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Spike VGA's - Uncharted 3! Mass Effect 3! Batman: Arkham City! Groan Worthy Filler!

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  • CenoCeno pizza time Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    There are few things I anticipate more than Giant Bomb's four-hour GOTY deliberation podcast.

    Ceno on
  • OmnomnomPancakeOmnomnomPancake Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    It's pmuch going to be

    Brad wants Starcraft 2

    Ryan wants AssBro

    Jeff wants Pacman or Super Street Fighter

    Vinny wants Fallout New Vegas

    and then they all concede and pick Mass Effect 2.

    Won't be as epic as GTA VS MGS

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  • fRAWRstfRAWRst The Seas Call The Mad AnswerRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I think Brad will not advocate Sc2 unless they have a multiplayer only side, which SSF4 cotends with. Brads reppin that RDR all the way.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    How the fuck does some secondary character from CODBLOPS win Best Character over Ezio?

    I couldn't even keep the squadmates straight until they had one of them get an eyepatch.

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  • CherrnCherrn Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    It's pmuch going to be

    Brad wants Starcraft 2

    Ryan wants AssBro

    Jeff wants Pacman or Super Street Fighter

    Vinny wants Fallout New Vegas

    and then they all concede and pick Mass Effect 2.

    Won't be as epic as GTA VS MGS

    Given how they all felt back when Mass Effect 2 came out (Jeff called that game special), I definitely think it'll be the unanimous decision.

    I need to go back and listen to that podcast. And I need to go back and play the ME 2 DLC.

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  • BlackDoveBlackDove Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    How the fuck does some secondary character from CODBLOPS win Best Character over Ezio?

    I couldn't even keep the squadmates straight until they had one of them get an eyepatch.

    Bekoz MOTION KAPTCHARING TEKNOLOGY AND VOIC AKTOR.

    Also, you have to give black ops something, just because it gets so much industry money.

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Well, I would have voted for ME2 myself can't say I'm mad at RDR. It is a pretty great game.

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  • InkyblotsInkyblots Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I caught the end of this last night to see Jose Gonzalez save the show and the Uncharted 3 trailer, so I guess I didn't miss much. NPH didn't even seem that stellar. And some guy tried to make a joke about hybrids before the Forza 4 trailer and the crowd was just dead silent, I felt bad for him.

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    How the fuck does some secondary character from CODBLOPS win Best Character over Ezio?

    I couldn't even keep the squadmates straight until they had one of them get an eyepatch.

    I wish Mike and Jerry would bring back 'The 75th annual We're Right awards'.

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  • simulacrumsimulacrum She/herRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    So, what groan worthy filler did I miss last night?

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    It was the VGAs. I didn't even watch it so and I could probably sum it up.

    Host trying to save a dying ship.
    Lots of celebrities looking lost/there for free stuff
    Joke about NERDS!!!
    People advertising their next project.
    People showing that they still think we're in the late 80s/early 90s when it comes to video games.

    Hell...anything I miss?

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  • simulacrumsimulacrum She/herRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    It was the VGAs. I didn't even watch it so and I could probably sum it up.

    Host trying to save a dying ship.
    Lots of celebrities looking lost/there for free stuff
    Joke about NERDS!!!
    People advertising their next project.
    People showing that they still think we're in the late 80s/early 90s when it comes to video games.

    Hell...anything I miss?

    Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if that pretty much summed it up.

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  • KuratosuKuratosu Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Yeah, that's pretty accurate in all areas to some degree or another.

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  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I have to ask, was DNF even nominated for most anticipated game?

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Regarding the end of the year Bombcast, I am hearing a lot of rumblings about ME2. And even though 3/4 of the crew loved RDR, Jeff still hasn't played it so he might not let it win.

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  • Professor SnugglesworthProfessor Snugglesworth Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    It was the VGAs. I didn't even watch it so and I could probably sum it up.

    Host trying to save a dying ship.
    Lots of celebrities looking lost/there for free stuff
    Joke about NERDS!!!
    People advertising their next project.
    People showing that they still think we're in the late 80s/early 90s when it comes to video games.

    Hell...anything I miss?

    "Like all of you, I jerk off to Halo 3"

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  • OmnomnomPancakeOmnomnomPancake Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    HOW THE FUCK DID NPH BEAT JOHN MOTHER FUCKING MARSTON

    JESUS CHRIST

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Cause he was the host, so they could do a bit?

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  • SoundsPlushSoundsPlush yup, back. Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I was only watching this in the background waiting for the ME3 trailer, which came thankfully early-ish so I could bail. But after watching Dane Cook tell Dane Cook jokes that fell justifiably flat, there was some part where a lady was interviewing some guy...the volume was down and I was only half-listening, but it sounded like he was being interviewed because he was an XBL smack talker? He was recounting a no doubt hilarious anecdote about how this guy demanded he take something back but he wouldn't take it back and the guy was freaking out about it but he still wouldn't take it back and it was just the funniest.

    Did that really happen and is my impression accurate?

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  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I was only watching this in the background waiting for the ME3 trailer, which came thankfully early-ish so I could bail. But after watching Dane Cook tell Dane Cook jokes that fell justifiably flat, there was some part where a lady was interviewing some guy...the volume was down and I was only half-listening, but it sounded like he was being interviewed because he was an XBL smack talker? He was recounting a no doubt hilarious anecdote about how this guy demanded he take something back but he wouldn't take it back and the guy was freaking out about it but he still wouldn't take it back and it was just the funniest.

    Did that really happen and is my impression accurate?

    Nick Swardson is actually pretty funny, that wasn't very good though.

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  • SoundsPlushSoundsPlush yup, back. Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Okay, so it's a comedian? That's slightly better.

    Not that I'd put the real thing past them.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    It's pmuch going to be

    Brad wants Starcraft 2

    Ryan wants AssBro

    Jeff wants Pacman or Super Street Fighter

    Vinny wants Fallout New Vegas

    and then they all concede and pick Mass Effect 2.

    Won't be as epic as GTA VS MGS

    I don't know

    Vinny really likes Brotherhood (he's neglected to play any other games according to the last two podcasts), and if Brad hurries up and finishes AC1 he might concede it. Jeff also seems to love Brotherhood.

    I am just really hoping ME2 doesn't get it basically, but yeah, it seems like it might be a likely choice.

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  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Okay, so it's a comedian? That's slightly better.

    Not that I'd put the real thing past them.

    He actually has a hilarious bit where he scares his neighbor playing videogames all night very loudly. I don't want to spoil the punchline, but it's great.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Ceno wrote: »
    There are few things I anticipate more than Giant Bomb's four-hour GOTY deliberation podcast.

    They had some interesting choices for their personal Top 10 lists last year... I would hope that some of them put Deadly Premonition on there this year, but their own level of sucking at the game might deter them.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Doesn't that game suck, though?

    Don't people just kinda like it ironically?

    I don't get it.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Some of the combat sections suck, other parts are more frustrating than they need to be because of clunky controls.

    But the story, the characters, so many details and features that other games simply don't have...

    I like the game a lot, and not ironically.



    ...But I also appreciated the next-gen Alone in the Dark*, which puts me in a distinct minority.


    *I do not think Alone in the Dark was a good game, but it had a lot of things in it that were very innovative and creative.

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  • mxmarksmxmarks Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Doesn't that game suck, though?

    Don't people just kinda like it ironically?

    I don't get it.

    You and I tend to like similar things*, and I think you'd at least see why people like it genuinely if you ever have the chance to give it a go. Primus summed up everything pretty much - but I bet you would have a good time and get pretty into the story.

    *as always, music is excluded from this statement

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  • AntihippyAntihippy Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    From what I've seen the story and the atmosphere is amazing.

    It's just the pacing, general mechanics and weird ass design decisions that aren't great or even good really.

    Would still love to play it though. If they ever localise the PS3 version.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Maybe I'll grab it eventually then

    I mean, it is only $20

    But I'm so fucking inundated with games right now, I keep buying more and more even though I can't put down AC Brotherhood

    It will be a problem until I 100% that game completely

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  • KlashKlash Lost... ... in the rainRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Angry Joe has his interview up with the guy in charge of the VGA's.

    The guy is about as big a jerk as you'd expect. Its fun watching him suggest that the VGA is a serious thing, telling Joe to just see it this year, its better... but, we've seen the actual product. Improvement. Right.

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  • Unco-ordinatedUnco-ordinated NZRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I meant to post it a couple of days ago but Jeff Green had a bit of a rant about the VGA's. I pretty much entirely agree with him.

    As for Angry Joe, is he actually entertaining? I watched one video of him and he came across as a douche with an enormous ego.

    Edit: Wait it's just Geoff Keighley? He's not in charge of it.

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  • KlashKlash Lost... ... in the rainRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    MC. Host. I guess those would be NPH. Whatever you call the guy thats the public face of an event. His title is executive somesuch of somethingsomething. He's Vice whatever it is, though. I just like the interview because it throws the entire event in a bad light. Especially the question about the selection process, in Geoff's answer to Joe vs. his answer to the group.

    Angry Joe's stuff is alright. I tend to agree with his reviews, and there's a lack of pretension in them. Less a critic and more a guy with a camera (and a green screen for a neat command center-thing). The early stuff is really awful, though, just him and some other guy screaming "FUCK YEAH!" during the duration of any given interview.

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  • tofutofu Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Video games journalism folks

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I have come to the conclusion recently that Geoff Keighley is the Ben Lyons of the video game industry.

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  • DraperDraper __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2010
    That Angry Joe guy is an idiot. Geoff is just a producer, all he'll do in any interview is just support the show. An interview with the head honcho of the show/network might have been worth something.

    I mean really there's an extent to how much complaining and blogging is warranted by this thing. All it comes down to is don't watch it and don't go to the website if you don't want it to happen anymore.

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  • Johnny FabulousJohnny Fabulous burgin' Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Klash wrote: »
    Angry Joe has his interview up with the guy in charge of the VGA's.

    This is embarrassingly juvenile and amateurish.

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  • Noble Six ActualNoble Six Actual Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Gee, what a surprise. You be a dick to Geoff Keighley (or the VGAs) for years, then ask for an interview, and wonder why he doesn't give you anything to work with?

    I fucking hate Keighley, 99% of the time, and I actually support what he did to Angry Joe because the guy is a huge fucking asshole.

    edit: It doesn't help that it oozes "WATCH ME RAGE ON YOUTUBE" over a goddamn hour and a half ad. It's not like we didn't know what we were getting into every single year, after the first one; a handful of trailers we care about, a bunch of shit we don't, and some awards to pat the best games of the year on the head.

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  • Unco-ordinatedUnco-ordinated NZRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I got about 2 minutes in before I turned it off. He seems to be under the impression he's actually important, that he's the voice of the internet and demands to be treated with respect. What an egotistical douche.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    That guy's a fucknozzle

    Also he talks with his hands too much

    That shit pisses me off

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  • SoaLSoaL fantastic Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    what

    why do people dislike geoff keighley

    he seemed like a genuinely likable dude

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