Captain Invictus posted:

this is mine

Reddit posted:

So I'm listening to the Giant Bombcast, the podcast of the Giant Bomb, and I haven't dropped them off my media radar because although they're clearly anti-GG, they're usually very quiet about it on the podcast.

But oh lord, not the December 1st episode!

They feign confusion at first as to why this is such a big deal and how no one cares about DoAX because the previous game was 'just awful', and then they begin to regurgitate the same argument without citation about how the previous game sold "so poorly". Then the doublethink goes off the loving charts when they begin discussing how "no one was trying to block this" and "this is just a narrative by people with persecution complexes".

But they can't stop there! For initially pretending to be disinterested in the subject, they continue to prattle on for fifteen loving minutes (starts at 1:45:00ish); downplaying the franchise as unnecessary and that "there's much worse games on J-list for people who want this", equating people who enjoy the DoAX games to perverts.

Then, despite conceding that DoAX is perhaps the only volleyball game franchise that currently exists, tossing around the term 'creepy anime girls', and saying that "gamers should demand better", this steaming load of hypocrisy is disgorged from Jeff Gerstmann's mouth:
"Look at the DoA 5 costume DLC sometime. They launched that game with two $100 packages of DLC. They keep adding more. They've added so many costumes to that game. Because people like to play dress-up with their funny polygonal little dolls! ... It's a shame, because I think that's a pretty decent fighting game. ... Yet it's like, they're focusing on all this other bullshit, when they should be focusing on making their fighting game an even better fighting game. That's the part where I get pissed."
Which is it Jeff, is there no market for playing dress-up with 'creepy anime girls'? Or is there such a big market that it's the best selling component of DOA 5?

You're pissed because DOA5 should focus more on fighting rather than costumes? Well maybe if there was a game where people could just dress up the DOA characters, you could have your fighting game and they could have their dress up game.
I wonder if they would ever consider releasing such a title in the west, considering "many issues happening in video game industry with regard to how to treat female in video game industry".
Giant Bomb's position is clear. They consider DOAX3 to be pornography, and bad pornography at that; and if people want good pornography, it's all across the internet, "there's no reason for this game".

What those chucklefucks don't want to admit is that there isn't a market of softcore titillation titles in the west, certainly not any you can buy on console or find on store shelves. And any time anything even gently approaches that category, like DOAX, or cat girl visual novels, the games press universally criticizes the game for being soft porn. You cannot say that no one was against this release when there is unflinching evidence, including goddamn videos of widely known gaming personalities, celebrating that this title won't get a western release.
They're loving liars and they're loving hypocrites.

Un-loving-subbed.

Captain Invictus posted:

this is mine

Bug Squash posted:

What was wrong with the Securiton vault elevator? Is this some kind of precursor to the Iron Keep Bridge where a 5 second break of immersion in a hundred hour game causes a segment of society to have a loving breakdown?

Dr. Stab posted:

At first I thought it was going to be about the shenmue thing. This is way more hilarious.

What exactly do they propose is going on? The feminist cabal has infiltrated tecmo and is using their power to forcibly block them from engaging in a profitable venture?

Dr. Stab posted:

What exactly do they propose is going on? The feminist cabal has infiltrated tecmo and is using their power to forcibly block them from engaging in a profitable venture?

al-azad posted:

So a Tecmo employee who manages the company Facebook replied to a question regarding the new DoAX with "Do you know many issues happening in video game industry with regard to how to treat female in video game industry? We do not want to talk those things here. But certainly we have gone through in last year or two to come to our decision. Thank you." So angry nerds everywhere, likely 99% of whom have never played nor will ever play any game in the series, pointed a finger at the Feminist Menace for bullying a poor million dollar company into not releasing the next in their poorly selling, poorly received, entirely niche Ecchi Dating Simulator (featuring volleyball mini game).

al-azad posted:

What was the Shenmue thing? Just Jeff hating on it?

To enjoy Giant Bomb you just have to learn to replace everything Jeff says with "THIS IS BULLSHIT" and "WHOOO-CARES"

Captain Invictus posted:

Reddit posted:

So I'm listening to the Giant Bombcast, the podcast of the Giant Bomb, and I haven't dropped them off my media radar because although they're clearly anti-GG, they're usually very quiet about it on the podcast.

bobservo posted:

All Fallouts are good in the eyes of The Lord

bobservo posted:

All Fallouts are good in the eyes of The Lord

HMS Boromir posted:

Tae posted:

Giant Bomb East is very enjoyable, and their crossover podcast this week was also very enjoyable.

Ulta posted:

Austin Walker is my favorite new podcasting personality of 2015 (yes I know he has been podcasting for several years prior, but that was an actual play podcast). He's the anti Dan Rykert, but not in a hostile or canceling way, more of a ying and yang thing.

Lone Goat posted:

Is Idle Weekend not going to happen or did the Thumbs just stop announcing it until it actually starts?

Bug Squash posted:

Anyhoo, need to write up my 1000 word treatise on why this thing Kole loves is trash.

Zombies' Downfall posted:

It's funner to do to Gary.

Phone posted:

But I thought Danielle moved to NY and was going to do Idle Weekend? What is going on?

HOW FAR DOWN DOES THIS VIDEO GAME JOURNALISM podcasting RABBIT HOLE GO!?

(i'm really excited to listen to this tomorrow since sm64 is rad)

Lone Goat posted:

Is Idle Weekend not going to happen or did the Thumbs just stop announcing it until it actually starts?

Chris Remo posted:

I promise it is still coming!! A bunch of life events and logistical issues have pushed it back it longer than we were expecting. But Danielle and Rob have done a couple test episodes and they can't wait to get it going. It should be really soon!

PaletteSwappedNinja posted:

That Argonaut guy is deluded if he thinks Nintendo "stole" the idea to make a 3D game with their most popular IP from him, as if it wasn't axiomatic.

END ME SCOOB posted:

Idle Weekend is live.

I did not know it was going to veer into some pop culture talk too and I'm now even more curious how this show came out, but I am too dead tired to put this on right now. Please don't suck for the sake of 10-hours-hence me, Rob and Danielle.

END ME SCOOB posted:

Idle Weekend is live.

I did not know it was going to veer into some pop culture talk too and I'm now even more curious how this show came out, but I am too dead tired to put this on right now. Please don't suck for the sake of 10-hours-hence me, Rob and Danielle.