Quick Look: Funky Barn

Jeff channeling his inner Scooter in the beginning there.

Looks like a Wii game.

HOW DO WE NOT MAKE WII FREEZE

FUCK THIS GOING TO PLAY OLD NINTENDO SIXTY FOUR NINTENDO SIXTY FOUR NO LOCK CRASH AND NEED LOCK UP UNPLUG

I MAKE WAVEBIRD SHIT THIS FREEZE TOO

"I make wavebird!" Haha the Russian farmers were cracking me up!

@SpunkyHePanda said:

Geez, these hard locks and load times seem pretty serious. Seems like they might have to put out new Wii U models sooner rather than later.

I wouldn't even consider buying one untill they do, luckily it launched just yesterday here in Europe. Otherwise i probably would have had one already ;-p

Fuck you Gilby for trying to tarnish the good memory of Spanner! THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE FIRST CHICKEN YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!

Watching Jeff slowly go insane on the livestream made my life worth living.

So, let me know if I'm understanding this correctly. If you plug a USB stick into a Wii U, you can only use that USB stick on the Wii U in which it was originally formatted on. Meaning that it's impossible to move your data to another Wii U without lugging the entire system. THEN WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT OF THE USB STICK? THAT COMPLETELY DEFEATS ANY REASON TO EVER USE A USB STICK. WHY????

This is the only game I would buy and play if I were to get a Wii U.

I guess ZombiU too. But, that's it.

I actually really liked the 3DS version and am looking forward to giving this a try as well.

R.I.P. Spanner

Welcome to Blu-Ray load times, Nintendo users. See you next year, Xbox dudes!

@Patchcoat said:

thank you,

I would surrender all the funds in my bank account for a Jeff & Vinny Variety Hour.

I can smell the funk from here.

Charlie? They must have Persona 4 on the brain...

Didja ever go to make a pork sausage and find it's got hairs growing all over it?

Your reason to own a Wii-U: Confirmed.

Nothing will beat out that 4 hour stream of madness that happened over Thanksgiving.

RIP SPANNER

@Milkman said:

So, let me know if I'm understanding this correctly. If you plug a USB stick into a Wii U, you can only use that USB stick on the Wii U in which it was originally formatted on. Meaning that it's impossible to move your data to another Wii U without lugging the entire system. THEN WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT OF THE USB STICK? THAT COMPLETELY DEFEATS ANY REASON TO EVER USE A USB STICK. WHY????

It sounded to me as though Jeff was saying he had to move his save data off of his home Wii U in order to transfer it to another console. Instead of the data just copying to the thumb drive. Which, though not as bad as you were thinking, is still incredibly ham-fisted and backwards.

Damn. I have seen some funk in my life, but this right here is one Funky ass barn.

@Milkman said:

So, let me know if I'm understanding this correctly. If you plug a USB stick into a Wii U, you can only use that USB stick on the Wii U in which it was originally formatted on. Meaning that it's impossible to move your data to another Wii U without lugging the entire system. THEN WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT OF THE USB STICK? THAT COMPLETELY DEFEATS ANY REASON TO EVER USE A USB STICK. WHY????

Because Nintendo.

@Dark_Lord_Spam said:

@Milkman said:

So, let me know if I'm understanding this correctly. If you plug a USB stick into a Wii U, you can only use that USB stick on the Wii U in which it was originally formatted on. Meaning that it's impossible to move your data to another Wii U without lugging the entire system. THEN WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT OF THE USB STICK? THAT COMPLETELY DEFEATS ANY REASON TO EVER USE A USB STICK. WHY????

It sounded to me as though Jeff was saying he had to move his save data off of his home Wii U in order to transfer it to another console. Instead of the data just copying to the thumb drive. Which, though not as bad as you were thinking, is still incredibly ham-fisted and backwards.

Nope, Milkman has it right - Jeff was talking about it on Twitter last night. Your data is locked to the console.

Nintendo really needs to sort out this account locking and software slowness/crashing. They should be better than this. It's really sad to see.

Almost as sad as the death of Spanner the chicken.

To anyone that doesn't know, there's a 4hr live stream of funky barn under giantbomb at twitch.tv

@StoffInator said:

I watched Jeff play this for like 4hrs just before Thanksgiving. It was "entertaining".

I'm watching the archived video now. It is "hilarious". Ah, Jeff's emotional breakdown over the loss of his Original Chicken... excellent.

@Scotto said:

@Dark_Lord_Spam said:

@Milkman said:

So, let me know if I'm understanding this correctly. If you plug a USB stick into a Wii U, you can only use that USB stick on the Wii U in which it was originally formatted on. Meaning that it's impossible to move your data to another Wii U without lugging the entire system. THEN WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT OF THE USB STICK? THAT COMPLETELY DEFEATS ANY REASON TO EVER USE A USB STICK. WHY????

It sounded to me as though Jeff was saying he had to move his save data off of his home Wii U in order to transfer it to another console. Instead of the data just copying to the thumb drive. Which, though not as bad as you were thinking, is still incredibly ham-fisted and backwards.

Nope, Milkman has it right - Jeff was talking about it on Twitter last night. Your data is locked to the console.

Nintendo in 2012, folks. The future is now!

@Scotto said:

@Dark_Lord_Spam said:

@Milkman said:

So, let me know if I'm understanding this correctly. If you plug a USB stick into a Wii U, you can only use that USB stick on the Wii U in which it was originally formatted on. Meaning that it's impossible to move your data to another Wii U without lugging the entire system. THEN WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT OF THE USB STICK? THAT COMPLETELY DEFEATS ANY REASON TO EVER USE A USB STICK. WHY????

It sounded to me as though Jeff was saying he had to move his save data off of his home Wii U in order to transfer it to another console. Instead of the data just copying to the thumb drive. Which, though not as bad as you were thinking, is still incredibly ham-fisted and backwards.

Nope, Milkman has it right - Jeff was talking about it on Twitter last night. Your data is locked to the console.

What the fffffuuuuuuuuuuuck.

I can't believe Vinny said "Funky Cold!" but did not make the next step to "Medina". I am disappoint.

So the hand is supposed to be the Power Glove, right? Im not having a fever dream, am I?

I think Pipo is the shadowy figure on the right during one of the loading screens.

Wii U games sure do seem to cause a lot of system lockups...

Interesting.

Jeff you need to upload your livestream of this to the site, or to youtube or something, you'll get so many new FUNKY subscriptions for that video alone.

RIP Spanner, you died so that we could all live free.

@Ethan_Raiden said:

Jeff you need to upload your livestream of this to the site, or to youtube or something, you'll get so many new FUNKY subscriptions for that video alone.

Indeed. His madman's tirade is a much more apt representation of the Funky Barn experience.

this pig is so fucking tripping

@Ethan_Raiden: @Ethan_Raiden said:

Jeff you need to upload your livestream of this to the site, or to youtube or something, you'll get so many new FUNKY subscriptions for that video alone.

Wait, he did a livestream of this? COME ON, JEFF. Upload that!

@Wonloong said:

@Ethan_Raiden: @Ethan_Raiden said:

Jeff you need to upload your livestream of this to the site, or to youtube or something, you'll get so many new FUNKY subscriptions for that video alone.

Wait, he did a livestream of this? COME ON, JEFF. Upload that!

Yes. It was HOURS long. Multiple.

should've been named Funky Farm.

what a missed opportunity.

@Wonloong: Jeff didn't have the ability to archive it I think, but it's up on twitch http://www.twitch.tv/giantbomb/b/341914882

Charlie T. lives on!

Wow. I have never had a console lock up to the point that even the power button on the console would not reboot the system. That is 25+ years across nine different consoles. The power button on the box of all of those would power down the system in the event of software lock. Never have I ever had to physically unplug a system to force a reboot. What the H-E-double hockey sticks Nintendo?? D:

@DougQuaid said:

@Scotto said:

@Dark_Lord_Spam said:

@Milkman said:

So, let me know if I'm understanding this correctly. If you plug a USB stick into a Wii U, you can only use that USB stick on the Wii U in which it was originally formatted on. Meaning that it's impossible to move your data to another Wii U without lugging the entire system. THEN WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT OF THE USB STICK? THAT COMPLETELY DEFEATS ANY REASON TO EVER USE A USB STICK. WHY????

It sounded to me as though Jeff was saying he had to move his save data off of his home Wii U in order to transfer it to another console. Instead of the data just copying to the thumb drive. Which, though not as bad as you were thinking, is still incredibly ham-fisted and backwards.

Nope, Milkman has it right - Jeff was talking about it on Twitter last night. Your data is locked to the console.

Nintendo in 2012, folks. The future is now!

Jumping Jehoshaphat! O__O

Sweet Jesus those are some load times. Maybe on the WiiU Plus they can add a bigger HDD to install shit?

@murisan said:

@isawachuck said:

Seriously, my Wii U hardlocked 6 times the other night while I was trying to get through the second castle in NSMBWU.

hahaha seriously? my god.. I don't even know how Nintendo fucked this up so badly. It's like they TRIED

I haven't had any hardlocking, so I dunno. Load times really are awful though. And the OS is crazy slow.

Funky barn, funky barn get off my back!

I watched 2 hrs of a FUNKY live stream, listened to a FUNKY discussion on the Bombcast and now watched 26 min of a FUNKY quick look. Somehow I don't feel FUNKY....AT ALL! George Clinton sat down by the river and wept for funk.

I almost bought a WiiU today. I decided not to after looking at the games available right now, but after hearing about this save file stuff, and watching it lock up, I'm glad I didn't. I will probably still get one eventually, though.

@Bored_Ming said:

I watched 2 hrs of a FUNKY live stream, listened to a FUNKY discussion on the Bombcast and now watched 26 min of a FUNKY quick look. Somehow I don't feel FUNKY....AT ALL! George Clinton sat down by the river and wept for funk.

just send george clinton a text message and he will come scoop you up in the mothership.

"I'm gonna break every WiiU I see for the next five years."

So the WiiU is having an amazing launch window, eh? I'd like to see a video of Jeff breaking WiiUs.

It's interesting with a game with art assets entirely pulled from public domain clip-art CD-Roms.