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We're Mass Effect, Sonic and Anime now. Don't fight it, that's just Community Life.
Ooooh, so they're doing some actual work for those versions. Cool.
stump sock
Member
The positive user reviews on metacritic for Sonic boom are either trolls or Sega employees. I am betting Sega employees.
Also Can't wait for GTA on PS4
it's killing me that the pc version isn't coming out yet.
As long as it's not as crappy as the GTA IV port at launch, I'm happy to wait.
Dave & Ian Icewind Dale pt 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42_jw4sA_kU
Rorie's Dragon Age stream will be done processing in a bit too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTX2U-lf13A&
Rorie's Dragon Age stream will be done processing in a bit too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTX2U-lf13A&
Jimmyfenix
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Zaph is the hero we don't deserve.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
Somewhat random: Just finished TLOU Left Behind. I forget if they still do a DLC of the year award but if they do, this deserves heavy consideration. I'm not sure i've played a piece of content with better characterizations and writing than that. I faintly remember Brad having played it but i'm really hoping that some of the other members of the crew play it as well. Fuck me, it has me all excited for UC4 even though i hate the idea of Naughty Dog returning to the well on that.
Jimmyfenix
Member
Or they gave up watching lost like it did.
Twin Peaks Rewatch podcast is where it's at now.
Seriously, major thanks to anyone who uploads stuff to the channel.
I haven't gotten around to listening to an episode, yet.
Seriously, major thanks to anyone who uploads stuff to the channel.
ratcliffja
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Is that included in the PS4 version? I plan on picking up the bundle on Black Friday.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
yes, and that's where i played it. It took some getting used to 60 fps TLOU but once you do, oh man, it's so good. Also, once you master the mechanics you should get online. TLOU secretly has one of the best MP modes in years.
AuthenticM
Member
Who's taking bets that Assassin's Creed: Rogue will be better than its "main" counterpart ? lol
Not from everything I have heard. Boring short campaign. Lots of pointless side filler. All the signs of it being repurposed DLC fleshed out to cash in on retail release.
I will still play it though if I can get it cheap.
It is.
But I did enjoy Unity and Arno too. But overall Rogue is better.
Rogue also had more of dat shop combat I loved in Black Flag.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
what's cheesy about it? Having always had younger cousins my whole life, seeing those 2 characters run around and be goofy and playful in such a shitty situation rang pretty true to me. and yeah, it should be obvious given that you know how it ends from the very beginning given what transpires in the campaign. that's a weird thing to hold against it, given that even when you know whats going to happen, the execution of it is so well done that there really isn't anything else in gaming that is comparable. The closest I can think to characters this well written and authentic was the first season of the walking dead, and that is crippled with a buggy engine and stiff animations.
RepairmanJack
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Eh.. I haven't liked it too much really. I'm following along with the show and listening to the Thumb's rewatch and The Twin Peaks Podcasts original run and I've preferred the Twin Peaks podcast a lot more. Maybe the rewatch would be more enjoyable if I had watched the series already and listened to the spoiler part, but I enjoy that the other podcast having some people that never watched the show before so we're able to hear theories and thoughts from both sides.
OverBlood 3
Banned
Couldn't they have just got an actual Irishman for Ass: Rogue. He sounds dreadful.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Wait, which AC are you talking about? Cause from what I've heard that applies to both
The best aspect to the Left Behind DLC is how it re-contextualises the core game mechanics to serve its characters and narrative in an organic fashion.
Edit:
Referring specifically to the events in Ellie's flashback such as the brick off and the water gun fight that re-purpose existing mechanics from the main game as well as the QTE fighting game section. All of which only giving players a different context for skills they've already been taught in the main game rather than attempting to force a completely new mechanic into the game.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
I haven't played the campaign since launch, but what are you specifically referring to? the only thing i can think of is
using bottles/bricks to agro the zombies against the human enemies
the halloween store and the contextually-prompted conversations that seem to have like 7-8 interactions? I loved the book of puns, i dont care if people hate puns it was goddamned amazing
but bringing it back to GB, did they do a 2013 DLC of the year? I can't seem to find it and, dammit, that was a good category.
VIDEO GAMES ARE DEAD!
I really don't get holding out Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants with Infected as the pinnacle of gaming characterization. As I said in TLOU thread at the time:
Wandering around with Ellie's dumb friend and playing some lame mini-games while waiting for her to get herself killed was boring.
Freedom = $1.05
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oh yeah, those scenes were fantastic.
i won the brickmaster challenge but totally got wrecked with the water guns
You can almost sense that ND was having just as much fun with making that DLC as the characters within the game are. I'd easily rank this up there with Minerva's Den and Shadow Broker as some of the best single player DLC ever made.
considering how they tie it all back to the character and her motivations in the main game, it seems like
experiencing a person's previous experiences with losing someone dear to them while transposing that with her desperately trying to save joel works incredibly well as far as further developing Ellie is concerned. and that's not even getting into the coming of age story about a girl coming to grips with her sexuality in a hostile environment
for a 3 hour DLC, i can't even think full games, let alone other pieces of downloadable content, on the big consoles that had me feeling like what i was playing was unlike anything else i'd ever played in so many different ways. Maybe it's because I'm a gamer in my thirties and i've been watching the evolution of the medium since i've been eating shitty ghosts in Pacman on the atari, maybe im just a sucker for well directed, well written story telling. But I don't think it's hyperbole to say that, as a package, the entirety of TLOU helps push the medium in ways that no other major video game production has even come close.
tryagainlater
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I always thought Assassin's Creed was a series that lacked skill and no one could be bad at them...until I watch a Giant Bomb quick look of them.
Jimmyfenix
Member
Playing games is hard bro.
I've had to stop watching most of their quick looks halfway through for the past month or two because I couldn't stand seeing how bad they are at basic gameplay. I thought that Jeff was one of the not-bad players on the team but it looks like he's... deteriorating?
Fair. Means Rogue isn't better though - just same old shit.
Jimmyfenix
Member
Jeff Green still kicking ass though.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
It does however, feature a hilarious irish accent which makes it a much better game in my opinion. Not that I'm going to play either at this point.
I'm sure we'll resume our normal programming of incendiary he-said she-said Twitter/Tumblr/etc. escapades soon enough.
I mean, fuck talking video games.
Keyser Soze
Member
The supposed Irish accents in the first 5 minutes of Rouge make me want to roll up and die.
Danny should be there - if only to sign.
I will keep going
Danny should be there - if only to sign.
I will keep going
Mark my words video games will be the downfall of Giant Bomb.
I love Giant Bomb.
Hold your horses. The Rock is genuinely good. That in bad Boys are the only two Bay films I can point to that the guy actually can make good films.
I really don#t want more though. At this point I really need more from this series. They are still not fixing what's broken. Even Unity is just more of the same but prettier.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
but what if you thought that AC4 was plagued with tailing and stealth missions and that the boating stuff was decent? can't see the QL now, but i wonder if they even bothered tweaking that stuff at all.
There is no irony needed for The Rock. It is an outstanding action film.
by now you should know that Ubisoft doesn't fix things. They might band aid them (like the combat in Unity) but in general they rather add more stuff. Doesn't matter if that stuff is also bad.
It's completely a checkbox design philosophy.