Thank god you never reviewed Twilight Princess. Wasn't Jeff getting death threats sent to his house? Now THAT is fallout.
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The Giant Bomb Quick Look Thread 2
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Thank god you never reviewed Twilight Princess. Wasn't Jeff getting death threats sent to his house? Now THAT is fallout.
Felix Lighter
Member
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is still my personal favorite. Good pick GB community.
No Uncharted 2 Multiplayer QL is a bit weird. It has one of the best endings in a QL ever.
Vampire On Titus
Member
The correct answer is "every game room quick look". Especially the one with "Venetian Blinds".
The things that tend to come out of my mouth when I lose a really heated match are perhaps too blue even for our website.
Sadly I'm lucky to play two or three matches a week lately, so I'd have a long hill to climb. Then again, GameSpot's esports guy Erick (Masters level) is confident if I just perfected three or four builds from TL I could make it into Diamond easy. I hate memorizing and executing build orders because it's like playing from a script, so I end up just playing by feel and trying to adapt to every match dynamically. Means I win less, but it's much more rewarding when I do. Erick says people routinely 4-gate their way into Diamond, which doesn't sound like much fun at all.
Yeah that does not sound like fun at all. This highly competitive thing is something you have to devote a lot of time, and even then it sounds not worth it.
As for BB, I don't think it would be really exciting to watch competitive RTS games, but that may be just me. I personally enjoy those reactionary targets, or the Trials thing a lot more. Doom II was perfect, my favourite GB content of the year so far.
As for BB, I don't think it would be really exciting to watch competitive RTS games, but that may be just me. I personally enjoy those reactionary targets, or the Trials thing a lot more. Doom II was perfect, my favourite GB content of the year so far.
I hate the abuse and overuse of that word but in this case it's right on.
1 minute ad for 27+ minutes of content and people complain? No wonder Brad was losing it.
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But that's exactly what SC2 ladder is. That's why you bother scouting, so you can try to figure out your opponents build and attempt to counter it. At the Bronze-Diamond level the only thing you should be concerned about is just pure macro and 3-4 exact build orders, the gamespot dude is correct in his assessment. I know it's less fun to feel like you're playing from a script, but you need to get build orders down to the point where you can mechanically execute them without really even thinking. Then when you've mastered that, you can start adapting and changing your builds however you see fit.
YMMV. I'm still rusty as heck at SC2 and will need a couple dozen games to get back into my groove come HoTS.
weekend_warrior
Banned
I want to see a Dark Souls/Demon Souls Breaking Brad.
That would make that feature obosolete as DS consumes a lot of time.
I think people pysch themselves out a bit with the concept of learning build orders. It's not as mindless as remembering the exact population that each unit needs to be built; there's a difference between learning a build order and memorizing one. Actually thinking about why things are built when they are is what's going to teach you about macro. Concepts like why constant worker production is important, why a build cuts worker production at a specific amount, timing your extractor so you have exactly 100 gas to start ling speed right when your pool finishes, not building gateways than you can't afford to constantly produce from , etc. That's the actual power of build orders, not memorizing the exact build order that will give you 1 more roach at 6:55. It's more about creating a base point of reference, then learning how to adapt that. That way, when you try to learn another build, you can say "alright it's just normal 12hatch FE, then he builds a hydralisk den at 50% lair and upgrades lurker instead of going muta." Or, "the opening is different, but the timing of core->robo->shuttle/reaver is the same." It's like when you're learning a language, once you learn to conjugate verbs, you don't need to relearn that every single time you learn a new verb, you just apply those basic rules to a new situation.
It's a huge fault of the genre that you even need to do this, but it's not as bad as it first seems. There's tons more to learn past this, but that stuff is actually fun to learn because it involves actual strategic thinking, not rote memorization. Hopefully that wasn't too convoluted. I probably could make a more convincing argument, but it's hard for me to talk about starcraft without typing thousands of words.
tl;dr
It's not like playing from a script in the sense that you have no room for creativity, it's more like having an intended route that you would like to travel, but being prepared to switch to any of 3-4 alternate routes at any time based on the information you gather, or intuition. The most creative players in the world still use the core concepts of build orders.
Turn it into an Endurance Run, make it premium even! As long as he gets to play it
on PC
Endurance runs are better when they have some kind of driving narrative. Persona 4, Deadly Premonition and Chrono Trigger all had that story that propelled things forward.
They also had a multitude of different characters to become attached to and have fun with.
Dark Souls somewhat of a narrative, but the story is hard to follow and often hidden from view. I'm not sure it'll work as ER material at all.
An Endurance run without heavy story elements and funny characters to riff off of would be not nearly as awesome as the first 2.
EmCeeGramr
Member
The Ace Attorney trilogy ER.
Felix Lighter
Member
Give me Dave and Vinny and Mount and Blade and call it whatever the hell you want, I'll be there.
Wuthering_Heights
Banned
Is there anybody on the GB crew that would be able to get past the first boss?
Felix Lighter
Member
I think everyone except Jeff has beaten at least the first boss. Actually the first 2 bosses.
Honestly, I think this would almost be perfect.
Backfoggen
Banned
Dark Souls would be better as a Breaking Brad with Brad Muir helping Brad out Brad Brad Bard.
vitaminwateryum
corporate swill
This would be amazing. That sad part is that it wouldn't work due to the game not being "beatable". It'd probably end up like their QL, where they just got attacked by bandits in the first five minutes and spent the rest of the QL being poor.
It wouldn't really. The first 5-10 hours would be tedious as all hell. I grinded one area for SOOOO long at the start to get stronger and then that dragon tail sword. After that though...yeah, it would be incredible. Brad would have to do it, he's probably the only one skilled enough.
A Dark Souls Endurance Run? Don't know if it would be interesting when it'll probably take them ten episodes to make any progress after they beat a boss.
Also I wonder who's on the Dishonored QL with Patrick? Was hoping Vinny would have been on it since he seems to like that kind of game. Was it Ryan who wasn't too excited for what he saw at e3? I wouldn't mind Ryan QLing it, as long as it's Patrick who leads.
Also I wonder who's on the Dishonored QL with Patrick? Was hoping Vinny would have been on it since he seems to like that kind of game. Was it Ryan who wasn't too excited for what he saw at e3? I wouldn't mind Ryan QLing it, as long as it's Patrick who leads.
Nihilistic Monk
Member
Nah. I don't want to play through Persona 4 because it seems irrelevant now. AA is ALL about the plot. Let people experience it for themselves.
Apart from the script and joking off that there's nothing for them to go off. You get what you get and that's it...
Needs to be an esoteric-ass game, like the N64 Castlevania expansion.
This is very true.
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He's begun his training towards becoming a grand master!
While there clearly are Australian sounding aspects to how Brad Shoemaker talks, I feel he's going for a Cockney accent.
Dark Souls has more interesting stuff happen during gameplay though. Also, anything too story heavy gets kind of ruined by them talking through it all the time and not paying enough attention. Hell, one of the reasons Persona 4 worked is because it repeats all relevant information about three times in a row.
To be honest I don't think there's a ton of games that work well for an endurance run.
Haunted
Member
He's trying for an East London accent with the vernacular but ends up somewhere between Sydney and Canberra in pronunciation, which makes it even funnier.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
slightconfuse
Banned
Dishonerd looks awesome, cant wait to play it
I'm no Patrick hater, but he really needs to start playing the games during Quick Looks, rather than talking about it, showing a menu, talking about it, giving the development history, talking about it, showing a menu, talking about it...
Haunted
Member
Well, maybe I was talking about Sidney, British Columbia. Ever thought of that, huh?It's sydney, btw.
Holy shit yes.
Ninja Scooter
Member
Nobody QL's menus like Ryan anyway. Patrick needs to find his own gimmick.
I should be doing hw
Member
Can you please repeat your pronunciation of chasms, Patrick? I don't think you quite have it yet.
That is Patrick in a nutshell though. I find it funny though, sometimes he knows everything about the development and sometimes he is just utterly clueless.
MrTroubleMaker
Member
thanks
Pancakes
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Looks like Bioshock with more open level design. I like it, looks like Patrick was having fun too.
brianmcdoogle
Member
It reminds me of Fallout 3 in a lot of ways, and one of those ways might just be that the "jank" is excusable in the larger context.