Giant Bombcast 03/17/2015

Egg Yoolks! This will not stand.

In the UK, we don't pronounce the "L". It makes me wonder why Brad's way isn't the correct way though. Silent letters are weird.

@humanity: Great story with divisive gameplay. I personally thought the gameplay was fantastic. I enjoy stealth games and I thought the gameplay fit the world/story perfectly.

I understand how some people wouldn't like that sort of gameplay. Drew said he just ran ahead and died to figure out where to go next. But I thought it was super immersive and great.

@danryckert@unastrike If you want to watch Tales from the Krypt or Mr. Show they're on Youtube in their entirety. It's NBD no one is fighting for the rights, I've watched both shows as well as all of Dragonball(original) with no hassle.

More Jason content is always welcome. I have almost zero overlap with the genres he seems to favor but the man is full of reason and humor.

And he's done a great job on quick looks chiming in when the guys miss something that seems obvious.

I'm amazed how many people talk about being fans of the Nintendo era Final Fantasies who then became disenchanted in the PS1 era. For a long time, Final Fantasy 7 seemed like everyone's first time playing, and I was the odd one out in thinking the series used to be more consistent.

All things being equal, I'd rather the series continued to be amazing rather than what happened.

@epicopter: I also like stealth games which is why I didn't think the gameplay part was the great in Last of Us. In a less cheeky answer I just thought it was really lackluster stealth and the game world didn't abide by it's own rules most of the time i.e. not being able to loot ammo from gun wielding foes or enemies never running out of bullets. It's a videogame, I get ya, but then don't impose a whole bunch of realistic limitations on the player if you're not going to follow through with the rest of the world.

Jason actually plays games and can speak intelligently about them, so it's a damn travesty he's not a regular.

First with the L in yolk and then the L in Suffolk... and just to top it off there is an audible L in 'talk' at the end of the show. The thing that gets me the most about all of this is he pronounces the L in these words yet doesn't pronounce the L in solder... WTF is sodder?? The idiosyncrasies of Brad's speech make no sense to me.

Lol there is already 2 Sonic endless runners one 2D and one 3D...

Sonic Runners

Sonic Dash

Not going to lie I have been addicted to Sonic Runners for awhile :) its a simple but fun game

Yah I would love to have Jason on as a regular.

@thelastrewind: That's monster hunter. I'm over 70 now with no end in sight. The series hooks me hard with every release, and I suck at it.

Hmmm, wrong, I've always pronounced the "L" in yolk. Doesn't mean that Brad and I aren't insane though.

@viking_funeral: ff7 was an event/experience for its time though i only watched a large amount of it being played. Even though for me it marked the beginning of the end of what i liked about the series i can admit being caught up in the moment as hard as everyone else. Also dem summons.

Jason you were a fine tonic this week, bless you sir.

Just listen to Brad tawlk for a hhwhhile. To his credit, more than anyone else on the show I can always understand what he's saying even if the emphasis occasionally gets extreme.

Brad you are from the south, you cannot tell people how to pronounce anything.

Come on Brad, still haven't played Majora's Mask? >__>

@kanerobot: I can always understand him, and I understand that it's just his accent. What baffles me is that the other guys on the 'Cast had never heard it before. Especially Jeff, who has worked with him for over a decade.

He also pronounces the "H" in while...bugs the crap out of me...

Texas is the king of BBQ. Sorry to break it to you Dan.

Really enjoyed Jason in this! Good episode overall!

Dan is correct on the Egg yolk pronunciation. Also, Jason with Oregon Trail pronunciation, lol wut

Tuuuueeesssday...on Wednesday :(.

I cannot allow Jeff to say last of us is not a good game because of a few technical issues..

no no no.

Wasn't John Drake a producer on that Supergroup show that Dan mentions? I'm pretty sure he was and he told a Sebastian Bach story from it on one of the e3 after hour shows from the porn set

I mean, Patrick's all right, but I wouldn't call him a saint.

It's almost like language is extremely fluid when spread over large distances and develops regional characteristics over time. Try pronouncing "solder" like it's spelled anywhere in the US and then wonder why everybody looks at you weird.

Decided to sign up for NatureBox. You actually got me with your advertising GB.

@chrispronger said:

If only there was a Sonic endless runner...

http://www.sega.com/sonic-dash/

Even better, there's a straight up 2D endless runner now in some regions called Sonic Runners. An actual Sonic Team game. It's okay.

@brad: and here you thought people would be mad about the news!

And it's definitely "'erb". "Herb" is a dude.

@cale: I've never heard anyone pronounce the L in solder. Ever. Seems like it's the idiosyncrasies in English is what you have a problem with. Here's some that are even crazier for ya:

The bandage was wound around the wound.

A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

The dove dove into the bushes

The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

The buck does funny things when does are present.

@white: I always feel like the odd one out but I love FF13 and FF13-2. I don't really understand the hate that 13 gets.

I kinda wish that @brad had edited in @danryckert s comments/defense of the MGS controls during his Monster Hunter rant.

My favorite thing about all the FFX-2 talk is how someone on Gaf went back and quoted Brad's glowing review of it from its release. Which got me thinking about how Dan says he "hates Monster Hunter" in this podcast, and gave MH Tri a 7/10 for Game Informer; game reviews are often just completely full of shit, aren't they?

@marokai: Well, Brad didn't really say much about the game, just that he didn't remember anything about it. Which is probably fair.

Also, I'm not sure about GI, but GS back in the day used to give scores that often were not really reflective of the reviewer's opinion in order to try to look more "objective". Jeff's Majora's Mask review is a perfect example of that. I wouldn't be surprised if GI is the same.

Never in my life have I heard a pronunciation of solder with an actual L in there.

I do however pronounce the Ls in Talk, Yolk, and Folk. Come at me.

Oddly enough, though I didn't enjoy FF7 as much as VI, I still found it an enjoyable game. FF8 was the beginning of the end for me. That's when it seemed like they had little idea of how to proceed after having a massive hit. Ah, well. What could have been.

This is the third or fourth time they've said that Cities: Skylines is related to the Cities XL franchise, and said that it's made by a different developer but by the same publisher - but Cities XL/XXL is published by Focus Home Interactive, and Cities: Skylines by Paradox Interactive. I'm pretty sure the name is more of a callback to Cities in Motion which was also published by Paradox (and made by the same developer, which they did mention but apparently never saw the name connection with).

I'm pretty sure Cities: Skylines has no relation at all to Cities XL other than the generic name, which Focus Home Interactive probably couldn't trademark.

@efesell said:

The others I can at least acknowledge as being localized incidences of linguistic madness, there's just something about solder becoming sodder that will never be make sense to me.

I'll tell you what, you put the L back in solder and we'll drop the U from colour. Fair deal if you ask me. I'll even sweeten the pot by changing centre to center, you get that one for free -- just 3 easy payments and an apology letter to the queen is all we require.

Funny story about green beer: it's much more likely to be the dicey stuff that the bar's not sure about. Instead of throwing it out, toss in some green dye cause it's not like anyone's going to be wondering about the taste or why they're feeling so queasy after their tenth pint...

I really enjoyed having Jason on the Bombcast. It's nice to get more perspectives in on the discussions, and I think he compliments the others quite well. Great counter to Dan's bullshit too :)

@brad @danryckert Actually, your both right and wrong. Pronouncing yolk as "yohk" is most common (example 1, example 2). But dictionary.com does include "yohlk" as a derivative. So it's acceptable, but much less common. English is weird :) Also Brad, you do know that not every word is pronounced like it's spelled, right?

@icyeyes: As he has said in this very comment section, he obviously knows that.

Dan on Monster Hunter controls: "It sounds like apologizing for shitty controls"

Dan an hour earlier: "MGS controls are intuitive!"

The game is nearly 4 years old. Like Jeff said, I'm sure Nintendo has a very good estimate of how many copies they will sell and print that many.

Gamestop recognizes the demand, and Nintendo does not reprint. What can you do?

I lived in Van Nuys until I was 12 so fuck you guys I guess.

Oh man, it's so sweet when Brad tries to act all high and mighty when he thinks he knows more than Dan and then no one else on the crew agrees with him.

@marokai: not that theyre full of shit, more that they're trying to be accomodating and recognizing someone likes whats on display in the game, and/or people and their opinions change over time.

The NBA2K games have had a dumb fake Twitter since NBA2K11 -- MyPlayer mode uses it to give you secondary goals for each game, like "get 10 rebounds" for example. But of course, the game can't just say "get 10 rebounds" like a normal video game... No, you have to go to fake Twitter and read Donatas Motiejunas's tweet calling you out: "Yo @MyPlayerGuy, bet you can't get ten rebounds against me! I'm shutting you down tonight! #ShutYouDown"

The dumbest part is, even if you score 55 points, get 12 assists, 9 rebounds and win the game by thirty, after the game he'll still tweet "Told you @MyPlayerGuy couldn't get ten rebounds against me! I totally shut him down tonight! Suck it @MyPlayerGuy!" Like, you can practically see the if / then statement in the body of their fake tweets, it's really fucking dumb.