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Giant Bomb XXI | Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
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Agreed. I've always personally seen premium more as a support to keep the site going, which Jeff has said that it basically is, than access to more content. More regular shit is always a good thing of course, but I feel that I get my money's worth and then some. Aside from selected TV shows and movies I basically only watch GB and the NBA now.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
If we're to judge views from the amount of comments they usually do pretty well.
If they're in it for the views though they would just stream ufc 2 24/7.
DD does well for them going by the Most Popular tab on the site, though we obviously don't know exact numbers and such.
stump sock
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It'd be pretty hard to get bored of something that by definition is like 10 mini retro QLs per episode (as opposed to the endless drag of MGSV) but I also don't think one a month is too frequent
yeah even though it's not anything unexpected from the series, they still kind of outdid themselves on the artwork and everything. it's cute.
ShaggsMagoo
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There was a period of time when we were getting a consistent Tuesday or Wednesday premium stream that would rotate in addition to UPF and whatever ongoing thing was going at the time. But then an E3 or other event happened and it was all blown to shit.
It seems like whenever they do get into a consistent groove when it comes to content (particularly premium) something occurs that throws that off and it takes forever for them to recover and I can not understand why.
It seems like whenever they do get into a consistent groove when it comes to content (particularly premium) something occurs that throws that off and it takes forever for them to recover and I can not understand why.
When was that? Generally the Wednesday streams have been non premium.
Jesus, it's 4am here. Need to go to bed.
TurboButts
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Man... This is not what I wanted to do with my Friday night. Thanks.
Glitchesarecool
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Too bad they're both terrible at fighting games.
Space Wanderer
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Yeah, its tough for a crew of their size to please all comers. I personally don't feel like my premium is wasted, but yeah, a consistent thing besides UPF would be nice. I also with BEast would bring back the Choose Your Own Adventure thing, as I grew tired of Castelvania long ago. But, at least we can look forward to the next episode of the long running series Blight Club.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
But that's what makes it good.
I think East feels more prolific because they're constantly changing up what their weekly show is.
So UPF can start to feel a bit stale, while the constant change-up on East means that just because you don't like what they're doing this week, you may love next week's show.
In addition, they have Project B.E.A.S.T., which technically only ran for about 15 episodes. Closest West comparison is Metal Gear Scanlon, which has been running for over a year and, like UPF, feels a bit stale.
So UPF can start to feel a bit stale, while the constant change-up on East means that just because you don't like what they're doing this week, you may love next week's show.
In addition, they have Project B.E.A.S.T., which technically only ran for about 15 episodes. Closest West comparison is Metal Gear Scanlon, which has been running for over a year and, like UPF, feels a bit stale.
That doesn't sound like Jeff. Usually he goes out of his way to explore all the options a game has to offer
stump sock
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Glitchesarecool
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I sort of guess, but like I get the weekly Friday Night Fisticuffs/Staurday Morning Scrublords with SBF crew and they make fighting games way more entertaining to watch, even the dregs like Biofreaks.
It's not?
LurkerPrime
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no, that's Brad
Brad plays for achievements. Totally different thing from Jeff's soldiering through games.
In the way that Vanquish is one as well, sort of.
Spirit of Jazz
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I feel like the best fighting game content they ever did was the scrub league so it's a bit of a shame they never went back to it.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
God is QB as disjointed as this quick look makes it look?
stump sock
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77 metacritic score
Death Metalist
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I feel the FMV's are unessecarry for sure but I don't mind them. The story so far is intriguing but I haven't reached the end to know how good it is. At the same time, having you play as the antagonist to make the choices is a very weird decision. It's like do you do things that benefit the hero or the antagonist even though both choices fuck one or the other in some ways? I still don't know what to make of that.
"Kerbal Engineer for data and Astronomer's Visual Pack for textures IIRC", if that means anything to you.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I feel the FMV's are unessecarry for sure but I don't mind them. The story so far is intriguing but I haven't reached the end to know how good it is. At the same time, having you play as the antagonist to make the choices is a very weird decision. It's like do you do things that benefit the hero or the antagonist even though both choices fuck one or the other in some ways? I still don't know what to make of that.
They did do the thing shown in that gif in the ql. Is it the extent of the time powers?
I feel like they're trying to cram 3 concepts together and have no idea how to fit them.
thanks, you da bes
saveweyard
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I'll pick up QB when it's on a deep discount.
Death Metalist
Member
I'm in Act 3 so I don't know if there are more powers but for the time being you could
time rush(you're faster than everything around you), time dash(a quick dash recommended for fast escapes but you could also aim after you do it so it gives you a few seconds of slomo), time shield/bubble(shields you from bullets), time vision(shows you the enemies, collectibles, guns and ammo in your vicinity) and time stop(which stops everything in the bubble you threw).
Here's the kicker though, the upgrades in this game acquire you to collect a thing called Chronon and these things are invisible. You can't see or collect them unless they are within your vicinity and you use time vision, these upgrades really help you in making the flow of combat much better when you're chaining shit.
Is that some sort of currency?
Incandenza
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I once had a tumblr post get ~30,000 notes. It was almost enough to fill the void in my soul.
stump sock
Member
I once got like 120 tumblr notes and thought I was special
GitarooMan
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What's going on with the videos lately. Seems like UPF rarely works when it's uploaded recently.
Trying to download it says the file does not exist
Basically, GB made some back end changes and everything is on fire.
the video player is hot ass
Death Metalist
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Jeff said that it should be fixed soon, he knows about this and is annoyed. I think it's something to do with the dates not being correct.
It's not great, but it's still in the top half of internet video players. They are almost universally dog shit. Twitch is almost unusable on all but great internet, and even it's not the worst video player around.
you got something against hot asses, buster?
I wish. Then I'd actually enjoy it.
Glitchesarecool
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Ah, I see.
That's cool. I'd just like a better cycle or interaction of powers, if what Jeff described on the bombcast was accurate.
brainzelda
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So far from my experience in the first 2 acts, I have been frustrated with the cooldown system because you can't really manage them in a chain. Like your dodge will be on cooldown but your time stop won't be, or vice versa. I wish they had gone with Drew's idea and had a time meter, so that as long as I managed my meter properly, I could chain abilities more fluidly.
Death Metalist
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The fix for that is upgrading and here in lies the problem I mentioned above, it relies on something that's invisible which is straight up bull. You need to be pressing time vision almost at all times to locate one.
Death Metalist
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It's even worse because you can only see a chronon if it's near you. I'm really enjoying the game but decisions such as these are really annoying, the reward is though that during combat I'm having the time of my life.
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