jeff not giving a fuck while Brad is going ape shit would make for a fun time. And people could make helpful advice a donation goal.
He wouldn't have to do it alone if it is absolutely impossible for that baby to grow up at that point.Jeff not giving a fuck while Brad is going ape shit would make for a fun time. And people could make helpful advice a donation goal.
No one knows what anti-aliasing is to be fair.
Are you talking about Extra Life? He has talked about doing a solo stream from home before the SF office stream again this year. Him playing PT during that stream would be glorious.
He had a general understanding, and I think he has never really owned a good gaming PC until the one he is about to build now. So not that surprising, I think.
Wrong.
call_kotaku
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It's just strange that people will defend the game for missing fairly straightforward features like brake/traction assistance or rewind as if they were good design decisions instead of needless oversights. It seems like racing games in the past generation have just coalesced into total arcade (Need for Speed, Burnout, etc), semi-sim (Forza, GT), and total sim (iRacing etc), and that slice of the genre between semi-sim and arcade has pretty much gone away. If you want your game to appeal broadly outside of the established sub-genres, wouldn't giving more options and customization be better?
In any case, I don't think Sony had particularly high expectations of the game and it'll most likely get overshadowed very quickly by other releases, but I can't imagine how much more sparse it would've been as a launch game.
Jimmyfenix
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The 6th day was a fantastic movie.
Yeah. I don't think he would have as hard of a time with it as compared to dark souls, because you don't have a lot of mechanics in PT he'd have to deal with. I'd still have my worries if he had no one to console or ridicule him while he is playing.
That game is best played alone anyway, I think. But a good game suggestion if Brad is up for it. I only watched Patrick play it and that alone scared me to death, can't imagine actually playing it in a dark room.
Fixed.
Of the movies Schwarzenegger did following Terminator 2 in the latter part of his career this is up there.
it's one of things. like the chupacabra or the US government.
it's not pleasant... in the best way possible.
You should clone yourself.. so you can go fuck yourself
EDIT: Wait, I missed some of that line.
SteveWinwood
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Haunted
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Love these mirror rooms.But he's still here.
Neat lighting trick with the same person appearing to wear different shirts though.
Eh, it's not that late yet. We've gotten much later.
giant_frying_pan
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Drew is in Asia so Alt-F1 won't be back for a while.