Giant Bomb |OT 16| All Your Favorite Personalities Will Be Back Soon
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Hopefully it's not too bad. I broke my right thumb a number of years ago and got around the cast restriction by using my index finger for camera control, middle finger for face buttons, ring finger for R1/RB, and pinky for RT/R2.
Honestly worked WAY better than it had any right to on both PS3 and X360 controllers.
I'm really disliking the "crap on someone else's opinion on entertainment or hope the game/movie/tv series reviews terribly for my own sake of vindication" culture that seems to be evolving in Era (and perhaps really the internet in itself). People are going after Dan apparently in that Death Stranding thread (not surprising) and I saw one post in the Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order Gone Gold thread where someone had their fingers crossed the game would be an "underwhelming wet fart". People these are just pieces of entertainment. They're not going to appeal to everyone and games like Death Stranding might be able to find an audience and those who like it have just as much of a right to talk about why they like it just as much as why someone might dislike it. Going after someone however by calling them jaded or saying they are factual wrong about the quality of the game when you're enjoyment of a game is more valid is really lame. Its okay to disagree about what you think about that game or movie or whatever if you found something more entertaining than someone else. You shouldn't try to put down someone because you disagree thinking you're point of view is proven correct to get vindication. That person has the same freedom to express their opinion on a piece of media as you do and there's no need to put anyone down for disagreeing. The only caveat I can have about this is if someone is enjoying a product that has questionable content in it and/or was made by someone who has mean spirited views and even puts their beliefs into the game. Say Agony for instance with its very sexist portrayals of women and one person likes Agony BECAUSE of the sexist content. Then someone would have to talk to that person and explain why its problematic to like that game.
Going back to that Star Wars thread, why would someone actively root for a product of someone's work to fail so hard? Because EA sucks and deserve any failure that comes to them? Sure EA has a proven, terrible rep as a publisher to work for and have been known for shutting down talented developers for making a series of underwhelming financial releases (while usually following EA's orders too). But don't you think rooting for Respawn to fail will only add more fuel to EA's fire of shutting down legacy development studios and force more people out of a job? Of course Respawn is doing very well nowadays and even if Fallen Order got bad scores, it wouldn't immediately be the end of Respawn. But rooting for Fallen Order to fail because you don't like what the Publisher does to developers seems ridiculous when that possible failure will only make EA take another step towards the thing that people hate EA for doing anyways.
Sorry for the long rant here. Seeing the Death Stranding thread and the Star Wars Gone Gold thread and posts within those forums made me want to get this off my chest about people who act that way online.
Going back to that Star Wars thread, why would someone actively root for a product of someone's work to fail so hard? Because EA sucks and deserve any failure that comes to them? Sure EA has a proven, terrible rep as a publisher to work for and have been known for shutting down talented developers for making a series of underwhelming financial releases (while usually following EA's orders too). But don't you think rooting for Respawn to fail will only add more fuel to EA's fire of shutting down legacy development studios and force more people out of a job? Of course Respawn is doing very well nowadays and even if Fallen Order got bad scores, it wouldn't immediately be the end of Respawn. But rooting for Fallen Order to fail because you don't like what the Publisher does to developers seems ridiculous when that possible failure will only make EA take another step towards the thing that people hate EA for doing anyways.
Sorry for the long rant here. Seeing the Death Stranding thread and the Star Wars Gone Gold thread and posts within those forums made me want to get this off my chest about people who act that way online.
He did put a weird amount of time into Metal Gear Survive iirc.
I didn't say he wouldn't play it. I just said he'd despise it.
I'm fully expecting him to play a ton of it because he "had to know if this is what is really is."
We have people actively rooting and hoping for shitshows in review threads because that would be great entertainment, it's no surprise videogames in general are a fucking cesspool of a community.
I never got the impression that Abby is a RPG player so eh. Still hope that Vinny plays it. Or heck, there are lines in there that would really vibe well with Alex though I don't know think he is a big player of RPGs either.
Not too bad yet. Depends on how it looks in a few months. I could play shooters with a controller but I don't want to.
personally i hope every game i dont want to play reviews poorly so i can feel justified in not wanting to play it
Pray that Vinny and Alex play it
Wait, giant bomb has reviewers?
That Stranding stream they watched seemed like Jeff was 100% uninterested in that aspect of the game.
I'm pretty sure Mike has enough bananas to buy the final thing, so the next episode should be the last.
How could you possibly say this about Mr. Mass Alex himself??
The Beastcast crew laughing at Dan again when he asked Jeff if he's not afraid of getting electrocuted when working on his pinball machine, even though he's right and some electronics keep a charge and can kill you even after they've been unplugged. They like to do that lately...
If I was looking forward to Death Stranding, and everything it might be, I would be rooting for poor reviews unless you are looking for a polarizing game that everyone likes....If some reviewers aren't bouncing off this new strand type game of an excuse to put your famous friends in a walking simulator than wtf is Kojima even doing.
Dan: Is it cold in space?
Vinny: Well... there's zero heat.
Dan: ...would you need a jacket?
Vinny: Well... there's zero heat.
Dan: ...would you need a jacket?
So it turned out I thought my brother showed me parts of Event Horizon as a kid but it turned out to be Deep Rising.
Just rent it on YouTube on your laptop and leave the podcast playing in another tab.
Yep thanks! Gonna be on a train for 3.5 hours today. This will help! :)
I did one Film and 40s late at night which entailed listening to the podcast from my phone via earphones and also putting headphones over those for the movie's audio lol.
right, this needs someone to actually be into it to make it interesting instead of "we told you so"
and that could be Brad
Ooh, I'll look into this, hmm.
Now that sounds like entertainment already.
but do I want to see the rest of the thread in order to enjoy it, hmm
I'm going to check your post history now to see if I guessed the game correctly, but will type my response first: it barely matters, the wedding dress looks kinda eh but that's about it
EDIT: correct
That's actually a really good question tbh
Space is a vacuum, which means you suddenly jumped into space it wouldn't be "cold" straight away, you'd slowly radiate off body heat until you got cold, since there'd (probably) be nothing nearby to warm you to counteract it, unless you were near a source of heat like a star. There's plenty of places inside the inner solar system where if you were in direct sunlight you'd cook to death before you froze.
Dan's wistfulness for RDR2 in light of his "embargo" statements regarding Death Stranding have just made my day.
I'm gonna go play RDR2 again.
I'm gonna go play RDR2 again.
damn I really hope one GB person likes disco elysium at least, its really special and I feel like it'll get left off their year end list entirely
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