Giant Bombcast 08/27/2013

I disagree that it's that important. At least in a game like this. It's not like this is an Assassin's Creed game where you need to literally press up against most buildings and really become familiar with the intricacies of the level. In a game like Saint's Row and GTA you mostly just zip past buildings and places to get to the next mission. Like @wemibelec90 said, the cool thing about SR4 is that they give you a new way to see that same city which makes it feel fresh.

Well it's strange you should bring up Assassins Creed, since in SR4 you are pressing up against building much like you would in a typical AC game. So all those streets and corners you remember from playing SR3 for a vast amount of hours are now even more ingrained in your memory as you becomes even more intimately familiar with them thanks to the super powers. What I will give SR4, and it's a fine game for the most part, is that you get to explore the verticality of the city a lot more than before when you would pretty much never even see the tops of buildings from street level - it's kind of a testament to good city design that the same layout works so well now that you aren't tied down to ground level for the majority of the game.

Well it's strange you should bring up Assassins Creed, since in SR4 you are pressing up against building much like you would in a typical AC game. So all those streets and corners you remember from playing SR3 for a vast amount of hours are now even more ingrained in your memory as you becomes even more intimately familiar with them thanks to the super powers. What I will give SR4, and it's a fine game for the most part, is that you get to explore the verticality of the city a lot more than before when you would pretty much never even see the tops of buildings from street level - it's kind of a testament to good city design that the same layout works so well now that you aren't tied down to ground level for the majority of the game.

I never felt like I got super familiar with Steelport in SR3, which is why I was okay with SR4 taking place in the same city. I actually played through SR3 literally right before I poppped in SR4 so I dunno. It's a matter of opinion I guess, and it just didn't bother me.

I'm a PC gamer to, but what's up with that pc loving attitude Brad? You were comparing PC with the new console systems and you practically make the new consoles obsolete with that cynicism.

Yeah, if the profile setup is the worst thing the PS3 has got going then good job Sony. I've got a laundry list of things I consider "real real bad" with my 360.

About the downloads, I know people in Japan (watched them stream stuff off of a PS3) and goddamn those download speeds are fast.

I cleaned the dust from within my computer after listening. Thanks Vinny.

I'm curious, apart from the prevalent complaint about the ads what are your problems with it?

Dishwasher/Bathroom is the greatest idea I've ever heard. @vinny

Aw shit @vinny

I hope you check trivial stuff like temperature before you whip out the wallet next time !

Although 570 to 770 is a decent upgrade nonetheless.

Regarding temperature and performance.

Getting your cpu even cooler wont give you additional performance.
It is only when it hitts 100 c, that it starts to throttle down, to keep it from melting.

Pretty much any temperature under that, and you'll be running at full throttle.
when it comes to modern intel cpu's, you want to stay under 80c to keep the lifespan decent.

Even though as you noticed yourself, they can take a beating and still function.

so let me get this straight, they dont talk about dota at all during this bombcast, yet people post comments like this?

If that is the case, i think these fools should enjoy a one year site ban, cause that is just stupid.

Nobody's upset about it being easy though. That game is a power fantasy, and you are permitted to steam roll and be a beast. Dying more wouldn't make that game more fun to me, and I can't imagine it would do that for very many other people either.

It's you and me brother... just you and me.

Sony is putting their multiplayer behind a paywall. Of the people interested in streaming their games, what % do you think aren't going to want online multiplayer? People who whined about Microsoft putting things behind their paywall may have had a point this generation, but it hardly matters anymore. Now that stuff is just ammunition for the console wars, instead of a key difference between the two consoles.

Das Boot is up in full on YouTube (it's an epic war movie, three hours long) and it paints a brilliant picture of life on a submarine. It's set from the German point of view in WW2. The Germans lost 3 out of ever 4 submariners they sent into the field during the war.

Yeah, aside from the usual complaints (XBL Gold paywall for Netflix/YouTube, bootup time, indie dev gripes), one that bugs me, and maybe only me, is not being able to put AVI files on my 360. It'd be nice if I didn't have to swap in a DVD or boot up a media sever to watch something I put on frequently like workout videos.

My login experience for Final Fantasy was exactly like @brad , fucking annoyinggggggg

Awesome podcast!

About twenty days to go before there'll hopefully be Bombcasts rammed full of GTA V talk...can't wait!

"Ah I'm so scayahed, mah hawt rate's up!" "Yeah I know... I have a thing."

Good lord the first 10 minutes of this podcast are so good! (also the rest)

Also, that theme song is fucking fantastic (and for those who grew up in the early 90's, at least in Europe, a techno remix of that song, done by U-96 became a major hit, played everywhere for a couple of years, around 1991-94 or so).

These bombcast intros have kinda gone off the rails since, you know, the event. As sad as that all is and all that, I'm loving the direction this podcast is going in.

So spontaneously appearing meth labs are a thing now Brad?

Fucking hysterical. TY again GB.

Some of their complaints about SR4 on consoles are valid (framerate does get terrible when moving fast and with lots of explosions) but i dont know wth they are talking about with regards to not being able to land on the clusters on reliably. Im playing on PS3, and i have to say, more often than not, that when im landing out of a glide, i land exactly where i wanted to. Even when getting the clusters on top of smokestacks and other small landing areas. Maybe Brad's just terrible with a controller after too much time playing DOTA?

Agree. I think some of it has to do with lots of press being "360 first" people, since it came out first and the PS3 was in rough waters its first few years. A lot of these complaints just come from people not actually USING the PS3 except for the exclusives every few months. When listening to podcasts and hearing "AHHH the XMB is terrible!!" im just like "what? have you used it for more than 5 minutes?" Games are in the game column. Streaming stuff is in the services column, etc. its really not that bad, and is a lot better than the ad riddled 360 dashboard.

I remember taking the medic training i passed that test with flying colors

That was some discussion on Lost Planet 3....

No, I think he is referring to the PS3 not having very basic functionality the original Xbox already even had. Things like being able to sign into your profile on another console while on that same console someone else is also logged into his or her profile and then play co-op with your own stats, unlocks etc.

I don't know if it's been fixed, but I remember playing Borderlands 2 with a friend of mine and only one of us was able to log onto our profile at a time when we played local co-op.

It's stuff like that he was referring to I think.

I hope Final Fantasy makes it to 30.Final Fantasy XXX coming to PS7 and Xbox 1200

Blacklist is not at all a reboot, it just has a new voice actor.

You are right, its not at all a reboot, it just has a new voice actor....and the character model mysteriously looks younger and less grizzled. /shrug

I hope we see Final Fantasy 69. OWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!

Who's with me? Up top!

Have you played it? It has direct ties to Conviction. It is a sequel.

I was being facetious. I just think its odd how much they decided to change the look of the character. for it obviously being a sequel.

Probably, but he should know that's not on Sony's, it's on the developers. Even though you cannot log individual profile to each controllers like on Xbox, games like Little Big Planet let you load any profile present on the PS3 with each player. Personally I think he's talking more about not being able to switch profile ingame, because switching in the XMB is better on PS3 since you don't have to log out and signing multiple profile ingame on Xbox can be a mess especially when you start to turn off controllers before logging out profiles, and almost most games don't handle profiles from the game and that "Xbox menu" is slow as hell when a game is running.

@phished0ne: Guys, guys... Let me straighten things out. It's similar to the Bioshock universe. There is always a Sam Fisher, an Echelon, and a daughter.

So let me get this right, you can't do a re imagining and also follow convictions story? Granted I haven't played the game.

man i hope that copy of windjammers is still available

I'm a few months behind on the bombcast but Jeff pretty much nailed MS opening the checkbook to lock up Titanfall