Posted by Wilshere - February 22, 2013 at 10:35 AM

Never enough Brad Muir.

Edited by stonepawfox - February 22, 2013 at 10:38 AM

this really was an excellent tnt, thanks guys

Posted by Quarters - February 22, 2013 at 10:46 AM

Always a party when Brad Muir's around!

Posted by MeatSim - February 22, 2013 at 11:03 AM

Thursday versus Brad Muir's Ska band.

Posted by DjCmeP - February 22, 2013 at 11:06 AM

Posted by joshthebear - February 22, 2013 at 11:09 AM

:D

Edited by Hef - February 22, 2013 at 11:22 AM

http://pinstripehourglass.tumblr.com/post/43684262931/ladies-and-gentlemen-brad-muir-and-the

Brad's ska band

Posted by Novis - February 22, 2013 at 11:36 AM

Dudes, this could be cool doing every once in a while. Getting someone who worked on an old ass game in and watch it being played or something. This is a nice treat.

Posted by MilesElrich - February 22, 2013 at 11:46 AM

Oddly want to play XCom: Enemy Unknown after watching Alter Echo.

Edited by Nerdmotron - February 22, 2013 at 12:07 PM

This was such a fun show to watch. Absolutely brilliant.

Edited by Sparky_Buzzsaw - February 22, 2013 at 12:08 PM

Rifts got a shout-out. That's my favorite part of all this. Eric Woljyk (spelling?) was the MAN back in the day writing for Palladium.

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Posted by Patman99 - February 22, 2013 at 12:10 PM

I don't think I stop smiling when I see Brad Muir. That guy is great.

Posted by peritus - February 22, 2013 at 12:18 PM

:D

Posted by MjHealy - February 22, 2013 at 12:40 PM

Ska AND Brad Muir? Two of the best things.

Posted by CrashTanuki - February 22, 2013 at 1:04 PM

That better not be the current Brad Muir on the left in the snapshot or I'll be sad.

Posted by Baal_Sagoth - February 22, 2013 at 1:11 PM

Excellent show! Brad Muir pulling his weight yet again. He really does seem more like a semi-regular GB dude than a guest at times. A lot of really good discussion as well.

Posted by Fatcat222 - February 22, 2013 at 1:16 PM

Is it just me or is Brad Muir, like, the nicest sounding guy of all time?

Edited by hussatron - February 22, 2013 at 1:37 PM

: D

Posted by StarvingGamer - February 22, 2013 at 2:23 PM

You guys should pay Brad Muir to come be in a video every week.

Posted by Traegan - February 22, 2013 at 2:33 PM

Love the developer commentary. As a Computer Engineering <pushes glasses up> graduate circa 2002, very interesting to see an alternate career path and game development shop talk.

Edited by johnaze - February 22, 2013 at 2:36 PM

Man there is so much Brad in this TNT.

Posted by bobfantastic - February 22, 2013 at 2:52 PM

It seems like you guys probably know enough long-established developers to put together a pretty good series of retrospectives, particularly as the generation comes to an end and people are thinking back over their own gaming history.

Just a thought. Keep up the good work!

Edited by Dberg - February 22, 2013 at 2:53 PM

That song at the end sounded an awful lot like something you'd hear in a Borderlands games. ...was it from one of them?

Edited by Dark_Lord_Spam - February 22, 2013 at 6:52 PM

I love that Brad Muir explained in the politest way how he was fired, and then later about some internet asshole bumming him out. Never lose that positive flow, Brad! :D!

Posted by AssInAss - February 22, 2013 at 7:16 PM

It's so awesome to see Brad Muir as a developer flashback to his game history.

Posted by JordanaRama - February 22, 2013 at 8:32 PM

Brad Muir has incredibly white teeth.

Sparkling.

Posted by johncallahan - February 22, 2013 at 11:19 PM

I literally shouted "Oh shit, The Bouncer!" when they put The Bouncer in.

Posted by PhilipDuck - February 22, 2013 at 11:52 PM

Great TnT having Brad Muir in was a fantastic move! Cool guy as always and good laugh.

Posted by ahaisthisourchance - February 23, 2013 at 12:02 AM

Double Brad is the best kind of Brad.

Posted by mithhunter55 - February 23, 2013 at 12:40 AM

Oh god this one is scaring me.

@assinass said:

It's so awesome to see Brad Muir as a developer flashback to his game history.

Posted by JoelTGM - February 23, 2013 at 12:58 AM

this was amazing

Posted by SuperUltra - February 23, 2013 at 2:00 AM

This was such a great TNT. I loved the Brad Muir commentary for Alter Echo.

Posted by AssInAss - February 23, 2013 at 4:22 AM

46:20

Is that what Inverse Kinematics are? When the character's hands or feet are actually planting on stairs or other surfaces? Man, I love that in games!

I learned something new today, thanks Brad Muir :D

Posted by TorMasturba - February 23, 2013 at 6:49 AM

@bunkerbuster05 said:

This was fucking hilarious. I wish Brad Muir was a permanent member of the Bombsquad

I agree! He should at least be an honorary member of the staff!

Posted by Residentrevil2 - February 23, 2013 at 9:18 AM

TeamBRADS is the best.

Edited by SatelliteOfLove - February 23, 2013 at 9:24 AM

Ryan talking about the shared Japanesedness of many PS2 games and Sax Man talking about lore wrapped around and spawned from different elements of the game in production are very much related phenomena.

God, I forgot how big a turd Oni was.

Posted by nelson1tom - February 23, 2013 at 12:00 PM

You guys should like play PlanetSide 2 for a TNT. Some of the servers are being merged this week.

I have 12 days of game play on it. Catch up.

Posted by CitizenCoffeeCake - February 23, 2013 at 12:10 PM

I think Tommy Tallarico did the music for Alter Echo, I remember him talking about it on Judgment Day.. ah Judgment Day...

Posted by Vortextk - February 23, 2013 at 3:44 PM

THANKS FOR COMING BRAD. So great to see him.

Posted by Zero_ - February 23, 2013 at 4:12 PM

This was really fun. I hope they spawn a new series of developer restrospectives; with episode 1: Jaffe.

Posted by Rox360 - February 23, 2013 at 4:48 PM

@assinass said:

46:20

Is that what Inverse Kinematics are? When the character's hands or feet are actually planting on stairs or other surfaces? Man, I love that in games!

I learned something new today, thanks Brad Muir :D

It's technically not the only meaning, but yes! There's basically two types of joint control used in 3D animation; Forward Kinematics and Inverse Kinematics. Simplified, FK basically means that you have to rotate a joint to get it pointing where you want and anything attached to it just follows along, like a series of sticks joined by stiff hinges that you rotate one at a time. IK means that you position the end of a joint or chain of joints, and everything along the chain adjusts automatically to allow the motion to happen. If you do that on the fly in-engine, then yes, IK is what allows for the dynamic planting of feet or hands on surfaces. It is also used in the animation tools to easily make pre-animated motions look natural. A handy technology!

Posted by videorob - February 23, 2013 at 5:08 PM

1:14:48 - "americanime" thank you very much

Posted by Keen_12 - February 23, 2013 at 7:06 PM

:D

Posted by ZHabermann - February 23, 2013 at 7:24 PM

Wait, beer DOESN'T come in can's that big in America normally?

Hell yeah UK better at being alcoholics

Posted by Xbox420 - February 24, 2013 at 12:11 AM

More Brad Muir pleassssseeeeee :D

Posted by KevinK - February 24, 2013 at 6:17 AM

@maajin said:

It seems like Brad Muir is the only thing the internet is unanimous about. He's the chosen one to bring us peace, guys!

He's the savior we need but not the one we deserve!

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Edited by MaFoLu - February 24, 2013 at 7:37 AM

I need more Bra:D Muir in my life!

Posted by ContraryGravitas - February 24, 2013 at 8:05 AM

=D

Edited by BBQBram - February 24, 2013 at 9:41 AM

That's a nice Brad background...bradground? Okay I'll be leaving now.

Posted by HellknightLeon - February 24, 2013 at 11:40 AM

Such a good show. I said it once and I will say it again. Brad Muir needs to work for GiantBomb. They need to pick him up and I feel like if anything happened with his job at DF I bet they would. It would be awesome to have someone that worked on games and know the tec like Brad. MAKE IT HAPPEN!