I went off to get dinner at one point and when I came back Ryan looked like someone had just died in the office and Jeff looked afraid to speak. Was that the run of busted games I read about on Twitter?
Same here, caught about 2 hours of it before falling asleep. I wish I could keep reasonable sleep hours like I did 10 years ago, playing System Shock 2 co-op nonstop for 30 hours and stuff like that.
I watched about an hour, it seemed like the kind of thing that would be good for bed time! It wasn't out-and-out dull like you might conspire it to be from these comments, but it's not exactly the rip-roaring excitement of the everydude SNES livestream. It's Jeff and Ryan sitting on a couch for four hours and slowly starting to forget that they're on livestream.
Jup, same. It was shortly after they pulled out Secret of Mana, because around that time it felt like they didn't even get into the gameplay of games for a bit and just left it at "yup, this one works" unless it was that same baseball game which for some reason managed to get sold as a separate product 15 times by different companies.
Don't get me wrong, it's a completely understandable scenario since they don't know Japanese (kind of part of the charm), but it was in the middle of the night for me and it wasn't exactly making it any easier to stay up. I figured eh, I'll just watch the rest on twitch.
Maybe it was just me but the guys seemed out of it and that sitting there was the last place ether of them wanted to be. The last half of the show really dragged on.
Its a lot better when they're specifically picking which games they want to play and playing them for longer than 10 seconds but the stream was at least interesting watching what game would come up next.
Maybe it was just me but the guys seemed out of it and that sitting there was the last place ether of them wanted to be. The last half of the show really dragged on.
They did kinda seem like they didn't wanna be there, at least midway through it. In the beginning they were fine.
But then it probably dawned on them that "Man, we could do something fun instead of sitting here entertaining other people who should probably be out having fun too. Oh well, let's put in another game that doesn't work and have people rage at us for just skipping games that neither we nor they understand because none of us knows a single word of Japanese"
You know, all the fun that comes with trying to entertain people who just sits down and and does fuck-all aside from demanding it be done differently :P
Last part not directed at you, Mr crusaderguydude. Mostly the people complaining for no reason
I think it was a decent stream overall. Some fun moments from time to time but I totally understand that the guys don't want to fire up some long-ass RPG and play 5 minutes of it live because it would make no sense.
Saw some of it around the time of Secret of Mana and the string of text-heavy games, stopped watching at Kirby's Dream Course. It was time to put some tree ornaments up.
I watched it from 8pm here in the UK until about 9:30 or so when i was rudely interrupted by phone calls i had to take, however my plan is to catch up on twitch. was a great stream and it made me want to subscribe, just so i can get more content like this which is usually reserved for the giantbomb elite. then i remembered im still a broke ass guy... no luck :(
Compared to their other end of the year live streams, this was shit. I'm not one to complain, but they just don't seem that much into it anymore. Those other streams were so good, not to mention the snes party from last year, which again was so much better than the snes stream earlier this year (though it was still very good)
I tuned in for a bit here and there. Highlights were Gundam and Popeye. Definitely a low-energy affair but with the chat going, was okay. Now...may not be worth the long sit.
Twitch hates my internet connection for some reason, and any video on that site plays like shit (constant stuttering), so unless they do decide to archive it on the site, I can't watch it.
Watched the Twitch archive after work and thought it was decent. I mean it ended up exactly like it could have with 200 random Japanese games. The SNES and 3DO streams were great because they all knew what games they were playing and could play them at length because they were good ones. What bothered me most was the Ryan obviously didn't want to give anything a chance that took more than a 30 seconds to get into playing, he just seemed to make his need to check if the games worked as an excuse for some content on the site. The video had it's moments, but the nature of 200 random games in a different language was never going to go well with Ryan's impatience. Jeff doing something like this would be great because he'd want to try each game to find out what they were for curiosity and historical reasons.
Compared to their other end of the year live streams, this was shit. I'm not one to complain, but they just don't seem that much into it anymore. Those other streams were so good, not to mention the snes party from last year, which again was so much better than the snes stream earlier this year (though it was still very good)
@FoxMulder said:
Watched the Twitch archive after work and thought it was decent. I mean it ended up exactly like it could have with 200 random Japanese games. The SNES and 3DO streams were great because they all knew what games they were playing and could play them at length because they were good ones. What bothered me most was the Ryan obviously didn't want to give anything a chance that took more than a 30 seconds to get into playing, he just seemed to make his need to check if the games worked as an excuse for some content on the site. The video had it's moments, but the nature of 200 random games in a different language was never going to go well with Ryan's impatience. Jeff doing something like this would be great because he'd want to try each game to find out what they were for curiosity and historical reasons.
I think FoxMulder's post described pretty well why they weren't all that into it, more than being old and jaded it was probably that they - as expected - had gotten exactly the kind of games that you'd find in the bargain bins in an game store - broken/untested cartridges or a lot of sports games and stuff that doesn't hold up, or maybe never was good, with the very rare gem inbetween.
On a meta level, it was kind of entertaining watching Jeff and Ryan's levels of enthusiasm slowly peter out as they realized that most of the games were either RPGs, busted, or sports. On an actual level, it was a drag because they were just going through piles of RPGs, busted games, and sports games, usually in 2 minute intervals.
I thought the Gundam game looked cool, but I couldn't watch more than a half-hour of the stream. Unless you like watching two dudes switch between a bunch of shit games every minute, you're better off not watching it.
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