Thursday Night Throwdown: 06/20/2013

Ouya launch issues. Looks horrible, though I'm sure it will be straightened out in time...

Ouya has some faults but it's actually pretty damn cool.

"This is back when the PS1 had squares and triangles and shit..."

Oh man...

Giant Bomb flushes an Ouya down the toilet as a premium video, please?

Maybe it's just me but the sneaking animation in last of us looks kind of shitty.

I wish they'd gone through with the pizza purchase.

I'm not sure if they've changed the lighting or if it's just the slight shift of angle of everyone, but something about this set up looks significantly worse then before.

Teras Kasi made this TNT worthwhile

Man...the Ouya.

For some reason I thought I was watching Unprofessional Fridays for like the first 5 minutes.

@white: I'm sorry this is all I thought when I read that

Last of Us is probably the best-looking PS3 game I've seen. Kinda surprising to hear Brad rag on the graphics. Especially considering how much money he spends on hats in Dota.

I always get happy when I actually get into a TNT game

Are you using streaming or progressive? I watched this video on streaming and it seemed very quiet. I normally use progressive and the audio is really loud and the quick look bumper startles me every time

Brad is a well-documented graphics whore, so him bringing that up didn't surprise me at all.

haha yeah the graphical quality on dota hats is subpar but he loves those so friggin much. lol good shit man great post.

$8.5 million. The OUYA raised $8.5 million on Kickstarter. Then got another $15 million in other funding. Fantastic. Well done.

You shut your damn yapper. That's the Golden Duder you're talking about.

SCREW YOU I'd take the weird Dualshock 3 controller over those Xbox 360 face buttons and d-pad any day

Damn guys, you got to quit cutting the volume on these things. It's always so quiet. And around the eleven minute mark it definitely gets quieter. I can barely hear you on my laptop, at full volume.

Edit: Seriously, this is barely watchable. I shouldn't have to rely on my headphones to watch these sorts of videos.

Just shows you what's possible when you use the kind of language specifically designed to manipulate the hardcore gaming set on your Kickstarter page.

@sanj: WELL IT DID.

I think I was a little confused because the manual had all the shapes solidly filled-in whereas the newer controllers have them as outlines.

If Vinny can be "colorblind," I get to have my shape blindness.

This makes me happy.

@paulunga:

I kind of wish that he'd ease up on the negativity at times. We get it. You went to E3 and saw the new hotness. Next week it'll be something else to complain about.

Sooooo Rorie's been playing Last of Us for the past week and yet he still didn't know that the controller he was holding in his hand had squares and triangles???

There needs to be a new premium show called The Education of Matthew Rorie. Or The Miseducation of Matthew Rorie.

Man, I hate watching these guys play shooters. They're kinda bad at them.

It's unfortunate how little Patrick actually knew about the LOU multiplayer. Wish press had a way to play plenty of multiplayer pre-release and still hit the review embargo.

Ryan's amusing as ever. this was a great TNT :)

*edit: surprised by the poor UI on the OUYA. Looks cheap through and through. Sub android phone.

The Ouya looks like complete and utter GARBAGE. Why do I still want one? Must be the price. I will be any POS electronics at $99

I don't usually watch these all in one sitting so I keep it open in a tab on my browser and I find it so annoying the way options at the top of the page expand down so that when I go to quickly click play on the video I actually open a page related to the drop down option. Am I the only one doing this?

shape blindness

The "code armageddon" bit was especially funny.

I was surprised at how well I did in the Last of Us part, normally im rubbish

The fvck, Teras Kasi is Finnish and means Iron Hand... kind of.. (more like Teräs Käsi)

Brought to you by drunken "Mid-summer fest" me (and you all probably knew this already :( but im drunk!

Your welcome!

Seriosly, drunk me watching last part of this and have randomly some Finnish words is making me lose my sh*t.. WTF.... AND HELICOPTERS

It sucks that their set-up ruined their attempts to use the Ouya, as my time with it was pretty positive due to there being no lag on the controls like it was previously reported and there are some good games on the store. I hope they give it another shot in better circumstances rather than just rushing to get it set-up right before the stream started.

Glad they stopped playing The Last of Us and started playing some real videos games like Masters of Teräs Käsi. and Ouya games.

The Ouya is potentially interesting for people like me who want to play old games but don't have the money or space to rack up a bunch of old, potentially dead, game carts. I wouldn't mind having a small box hooked up to my TV from which I can play NES, SNES, and Genesis games.

Jeff needs to keep his hair short. He looks like, 5 years younger.

Now I wanna develop a console just so I can make the controller buttons be W, A, S and D...

Jeff's Boba Fett play is IMPECCABLE!!

"Those sessions are always super fun because it's a bunch of lower skilled people, or people you are way better than."

- Jeff

Jeff know's what's up. Once game developers figure out how to deliver this experience consistently in multiplayer games, I will have way more fun playing them. Doesn't even need to be against real people, just needs to feel like it's against real people.

wow the Ouya looks like a piece of shit.

@rorie: Haha, fair enough.

I beat the Last of Us once, played about a quarter of it again, and have played 3 weeks or so of ingame time in the multiplayer and didn't know you could hold down triangle to pick stuff up.

I thought the Ouya sounded kinda interesting, but seeing it now, it looks like shit lol.

The MP in TLOU looks very stimulus-response. Weak.

So with Patrick leaving Rorie is going to be the new whipping for angry shit heads? Jolly!