Giant Bombcast 669: I'm Always in Pose 6

Bye Ben! I'll miss your always fun and interesting presence on the various shows. I hope you do keep shitposting on Twitter; and I hope you have something fun, quiet, and $$$$-making lined up :)

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Thanks for everything you have done for giantbomb, Ben! I really enjoyed you time here and the dynamic you brought. So many good laughs. RIP the after show, some of my favorite content on this god damn internet.

3AMBOYZ 4EVER

no video this week?

@dya: It's probably still uploading, the video takes longer.

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Ehh I've heard a mix of opinions on the changes in FF7 from purists. Some people will never ever forgive Square for the mid 00s to the mid 10s and that's its whole own thing. Some people just won't stand for Nomura nonsense period and that's fair. I think largely though people are happy with it purist or no

Just here to say I want that chair. God-damn mecha-scorpion game master me!

Audio cut out for anybody else around 19?

spoilering a staff member leaving is almost the perfect embodiment of why Ben left, lol.

8:30 for video games

Damn. Good luck buddy

@summerofblake: why?

The real Halo killer was Halo all along

Ben, it's great that you're watching your mental health and you seem happy with the decision - that's what counts. All the best & stay safe out there man!

FF7RE spoilers from 1:30:00 to 1:31:00.

Devastating to read it on Twitter before watching the Bombcast. :(

Bulletstorm pioneered "dicktits," I believe.

EDIT: Chat was on point.

As far as the FFVII remake goes, I believe those names SQ-E bought will be used in the sequels to the remake and I do believe like Ben said, all of the compilations will be brought into the future games, the ending of FFVII-R makes that pretty clear, imo.

Wow that mechanical fight stick thing Jason bought is cool as hell

Gonna miss Ben for sure was always a fun show with him.

One last Aftershow? I'll miss you sir.

you want a more modern gauntlet? you should check out the hammerwatch series of games

I would recommend not googling info about the FF7R ending if you haven't played the original. It's supposed to be a surprise for old fans and a mystery for new. If you have beat the original and are still confused, I would also hold off. In this world of Youtube and social media, NOT knowing every single detail of a movie or game before experiencing it is a precious thing...

It's been a great ride Ben. Good luck going forward, and nothing but good memories here

The Monster Hunter movie controversy is pretty interesting. This is one of the better researched articles I've read about it. The part about a communist magazine making a George Floyd "joke" during that time sure is something. I doubt the movie writers' intent was to make an insensitive joke, and more like they made a terrible, badly researched pun for a groan-worthy joke and it blew up in their faces, and the communist party happily helped fan the flames. https://variety.com/2020/film/news/monster-hunter-china-censorship-1234847031/

On the difficult to understand but easy to master B-Mail question, I find that almost every Paradox game falls into this category. The difficulty from games like Crusader Kings 3 and EU4 is almost entirely based on it being difficult to decipher - but once you get it, it becomes almost trivially easy because the AI is not capable of thinking about and manipulating all the complex systems are the player is.

Damn Ben, appreciate you and your time here *and* particularly appreciate you calling it quits and going to do whatever you really want to do. Cheers, you'll be missed!

mobile version gives no options for spoilers, I’m going to say this anyway” wish you all the best, ben. You were a great asset to gb, we’ll miss you, take care mate.

Sad to see you go Ben! I think I started listening to the bombcast right before you joined, so it feels particularly wild seeing the entirety of someone's career at a site and how they influenced and shaped the content coming out of it. Best of luck with wherever you're headed to next in life!

As for the MH Rise stuff: I've been playing these games for what... a decade now? and have poured hundreds of hours in every entry I've played, so I think I can claim some level of credibility when talking about it, but... Seeing Jan and Jeff's reactions is exactly why the fanbase, and particularly older fans that call themselves "veterans" (always hated how that became a thing, reeks of elitism and self-importance), NEED to stop talking about "old style MH" as if it's something entirely different from where the game is now. It's true that World looked very different from the previous games, but the real core of it never changed; It is still and always has been a game that shined through its unique depth of combat and gear crafting, and surface level things like "segmented vs open maps" and "standing vs walking while healing" doesn't make it into a different game. If anything, it was clear that the devs always wanted to take the games into the direction it's headed in now. Little by little, we got small QoL improvements that made the game systems get less in the way of the player, letting them enjoy the actual meat of the game. Different "styles" of MH isn't a thing... What happened in World was just the natural (and admittedly large) incremental improvement on a long running series. Hell, when the "veterans" were claiming that Rise was a mix of "old" and "new" MH when the first trailers came out, all they could point out was the portable-level graphics and the flatter terrain. (The latter of which is a dubious observation anyways, since it's just that the map has large flat areas embedded within a very complex and not flat map) Like I said, I love all these games, but this whole obsession with the "old" games is detrimental to the series and just confuses new players.

For the sake of covering my bases: The armor skills and how that system was completely overhauled is the one thing that I think can be qualified as "old and new styles", with clear benefits and demerits to both. The devs have said they are aiming for something that takes from both implementations, so I'm very excited to see what they come up with.

Edit: Oh also Jason, you might want to stop short of flat out saying "MH Rise will come out on PC" just yet. Yes, it's 99.99% going to happen, considering the Capcom leaks, but they're still leaks, and not confirmed by Capcom. I think it's fair to say it's better to phrase it as "it's most likely coming to PC."

Screw the toxic jerks on this site. All the best, Ben!

Sad to see Ben go, but I definitely understand the need to go "offline".

WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

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Crosscode seems to work perfectly on PS4, so I'm considering picking it up now. I just hope it's not too grindy.

That chair is clearly a sex thing... right?

I really miss Ryan, Marry, Drew,Will, and now you Ben.

Thanks for all the wonderful moments and laughs during your time at GB, Ben. May your future plans and career be just as wonderful.

What's with the weird cut in the episode? Jeff just starts talking about Minecraft after talking about Animal Crossing

Nooo Ben! Hope your next adventure is awesome, I will miss you so much!

Thank you for everything Ben. You were great in this job and I wish nothing but the best in the future!

Damn, cya Ben. :(

Cya Ben. Best of luck!

Half the staff leaving in a year makes me worried.