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Jar Time w/ Jeff

Jar Time w/ Jeff: Do Not Make Direct Eye Contact With This Jar - 12/14/2011

Jeff sorts through a stack of games and answers your questions.

You ask the questions, Jeff Gerstmann supplies the answers.

Dec. 14 2011

Posted by: Jeff

In This Episode:

Jeff Gerstmann

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WUU!

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Forever ajar...

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Awesome. These features are great Jeff, keep it up!

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I love these so much.

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That looks like the pile of unplayed games in front of my TV! Too many games, not enough time...

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Went straight from watching Vinny and Dave play Phantasmagoria in its entirety for four and a half hours, to this. I love you Giant Bomb.

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I have never watched a Jar video ever, If I star now with this one, does it ruin the story? Or should it be seen in chronoligcal order?

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@jonny126 said:

Went straight from watching Vinny and Dave play Phantasmagoria in its entirety for four and a half hours, to this. I love you Giant Bomb.

Remember to stay hydrated.

edit: Fuck yeah, Star Trek!

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Wow. What a jarring episode of jar time.

Get it? Jarring...Jar time.

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@Dany: You should watch them all, but there's no order or sequence.  Best to think of them as a one-man Q&A podcast.  
 
Possibly my favourite feature on the site.
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I feel that canned applause is now required every time The Jar enters the frame as Jar is the real star...by far!

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Always awesome.

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Edited By sgtsphynx  Moderator

Jartime!!!

EDIT: Hadn't thought of it that way, and yes I did buy my copy.

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Love the Jar Times, BUT would it be possible to get these in audio format? I always just end up ripping the audio out myself anyway.

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This just in... Jars are still cool. That is all.

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Finally, a video with Perfect Dark Zero.

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I like watching the camera try to figure out what to focus on.

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Perfect Dark: Zero!

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November.

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For a second, it looked like Jeff was wearing a cape and I thought I finally found out Batman's secret identity.

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Can't wait to check this out. Btw, someone got the date wrong in the title.

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"Is some one breaking into my house? No? Alright..."

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@Ronald said:

Finally, a video with Perfect Dark Zero.

Didn't they play that game on some sort of Premium video a couple months back? It might have been the "Welcome Back Tricaster" thing.

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Why is Jeff's podcast a video?

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I think I enjoy these even more than the Bombcast. And boy, let me tell you... Bombcast is basically the highlight of my week. Is that sad? I think it is.

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Jarbage

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That's a sweet jacket.

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Edited By ExplodingTuba

I hope they fix the date... This video was not made before Thanksgiving... Although I love the idea that Jeff is a time-traveller with games that came out after 11/14/2011...

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Edited By timeforheroes

In regards to the exclusivity stuff, Team Meat actually said that their deal with Microsoft allowed them to release on Wii and PC, but not PS3.

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Yo, I like dem jar vidyas.

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I feel your pain... My game stack isn't too terrible, at about 7 games, but my DVD/Blu-ray pile is now about 30 deep.

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"Skylanders needs to stay near the TV."

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Brought to by Perfect Dark Zero - Collector's Edition!

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It's weird to see Jeff dressed pretty well in his Jar Time videos.

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Amen, brother.

Star Trek > Star Wars

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With regards to "how do I get into game writing", I enjoyed Shawn Elliott's comments that, given the poor quality of some writing on big-name sites, there are no qualifications needed. He said if you want to get into that line of work, "Don't murder nobody, and if you murdered somebody, then get your record straight first."

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@jeff: the part with the shoutout to the wife, genius. hilarious. keep it up, dude.

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So this was late to upload or the date is wrong?

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Jeff, you put the wrong month in the name of the video. It is December. And no, I didn't read the comments to see if someone else pointed it out. :P

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love this kinda stuff thanks jeff!

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@Circ said:

Why is Jeff's podcast a video?

Yeah. I wish they were in audio form too.

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Christie, you whore, leave Jeff alone! I understand that he is a handsome man with a nice jacket, but you have a husband at home who loves you! (and Diablo III)

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Please stop threatening to murder my parents, Jeff.

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@ExplodingTuba said:

I hope they fix the date... This video was not made before Thanksgiving... Although I love the idea that Jeff is a time-traveller with games that came out after 11/14/2011...

Well to be fair im sure he got the games that came out after the 14th long before the 14th.

review copies and what not.

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Some "dancers" need to come over and do some "dancing."

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Felt that I would add that the clean faces mod for Skyrim is not only for females. It's also not "clean" in the dirty sense. It's clean in the sense that the faces were really pixelated around the nose and eyes and the moder smoothed it out.

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I love you jeff but why the hate for Star Wars

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Oh this is incredible, I don't think I can handle this.

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Diablo 3 is also not an MMO like WoW and SWTOR are, I've heard it so many times that its going to destroy those games and stuff like that, but its just not the same kind've game. I haven't heard anything about a fee for it, but I hope Blizzard realizes how foolish that would be.

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apparently Jeff has access to a Delorean and a flux capacitor, say hello to Time Lincoln if you see him.