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Apr 1, 2015 20:54
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Opposing Farce posted:Playing through Scholar of the First Sin: New .exe Edition I keep running into things that feel like BFSC wish list items. There are Heide Knights in Heide's! The Pursuer pursues you! They put something in those sewers before the Wharf! $20 is probably still too steep a price but I'm appreciating the graphical updates (especially since I upgraded my computer between now and the last time I played DS2) and I keep finding neat new surprises so it gets a passing grade from me. I'm excited to hear that episode when it comes around. Yeah, I'm finding that too. Rather than be bitter about it, I'm choosing to see it as a strength of the medium. Mistakes can be fixed. I'm really loving my Scholar playthrough, which is serving as brief break before more BLOOD.
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Apr 4, 2015 01:08
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DARKSEID DICK PICS posted:I think he's referring to the WOFF comments about the swastika in Commander Keen. Technically the one appearing there is a manji (I hope to god I remembered that term properly), but it should also tell you something that a later patch for Keen V removed that just to be safe. Really? According to the creators, it was meant to be a Wolfenstein Easter Egg, not a Manji. http://www.shikadi.net/keenwiki/Keen_5_Easter_eggs And even if the devs intended it to be a Manji, that's misguided and they would have to know full well how it would be interpreted. Symbols change meaning and even if if the national socialist party isn't more important than that specific symbol, I'd argue that the potential misunderstanding is more important than Id deciding to include this little easter egg, which literally adds nothing and whose creators cannot claim any sort of cultural connection with. Whenever anyone argues for being able to use a swastika (or symbol that is guaranteed to be mistaken for one), it comes off as disingenuous. Or at least willfully edgy.
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Apr 4, 2015 09:45
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DARKSEID DICK PICS posted:It is literally the only thing I can think of that he might be referring to. But yeah, if the top prong faces left, it's a manji, unless I've had this poo poo backwards for years. (My mnemonic: right-facing, right-wing) I'm not the family Buddhist, I just know enough to not stick my foot in my mouth at Thanksgiving. I was playing the Steam version but it's possible Kole wasn't? I think he found the "easter egg." And my point stands, yes there is a difference but we're all adults and we know how something is going to be construed. This poo poo drives me bonkers. It's similar to people arguing for flying the confederate flag. I know it's not exactly the same since the flag is one symbol and has no old symbol for luck to be confused for but honestly, have some self awareness. Oh, and god drat context. Woffle fucked around with this message at 09:58 on Apr 4, 2015 |
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Apr 4, 2015 09:54
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HMS Boromir posted:Gary, that is, uh. That is not how you pronounce "indefatigable". I think it's just an issue of my mushmouth. In listening back, it definitely sounds slur-y but that's not my intent. DARKSEID DICK PICS posted:I'm not defending it, for what it's worth. I was just trying to answer the question of what in the hell he might be talking about. It could be something Giant Bomb did for all I know, or maybe Thumbs? I'm behind on this week's podcasts, the Keen one is the only thing I've finished. Yeah, I didn't mean to call you out. I had a moment of genuine anger about this that was compounded by being sick.
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Apr 4, 2015 21:46
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Zombies' Downfall posted:Not that I disagree w/ the spirit of this post, but in fairness he doesn't leave his life-threatening illness out of his internet arguments either This is a really good point. Though he only brings it up from time to time, his fans, which he wields like a weapon, often bring it up. I don't want him to have cancer, of course, but I hate that such a regressive, egotistical prick is considered a spokesman for the hobby by many. Honestly, I've never read anything by him that didn't have me screaming "Shut the gently caress up already" in my head. It's also really obvious to me that his gamergate wagon hitching was not only due to his game as product viewpoint (shaders!), but also a crassly commercial move. In summary, dude is gross and not harmless.
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Apr 6, 2015 19:44
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Wikipedia Brown posted:Awesome! News to me, too. I'm going to check this out because they talk about Resident Evil. I have always loved, and sympathized with, Shawn Elliot's apologia for later day Resident Evil titles. Yes, I'm the guy who had fun playing RE6. Go ahead and shoot me and get it over with.
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Apr 7, 2015 21:48
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DoubleCakes posted:I'm that guy that loves RE4 and hates 5. 5 lacked all the bit that 4 had and was a bore to play. I think the things it lacked it made up for in co-op. I played both 5 and 6 co-op and can't speak to their 1 player experiences.
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Apr 9, 2015 07:27
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The Vosgian Beast posted:When you talked about how the Saw Cleaver's description talks about how it only grows in effectiveness the more monstrous the beast, I was wondering if it was just an in-game explanation for why your relatively puny weapon can take down a big nasty monster so well. I'm pretty sure, after using it a bit, that it actually does build my beast meter. I had a lot of endurance and wailed on a werewolf and a menu started filling.
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Apr 13, 2015 05:43
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Without getting two spoilery, there's actually a third thing he could be referring to but that doesn't erase the creep factor. It just turns it into a triple meaning.
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Apr 14, 2015 08:43
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DrKennethNoisewater posted:This makes a lot if sense wrt the good soundtrack conversation in the latest ep. Just seeing the words Katamari Damacy immediately puts that song in my head, and it's great. I beat it in one sitting with my ex wife, start to finish.
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Apr 17, 2015 07:16
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umalt posted:^^^Ditto. For both the reaction and how long for responses. We'll likely record the Super Metroid episode 2 weeks from this upcoming saturday and like responses the friday before. We record BSC MOSTLY on Thursdays. If you are of the FB persuasion, that's the best way to keep up with our calls for responses. As far as a Torment response, we'll read whatever you send in but possibly not on the air. We do keep track of everything in case an extrasode episode runs a little short so if the comment is relevant to the game at hand or we've got some extra time, we're more likely to read it.
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Apr 22, 2015 02:04
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....traitors. I don't know what's up there with Super Metroid but three-four years is a long time to figure something out. It's also a long time to salve some JRPG fatigue.
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Apr 22, 2015 13:50
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Akuma posted:BSC dudes, have you ever considered having EpicNameBro on as a guest? Next to you guys he's easily my favourite soulsman, he has great insight and a pretty unique perspective having worked on the past two official guides, including fighting for the inclusion of a lore index to help us all with our theorycrafting. Back in the day I asked him to be on the show and he said yes but then went silent when I followed up. At the time I know he was going through some heavy personal poo poo. I plan on trying again this season but I'm not necessarily expecting him to. Would be neat though. I like him too. As far as Super Metroid, I know it's controversial, but I think it might be the only good original Metroid game. The first one is neat but too obtuse, the 2nd as well (coupled with some truly awful arbitrary gatekeeping and a camera that is too pushed in). Fusion and Prime present some of the clunkiest storytelling in gaming (especially fusion), and Other M... A lil more about Prime: I know a lot of people love it but it felt extremely tedious to me on replay. There is an element of environmental storytelling (nothing on the level of Souls but it's sort of there) but that was undercut, for me, by the logs you find. They weren't only overt but they were boring. I think the Chozo are really, really boring when you spell them out (sort of like Wolverine). People who say that Prime feels like a 3D Super Metroid baffle me. That leaves Zero Mission, which I also think is pretty good, but is obviously based on the original title. Part of my love for Super Metroid is that it feels unique in the series to me, not just in terms of tone and formula, but in quality.
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Apr 22, 2015 21:08
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Bug Squash posted:Wait... Not gonna happen. 
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Apr 24, 2015 10:26
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DARKSEID DICK PICS posted:re: Keen talk on the WoFF extrasode - holy poo poo you guys didn't see the bonus level in Armageddon Machine? Let me show you what was meant about Scottish racism, even if that term's a little strong... That's pretty special.
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Apr 24, 2015 20:42
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Akuma posted:
Honestly, I didn't call him on it because I came to the same conclusion on my own. Ludwig made sense and it was unsatisfying for it to be no one like that stupid Bloodstarved Beast. But yeah, he calls himself out. Where is the source on it not being so? Note, I haven't read the interview in the guide yet.
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Apr 27, 2015 04:29
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I hope you called him on that poo poo goddamnit.
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Al-Saqr posted:Does the cat of Gary Butterfield Meow on command?! or does he have a library of cat noises handy? It's like, in one of the recent episodes every time he mentions his cat it meows almost on cue. I can pretty consistently get him to talk. He's a chatty boy.
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Apr 27, 2015 08:56
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HMS Boromir posted:Gary, not only is Review coming back, they've already started shooting season 2. I've got high hopes! That's incredible! I know it was in rough shape ratings wise near the end. Also, I had no idea there'd be a cutting room floor entry for something as new as Bad Rats. Holy cow. "Horse Club." We might have to do a follow up episode.
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Apr 28, 2015 20:32
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I always feel like I missed something with Amnesia: The Dark Descent, because while the first hour or two was really scary, around the time I had to stealth my way through a dungeon, I sort of realized dying was not that big of a deal, that I hadn't seen any other monsters than the ones that were all over the place, and I wasn't very interested in where the story was going, so I stopped. Don't expect me to say a lot of kind things about Hamnesia: The Pork Descent. I was not very into that game.
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May 2, 2015 16:45
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Funkmaster General posted:Listened to the latest Check It Out, Comrade, and tou guys were talking about wanting a first-person BoI and being disappointed with Tower of Guns and Paranautical. Check out Ziggurat. Aside from obviously having entirely different themeing, it feels a lot like first-person BoI to me and really nails all the things you guys were looking for, including unlocking new stuff almost every run. Thank you! I'll give it a shot for sure.
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May 5, 2015 22:41
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Stan Taylor posted:I've probably asked this before, but does anyone have any general boardgame 'cast recommendations? Shut Up and Sit down used to be my go to, but they tend to not post them regularly and also have shows devoted to those "game experience" room escape type things that I will never be able to play. I've got On Board Games and Board Games To Go in my feed, but both are kinda dry and too nerdy for me. Three Moves Ahead is rad, but they generally cover hardcore wargames if they are doing a tabletop episode, and I don't play those. I really like NPCcast. They're goons and they spend a lot of time talking about RPGs but also board games. It's become a day one listen for me.
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May 9, 2015 09:11
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Akuma posted:Why is your custom title so huge god drat I realize that replying just means it's going to show up again. It's because it's my favorite quote from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, which is what my icon is from.
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May 9, 2015 10:06
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Phone posted:Whoa, Earthbound in the music showdown finals. Sick. It's in the show notes. I am still grumpy. 
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May 15, 2015 06:40
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DARKSEID DICK PICS posted:I don't know if I've laughed as hard at Teenage Dirtbags as when the latest episode's sponsor came into play. Powerman 5000 makes for a drat good introductory episode to the show. You ain't seen--nothing yet.
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May 16, 2015 07:53
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Akuma posted:Honestly unless it's someone super laid back like LobosJr I find myself usually wishing BFSC a was just Gary and Kole because they have a great rapport that often isn't there with the guests - for obvious reasons. But I realise I'm in the minority on this so I'm not begrudging anybody liking a thing that they like. Ima still keep kicking you monies on Patreon. Not every podperson is for every podlistener. It's like how I can't handle Merlin Mann, Jesse Thorn or Doug Benson. I like CJ a lot but no offense. As far as Lobos goes, I want to offer him a regular location rather than a speedrunning episode but I'm not sure where. There are lots of guests we want this season and not as many areas. That said, I have a huuuuuge friend crush on Lobos and want him back as much as you do. He's a prince.
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May 17, 2015 00:53
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Captain Invictus posted:Have you checked out Axiom Verge yet? It's a straight 10 out of 10 for me, I just beat it the other night, and it's one of the best Metroid games I've played(and Super is in my top five games ever). I wrote a review for it on Steam. That one man managed to make a game with top shelf gameplay, music, sound effects, and visuals, blows me away. It's also quite a bit longer than your average 2D Metroid, clocking in at about 8-12 hours for a typical first run. You should definitely check it out. I'm currently offering a full 15% discount on it on Steam just to get it into more people's hands, because it launched on the same day the Capcom sale started and combined with the ridiculous amount of Witcher 3 hype, it got totally eclipsed and bumped off the top seller list before its debut day was even half over. It deserves better! We're doing it for the next Comrade we record. I haven't tried it yet but hope to start this weekend.
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May 19, 2015 01:24
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Bug Squash posted:We're probably going to wind up with a ban on Mad Max chat eventually, but until then I'd be really interested in the usual Dark Souls crowd's opinions on the oblique story telling that goes on in that film. Obviously they are massively tonally different but they are clearly drawing from a similar well on the method. I really want to see it but my girlfriend and my schedules aren't lining up. Probably going to be a couple of days still.
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May 20, 2015 20:56
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HMS Boromir posted:This isn't quite a gaming podcast but I don't know where else to talk about duckfeed so I'm just going to mention that I'm catching up on Teenage Dirtbags and the episode about My Own Worst Enemy really took the segment intros to the next level. They get better too. I really love doing them and there are some real winners in in the next couple. Oh, and thank you.
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May 27, 2015 20:52
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Dirtbags has some non 90s stuff in the pipeline. I'll definitely check those out. As far as gaming time: I totally get it. One of the reasons I keep the prolific podoutput is because it keeps me playing. WOFF means I play at least 24 or so games/year and Comrade means I check out roughly 52 indies/year. It means that I'm not always playing what I want to be playing at any given moment but it does keep me playing *something*.
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May 28, 2015 08:40
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Funkmaster General posted:Where's Comrade this week? I had to do a skip week to do a project for school. New episode Saturday on Axiom Verge and Year Walk. Pasco, thank you. If you are a patron, I'm putting together a zip of podmusic I've done as a patreon thanks. You could hear it ANYTIME.
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Jun 3, 2015 06:38
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Funkmaster General posted:Don't know about anytime soon, but I'm pretty sure they've said a few times that they plan to do both Fo3 and NV at some point. This is the truth. Fallout is my favorite game series (probably even more so than Souls) so I feel a moral duty to eventually cover the whole series.
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Jun 4, 2015 08:41
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I shudder to think of the kind of feedback we'd receive if we did one of these erotic novels. I get called a prude fairly frequently and we get called out for mentioning anything remotely sexist in games. Not that all erotic visual novels are sexist (I'm guessing?) but I can imagine that there's some troubling poo poo going on in that world.
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Jun 5, 2015 20:42
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Hey Gary, what's that H.P. Lovecraft podcast you mentioned in the Appendix for Old Yharnam? It's not in the notes. Sorry I didn't include it. I've mentioned it a bunch so I put it on the permanent show note ban list with The Simpsons and House of Leaves. It's the HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast. Honestly, when it was still covering primary works, it was my favorite and I still think it's really hard to top. I love those dudes. http://hppodcraft.com/
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Jun 8, 2015 03:23
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Thanks! I'm interested what others think are direct influences. Colour is pretty good and From Beyond seems obvious to me. One of the reasons Bloodborne is such a neat take on a Mythos story is that it takes place after the cults have won, more or less. It's progressed to a point Lovecraft's prose never gets to.
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Jun 9, 2015 00:13
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Funkmaster General posted:Uhh someone must have mixed up suggestion boxes, because Maximum Carnage is legit good and probably one of my favorite genesis games when I was a kid. It even had branching story paths and stuff. I'm pretty kind to it, actually. I also though it was pretty fun and love the Spidermen and all their web having adventures.
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Jun 10, 2015 10:10
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Funkmaster General posted:Yeah, I wouldn't really call Ghost Trick or Ace Attorney visual novels, but fair enough. Interestingly, if this was strictly actual VNs, 999 would be the only logical choice IMO but including those others makes it a much harder choice. Extremely text heavy adventure games? I was talking with a buddy about defining visual novels and it's harder than it might initially seem. The genre distinctions between text heavy traditional adventure games (Ace Attorney), text heavy puzzle games (Ghost Trick), CYOAs or gamebooks are difficult to suss out.
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Jun 11, 2015 19:12
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Szmitten posted:Significant aspects of visual novels appear in Phoenix Wright, Ghost Trick, Persona 4 and most Telltale games even (text heavy, choices, character portraits), it's just that actual visual novels lack the added interactivity of those other games (no point and click, no 2D/3D environment investigation, no real navigation or RPG elements). When I was trying to puzzle out the genre with my buddy, one unifying element we landed on was the inherent Japaneseness. A lot of times this expresses itself as anime bullshit but other times it expresses itself as different kinds of anime bullshit. (I'm mostly kidding. I love Hatoful Boyfriend.)
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