[Giant Bomb] Would you vape Hedgehog?

cooljammer00

See, if they were smart, they'd schedule MPP on the days they know Dan will be out of the office. Wrestling shows, trips out of town, etc.

Then if he has to leave or not make it, MPP is cancelled. They lost their chance.

I needed anime to post.

why would they do that when they want people to buy premium to watch MPP

Maximum

I know it takes awhile to archive stuff, but I thought MPP would be up already. They are making it available, right?

I needed anime to post.

Maximum wrote: »

I know it takes awhile to archive stuff, but I thought MPP would be up already. They are making it available, right?

they didn't take a break halfway through, so it's one massive file instead of two more manageable files

Foomy

Maximum wrote: »

I know it takes awhile to archive stuff, but I thought MPP would be up already. They are making it available, right?

There's always a version posted to the site eventually, unless the stream says "not going to be archived" when they broadcast it,or the recording broke horribly, but that is really rare.

https://twitter.com/unastrike/status/730607107066585088

Maximum

Sweet.

cooljammer00

Why would they subject themselves to Mario Party without archiving it

UnbreakableVow

Picked up Trackmania Turbo for PS4 on Tuesday and started playing it today

Man

I can totally see why Jeff is into this series, and I'm really glad he made me aware of it

I hate the handling in nearly every non-Burnout racing game (even the Criterion NSF games handle way too heavily for me), but Trackmania feels juuuuuuuuust right

Glal

These faces are the best, just exuding defeat.

Knight_

I still have an hour left, but this one has been really rough. 4 and 5 were pretty exciting since all manner of goofy shit happened at the end of them that made them exciting.

Whoever told Dan to pick this map trolled GB hard, because it is awful.

lionheart_m

Oh Vinny #NeverStopSinging

Knight_

Finished mario party party 6 mostly to say I did. That was a nightmare and the map/game was so horrible that the guys weren't even funny for the last 2.5 hours.

fRAWRst

Yeah MPP 6 was a huge let down after the amazingness of live at pax MPP5

brad is the kingmaker

cooljammer00

And yet people keep asking for it.

It's the perfect indictment of the bizarre cross section of the audience who enjoys "hate watching" and "people streaming bad video games".

If I could, I'd allocate my premium sub for them to NOT do MPP anymore, and in fact bring back long lost features or start new ones with the time and resources they waste with MPP.

UnbreakableVow

I look forward to Mario Party Party 7

Undead Scottsman

MPP6 was bad for two reasons.

1. Dan got a huge lead halfway through and nobody came close to toppling it, so it was basically over halfway.
2. It was a very bad choice of map. Made getting and keeping stars really annoying.

Oh yeah, I guess it being nearly five hours long didn't help.

Lavender Gooms

A good game is good, so that's good. A bad game can be made fun of, you get the catharsis of venting, and you get a sense of camaraderie with the other people experiencing it as you mock this piece of trash together. Also with the other Marios Maker they could team up against Dan with him being the self-appointed representative of this terrible game they are experiencing.

That Mario Maker level wasn't good or bad. It was boring. There was nothing for them to do or react to, and it even defeated Dan.

reVerse

I'm going to agree that they chose a terrible map and that brought the whole thing down.

cooljammer00

It's just that the impetus for MPP is inherently flawed, because video features back in the day used to be things the staff guys wanted to do but maybe weren't really germane to the daily operation of the site. Playing games they like, or older games, etc. Even the bad games they played had a sort of "interesting" quality to them.

And yet MPP is a massive time hog that, while not actually "resource intensive" in that it's just people sitting on a couch for several hours with cameras pointed at them, nobody on staff seems to like or really want to do it. Even Dan only really likes it because it makes everyone else feel bad, which makes it an inherently mean spirited feature.

And it's a crapshoot on whether they end up even interesting to watch. Even the original thesis on whether or not MPP is a "game of skill" has fallen by the wayside after it was proven like, several episodes ago that it was not.

Giant Bomb was founded on the idea that you're gonna see the games that these guys actually care about and not another review factory churning out content just to do it.

Maddoc

I just want to see an Open World Vinny feature from GBEast

cooljammer00

They seem to mess around with random games over on GBEast, and sometimes it's open world stuff.

Vinny did say he wanted to bring back LOLS with Ninja Gaiden, though.

Still waiting on Blight Club.

I needed anime to post.

generally speaking, most of the crew are actually having fun while doing a Mario Party Party, despite what they play up for the camera


at times, Mario Party is even able to overcome that, but a lot of people seem to think they're more miserable than they are

Olivaw

I needed a gnome to post. wrote: »

generally speaking, most of the crew are actually having fun while doing a Mario Party Party, despite what they play up for the camera


at times, Mario Party is even able to overcome that, but a lot of people seem to think they're more miserable than they are

Yeah, like

If you actually think they don't want to do it, I don't know what to tell you except "it's a funny gag"

They wouldn't do a thing they don't want to do

Undead Scottsman

Olivaw wrote: »

They wouldn't do a thing they don't want to do

Yup. Otherwise they'd do more endurance runs.

Knight_

6 was the first one in the entire series that seemed like a brutal slog, and I think a huge percentage of that was the map. Generally I think they hate the game, but enjoy doing the event.

Undead Scottsman

Three was pretty bad too

admanb

cooljammer00 wrote: »

It's just that the impetus for MPP is inherently flawed, because video features back in the day used to be things the staff guys wanted to do but maybe weren't really germane to the daily operation of the site. Playing games they like, or older games, etc. Even the bad games they played had a sort of "interesting" quality to them.

And yet MPP is a massive time hog that, while not actually "resource intensive" in that it's just people sitting on a couch for several hours with cameras pointed at them, nobody on staff seems to like or really want to do it. Even Dan only really likes it because it makes everyone else feel bad, which makes it an inherently mean spirited feature.

And it's a crapshoot on whether they end up even interesting to watch. Even the original thesis on whether or not MPP is a "game of skill" has fallen by the wayside after it was proven like, several episodes ago that it was not.

Giant Bomb was founded on the idea that you're gonna see the games that these guys actually care about and not another review factory churning out content just to do it.

I think your view of how the Giant Bomb staff views Mario Party Party is extremely flawed. Like, "wrestling is totally real" level of flawed.

UnbreakableVow

admanb wrote: »

cooljammer00 wrote: »

It's just that the impetus for MPP is inherently flawed, because video features back in the day used to be things the staff guys wanted to do but maybe weren't really germane to the daily operation of the site. Playing games they like, or older games, etc. Even the bad games they played had a sort of "interesting" quality to them.

And yet MPP is a massive time hog that, while not actually "resource intensive" in that it's just people sitting on a couch for several hours with cameras pointed at them, nobody on staff seems to like or really want to do it. Even Dan only really likes it because it makes everyone else feel bad, which makes it an inherently mean spirited feature.

And it's a crapshoot on whether they end up even interesting to watch. Even the original thesis on whether or not MPP is a "game of skill" has fallen by the wayside after it was proven like, several episodes ago that it was not.

Giant Bomb was founded on the idea that you're gonna see the games that these guys actually care about and not another review factory churning out content just to do it.

I think your view of how the Giant Bomb staff views Mario Party Party is extremely flawed. Like, "wrestling is totally real" level of flawed.

It's still real to him, dammit

cooljammer00

I like the staff. I like to watch them have fun

They are not having fun. I know you people assume it's all "a work", or whatever, but Jeff gets pissed on his Mixlr streams about it. Complaining that human lives were likely adversely affected by the production of that franchise.

Maybe I'm the weirdo here for wanting to see them enjoy themselves instead of "pretend to not enjoy themselves", as you people seem to assume.

Like yeah, they probably aren't being hurt or put in actual tangible pain, but if I had the choice I'd certainly want them to play a game they like rather than a game they dislike.

cooljammer00

Unrelated, Jeff posted a bit on his Tumblr on how the live streamed video Bombcasts are going to work. Basically they're gonna start recording on Tuesday mornings, and stream it out as they record. This apparently means everyone listening live, including the staff, will be hearing the ad reads and the breaks will be in real time and thus longer.

admanb

cooljammer00 wrote: »

I like the staff. I like to watch them have fun

They are not having fun. I know you people assume it's all "a work", or whatever, but Jeff gets pissed on his Mixlr streams about it. Complaining that human lives were likely adversely affected by the production of that franchise.

Yes that sounds like a super serious thing that a grown man of Jeff Gerstmann's maturity would say and not a tongue-in-cheek exaggeration that known dry comedian Jeff Gerstmann would say.

UnbreakableVow

The only way any lives are adversely affected by Mario Party is if a stranger had a family member at gunpoint and said "beat me in a game of Mario Party and I let them live" and then you lost at Mario Party

fRAWRst

Brad: voice of an angel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lodNiydYtsk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JmenwVvbgc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAtJAC009X8

cooljammer00

Alex did a pretty good Brad impression on the Friday show

agoaj

They should get full unlocked save files so they can play the bowser level and have taunts.

Beltaine

MPP6 would have been a much better experience had one of them taken 15 minutes beforehand to read a FAQ or poked through the different maps first. That map was awful and it really dragged the dynamic down.

Someone trolled them hard.

tsplitter

fRAWRst wrote: »

Brad: voice of an angel

this is why i can never stay mad at him

Rehab

The Mario Party Parties are one of my favorite long running features.

Brad and Dan playing the new Hitman has also been really great.

Rehab

Also, this is a great compilation for those who haven't seen it.

Mario Party VS Jeff Gerstmann:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdD8Lqc42ss

So many damn 1's rolled.

Edit: Hooray, Best of Mario Party Party 6 is up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYRG5Q1uP0I

TubularLuggage

@cooljammer00 You seem to be taking a lot of jokey things about MPP as super serious face value.
I also don't really think one afternoon every few months is the massive time commitment you're making it out to be.

It's just that the impetus for MPP is inherently flawed

A lot of people really enjoy the feature (and the guys themselves are playing up "not wanting to play it" as a gag), so it seems like you're being a bit silly here.

Even the original thesis on whether or not MPP is a "game of skill" has fallen by the wayside after it was proven like, several episodes ago that it was not.

joke: noun
a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline.