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Quick Look: Game Room for 09/01/10

Concentration, high school basketball, and the return of the Jungler Room?

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

Sep. 7 2010

Cast: Jeff, Brad

Posted by: Drew

208 Comments

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I'm so disappointed with Game Room :(

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Cmon, guys, you know the things in Boxing just look like floating wombs & ovaries. Admit it.

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please, let this die.

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You'd think the PC version of Game Room would be better-equipped to handle the Atari and Intellivision keypads, but it's probably worse.  Basically you manually map eight keys to "Button 1" through "Button 8", which are just the face buttons, triggers, and bumpers on an Xbox 360 controller.  Then it just uses the 360 version's layout and maps it to the PC version.  So if a game on the 360 used, say, the A and B buttons and a trigger, it's going to map it on the PC to Button 1, Button 2, and Button 5 or something, which means your keys are now all spread out.

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The GameRoom QuickLooks are basically the new endurance run, who will be last man standing? JEFF OR GAMEROOM...TUNE IN NEXT WEEK

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Edited By VincentVendetta

The graveyard theme now looks like the resting place of Game Room. If we ever stop Game Room Quick Looks, it must be with a bang!
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I want a big poster that just says, "Win A Game!"

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Talking about not doing Game Room anymore?
 
No! You CANNOT stop doing Game Room. If you stop covering this shit and everyone forgets about Game Room and how bad it is, Microsoft wins. And so do the terrorists.  

Do you want the terrorists to win, Jeff?

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@Jonnyflash80: It also had 112nd.
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These Game Room looks are just a trail of tears. 
 
I imagine there are two guys locked in a basement room of a now abandoned corporate office somewhere still coding these ports. First the building's rec room was closed, then the fitness center, then the cafeteria, they turned off the heat to save money... then they laid off the janitor.  Just two guys left working under the glow of a bare light bulb, and they hate each other.

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You played the arcade hit Super Breakout, now buy the HOME version!!
I love how they just put the paddle controller nonchalantly on the cabinet.
Mocking me.
"Yeahhh, I know what'choo want."
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@Jonnyflash80 said:
" Did anyone else notice that Jeff's ranking in Super Basketball said "113rd" at one point? How do you pronounce that exactly? "
Some programmer thought that whenever it ends with a 3 its gotta be "rd" - rookie mistake.
 
I do like "Eleven Third" though.
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In between all the games released on Gameroom, which I've seen every week, A Game of Concentration is the worst game I've seen.

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I know what we should do! Put a game that requires 16 buttons on a console with only 8 buttons! The other eight buttons? THE ANALOG STICK OF COURSE!...every time I think they've hit rock bottom, someone tosses down a shovel.

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I love these Game room QLs. Keep'em comin'! I wished you did Virtual console and PSN PS1 classic QLs though. :( But that would just make you go broke.

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Please do not stop the Game Room Quick Looks. 
 
Somebody has to tell the people!
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Don't kill Game Room Quick Looks... I love them so much.

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Do not stop doing Game Room Quick Looks! I live for my weekly dose of old-fashioned gaming goodness (or badness)! A Game of Concentration is just incredible.
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Oh gosh oh wow. Any bets on how long Game Room lives?

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@gbrading said:
" Do not stop doing Game Room Quick Looks! I live for my weekly dose of old-fashioned gaming goodness (or badness)! "
 
Judging by this video you don't have much longer to live :p
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All l learned from that quicklook is that HOBlivion is the greatest gamertag ever!

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I can't tell if all the people crying out "don't stop game room quick looks!" are joking or not.

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Edited By heavyplay

Boxing looks like two female reproductive systems battling, flinging their ovaries at each other
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Jeff's sadness with Game Room increases every week.

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112nd ???
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Edited By rox360

These videos just get more and more depressing! But for the love of large explosives (and mondays), don't stop making these videos! Sure, it's eating into valuable journalism time.. or.. twinky-eating time, but I feel this extensive look into Microsoft's continued failure is a very important thing to broadcast. If you don't do it, who will?!
 
And this way, if you ever get the chance to do some investigative journalism and shake down some dude at Microsoft who knows how the Game Room business works, you couldn't be more educated on the issue.

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All Jungler room is BACK!

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don't stop the game room quicklooks.  at this point your in to deep and you have to see it through.  and with duke nukem coming out we wouldn't have anything to watch crash and burn

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@Rox360 said:
 And this way, if you ever get the chance to do some investigative journalism and shake down some dude at Microsoft who knows how the Game Room business works, you couldn't be more educated on the issue. "
 
My main question is whether it is Krome or Microsoft that is supposed to be wrangling deals. I have this feeling that once the whole thing goes under the reps from each company are going to have a meeting to figure out what went wrong, and they're both going to say "Oh, I thought YOU were the one handling new contracts!" And then they will all have a chuckle and would go out for a beer, except the Krome guys will all be broke from the massive failure.
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Brad: i think we should put a bullet in Game Room
 
Enough said

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Game Room: Orange Jumpthuit edithion.

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Don't end the game room. 
 
But I severely agree about the "late 80's hardware" 
 
That's what I was excited for when I heard about Game Room. All the arcade games I saw growing up, but didn't have the quarters to play. Missed opportunity.  
 
Really, who in their right mind wants to play 2600 games?

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I remember Boxing, the first couple of times you played it was cool but then, and I'm sure you can imagine why, it was just repetitive. Super Breakout looks terrible with the Xbox controls and Concentration is just unbelievably bad!

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Jeff, I'm sorry. I just...um...just...yeah I'm sorry. No one should be made to suffer through this let alone have their wallet suffer through this. Thank you for taking one for the team bro.

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@Dany said:
" @Jonnyflash80 said:
" Did anyone else notice that Jeff's ranking in Super Basketball said "113rd" at one point? How do you pronounce that exactly? "
113th is what it should have been "
lol I'm sure someone at microsoft saw that i was like, fuck it who cares
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Did you see that high score on Super Basketball? Honestly who has the time or patience? Should we organise some sort of intervention because that guy is clearly in serious trouble. 
 
Game Room is clearly an utter failure but dammit Microsoft is at least showing commitment. As Brad mentions, the crazy thing is this has (or had) tons of potential - they just need to broaden the range to later games and add some flipping quality control. The Wii has hit a similar hurdle, but at least Nintendo has talked to the right companies (and has a fantastic catalogue of its own games to draw from). 
 
If you think of all the classic arcade, home computer and console games of the late 80s / early 90s you loved, this would be an ideal way to revisit them and pay a little bit of money and respect back to the original creators. Apart from fan and retro sites, we aren't great protectors of gaming history and heritage - we always want the new shiny things. As the old systems are physically decaying and games being lost to the dustbin of time, Game Room and the Virtual Console are our museums and our only link to the past.
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Oh dear god, watching them play Concentration was the hardest thing ever to watch.
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The people still need to see what's going on in Game Room! And the only qualified investigator that we have left is Jeff.

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@RAGEosaurus said:
" Brad: i think we should put a bullet in Game Room  Enough said "
I love how basically every Game Room Quick Look has Jeff, Ryan, or in this case Brad, saying something to this effect.
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No don't stop please I fucking love these Quick Looks.  They're always hilarious.

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Game Room requires you to have a room full of Jungler machines at all time.

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Jeff, I'm sorry you have to waste your time and money on this crap. You are, however, doing a great public service by exposing this sham (or, should I say scam).

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@MuttersomeTaxicab said:
" 112nd ??? "
Exactly!
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I genuinely feel sorry for jeff.

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I think these videos are still funny.

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yeah don't stop doing game room, let it die before you give up, keep it going.

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All Jungler room is the only room you need!

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Watching Jeff and Game Room is like... it's great... but it's horrible. I shouldn't enjoy other people suffering but... it's so great. It's Game Room taken down one peg at a time by Jeff and Co.
 
"WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS!? WHY WOULD YOU PUT THIS OUT!?"

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WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS? ARGGH!!!

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@Scrumdidlyumptious said:
" Boxing looks like two ovaries "
Thank you. 
 
Also, depressing QL is depressing.