Giant Bombcast 03/18/2014

@ahalay: There's an ad break too.

Christ, science beef is turning into an xkcd comic.

I played thru the all the main missions and most of the side-missions solo. It's totally doable, in fact it's not hard for most of the missions. The later side-ops where you need to fight large bosses are hard for solo.

I'd say that Peacewalker is by far my most favourite MGS game (I have not touched Ground Zeroes yet).

Intern is my favorite character.

Wow Dave Lang isn't just a weird drunk, he actually knows stuff.

Somebody pay the Iron Galaxy dollars to get Dave Lang and his insight on the Bombcast more often.

5 people playing DkS1? Last week I played some and according to Steam it was around 5000.

Long-time listener, first-time caller.

Excellent Bombcast as usual fellas. This one helped me uwnind from from a particularly hellish day involving taking my kid to the ER...twice (he is OK). Keep up the good work, and keep stoking the fires of the inevitable Australian civil war.

Also: Can Dave Lang get his own show?

Them saying Cole Phelps ran through L.A. Noire... I walked EVERYWHERE. Since the default speed was walk, it was kind of like Batman in that I felt I should be walking. Plus the game was so grounded in realism I thought walking felt appropriate, and for some reason I didn't get bored at all.

Also, the HD remake for console is hella easy. Being able to use a controller for a game designed for the PSP reduces the difficulty 10 fold. The pokeman/build-your-own-army stuff is fantastic in Peacewalker, tho the plot is a little bonkers and Paz and Chico are both unbearable. I liked it a lot.

The most difficult parts solo are the fuckin Monster Hunter tie-in missions...

I'd buy a Wii U Lite. I'd love to play HD Mario Kart, Mario World and Bayonetta 2, if the price was right and the design of the joypad looked and felt less like Toddler's First Tablet. The actual computing power of the console is not relevant.

Vlad from Romania?

Lol. If you took out all the times Patrick and Jeff say "LIKE", this podcast would only be 14 minutes long. :D

Today I saw the Lang Zone, and it was glorious.

All we need is someone from the Northern Territory, South Aus and Tasmania to complete the Aussie picture, even if they don't really count.

Also you just know a mathematician is gonna call out the physicist in the next email.

I hope Jeff brings guests on more often. I really liked having Dave on it this week.

The bombcast is becoming a mouthpiece for beefs in international relationships and amongst the scientific disciplines.

This was one of the best Bombcasts in some time, thanks in no small part to Dave Lang.

Also, are we at the point where the emails are now just trolls trolling trolls? They make for some great conversations but I fully expect to hear Jeff read off an email that ends with 'I got in one little fight and my mom got scared.'

Man, I miss a few bombcasts and come back to emails about phantom shitters, Australians, and Scientists with beef.

The fuck?

Oh snap. Is it just me or did GB/Jeff remove a piece of this. Could have sworn there was an extra Dave Lang story when I listened to this Tuesday. A pertinent one...maybe it'll be back tomorrow?

oh my goodness! that manager poop story made me laugh so hard i had no air in my lungs anymore and choke.

The Lang Zone is real.

Might as well call the last section 'beef mails'

Dave Lang dropping science during this podcast. Great stuff.

This was a great one, 'nuff said

Lets hunt down that T-shirt guy! :)

Fuck Windjammers! Give me Shenmue 3 on PS4! Suck a dick Lang!

Shenmue crazy for life!!!!

How the hell did the emails section get so fucking heinously amazing all the sudden over the past few weeks?

Is it just me or did it seem like Jeff took the wind out of Patrick's sails?

Brad is craaaazy if he thinks a faux-Symphony of the Night Kickstarter would be even more successful than a faux-Mega Man Kickstarter. Craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy. SotN is very much a cult classic that there aren't a ton of English copies of, and is far more obscure than Mega Man.

Also, glad Jeff called Brad out for thinking that "Heroes of the Storm skins make the characters unrecognizable" when Dota and League have the exact same problem.

I'll never understand saying that summoning is cheapening the experience of the game when it comes to the Souls games. I usually play through them by myself the first time, but playing these games with people is a ton of fun and I pretty much play NG+ and any new characters I make exclusively summoning people, its just a ton of fun.

Vlad from Romania? Seriously?

Good to hear from Patrick "Ostensibly Groaning Into The Mic" Klepek again.

Let's not pretend that Patrick is the only person at Giant Bomb to speak with an authoritative/dismissive tone about their opinion even when they know little to nothing at all about the subject at hand, of course.

Giant Bomb, I am loving the recent content being covered by these podcasts lately. Having these guests come in and talk inside baseball about their slice of knowledge in the gamming community is SUPER interesting. Thank you!

Kind of getting tired of the Australia/flip flop emails.

On this whole "why would they go with flipflops or go barefoot when every animal is out there to kill you" thing, the pictures I've seen of Australia's rich wildlife are spiders hiding inside things, like toilet rolls, cups and all kinds of stuff. I'd probably feel safer going barefoot or at least using footwear which I can clearly see there's nothing venomous inside than putting my foot inside a shoe at that point.

joining the crowd it seems, yea, stuff like exactly what all you all are talking about is why the only patrick content i take in, is worth reading, and worth playing, His hyperbole and dismissiveness when hes ready irritates me to no end, hence why i havent watched bombin the am in months.

Yep. The shit everybody is complaining about Patrick doing is done by every other GB member except Vinny and Drew. Patrick is not even close to the worst when it comes to speaking out his ass about things he doesn't understand.

Honestly not sure why everybody is crying a fucking river because he said the game wasn't played in the US because it was geared to a Japanese audience. It totally WAS geared to a Japanese audience. It's a co-op game. The story is barely there and what's there isn't very good.

so patrick is the devil and vinny is infallible, as always. oh how i missed comments on bombcasts with patrick in them.

This is dumb. The ads that they do are hilarious and are worth hearing. I guess this exists for the crybabies who don't understand how business works.

Lang is a lot better when he isn't full crazy and only a little crazy.

The ads are SO funny, omg.

Patricks sucks Vinny rules. Where are my up votes?

Wonder what it would take to get Pepsi Man into Divekick...

Sounds like Vinny listens to a lot of improv4humans. His "guy in the background" character reminds me of Matt Besser's. Like a whisper-yelling dumb Kermit the Frog.