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The Ryan Davis Memorial Giant Bomb Thread

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    Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    I really hope we get a Beast-tastic UPF this week.

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    One Thousand CablesOne Thousand Cables An absence of thought Registered User regular
    Maximum wrote: »
    Anyone know if they're doing any more Choose Our Own Adventure's for Life is Strange?

    I found time to watch the first two over the long weekend, and I need to see their reactions to when shit really gets dark.

    After the second one they started playing it during their Friday playdates. They got through the third episode last week and probably won't play another session for a bit.

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    MaximumMaximum Registered User regular
    Maximum wrote: »
    Anyone know if they're doing any more Choose Our Own Adventure's for Life is Strange?

    I found time to watch the first two over the long weekend, and I need to see their reactions to when shit really gets dark.

    After the second one they started playing it during their Friday playdates. They got through the third episode last week and probably won't play another session for a bit.

    Those are premium only, I guess.

    Oh well. Probably spring for a sub once I get my pc operational next month.

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    Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    I do hope GB figures out some more reliable content series. There used to be a ton of them, now it's pretty much just UPF and Metal Gear Scanlon. Everything else has a few episodes and then gets dropped.

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    Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    Knight_ wrote: »
    I do hope GB figures out some more reliable content series. There used to be a ton of them, now it's pretty much just UPF and Metal Gear Scanlon. Everything else has a few episodes and then gets dropped.

    They've mentioned they want to bring That Old Games Show back.

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    cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    I mean they've been sorta busy, and they've even talked about bringing back Flight Club, Blight Club, RanKING of Fighters, etc.

    Not to mention in the most recent Bombcast, Jason mentioned something he and Jeff shot that won't ever air, where he talks about how MST3K got him laid.

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    CenoCeno pizza time Registered User regular
    edited November 2015
    Knight_ wrote: »
    I do hope GB figures out some more reliable content series. There used to be a ton of them, now it's pretty much just UPF and Metal Gear Scanlon. Everything else has a few episodes and then gets dropped.

    They seem to be averse to that sort of thing, kind of inexplicably (at least to me). I guess they think that having a rigid schedule of programming is counter to their mission statement or something, I don't know.

    If they relied on views and such for their salaries, I imagine there would definitely be a Persona 5 endurance run.

    I do miss the PC games show, and I like the old games show.

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    I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    edited November 2015
    There have been no active series for the past few months because the lull in video game releases is over and now they have to spend a lot of time playing video games for their job. This content lapse always happens this time of year.

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    CenoCeno pizza time Registered User regular
    There have been no active series for the past few months because the lull in video game releases is over and now they have to spend a lot of time playing video games for their job. This content lapse always happens this time of year.

    I suppose. But that would make more sense to me if reviews were still a meaningful use of their time. They should just stream the parts where they are playing the games for their job. That would be just as interesting to me as the GOTY discussions.

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    cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    Ceno wrote: »
    There have been no active series for the past few months because the lull in video game releases is over and now they have to spend a lot of time playing video games for their job. This content lapse always happens this time of year.

    I suppose. But that would make more sense to me if reviews were still a meaningful use of their time. They should just stream the parts where they are playing the games for their job. That would be just as interesting to me as the GOTY discussions.

    I mean, embargos. But they've done a bit of that on their own. I've watched Jeff and Dan play MGSV and Fallout, Drew play Rising Thunder, etc. They stream on Twitch occasionally.

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    I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    But then they're just LPers, and they don't want to be that.

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    BeltaineBeltaine BOO BOO DOO DE DOORegistered User regular
    If we could see some of the analytics of the content they produce, it would probably explain why some things get a couple episodes then go away.

    Not everyone obsessively absorbs any content they make like we do. :)

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    Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    i suppose. just generally the normal content outside of a few spectacular quicklooks has been really bleh. i stopped MGS after 3 and upf has been a huge bummer all year except for the robot episode. i really enjoyed a lot of the new stuff they started this year, and it all died more or less instantly, even before new video games happened.

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    vegeta_666vegeta_666 CanadaRegistered User regular
    UPF has been fairly dull for the last little bit, I used to watch them often but now I just skip them and see any of the best bits from the "Best of" Giant Bomb youtube thingy. I also need to catch up on Metal Gear Scanlon but now he's farther than me in the story for MGS5 so that will have to wait. I really hope GBEast finishes off Life is Strange and gives it some talk in the GOTY chats.

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    MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    UPF has never been the same since Vinny moved

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    LockedOnTargetLockedOnTarget Registered User regular
    UPF has always been mostly dull IMO

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    FuriousJodoFuriousJodo Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    A lot of things haven't been. Really I still like most of the content coming out of GB, but the Austin/Vinny stuff is easily my favorite for QLs/etc.

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    fRAWRstfRAWRst The Seas Call The Mad AnswerRegistered User regular
    edited November 2015
    Yeah I would pay cash money for Austin and Vinny to lets play stuff on a regular basis

    100$ upfront if they promise to play p5 with austin on controller and vinny as passenger

    EDIT: the crusader kings extended look was super cool and I love vinynvania and the adventure games lets plays

    pls more vinny and austin (alex can come too i guess)

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    Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Speaking of new features: Kerbal video is up

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    Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    fRAWRst wrote: »
    Yeah I would pay cash money for Austin and Vinny to lets play stuff on a regular basis

    100$ upfront if they promise to play p5 with austin on controller and vinny as passenger

    EDIT: the crusader kings extended look was super cool and I love vinynvania and the adventure games lets plays

    pls more vinny and austin (alex can come too i guess)

    i didn't really know i wanted it, but now i really want this p5 endurance run.

    doesn't seem like it's gonna happen though.

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    CenoCeno pizza time Registered User regular
    Knight_ wrote: »
    fRAWRst wrote: »
    Yeah I would pay cash money for Austin and Vinny to lets play stuff on a regular basis

    100$ upfront if they promise to play p5 with austin on controller and vinny as passenger

    EDIT: the crusader kings extended look was super cool and I love vinynvania and the adventure games lets plays

    pls more vinny and austin (alex can come too i guess)

    i didn't really know i wanted it, but now i really want this p5 endurance run.

    doesn't seem like it's gonna happen though.

    Jeff has explicitly said it won't.

    Which, again, seems to not make much sense to me - since it's content that a lot of people want and could be put behind the premium wall and make them money - but I'm not the one steering the ship, so it's neither here nor there.

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    fRAWRstfRAWRst The Seas Call The Mad AnswerRegistered User regular
    it bums me out cause no one at GB will ever review P5

    they might do a quicklook and maybe vinny will play with it at home (he seems to be the only one who plays games til completion if not reviewing) but theyre wont be a huge podcast moment like MGSv or fo4 or other big relases

    which makes me sad

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    I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    edited November 2015
    jeff gerstmann will absolutely attempt to play persona 5 and will only stop if he does not like the characters

    In fact this is also probably a large part of why there isn't going to be a persona 5 endurance run. Jeff likes Persona 4 a lot. His GOTY when P4G came out was secretly actually P4G. Jeff likely wants to approach P5 fully on his own terms - think of how much he's spoken on the podcast about how much he hates experiencing things when everyone is trying to get him to experience something. Having a million fans yell at him about how to experience Persona 5 would probably ruin it for him.

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    cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    I feel like Austin and Jason might try to finish Persona 5. Maybe Jason less so with the baby, but Austin did dump several dozen hours into Xenoblade.

    Does Persona 5 have robots in it?

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    Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    Ceno wrote: »
    Knight_ wrote: »
    fRAWRst wrote: »
    Yeah I would pay cash money for Austin and Vinny to lets play stuff on a regular basis

    100$ upfront if they promise to play p5 with austin on controller and vinny as passenger

    EDIT: the crusader kings extended look was super cool and I love vinynvania and the adventure games lets plays

    pls more vinny and austin (alex can come too i guess)

    i didn't really know i wanted it, but now i really want this p5 endurance run.

    doesn't seem like it's gonna happen though.

    Jeff has explicitly said it won't.

    Which, again, seems to not make much sense to me - since it's content that a lot of people want and could be put behind the premium wall and make them money - but I'm not the one steering the ship, so it's neither here nor there.

    He said he wouldn't. Vinny and Austin might? idk. I assume it won't but drew also said he didn't want to play MGSV for the site and here we are.

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    I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    You're definitely going to see most of the crew attempt to start Persona 5 - everyone expressed interest in getting into 4 when Golden came out, thanks to those on the site who are positive about it, but they couldn't find the time to keep up with what was functionally just a rerelease at that point in their jobs. Once they can actually work through a Persona game as a part of their job, you'll see a lot more efforts to do it.

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    SyphonBlueSyphonBlue The studying beaver That beaver sure loves studying!Registered User regular
    There are lots of series going on right now, they're just mostly out of East: Vinnyvania, Choose Our Own Adventure, GBE Playdate, Kerbal

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    Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    SyphonBlue wrote: »
    There are lots of series going on right now, they're just mostly out of East: Vinnyvania, Choose Our Own Adventure, GBE Playdate, Kerbal

    Those are inconsistently released though. (Well, aside from Kerbal, which just started this week. We'll see how that one goes.)

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    FeloniousmozFeloniousmoz Registered User regular
    The Jeff & Vinny P4 endurance run can only be surpassed by a Vinny & Austin P5 run. I see great promise here.

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    411Randle411Randle Librarian Oook.Registered User regular
    I can listen to Vinny and Austin alternate between informative and wacky all day.

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    cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    SyphonBlue wrote: »
    There are lots of series going on right now, they're just mostly out of East: Vinnyvania, Choose Our Own Adventure, GBE Playdate, Kerbal

    Those are inconsistently released though. (Well, aside from Kerbal, which just started this week. We'll see how that one goes.)

    I mean GBEast usually does SOMETHING on Fridays, even if it's not the same feature every week.

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    Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    SyphonBlue wrote: »
    There are lots of series going on right now, they're just mostly out of East: Vinnyvania, Choose Our Own Adventure, GBE Playdate, Kerbal

    Those are inconsistently released though. (Well, aside from Kerbal, which just started this week. We'll see how that one goes.)

    I mean GBEast usually does SOMETHING on Fridays, even if it's not the same feature every week.

    Yeah, but there's no telling if we're going to get two Choose Our Own Adventures in a row, or a Vinnyvania or whatever.

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    BeltaineBeltaine BOO BOO DOO DE DOORegistered User regular
    Just got a new android phone. Can anyone recommend a good podcast app? I was using instacast on iphone.

    I don't mind paying a few bucks for a good one.

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    cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    I use Podcast Addict. It handles premium podcasts pretty well.

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    CormacCormac Registered User regular
    Beltaine wrote: »
    Just got a new android phone. Can anyone recommend a good podcast app? I was using instacast on iphone.

    I don't mind paying a few bucks for a good one.

    Pocket Casts

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    NeurotikaNeurotika Registered User regular
    Cormac wrote: »
    Beltaine wrote: »
    Just got a new android phone. Can anyone recommend a good podcast app? I was using instacast on iphone.

    I don't mind paying a few bucks for a good one.

    Pocket Casts

    Seconded

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    Unco-ordinatedUnco-ordinated NZRegistered User regular
    411Randle wrote: »
    The Just Cause QL has nearly convinced me to buy the game despite having no money and still being ass-deep in Fallout 4. I wish to feel the same glee as the GBEast crew did when things explode.

    I'd wait, especially if you game on PS4/Xbone. By the time you do have the time and money, hopefully there'll be a number of patches that fix the enormous technical issues that appear to be in the game.

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    seasleepyseasleepy Registered User regular
    Cormac wrote: »
    Beltaine wrote: »
    Just got a new android phone. Can anyone recommend a good podcast app? I was using instacast on iphone.

    I don't mind paying a few bucks for a good one.

    Pocket Casts
    I use and like PocketCasts -- if you want to go free, I also briefly tried out AntennaPod (back when PocketCasts was misbehaving with GB for a couple of days a while back) and it worked well with everything, including the premium feeds.

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    HardtargetHardtarget There Are Four Lights VancouverRegistered User regular
    I also use and recommend PocketCasts
    I like it enough where I bought their web client too

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