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flatluigi posted:I'm actually kind of surprised by how much Griffin seems to not like Saints Row in that video. As of late the internet seems to have pulled a bizarro version of the way that it turned on GTA, with people lamenting about how Saints Row was so much better when it was darker and more serious in the earlier games.
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I don't think it's so much about being "darker" as Saint's Row 3 is very in your face with its humor, and its humor isn't that funny
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Jul 23, 2016 05:39
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Saints Row 3 is still the best GTA ever, sorry
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Guy Mann posted:As of late the internet seems to have pulled a bizarro version of the way that it turned on GTA, with people lamenting about how Saints Row was so much better when it was darker and more serious in the earlier games. In SR2 you're up against Jamaican drug lords and a western branch of the Yakuza. In SR2 you fight luchadores and tron hacker ninjas. Yeah, the games do have a fairly different tone. The city was also incredibly bland, the side missions were garbage, the main missions focused too much on third person shooting, and the story was a mess. I was pretty pumped for SR3 before it came out, but it ended up being very disappointing. 4 is okay, if only because superpowers are fun.
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Jul 23, 2016 05:46
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The game really struggled to get the tone right. SR2 is really consistent with a darkly comedic tone with a casual approach to violent and often brutal acts, and the emotional beats or psychotic moments have an impact without being big swerves. There's a lot of great moments in Saints Row later on, like the West-Wing parody, the VR segment, and good character stuff like the Real ending of SR3 and Kinzie Kensington and the celeb hanger on whose name I forgot, but it's a bit all over the place, with a lot more straight parody and Whacky stuff. Don't get me wrong, I love busting wrestling moves on bystanders, but I generally prefer my comedy a bit straight-faced.
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SR3 should've been up my alley, the more absurd things get, generally the better it is for me. But the game was a chore to play, whereas I had a lot of fun playing SR2, and even though it was storywise much more of a GTA:SA clone than SR3, SR2 felt more original.
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Travis343 posted:Saints Row 3 is still the best GTA ever, sorry Nah bud, Bully is the best GTA, followed by Red Dead Redemption, sorry
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Jul 23, 2016 12:24
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There was a great thread on Game FAQs with recipes for making basically all the celebrities. Jason Statham was the obvious choice though.
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Jul 23, 2016 12:43
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At first I was annoyed by Griffin calling Saint's Row 3 juvenile, but then I remembered the writing in 3 isn't that great. I hope if decides to do 2 he uses Gentlemen of The Row to make a horrible monstrosity. I know he's not above using mods. (See Daytrader Vader and Arby's Witch Cursed Dark Souls)
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If you aren't playing SR as co-op then I could see it losing its appeal, but with a friend the games are amazing. I loved SR3 as an alternative to GTA which took itself so drat seriously. Especially after playing GTA4 which was such a downer the whole time it was really nice to have a game where you could actually just have fun. Wacky fart joke humour and all. SR4 is hard to call itself the same thing. It's more like a comedy version of Prototype. Still a lot of fun, but it's definitely abandoned its genre at that point. Also the romance options are great.
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Team_q posted:Nah bud, Bully is the best GTA, followed by Red Dead Redemption, sorry I'd flip those, actually, but yeah. RDR, then Bully, then SR2. Mikedawson posted:At first I was annoyed by Griffin calling Saint's Row 3 juvenile, but then I remembered the writing in 3 isn't that great. It's a game where you can whack people in the head with a big purple dildo, and it's a sequel to a game where you got money for spraying poop on people's houses. It's never exactly been highbrow. Asiina posted:SR4 is hard to call itself the same thing. It's more like a comedy version of Prototype. Still a lot of fun, but it's definitely abandoned its genre at that point. Also the romance options are great. I'm actually looking forward to Agents of Mayhem basically because they could just make SR4 again, but without the SR veneer to it.
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Jul 23, 2016 16:21
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Griffin is just throwing shade to hide the fact that SR3 beat him to the trapped inside the VR Zone story by about 5 years.
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Gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that Griffin throwing some light mockery at this very silly and crude game does not necessarily mean he hates it.
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It's even more epic than Borderlands. Whats not to love?
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Team_q posted:Nah bud, Bully is the best GTA, followed by Red Dead Redemption, sorry I don't think there's rocket launchers in either of those games
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Jul 23, 2016 19:30
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the slingshot is better than the rocket launcher *nods head, somewhat crookedly*
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Travis343 posted:I don't think there's rocket launchers in either of those games There's a potato gun in Bully that functions like a rocket launcher.
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Jul 23, 2016 19:36
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bully is the closest a gta style game has been to persona therefore its the best
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PBS Newshour posted:bully is the closest a gta style game has been to persona therefore its the best Saints Row 4 is all about going in to your friends personal hell dungeons and helping them overcome their insecurities and become better people.
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Travis343 posted:I don't think there's rocket launchers in either of those games There's a bottle rocket launcher in Bully, a kid friendly version of hitting someone in the face with explosives!
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Jul 24, 2016 06:51
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The gameplay in Saints Row was never very fun. I could barely struggle through 4.
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Jul 24, 2016 18:39
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I recently lost all of my podcast subscriptions due to a device switch, and since I didn't quite feel like rebuilding my list right away I wound up spending the last week or two listening to all of The Adventure Zone. It's actually kind of weird being caught up and going back to other shows, though that's partly because I spent a lot of that time doing semi-tedious work that was a good fit for podcast listening so I was pretty inundated for a while there. It took a little while for the McElroy dynamic and sense of humor to click with me but I've started really enjoying their Polygon stuff and I'm looking forward to digging into MBMBAM. I laughed for like five minutes straight when Magnus ate the rock.
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Jul 25, 2016 15:59
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"Moley on my feeners" made me laugh really drat hard, and only partially because it was said in the same tone as "DARYL, GO SEE YOUR PEEPUMS!"
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Tangentially related to MBMBaM, but I was watching an episode of Bob's Burgers last night with a hamburger cooking contest and I swear one of the judges was Griffin. He sounded like one of Griffin's adventure zone voices and his one line in the entire show contained the word "mouthfeel." Has Griffin ever mentioned being on Bob's burgers? He was uncredited if it was actually him.
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Jul 26, 2016 01:00
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I mean it's not like Griffin invented the word mouthfeel.
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Ariong posted:I mean it's not like Griffin invented the word mouthfeel. No, but that combined with almost his exact voice made me wonder.
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Coffee And Pie posted:"Moley on my feeners" made me laugh really drat hard, and only partially because it was said in the same tone as "DARYL, GO SEE YOUR PEEPUMS!" Yeah I had a good belly laugh at that bit. Wooh! I needed that. 
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Coffee And Pie posted:"Moley on my feeners" made me laugh really drat hard, and only partially because it was said in the same tone as "DARYL, GO SEE YOUR PEEPUMS!" I feel like it's in bits like Feeners that their roots in West Virginia really come forward and pay out hard.
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Jul 26, 2016 16:46
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quote:Can you belay yourself? had me WHEEZING. Had to pause the episode.
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DoctorWhat posted:had me WHEEZING. Had to pause the episode. I had to pause and laugh at Travis' bong name. Good episode.
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Is this the first episode they've done where the big goof of the episode was just recounting a thing that they did with their kid?
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Guy Mann posted:Is this the first episode they've done where the big goof of the episode was just recounting a thing that they did with their kid? Well there was a lot of goofs in the episode besides that but even saying leading with an anecdote about fatherhood, not even close. The first one I remember is Glass Shark which is from right after the kid was born, so like two years ago.
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https://twitter.com/corruptedgem/status/758476509501796353
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NEW GRIFFIN PERFORMANCE ART/POLITICAL SATIRE SIDE PROJECT REVEALED 
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New Adventure Zone is up: http://www.maximumfun.org/adventure-zone/ep-45-eleventh-hour-chapter-five The skeleton exchange between Travis and Justin is golden. Also, I reckon that second big prophecy isn't going to come into play in this arc. Feels like more of a wider-story thing.
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Jul 28, 2016 22:18
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gently caress, man, this whole skeleton bit is fantastic
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Jul 28, 2016 23:40
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Absolutely lost it at the Jock Jams saloon piano suite.
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kidcoelacanth posted:gently caress, man, this whole skeleton bit is fantastic Did the rug bite him because it's alive?
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Wake_N_Bake posted:Did the rug bite him because it's alive? Justin was making jokes but the rug could have totally been a mimic
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Lumbermouth posted:Absolutely lost it at the Jock Jams saloon piano suite. That was really really good
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