Jar Time w/ Jeff: Jars Attacks! - 12/18/2012

@familyphotoshoot said:

That fucking hair, Jesus Christ.

he is going for the eraserhead look

Try Rick Dangerous for the Amiga: great, modern feeling platform game with completely unfair level design. Moonstone is a charming and extremely violent action adventure. Chuck Rock II: Son of Chuck is a cute platformer, in the style of a linear Super Mario World.

Personally, I'm very excited about Battle Squadron, a really well-implemented vertically scrolling shooter.

Some of the lesser known but interesting games are Backlash (similar to Battlezone), and Psyborg, a really strange digital-control racing / puzzle (reminds me of Super Hexagon).

I am a pretty staunch skeptic and very critical of anything with even a whiff of pseudo-science, but there was a point in my life where my tinnitus was just taking over everything. I couldn't think of anything other than the constant ringing inside my head. I'm atheist and I prayed to god to help me. I'm a skeptic and I was buying herbal remedy/homeopathy bullshit. I'm saying I get the 'I need to know' feeling. I was willing to try anything at all.

Nothing helped. Just getting over a stressful period was what eventually allowed me to let the ringing noise take a back seat to other things. It's ringing right now and will continue to do so until I am dead.

I wish there was something like those glasses, but for tinnitus. I really miss silence.

@CaLe: Haha, I since edited my post from "turning down the saturation" to "changing the hue closer to a green".

I'm Red/Green colorblind too. Represent. Playing NHL coop can be struggle sometimes, its hard to tell red apart from green and blue apart from purple, just give me the guy with the yellow icon or I can't tell who i am lol.

@CaLe said:

I am a pretty staunch skeptic and very critical of anything with even a whiff of pseudo-science, but there was a point in my life where my tinnitus was just taking over everything. I couldn't think of anything other than the constant ringing inside my head. I'm atheist and I prayed to god to help me. I'm a skeptic and I was buying herbal remedy/homeopathy bullshit. I'm saying I get the 'I need to know' feeling. I was willing to try anything at all.

Nothing helped. Just getting over a stressful period was what eventually allowed me to let the ringing noise take a back seat to other things. It's ringing right now and will continue to do so until I am dead.

I wish there was something like those glasses, but for tinnitus. I really miss silence.

I have a friend with tinnitus and it has deeply impacted his love and passion of music as well as working with video cameras for productions. Hearing this and experiencing first hand how it impacted his life truly makes me feel sympathy for people who have lost a part of their lives or deal with a lingering issue on their day-to-day lives that truly put them in discomfort.

I really wish I could find ways to help people other than offering support or "my thoughts and prayers" line, but I just don't know what I can do. I feel for you, and everyone else suffering from problems like this. We all have problems of course, but some are far more severe than others.

This in combination with Jeff's color blindness really makes me appreciate the fact I don't have any real problems with me at all. I'm a lucky one in comparison to what's out there.

But in a lighter note, thank you Jeff for producing such great content from the site regularly in this lull and holiday break.

Reservoir Jars

...Man, colour-blindness is FUCKED

The lights from the webcamn looks blue... Then again, I'm colourblind, so fuck if I know :P

@civid said:

The lights from the webcamn looks blue... Then again, I'm colourblind, so fuck if I know :P

As a non-color-blind person I can confirm they're blue.

Jeff's looking back at us, in 3D.

When did John Belushi join GB?

@antime said:

Turrican 1 and 2 should be played on a C64, Mega Turrican (aka Turrican 3) should be played on a Megadrive.

If you can't afford an Amiga.

The lights on my "Logitech HD Pro Webcam C910" are blue.

Please archive whatever stream there is, I will need to see it and I don't know if I'll be there for it live.

Wait, what kind of car did Jeff purchase?

Just went through GTA 4 a month ago, and I agree 100% with Jeff. People (Brad in particular) is very vocal about Niko being this guy trying to get out yet constantly killing people and doing dirty work at the drop of a hat must have been rampaging through liberty city like crazy. I was like jeff and besides stealing cars, I feel the need to cause chaos. I specifically made sure to focus on Niko as a character as I went through and there are definitely places where he does do things that seem out of character, but as a whole he is very reactive person. Seriously go through that game and you'll see Rockstar did a phenomenal job shaping a story where he is a man put in fucked up situations doing what he can to survive.

EVENING SAVED

Why not rip the cast from Twitch recording and post it? Ok it wont be in 720P but it is better than nothing. Will people bitch that the video not in 720p even if it's a bunch of SNES or NES Japanese games?

But Jeff: Your interest and experience especially, with the multitudes of old games, kinda makes you a default expert per se. A scholar of this medium isn't a stretch imo. Because of that curiosity and your incredible memory of so many games makes you an expert at least(as a professional game reviewer over the years too of course)and as you go back and repeatedly play old games, and the many systems you own and have aquired, makes you a historian at least in some respect in terms of video games. Who else shall hold the mantle of video game scholar then if it is not to be you? :))

That and save your eyes for screens that really matter, lol. ;)

This video is a great reminder as to just how much Jeff's expression is in his eyes. Those glasses weren't distracting per say, but it was weirding me out with the lack of eye contact.

The whole time, I felt like I was watching Wayne's World 2 where Mike Myers talks to Jim Morrison in his dreams. The scene is nowhere to be found in English, so enjoy this Spanish version instead.

I wonder what Jeff's power level is. With that hair I'm assuming it's got to be up there.

I wonder if the two colors in the glasses are just giving you an effect like these kinds of color illusions.

My main problem with GTAIV was that you could cut out an entire back third of the game's missions and really lose nothing. That and the excessive scripting was insane (when you repeat certain missions, you'll notice that the traffic you encounter is identical every time), which really went against the spirit of an open-world game; not allowing randomness to occur.

That said, still an amazing game. I never had a problem with the driving or base mechanics in general either (though the cellphone could have been handled so much better). The perfect scores seemed a bit much though for a very good but partially flawed game. I kinda felt like I was set up for a better game than they had actually delivered on, and I think that was the moment where reviews stopped mattering to me in general.

Vice City though, that's where it is. The tone, the music, the general atmosphere. It left a much bigger impact on me than San Andreas.

STOP ASKING HIM REVIEW SCORE QUESTIONS.

Every Jar Time ends up being 50% about review scores. Is there ANYTHING ELSE IN YOUR LIVES THAT YOU CARE ABOUT? You get a dialogue with a guy who knows a shit ton about games history, the inner workings of the industry, and a repository of incredible stories, and instead you grill him because you don't like that some game has a score you don't like? GODDAMMIT.

@Brodehouse said:

STOP ASKING HIM REVIEW SCORE QUESTIONS.

Every Jar Time ends up being 50% about review scores. Is there ANYTHING ELSE IN YOUR LIVES THAT YOU CARE ABOUT? You get a dialogue with a guy who knows a shit ton about games history, the inner workings of the industry, and a repository of incredible stories, and instead you grill him because you don't like that some game has a score you don't like? GODDAMMIT.

Jeff could ignore those questions if he wanted to

Is it just me, or does Jeff look like Psy with those Sunglasses? His facial structure is awful similar

@Curufinwe said:

@antime said:

Turrican 1 and 2 should be played on a C64, Mega Turrican (aka Turrican 3) should be played on a Megadrive.

If you can't afford an Amiga.

Nah, it's just the simple fact that none of the games were designed with the Amiga in mind. Turrican 1 was developed on the C64 and later ported, Turrican 2 was developed more or less in tandem, but the C64 was still the lead platform, handled by creator Manfred Trenz. Mega Turrican was made for the Megadrive and ported to the Amiga later on as Turrican 3.

The first two games lose the impact of the sheer amount of stuff and technical excellence crammed into such a small machine, and the third game is just a poorer version.

I wear my sunglasses at night.

I am also red-weak color blind like Jeff. It sucks in games that often use red dots on green to indicate enemies.

@Anthony said:

@Brodehouse said:

STOP ASKING HIM REVIEW SCORE QUESTIONS.

Every Jar Time ends up being 50% about review scores. Is there ANYTHING ELSE IN YOUR LIVES THAT YOU CARE ABOUT? You get a dialogue with a guy who knows a shit ton about games history, the inner workings of the industry, and a repository of incredible stories, and instead you grill him because you don't like that some game has a score you don't like? GODDAMMIT.

Jeff could ignore those questions if he wanted to

Yeah, if anything it's just that Jeff just wants to keep talking about it, for some reason.

Spaceghostpurrp is Spaceghostblu to Jeff.

Jeff wears his sunglasses at night.

So he can, so he can.

See them reds and blues and colors aaaand shiiiit.

DON'T SWITCH THE BLADE ON THE JEFF IN SHADES OH NO

I like Jeff's Kid Chameleon look.

@KevinWalsh said:

Just went through GTA 4 a month ago, and I agree 100% with Jeff. People (Brad in particular) is very vocal about Niko being this guy trying to get out yet constantly killing people and doing dirty work at the drop of a hat must have been rampaging through liberty city like crazy. I was like jeff and besides stealing cars, I feel the need to cause chaos. I specifically made sure to focus on Niko as a character as I went through and there are definitely places where he does do things that seem out of character, but as a whole he is very reactive person. Seriously go through that game and you'll see Rockstar did a phenomenal job shaping a story where he is a man put in fucked up situations doing what he can to survive.

I'm with Brad and others. In lots of modern open world games there's this disconnect. Good guy in bad situation story, but watching them murder hundreds of people over the course of the game. I don't care who you are, murdering that many people has an impact, and doing so as so-called "good guy" trying to do right makes him look like a psychopath. Red Dead and GTAIV in particular really jarring in the snap between the character in cutscenes and the murderous mission guy. Take Drive, pretty much the best example of good guy forced into some terrible situations and decisions of the last decade. His violence is terrifying, but is limited and all makes sense in the story, wrapped up in need and revenge. Games have just too much mindless killing to do the same thing.

Sleeping Dogs was the game that finally made me see the harm it has on the game. You've got an interesting undercover cop story, trying to infilitrate the gangs without crossing the line, shocked with killing and seeing it all honestly affect him. He can limit himself to non-lethal fights and the "cop" leveling encouraged you to keep it under control and play as a good guy. Then the latter half of the game comes along, you get guns, and you end up murdering dozens of people every other mission. Completely ruined the narrative for me.

@heatDrive88 said:

This video is a great reminder as to just how much Jeff's expression is in his eyes. Those glasses weren't distracting per say, but it was weirding me out with the lack of eye contact.

The whole time, I felt like I was watching Wayne's World 2 where Mike Myers talks to Jim Morrison in his dreams. The scene is nowhere to be found in English, so enjoy this Spanish version instead.

ummmm....

that ain't spanish...I can't understand it...

Seriously, you guys. Listen to new wave music while watching this. It is really really great.

Hey cool glasses.

I pretended he was Stevie Wonder the whole time.

(looks at preview image) Jeff is clearly trying to keep track of the visions in his eyes.

is the video player crappy for anyone I literally can not watch any giantbomb video that is not youtube T_T even if I set the quality to 540p this is so annoying. I tried the gamespot player and their HD video load fine no problem for me. My connection is more than fast enough to load 3 or 4 of this video at the same time

That light is blue, sir.

Big J is pumpin' out the content!

You should check out Moonstone - A Hard Day's Knight for the Amiga. One of my personal favorites.

@Doctorchimp said:

@heatDrive88 said:

This video is a great reminder as to just how much Jeff's expression is in his eyes. Those glasses weren't distracting per say, but it was weirding me out with the lack of eye contact.

The whole time, I felt like I was watching Wayne's World 2 where Mike Myers talks to Jim Morrison in his dreams. The scene is nowhere to be found in English, so enjoy this Spanish version instead.

ummmm....

that ain't spanish...I can't understand it...

Italian.

90% certain at least - my high school Italian was years and years ago, so once they start actually talking at full speed I don't understand it either.

I enjoyed hearing you talk about the review tilt thing, I remember when I was 12 years old ( a long time ago.. ) I e-mailed in to gamespot asking why two reviews that looked like they should have the same score didn't, and you wrote back saying that tilt was the reason. I only really remember it because at the time I was shocked that I even got a response, since you were one of the biggest gaming sites on the web at the time so young me just assumed you must get a million messages. Something I always kept with me and a small reason why I continued to stick with Gamespot and eventually through to GB.

Also, keep the specs on whenever possible. Wicked texas hold-em shades.

Walking Dead parody with Giant Bomb characters, that's my guess for the GOTY video things.