Giant Bomb Bomb-All

Aaron D. wrote:

Yeah, the Slime Rancher: Quick Look has convinced me beyond a shadow of a doubt that Ben is valuable get for GB.

I think this is the first QL I've seen with him in the pilot's seat and he handles it with a confident ease and quick wit. Looks like he's fitting in just fine.

On a side note, that QL totally sold me a copy of the game, LOL.

He did a QL for Mighty Gunvolt Burst that was pretty solid also.

I enjoyed people in the comments defending Dan's dirtbag play in PUBG (and it isn't even fun-to-watch dirtbag play) because he's won two games. I've won 12 in about 50 more rounds, more solos than he's won any. I'm distinctly below-average at the game. "Count the rings" doesn't even mean anything.

Murder Island needs more of Dan getting team killed with no warning. That's always entertaining.

Ed Ropple wrote:

I enjoyed people in the comments defending Dan's dirtbag play in PUBG (and it isn't even fun-to-watch dirtbag play) because he's won two games. I've won 12 in about 50 more rounds, more solos than he's won any. I'm distinctly below-average at the game. "Count the rings" doesn't even mean anything.

We have to trust this guy because he has 12 rings.

Podcast listeners should check out the 1099 podcast that has had a pretty long string of interviews with Giant bomb people. They are individual interviews, but I have found them to be a joy to listen to.

I also liked the Dave Lang episode, and it made me wish we got less Chuckle-f*ck Dave Lang on Giant Bomb content.

This season of Alt/Shift-F1 has been really sad for me because the guys' travel schedules means more than half the episodes have had Dave Lang co-hosting.

Chaz wrote:

This season of Alt/Shift-F1 has been really sad for me because the guys' travel schedules means more than half the episodes have had Dave Lang co-hosting.

This is indeed criminal and has taken Shift F1 down quite a few notches in my "must listen when new" list of podcasts.

I still listen ASAP to keep up with the season's news, but cringe when I find out it's a Lang episode.

Yeah, as much as I love both of those guys I wish they could find a different host and then have that person coordinate with finding a second when neither of them are available, and just have a 3 person episode when they are both available.

I put it at 50/50 that they just cancel the podcast after this year given the incompatibility of their new gigs and a podcast like that.

I really hope they don't. That podcast got me into F1, and it's been a great companion. I don't wanna find a new one.

In more sad news, I'm trying to watch the latest Murder Island, and it won't load the video.

The Murder Island streams are making me hate Dan.

Finally listed Exquisite Corps episode 2 for Monday. I fear they made this weekly because they fully wiped inside of a few hours. If not, hopefully they'll start putting these out more frequently.

I know I'm beating a horse that has since turned to ash and dust, but by god are these guys astoundingly terrible at video games it is a struggle to watch sometimes. The only part that gets me through is the relief that while I am really bad, I could be much worse.

Two minutes into the last Kingdom Hearts video, Ben fails miserably at the tutorial race for the fourth time as he tries to jump at a cliff edge way too high for him, and then complains that he thought he could make that jump. The same type of jump he tried to do over and over and over again in the last video, with it clearly not working every single time, leaving me baffled what made him think that. This is going to be a long playthrough.

I was grinding my teeth pretty hard at that section too. I'm not sure if that was real incompetence or faked, but either way, it was painful to watch.

It's a battle between what is discussed most in this thread. Giantbomb being terrible at games or everyone hating Dan.

I removed the Bombcast from my podcast list today. Not any big reason, I just finally released myself from my OCD of needing to know what the guys are up to all the time. I still have the Beastcast and watch videos, but I've lessened that as well. I feel lighter, free, like the world is my oyster. I am the oyster king.

I have traded the Bombcast off for the Critical Role podcast... I've been wanting that for awhile since I could never get around to the youtube videos/ twitch streams.

I'll probably come back again as I tend to do.

Delerat wrote:

I removed the Bombcast from my podcast list today. Not any big reason, I just finally released myself from my OCD of needing to know what the guys are up to all the time. I still have the Beastcast and watch videos, but I've lessened that as well. I feel lighter, free, like the world is my oyster. I am the oyster king.

Felt the same way when I stopped listening to GWJ.

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Yeah, I did that too as well as Idle Thumbs. I just realized that my favourite avenue for learning about games is Giant Bomb videos, and all the journalists/critics I've collected on Twitter. I don't need hours and hours and hours every month of the same information presented by different people.

I think part of this is that I switched my goofy comedy podcast priority over to MBMBaM and The Adventure Zone. The McElroy brothers keep their stuff short enough that it's manageable.

I'm getting deja vu to the games podcasts thread re: Weekend Confirmed. XD

Did Dan ruin that too?

A podcast hosted by Garnett Lee doesn't need Dan to ruin it.

Dan is one of the four things keeping me listening to the Beastcast.

Delerat wrote:

Yeah, I did that too as well as Idle Thumbs. I just realized that my favourite avenue for learning about games is Giant Bomb videos, and all the journalists/critics I've collected on Twitter. I don't need hours and hours and hours every month of the same information presented by different people.

Yeah, I'm the same way for most of my gaming podcasts, although I kept Idle Thumbs since they tend to focus on different material. Part of it is just that my interest in gaming has waned significantly. But most of it is, like you say, no matter how much I like the personalities, there's so much more material I could be listening to instead of dozens of takes on the exact same games and game news.

I don't listen to gaming podcasts anymore.

They should revise Spookin With Scoops with Abby. She reacts so well and is so funny, it would be nice if she could play even good horror games.

Watched the newest Exquisite Corps. The intro was fantastic. Watching them play was incredibly painful. Basic stuff like

Spoiler:

Alex needing to capture a sectoid, having a sectoid with 1hp left within single movement range, allowing for an easy capture, and he has the soldier with the arc thrower shoot it instead, then later runs the arc thrower right next to a full health sectoid and goes for the stun. Skipping grabbing the meld container because they seemed to think grabbing it would have ended their turn instead of being a free action. Taking a long range shot because they hadn't realized that you can move then shoot, but not shoot then move.

I really wish they'd had someone who knew how to play in Vinny's role so they could be more of a guide on the basics, instead of having the two of them constantly fumbling around for stuff like "how do I change targets?"

I'm not sure if this is more or less frustrating than watching Drew run around the Platform E forever, but it's right up there.

You all have no respect for our lost comrade, Ellen Degeneres.

drdoak wrote:

You all have no respect for our lost comrade, Ellen Degeneres.

Poor Pvt Degeneres' death lies solely on the heads of her commanders.

Huh, I'm starting to have to actively avoid Dan content. For quite awhile he had toned things down, but I've encountered 3 videos/podcasts or so lately where I had to just turn it off. He seems to have turned his ignorance card up to 11 lately. He's also been really stressing his taste in games where anything with story and characters is bad.

He had toned things down pretty well for like a year there. I don't know what it is as of late. Maybe it's just me and being frustrated with ignorant people as of late.