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Quick Look: DeathSpank

Brad and Jeff get their loot on in Ron Gilbert's humorous hack-and-slash.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Jul. 15 2010

Posted by: Drew

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DeathSpank

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nice

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Edited By slowbird

cool!

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Edited By KarlPilkington

Lots of quicklooks.

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Edited By obie191970

Methinks I have seen this before....

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Edited By Bouz

Wait this was already posted as a QL: Ex.

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Edited By ThePhantomnaut

Cools.

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Edited By gingertastic_10

LET'S DO THIS!!!!

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Edited By KarlPilkington

Streaming is the new video, progressive is the old Quicklook EX.

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Edited By Thoseposers

Just tried the demo, kinda disappointed

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super disappointed by the demo

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Edited By Dany

High vid settings are the quick look EX

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@Chabbs0 said:
" Streaming is the new video, progressive is the old Quicklook EX. "
Also must be in High Quality on streaming
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Edited By Thejugglingbum

I too hate the name "DeathSpank"

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@RaisingIndiana said:
" super disappointed by the demo "
Same here. I didn't like the humor at all and I was gnashing my teeth during the intro. "You need to find the artifact called... THE ARTIFACT! HAHAHA!"
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Edited By HandsomeDead

I agree with Jeff on the title. It sounds like a game for people who use phrases like fucknuggets etc. 
 
EDIT; Yes, this looks aggressively unfunny.

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Edited By chaser324  Moderator

I just keep getting the old QL:EX no matter what video options I select.
 
EDIT: Actually if I select High quality Streaming it works.

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Edited By ProfessorEss

Absolutely love it.

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Edited By Detrian

A stupid game for dumb people.

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Edited By skrutop

Hmm. I thought this might be good, but this QL has turned me off.

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Edited By cstrang

I bought this yesterday looking for something to keep me busy until Limbo comes out next week.  I'm am disappointed in the game.

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Really enjoying this game.

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QL has un-sold me, unfortunately. 

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Edited By RVonE

Yeah, this game is really not doing it for me.
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Looks pretty cool... for the price

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Edited By betabetamax

Here I go out on a limb, this game is really fun.  The humor just livens things up a bit.  Most games like this take themselves far to seriously, spewing the same ole D and D bull out that you've heard a million times.  Its fun to go on a Taco quest.  There's not much that separates this game from a quality game like Torchlight.  Don't let Jeff's initial impression sway you.  Jeff kinda hated Red Dead in the first week. 

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Edited By zeforgotten

Just bought this today and I just finished playing it for like only a couple of minutes (10 or so) and I'm already in love with it. It's great

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@BetaMax said:
" Here I go out on a limb, this game is really fun.  The humor just livens things up a bit.  Most games like this take themselves far to seriously, spewing the same ole D and D bull out that you've heard a million times.  Its fun to go on a Taco quest.  There's not much that separates this game from a quality game like Torchlight.  Don't let Jeff's initial impression sway you.  Jeff kinda hated Red Dead in the first week.  "
You are full of shit. Torchlight is miles better than this garbage and Jeff didn't hate RDR.
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Edited By DEllen

This quicklook doesn't really give the game justice, the combat is more complex than brad is making it out to be. The 4 different weapons can be used alternatively mid combat to build up the Justice meter which gives a bit more depth and also the block is pretty important if you want to survive, add this all up and the combat gets a lot better. 
 
Also there is an adventure game part along side the loot inventory is an item inventory where items can be combined. The item combining can also be used with objects in the environment. For example in the demon horn quest that Brad is doing you must interact with a well by combining it with an anvil, this forces a nearby farmer to run and start to pull the bucket back up the well. While he is doing this you can go and grab some cherries from his cherry trees which can then be combines with the demon horns to turn them red. 
 
Also the green of the weapons was referring to item rarity like WoW and pretty much every rpg out now so the greens brad had were not as good as the purples he had equipped. I was surprised that they didn't pick that up but both seemed to be in a fairly lethargic mood from the start.

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Edited By fedorajay

I love hack & slash rpgs and I'm also a huge Ren & Stimpy fan so I will try out the demo. I hope I'm not as disappointed as others seem to be. :\

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@Detrian: Just gonna ask here, have you actually got the game or is this just from the demo your are basing your opinion on. If so then I believe you might be the one spewing shit.
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Edited By Plasma

Lol Brad always has to agree with Jeff, stand up for you beliefs Brad! Even though Jeff is usually right...

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Edited By buhssuht

so, do u like spanking Brad?

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@DEllen said:
" @Detrian: Just gonna ask here, have you actually got the game or is this just from the demo your are basing your opinion on. If so then I believe you might be the one spewing shit. "
Are you hoping the game will suddenly get good after you are 4 hours in or something?
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ya why did this get posted again?

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@Smallville123 said:
" ya why did this get posted again? "
Yeah, this is the EX quick look without the EX in the title.
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Yes, you are lazy, Brad, for not wanting to do math.
 
It's also kind of annoying how Jeff came into this quick look with preconceived cynicism regarding the quality of this game. That attitude dragged Brad along with it (you could tell!), and so, instead of getting an idea of what the game's really like, we get two guys sitting side by side agreeing with each other about how thoroughly made up their minds about the game they're playing. 

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Edited By Scooper

This is the QLEX from a couple weeks ago.

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Edited By TheKbob

Already got 100% in the title.  It was fun, humor is always in the eye of beholder, and murdering stuff was entertaining. 
  
It's a simpler game than Torchlight, even.  I expect this to get a 3 out of 5 stars.  2 out of 5 if you don't like the humor and a 4 out of 5 if this stuff really tickles your fancy.  It's a YMMV type title.  
 
Also there is a bit more depth to the humor when you realize that everything in the title is a parody.  Someone stated they didn't like that is was an "artifact called The Artifact."  Well, that sort of "beat you over the head" style of humor is what the game is going for and if you play longer, you can get the joke they are going for.  It's not quite as obvious out of the gate. 

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i'll pass

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Edited By jacobgray

Dunno, I'm enjoying it so far.  The humor is very forced, but I've laughed at a few things.  Really like the world's art style, if not so much with the characters.  It's a decent game, but I'd much rather they had made another Penny Arcade RPG than scrapping it for this.

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I was gonna buy this when they said game like "diablo" but after seeing this QL, its not like diablo, its far from it. I changed my mind.

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@Bawabus said:
"Yes, you are lazy, Brad, for not wanting to do math.  It's also kind of annoying how Jeff came into this quick look with preconceived cynicism regarding the quality of this game. That attitude dragged Brad along with it (you could tell!), and so, instead of getting an idea of what the game's really like, we get two guys sitting side by side agreeing with each other about how much they've already made up their minds about the game their playing.  "

OR, Jeff is actually on to something when he says that Deathspank makes the game sound lame. Also, I think this QL combined with the QLEX has shown enough of the game to get a feel of "what the game is really like".
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@Bawabus: 
 
Sadly Jeff especially tends to do that. I completely kills the QL. I don't think he was too bad here though, but maybe that's just because I've become cynical about Deathspank too.
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Edited By NeilRapalee

Wow.  Both Jeff and Brad seemed bored as hell.
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Edited By General_D23

Going to agree right out of the gate that DeathSpank is not a name I'm particularly into, and it hasn't helped my interest in the game. Let's see what the Quick Look does.

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Edited By Scooper

I don't like the look of this game AT ALL. The 2d popup looking stuff looks really wierd. I'm not a fan of it.

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Edited By voodooterror

i see only the QLEX from a few weeks back

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Edited By MrGtD

I want to love this, but it's really only fun for 15 minutes.

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Edited By borgmaster

this is one of the more malaise-y QL's in a while. Despite appearances the game is actually enjoyable.

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Edited By habster3

Notice how the creators of the game once said this would be approx. 15 hours long when it's more like 6-8? They said the same thing about Brutal Legend; notice a pattern here?