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The Giant Bomb Quick Look Thread 2
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Ventilaator
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They keep talking about "This type of game" in the Dishonored Quick Look, yet don't name anything other than Deus Ex, Deus Ex 2 and Deus Ex 3.
It's not hard to figure out what type of game they mean.
RomanticHeroX
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I've never thought first person platforming is as clumsy as Ryan makes it seem. Maybe all that time with Turok wasn't a waste after all?
I must not have woken up properly, what jank are you guys even talking about?
Oh, and I suddenly understand why Patrick doesn't like stealth games if he feels compelled to reload as soon as he's detected in games like MGS. WTF? The game gives you plenty of tools to take out alerted enemies, and being detected itself isn't very penalizing unless you care about your final stats.
Treythalomew
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Thank god this bothers other people too. That's why there's two people, questions can come up naturally and then things can be explained some.
Metroid Prime nailed first person platforming about a decade ago and Mirror's Edge came out a little less than four years ago. There's nothing inherently wrong with it as a genre, but then again some games fail to implement it well.
That's one little criticism I have with him. Witcher II 360 is one of those offenders.I am sure you can figure it out. It's not like there is much like it.
Thief, Deus Ex, System Shock 2, Bioshock to an extent
Plexirvones
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Quick Look: XCOM: Enemy Unknown (53:57) (Ryan / Jeff)
Shatner's Bassoon
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Chasms?
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Really interested in dishonoured, but will never get the time to get to. Well, not for awhile anyway.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Those first five minutes were painful.
Is Ryan good at any games, like any games in particular? Serious question. Brad gets ripped on (most of it tongue in cheek, some of it serious) while Ryan goes virtually unnoticed but he is pretty much terrible at everything I see him play. Jeff was pretty much holding his hand during the XCOM QL and good thing he was too.
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CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Football Manager was made for Ryan.
Oh my god someone like Jeff is sorely needed when Ryan and Patrick are doing QLs, they need someone to just say SHUT THE FUCK UP AND PLAY THE GAME. Isn't Drew also watching them while they're doing QLs? He should inform them when they're taking way too long blabbering about the history of Nintendo and the pets and families of the game developers.
I should be doing hw
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An on-screen menu timer would give Ryan the hint I think.
Broder Salsa
Banned
I'm excited for dishonored but that quick look was kind of meh, also that fucking rain effect on camera already annoys me.
IISANDERII
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Heh, yeah I forgot how coarse Vinny could be. Maybe fatherhood has changed him a bit.
TriangleOfCorruption
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W-who cares?
Yeah, I don't know, maybe there's more mission variety, but just going through the level to get to the guy to kill doesn't seem very exciting
Mini maps are his arch nemesis, there are quite a few quick looks where he either isn't paying attention or just simply doesn't understand them.
Me, hence why I asked the question...
TriangleOfCorruption
Member
But why???
Fleet_of_Foot
Member
After watching both Dishonored and XCOM, my interest in Dishonored is zero and my interest in XCOM went way up.
Nothing to do with the personnel on the Quick Looks, Dishonored just looks really boring.
Nothing to do with the personnel on the Quick Looks, Dishonored just looks really boring.
forgeforsaken
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I loved that moment. I'm not sure if it's a result of Jake's marketing of the game but there definitely seems to be a trend in the media where they get excited when things go to shit in XCOM.
If you've been doing something your whole life, you should probably be at least decent at it
TriangleOfCorruption
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Well luckily enough, Ryan is pretty good at talking and writing about games.
Ryan is a very good speaker, host and writer.
I have been playing games my whole life too, I sometimes also fuck up. You don't?
Haunted
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Rewatch the Spelunky QL, Jeff is downright gleeful when Brad fucks up.
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
Vire
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XCOM looks great. I didn't know much about it previously, but it looks like fun. I love Advance Wars so this looks like it scratches a similar itch.
Dishonored I'm not so sure about. Seems like it's running under the false guise of "do anything you want", but in actuality, most encounters hinge on the blink ability. Also, the 360 version looks rather washed out.
Dishonored I'm not so sure about. Seems like it's running under the false guise of "do anything you want", but in actuality, most encounters hinge on the blink ability. Also, the 360 version looks rather washed out.
Ryan played a good map there. He maybe rushed a couple of turns or did things differently that I would have, but he did fine. I also will never forget that time he took the control from Brad during that Trials video and showed him how it's done.
If we are going to complain about Ryan being bad at games, lets at least pick some where he is actually bad.
If we are going to complain about Ryan being bad at games, lets at least pick some where he is actually bad.
YuriLowell
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But he has guns?
SuperSonic1305
Member
Ryan has forgotten the PS3 version of XCOM in 3 straight videos. Even the developers didn't correct him in the EX Quick Look. I actually thought this was PC/360 only until recently because of that.
darkressurection
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Noticed that too, at the risk of kicking off another multi-page argument, I will say that I wish the guys stayed a little more informed about prices and release dates and things like that. I know they joke about fact-checking killing the podcast, but when a lot (not all) of people take what they say as gospel they should try and be as accurate as possible with that stuff.