Intern Game Of The Year Video Deliberation - Day 1

THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. Giant Bomb Interns Daniel. Perry, Matt and Steve begin their battle to find the ten best video games of 2011. Here there be interns! Beware!

THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. Giant Bomb Interns Daniel. Perry, Matt and Steve begin their battle to find the ten best video games of 2011. Here there be interns! Beware!

''The video you have requested is not available''

Goddamnit, Kessler.

@Abyssfull: Fixed! Sorry 'bout the mess, YouTube was being weird.

''The video you have requested is not available''

Goddamnit, Kessler.

Do you get into a fistfight at the end?

I want a downloadable console.

Metagame is the intern's GOTY.

Edit: I get the feeling that these guys haven't seen the Cumming Skittles parody comercial from earlier this year.

I just got out of a 40+ minute Endurance Run episode, so can somebody tell me if El Shaddai gets any love in there?

Get back to playing Condemned 2 Kessler

6 minutes in... I miss Nick & Ben =(

@The_Laughing_Man said:

@Abyssfull said:

''The video you have requested is not available''

Goddamnit, Kessler.

That must mean there is nudeity?

Well there's a startling amount of face nudity if that counts.

@Abyssfull said:

6 minutes in... I miss Nick & Ben =(

same.

@Video_Game_King said:

I just got out of a 40+ minute Endurance Run episode, so can somebody tell me if El Shaddai gets any love in there?

I think you need to realize that you were the only person on Earth who played El Shaddai. ; )

@Cloudenvy:

But I'm not on Earth.

@Video_Game_King: Then no one played El Shaddai here. : (

@Cloudenvy:

You are right to feel shame.

@Video_Game_King: Hey, if you want to buy me a copy or give me infinite money or something I would totally play it!

Yay, more Matt Kessler! The other interns are cool but they aint no king!

solid cast of people, just add in ben and epicsteve next time around and they are set, could give a rats ass about nick,

Daniel just kind of doesn't stop talking.

@Abyssfull said:

6 minutes in... I miss Nick & Ben =(

same.

I typed cat funny keyboard saints row toilet breast feeding and this is the video I got.

Thanks for the suggestion, Daniel!

I hope the main crew does this

I read this as "Intern of the Year Video Deliberations" and now I'm disappointed.

@LordXavierBritish said:

I read this as "Intern of the Year Video Deliberations" and now I'm disappointed.

@GlenTennis: Toldja it'd be more worth your time.

Sadly I get the feeling we're going to hear "Witcher 2 was really great but no one played it" on a lot of sites.

Ugh. No, you don't need to talk about the merits of Duke Nukem Forever and Driver: San Fransisco and every other game that came out this year, we already know what you're going to pick. It's the thing that everyone else picked.

@Cloudenvy said:

@Video_Game_King said:

I just got out of a 40+ minute Endurance Run episode, so can somebody tell me if El Shaddai gets any love in there?

I think you need to realize that you were the only person on Earth who played El Shaddai. ; )

I found this a lot funnier than I should have done...

@Grissefar said:

@Animasta said:

@Abyssfull said:

6 minutes in... I miss Nick & Ben =(

same.

grown quite a bit by the end.

Is this a Kessler set up?

@EuanDewar: Yeah, I'll be a bit chatty in these first few. Sorry for that-- had just received some very good news, so I was all in excite-o-mode. Feel free to dub in your favorite monologue and/or movie soundtrack over my voice.

@Vorbis said:

Sadly I get the feeling we're going to hear "Witcher 2 was really great but no one played it" on a lot of sites.

it will be top 3 in vinny's list! IF NOT NUMBER 1

these guys are surprisingly funny

Haha, that first guy to talk looks like a prepubescent Ryan Davis. Not as sexy and more virgin. I guess this is why is it is the intern round table, so the opinions don't matter.

@MattBodega: Is there an audio only version?

aaaawwww acting like grown ups do. Very cute!

Hey guys, Jeff barely played a bunch of the games on the GOTY podcasts but he still voiced his opinion about them. You guys can do the same...

<meme_image>GiantBomb videos are too damn quiet.</meme_image>

The correct answers this year are: Dark Souls, Bastion, and Ghost Trick. I'll even give you Tactics Ogre, if anyone wants to make a case for it.

I love Skyrim and I haven't had many issues playing it, but its technical problems are pretty glaring even with patches.

Is this available in podcast form? Because like, I'm at work, and listening to this as a podcast would be way easier.

@Cloudenvy said:

@Video_Game_King said:

I just got out of a 40+ minute Endurance Run episode, so can somebody tell me if El Shaddai gets any love in there?

I think you need to realize that you were the only person on Earth who played El Shaddai. ; )

That makes at least two since I played it.

Good start so far. Although I wish you guys could go into deeper detail on why games are being discarded-the games are unsuitable but why? One of you guys should be a devil's advocate. Hopefully future episodes have more detailed arguments. I'll be watching and again, good start.

@DonChipotle said:

@Cloudenvy said:

@Video_Game_King said:

I just got out of a 40+ minute Endurance Run episode, so can somebody tell me if El Shaddai gets any love in there?

I think you need to realize that you were the only person on Earth who played El Shaddai. ; )

That makes at least two since I played it.

Nope, that makes one since VideoGameKing said that he isn't on Earth. : (

You guys need to makes your videos easier to fine. Obviously, this one is pretty easy to find but the "Intern Videos" playlist on YouTube is missing a lot.

@Cloudenvy said:

@DonChipotle said:

@Cloudenvy said:

@Video_Game_King said:

I just got out of a 40+ minute Endurance Run episode, so can somebody tell me if El Shaddai gets any love in there?

I think you need to realize that you were the only person on Earth who played El Shaddai. ; )

That makes at least two since I played it.

Nope, that makes one since VideoGameKing said that he isn't on Earth. : (

Well then I will gladly take the title of Earth's Sole El Shaddai Player.

interesting fact: none of the interns can grow facial hair lol

uugghhh, sorry, but I can't stand when people try to knock a game because it's "frustrating". Like, oh no, lets not think about the possibility that you are not good at the game, the developers obviously decided to make one part stupidly difficult so that you would have to play it 10 times over so it would break the immersion, purposefully.

oh wow. interns should have their own podcast.

@Cyrisaurus said:

uugghhh, sorry, but I can't stand when people try to knock a game because it's "frustrating". Like, oh no, lets not think about the possibility that you are not good at the game, the developers obviously decided to make one part stupidly difficult so that you would have to play it 10 times over so it would break the immersion, purposefully.

Games can be frustrating in different ways. They can be frustrating difficult or they can be frustrating broken. Like many kinect games and lots of iOS games. How many times do people wave their hand or swipe the screen expecting an action to happen as a result but the game not recognize it resulting in it doing nothing? Or like in NHL11. I push the stick in the direction I want to pass and hit the pass button. Sometimes it goes to the intended target. Sometimes it goes to a guy who is covered instead of the open player near him. It's frustrating because it isn't acting in the way I was expecting and is inconsistent with previous actions.

@mosespippy said:

@Cyrisaurus said:

uugghhh, sorry, but I can't stand when people try to knock a game because it's "frustrating". Like, oh no, lets not think about the possibility that you are not good at the game, the developers obviously decided to make one part stupidly difficult so that you would have to play it 10 times over so it would break the immersion, purposefully.

Games can be frustrating in different ways. They can be frustrating difficult or they can be frustrating broken. Like many kinect games and lots of iOS games. How many times do people wave their hand or swipe the screen expecting an action to happen as a result but the game not recognize it resulting in it doing nothing? Or like in NHL11. I push the stick in the direction I want to pass and hit the pass button. Sometimes it goes to the intended target. Sometimes it goes to a guy who is covered instead of the open player near him. It's frustrating because it isn't acting in the way I was expecting and is inconsistent with previous actions.

Yes, exactly what I mean. What you described is definitely "frustrating", because the game isn't 'working'. However, I don't think it's right to say a game is frustrating because the player is trying to rush through thinking it's going to be a breeze, which leads to them getting their ass kicked, when they need to stop, assess the situation, and figure out what to do. Games are puzzles, even shooters. Combat scenarios are designed so that you plan your attack, and figure out who to shoot, what cover to take, etc.

Then again, if you're dying over and over, that shouldn't be frustrating, because that's how videogames should be. I don't want to go through an 8 hour, hand-holding game. I want to make mistakes, and try again using what I learned. Now, if you are having to play a part over and over, and you begin to think that it's "frustrating", then you are obviously not learning from your previous mistakes, which shouldn't be considered the game's fault, unless it's just something impossible to figure out without a clue that the game doesn't provide.

More like BINterns. Because they are rubbish, amirite?