Which Bombcast member do you feel is the most proficient at playing games?

Based on basically Quicklooks, TNTs and general whatnots. Just wondering if there's a strong general community consensus on who's the best of the best.

brad ;_;

Jeff. No question about it. He wouldn't have cast bufu.

They're all pretty bad, honestly.

Jeff, but close second Vinny.

I guess it would be a tie between Jeff and Ryan.

Vinny beat Demon's Souls and was competent enough to complete and enjoy Dark Souls, so I vote Vinny.

Jeff and Brad's sniper elite quick look was pretty brutal to watch. It was like watching a 90 year old try to figure out how to work the internet.

@WarlordPayne said:

Vinny beat Demon's Souls and was competent enough to complete and enjoy Dark Souls, so I vote Vinny.

But Vinny actually never finished Dark Souls.

close between vinny and jeff but i think i'll give it to jeff.

To go all "high school teacher" on this one, if Jeff actually applies himself, he's one of the better gamers on the Bombcast. But it seems he rarely commits himself to practicing/playing-for-fun-so-much-it-might-as-well-be-practicing any game aside from Trackmania 2, and maybe Modern Warfare 2 a few years ago? I can't begin to recount the number of times where he was really pleased with himself when he reviews a game and is winning nonstop for the first couple days, then he becomes immediately discouraged once the community catches up with him and starts to exceed his skill level.

But putting that aside, Vinny seems the most consistently skilled, and willing to take the time to learn how to play a game properly. The irony is that he hardly plays any competitive multiplayer games, so it's hard to judge, but he seems to be quite proficient at the single player games he gets into. I mean, he played Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, so that's pretty much instant respect. Dave has elements of this too, but for reasons I can't nail down, I don't get the sense that he's notably proficient at playing games.

Brad has his moments with his dedication to Starcraft 2 and whatever skills he retains from his Quake and UT glory days, but he still has far too many moments of being seemingly too confident in his own abilities to be self-critical and actually figure out what he is doing wrong. Patrick and Ryan are even worse at this than Brad, and it's even rarer for them to acknowledge how clueless they are about a game they are Quick Looking - Brad will often readily admit when he doesn't know whether he has something quite right.

Alex just hasn't led enough Quick Looks (especially recently) for me to have any kind of sense of how good he is at games overall.

Jeff and Vinny.

All of the videogames

Jeff, followed closely by Vinny and Dave.

Dave. I never seen that man fuck up. Granted we barley see him but still.

Gotta go with Jeff on this one.

Jeff whoops everyone else pretty regularly when they play local multiplayer, so I'm going with him

To go all "high school teacher" on this one, if Jeff actually applies himself, he's one of the better gamers on the Bombcast. But it seems he rarely commits himself to practicing/playing-for-fun-so-much-it-might-as-well-be-practicing any game aside from Trackmania 2, and maybe Modern Warfare 2 a few years ago? I can't begin to recount the number of times where he was really pleased with himself when he reviews a game and is winning nonstop for the first couple days, then he becomes immediately discouraged once the community catches up with him and starts to exceed his skill level.

But putting that aside, Vinny seems the most consistently skilled, and willing to take the time to learn how to play a game properly. The irony is that he hardly plays any competitive multiplayer games, so it's hard to judge, but he seems to be quite proficient at the single player games he gets into. I mean, he played Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, so that's pretty much instant respect. Dave has elements of this too, but for reasons I can't nail down, I don't get the sense that he's notably proficient at playing games.

Brad has his moments with his dedication to Starcraft 2 and whatever skills he retains from his Quake and UT glory days, but he still has far too many moments of being seemingly too confident in his own abilities to be self-critical and actually figure out what he is doing wrong. Patrick and Ryan are even worse at this than Brad, and it's even rarer for them to acknowledge how clueless they are about a game they are Quick Looking - Brad will often readily admit when he doesn't know whether he has something quite right.

Alex just hasn't led enough Quick Looks (especially recently) for me to have any kind of sense of how good he is at games overall.

@BisonHero said:

To go all "high school teacher" on this one, if Jeff actually applies himself, he's one of the better gamers on the Bombcast. But it seems he rarely commits himself to practicing/playing-for-fun-so-much-it-might-as-well-be-practicing any game aside from Trackmania 2, and maybe Modern Warfare 2 a few years ago? I can't begin to recount the number of times where he was really pleased with himself when he reviews a game and is winning nonstop for the first couple days, then he becomes immediately discouraged once the community catches up with him and starts to exceed his skill level.

But putting that aside, Vinny seems the most consistently skilled, and willing to take the time to learn how to play a game properly. The irony is that he hardly plays any competitive multiplayer games, so it's hard to judge, but he seems to be quite proficient at the single player games he gets into. I mean, he played Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, so that's pretty much instant respect. Dave has elements of this too, but for reasons I can't nail down, I don't get the sense that he's notably proficient at playing games.

Brad has his moments with his dedication to Starcraft 2 and whatever skills he retains from his Quake and UT glory days, but he still has far too many moments of being seemingly too confident in his own abilities to be self-critical and actually figure out what he is doing wrong. Patrick and Ryan are even worse at this than Brad, and it's even rarer for them to acknowledge how clueless they are about a game they are Quick Looking - Brad will often readily admit when he doesn't know whether he has something quite right.

Alex just hasn't led enough Quick Looks (especially recently) for me to have any kind of sense of how good he is at games overall.

Great breakdown though when I was wondering this, I wasn't as much thinking about the way they apply themselves to becoming excellent at a game and rather sort of an "Who would stand out if they all played a new game for the first time" type of deal as opposed to "who takes the most time to get really good at something". So in your example of Brad's dedication to Starcraft 2, had any of the other members spent as much time as he has playing, would they at that point become a better or worse player than him. Any reasonably competent player can put in more time and get better than someone else at a game but if the time spent playing were equal, who'd stand out?

This isn't explicitly expressed in the initial question but it's sorta what I was asking w/out lengthening out the thing -_-;; I voted for Jeff. Seems like he's the current standout at more than double the current second. Dude can really lay it down imo.

p.s. I threw in Dave and Alex because I know someone would have complained that they weren't listed =P

Brad. Just not when he has to talk and play at the same time.

Since we never see Alex, it's probably him.

But, where is Drew? He's obviously the best one. I think they even said so. Jeff is pretty good overall. Vinny would be too, but he loses point because he can just waste enormous amounts of time. 70 hours on Deus Ex? Looking for every flag on AC2? Ryan is inconsistent, Dave is a bit coward, Patrick I don't know much and Brad . . .well . . let's not talk about that.

This was actually really difficult to determine. I went and voted for Dave if only because he seemed to enjoy older games with inscrutably complex game hangups that he just worked around while I feel like a lot of the rest of the crew I either havent seen play enough or *have* seen make really bone-headed decisions in the game in the interest of trying to keep the pace of the video moving and ignoring things that might've seemed obvious.. and then proceeding to complain about it later. haha.

Vinny was a really close second and I just didn't know anything about Alex. Patrick would've been a third place, followed by Jeff, and lastly a toss-up between Ryan and Brad, who've both done some pret-ty silly things at times, moreso than others at least... but hey, it's entertaining.

Jeff or Vinny. I voter Jeff but after seeing some of the reasons for Vinny, I can see how he can be the best too.

@Soapy86 said:

Brad. Just not when he has to talk and play at the same time.

That. Brad can't really multitask well but when he's trying to play, not talk, he seems really good.

Oherwise, Jeff and/or Vinny. Patrick runs around in circles while talking and just seems to fiddle around in Quick Looks, and Ryan doesn't really seem all that great either.

but what about Drew?

I'm going to say Brad, he's pretty good even if he is known for being bad, but Jeff can talk and play pretty well and is really good too.

@Fobwashed said:

@BisonHero said:

p.s. I threw in Dave and Alex because I know someone would have complained that they weren't listed =P

LOL Sorry I had to do it

Vinny by a large, large margin. The rest of the guys are good at writing and developing opinions about video games, NOT playing them.

Ironically it's probably Brad when off-camera.

I am pretty sure it's Drew.

Jeff seems to be able to jump into games and pick them up very quickly. Sure he doesn't dedicate himself to mastering the intricacies of games over a long period of time, e.g. Starcraft, but I envy that fast ramp up time and associate it the most with being "good" at games.

Vinny gets shit done! How often do you listen to the bombcast and Vinnys played through and finished 3 seperate games in 2 days?!? The guys a machine!

They are all good at different kinds of games.

I feel like if Dave did more quick looks, we'd see how competent he really is.

I vote for Santa

@BisonHero said:

To go all "high school teacher" on this one, if Jeff actually applies himself, he's one of the better gamers on the Bombcast. But it seems he rarely commits himself to practicing/playing-for-fun-so-much-it-might-as-well-be-practicing any game aside from Trackmania 2, and maybe Modern Warfare 2 a few years ago? I can't begin to recount the number of times where he was really pleased with himself when he reviews a game and is winning nonstop for the first couple days, then he becomes immediately discouraged once the community catches up with him and starts to exceed his skill level.

But putting that aside, Vinny seems the most consistently skilled, and willing to take the time to learn how to play a game properly. The irony is that he hardly plays any competitive multiplayer games, so it's hard to judge, but he seems to be quite proficient at the single player games he gets into. I mean, he played Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, so that's pretty much instant respect. Dave has elements of this too, but for reasons I can't nail down, I don't get the sense that he's notably proficient at playing games.

Brad has his moments with his dedication to Starcraft 2 and whatever skills he retains from his Quake and UT glory days, but he still has far too many moments of being seemingly too confident in his own abilities to be self-critical and actually figure out what he is doing wrong. Patrick and Ryan are even worse at this than Brad, and it's even rarer for them to acknowledge how clueless they are about a game they are Quick Looking - Brad will often readily admit when he doesn't know whether he has something quite right.

Alex just hasn't led enough Quick Looks (especially recently) for me to have any kind of sense of how good he is at games overall.

you nailed it man.

the only thing I would add is that I feel Jeff is the most versatile. I don't think there isn't any genre or gamestyle you can't throw him into and he won't at minimum be competent right away. The guy is a natural. Regularly in Quick Looks I notice that Jeff has the mechanics and world rules figured out before his co-host, especially in the offbeat non-AAA stuff.

Jeff and Vinny are the best honestly.

Jeff, Dave, Vinny, Ryan, Alex, Brad, and Patrick in that order.

Jeff is the best and Ryan is the worst.

Brad! (I'm not kidding he didn't let go the hold button!)

I assume it is Jeff but since they can't stay with one game for a long period of time it difficult to answer. Brad seems to be very good in Star Craft 2 and Jeff is pretty good in NFL Blitz, so I think each member of the crew has a game/genre they are really good at.

I don't really know but I bet Brad is a much better player than his on-camera play would imply.

Gotta go Brad. Man beat Super Meat Boy and was Diamond league or whatever with starcraft 2. I'd imagine he could kick my ass in all sorts of ways. He's just not good about not dying on camera.

Second would probably be Jeff or Vinny. Vinny pays more attention than Jeff, but Jeff may just be more proficient than Vinny.

I'd probably stick Drew and Alex here, without additional information about their gaming.

Dave only likes certain types of games, but he doesn't seem terribly good at them.

Ryan and Patrick aren't very good at games from what I can tell.

Drew easily, dude can fly a ac-10 warthog. Doubt any of the rest of the crew would have even tried.

I have always thought Alex.

Nobody on the crew seems big into competitive gaming which is disappointing to me. I understand that they don't have the time to dedicate to that aspect of a game. Makes it painful to watch TNTs a lot of the time. Ryan playing Super Monday Night Combat was especially cringe-inducing. The TNTs that have the crew playing games they actually care about seem to be the most entertaining for me, whether it be Will Smith playing TF2 or Brad playing StarCraft II.

Anyways, it's hard to pick who is the best. They all have their moments in different genres.

@Str8_2_Alticity

Nobody on the crew seems big into competitive gaming which is disappointing to me. I understand that they don't have the time to dedicate to that aspect of a game. Makes it painful to watch TNTs a lot of the time. Ryan playing Super Monday Night Combat was especially cringe-inducing. The TNTs that have the crew playing games they actually care about seem to be the most entertaining for me, whether it be Will Smith playing TF2 or Brad playing StarCraft II.

Anyways, it's hard to pick who is the best. They all have their moments in different genres.

When that TNT first happened, I thought people were overreacting. Now that I've played the game, wow, yeah, he basically never used any abilities. He pretty much just held down left mouse button the whole time. That's literally the worst you could play Veteran. Even if he just spammed his 3 abilities whenever they cooled down with no regard for tactics, there's at least a slim chance he would've accomplished SOMETHING.

Drew. Out of those choices, I'm going with off-cam Brad.