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Giant Bombcast 03-23-2010

It's your favorite Farmer's Almanac with the latest on the Nintendo 3DS, Dragon Age: Awakening, God of War III, Command & Conquer 4, Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising, Super Street Fighter IV, David Cage's take on one of our favorite Flash games, and more!

The Giant Bombcast is the world's most beloved video game podcast, and now it's available in video form.

Mar. 23 2010

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@Hef said:

" Get chris roper to come on next week! BEYOND! "

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Very interesting to hear Brad's FFXIII console change, you have to be committed to not mind replaying nine hours-worth of gaming.

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JUNGLER!
 
GAME ROOM IS HERE. 
 
JUNGLER!
 
IT'S TIME.

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This is the best Bombcast since the Whirl World one.

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@FLStyle said:
" Very interesting to hear Brad's FFXIII console change, you have to be committed to not mind replaying nine hours-worth of gaming. "
I'd say it was essential to do so.
 
JRPGs are stubbornly inaccesible. That's why I tend to pay a bunch of hours, then restart with the knowledge of how to platy it.
 
It makes a smoother, more enjoyable game.
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I love the buffet story.

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What was the name of the Picross game for the iphone that was recomended??

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ok how come, this guy getting griefed in an RTS game is ok for brad. and even funny, but any other kind is bad 
 
lol nice podcast as always

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@CashBailey said:
" @FLStyle said:
" Very interesting to hear Brad's FFXIII console change, you have to be committed to not mind replaying nine hours-worth of gaming. "
I'd say it was essential to do so.  JRPGs are stubbornly inaccesible. That's why I tend to pay a bunch of hours, then restart with the knowledge of how to platy it.  It makes a smoother, more enjoyable game. "
Now that you mention it, I remember doing that on my first time with Dragon Age: Origins, that was only a few hours in though.
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@CashBailey said:

(about Brad restarting FF on the PS3) ...I'd say it was essential to do so.  JRPGs are stubbornly inaccesible. That's why I tend to pay a bunch of hours, then restart with the knowledge of how to platy it.  It makes a smoother, more enjoyable game. "

    Brad only said the restart was "profoundly better" not because of the restart itself, but because its on PS3. They laugh sarcastically at 1:04 saying "so you recommend this type of restart to everyone?" He didn't replay FF13 because he wanted to start again to understand the game mechanics, he did it to get the better version. At 1:08 he even says he didn't think it was as inaccessible as Square made it out to be. If  you listen to the podcast he specifically says that yes the system in this game is complex, but not so complex that it should be rolled out so slowly. He thinks the opposite in fact, he felt it should have been rolled out faster and then it would have been more enjoyable. But Square holds you hand. (That's when Vinnie says that Square underestimates its player, Jeff says pure contempt!). 
   He specifically says he did the restart because the Xbox version sucks and he had heard of all the difference in video quality etc on PS3. As a side effect of that restart he did say the beginning ran faster, (by 3 hours) but that was only because he could skip cut scenes and tutorials. The real benefit for him was that he understood the world of this FF by restarting and reading all the background info for an hour, (which most players would never do), with that the fiction and story came alive for him. But if he had been playing the PS3 version from the start he wouldn't have switched. He even says the game should have been condensed and it would have been better.
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Also as a news topic, they mention cooking oil in this podcast, so here is a NASTY story out of China.The cardboard and chemical dumplings, or poisonous baby formula scandals weren't enough for China, (look those up yourself). Now apparently 10% of all cooking oil used in China is recycled sewage!!! :( The restaurants get the old cooking oil from their sewage tanks and try to "cook it out" from the human waste and chemicals in the tank; but that leads to oil that is 100 times more poisonous than arsenic, (but cheaper of course). "Although it looks clean and clear, it actually contains toxic substances, including 'aflatoxin', which can cause cancer." So new rule of thumb, don't eat any food made in China! (Yeah those are barrels of poop and oil in the photo).
 
 http://rawstory.com/2010/03/chinese-consumed-millions-gallons-toxic-sewage-oil-study/
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@GhostCrab said:
" The quicktime event symbols in GoW were put on the edges of the screen to make it easier to read them.  Triangle was always at the top, Circle on the right, X on the bottom, etc.  You didn't have to know what symbol was there, only what area of the screen was flashing, so you could pay more attention to the action rather than the symbols. "
ya i agree with Ryan's review for the most part, but them not noticing this was pretty lame.
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Fantastic Bombcast!

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Portmanteau is an annoying layman's term which people use to sound smart. The actual linguistic term is "blend". Were portmanteau a word it would refer to a device whose function it is to wear a coat.
 
P.S. I love the new Bombcast background; ode to 70's action cops!

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honestly, I don't care about your pest problems. Concise, be succint, and stick to games. That's why we want to litsen to your podcast. It gets annoying to skip to the good stuff.  Please, don't be like IGN, "Oh, we are VG journalists, we are so cool!" NOT. I had to quiyt listening to the Xbox podcast because I couldn't take it anymore. They spent too much time cracking lame jokes (the ones that "you had to be there" at most), and went too often off topic. 
 
 Also, I'd love to see vid podcasts.
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@drangel: You are listening to the wrong podcast then. The reason why the Bombcast is so popular is because they aren't super strict on themselves. It has a very casual feel that makes it more fun to listen to. Whoever this "we" you are referring to is in the minority.
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PHASE IV.  Ant armageddon movie.  Check it out. 
 
On a God of War III note, I was frustrated to find out you couldn't invert the Y axis for the use of the Helios head and the sequence leading up to obtaining it.  I failed the sequence because the invert options didn't apply.  I'm starting to consider retraining myself to not need invert.   
I haven't finished the game yet (been playing too much MAG).  I hope there aren't too many other game design failures to deal with. 
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@drangel said:

" honestly, I don't care about your pest problems. Concise, be succint, and stick to games. That's why we want to litsen to your podcast. It gets annoying to skip to the good stuff.  Please, don't be like IGN, "Oh, we are VG journalists, we are so cool!" NOT. I had to quiyt listening to the Xbox podcast because I couldn't take it anymore. They spent too much time cracking lame jokes (the ones that "you had to be there" at most), and went too often off topic.   Also, I'd love to see vid podcasts. "

I think you may be in the wrong crowd. We (and I actually speak for the majority GB userbase with my 'we') enjoy the divergent as hell nature of the Bombcast. I'd like to think the bombsquad has earned their right to be a little out there. Also, anything you take as 'we're vg journalists, we're so cool' is probably sarcastic and self deprecating on their part. These guys take themselves none too seriously.
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I want Super Dragon Age!

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@drangel said:
" honestly, I don't care about your pest problems. Concise, be succint, and stick to games. That's why we want to litsen to your podcast. It gets annoying to skip to the good stuff.  Please, don't be like IGN, "Oh, we are VG journalists, we are so cool!" NOT. I had to quiyt listening to the Xbox podcast because I couldn't take it anymore. They spent too much time cracking lame jokes (the ones that "you had to be there" at most), and went too often off topic.   Also, I'd love to see vid podcasts. "

you must be new here, or clearly came on the wrong website. The kind of stuff you dont like is what the majority of the community loves
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@punkxblaze said:
" @drangel said:

" honestly, I don't care about your pest problems. Concise, be succint, and stick to games. That's why we want to litsen to your podcast. It gets annoying to skip to the good stuff.  Please, don't be like IGN, "Oh, we are VG journalists, we are so cool!" NOT. I had to quiyt listening to the Xbox podcast because I couldn't take it anymore. They spent too much time cracking lame jokes (the ones that "you had to be there" at most), and went too often off topic.   Also, I'd love to see vid podcasts. "

I think you may be in the wrong crowd. We (and I actually speak for the majority GB userbase with my 'we') enjoy the divergent as hell nature of the Bombcast. I'd like to think the bombsquad has earned their right to be a little out there. Also, anything you take as 'we're vg journalists, we're so cool' is probably sarcastic and self deprecating on their part. These guys take themselves none too seriously. "
Word.  This is why GB is great.... as Ryan would say it's "Jenky and bananas" and we like it that way and Drangel if you don't like that then you can GTFO!
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@drangel said:
" honestly, I don't care about your pest problems. Concise, be succint, and stick to games. That's why we want to litsen to your podcast. It gets annoying to skip to the good stuff.  Please, don't be like IGN, "Oh, we are VG journalists, we are so cool!" NOT. I had to quiyt listening to the Xbox podcast because I couldn't take it anymore. They spent too much time cracking lame jokes (the ones that "you had to be there" at most), and went too often off topic.   Also, I'd love to see vid podcasts. "
bombcast noob
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@drangel said:
" honestly, I don't care about your pest problems. Concise, be succint, and stick to games. That's why we want to litsen to your podcast. It gets annoying to skip to the good stuff.  Please, don't be like IGN, "Oh, we are VG journalists, we are so cool!" NOT. I had to quiyt listening to the Xbox podcast because I couldn't take it anymore. They spent too much time cracking lame jokes (the ones that "you had to be there" at most), and went too often off topic.   Also, I'd love to see vid podcasts. "
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Jesus you guys really jumped on that one guy. Relax folks, relax. 
 
On an unrelated note I'm super happy that Brad is getting deep into Starcraft 2. I have been playing Starcraft casually forever, but I just got into the metagame six months ago. And Damn. People on ICCUP don't mess around. 

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@ShadowMarth said:
" Jesus you guys really jumped on that one guy. Relax folks, relax.  On an unrelated note I'm super happy that Brad is getting deep into Starcraft 2. I have been playing Starcraft casually forever, but I just got into the metagame six months ago. And Damn. People on ICCUP don't mess around.  "
well we don't take kindly to his kind around these parts
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@drangel said:

" honestly, I don't care about your pest problems. Concise, be succint, and stick to games. That's why we want to litsen to your podcast. It gets annoying to skip to the good stuff.  Please, don't be like IGN, "Oh, we are VG journalists, we are so cool!" NOT. I had to quiyt listening to the Xbox podcast because I couldn't take it anymore. They spent too much time cracking lame jokes (the ones that "you had to be there" at most), and went too often off topic.   Also, I'd love to see vid podcasts. "

Hey. Drangel.  

Fuck you.
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PC does not suck

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Proving that no matter how much the GB community hates each other, we hate outsiders even more. I love all of you web-xenophobic motherfuckers <3.

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@Ragdrazi said:

 

Hey. Drangel.  Fuck you. " 
 
 
 
 
Agreed. It's awsome watching people compain about things they get for free. The fact they don't just focus on games is haf the reason people listen
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))<>((
 
Back and Forth

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Jeez. People need to take a pill and relax.

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Hey Drangel, chill out, eat a durger or something.

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@Boom_goes_the_dynamite said:
" I love the buffet story. "
That was pretty good.
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Actually the returning party member in Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening doesn't have the same armour and weapon you left him with Vinny!

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@Ragdrazi: High five, duder
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@ez123 said:
""I agree... and also, you're fired" lol"

LOL
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Listening to the 3DS conversation.
 
For the record, guys, two screens on a hand-held is still a stupid idea, and there are precious few games that haven't suffered because of it. And even if it's everywhere and everyone loves it, that still doesn't mean 3D is anything more than a pretty gimmick.

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Fantastic site.  I only discovered it a few days ago, and it tips IGN and Game**** into a cocked hat.  The Bombcasts are the best podcasts on the Net, and would be even better with some kind of compression on the sound to stop the laughter and shout-till-funny sections breaking my windows.  great work, all!

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@MichaelAnderson said:
" Fantastic site.  I only discovered it a few days ago, and it tips IGN and Game**** into a cocked hat.  The Bombcasts are the best podcasts on the Net, and would be even better with some kind of compression on the sound to stop the laughter and shout-till-funny sections breaking my windows.  great work, all! "
^^^Like
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Again, it's the girth.