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#1  Edited By randyf

I don't think this was a "bad" year for video games, just not a great one. I've played most of the major releases this year and they have mostly been a little disappointing, if not majorly disappointing. Sequels to games that I love (Borderlands 2, Diablo III, Mass Effect III, Darksiders II, New Super Mario Bros. 2), which should have been some of my top favorites this year, didn't even make my list. I don't even know if I could come up with a list, because I would be making a list of 10 where 5 of them I don't even like that much. Spec Ops: The Line and The Walking Dead, games that would have been near the bottom of my top 10 in a normal year, are not my top two. XCom is up there, too.

And I think the original poster has a valid point. It is pretty much a choose-your-own-adventure book. I think it's awesome, but it's a valid criticism. I also think text adventures have more interactivity. There are way more choices in text adventures than there are in The Walking Dead. There are also puzzles and obstacles, of which there are very few in The Walking Dead. I think it's great, but I think he brings up a good point.

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#2  Edited By randyf

It makes sense. They've said a few times that the Bombcast is the most popular portion of the sight and they hate that it's not earning them money. I don't think it would be that annoying if it was just a short premade ad that played at the beginning, half-way through, and at the end. If they stop conversations and read us a pitch, that might suck.

In terms of how they could make it so subscribers don't hear it, they could put up a separate MP3 like people say. Or they could have it so that the podcast page pauses the podcast to play a short ad and then resume. I don't know.

Giant Bomb has kind of been about the high moral standard, so if they use ads, that's a shame for that reason. But I don't think hearing the ads would bother me.

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#3  Edited By randyf

For me, listening to the Bombcast gives me a clear picture of what Vinny (and pretty much everyone else) thinks of most games and kind of eliminates the need to read most reviews. The problem is that he's been too busy to play as many games as he used to, so you don't hear his thoughts on a lot of games.

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#4  Edited By randyf

Sometimes I'll turn it off depending on who's in it. Patrick, Ryan, and Jeff are kind of shockingly cynical. Their negativity kind of bums me out sometimes. I'm not someone who loves everything, either, but they are just so cynical. If Brad and Vinny are in it, they usually give things the benefit of the doubt and make it a decent balance.

I do try to watch them all, though. I do turn them off if it's boring or it's 60-90 minutes long. It also depends on the game.

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#5  Edited By randyf

I also vote for SNES.

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#6  Edited By randyf

Regardless of my feelings on it, I think when and if it does become legal in the rest of the country, it won't be as big of a revelation as most people think it will be. Once the excitement of being able to legally do it wears off, people will just go back to doing what they were doing before the law was passed. So I don't really expect things to be that different in the long term.

It's like how women are legally allowed to walk around topless now, but no one ever does it. They just wanted the right to do it. They never had any interest in actually doing it, they just wanted to be allowed to do it. Maybe that's a bad example, but whatever.

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#7  Edited By randyf

This year has been pretty underwhelming for me in terms of games, and the games coming out aren't making it look any better for me. I kind of fell off of the Assassin's Creed thing halfway through Brotherhood and I've never really been a big Halo guy. Call of Duty has gotten really stale for me.

The games I were originally looking forward to kind of disappointed me. Mass Effect 3 didn't satisfy me the way 2 did. I expected Darksiders 2 to blow my mind but it didn't. I expected Diablo III to take over my life and it didn't. They were all decent games, but nothing really stuck out to me this year.

In terms of "overrated," I would have to say Mark of the Ninja. I enjoyed it, but I didn't find it to be spectacular like everyone else seemed to.

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#8  Edited By randyf

Sometimes I like it, sometimes I don't. In games where I make the decisions, I'd prefer it if my character didn't have a voice. So when I pick my response, I feel like I'm actually responding. If someone else's voice comes out of the character after I've made my response, I no longer feel like it's me making the choice. I don't need an actor to read a line I told them to say in the first place.

But for games that have a more linear story, it can go either way for me. A silent protagonist makes me feel like the world is happening around me, regardless of my input, which can be fun. On the other hand, when a character speaks to me directly and there is no response either by me or the character, it can look awkward.

It's especially weird in games where your character never speaks, but somehow every character in the game hears a response from you. "What's your name? Oh, it's Randy? That's a nice name." How do you know that!? I never said anything! Mind reader!

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#9  Edited By randyf

Tim Allen.

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#10  Edited By randyf

One of the guys I got in the tutorial mission was named Tim Allen. Unfortunately, only one guy makes it out of the tutorial mission and it wasn't him.

I would like to believe he would get the nickname "Buzz" or "Toolman."