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Sivart13 posted:I think their lack of time and passion mirrors my own at this phase of life, I don't think I could listen to another podcast where people were more informed because it would just make me jealous Interestingly this is why I did enjoy listening a lot of the time. I really appreciated Justin's take on Metroid Prime. It was my favorite game ever when I played it in high school, and I'm enjoying it a lot this time around too, but since my time is more precious now I also have a newfound annoyance about design that purposefully wastes a player's time . Metroid Prime has some clunky backtracking that a few shortcuts would alleviate. Like Justin, I also got annoyed at the chamber that was overgrown with vines for no reason other than to make you go the long way around. However, the VR discussion was just plain bad - they got material facts wrong and made crazy leaps of judgement, like Russ claiming "most people won't be able to play Horizon" due to motion sickness when only a slim minority of reviewers mentioned feeling sick. VR motion sickness is a real thing, but it's weird for Russ to extrapolate his personal experience to "most people". They also called it an "incremental upgrade" while not mentioning any of the insane new advantages like foveated rendering, OLED 4k, inside-out tracking, etc. I get it, all four of them are sour on VR for various reasons, but it felt like none of them had any idea what they were talking about and I wish they had just skipped this discussion entirely.
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Sockser posted:Whenever Shlebetheny isn't on screen, all the McElroys should be asking "where's Shlebetheny?" 
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Harriet Carker posted:I think I’m done with The Besties. I’ve enjoyed it for a long time because of the humor and banter but for two current and two former professional game journalists (lol) they are all so remarkably uninformed about games. I know they are busy but I’m tired of hearing half-baked discussions about games some of them only played for a few hours. Plus they apparently missed the big AAA release from a couple of weeks ago entirely!
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Sockser posted:Whenever Shlebetheny isn't on screen, all the McElroys should be asking "where's Shlebetheny?" if they don't keep her as a side character/resource for the rest of this arc they're absolutely the stupidest motherfuckers on the planet
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Feb 17, 2023 19:55
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"oh no Shlebethany killed gravel and now she's the mentor of the team oh noooooooooooo"
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more falafel please posted:if they don't keep her as a side character/resource for the rest of this arc they're absolutely the stupidest motherfuckers on the planet I fistpumped when Justin revealed that Schlabethany was a criminal named Shoebox because it was such an obvious setup for having her show up again later.
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Feb 17, 2023 22:58
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Please god if they keep her around do not give her some sympathetic backstory. Just let her be a giant loving shitbird for no drat reason.
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Feb 18, 2023 01:00
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Shlebethany's tragic backstory: She's from New Jersey
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I like the Besties a lot but bad VR discussion does annoy me, so yeah I might skip that segment Otherwise I enjoy the casual dad-level conversation about games
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That like 5 minute discussion about the Avatar movies was pretty funny. Clint should show up on MBMBAM every now and then, bring some new energy to the boys.
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Warbird posted:Please god if they keep her around do not give her some sympathetic backstory. Just let her be a giant loving shitbird for no drat reason. shitbird with a heart of gold is fine but yeah I want her to have had a charmed life and just be Like That
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Feb 18, 2023 07:32
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Harriet Carker posted:two former professional game journalists Justin famously wrote the worst review on the planet
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Feb 18, 2023 10:11
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Plant and Frushtick could watch a cutscene explicitly saying what's going on and then ask what's going on and then complain it's not a card battler. I'm only partially joking here.
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VR still sucks and deserves to be half-assedly reviewed by people who have better things to do with their time
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goblin week posted:Justin famously wrote the worst review on the planet Which one is that
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AndrewP posted:Which one is that assuming its his review of the original Nier where he ragequit the game because he didn't pay attention to the minimap telling him where to go to do a side quest
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goblin week posted:Justin famously wrote the worst review on the planet I feel like the worst review on the planet was from his Polygon peer who hated rock music and took it out on Rock Band. grittyreboot fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Feb 19, 2023 |
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Feb 19, 2023 04:32
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Nier was a masterpiece and if Justin was too stupid to figure out the map and/or fishing then that's on him
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grittyreboot posted:I feel like the worst review on the planet was
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Sivart13 posted:i'm sure we could go round and round on this topic but I have a soft spot for Quinns from Rock Paper Shotgun and his review about how Fallout: New Vegas was "phoning it in" quote:In my whole time with New Vegas, I found nothing as architecturally entertaining as Megaton, and nothing as eerie or inventive as Little Lamplight. What the gently caress?
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There's always the infamous 5.9 review for Alien: Isolation from IGN. But Justin's take that Avengers is the second-best superhero game of all time behind Spider-Man is still up there.
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Sivart13 posted:i'm sure we could go round and round on this topic but I have a soft spot for Quinns from Rock Paper Shotgun and his review about how Fallout: New Vegas was "phoning it in" Ha - I only know him from Shut Up Sit Down, I didn't know he wrote video game reviews.
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Sivart13 posted:i'm sure we could go round and round on this topic but I have a soft spot for Quinns from Rock Paper Shotgun and his review about how Fallout: New Vegas was "phoning it in" Haha, honestly his review hits some good points, but a great example of missing the forest for the trees
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Nobody's life was improved by being really invested in video game reviews, outside of people whose paychecks depend on them. For as much as Giant Bomb is and will remain a shell of its former self, there were very smart to stick to only reviewing games for which they felt they could say something interesting in the review.
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The first two minutes of every episode of Steeplechase are always the funniest. The rest of the show is funny too, I'm just saying, I'm really invested in the Nanofather Saga at this point. (and today's Steepie Watch made me laugh out loud; love a good podcasting audio gag)
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Alaois posted:assuming its his review of the original Nier where he ragequit the game because he didn't pay attention to the minimap telling him where to go to do a side quest this is why in the remake they added dialogue to explicitly point out where you're supposed to go fishing for the quest
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timp posted:The first two minutes of every episode of Steeplechase are always the funniest. The rest of the show is funny too, I'm just saying, I'm really invested in the Nanofather Saga at this point. (and today's Steepie Watch made me laugh out loud; love a good podcasting audio gag) Justin is demented and it's great
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Sockser posted:Eleventh Hour book is very very good. I should get back to looking for a copy of the Petals book, I somehow picked up the Crystal Kingdom book without picking up Petals so I haven't actually read the former yet 
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Feb 27, 2023 05:31
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lmao the swerve at the end of this taz
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Son of a bitch this campaign's banging all over the place. Justin's really weaponizing his holier-than-thou affectations for this worn-down artificial fantasy-with-the-gilding-coming-off world and it is fantastic. Especially with that drat swerve at the end.
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Playing the hits baby
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