Giant Bombcast 11/24/2015

I'm from Italy and this is the first time in my life i've heard of Beverly. Upon investigating it seems like it's something similar to some nonalcoholic italian aperitifs, which are certainly not drank casually as sodas. But don't expect to be able to buy it or for people to even know what it is here in Italy, the only thing i've been able to find in italian on the internet is an ad apparently from the late 60's, but that's it, not even a mention in any italian sites, only american ones.

The Sega Game mentioned does indeed seem to be Ultimate Qix, where you play Qix as a spaceship trapping monsters

The lack of FO4 coverage on this site is kind of crazy. The longest discussion pertaining to it was on the beastcast, and it was critical of Bethesda's business practice. I know these guys don't have time to actually play any games, but I would imagine it would garner a bit more talk around the shop. Destiny was covered in overabundance, and MGSV had several UPF's and Bombcasts. Seems odd to me. Austin said he was in love with the game, had played 70hrs a week ago, then not a peep since. I feel like Jeff barely scratched the surface of the game... I mean the dude used the pipe pistol for the entire game. Kind of proves he has no idea what he's talking about. My wife and I have been playing the game like mad, and the depth of content that continues to reveal itself is astounding. I know it isn't perfect, but obsession over frame rate and clipping is not what video games are about.

Is this the first time Jeff has indicated he's getting married, or am I just not hip on the social media? Congratulations, either way.

kind of shocked @jeff didn't pick Rahzel from SSX Tricky to be his life announcer. definitely not a funky dope maneuver.

@jgzilk: i like how you want more coverage from them, then insult them for how they choose to play the game. Okay.

It's that time of the week.

This is the video Jeff mentioned with the airsoft gun.

Too Human

Yeah star wars Battlefront 1 and 2 were awesome and from what I played in the beta and from what the crew has said and people I know have said, the new one is very half assed and disappointing. Production value isn't shit if you don't have content. Also how could they not add galactic conquest? What a slap in the face to fans of the other games. Guess we will see if they add that as DLC.

The mystery game being described sounds like Volfied to me, although I'm not sure if that ever came out via Sega Channel.

EDIT: Whup, Jeff eventually got to it! As you were.

@jgzilk: if you go back to some older posts you'll see that Jeff played and review the game. And destiny shows better than any Bethesda game will being that it's a fps and has multiplayer. And metal gear scandal on started because of dans fucking obsession with metal gear

@jgzilk: There will be plenty of coverage of it during GOTY. They've also talked about it pretty extensively the last two Bombcasts.

He casually mentioned it in passing on his tumblr.

THANKS for the ad-free podcast!! :D

The MST3K nostalgia trip made me real happy. I'm not sold on the new version, but I'm not against it. Keeping an open mind, I am crushed that Kevin Murphy isn't going to be a regular but it seems like decent choices for the bots in Hampton Yount and Baron Vaughn.

I had the great luck of going to a local theater to see The Martian last month and noticed that a Rifftrax Live encore of Miami Connection (a movie which I had heard about but had not seen yet) was being shown in the same location. Needless to say I made that a double feature, and it was absolutely hilarious. I haven't laughed that hard in years, I wish I had known that this was a thing a while ago. They even did a short before the flick, and it wasn't as impersonal as the audio commentary mp3s they put out for Rifftrax as they're actually on a stage somewhere in a theater with an audience when doing it live for the stream. And there's plenty of cutaways to them reading the scripts and looking at the movie and playing to the audience. Some picture-in-picture stuff, too.

I am not going to miss any of these if I can help it, there's another one coming up on December 3rd with an encore on Dec. 15th. They're doing Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny. Check and see if it's playing near you. Seriously!

@jgzilk: might be saving for GOTY talks

Speaking of Qix and porn games for the genesis, I seem to remember a GB video where Rorie plays a game called Gal's Panic!, a qix clone where you draw out shapes and reveal the background picture of a pretty asian lady and if you fail you're met with a pretty horrifying spider, but I can't for the life of me find the video. I think it might be one of those unarchived Christmas streams but I've wasted a good long time looking for it. If anyone could help that would be super awesome!

Speaking of Qix and porn games for the genesis, I seem to remember a GB video where Rorie plays a game called Gal's Panic!, a qix clone where you draw out shapes and reveal the background picture of a pretty asian lady and if you fail you're met with a pretty horrifying spider, but I can't for the life of me find the video. I think it might be one of those unarchived Christmas streams but I've wasted a good long time looking for it. If anyone could help that would be super awesome!

i still have no idea why japan loves air-soft so much over paintball. i get that the guns can look more 'accurate' but...i mean...paintball is fuckin awesome.

From the words "angel dust" I was just waiting for a "Where is Bucky and what has he had" to drop.

Strange to hear them be to open to casually talk MGSV spoilers around Drew.

I would put Battlefront in the same category as Splatoon or Garden Warfare. They are all bringing in new players to online multiplayer and doing a great job.

Just some friendly fact corrections about Bloodborne The Old Hunters for any interested in the game.

1.There are actually 16 new weapons 11 main hand and 5 off-hand weapons as well as 7 armor sets.

2. The shield is far weaker then in dark souls.There are more than a few enemies in the dlc that have attacks that will almost completely ignore the shields damage reduction, as well as drain all of your stamina if you block.

3. The amount of time it takes to get to the dlc if you are starting from the beginning can vary up to more than a few hours.

Hahaha I remember seeing those boner pills in my local liquor cornerstore. Somehow I just knew that that was what they were talking about.

@jgzilk: FO4 got less talk because it came out during a crowded release schedule. everyone is trying to hurry to play a bunch of games before GOTY and a RPG you can spend loads of time in is kind of a hard thing to play when you have a bunch of other stuff to get to.

Destiny got a lot of talk because it's brad's thing and everyone else got sucked down that rabbit hole with brad to see what had changed with destiny. MGS5 got a lot of talk because it came out earlier in a time with less new releases. Playing a big open world at that point in time is much less daunting than it is currently.

A bit disappointed that they didn't even mention Life is Strange when they talked about games they need to play before GOTY, but I suppose it is to be expected. Hopefully GBE will push it come deliberations.

The best, as usual. Jeff, we don't have bins in public transport areas in the U.K because of the IRA in the 70's and 80's.

@bassguy: So much yes!

What about that salvia stuff Miley Cyrus was caught smoking from a bong a while back and got parents outraged to know that it's legal? That's a hallucinogen, right? Can that stuff mess you up bad?

@larmer: As far as I know, most Salvia trips only last 5-10 minutes, so your risk for turning into some PCP-laden monster is pretty minimal. But yeah there are totally risks, like with anything like that. The two times I tried it I just laughed for 5 minutes straight and felt like I had turned into jelly. Use at your own risk and all that.

There is a definite learning curve and lots of configuring, but the Steam Controller in trackball and gyro aiming mode has become my absolute preferred method of playing FPS games from the couch now. My 180s and fine aiming are dramatically improved over playing the same games with a thumb stick.

Don't forget to squeeze off a few rounds before dinner.

Salvia divinorum (as seen on "Contradiction: Spot the Liar" :D) is a very minor hallucinogenic, the "high" last only a couple of minutes.

The last UPF and the battlefront section of this episode really showcase how the only people that find battlefront (the new one , fuck EA for naming it battlefront without any subtitle) an okay game or even an acceptable game are people that havent played the original 2 games

What you do with airsoft guns is shoot up your friends with them while quoting Predator. There may be other uses but the main one is to play a non-garbage version of paintball. Hope that helps

Do they get given the music bed to play in the ads? Because that bed for the redbox ad at the beginning is smooth as fuck.

I really begin to understand why everybody are so down on unions over in the US.

And you wear equipment for airsoft because it's a good handy idea and airsoft is a neat outdoors activity hobby - https://www.youtube.com/user/novritsch/videos

And the Bloodborne expansion feels short, like it should have been $15 I and a lot of the souls hardcores I play with. Plenty of replay value and adding value to the main game with new weapons and tools but it doesn't really measure up to DS1's Artorias of The Abyss. I think it's the way the game works that has me not 100% hot for the old hunters. 140ish days until DS3? :(

The shield found in the second area greatly reduces magic damage and has a bit of lore written in its description, that's why it's in there. It doesn't mean they gave up to complaints, it doesn't mean anything other than fitting in and being there as a piece of handy loot.

PS Now is largely an embedded devices thing, people can connect a DS3/DS4 to a TV tablet or phone and play, I hope we see some data in the quarterly report about it. Disc-based PS2 should be possible, can just upscale the way the PS3 did PS1 games and whatnot. It's risky to go 60fps like the PS2 Star wars games did, can break games, I hope they don't want 1080p60 native upscaling and trophies before getting anything out. Discbased BC would be king. Digital would be very appreciated. Digital per-60/Trophies-game would be okay if I didn't have to repurchase all the things.

I did a double take when I heard him drop that.

Manos is hilarious, but still nigh unwatchable at points even with mst3k involved.

DO SOMETHING!!!

Dat synth stories .. FUCK .. THAT.

STREE OVERLORD

@xerseslives: the state of "Weed Culture" is very much related to weed being illegal. because cool dudes being cool about breaking the law. A more diverse conversation about weed on all levels of society would probably make most of the disturbing attitude go away. Not trying to start a debate, just giving my 10 cents. sorry :)

Giant Bomb is just rife with red hot cartoon pussy

@existence: I'm even more surprised that Brad mentioned Tales from the Borderlands instead.

We need more film and 40's!

On a previous podcast he mentioned going to taste food to cater their wedding, or maybe tasting wedding cakes, or something like that...

@cagliostro88: The high may only last a couple minutes, but look up ego death. I would not call it "mild". If your brain is basically gone, you don't really have a great sense of time and the relative impermanence of things.

The band Rammstein took their name after a rather horrible accident at an air show at the Ramstein air force base. Originally called themselves Rammstein-Flugschau (Rammstein Airshow) The extra m was a mistake. After the band became popular, the bandmembers denied the connection to the air show disaster and said that their name was inspired by the giant doorstop-type devices found on old gates, called Rammsteine. The extra "m" in the band's name makes it translate literally as "ramming stone."

Their eponymous track Rammstein is about the disaster.

I listen to the non-premium Bombcast for the Draft Kings™ commercial reads.

I saw those Street Fighter dick pills in multiple local convenience stores in Austin. Normal shit.

Rad, but wut?