Giant Bombcast 09-10-2013

Jokes.

@dagas said:

The funniest thing about it is that Poland apparently can make The Witcher 3 for the Xbox One but can't play The Witcher 3 on the Xbox One. Best part? CD Projekt apparently didn't know about that shit when they agreed to show that trailer during Microsoft's E3 conference.

GTA 4 is great. OK, you don't like it that much Brad. I loved it. Every minute.

I feel like there was a very poor defence of the game on this podcast. Though maybe the rest of them don't like it that much either.

@arbitrarywater Agreed, I seem to remember Vinny praising GTA IV when it came out while He was still at Gamespot and praising it highly. And Jeff reviewing it VERY highly.
Plus, as to Metal Gear Solid 4 didn't Giant Bomb do a whole Spoilercast devoted to MGS4?
Confused by their contradictory comments on this.

Still a great one though!

@arbitrarywater Agreed, I seem to remember Vinny praising GTA IV when it came out while He was still at Gamespot and praising it highly. And Jeff reviewing it VERY highly.
Plus, as to Metal Gear Solid 4 didn't Giant Bomb do a whole Spoilercast devoted to MGS4?
Confused by their contradictory comments on this.

Still a great one though!

@arbitrarywater

Agreed, I seem to remember Vinny praising GTA IV when it came out while He was still at Gamespot and praising it highly on his last show of the Hotspot before he left. And Jeff reviewing it VERY highly.

Plus, as to Metal Gear Solid 4 didn't Giant Bomb do a whole Spoilercast devoted to how much they loved MGS4?

Confused by their contradictory comments on this.

Still a great one though!

@tormasturba: Games age, and they don't all age well. Upon release, it's easy to get caught up in the zeitgeist, and those games were revolutionary for their respective series.

Those games were almost never highly praised by this staff for how well they played, but rather that the game parts didn't ever get too much in the way of what was good about them (I'm pretty sure one of the arguments for MGS4 was "This is the best playing game in the series. Other games do what it does and do it better, but this is the best playing Metal Gear game").

With GTAIV, it was the brilliant characterizations and the tonal shift from San Andreas into a gritty, grounded game. With MGS4, it was the batshit insanity of everything that was happening, the goofy anime-esque storyline, and the resolution to stories dating back into the 90s.

And no matter what anyone says, I may have loved and still adore that game, but the time between starting the game and leaving that first house feels like such a fucking slog.

Europe is small enough for you to travel to another country and get an Xbox One right? I mean France is only like a 5 minute drive from the Netherlands, Germany like 15 min tops. Also isn't the Netherlands part of France?

I'm kidding ;p

I don't believe the reasons why Sony is releasing PS4 later in Japan is the same reason as MS waiting to release in the rest of Europe.

@brenderous: perfect

@brenderous: perfect

@mrpandaman: Now that's just mean! :-p

Actually, Germany would be like a an hour drive for me so thats do-able. But then what if the entire interface is in German? and i get German ads all the time ( its an xbox after all ) That would suck :p

@mrpandaman: The problem is that Xbox One actually is pre-ordered out for day one elsewhere that's near me. Also, I contacted several online shops and they say they are not allowed to ship it to another country. Even Amazon straight up said: no, you cannot buy this from us. You must wait until it's officially released in your country.

I contacted Microsoft about this, but seeing as I'm just some random guy and not a news reporter or anything without proper channels, I don't get beyond customer support and all they can tell me is: 'I'll write a report about this and file it to the people that make these decisions'. When I ask to talk to someone who knows more, they simply say they can only pass on reports and not connect me to anyone else.

So... no. Not really an option.

@zevvion:

I was joking, it sucks not being able to get the Xbox One, but hey at least you'll have a little time to wait for the Xbox One to stabilize.

Wait... I thought all Euros spoke the same language... or at least inheritantly all understood each other :p Also why wouldn't you want German ads? You could ostensibly change the language of interface and the XB1 is no longer region-locked, right?

It's barely fair to call any open world game slow when you're fresh out of Saints Row 4.