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Quick Look: Technobabylon

We travel into the future for some hacking, a bit of wetware-ing, and some classic point-and-click adventuring.

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

May. 29 2015

Cast: Vinny, Alex

Posted by: Vinny

In This Episode:

Technobabylon

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Chef reminds me of Questionable Content

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That shop jingle reminds me of the one they use at French train stations.

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Love me some cyberpunk hullabaloo

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@csl316: Pretty much the same here. I finished Gemini Rue, but couldn't get through the other one (ones?).

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Wow the writing and voice acting in this seems really top quality. Tempted to pick this up. Really like the vibe.

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"It's corpse o'clock, motherfucker."

Damnit, @alex. You are...just the best.

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The Dr. Regis guy seems like a real chode. "Technology sucks! Except for the stuff that preserves fertilized embryos. And the stuff that can unlock my door. And the stuff that made my wife-tree."

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No one feels bad for Cheffie? Poor Cheffie....

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i love wadget eye games because they feel like older adventure games, kind of cheesy and cliched (in a charming way) and brimming with atmosphere and an expertly built world

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I never get into adventure games, yet Vinny/Alex have made their case again.

what a fucked up world. And Cheffie with the blown pupils turned out to be a good indication why. I'm kind of with the guy referred to as by somebody as a chode. Pretty much black planet stuck in a world that can try you in court for your thoughts...

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Ummmmmm.....

wetwario.

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Glad I clicked through...was expecting some heavy anime based game from the screenshot but it ended up being something I could really get into.

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wife dna in a tree, isn't that the plot of that aronofsky movie. hehe

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Is that the wolf from Broken Age destroying my embryos?

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This looks really cool. I hope it gets an ios port sometime later on like their other games.

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Those trance AI's were absolutely hilarious.

I love watching games like this but i am way to stupid to play them myself.

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I saw an anime like this once. It was called Virus Buster Serge. It's pretty dope.

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Okay, Wadjet Eye and Vinny, you got me hooked once again.

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damn, this is dark as fuhhh! something about the cartoon look and story's dichotomy makes it really striking overall. may have to check this one out

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If you're watching this and like what you see, go fire up Steam or GOG and download the Blackwell Series and Gemini Rue. Like right now.

The Blackwell games are underrated classics. Rosa might be one of my favorite female protagonists since April Ryan. I do not make that statement lightly.

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Okay, I'm kinda sold on this now.

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God I wish wadjeteye would make more iOS releases. Or at least OS X. I love their games but I'm not booting up a whole windows partition just to play them. They made Gemini Rue on iOS, which was incredible. Guess they didn't make enough to justify the port.

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Just finished it, comes warmly recommended.

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@emuprime: I know you were making a joke, and yes, modern English speakers have different ways to pronounce Babel (Babylon), but the exact same connotations of "babble" (jumbled speech that means nothing to the ear) were in the ancient Hebrew name as well. That ancient word is a cognate of the modern word "babble." The pronunciation of the ancient word was almost identical to "babble."

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Oh man, Cheffie is the best. Although, I feel like Cheffie-chan would have been a better name.

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OH MY GOD TECNOBABBLE HOW DID I NOT SEE IT?!

...Dammit.

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Real great QL

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Also recently played Resonance. The ending is a little sad, nevertheless it's a great game. Primordia is heart-warming and Gemini Rue is a good thriller.

Technobabylon is still the best. Wadjet does a good job as a producer, too. There are other games they produced/published (Golden Wake, Shardlight,etc). I'll give them a try

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Just finished this game. Guys, it's a good one.