I’m looking forward to checking it out, but yeah… having not-Giant Bomb folks make a not-video game show for Giant Bomb is a pretty radical shift. The other not-video game stuff on the site came about more organically, so I think a lot of folks will find this a bit jarring.
Here I was afraid we’d go an entire Bombcast appearance without Rorie mentioning the benefits of sous vide, but by God he pulled it out with a cool 10 minutes to spare. Bravo sir.
I grew up eating the original blueberry and strawberry pop-tarts, which were plain, so we used butter. Putting butter on a frosted one is weird tho.
The $70 freak out seems overblown to me. It really does feel like games have never been cheaper. Nearly every $60 game goes on sale to $40 in a month, and after 3 months the price is practically in free fall to $20ish bucks. There are maybe 1 or 2 AAA games a year that I NEED to play day-and-date (like FF7 remake), but I don’t remember paying full price for anything else. The way games are being patch repaired is another huge incentive to wait. I guarantee that everyone who waits 3 months to play Cyberpunk will have a better gameplay experience than folks playing it on day one. You just have to get over the FOMO.
ah, yes, 2015. the year the giant bomb editorial staff decided that the witcher 3 was the 10th best game that year, behind grow home and splatoon.
And the year I stopped watching there GOTY debates.
No GB editors were compelled enough to finish the game. Vinny, who LOVED the Witcher 1 & 2, was not compelled to finish the game. The game is too long and daunting, and the combat too repetitive for a lot of people, including most of the GB staff. It was definitely my GOTY but I can't blame anyone for not liking it.
@the_nubster: Glad I'm not the only one. The open world of 3 didn't really play to the games' core strengths. The environments felt so much more realized in the first 2. Also, I appreciated the characters and smaller, political stories and was super bummed that 3 eventual wanders into the tired "Save the World" RPG tropes that seem antithetical to the core premise. I was hoping CDPR would expand upon the systems and ideas from the first two, but they (like a lot of long-running AAA franchises) traded depth for breadth. Still, 3rd best in a great series is still one of my favorite games.
Not every RPG fan loves open-worlds more than linear/branching railroads.
That was my feeling. I love the Witcher games and W3 was wonderful, but had a bad case of open world bloat. The best, most memorable moments for me had little to do with the open world. I much preferred the scope and structure of 1 & 2.
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