@drgreatjob: The Witness is one of the most satisfying and well designed games I've ever played. A true vision executed to damn near perfection from start to finish in my opinion.
We've had like what, 5 Souls-esque FromSoftware games over the past 7 years or so? I appreciate how good those games can be but I'm thrilled Brad and Jeff pushed for and got The Witness to #4 and it's far and away my #1.
Man that Windows 10 discussion was so cathartic, I'm so done with Microsoft and Windows.
I've been dual booting with a Linux Debian distro for a couple years now and frequently find myself preferring that. A couple months ago Windows forced me into the dumb year anniversary update thing overnight that was lower level than just a normal Windows update and I woke up to a non functioning PC. After diagnosing what happened I found that it broke all my boot stuff and couldn't even boot into Windows while at the same time shoving all my user data into it's auto-delete folder. Worst of all it wiped my Linux partition entirely. I'd never been so pissed, it was a nightmare. I still have them both installed because I have to use Windows for certain things but it's ridiculous that I have to worry about booting into it because of some update that might destroy my PC again, so I try not to anymore.
Well that was a really protracted and dumb way to end, I suppose that's fitting for this game though.
But how perfect was it that in this game full of moves you don't have to learn, they cap it off with an extended move learning sequence, perfect.
Thanks so much for doing this duders, was super entertaining! I'm gonna miss having this to look forward to every morning. Can't wait for GBeast+Dan to get going in full force, it'll be a real treat.
@gregalor: A lot of people, myself included, don't come to Giant Bomb for amazing video game action. I'm here to listen to people who I respect, who've been around awhile, and that I find entertaining, talk about the industry, goof around, and showcase all the cool people who work in video games. It's like people complaining about the the games on UPF or something, I don't understand that at all. It's like another podcast for me and I love the relaxed vibe where they can just shoot the shit. The game is largely secondary, there to provide some sort of guideline on where the conversation can always come back to but that's about it.
That's not always the case obviously, as there is plenty of longer-form content on here where I am (and the crew are) invested in what's happening in the game but it's the exception not the rule. So the nothing-happens-ness of Shenmue lends perfectly to what I feel this site is geared towards. Shenmue being the way it is, and Vinny clearly thinking it was something else, makes it an incredibly entertaining game to watch and poke fun at.
You're a yearly subscriber and clearly a fan of the game so I understand the frustration. But that's cool! Different strokes and all that. I just worry that the way Giant Bomb tends to roll is counter to what you want out of a video series like this, especially for a game like Shenmue. But that's just how I feel, people come to this site for all sorts of reasons, and I get that.
I hate the way this wrapped up, the game that is, what a complete waste of everyone's time.
The first game ended on a huge downer but didn't feel like bullshit nonsense, this one even for being as uninteresting as it was couldn't have ended more poorly.
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