Thursday Night Throwdown: 10/06/11

ahhhh so frustrating lol

Watching Portal is tough when you know the Solution.

@Zaccheus: Indeed.

Sweet, dont you just hate pants

I think what bothered me most of all was the inverted screens XD

Sweet

I've been watching this to pass the time till the iPhone preorders start. It did not help pass the time like I hoped it would

I can't watch this. :( It's just painful.

Makes my head hurt watching. Just brutal.

The best part of portal 2 is getting so fixated on gels that you forget you can juts, you know? Portal.

@Tamaster92 said:

The best part of portal 2 is getting so fixated on gels that you forget you can juts, you know? Portal.

That happened to me twice with the single player where I had messed around with light bridges and gels and shit for so long that I forgot I could just go through a portal. Took me like 10 minutes to realize that. I don't think I have ever felt that dumb. It was great.

@Zaccheus said:

Watching Portal is tough when you know the Solution.

Watching other people play Portal is just painful full stop.

The Saltiest Chat ever for this TNT... Best TNT ever in my eyes. Because this is how I see a majority of people play Portal.

Looking very much forward to this =)

Watching this just gave me a bad headache. I need some tylenol. yay free dlc!!!

Hey, at least it isn't Brad playing! :D

Heh, this was an interesting experience, for sure.

So frustrating. I haven't even played the DLC but I'm staring at the solution!

Curse my puzzle solving mind! This was hard to watch lol, but still entertaining.

Just played a bunch of Portal co-op and we got stuck forever at perhaps the easiest puzzle ever (overthought it). So I feel for these guys playing in front of thousands.

VID

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ARRGGHHHH

I'm at 1:12 and I've found the key to enjoying this experience is to barely watch the video. It's frustrating to watch them run around and not experiment with the things I noticed whenever I caught on to the key aspects of the puzzles before they did. I find it's worse than when you know the exact solution.

This is infuriating.

That was the single most frustrating video to watch. Ever. Never again will I watch someone else play Portal.

I haven't watched yet, but it can't be more infuriating than this video.

only the 360 version? im truly shocked giantbomb favors the 360 even when the ps3 version is by far the better version of the two....

Uuuuugh. At 41:55 I was like: "Yes... YEEESSS!" *slow clap*

It really is frustrating to watch, but kind of funny.

@weslash said:

only the 360 version? im truly shocked giantbomb favors the 360 even when the ps3 version is by far the better version of the two....

How so?

So hard to watch, I can't take it anymore.

wow u guys suck at this game..... but to be fair you guys have played a shit ton of different video games since portal 2. You need to remember all of the portal set ups and rules of engagement again and I can see how that can be hard for someone playing a zillion different games

still ryan and patrick actually seem like the smart ones, so I expected more.... I already got my protal fix with portal 2, don't even care about dlc or anything else. Can't play that game purely based on game-play for too long without getting any good story context..... after a while it gets too boring, repetitive and easy

Cool baby was distracting me.

@weslashsaid:

only the 360 version? im truly shocked giantbomb favors the 360 even when the ps3 version is by far the better version of the two....

They have mentioned before that it is easier to record/stream video on the 360 as compared to PS3. I'm not sure how much I believe that reason, but it seems a dumb thing to lie about.

• People complaining how thay play.
• People complaining what platform they play on.
• People complaining who's playing.

Yep, comments still look the same. Don't know why I even bother reading through them anymore. And I'm sure someone will point out that I'm complaining as well.

I can't wait to watch this in a few months when my co-op partner finally spends enough time online.

@Cincaid said:

• People complaining how thay play.
• People complaining what platform they play on.
• People complaining who's playing.

Yep, comments still look the same. Don't know why I even bother reading through them anymore. And I'm sure someone will point out that I'm complaining as well.

Its sad, but in general I cant stand my fellow Bombers.

Bah-bah-boo!

Oh wait, we're getting a little bit ahead of ourselves here.

Great work guys. I hope I see more stuff like this.

Drew/Vinny was killin it.

They needed Vinny, he always seems to be good at guiding them through puzzles. Is frustrating to watch when you know the solution but still it's TNT!!

Probably my favorite TNT outside of the horde mode stuff.

@Krelle: Have you read the comments on the Catherine review? They alone almost made me drop my subscription for the second year. I will say that the comments on Members Only content is generally better, although the occasional GameFAQs-esque thread can still arise.

@Krelle said:

@Cincaid said:

• People complaining how thay play.
• People complaining what platform they play on.
• People complaining who's playing.

Yep, comments still look the same. Don't know why I even bother reading through them anymore. And I'm sure someone will point out that I'm complaining as well.

Its sad, but in general I cant stand my fellow Bombers.

The only thing that is tough for me to watch is seeing someone try and do something where I know the solution and they dance around it for a few minutes, it's just a thing like listening to someone say something untrue then ask if it's true and have no way to tell them what's up lol. This first puzzle gave me weird feelings of anxiety and I had to take a break, I'll make some calming soup or something and watch the rest later :)

This looks like this would be hard to watch. Either you've finished the puzzles beforehand or you see the solutio before they do,

This happens right?

Ive always thought Portal was a game that without the comedy would be lame because all the puzzles are too straight forward. Well Ryan and Patrick have made a monkey out of me, apparently to most people they aren't straight forward, now I get the appeal, heh.

I gotta say, there was some real vitriol getting spat about in the chat during this event. It is still impressive how nasty folks can be when they are not getting their way during a TNT.

most frustrating thing to watch EVER!!!

Even when I know the solution I don't find it annoying at all to watch others try to figure out. I dunno what is wrong with some you people.. maybe anger issues?

I watched this whole TNT and I regret doing so. Yes the chat went overboard, but they have a right to complain about it if they don't like it. As for me, lesson learned, I won't watch another extended look at a puzzle game on Giant Bomb. GLHB

@CaLe said:

Even when I know the solution I don't find it annoying at all to watch others try to figure out. I dunno what is wrong with some you people.. maybe anger issues?

Same. People just need to chill the fuck out.

@LordCmdrStryker said:

@Krelle: Have you read the comments on the Catherine review? They alone almost made me drop my subscription for the second year. I will say that the comments on Members Only content is generally better, although the occasional GameFAQs-esque thread can still arise.

I was able to watch and chat during the live Load Your Last Save: Full Spectrum Warrior. It was noon on a weekday. Subscribers only.

Even with a weird and kind of bad choice for that particular segment, chat was refreshingly cheerful.

Hehe, took me a while to get into this but it turned out to be pretty fun after getting used to the pacing.