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I'm genuinely curious what's the appeal here for the RLM games series? It just seems like a widely out-of-medium viewing experience that no one posts they enjoyed it, and neither to they half the time.
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Jimbot posted:The intro kind of sets the tone of the game too. Calling it tone-deaf is off the mark because it's not making light of something sensitive. There's some dark stuff going on in the intro and there is weird stuff going on too. So logically one would think that the game's story beats contain dark and weird things. Of all the bad poo poo Kojima writes, that intro isn't one of them. The doctor even says that you might hallucinate because you have a piece of metal stuck in your brain, so it wasn't completely out of left field to believe that you're character was making up this weird poo poo because something crazy was going on in the hospital. If anything PeaceWalker and MGSV do a really good job with a bunch of subjects if you poke at the tapes. Seeing "This is insensitive" coming from all places RLM is a hoot. Jack And Rich are to videogames to what Nostalgia Critic is to movies. Kunster fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Sep 27, 2015 |
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Sep 27, 2015 23:32
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Robert Denby posted:I'm in a graduate program about film preservation and archiving, but I also know a lot about filmmaking and "Lawrence of Arabia" is one I read everything I could about at one point so that knowledge has stuck around. That's fantastic! I'm going to do that annoying thing where I say "oh, I've always been interested in that" but I don't actually have any professional skill or training. I don't live in a big city but a lot of the movie theatres here show classic movies from time to time. The only one that I've gone to see as yet was Rear Window, which I hadn't seen before, and it was a really great movie to see in cinemas. Haven't gone to see one that I've already seen before yet. I think for some of them it probably wouldn't make that much of a difference. The Lion in Winter is so dull-looking, scenes of Eleanor arriving on her boat aside, that I think seeing it on a large scale wouldn't add much. But for every Lion in Winter, there's dozens of other films that were really made to take advantage of the screen real estate.
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Asuron posted:How is that opening scene a high point in any sense? You crawl through the level at an agonising pace while watching a bunch of cutscenes where civilians get mowed down repeatedly for an hour and get maybe 5 minutes where actual important stuff happens. Jimbot posted:Some people just don't get certain games.
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Sep 27, 2015 23:58
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Kunster posted:I apologize, the post was about Undertale, and MGSV talk got in the middle of the way :< Fair enough, my mistake. Pretty sure I like the game as I'm enjoying my time with it. The prologue is just really lovely. KH2's prologue was also needlessly long and lovely, but I enjoyed the rest of the game despite that. Not enjoying bad parts of a game doesn't mean you don't get it. For what it's worth I enjoyed the start and end of the prologue, because cool and interesting stuff actually happens in those parts. Everything happening between those points basically being a huge waste of time is the problem and nearly turned me off what is turning out to be a really good game.
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Sep 28, 2015 00:37
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Calaveron posted:AIDS Moby has made many powerful enemies this day. hahahaha
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Tae posted:I'm genuinely curious what's the appeal here for the RLM games series? It just seems like a widely out-of-medium viewing experience that no one posts they enjoyed it, and neither to they half the time. It's funny when they play old games and don't understand them. Jack hosed around in Spelunker for an hour, dying endlessly, because he assumed the ghost couldn't be harmed, like in Spelunky. The ones with Mike and Jessie are good too because they don't give a gently caress about video games
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Sep 28, 2015 01:41
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Tae posted:I'm genuinely curious what's the appeal here for the RLM games series? It just seems like a widely out-of-medium viewing experience that no one posts they enjoyed it, and neither to they half the time. The actual proper videos where they discuss video games suck, because they're not good at analyzing video games beyond the most basic level and they get hung up on things like genre way too much. Most of the streams are pretty mediocre, but the streams where Jay, Jessi, or Mike are on are sometimes interesting because then you get to hear about behind-the-scenes stuff and they don't really care about video games beyond what they have nostalgia for. The stream where Rich, Jack, Jay, and Jessi play Power Stone was pretty good, and the one where Jessi is a boss at Katamari was good too.
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Sep 28, 2015 02:01
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Is Jessi even still with RLM, because I haven't seen her in anything for ages. Even when she didn't appear in the discussion you would still see her watching the movies with the rest of them, but she's not even in those lately.
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Sep 28, 2015 02:35
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Tae posted:I'm genuinely curious what's the appeal here for the RLM games series? It just seems like a widely out-of-medium viewing experience that no one posts they enjoyed it, and neither to they half the time. Honestly, "Half in the Bag, but for video games" isn't that bad of a selling point. Half in the Bag stands apart from other internet movie review shows because it avoids a lot of the awful bullshit. Internet video game review shows have about 100x as much awful bullshit, plus a #GamerGate. It's just that for whatever reason, Rich and Jack aren't quite able to get a handle on the stuff they're reviewing. It did take them a good ten minutes of talking about the game, in edited video time, to realize they were playing as the bad guy. Even after Rich mentioned Big Boss was the villain of the first two games.
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Sep 28, 2015 02:51
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The weird thing with Rich and Jack is that they're weirdly inconsistent. After their Bloodborne review, they got suggested La-Mulana pretty often by folks on the stream, but when Jack got it, he complained about things they praised about Bloodborne, like the nature of the exploration, the no overarching goal, that sort of thing. It's just weird.
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Sep 28, 2015 02:57
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:The weird thing with Rich and Jack is that they're weirdly inconsistent. After their Bloodborne review, they got suggested La-Mulana pretty often by folks on the stream, but when Jack got it, he complained about things they praised about Bloodborne, like the nature of the exploration, the no overarching goal, that sort of thing. It's just weird. la-mulana is bad, whereas bloodborne is good. there, i explained the discrepancy
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Sep 28, 2015 03:46
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Yes, you're right, La-Mulana is better than Bloodborne.
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Tae posted:I'm genuinely curious what's the appeal here for the RLM games series? It just seems like a widely out-of-medium viewing experience that no one posts they enjoyed it, and neither to they half the time. Not going into how they execute on it, but outsider perspectives on art in any medium are interesting. The idea of looking at games through the lens of people who are more versed in films is, to me, infinitely more interesting than hearing from the hundreds of people like The Perpetually Screaming Gamer or The Nerd Who Can Only Process Things Through A Lens Of Ironic Detachment.
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Sep 28, 2015 05:26
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Jack Gladney posted:It's funny when they play old games and don't understand them. Jack hosed around in Spelunker for an hour, dying endlessly, because he assumed the ghost couldn't be harmed, like in Spelunky. The ones with Mike and Jessie are good too because they don't give a gently caress about video games
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Sep 28, 2015 06:06
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ElNarez posted:Not going into how they execute on it, but outsider perspectives on art in any medium are interesting. The idea of looking at games through the lens of people who are more versed in films is, to me, infinitely more interesting than hearing from the hundreds of people like The Perpetually Screaming Gamer or The Nerd Who Can Only Process Things Through A Lens Of Ironic Detachment. That's why I like them too in an odd way. They're kind out of the usual demographic by a decade or so and while they do enjoy videogames they miss things and like you said in your last but they're not being ~ironically~ terrible or the worst thing ever (DSP). They just don't get it sometimes and it never feels malicious or put on, they just simply don't understand.
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Sep 28, 2015 06:28
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Did...anyone still want more food reviews? Because I did a review of chocolate gaytime, in which I atone for my bad American accent in the last ice cream review, by doing an Australian one instead. Sadly, the ice-cream was 
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Infamous Sphere posted:Did...anyone still want more food reviews? Because I did a review of chocolate gaytime, in which I atone for my bad American accent in the last ice cream review, by doing an Australian one instead. That was funny, love your food reviews.
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Sep 28, 2015 09:42
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Asuron posted:It took one hour to get out of a hospital and you spend very little of that hour actually doing anything other than watch cutscenes that could've been condensed into 10 minutes and have the same effect. Sounds like MGS in a nutshell to me. If you don't like overly long cutscenes it ain't the series for you.
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Sep 28, 2015 13:15
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Fans posted:Sounds like MGS in a nutshell to me. If you don't like overly long cutscenes it ain't the series for you. If you don't like overly long cutscenes MGS5 is definitely for you. The prologue is very much the exception to the rule here.
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Sep 28, 2015 13:22
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Andrast posted:If you don't like overly long cutscenes MGS5 is definitely for you. The prologue is very much the exception to the rule here. Can you skip it? I mean I'll stop watching a movie if it's bad for the first half hour. A full hour before the game actually starts can gently caress right off.
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Sep 28, 2015 13:33
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Fans posted:Can you skip it? If you really want to then yes you can skip any cutscene you want, heretic.
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Sep 28, 2015 14:54
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A big complaint about mgsv is that there are very few cutscenes, and most plot is given to you via cassette tapes you can play at any moment. But yeah when there are cutscenes they are kinda long (shut uuuup skull face)
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Sep 28, 2015 16:09
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I don't think Kojima ever figured out the proper length for cutscenes
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Sep 28, 2015 17:21
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One point I really liked in the MGSV review was Jack talking about Quiet since I felt the same way too. She really did have your back and you did bond with her over that but the poo poo they focused on with her really was exploitative. The kind of poo poo you turn off your TV so people who don't play games won't see what you're playing out of embarrassment. People have been arguing that she does get normal clothes later on and she does but it's at the end of the game and a mission or so later she leaves the game for good. I had to stop using her at one point because she makes the game a lot easier and you start getting lazier with your play-style. She's great for when you're roaming around, though and want to collect stuff, doing side-ops or take over guard posts. D-Dog is still best and he just looks so drat happy to be on the helicopter with you. So adorable.
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Andrast posted:If you don't like overly long cutscenes MGS5 is definitely for you. The prologue is very much the exception to the rule here. I bought the Piggyback Collectors Guide and it includes an art section with some commentary from Kojima and he stated that the whole prologue section, in how linear it was, was in homage to the previous games. The cutscene - heavy aspect of it also fits pretty well with that description.
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Sep 28, 2015 19:23
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DStecks posted:They were 100% on point as far as The Banner Saga goes. And Alien: Isolation. How anyone found that remotely tense or interesting is beyond me. Edit: why/where did my phone invent 'Isloation' from MisterBibs fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Sep 28, 2015 |
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Sep 28, 2015 22:24
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JB50 posted:That was funny, love your food reviews. Thanks! Glad to hear it. It's just nice for me to do something once in a while that takes an hour to make instead of two weeks.
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Sep 28, 2015 22:53
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MisterBibs posted:And Alien: Isolation. How anyone found that remotely tense or interesting is beyond me. I loved how the ship looked in Alien:Isolation but the Joe's were actually scarier than the aliens. Mainly because once you got the flamethrower the alien was more like a big spider you had to shoo away, while the Working Joe's just came at you on fire telling you that you're still not meant to be there.
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Sep 28, 2015 23:59
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Asuron posted:Is Jessi even still with RLM, because I haven't seen her in anything for ages. According to some of the folks on their reddit page, she's been on some of the PreRec streams saying that there's no reason she hasn't been on the show, she just hasn't. I want to say they have a "If you're not on screen you're filming" thing going on, too. It'd be kinda sad if she and Mike broke up  .That must one of the awkward things about being an Online Internet Reviewer is that it's such a part of your life that you wind up including them in your work, which your audience will notice if they suddenly vanish. There's a level of intrusion that's kinda weird. (This comment is based 50% on what you mentioned, and 50% of realizing Brad has a new girlfriend based on cleaning out my Cinema Snob backlog) MisterBibs fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Sep 29, 2015 |
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So Lupa, since you know one group of British lads reviewing wrestling, have you heard of next gen podcast review of Baywatch and thunder in paradies that both feature everyone's favorite racist hotdog man, Hulk Hogan?
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Sep 29, 2015 02:04
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MisterBibs posted:
Pretty much the best thing in the world is when you get randomly dumped by a person prominently featured in a video that you're in the middle of editing.
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Sep 29, 2015 02:16
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There's at least a couple of people featured in my earlier videos with whom I had a relatively messy and involved falling-out. So it's been "interesting' revisiting those videos when re-uploading old episodes to Youtube post blipocalypse.
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DStecks posted:Pretty much the best thing in the world is when you get randomly dumped by a person prominently featured in a video that you're in the middle of editing. Unless your name is Jordan Owen or Davis Aurini, in which case it's loving hilarious  EDIT: Speaking of those two dickheads, We Hunted the Mammoth recently published a pretty damning list of actual professional movies that cost less to make than The Sarkeesian Effect. Included among the list are things like: Clerks, Paranormal Activity, Eraserhead, and El Mariachi. nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Sep 29, 2015 |
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Sep 29, 2015 05:35
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Cyron posted:So Lupa, since you know one group of British lads reviewing wrestling, have you heard of next gen podcast review of Baywatch and thunder in paradies that both feature everyone's favorite racist hotdog man, Hulk Hogan? Heard of it, haven't seen it. Bet it's great!
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Miss Wallace posted:Heard of it, haven't seen it. Bet it's great! Oh my god, Lupa, they're loving amazing movies. I did a Bad Movie Night the other week with a bunch of my friends and we watched Thunder in Paradise and it was like a work of terrible art. If anyone's interested in watching some amazeballs bad made for TV 90's movies, definitely check out the Thunder in Paradise series and films. nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Sep 29, 2015 |
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Sep 29, 2015 06:06
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Infamous Sphere posted:There's at least a couple of people featured in my earlier videos with whom I had a relatively messy and involved falling-out. So it's been "interesting' revisiting those videos when re-uploading old episodes to Youtube post blipocalypse. Now I'm just imagining one of your alternate personas getting completely fed up and leaving.
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Paladin posted:Now I'm just imagining one of your alternate personas getting completely fed up and leaving. Haha, yes, it really is just mostly me for the vast majority of the time. What can I say - I'm someone who really likes working alone! It's just easier than coordinating with other people. I only really have one alternate persona though. Well, there were a few characters that showed up once, but were never seen again. So maybe they're the ones who got fed up and left.
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nine-gear crow posted:Oh my god, Lupa, they're loving amazing movies. I did a Bad Movie Night the other week with a bunch of my friends and we watched Thunder in Paradise and it was like a work of terrible art. If anyone's interested in watching some amazeballs bad made for TV 90's movies, definitely check out the Thunder in Paradise series and films. Oh, Lupa knows plenty about Thunder in Paradise having reviewed a couple of the "movie" episodes with Phelous not too long ago.
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