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    Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    Was Brutal Legend actually good

    I played and loved the demo, but my understanding is that it was nothing like that demo and was instead a weird RTS thing?

    The RTS stuff also ruled and yes I am ready to die on that hill

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    ManetherenWolfManetherenWolf Registered User regular
    New Adventure Zone:
    good god Justin's character sounds like he's gargling gravel

    Further TAZ musings:
    oh my god, Clyde Knight's Knight Night School

    officially its
    Clyde Nite's Night Knight School

    So I am really curious to see where they take the characters. Griffin's definitely seems to have the most fleshed out concept right off the bat, but there were some little things here and there that made me suspect some stuff for Clint and Justin.
    -So Griffin is confirmed to be playing a Wild Soul Barbarian (a path from Unearthed Arcana) which is basically a Sorcerous Barbarian, so I'm guessing his Barbarian rage combined with figuring out he had magic as part of that was why he got kicked out of Knight School.
    -Clint's question about picking which Hero he interned/worked for, as well as being the one that seems to be the most enthusiastic makes me think he might be a fanboy of a particular hero? Maybe a bit of a Deku type for My Hero fans.
    -Justin I'm thinking got exiled for something. Reading about Firbolgs there was some stuff about some getting exiled from their clans as punishment for things

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    I hit a hard wall on one of the RTS sections in Brutal Legend and literally could not beat it. My command of the system was insufficient to destroy enemies faster than they spawned. It was a forever war

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    EmperorSethEmperorSeth Registered User regular
    Consensus makes me fuckin sick
    WACriminal wrote: »
    Straightzi wrote: »
    I listened to the TAZ: Hootenanny live show last night and by god if that ain't the hardest I've laughed at an Adventure Zone in a long time

    I was there, in tears of laughter when
    Pepsi stabs the slug.

    Pepsi Liberty 2020

    My favorite line was
    We are a country band. Such good wordplay.

    That said, it was the Bigfoot prequel that made me laugh so hard I entered "probably shouldn't listen to this while driving" territory.

    You know what? Nanowrimo's cancelled on account of the world is stupid.
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    Crippl3Crippl3 oh noRegistered User regular
    Brutal Legend is Pretty Good. The abrupt RTS shift was disappointing at first, despite it being relatively fun even though I was complete garbage at it and basically every fight took me an hour+
    I'd say it's worth a play if you're into the aesthetics and music.

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    JavenJaven Registered User regular
    I liked Brutal Legend, but honestly the RTS stuff, while fun at first, got pretty boring after awhile

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    StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    I really enjoyed Brutal Legend.

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    One Thousand CablesOne Thousand Cables An absence of thought Registered User regular
    I love Brutal Legend a whole lot. Screaming around the landscape in your beastly ride while blasting the soundtrack was so much fun

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    rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    I spent hours just driving around listening to the music.

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    Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    my only problem with brutal legend was there was no way to just flip on the soundtrack and do other things; you had to be driving

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    nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    I like games that have RTS sections but brutal legend provided so little control that it was frustrating.

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    Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    Doodmann wrote: »
    That certainly is a Castlevania ass looking graphic.

    God, I would get unreasonably excited for a SotN remaster and I don't know why: that game is already 100% perfectly fine to play in modern times.

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    PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    I hit a hard wall on one of the RTS sections in Brutal Legend and literally could not beat it. My command of the system was insufficient to destroy enemies faster than they spawned. It was a forever war

    I lost the final battle multiple times, using a mix of units, before looking up a guide.

    Turned out the winning strategy was to just make lots of the basic guys and nothing else.

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    DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Moriveth wrote: »
    Joe Rogan did get Elon Musk's dumb ass to embarass himself at least

    that's something

    It's hardly a feat for Elon Musk to embarrass himself. He seems to do it constantly unprompted.

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    GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    Man nothing in gaming got me quite as amped as when Children of the Grave started blaring in the beginning of Brutal Legend.

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    Crippl3Crippl3 oh noRegistered User regular
    edited November 2019
    I looked up Brutal Legend on Steam to see if I had it, which I completely forgot I did.
    Steam's new layout shows you community stuff about the games, like screenshots, news, guides, streams, etc. It popped up probably the best Guide I've ever seen on Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1274046000

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    It's absolutely massive and has tons of links to music and bands, it's way way more helpful than any Guide I've ever seen on Steam lmfao

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    Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    I haaaaaate steams new layout and stuff

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    DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited November 2019
    I haaaaaate steams new layout and stuff

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIWzjUD6erw

    (replace mug label with "Steam")

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    Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    DJ Eebs wrote: »
    Vox is in a much healthier position and I don't believe they've been infected by venture capitalists yet. But SBNation especially has some very real problems, mostly in their team specific blogs, which...Deadspin often reported on.

    The college side of SBNation actually splintered off and became it's own thing and I'm not sure exactly how they work WRT the rest of SBNation

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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    BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    weird, I'm not seeing a new steam UI, and it's not yelling at me to update or anything

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    MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Yeah I got the update and looked at the library, and my initial reaction was "Oh, I do NOT like this."

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    Mx. QuillMx. Quill I now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually... {They/Them}Registered User regular
    edited November 2019
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    Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    What if giant bomb reveals that the whole reason they're doing the 80s song list is because they're not doing GOTY in the traditional way this year so they're throwing a bone to people who wanna hear arguments about lists

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    BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    giant bomb doing a hard pivot to the listicle-based journalism the people crave

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    MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    The old Vinnyvanias do have some amazingly well-timed bits of comedy

    When they tell Vinny “You know what you have to do now.” and he immediately falls off the stage

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    never dienever die Registered User regular
    Kyougu wrote: »
    Kevin Smith, much like his movies, hasn't really changed much in the past few decades.

    He's someone that speaks without thinking, desperately craves acceptance, and still relies on pot/dick jokes, but he's also seems to be a family guy and someone who's heart is always in the right place and still seems more comfortable in Jersey with his friends than in Hollywood.

    Yeah, I haven't heard anything about his response with Johnny Depp's allegations, but Kevin Smith did pledge all of his residuals for all of his films made with Weinstein and Miramax that he receives since the allegations about Harvey Weinstein surfaced to the Women in Film organization. And when he realized how little that would actually be monetarily for the group, on top of those residuals, has decided to donate in perpetuity $2000 a month to the organization.

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    augustaugust where you come from is gone Registered User regular
    Today's Beastcast: Can Hideo Kiojima teach Dan to have patience, and play a game for something other than the gratification of feeling powerful?
    Absolutely not.

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    Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
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    EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    august wrote: »
    Today's Beastcast: Can Hideo Kiojima teach Dan to have patience, and play a game for something other than the gratification of feeling powerful?
    Absolutely not.

    I haven't listened yet, but this feels extremely uncharitable

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    SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    august wrote: »
    Today's Beastcast: Can Hideo Kiojima teach Dan to have patience, and play a game for something other than the gratification of feeling powerful?
    Absolutely not.

    I haven't listened yet, but this feels extremely uncharitable

    To Dan?

    You think Dan would be up for ANY Kojima shit if it wasn’t pasted on top of cool guy action stuff?

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    EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    SimBen wrote: »
    august wrote: »
    Today's Beastcast: Can Hideo Kiojima teach Dan to have patience, and play a game for something other than the gratification of feeling powerful?
    Absolutely not.

    I haven't listened yet, but this feels extremely uncharitable

    To Dan?

    You think Dan would be up for ANY Kojima shit if it wasn’t pasted on top of cool guy action stuff?

    No, but I think it's also possible that the game is just bad and it isn't just a personal failing on Dan's part

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    CelloCello Registered User regular
    edited November 2019
    It sounds more like he's frustrated with the layer upon layer of unnecessarily complicated mechanics, a significant amount of which is based on encumbrance, and which makes sense given how he feels about Red Dead which seems to do that in a much cleaner way than Death Stranding does

    Which, hey, I get that

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    Care Free BombCare Free Bomb Registered User regular
    SimBen wrote: »
    august wrote: »
    Today's Beastcast: Can Hideo Kiojima teach Dan to have patience, and play a game for something other than the gratification of feeling powerful?
    Absolutely not.

    I haven't listened yet, but this feels extremely uncharitable

    To Dan?

    You think Dan would be up for ANY Kojima shit if it wasn’t pasted on top of cool guy action stuff?

    HEY!

    He'd also be into it if it was pasted on top of farming.

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    Mx. QuillMx. Quill I now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually... {They/Them}Registered User regular
    edited November 2019
    SimBen wrote: »
    august wrote: »
    Today's Beastcast: Can Hideo Kiojima teach Dan to have patience, and play a game for something other than the gratification of feeling powerful?
    Absolutely not.

    I haven't listened yet, but this feels extremely uncharitable

    To Dan?

    You think Dan would be up for ANY Kojima shit if it wasn’t pasted on top of cool guy action stuff?

    HEY!

    He'd also be into it if it was pasted on top of farming.

    I would like to see what bushit genre terminology Kojima could come up with if he were to make a Stardew Valley.

    "My new game is the first in the Earthcare genre."

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    ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Death stranding sounds like garbage but also dan not having any patience for it means he can barely even articulate why so

    It's kinda both

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    HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    I keep hearing gameplay stuff about Death Stranding I want to hear about egregsiously stupid plot stuff, like BIG TIME dumb you know what I want

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    SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    I keep hearing gameplay stuff about Death Stranding I want to hear about egregsiously stupid plot stuff, like BIG TIME dumb you know what I want

    This is literally the only metric by which I’m willing to judge Death Stranding.

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    SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    It sure is looking so far like Kojima was making a hard play at having the highest Metacritic standard deviation of all time

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    ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    So

    For 20 minutes vinny tries to keep dan from being shitty about the game

    And then he yells about how bad the game is for 20 minutes

    It made me laugh a lot

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    HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    What happens when you die in Death Stranding does your baby BB(bridge baby) bust out all over the ground

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