Every one of those voice modulators pretty much ruled. You really can't go wrong.
And if you make it to the very end of this madness, you deserve to see this. But then everyone with any goodness in them whatsoever deserves to see this. The embed feels otherwise.
I really need a supercut of Dan watching Vinny playing.
Yesssss and also I reaaaally want a supercut of every time they got to/saw something for the first time because it's a beautiful testament to the wonder and insanity of the enemy and encounter design in this amazing thing. It's invariably them laughing and shouting uncontrollably at the sheer audacious nonsense they're witnessing and it kills me every time.
I just wanna show my appreciation for that entire 3 Xtreme exchange getting in here. I watched that like 3 times on that Demo Derby; nobody delivers an ironic "Whatja thinka that?" like Jeff.
I also hope this series one day goes on to stuff like the PC Gamer discs. Would need more prep work to make sure the demos run, but it'd be worth it.
Cripes, I don't know how well Coconut Monkey holds up these days with his weird vaguely-racist voice but I sure did love that stuff at the time. At least the little mini-adventure game stuff they had in each of those was greaaaat.
Goddammit that entire 3Xtreme segment is just the best. "What'dya think of that?" "I thought you did it... poorly." "Alright, cool."
@theunholyghost: Except when, like many do, you buy a used one and you don't get shit.
The proper response to someone not knowing how to or being afraid of changing a tire is not "you ignorant fool, how can you not know that, do you have no common sense?" It is "I can understand your trepidation; cars are big, complicated, scary hunks of tons of metal that can easily crush you. They are full of hundreds of explosions a minute and flammable materials and potential catastrophe, and also they are very expensive and winging it trying to fix something that seems simple (or even being careful but having something simply slip out of your hands or fall over at the wrong moment) could mean hundreds of dollars of even more repair costs.
So even though changing a tire is quite simple when you know how, it makes sense that you are wary about it when you have never done it before, or worry it will be too difficult because cars very much can be dangerous, complicated, and costly things in general. That is sensible! But don't worry, if you take your time and ask questions if possible, you can do it fine, because there's really not much to it."
And then you try to do it the first and only time you ever have to and the fucking thing is stuck so tight on the hub that you spend a few hours wondering what the hell else you have to detach that's holding the thing on and there's no smartphones yet to look it up and only when you finally just kick it in frustration does it pop off and you're embarrassed and probably also lucky it didn't just slip off the jack and really fuck shit up.
I can't stop watching the bit where Vinny starts to run out of battery, hurries to finish busting that wall, immediately breaks the shit out of his scooper and yells "AH FUCKIN'... SHIT" in the absolute best way possible.
I remember when you paid $50-$60 for a FULL GAME. You got ALL the maps... F this shit. I have not bought a new game in probably 10 years or more. I refuse.
I don't play the game, I have no interest. But, it is interesting to see such widespread media and public attention on any game.
What troubles me however is the crude use of map data they seems to have used. It seems like anything that was a public park, musesum, statute, or monumnet was suddnely turned into gym...where that was appriate or not. Such slapdash mechancics seems wrong headed and unthinking, because United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Armenian Genocide Museusm, and statues of Nathan Bedford Forrest SHOULDN'Tbe dragged into a game for anyone -adults, kids, whomever. War memorials are not playgrounds and not every historical site listed in mapping data is apprioate as a Pokemon-gym.
First, some perspective.
I was visiting my hometown of 11,000 people last week in nowhere Saskatchewan and found several gyms and stops. My family made a brief pilgrimage to the birthplace of my grandmother a few hundred km away, a town of about 90 people, and I was shocked to find 2 pokestops there. No gym though. None of them happened to be objectionable; the things you list can be gyms, but there's no guarantee they will be.
Should places like those you listed be gyms? No, probably not. Pokestops? That's a bit more gray; as far as the game is concerned they're literally just landmarks you are encouraged to seek out for a few items, with no "fighting" over territory, and one could absolutely argue the positive effect of making people aware of these things and drawing them towards checking them out.
But I'd argue there's nothing particularly "wrong-headed or unthinking" about their placement, except inasmuch as there's really no "head or "thinking" involved: there's no human trawling every small town or village or hermit cave across the world map placing these things. It's all being done algorithmically by a computer, because that's the only feasible way to populate the world with this stuff, and there aren't really any good algorithms for a computer to determine whether a place is "appropriate" for a gym or not.
Unfortunately, this means places inappropriate for the game will be marked as gyms etc. sometimes, but the only realistic solution for that is to have these exceptions removed/blacklisted on a case-by-case basis. Because the alternative is a human vetting every single bit of location data in every inch of the map world-wide to ensure it's an appropriate place for a game element, and not only is that simply pretty unrealistic, it would ensure places like my 11k city and 90 person town would simply never be integrated into the game at all.
MY ROOMMATES WATCHED AIRHEADS FOR THE FIRST TIME YESTERDAY, APROPOS OF APPARENTLY NOTHING. THEY KNOW NOTHING OF THIS SITE. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE SEEN ANY OF THAT THING SINCE LIKE IT FIRST CAME OUT ON VIDEO.
ARE YOU GUYS RESPONSIBLE, HAVE YOU BEEN COMPLETELY RUNNING THE ZEITGEIST FROM YOUR NEW YORK BUNKER THIS WHOLE TIME, WHEN DID YOU RECORD THIS
I AM SORRY FOR SHOUTING I AM FREAKING OUT HERE
Edit: I calmed down and then Austin brought up People Under the Stairs and just the commercials on TV for that movie used to scare the everloving hell out of me as a kid. This has been another and final edition of Early 90s Semi-Obscure Film Freakouts
Nope, don't get the complaining about the price at all. I mean, I get it because that's always a thing that happens and people put a different value on blah blah "content" yadda yadda all that nonsense.
You know what also cost 5 dollars and was no modes except high score survival and is considered fucking rad, one of the defining games of the previous generation, and probably even by many one of the best pure video-game-ass video games ever? Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved. And that motherfucker only has, like, 10 enemies (and that's only if you count the little pinks that split out when you kill a big pink square)!
Not enough "content" my ass, at 13 enemies this game has 30% more content than Geometry Wars (a game that to be sure was, and is, fucking rad) for the same price! No, LESS price if you adjust for inflation! This is a hell of a bargain, especially as Devil Daggers also happens to be, like Geometry Wars, fucking rad.
I love the goddamn heart of these stupid games so much. I've only played 2017 but the fact it's clearly still the same HQ voiceover lady here is so exciting and fantastic. I love how all your squadmates are always yelling amazing melodramatic shit about how the bugs killed their entire family and they'll kill them all and actually literally actually getting you pumped when they start chanting "EDF! EDF!". I love how you can run by squads and they'll join up with you and be really excited about getting to be with Storm 1 and you'll be excited too even though they're terrible and the AI is virtually nonexistent, because it doesn't need to be good and doesn't matter because all those doofuses just sound so INVESTED. You're glad to fight alongside them because goddammit they are FIGHTING AS HARD AS THEY CAN.
I love how right off the bat in 2017 they let you know that the world has named the mysterious alien invaders the "Ravagers" yet simultaneously mention how they "haven't ascertained the alien's intentions yet" and they think maybe they're peaceful.
The final missions in 2017 seriously make you feel more badass and dramatic and heroic than pretty much any game I can think of. Honestly. Everything is getting so bleak and you're soldiering on and by the last one it's just you being literally being the only one left alive fighting the mothership completely alone and HQ just keeps talking about how amazing you are, "STORM 1 IS TAKING ON THE MOTHERSHIP ALL ALONE! HE'S OUR ONLY HOPE! HOW IS HE STILL GOING ON?!?!" and it is sooooooo good goddammit. I can only hope this one maintains that somehow, because they seriously got kind of drama and epic feeling with just some giant low-poly UFO models and amazing corny radio voiceovers that games with 100X the budget and state-of-art cutscenes and all that only dream of.
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