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Feb 3, 2014 23:16
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Liquid Penguins posted:You just hit the nail on the head of why no one gets excited for zombie garbage. Speaking of Draculas, Are there any plans/news about a good new Castlevania game? Those Lords Of Shadows ones have been terrible, but I'd love to see another 'classic' Castlevania come out.
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Feb 3, 2014 23:18
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I would love to see a new 2D Castlevania or Metroid. It seems like the only way to get a Metroidvania is to hope for the best with indie games.
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Feb 3, 2014 23:20
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Liquid Penguins fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Apr 6, 2015 |
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Feb 3, 2014 23:21
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Manatee Cannon posted:I would love to see a new 2D Castlevania or Metroid. It seems like the only way to get a Metroidvania is to hope for the best with indie games.
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Feb 3, 2014 23:23
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Manatee Cannon posted:I would love to see a new 2D Castlevania or Metroid. It seems like the only way to get a Metroidvania is to hope for the best with indie games. I really don't think we're ever going to get another (good) 2D Metroid. And that makes me very sad.
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Feb 3, 2014 23:25
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Oh, right! I forgot all about Strider.Mu Zeta posted:I'm glad to never see another 2d Castlevania. There were a truckload of those on the DS. There were three DS Castlevania games, c'mon.
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Feb 3, 2014 23:26
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I'm glad to never see another 2d Castlevania. There were a truckload of those on the DS.
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Feb 3, 2014 23:26
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Yeah and they were all really good why wouldn't you want more of that. e: especially on a screen bigger than four inches
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Feb 3, 2014 23:44
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Maybe the first one was really good but the rest of them kind of felt like the same game with all the same weapons and magic skills. How many times am I going to see medusa head? Nobody likes fighting it but they keep putting it in!
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Feb 3, 2014 23:48
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As much as I would kill for a new SoTN style castlevania at least they went out on a good note. Order of Ecclasia was a masterpiece and one of my favorite games.
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Feb 3, 2014 23:51
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Mu Zeta posted:Maybe the first one was really good but the rest of them kind of felt like the same game with all the same weapons and magic skills. How many times am I going to see medusa head? Nobody likes fighting it but they keep putting it in! The rest of two more games? Dawn of Sorrow, Portrait of Ruin, Order of Ecclasia. That's all of the DS Castlevania games, and while Portrait was only alright the other two were great games. It's not like it's too soon, it's been six years since Ecclasia.
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Feb 3, 2014 23:58
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I also played the GBA Castlevania games and they all blended together in my mind.
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Feb 3, 2014 23:59
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Since Gears of War got bought will someone just cough up the pity ransom for the Shadow Complex rights already?
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Feb 4, 2014 00:01
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Veib posted:There's a bunch of stuff being said about zombies all over in the recent years, and some of the most common ideas people are throwing around is that it's a an easy Other to which you can project your fears about things bigger than you like the global economic recession, diseases like bird and swine flu (AIDS in the '80s), overpopulation (especially in places that aren't near you), lack of personal connections in the technological world, illegal aliens coming to eat you and steal your jobs in the process, and so on. It's a fictional apocalyptic representation for fears that might not be purely apocalyptic but are very real. It's easy to use in multiple ways because they're so empty on its own. Dracula has a personality, a zombie doesn't. Yeah, zombies went from being a way to criticize Civil Rights-Reagan era politics to being what aliens were back in the 90s-a humanoid character that players shouldn't feel any moral confliction with killing in droves. There also tends to be a "smart/geeky people will survive a zombie apocalypse" thing that seems to be the main driver of zombie related stuff in pop culture, sort of a undead spin on The Revenge of the Nerds.
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Feb 4, 2014 00:04
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Sushi in Yiddish posted:Yeah, zombies went from being a way to criticize Civil Rights-Reagan era politics to being what aliens were back in the 90s-a humanoid character that players shouldn't feel any moral confliction with killing in droves. There also tends to be a "smart/geeky people will survive a zombie apocalypse" thing that seems to be the main driver of zombie related stuff in pop culture, sort of a undead spin on The Revenge of the Nerds. If we want to try to contextualize it, let's look at the last zombie movie with any sort of "you are the real monster" left in it, I am Legend. That was 2007, right before the economy completely tanked, and even with that movie they re-edited the poo poo out of the ending to make it happier. Post 07 or so productions, zombies are the Roman Colosseum of broke-rear end america. I mean tv is in general, but with zombie stuff it's just morality-free killing fools. Which is somewhat novel to people who didn't grow up murdering more Nazis than ever existed, and I guess, ironically, white power losers whose zombie fantasies are thinly veiled race war poo poo. This dumb theory is brought to you by the letter Z and a lack of GB content today.
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Feb 4, 2014 00:16
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Lords of Shadow 2 will probably be the last Castlevania for several years, because those games don't sell as much as Konami wants them to, and I'm surprised that LoS 2 even happened in the first place. Also it might still be a good game! Says the only unironic supporter of the original in this thread. I wouldn't be surprised if the next Castlevania was some lovely iOS pseudo-game like Final Fantasy: All the Bravest.
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Feb 4, 2014 00:22
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Hakkesshu posted:Says the only unironic supporter of the original in this thread. No you aren't, I dig it.
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Feb 4, 2014 00:27
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Mu Zeta posted:I also played the GBA Castlevania games and they all blended together in my mind. Well all the GBA ones are kind of trash to be honest. All the DS one's are really unique and vary the formula in fun ways are were all really great! EDIT: I think I'd like the LoS Castlevania games if I didn't play them coming off the tail end of Bayonetta and a Replay of DMC 3. As far as action games go they're really slow and kind of boring and Lords of Shadow reminded me of all the bits of God of War I hated (Mostly the playing it). ZenMasterBullshit fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Feb 4, 2014 |
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Feb 4, 2014 00:39
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cronox2 posted:Since Gears of War got bought will someone just cough up the pity ransom for the Shadow Complex rights already? There's no reason anyone would need to do this. Shadow Complex's setting was pretty bland and uninspired. Someone just needs to make a good game in the same vein. Unless they really want that Neo-Fascist Liberal stuff, I guess.
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Feb 4, 2014 00:43
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Ugh, hearing Jeff say that no one wants to play a game like Unreal Tournament anymore makes me sad. I want more games like this and less like Call of Duty or Titanfall. I don't like what CoD did to FPS. I kind of don't want another UT game also because it will have 12 maps, levels and xp, and 40 different assault rifles.
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Feb 4, 2014 01:03
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Been downloading favorite videos from the second post and the list is pretty much perfect, but I notice it missing the DSi XL unboxing video. http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/dsi-xl-unboxing-extravanganza/2300-2223/
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Feb 4, 2014 01:07
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Rirse posted:Been downloading favorite videos from the second post and the list is pretty much perfect, but I notice it missing the DSi XL unboxing video. Man I think Jeff's lost weight
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Feb 4, 2014 01:27
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Brad stole it.
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Feb 4, 2014 01:32
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cronox2 posted:Since Gears of War got bought will someone just cough up the pity ransom for the Shadow Complex rights already? Gotta deal with Orson Scott Card for that, sadly. And possibly Microsoft.
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Feb 4, 2014 01:34
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Overbite posted:Ugh, hearing Jeff say that no one wants to play a game like Unreal Tournament anymore makes me sad. I want more games like this and less like Call of Duty or Titanfall. I don't like what CoD did to FPS. Seriously. They could just do UT 2004 again and I'd be perfectly happy, but yeah, it's not happening. 
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Feb 4, 2014 01:45
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Following up my post eariler, the quick look recommation should have WWE 2010, Spelunky, and the recent Dr Luigi and Octodad QL. Similarly, what are some of the suggested mailbags. They are hard to find in the feature section since the page is full of either the daily Patrick segments or the much older question of the week.
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Feb 4, 2014 04:20
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Rirse posted:Following up my post eariler, the quick look recommation should have WWE 2010, Spelunky, and the recent Dr Luigi and Octodad QL. http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/giant-bomb-mailbag-07-11-2013/2300-7681/?comment_page=12
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Feb 4, 2014 04:28
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The Monarch posted:Yea Steam is already rapidly losing its power as a game discovery tool. Flooding the new releases with a million "press F to make a fart noise $0.99" and "I made some animes and put them in a basic game-maker JRPG $59.99" would be terrible. Greenlight isn't great but it's a whole hell of a lot better than just throwing the gates wide open. Yeah exactly, I've already slowed down on paying attention to steam's new releases and sales. For a while there I bought games straight off steam all the time, now I buy fewer games and usually only do so when I hear about them elsewhere. I used to check the sales tab every day but just got so tired of seeing the same crappy games and a whole lot of DLC for games I don't have that I gave up on that too. If they opened up the floodgates then the steam store would just become something I go to buy specific games on and then get out. I have literally 1 game on my android phone. Ever. And I downloaded that a week ago based on an SA thread because gently caress wading through the mess of an android store.
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Feb 4, 2014 04:36
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RustyTrombone posted:http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/giant-bomb-mailbag-07-11-2013/2300-7681/?comment_page=12 Man, it looks like Jeff has lost a lot of weight even since then. Good on him. I went on a strict diet/exercise regimen the week after Ryan died, and I've managed to lose around 60 pounds until now. I know it's lovely that it took something like that for me to get my act together, but I'm glad I did 
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Feb 4, 2014 04:47
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Congrats. Isn't it awesome how you can wake up and not feel lovely after a good night's rest? It's amazing was losing something little like 10 pounds does for you.
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Feb 4, 2014 04:49
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Hakkesshu posted:Man, it looks like Jeff has lost a lot of weight even since then. Good on him. Remember everybody swearing to get healthier back then, good to see that some good has come out of it. I wonder if it is the lack of the "right kind of pizza" in Petaluma that helps Jeff keep off the pounds. Easy access to cheap and bad fast food really does make a difference.
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Feb 4, 2014 05:13
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Jeff literally just posted this 5 min ago. The timing couldn't be better. https://twitter.com/jeffgerstmann/status/430553848042635264 "Walked two miles to get an acceptable beef bowl, so yeah, I’m sort of a fitness nut."
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Feb 4, 2014 05:22
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Brad and Vinny have gained noticeable weight though.
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Feb 4, 2014 05:23
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Mu Zeta posted:Congrats. Isn't it awesome how you can wake up and not feel lovely after a good night's rest? It's amazing was losing something little like 10 pounds does for you. After high school, I hit a slump and reached nearly 400 pounds, it was the grossest I've ever felt. I started working at UPS and lost half my body weight over the next year, most of that within the first four months(hard labor in midsummer humidity while overweight'll melt it right off ya, or kill you, one or the other) and now I'm fit and never felt better. I urge anyone who's overweight to figure out a way to lose weight, because man, quality of life really increases when you reach an optimal body weight. steakmancer posted:Brad and Vinny have gained noticeable weight though.
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Feb 4, 2014 05:25
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Crazy long Vinny/Drew/Patrick/Brad/Dave/Will Smith podcast incoming, apparently! 
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Feb 4, 2014 05:36
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Hakkesshu posted:Crazy long Vinny/Drew/Patrick/Brad/Dave/Will Smith podcast incoming, apparently! OH CHRIST That's a really damned good combination.
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Feb 4, 2014 05:46
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I don't understand why Jeff is so against patching in Patrick via Skype when it seems to work fine every time it's done.
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Feb 4, 2014 06:00
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Jeff secretly hates Patrick
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Feb 4, 2014 06:01
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Mu Zeta posted:Jeff secretly hates Patrick It must be because he's so depressed all the time. Probably why Brad's leaving too.
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