Giant Bombcast 05-15-2012

super duper first!

Edit: first time trying to be first 2. awesome!

FUCK YES

Into the void!

Dang so close

diablo!

Yes! Yes! Yes!

Bombcast? Bombcast.

Holy cow!

BOO-yaw!

It's Tueessssday

Die Ab Low

Bombcaaaaassssssst! Sorry

beat my RSS feed, Hot DAWG!

Pre-E3 NDA teases begin.

Devil.

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Heyeverybodyit'sTuuuuuueeeesday!

Bombcast!

I've got faaaaith in the heart

Do you guys hate your jobs?

My Body is ready for this bombcast

was that fast or was my timing just great? i'm gonna go with all of the above.

Great way to cap some marathon Max Payne 3.

hell yea!! love bombcast day!

Boom. Bombcast.

I knew it was a good idea to postpone my trip to the gym till 7pm. Instead of 5 like normal woot

BOOM

I'm gonna go take a piss, I do not know why I am saying this here. I'm gonna use it like twitter. ok, brb.

I have just about finished an essay for which I pulled an all nighter for and now I get my Bombcast fix. Now the question is sleep or bombcast. I suspect that this choice is harder than it should be.

@Ryan Steam allows you to go offline, pretty much no matter what. Sometimes it's a bit picky, but if you are logged in when you lose connection, or you know you are going to lose connection, you will absolutely be able to just switch to offline mode. On top of that, Steam never stops working in a way that prevents you from playing your game. Like... ever. I've never been unable to play a steam game because of steam. GTA IV has some god awful DRM that got difficult a lot.

Also, while today may be launch day, even in the beta, throughout it as far as I know, the exact latency and cropping and server issues persisted. This isn't a day one thing, it's been an issue with the system for a while. I feel like writing it off as "launch day hiccups" feels a little too easy on Blizzard. This kind of thing goes beyond minor issues and pushes well into the "hey, people cannot play your game, and when they do, the experience isn't great" spectrum, which is simply not ok.

I live in the US, I have comcast high speed internet. But because my household is so full of people who use internet a lot, I only get 60 GB a month. So as a result, if I run out of bandwidth early, which happens a lot when games today are 15-35 GBs, I can't enjoy the thing I payed $60 for, and I get NOTHING out of that online connection, at all.

I feel ya Vinny. I'm getting to the end of a cold/flu now (I hope).

no indication with a 'new' on the podcast tab? okay then.

Yeah, nice timing! Considering they only started recording four hours ago, this is nicely done.

Brad really likes the word "literally".

Just to clarify about Diablo 3 Elective mode. It allows you to use multiple skills from the same category contrary to what Brad said.

About elective mode in D3, you can pick 6 skills out of all of them, and arrange them as you see fit, there's no limit. I use two offensive skills with my Monk.

"And that's the end of the emails"

Wait, what about my- awwww man... Now we may never know the Bomb Squad's thoughts on edutainment :(

Oh well.

I'm with Ryan on Fez. Blindly wandering through the terrible map looking for doors gets old quick and I have zero desire to write notes or solve codes when I'm playing a video game. I respect what the game is trying to do but it's just not fun. 

Hmm don't know what to make of the Max Payne 3 talk. Everything I've seen and heard sounds goddamn amazing, like exactly the game I want, but these guys seem to have some issue with it which they can't actually articulate for whatever reason.

the trailer of Will Smith

Listening to them talk about Diablo makes me want to headbutt my desk. Other than that, awesome ep!

Tropa de Elite's influence should be mentioned as well, because it's an awesome movie.

Just connected to patrickklepek.com and it is indeed a vanilla minecraft server on PC

My favourite part of the week...DL the GB podcast.

I'm sorry, but on-board sound chips just sound so bad. That's why people get sound cards.

Dismemberment in Max Payne 3? Patrick once again mentions something which isn't true.

The auction house is working (the gold one) and you can pick two skills from one set if you use elective mode. Come on guys don't give out false info.

@Anwar said:

Dismemberment in Max Payne 3? Patrick once agains mentions something which isn't true.

Someone should start a Twitter based on that topic.

I hope 38 Studios will be okay.

Max Payne and Hitman discussions = one of my favourite editions of the bombcast.

Neat little fact about the Hitman series: Hitman: Contracts takes place immediately after the opera house mission in Hitman: Blood Money and before its following mission. 47 is shot by someone who recognizes him and, wounded, goes on a trip down memory lane while being operated on by a local in his hotel suite. You play missions related to previous games, like the first one which takes place immediately after the ending of the first Hitman game.

Anyways, that's why at the beginning of the mission after the opera house, Diana says she's glad to see he's recovered, or something along those lines.