Bombin' the A.M. With Scoops and the Wolf: 07/11/2014

I definitely agree with what Alex was saying about TWAU. While I loved the game, it really would have benefited from being a full game rather than episodic.

Please excuse Alex's audio. His webcam accidentally recorded, rather than his proper microphone.

I'm going to listen to this while hovering my mouse over the pause button before potential Wolf Among Us spoilers show up. I hope there's a warning! :)

Edit: I shouldn't have doubted you guys. Great spoiler-free thoughts, Alex! Also, after playing the original Walking Dead all the way through after all the episodes were released, I totally agree that that is the best way to play these games. The anticipation of future episodes is fun, but yeah often times I went to play a new episode and had to sit down with my wife and go, "Ok, wtf was going on."

HAHAHAHA LeBron went back to the Calvaliers! AHAHAHAHAHHA! Good, I hope the Heat collapse and finish last next season now. God I hate Florida and every Florida sports team lol

As always, the sportball talk bored me, but the rest was great. Haven't heard of this Mountain game before, so I had to look into it some more.

Danielle Riendeau is rad, so I'm excited for Monday. Can't wait till Patrick springs a surprise guest on Alex without telling him, and then it turns out Alex secretly hates that guest.

"Not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven...!"

Well, OK, maybe two.

Great show guys! Really enjoyed it :)

MTN / Mountain is rad. Like Alex, I'm just glad it exists.

You guys really need to try and get Vinny on here.

Kill.switch is not really that game. The actual game at the core of that type of cover based third person shooter is Operation Winback.

I'll just leave this here:

You can't have Melo Patrick he has to stay in NY.

Amazing. Amazing. Amazing. You deserve a gold medal.

I find Alex's sideways head-bob after finishing a point incredibly endearing... yet also incredibly distracting. But... mostly endearing.

I'm not like a person very prone to judging what is game and what is not game, but I got mountain, and I'd say that it's a screen saver. Not demeaning it at all, I'm not against contemplative art pieces or screen savers either, screen savers can be rad, I used to make Abstract screen savers on opengl... they definitely are art.

But I feel "videogames" should at least require the audience to perform some input for the action to happen. To me, Dear Esther is a great videogame... the mountain... not so much... but I can't really say, I'm not particularly glad or in any way offended by its existence.

Valiant Hearts has a similar effect on me as "Grave of the fireflies"...Sure, Grave of the fireflies is more effective in every way, but at their core both have something in common: more than focusing on the action of war, it focuses on the effects that war has on lives of more vulnerable people. And that punches much harder than the typical battlefront.

Fantastic! xD

HAAAAAAAA! This is the greatest thing. I just about died.

That was great.

So am I the only one who thought about this game during the Malice discussion?

Thank you for your very well put criticism.