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Giant Bombcast 08/12/2014

Jeff is back in the office...just long enough to tell us about his budding career as a pro Blitzball player. Brad played games other than Dota. Drew did battle in Golden Gate Park. Dan's been hanging out with the riff raff again. All this, plus your scariest emails!

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

Aug. 12 2014

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@x4n said:

Hope they do the 2004 Gamecube remake of MGS. PS1 games are hard to look at now.

Eh, the version on PSN isn't that bad. You can tell which polygons are meant to be the face!

That gamecube version is really weird too.

Even in the context of talking about Metal Gear Solid.

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@jbcrenshaw said:

Jeff threw in a girlfriend reference this week

I heard that and my ears perked up. What happens in their personal lives is non of my concern, but having followed their content for more than a decade and this is one of the first times I heard Jeff talk about "his girlfriend". Keep on being awesome, Jeff.

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@jbcrenshaw said:

Jeff threw in a girlfriend reference this week

I heard that and my ears perked up. What happens in their personal lives is non of my concern, but having followed their content for more than a decade and this is one of the first times I heard Jeff talk about "his girlfriend". Keep on being awesome, Jeff.

Yep. Same.

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After Brad bringing up Robin Williams (which reminded me of him trying to bring up the Boston bombings on UPF) and the e-mails selection I think I'd like to cast a vote for the return of Jeff as host.

In general, to run a Bombcast with Jeff on it you have to be able to keep up with Jeff, which is a formidable task for anyone.

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@august said:

After Brad bringing up Robin Williams (which reminded me of him trying to bring up the Boston bombings on UPF) and the e-mails selection I think I'd like to cast a vote for the return of Jeff as host.

In general, to run a Bombcast with Jeff on it you have to be able to keep up with Jeff, which is a formidable task for anyone.

I dunno, minor gaffs aside I am thoroughly into the Bradcast.

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@august: Since we're just throwing our opinions out here; Brad is a great host and I hope it stays that way.

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Jeff's rant about the Resident Evil Remake Remake is hilarious in the context of him having bought 3 copies of FFX this weekend.

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Rugged Ronnie Garvin for HOF

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@august: Agreed, Drew was right that it should have been announced at the tail end of the podcast. It totally brought down the mood of the podcast...

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Michael Bay can still make good movies. Pain and Gain was funny, well written, had an interesting story and only had 1 explosion that contextually made sense. I think the limited budget focused him creatively on making a more intelligent movie than he is typically known for and that he made the movie because he wanted to tell the story as opposed to Transformers where he is obviously getting tired of the franchise. Pain and Gain also has Ed Harris and The Rock in prominent roles.

On a different note, couldn't Jeff have just played his Vita copy of FFX on his Vita TV?

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@cronodyne said:

I would like to personally thank Jeff and Dan for their riveting, intellectual, and oh-so necessary conservative bashing segment shortly past the 50 min mark. Because godforbid there's one movie written and directed by a conservative, parodying a known liar and con-artist that both the right and left hate, in a media world full of nothing but liberal writers and directors. Yup, Jeff, it "must've been rough" to watch something that actually doesn't cohere to your political ideology.

I get it; the entire GiantBomb cast are liberals, or unspoken about politics. But it's getting tiring having to listen to this. Not everyone listening agrees with Dan, Jeff, and even Brad's liberal politics. All you're doing is preaching to one side and alienating the other. Just stop. It's being a dick. And I thought the number 1 rule here is to not be a dick.

Also, pro-tip: just happening to fall on the right side of the political spectrum doesn't automatically make you "ultra super right wing neocon." All these "super right-wing" people referenced are typically just people that happen to vote Republican and usually have fiscal conservative ideals. You make them out to be like Pat Roberts when you lump them as "super" or "ultra" "right-wing."

Literally all they said was that it was a very conservative movie that also happened to be a bad movie.

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@rvone:

@rvone said:

@thecrowes said:

@jbcrenshaw said:

Jeff threw in a girlfriend reference this week

I heard that and my ears perked up. What happens in their personal lives is non of my concern, but having followed their content for more than a decade and this is one of the first times I heard Jeff talk about "his girlfriend". Keep on being awesome, Jeff.

Yep. Same.

Indeed, same here!

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That Blitzball photo is amazing.

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I would like to personally thank Jeff and Dan for their riveting, intellectual, and oh-so necessary conservative bashing segment shortly past the 50 min mark. Because godforbid there's one movie written and directed by a conservative, parodying a known liar and con-artist that both the right and left hate, in a media world full of nothing but liberal writers and directors. Yup, Jeff, it "must've been rough" to watch something that actually doesn't cohere to your political ideology.

I get it; the entire GiantBomb cast are liberals, or unspoken about politics. But it's getting tiring having to listen to this. Not everyone listening agrees with Dan, Jeff, and even Brad's liberal politics. All you're doing is preaching to one side and alienating the other. Just stop. It's being a dick. And I thought the number 1 rule here is to not be a dick.

Also, pro-tip: just happening to fall on the right side of the political spectrum doesn't automatically make you "ultra super right wing neocon." All these "super right-wing" people referenced are typically just people that happen to vote Republican and usually have fiscal conservative ideals. You make them out to be like Pat Roberts when you lump them as "super" or "ultra" "right-wing."

what?

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I would like to personally thank Jeff and Dan for their riveting, intellectual, and oh-so necessary conservative bashing segment shortly past the 50 min mark. Because godforbid there's one movie written and directed by a conservative, parodying a known liar and con-artist that both the right and left hate, in a media world full of nothing but liberal writers and directors. Yup, Jeff, it "must've been rough" to watch something that actually doesn't cohere to your political ideology.

I get it; the entire GiantBomb cast are liberals, or unspoken about politics. But it's getting tiring having to listen to this. Not everyone listening agrees with Dan, Jeff, and even Brad's liberal politics. All you're doing is preaching to one side and alienating the other. Just stop. It's being a dick. And I thought the number 1 rule here is to not be a dick.

Also, pro-tip: just happening to fall on the right side of the political spectrum doesn't automatically make you "ultra super right wing neocon." All these "super right-wing" people referenced are typically just people that happen to vote Republican and usually have fiscal conservative ideals. You make them out to be like Pat Roberts when you lump them as "super" or "ultra" "right-wing."

Or.. they thought that it was a bad movie.

It might be a little hard to accept now after getting so irrationally worked up about it..but I'm thinkin' that was the entire conversation.

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Oh man, I'd love to see a Dan & Drew MGS play through!

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That Blitzball photo is amazing.

Wakka looks like he's ready to die a painful death. I love it.

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BREAK MUSIC IS BACK!!!!

@drewbert You have to play Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes if you wanna play metal gear solid! It using the MGS 2 engine but all the content from Metal Gear Solid is there.

Best Part is that Ryuhei Kitamura did the cut scenes which gets to MGS 4 ridiculous, which is awesome!!!!

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@cronodyne said:

I would like to personally thank Jeff and Dan for their riveting, intellectual, and oh-so necessary conservative bashing segment shortly past the 50 min mark. Because godforbid there's one movie written and directed by a conservative, parodying a known liar and con-artist that both the right and left hate, in a media world full of nothing but liberal writers and directors. Yup, Jeff, it "must've been rough" to watch something that actually doesn't cohere to your political ideology.

I get it; the entire GiantBomb cast are liberals, or unspoken about politics. But it's getting tiring having to listen to this. Not everyone listening agrees with Dan, Jeff, and even Brad's liberal politics. All you're doing is preaching to one side and alienating the other. Just stop. It's being a dick. And I thought the number 1 rule here is to not be a dick.

Also, pro-tip: just happening to fall on the right side of the political spectrum doesn't automatically make you "ultra super right wing neocon." All these "super right-wing" people referenced are typically just people that happen to vote Republican and usually have fiscal conservative ideals. You make them out to be like Pat Roberts when you lump them as "super" or "ultra" "right-wing."

Literally all they said was that it was a very conservative movie that also happened to be a bad movie.

Seriously, people need to lighten up. Holy cow.

On a side note, having spent 400+ hours of my life playing blitzball, I would buy the shit out of a full-fledged Blitzball videogame. $200 Collector's Edition? Yes, please.

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Jeff threw in a girlfriend reference this week

I literally cannot remember the last time I heard Jeff say that word, so congrats Jeff! :)

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I would like to personally thank Jeff and Dan for their riveting, intellectual, and oh-so necessary conservative bashing segment shortly past the 50 min mark. Because godforbid there's one movie written and directed by a conservative, parodying a known liar and con-artist that both the right and left hate, in a media world full of nothing but liberal writers and directors. Yup, Jeff, it "must've been rough" to watch something that actually doesn't cohere to your political ideology.

I get it; the entire GiantBomb cast are liberals, or unspoken about politics. But it's getting tiring having to listen to this. Not everyone listening agrees with Dan, Jeff, and even Brad's liberal politics. All you're doing is preaching to one side and alienating the other. Just stop. It's being a dick. And I thought the number 1 rule here is to not be a dick.

Also, pro-tip: just happening to fall on the right side of the political spectrum doesn't automatically make you "ultra super right wing neocon." All these "super right-wing" people referenced are typically just people that happen to vote Republican and usually have fiscal conservative ideals. You make them out to be like Pat Roberts when you lump them as "super" or "ultra" "right-wing."

lmao

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I would like to personally thank Jeff and Dan for their riveting, intellectual, and oh-so necessary conservative bashing segment shortly past the 50 min mark. Because godforbid there's one movie written and directed by a conservative, parodying a known liar and con-artist that both the right and left hate, in a media world full of nothing but liberal writers and directors. Yup, Jeff, it "must've been rough" to watch something that actually doesn't cohere to your political ideology.

I get it; the entire GiantBomb cast are liberals, or unspoken about politics. But it's getting tiring having to listen to this. Not everyone listening agrees with Dan, Jeff, and even Brad's liberal politics. All you're doing is preaching to one side and alienating the other. Just stop. It's being a dick. And I thought the number 1 rule here is to not be a dick.

Also, pro-tip: just happening to fall on the right side of the political spectrum doesn't automatically make you "ultra super right wing neocon." All these "super right-wing" people referenced are typically just people that happen to vote Republican and usually have fiscal conservative ideals. You make them out to be like Pat Roberts when you lump them as "super" or "ultra" "right-wing."

This fuckin guy

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BREAK MUSIC IS BACK!!!!

@drewbert You have to play Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes if you wanna play metal gear solid! It using the MGS 2 engine but all the content from Metal Gear Solid is there.

Best Part is that Ryuhei Kitamura did the cut scenes which gets to MGS 4 ridiculous, which is awesome!!!!

If they play Metal Gear Solid I will watch every solitary second of that fucking thing.

If they Twin Snakes, I'm not even remotely interested. No thank you.

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@cronodyne said:

I would like to personally thank Jeff and Dan for their riveting, intellectual, and oh-so necessary conservative bashing segment shortly past the 50 min mark. Because godforbid there's one movie written and directed by a conservative, parodying a known liar and con-artist that both the right and left hate, in a media world full of nothing but liberal writers and directors. Yup, Jeff, it "must've been rough" to watch something that actually doesn't cohere to your political ideology.

I get it; the entire GiantBomb cast are liberals, or unspoken about politics. But it's getting tiring having to listen to this. Not everyone listening agrees with Dan, Jeff, and even Brad's liberal politics. All you're doing is preaching to one side and alienating the other. Just stop. It's being a dick. And I thought the number 1 rule here is to not be a dick.

Also, pro-tip: just happening to fall on the right side of the political spectrum doesn't automatically make you "ultra super right wing neocon." All these "super right-wing" people referenced are typically just people that happen to vote Republican and usually have fiscal conservative ideals. You make them out to be like Pat Roberts when you lump them as "super" or "ultra" "right-wing."

Dude, I'm a conservative/libertarian and you're making us look worse than anyone else on this site right now. Just calm down. Yeah, I would venture a guess that most of the GB guys lean more left than right, and sometimes they talk trash about those of us on the right, but this time really wasn't one of them. For the most part they pretty much avoided getting into it.

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@cronodyne: Pretty much all you've done on the site is either defend Fox News or relentlessly attack guests that have been on the bombcast.

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That last e-mail might just be the greatest thing ever.

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Man, Jeff bought FFX three times? He must really like this girl.

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Bad Boys 2 is just a boring, hollow movie. The forced humor is awful and overall the movie isn't bad enough to be unintentionally hilarious so it's just plain boring. Not the worst movie I've seen but if you like that movie then you must just get way more enjoyment out of decent looking explosions and destruction than I.

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Two men talking openly about their love for McGruber: I feel validated. This is why these guys make the big bucks.

Jeff is right though it's hardly a parody at all.

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@jbcrenshaw said:

Jeff threw in a girlfriend reference this week

I literally cannot remember the last time I heard Jeff say that word, so congrats Jeff! :)

He's mentioned her on some live streams every once and a while since just before E3.

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@dedbeet said:

Alright, the madness has to end: Broken Arrow > The Rock. Love for The Rock is so misplaced; that's a movie I saw twice and have never wanted to see again whereas Broken Arrow has been seen twice in my house in the last 2 months! Also, Cobra sucks!

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's not say things we can't take back. Cobra is an absolute classic. Where else can you see Stallone eating cold pizza by cutting it with a pair of scissors?

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I like how Brad casually mentions 'the International' like this is a common phrase. It ain't the Super Bowl, Bradley, people are not going to automatically know what you're talking about! Though calling it 'the International' makes it sound cooler than it actually is.

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Holy Fuck...mention of WINBACK :O

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Blitzball is awful. I loved it when I was a kid, but after replaying it recently I hated it. The AI is totally awful, and I didn't even know about that goalie exploit. Also, you have a fucking sphere... but you travel on a 2d plane! What?! I understand the technical limitations of an RPG-developer, but then don't make it take place in a sphere! How about a pool? It would work exactly the same. Blitzball sucks.

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I have to agree that the first Blitzball match that you're forced to play in the main story is a fucking piece of dog shit. However I was in a weird mind set back when I was playing it to not only beat that game but to make it my bitch. Once you recruit a crew of NPCs located around the open world to replace Wakka's band of idiots getting passed defense to score becomes trivial. I'm not going to say it was very fun or exciting but I found it somewhat satisfying to poke and prod at these goofy ass mechanics they designed to convey a fake fantasy sport.

Exploiting the iterative versions of the Jecht Shot are definitely the key to scoring a lot of points. In the end getting Wakka's ultimate weapon was worth completely dominating that side quest. Breaking his damage limit makes his Attack Reels one of the most devastating overdrive moves in the game which is useful for some of the optional bosses with insane amounts of HP.

Thanks for the great podcasts that continue getting better. It's been a rough transition without Vinny but I think you guys are finding your stride once again. It's probably not very fun to devote so much of your time but I really do appreciate it.

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I think Dan may be more on top of the MGS lore than Kojima. Maybe it's from following wrestling. Great podcast again, thank you, guys!

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I'm using earbuds!

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Like Jeff, I got into FFX on my Vita in part because of my girlfriend, and I agree on his Blitzball opinions. Screw that game. (I beat the required match, though.) Sphere grid was totally awesome, however. That one actually was a good idea.

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That Dran video feature would be great if it started with the MXS version of Metal Gear, start at the start.

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I literally COULD NOT be more excited to hear that Dan and Drew will (HOPEFULLY) be playing MGS1. I've been wanting this for such a long time. Such a cool franchise that has passed me by. Can't wait to get caught up and play recent games.

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@razz17 said:

I literally COULD NOT be more excited to hear that Dan and Drew will (HOPEFULLY) be playing MGS1. I've been wanting this for such a long time. Such a cool franchise that has passed me by. Can't wait to get caught up and play recent games.

I reeeeeeeally hope they go through with that AND the sequels. Just to hear Drew get INCREASINGLY enraged with how insane everything gets.

Just hearing how absurd he thinks a bipedal tank is and KNOWING how insane that series gets...I can't wait.

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I enjoyed Diablo 3's story. There I said it and I feel better.

Also I pretty much forgot about blitzball as soon as that tutorial game was over, but now that I think back on it, it was terrible.

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Dan X Drew METAL GEAR!? Um yes please.

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Yes! Highlight of the week.

Shall we call if bradcast from now on? :p

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I'm totally down for an MGS premium stream!

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Having brad host is a genius move. Jeff's a good host, but he's much more entertaining as a regular cast member; it let's him be hilariously reactionary. Moments in this brought me back to the Hotspot days. Good shit.

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Man... so that Riff Raff guy sounds like kind of a scumbag.

Also, it was Resident Evil: Revelations that was misspelt, not Mercenaries 3D.

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Half Life 3 actually is guaranteed to take place in the snow, the Borealis is stuck in ice.

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Just stopping by again to say that Riff Raff story was everything I was hoping it would be. Fucking amazing.