Patrick's on Bonus Round

Well, Giant Bombers just keep appearing on Geoff Keighley's show, and it's my duty to keep updating you guys about these. It's Patrick's turn this time. He's joined by Stephen Totilo and Victor freakin' Lucas.

Discussion begins with Microsoft's showing. Talk of their improved approach with indies, the reduced emphasis on Kinect, and the general improvement of their messaging in the past 12 months. And how Phil Spencer's a man of the people. After his appearance on the GB after hours show, I gotta agree. Honestly, after this show I'll be picking up an Xbox One in the fall.

Also, it's always interesting to hear how much Patrick enjoys the Kinect voice control stuff. Just nice to hear someone be positive about the thing.

As always, I'll update this each week when a new episode goes live (2pm Central on Sundays for four weeks).

Edit: Here's Sony!

Edit 2: Nintendo!

Edit 3: Random stuff!

Today on Bonus Round... Plaid! Interesting though, thanks for the post.

Haven't seen Lucas in anything since Electric Playground. What's he doing nowadays?

@aegon: Apparently, he's still doing Electric Playground. EPN.tv, which I'm instantly bookmarking.

Woah! This is great for Patrick. I wonder if it's is first time ever on BR?

Thanks for the heads up, as I would have missed this.

Victor "I will give anything a 7 or 8" Lucas.

Giant Bomb should hire that guy.

Totilo had such a weirdly shaped head, hate to be mean but couldn't stop staring at it :|

Why are they all wearing plaid shirts? It looks like they're all members of a secret game journalists order and E3 is like thier yearly meet-up where they exchange experiences and worship demons.

@dimi3je said:

...Who told you about the ritual?

Shh...

No, you're right, it's just weird fashion sense in the industry. Whoever applied for the GB openings should've included a photo of themselves in plaid.

No rituals here! No sir!

Wow, that is pretty annoying how it's split up into one episode per week...pretty ridiculous to put up a reaction video a month after the actual event.

Thanks for pinging the forum about it though, csl316!

Ahhh yes. Gametrailers comments. I forgot how terrible those are. I do like Bonus Round though.

:O

VICTOR LUCAS!

Awesome! Thanks for letting up know. I probably would have never found this.

Oh man, Victor Lucas looks so old.

@csl316: Tangentially related, but man, how much would you like to see Patrick on Hot Pepper Gaming? I would also accept Brad for that instead.

Every single person on that panel is wearing a checkered plaid shirt.

Used to love watching Victor Lucas host Judgment Day on G4 with Tommy Tallarico back in the day.

yes, that is how Bonus Round has been done for years. it was shitty to start with and remains shitty now.

Ok, Sony's up early.

On a side note, since I saw Victor here I've been checking out EPN.tv. They do a show called EP Daily daily, which is a nice 20 minute thing that's been fun to watch. They got a good crew there, it seems.

They recreated the end of Mass Effect 3!

@wallofbricks: huh, look at that.

Those shirts man. I think there's a glitch in the matrix.

said everyone about every guy, ever.

Tell me about it. For some reason I still took a glance... rough stuff.

@wallofbricks said:

They recreated the end of Mass Effect 3!

I don't get it. I've spent a good few minutes staring at this picture trying to figure out what you mean, and I'm at a loss. Care to explain?

Blue Green Red

dude you're funny, GB should hire you!

Leftist hipsters, what did you expect?

Geoff Keighley, ew.

Plaid x4 Edition.

It's like they read our complaints about waiting a week between episodes.

Nintendo's up right now. You guys made it happen.

I remember the ones about E3 always coming out faster. They become dated quicker than the usual episodes.

I really like when giantbomb get Geoff Keighley in on the E3 stuff. I know how some people feel about him, but I dont think anyone can deny he is a Titan in games journalism.

Plus Ill never forget his defence of Mass Effect on fox news infront of those fear mongering scum bags.

@mistah_t: Indeed. He has to deal with more business stuff than most people on that side, but he's been around forever and knows the industry inside and out.

And here's the last episode about random things.

I'm out!