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[BatDan]

That new Mystery Box...
The black wind begins to blow...
That's the true weapon to defeat Lavos.

This is like something Jim Sterling would cover when looking at shitty Steam games. Only it's only on PS3... and it somehow came out last year but looks like a mid-gen PS2 game.

 

[Geg]

Yeah I went and looked up this game after like 7 minutes of watching the video and was fucking shocked to see it was released last year.

 

[DoktorEvil]

Is Magus even based on anything?

What a mysterious late console cycle game.

 

[TechnicaUS]

Eh, plenty of early PS3 games looked rough.

...Oh this came out four months after the PS4? Uhhhhh...

That recently? Yeesh.

 

[chaobreaker]

I thought Magus was going to be some secret "actually it's really good" sleeper hit like Demon's Souls when I first heard of it and I don't know why I did.

 

[Glitchesarecool]

Yeah I went and looked up this game after like 7 minutes of watching the video and was fucking shocked to see it was released last year.

 

[TechnicaUS]

Oh my god, why does boring girl's armor have the batnipple thing goin on?

 

[BatDan]

Here's the game's Wikipedia article.

Release date(s)
NA February 25, 2014
EU June 4, 2014

.... Hoooow?

 

[aly]

That's almost 10 years ago, man. We're getting old.

2006 was 10 years ago??????? It doesn't feel like it. Know I understand how people older than me feel. I just realized that people born in 2000 are like 15 now.

 

[Imperfected]

The technology to make Magus just wasn't there before. Godrays and tiny text in menus don't come easy.

 

[TechnicaUS]

The technology to make Magus just wasn't there before. Godrays and tiny text in menus don't come easy.

Thank god black tower or whoever used everything the stock ue3 engine had to offer. It's a miracle they managed it.

 

[Numb]

That Magus game was just crazy.
Glad to see Bloodborne has brought out the cross dressing from the guys.

 

[Imperfected]

That Magus game was just crazy.
Glad to see Bloodborne has brought out the cross dressing from the guys.

They just put on whatever clothes they're handed without asking questions. That's how you know they have girlfriends.

 

[Numb]

They just put on whatever clothes they're handed without asking questions. That's how you know they have girlfriends.

Damn that was cold.
They only get to decide what t-shirts they wear. How else are they gonna nerd out without cosplaying.

 

[DXLelouch153]

thats just so many levels of wrong
it came out last year and looks like a huge pile of shit as a late PS3 game

 

[grimmiq]

Pat's enthusiasm for FFXIV is really making me want to resub and switch to the Ultros server.

He's really on the nose with the hardest part of playing mmos being finding people who you can team up with and stick with.

It's a shame Liam can't deal with other people in games. All it should take is to make a character on Ultros, join the FC, type /busy, turn on all chat filters and play through the main scenario quests..when he hits a dungeon, turn on FC chat, ask for 3 people to help, knock it out in 20mins since most people will be overgeared/skilled for every dungeon, say thanks, turn filters back on and continue with his single player experience.

If he chose SMN/BLM/BRD he could go into FATEs solo and just pretend all the other players are stupid NPCs.

 

[Xux]

Just now listening to the podcast.

All-Star Superman's so good. I sure hope Pat read it. After he reads it, he should flip to the other side and read Batman R.I.P., lol.

 

[RecursiveFault]

Just now listening to the podcast.

All-Star Superman's so good. I sure hope Pat read it. After he reads it, he should flip to the other side and read Batman R.I.P., lol.

https://twitter.com/AngriestPat

 

[Xux]

https://twitter.com/AngriestPat

Ah, okay. Of course he'd talk about it while I was asleep. I will agree that it made me more interested in Lex Luthor and Jimmy Olsen.

 

[NCR Redslayer]

https://twitter.com/AngriestPat

I looked up the plot of all star superman and I was like "Yup, that was superman. He did the thing and oh god this sounds boring."

 

[Imperfected]

I looked up the plot of all star superman and I was like "Yup, that was superman. He did the thing and oh god this sounds boring."

I'm sure it's much better than the plot synopsis sounds. I mean, it pretty much has to be.

Spoiler

It looks like literally the dumbest shit.

 

[RainSD]

Finally have some time to sit down and listen to the whole podcast. Can't wait to finish hearing about Matt's Kawaii Adventure with Takahata.

 

[NCR Redslayer]

I'm sure it's much better than the plot synopsis sounds. I mean, it pretty much has to be.

Spoiler

It looks like literally the dumbest shit.

So I guess thats reason Matt likes its so much.
But also woolie loves terrible things.
Now aint that funny?

 

[Alfebit]

Wow what an absolute piece of garbage that Mystery Box game was. Literally everything about it was offensive to my eyes.

 

[Xux]

The whole point is that it's stupid. That's what makes comics awesome.

The premise for All-Star Superman was supposedly that Superman's life is just bizarre if you really think about it. Batman R.I.P. (by the same author around the same time which is why I like to compare them) is part of a line of Batman comics where the author wondered what it'd be like if everything that happened in Batman comics (like all the weird bullshit with aliens and stuff in the '50s and '60s) was canon and it's just so fucking weird that it's great.

 

[RecursiveFault]

So I guess thats reason Matt likes its so much.
But also woolie loves terrible things.
Now aint that funny?

MadWorld OST not being showed off in the LP was criminal

 

[M0nochromatic]

It's a shame Liam can't deal with other people in games. All it should take is to make a character on Ultros, join the FC, type /busy, turn on all chat filters and play through the main scenario quests..when he hits a dungeon, turn on FC chat, ask for 3 people to help, knock it out in 20mins since most people will be overgeared/skilled for every dungeon, say thanks, turn filters back on and continue with his single player experience.

If he chose SMN/BLM/BRD he could go into FATEs solo and just pretend all the other players are stupid NPCs.

I remember being new and worrying that I'd miss getting a Chocobo or wouldn't play my class properly, but the game does a great job of getting the player into it without relying on others for information. I had never played a MMO, went into it with a single friend who was also a scrub, and it was a blast playing through progression content by ourselves.

You'r also right about FATEs. It's basically just time to put on some podcasts or Netflix while leveling.

 

[Skrams]

Magus. 2014. What. The studio seems to be people in Japan and Australia which makes no sense with what that game is. It screams PC game ported to PS3 with the small as shit UI and weird eurojank shit going on. It's more similar to a XBLIG or something Jim Sterling should be playing rather than anything else I can think of.

Edit: found it! Look at how broken he is :|

None of those are actually him broken though.

https://twitter.com/AngriestPat

At some point you'd think Pat would just get tired of shitting all over comics or DC or whoever and how Superman is dumb because he's invincible or how Green Lantern is dumb because big green fists. It all ends in him getting yelled at to read a thing in and then after a year he eventually reads something only for his opinion to not change because he still thinks the base idea is dumb.

 

[Glitchesarecool]

Green fisting is dumb though, in the context of what the rings do.

 

[Skrams]

Green fisting is dumb though, in the context of what the rings do.

I'm not saying it's not dumb. I'm saying Pat has problems with the fucking base of the whole idea of some comics. I am not into comics at all, but I don't see people actually convincing him Superman or Green Lantern or whoever is a cool character when he thinks the base thing is boring. He thinks Superman is boring because he's practically invincible. He thinks Green Lantern is dumb because Green Lantern is so shitty at Green Lanterning that he can only come up with giant fists since making things with your mind takes a lot of concentration.

I just wonder if he'll just eventually give up on certain characters when he already dislikes their base concepts. All Star Superman didn't change his mind about only Superman, so I could see him being stubborn in the future when it comes to other silly heroes he doesn't care about.

He seems to mostly like the more grounded heroes or less boring idealistic heroes from what I can remember anyway. Batman is Batman, Daredevil is Daredevil, She Hulk is a lawyer, Spiderman is a smarmy, lovable shit, Wolverine is fun, and Punisher blows up crack houses. That's all the kind of heroes I can remember him actually liking at least at the moment.

 

[MrHoot]

The only superman I remember enjoying reading was Superman Red Son, a one-off comic with the premisce being "What if superman landed in the USSR rather than in the US". It was very interesting as you see Superman being raised by the stalinist regime, while Lex Luthor works for the US government and you actually see both the strenghts and flaws of both these characters.

 

[Glitchesarecool]

Oh my god the conversation over the Nintendo park is amazing. Podcast has been on fire lately.

 

[Imperfected]

I'm not sure Pat's actually opposed to Superman's core idea, because he liked Dragonball Z. I think it might actually be that Superman as a character, completely divorced from his powers, is not interesting to him.

I have the same deal with Aquaman and had a devil of a time explaining it to a friend who loves him and thought I hated him because his powers weren't "strong" enough or something. The problem isn't with the powers, it's that the character underneath those powers just isn't interesting to me at all.

If I remember right his problem with the Green Lanterns was less about the character or powers, even, and more the "setting". The "galactic" settings of both comic book universes are pretty dumb, especially if you're coming into them in the modern era and trying to catch up on the absurdly huge quantities of dumb that got injected in the 70's and 80's (and somehow still never gets jettisoned when they do these "reboots"). A lot of people just cannot suspend their disbelief hard enough to accept that extent of gibberish, which is what really made Guardians of the Galaxy's success so amazing.

 

[Glitchesarecool]

The Justice League animated series version of Aquaman was the best Aquaman. Good redesign and a really gut wrenching reason for not having an arm.

 

[Imperfected]

Yeah, I was okay with him in Justice League (Unlimited) when they were punching Cthulhu in the brains and stuff. I just wasn't really keen to follow him back to his fish-house and hear more about his amazing underwater adventures, or anything.

 

[explodet]

Wow what an absolute piece of garbage that Mystery Box game was. Literally everything about it was offensive to my eyes.

When this came out on PSN, I was this close to just buying the game to see how awful it was. The screenshots just shouted "zero effort".

I was flabbergasted when I learned this got a physical release as well.

 

[DoktorEvil]

Heres the Castlevania retrospective Matt keeps talking About in the Aria LP.

Hour and 30 minutes.

 

[Okingjrr]

Best Friends Play Bloodborne (Part 38)
http://superbestfriendsplay.com/video/best-friends-play-bloodborne-part-38/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pibLCi_qGo

 

[Numb]

Best Friends Play Bloodborne (Part 38)
http://superbestfriendsplay.com/video/best-friends-play-bloodborne-part-38/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pibLCi_qGo

The backdowns are so real.

 

[Gestahl]

"Apparently I don't know anything about strength scaling"

*levels up endurance*

"Apparently the cannon was so broken that they had to increase its QB usage"

*leveled up endurance*

 

[Caderfix]

Man, Pat and Woolie's Vit - End build is going to be fun to whatch once they fight the end game bosses.

They will NEVER backdown from the Vit -End path now that they've tapped out from the feedback.

I'm not even mad anymore. Actually, the fact they've spent 18k echoes for three End made me laugh.

 

[Imperfected]

I'd just like to point out that Pewdiepie uses the cannon, which means his build is probably better than Patsworth's.

 

[RecursiveFault]

The fact that the guys have now completely tapped out from any feedback (actually weeks and weeks ago) means that all of this is even more worthless now.

amazing

Leveling vit and end is fine till they hit the softcap/hardcap.

 

[Caderfix]

I'd just like to point out that Pewdiepie uses the cannon, which means his build is probably better than Patsworth's.

The best friends are losing to game grumps AND pewdiepie now? Damn...

 

[Geg]

The drama over stats is legitimately hilarious. I kind of hope they're doing it on purpose now

I wonder what Pat meant when he talked about Fastborne on the podcast

 

[Imperfected]

I wonder what Pat meant when he talked about Fastborne on the podcast

The speed at which Pat backs down has become unreal. He has the Backdown Force!

 

[Cocoa]

The drama over stats is legitimately hilarious. I kind of hope they're doing it on purpose now

I wonder what Pat meant when he talked about Fastborne on the podcast

I'd venture to say he meant the loading times when he said that.

 

[Numb]

Pat and Woolie after encountering new enemies in Bloodborne.

Welcome to Backdown city.

 

[MrHoot]

Welcome to Backdown city.

imma save that one !

But ye, at this point i'm just watching this in a passive manner, not expecting any actual insight in the game itself. But at least they're making progress normally now.

 

[ArjanN]

The drama over stats is legitimately hilarious. I kind of hope they're doing it on purpose now

It's pretty weird how incensed these comments are, especially given how little the stats actually matter. You could distribute points randomly with your eyes closed and still beat the game just fine.