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For the Beastcast, here’s an replacement RSS feed someone on Reddit made. Original post here.

You can use this feed instead of the official one that is currently still broken.

2+ months to fix an RSS feed.

Awesome

How has it been so long without any updates? It’s over a month now. I feel like this didn’t happen when Rorie was around.

@efesell: I mean - even in this discussion, there’s people saying it’s something they can do without in the game. Literally no one is saying why it is in the game. And again - if it is so great, why haven’t I seen it show up in more games since? Because no person actually enjoys it. It’s just something you need to deal with. Another chore. Not something fun.

@efesell: Half the game’s design definitely does not fall apart from losing weapon degradation. The strengths of the game are exploration-focused. The fact that a weapon breaks after 3-4 uses is just dumb. Even if you want weapon degradation as a designer, it shouldn’t be this extreme. Plus, their menu system is just terrible at handling this specific problem of having to switch weapons all the time.

If anything, the exploration and combat design aspects are actually worse off because of weapon degradation and the huge impact it has on the pacing of the game.

Completely agree with Sterlings review.

No one ever asks for the weapon degradation (WD) system in other games. And all I’ve seen is WD defenders, not actual people who enjoy the system.

And I wish I could overcome that issue, but it’s so glaring to me that I can’t enjoy the other aspects of the game that it does well. The exploration and open world elements seem really well done, but I’ll never fully know.

Yeah - weapon durability is a no-go for me.

I really tried with BOTW, but that mechanic just kills it for me. Some weapons lasted 4-5 hits, which is fucking crazy.

Like - even the fans of these games tell you how to make weapons more durable, but no one actually defends the mechanic.

Beastcasts are also not downloading. I tried downloading 221 through 225. None of them worked.

EDIT: I’m talking about the RSS feed, just to be clear.

I've been re-listening to the Beastcast from episode 1, and man - Austin is fucking S-tier.

Dude brought humor, insight, improv, chemistry, kick-ass GOTY arguments - you name it.

The chemistry between Vinny and Austin was goddamn perfect. Although it felt bad when he left, the Beastcast era with Abby and Dan is a close second to the Austin-era for me.

Man, I miss the Beastcast so much.

GTA 4 - played till completion just to see why it got 10s and 9s across the board.

Holy cow, I didn't understand the hype for it back then, and still don't. My issue with it has always been the controls - at best, they were barely functional. I care about satisfying mechanics and smooth controls in games. And Rockstar has been terrible in this department, IMO. I still tried to finish it to see if the ending or the story would pay off. And it kind of does, but man - a halfway decent story in a videogame doesn't justify the price of admission for me.

An especially infuriating moment was when I realized that most of the chases in the game were scripted. No matter how well I drove, you can only start the next sequence if you reach the same cutscene-trigerring spot as the vehicle you're chasing. As you caught up to them, their cars often sped up to a clearly bullshit degree.

This just made me realize that you're simply expected to passively experience the narrative; it felt like the devs were saying "noooo, stop actually trying to play this game and follow the damn script".

I played a little bit of GTA 5, but dropped it pretty fast cause the same issues were present. I'm genuinely glad for the folks who enjoy Rockstar's games, but I'm done with them.