Giant Bomb Bomb-All

Dr. Dave Dang, DDS

Entertaining as the traditional BVD ending segment could be, I much prefer this lineup.

Giant Bomb is professional wrestling now.

I came to ask if anyone was able to get the E3 night shows on their podcast feeds, but it sounds like they didn’t post anything but night 1.

Which is a bummer because I have an hour plus commute, and the extra content is nice.

doubtingthomas396 wrote:

I came to ask if anyone was able to get the E3 night shows on their podcast feeds, but it sounds like they didn’t post anything but night 1.

Which is a bummer because I have an hour plus commute, and the extra content is nice.

It's on YT. Maybe stream those to your car speakers?

Will this make any more sense once I have seen the entirety of that evening's segments, or is this some wrestling thing that I will still not understand having seen the whole segment?

doubtingthomas396 wrote:

I came to ask if anyone was able to get the E3 night shows on their podcast feeds, but it sounds like they didn’t post anything but night 1.

Which is a bummer because I have an hour plus commute, and the extra content is nice.

What? The podcast feed had night 2 on there right now. Night 3 will likely publish today.

mrlogical wrote:

Will this make any more sense once I have seen the entirety of that evening's segments, or is this some wrestling thing that I will still not understand having seen the whole segment?

The latter.

mrlogical wrote:

Will this make any more sense once I have seen the entirety of that evening's segments, or is this some wrestling thing that I will still not understand having seen the whole segment?

Wrestling thing. The first guy is Austin Creed/Watson/Xavier Woods, a WWE wrestler and gaming youtube personality. He's been on quite a few Giant Bomb at Nite segments. He's a long-time Giant Bomb fan. The guy behind the couch is Kenny Omega and he's another wrestler but for a competing company. He's also a huge gamer and has done a few things with Giant Bomb. Austin/Xavier and Kenny have done a few things together around games.

I was similarly lost, but was also relieved they weren't announcing another departure.

I just want Austin and Kenny to play street fighter against each other again.

The wife kindly purchased a year subscription of GB for me for Father's Day. I'd let it lapse over the last year since we had so much going on. Any recommendations for premium content I may have missed over the last 1-1.5 years?

Mass Alex

I'll second Mass Alex, although you are pretty safe skipping the "cleanup" episodes, where he goes around and does side quests / DLC stuff. They're pretty boring.

And for ME2, I tried to get him to install a mod that insta-wins the minigames and fully scans a planet with a single probe - Vinny even suggested it to him, but he didn't want to, so be prepared in ME2, because Alex, for some perverse, unknown reason, enjoys planet scanning.

It's a relatively new series, episodes are still coming out, but I would recommend the Giant Bomb Crime Crew, where Vinny, Alex, Dan, and Abby all team up in GTA5 to pull off the GTA Online heists. I am one of those people who really isn't into the GTA games anymore, but this is just fun to watch for the group working together. Lots of funny moments, and we've only got 4 episodes so far.

Also, it ended in 2018, so that may still be within your year of absence, but 13 Deadly Sims, where Abby creates 13 Giant Bomb staff members in The Sims 4, and must get them killed using methods drawn from a hat, is really entertaining.

I don't remember if Abby's Sims thing was that recent, but that was golden.

Thanks, all. That seems like a good list. I never did play Mass Effect, maybe watching this will suffice

I’m also weird and really enjoyed ME2’s planet scanning. I found it amazingly relaxing. This was before it got sped up too. I also like when they scan because a lot of those moments are really fun conversations between Alex and Vinny. Usually there’s a Dan there so I appreciate the quiet time with just them.

I’d recommend any Playdate (East or West) that has Mary Kish and/or Danny O’Dwyer. The Playdates where they play Jackbox are some of the funniest content.

The GTA 5 heist stuff that's coming out is great. They put a lot of work into the production on that.

boogle wrote:

FFTA > FFT

It's in the name folks, it's advanced.

Okay public service announcement, there's a FFTA mod called Grin Grimoire that makes it harder and better. Boog is, as always, correct.

bnpederson wrote:
doubtingthomas396 wrote:

I came to ask if anyone was able to get the E3 night shows on their podcast feeds, but it sounds like they didn’t post anything but night 1.

Which is a bummer because I have an hour plus commute, and the extra content is nice.

What? The podcast feed had night 2 on there right now. Night 3 will likely publish today.
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No good for me. I’ve been refreshing the feed in the (Apple) podcast app a couple of times a day since Wednesday, and only night 1 shows up. I’ve checked the other giant bomb feeds too (aftermath, beast cast, presents, etc) and nothing.

Is it premium content?

I'm using the premium feed but nites 1 and 2 are available as free audio feed.

https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/gian...

https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/gian...

Nite 3 isn't up for premium or free, I guess they decided to not work further overtime after E3.

I'm pretty sure Alex's car pick in GTAO is a deliberate troll job. It's basically the slowest vehicle in the game one could reasonably choose and maintain plausible deniability that you weren't trolling. It's one step above a garbage truck. Very well played.

It's funny, but I've been getting back into the "Mass Alex" and I too love the scanning segments, since its so often just Alex and Vinny shooting the sh*t. The parts I skim through or straight-up skip are the combat sections; Alex is often too involved to give interesting commentary, Vinny doesn't want to be too attention-grabbing given Alex is trying to succeed and might die, and I get frustrated with Alex never freaking reloading.

bnpederson wrote:

I'm using the premium feed but nites 1 and 2 are available as free audio feed.

https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/gian...

https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/gian...

Nite 3 isn't up for premium or free, I guess they decided to not work further overtime after E3.

Nite 3 is out, btw.

https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/gian...

Watching the live QL for the new Hitman 2 map, and man, have I never realized what an insufferable backseat gamer Dan is? Like, damn, man, I get that you want to try to run and gun your way through the stage for some reason, but if Brad wants to play the stealth game like a stealth game, maybe let him?

Have you not watched any of their Hitman content before?

I thought I had, but looking back I guess I was thinking of their podcast discussions, not video content.

One of my favourite things is when Dan tries to backseat game and gets shutdown. When Brad got very confident at Hitman, he'd tell Dan to be quiet because he's got a much better plan. Brad has lost that confidence.

hbi2k wrote:

I thought I had, but looking back I guess I was thinking of their podcast discussions, not video content.

I haven't watched the new video yet, but assuming they're keeping the same format as the other Hitman videos, Dan is playing the role of Brad's "Coach."

Ah, so it's part of the gimmick, gotcha.

Dan is very bad at the Hitman murder puzzle simulator