trulyalive

Wow, I hated this. Glad some people are enjoying it but this is super not for me.

Dan Ryckert might as well be on The Thick of It:

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When was the last time GB had a genuinely steady flow of reviews?

I can’t really get all outraged about this new format because it’s not really replacing anything...or rather doesn’t replace anything that hasn’t been absent for years.

I love the Bombcast and all but sometimes it’s easy to miss sections or lose track when it goes on for three hours and touches everything. If this produces more readily identifiable content, then great, I’m all for it and hope it evolves into a well polished feature (I too would like to see clips edited in for context)

@alex

I’m 26 years old and in the armed forces (I spend my days dealing with hard people asking hard questions)

I’ve been home for the past month on leave playing Yakuza 0 and my parents have been getting increasingly perplexed at me playing It because it’s ‘foreign’ or it ‘looks boring’ and I can’t explain why it’s amazing. Pls help,

Because if you ever enjoy driving aggressively, slamming up a gear in a single fluid movement is about the most fun thing you can do whilst driving.

You ever see DK slap his gearstick in Tokyo Drift? I can't do that (I assume you need a specialised lightweight stick) but with a little practice you can do just about the same thing with the ball of your hand and it feels baller as fuck if you get the timing right to slap up a gear whilst coming off a roundabout at speed whilst managing your indicators (just because you're being a cool driver dude doesn't mean you can't also be safe!)

Sandra Bullock to Dennis Leary (Demolition Man)
Dennis Leary to Emma Stone (The Amazing Spiderman)
Emma Stone to Ryan Gosling (La La Land/Crazy Stupid Love)
Ryan Gosling to Albert Brooks (Drive)
Albert Brooks to Ellen DeGeneres (Finding Nemo/Dory)

Steve Buscemi to Antonio Banderas (Desperado)
Anthonio Banderas to Jason Statham (Expendables 3)
Jason Statham to The Rock (Furious 7/F8 of the Furious)

It took me longer to type that out than to work them out so seeing Abby and Dan struggle so much drove me kinda fucking insane.

You know, watching this footage I finally realised that I just don't think I like Mario games.

I came to this conclusion about Sonic years ago but something about people's reverence for Mario has always tricked me into thinking along the same lines.

But...I don't know, guys. I just don't think this looks interesting or fun at all.

Probably just me and I hope that everyone else likes it.

Dude, you could not have had a more polar opposite experience to the one I had.
MGS2 was the game that *sold me* on video-games. And it's almost entirely to do with its story.
Don't get me wrong, it's really messy and uses so many absurd ideas and techniques that I'm not surprised so many people were turned off but there's an incredible amount going on under the surface that seemed to comment on everything that the world was going through in 2001 whilst doing a shockingly good job at capturing some future developments that must have been incomprehensible at the time.

That game is like the novel Ulysses but adapted to be a 21st century video game and it's not always easy to understand (in fact it's so profoundly layered that it may be to it's detriment if it puts people off) but when I first played that game at 12 years old something in the back of my mind latched onto the concepts I could understand on a fundamentally primal level but did not have the knowledge to explain at the time.

I think that whether you make that similar sort of connection is pretty much the sole barometer for whether you end up liking MGS2 or not.