Yea it definitely is, has Mega Man 1-6 so it has the classics :D
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Giant Bomb |OT6| You're Gonna Finish It!
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Yea it definitely is, has Mega Man 1-6 so it has the classics :D
Brad loves broken games. Remember him saying Bethesda literally can never make a game that isn't broken because they are so ambitions
Is it just me or does it sound like the crew are talking at 1.5 speed? It is driving me nuts. I have to keep checking to make sure i didnt speed up the podcast.
I was thinking exactly that this morning. Especially Patrick during parts of the Black Ops chat. I genuinely thought it was sped up he was talking so fast.
Rad. I don't think I've ever beaten one of the mainline MM games. I was always a Zero/Battle Network/Legends guy.
other people have covered it but is like... the most boring game, conceptually, it is something you can point at and go "that is a video game" but nothing about it seems actually interesting; there is the fact that there are hordes of zombies, which... sure, but without anything interesting there you might as well be showing off a tech demo
if it has an interesting story and world, somehow, maybe there'll be something to it? but they sure haven't shown any of that off so far and it seems like the most generic zombie setting, so what's even the appeal beyond "there are many of the least interesting kind of enemy ever to fight"
...also they fucking called the zombies "Freakers", I keep forgetting that and remembering it and getting bewildered by it, as happened yet again right before I started this sentence, they called the zombies "Freakers" and expect people to take the game seriously
the extent of the world building they've shown off is that people looked at other humans becoming infected with something that makes them tear other humans apart and running in hordes to do so, and went "ah, Freakers, cause they're freaking out!", and everyone accepted this
what a game
yeah, same, I'll trade you fuckers
except I can't really grow much of a beard either
I am glad someone else thought this too. I thought I was going crazy! haha!
What I love about Days Gone is that it shows how deep we are in our own little bubble and don't even realise it. To most of us Days Gone looks generic and not that interesting. But looking at those YouTube views is like holy cow. If played right this could appeal to the gigantic Walking Dead crowd like TLOU2 never could (or would want to I assume).
Yeah it's amazing how a game like The Last of Us overcame calling its zombies 'clickers' and 'runners' and 'bloaters', amazing.
People want to hate on the game, hard, because compared to other Sony first party games, it doesn't have the same level of polish. It is what it is.
The game is going for something different, the ability to use strategy and herd zombies and pit them against humans, etc. Whether you're interested in that is your own thing, but writing off a game because zombies are called Freakers is lame.
As a new IP the game is still review dependent. The Podcast discussion was a bit frustrating. I personally don't like the game but on the podcast the argument didn't go beyond "It demoed poorly", "It's not good" and something about dumpsters. I want to know why it's not good, especially when you can compare it to SoD to make your point.
Oh I totally recognise that zombies are popular.
Doesn't mean I have to like them.
Popularity doesn't automatically make a thing good. Take a look at the Walking Dead as a prime example of that.
I mean I'd take a look at Days Gone but the game isn't out until next year, so hard to judge how the game is going to be.
lmao they call them freakers? really? l-m-a-o please god they need to change that lmao
nobody said you should like it or that this game will be good...
Finding unique (read: stupid) names for zombies is one of my favorite symptoms of the over-saturation of zombie media.
To be clear, it's totally a minor point, and more of a laughable thing than a thing I think is outright bad or something anyway- my thoughts on the game are more that it's completely uninteresting. But it also speaks to the thing that would interest me - story and an interesting world - apparently not being thought about at all?
Calling zombies "clickers", "runners", "bloaters", etc. is silly, I agree. But... those zombies also do actually click, run fast, are bloated, etc. You can point to L4D similarly- the special infected have kinda silly names, but the basic name in both cases is "the infected". You can reasonably imagine people looking at these weird mutations and coming up with slang for them.
Meanwhile "Freakers" are... "freaking out", I guess? While somehow not just being "freaks"? It feels like inventing a term to have a term vs thinking through what people in the world would actually say, if that makes sense? It's not like that's what broke my suspension of disbelief, in a game about zombies, it's more that it feels like another sign that the game is just "isn't it cool to fight zombies" vs doing anything interesting with the idea of people who are fighting zombies.
And I'm not hating on it to hate on it. I would legitimately like to understand what people see in it. Is the horde stuff actually interesting to you long term if that's literally all there is to it?
I wish more zombie fiction would just call them zombies. We all get it anyway.
I understand that they would then feel obligated to have other zombie fiction exist within that universe, but they could just not.
Edit: Except TLoU. I love the life cycle of the cordyceps infection.
I understand that they would then feel obligated to have other zombie fiction exist within that universe, but they could just not.
Edit: Except TLoU. I love the life cycle of the cordyceps infection.
Yes, just call them zombies! It annoys when zombie fiction pretends the concept of zombies didn't exist in their universe.
They click, though. And that's only one of four stages. You don't need to be so slow and silent around runners and stalkers.
Although I get how something named after onomatopoeia can not land so well for non-native english speakers.
The only good game series with zombies is Left 4 Dead. I haven't played State of Decay 2 yet.
I mean even if it's zombie fiction where they're infected people, not undead, if not gonna call them zombies like... just call them infected?
Or you could come up with a name for the infection and use that as a basis? Or name them after where the infection started? Or after who discovered the infection? Anything like that. Naming them after behavior as slang is whatever, but I feel like that kind of world building would at least be more interesting even if it's still just a way to differentiate the work.
A little while ago, the last time I remembered "Freakers" and tweeted about it before forgetting again, a friend immediately linked to this.
Or you could come up with a name for the infection and use that as a basis? Or name them after where the infection started? Or after who discovered the infection? Anything like that. Naming them after behavior as slang is whatever, but I feel like that kind of world building would at least be more interesting even if it's still just a way to differentiate the work.
A little while ago, the last time I remembered "Freakers" and tweeted about it before forgetting again, a friend immediately linked to this.
That was a smart way of adapting a real world fungi.
At the very least that's the sound they make. What in the flying fuck is a freaker? An auto-correct hacker?
Left 4 Dead 2 and Dead Rising 2 are my favorite zombie games.
I never gave The Last of Us it's due but that's my personal choice.
I never gave The Last of Us it's due but that's my personal choice.
kideo games may not be the place to look for well written zambies
oh the wonderful noises they could make, whistling launch codes
So your problem is the name doesn't describe what they do. If I didn't invest time in figuring out Horizon, I would wonder why Aloy's tribe is called the Nora and would think that would be stupid as well. But then I played the game and realized wow there's a really good in game reason for them to be called that name. And sure it could be there isn't a reasonable in universe reason for their name. It just seems petty to concentrate on.
It's not literally all there is. I mean you're on a video game forum with a billion different preview threads about the game and videos and instead you want to stubbornly stick to things which have been disproven. Whether you like the stuff they're going for is one thing, but there's no reason to state things about the game that are simply not true.
Pitting the AI against each other to accomplish goals I think is super interesting and cool. And leads to so many ways to progress. Something which attracted me to Horizon as well with how you can override machines.
I'm sooo curious to see what that busted-ass GDPR compliance stuff that Jeff was talking about is going to look like.
If they're called Freakers, they need to follow another landmark video game and license Korn.
Fiction outside of games isn't any better. I can name a single exception to it in the recent memory.
Zombie hackers that make dial-up noises constantly. That's the future I want to live in.
I mean it looks super boring but I dunno, it doesn't look more boring than a bunch of big shooters that are shown year after year.
Yea there's a lot of great mega man games in that collection so hopefully you'll enjoy it!
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I wonder what Jeff actually has to do with GDPR (haven't heard that part of the bombcast yet) or it's the poor web devs that are the ones feeling the brunt of it.
GDPR was adopted in April of 2016, everyone scrambling at the last minute to do this shit is kind of cracking me up.
In a weird book shape that is odd to hold and you can only read it on a flat surface.
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