These videos are a true Endurance Run. It sounds bad, but I enjoy listening to Jeff slowly get more depressed by having to do these videos every week. It's an amusing journey to watch.
The graphical style of Thin Ice looks very attractive and I'm into the gameplay anyway. Watching that little penguin fella valiantly marching on to sink his enemies just makes me happy somehow!
I love these so much. I wish the best for game room, I haven't bought anything in a while. If Microsoft didn't treat it like an unwanted step-child and support it a little more it would probably be doing better.
Yeah..... Game Room could have really been awesome. As stupid as it sounds, I won't buy this because the game room hardware hasn't been updated, they need newer consoles, and I hate that you can't actually walk your avatar around the Arcade.
Get some real arcade games in there, assholes. I really love Game Room, the concept of building your own virtual arcade, but god DAMN. I own something like 12 arcade machines, which is probably more than a lot of people, but the constant release of absolutely SHIT Atari/Intellivision games is killing it. I guess companies don't want to put "real" arcade games in Game Room when they can potentially sell the exact same thing on XBLA for $10 or $5 instead of $3.
Jeff put more thought into playing 3D-Tic-Tac-Toe than the game makers put into making the game. Wow, I can't believe anyone (not in the games press) would pay for this game. People should enjoy Gameroom now because I doubt it will make it to the next system.
Actually it was the New Yorker. Not that it matters - it's just old people with impotent rage at a changing world trying to show people that they are relevant in some way.
And it seems to have worked: all us GiantBomb fans now know just how relevant the New Yorker is to today's youth!
Now that I think about it, history seems to be repeating itself: just as the first generation of home consoles died in the early eighties due to a lack of good games, the re-release of said games is causing Game Room to go under as well. If only they had this simulator to predict what would happen, they could have avoided the crash, and the world... (cavernous echo) ...would be a much different place.............
Game Room wouldn't be so bad if they didn't keep releasing shitty games nobody cares about. Some new consoles and better pricing would make game room a lot more reasonable.
Atari 2600 Centipede. I had so much fun with that game back in the glory days. Sure, it looked crap compared to the arcade version but it was awesome in it's own way and worked exactly as intended. Also seeing a glimps of the Oink! cabinet in the showcase game room brought back good memories.
" Great, Steve Austin is the #1 Penguin 1. Now that I think about it, history seems to be repeating itself: just as the first generation of home consoles died in the early eighties due to a lack of good games, the re-release of said games is causing Game Room to go under as well. If only they had this simulator to predict what would happen, they could have avoided the crash, and the world... (cavernous echo) ...would be a much different place............. "
Obscure reference, but the broken avatars remind me of the Junji Ito story, the Earthbound.
I'm not really into manga in general, but goddamn is Junji Ito is awesome. He can take some of the silliest concepts and make them genuinely creepy and unnerving. Gyo might be the perfect example of that.
