Thursday Night Throwdown: 10/18/12

I want to take up permanent residence in the Lang Zone.

Hour and 26? TNT just keeps getting shorter :(

This TNT was unwatchable. Either figure out how to make dual streams viable for TNT or don't bother. The audio was a mess of the two streams talking over each other and the TurboGrafx stuff was the size of a postage stamp. I get that you were just testing the streaming capabilities of the TurboGrafx but come on this was a train wreck.

@LevelUpAdrian said:

I'm really not a fan of two games in one TNT. Would much rather have everyone talking about the one thing.

Yeah I kinda feel the same. Doesn't quite do either justice.

Brad would've won without losing a single guy had he just used his snipers right. Sniper with squadsight is basically a one man army.

Yeah I don't think this works. Granted, this was also a test for the TurboGrafx, but I don't think it worked for any of the previous TNT's either. Trine 2 and DoA for example, was the weirdest combination. Instead of watching you argue over Trine I rather would have watched Jeff play DoA full screen with folks...but not on his own.

I dunno, invite Coonce in there! And Alexis. A competitive Sean Coonce is always fun to watch. I miss the old TNT's like that. Come to think of it, the Olympic Games streams were the closest thing to an old TNT and I'm very grateful for those.

this TNT was like having too many browser tabs open

I like Ryan's haircut.

Chicago.

In the spirit of them playing X-Com, I will say...

Keith Courage - more like Keith Kincaide! KEEP IT TOGETHER keepittogetherkeepittogetherkeepittogether

I like the dual game TNTs though this one didn't quite work because both streams provoked a lot of conversation.

Too bad they blew a bunch of TruboGrafx content like this, two groups talking over each other. C'mon now.

@golguin said:

@jayjonesjunior said:

@Baal_Sagoth said:

Man, Brad vs. Ryan was glorious. Great, tense and very exciting matches.

Wah first match was painful to watch.

I'm glad I haven't played the game yet because it all looked fine to me. Watching Jeff play Borderlands 2 after I had run through the game with several characters was bad. I don't like being the person yelling "You're playing it wrong", but for sure he wasn't playing it in a fun way.

Sure it can induce excessive yelling at the screen sometimes. I have played a pretty massive amount of XCOM already though and didn't mind. No prior MP experience though so that might have helped.

I agree just focus on one thing. Ryan vs Brad XCOM is all we need. Turbo Graphics should of been a different feature, since when is TNT about Quick Looking games, its about people playing each other and it used to be about playing GB members.

I haven't even seen this TNT yet but I have to say beforehand that I was hoping that TurboGrafx would get it's own segment: or rather its own TNT/Premium whatever. These double content things are confusing sometimes and I love retro gaming and I love XCOM - but like previous recent TNT's I'm betting it's kinda like watching 2 awesome movies at once which is frustrating and (to me) kinda dumb.

Lost it at "Chicago".

@geirr said:

I haven't even seen this TNT yet but I have to say beforehand that I was hoping that TurboGrafx would get it's own segment: or rather its own TNT/Premium whatever. These double content things are confusing sometimes and I love retro gaming and I love XCOM - but it's kinda like watching 2 awesome movies at once which is frustrating and dumb.

Yeah, I feel like consoles should get their own TNTs. Otherwise I enjoy those two game TNTs.

Edit: Pfft, the best Castlevania song is either Aquarius or Heart of Fire.

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Just throwing my two cents by agreeing with people on focus. Both of the activities in this TNT were very interesting but without focus on either of them I couldn't follow it.

Considering Jeff said the goal is to do a big, all day stream of Turbografx games, I don't mind this. I think it's just supposed to be a teaser. Regardless, great TNT. Ryan's last laugh was pretty classic.

Why do they insist on playing two games at the same time on TNT? TNT was fine when it was either a community focused night or a couple of the guys playing some coop game (Dead Island, for example).

Voicing my opinion that one game per TNT is way better and whoever agrees I'd say let yourself be known cuz I think we can make a difference here obama 2012

RYAN DON'T CARE about making tnt watchable. Focus on one game please, I beg you.

I feel like I haven't been able to enjoy a TNT for months.

I like the 2 streams. TNTs are kind of just something I put on in the background though.

The one time I miss TNT and it's XCOM. Oh well can't wait to watch this later.

@paulunga said:

@geirr said:

I haven't even seen this TNT yet but I have to say beforehand that I was hoping that TurboGrafx would get it's own segment: or rather its own TNT/Premium whatever. These double content things are confusing sometimes and I love retro gaming and I love XCOM - but it's kinda like watching 2 awesome movies at once which is frustrating and dumb.

Yeah, I feel like consoles should get their own TNTs. Otherwise I enjoy those two game TNTs.

Edit: Pfft, the best Castlevania song is either Aquarius or Heart of Fire.

At least they mentioned they'll do a Turbo Grafx only segment at some point, yay!

Oh and I have to say my favorite Castlevania soundtrack renditions are that of Super Castlevania, they're so deliciously dark and jazzy.

Of course Dave Lang would play IRONman mode... Also, Ironman mode is the ONLY way to play this game

DEATHAMKER

When I'm in streaming mode it doesn't let me skip to where I want to go in the video

I wish they left it on Jeff talking about random old video game stuff more. I always find that stuff the most interesting.

They should do two streams BLLSL style, so there's no cross talk and weird camera angles.

The quicklook, the bombcast, and this makes me really want to play XCom now.

Wasn't this game supposed to be a FPS initially? That's what turned me off from it months ago. I haven't heard any more of it until the Bombcast.

@geirr said:

I haven't even seen this TNT yet but I have to say beforehand that I was hoping that TurboGrafx would get it's own segment: or rather its own TNT/Premium whatever.

In the chat Patrick said they're gonna do something like that with it :)

This was kind of an unwatchable clusterfuck at times, but I enjoyed it. Looking forward to the TG-16 only feature.

@TekZero said:

Wasn't this game supposed to be a FPS initially? That's what turned me off from it months ago. I haven't heard any more of it until the Bombcast.

The FPS is still alive and is called "XCOM", but it's not an FPS anymore - it's been reworked into a tactical TPP game, somewhat similar to Brothers in Arms (at least if I remember correctly) after the absolute clusterfuck that was its first announcement (and deservedly so).

But yeah, it's a separate game to XCOM: EU, set in a different universe in a different time frame, but part of the same franchise.

Oh sweet jesus, Nega-Ryan has cometh.

"Blat blat blat!"

Dual screen TNT again... Fuck this shit.

I used to think Bad Dudes had the greatest storyline in all of gaming, but this tennis game just leaves it in the dust.

@EthanielRain said:

@geirr said:

I haven't even seen this TNT yet but I have to say beforehand that I was hoping that TurboGrafx would get it's own segment: or rather its own TNT/Premium whatever.

In the chat Patrick said they're gonna do something like that with it :)

Yeah they mentioned it in the video too. Here's hoping!

I wish they hadn't focused on XCOM so much in this, they've shown so much and talked so much of it that the focus being more on the TurboGrafx would have been way more interesting.

@simkas:

I think we might be seeing more turbografx later.

Beard Shoemaker

The quicklook, the bombcast, and this makes me really want to play XCom now.

Wasn't this game supposed to be a FPS initially? That's what turned me off from it months ago. I haven't heard any more of it until the Bombcast.

nothing gives me more pleasure than watching Brad lose >:P

beard shoemaker

holy shit dave lang kicks ass

@misclet: beard shoemaker is the best shoemaker

The double feed is pretty distracting, kind of getting information overload.

@Rocospi said:

The double feed is pretty distracting, kind of getting information overload.

As much as I said I liked it the first couple times, it did get a little crazy during the start here. They can't have both "teams" on screen talking at once really.

I liked it for the first few times because one or the other of the games wasn't particularly interesting to watch (Torchlight/Borderlands). I think that's the only time it really works well.