Yardbomb posted:

You probably don't want to do that, regardless of robot threshold, when a deal of your fanbase is 4chins.

Monaghan posted:

Woolie's lost a bunch of weight and looks great nowadays.

MagusDraco posted:

Woolie's new "let's get into fighting games" intro is great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o-JUCpEVP4

Nalesh posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dURZdMc9fls

This loving thumbnail.

Clerical Terrors posted:

I don't like that he previously released them all in a batch but mostly because I'm the kind of person who will binge watch them instead of doing productive human things.

Also am I the only one who thinks the sub feed is so irredeemable and broken I just went back to adding my fav channels to Thunderbird as RSS feeds?

Zwiebel posted:

To throw some of my own grease into this trash fire, I always thought that Dark Souls already had some degree of difficulty options.

But that's more specifically in reference to the option of kindling (which increases your amount of healing substantially)
As well as the option of summoning other players or bots for help as actual dynamic adjustments to the difficulty of specific sections.

Summoning in particular utterly trivializes large parts of the content of Dark Souls due to enemies being really bad at fighting multiple opponents. The option also becomes inaccessible once the player has successfully completed an area and cleared out the boss, which suggests the notion that it's primarily there to help a player past getting stuck (as well being there just for fun, I suppose).

And a lot of the people that would scoff at the inclusion of maybe even more options to adjust the difficulty of a game have probably engaged in these options when playing the game themselves.
But as soon as developer slaps the "easy" label on an option in a menu, everyone freaks out and considers it a point of shame.
I suppose the best way about it is to just include these dynamic options but not tell players about the fact that they are making things easier for themselves?

Dark Souls is a weird example for difficulty in video games in any case, because it's mechanically related to RPGs. To some degree the player can just use consumables, items, levelling and whatever to further remove difficulty from the game. It's hardly a controlled environment with specific tests of reflex or skill. Thinking outside the box of "hit enemy with sword" or even just packing a bow utterly ruins a lot of the challenges the game sets up for the player, but that in itself is incredibly rewarding for players. Because they get to feel smart rather than only getting rewarded for twitch action game reflexes.

And having more options, in particular accessibility options for people with disabilities is only a good thing for these games.

That said, the industry still somehow manages to gently caress up the very basics of including subtitles or even checking whether a colour blind mode might be prudent, both of which should be the bare minimum.
Wasn't there, like, some big title releases just last year that didn't include subtitles? I remember hearing about something like that.


Speaking of games that have some non-trivial content and to bring it back to the best friends:
I recently got around to finally finishing Hollow Knight and I remember Woolie mentioning that he played the game. Did he stream any of that or was he just playing that on his own? I specifically avoided all discussion of the game and skipped the parts where they brought it up in the podcast due to wanting to go into it blind.

Neo_Crimson posted:

Why does everyone forget about GOG in these discussions?

Lovely Joe Stalin posted:

He's open about having anxiety problems. Anxiety isn't particularly rational.

Oxyclean posted:

Speaking of:
https://twitter.com/MattMcMuscles/status/1137838576312434689

I don't understand how he can be let down by Gears Funko; why would anyone have expectations for it not to be awful dreck?

ArmyOfMidgets posted:

Woolie's stand that gets his OCs into fighting games keeps getting stronger. At this rate, he will be in Smash.

somepartsareme posted:

it's shitstorm season

Yardbomb posted:

Hell yes, Matt starting Clock Tower 3 with Liam.

RareAcumen posted:

MagusDraco posted:

How do they spend 3 hours talking about Pat's internet being hosed?

The Bee posted:

I wish we had Matt and Woolie going through the 2k20 trainwreck. It could've been the new Livin Da Dream or THUG!

Dawgstar posted:

It feels like Pat is the ur-example of the guy in your social circle that you give the label 'okay in small doses.'

Neo_Crimson posted:

Though I kinda hate thinking about it, I would not be surprised if down the line Matt, Woolie, and Liam decide to reform Super Best Friends Play without Pat.

Mr.Pibbleton posted:

I do hope this comes out today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxTSU3cWFTc