Thursday Night Throwdown: 11/03/11

woot i missed this live now i can watch

Wow I totally forgot about TNT. And I was playing Uncharted 3 earlier too . . . XD

Great TNT!

awesome TNT i played alot

Perfect time

This started at 12 AM here, but I was too fucking tired to watch it live. Gotta love the archiving :)

Brad needs to be on TNT more!

Didn't start watching this yet. So I think its safe to assume it is going to be a late night.

Wait, so now TNT is premium? Is it still free for people to watch live, though?

<- Not that it matters me me, note the bling. I'm just curious.

Ah, so the tricaster is back. The quality didn't seem up to snuff during the live broadcast, then again, I wasn't really paying attention and I probably didn't up the resolution, if any, to take advantage of its return.

"Hang out with that guy, he's got a gun"

I failed to save you Ryan, I'm sorry.

Man, the picture quality is so much better in these archived versions... Makes me almost want to wait a few hours to watch it.

@onan: On-site TNT archives have always been premium, at least as far as I remember.

@onan: The archives on this site are premium only. You can still view it live or on the Justin.tv archive for free.

Also, I'm sorry Brad! You just kept on running into me. <3

@onan said:

Wait, so now TNT is premium? Is it still free for people to watch live, though?

<- Not that it matters me me, note the bling. I'm just curious.

I think TNTs can still be watched for free on Justin.tv.

Wait what happened to the tricaster?

Wow I totally forgot about TNT. And I was playing Uncharted 3 earlier too . . . XD

After watching the Battlefield 3 TNT (which had a great player), and this one, I really think Thursday Night Throwdown would benefit from finding someone that can actually play the game's muliplayer very well, even if it's not necessarily someone in the office (this would be a great way to implement the community). That way, the Giant Bomb crew can commentate without worrying about playing well in the game. Because honestly, it's always painful to watch multiple deaths as a result of stupid, bone-headed mis-sights or unfamiliarity.

@GeneralDAS said:

After watching the Battlefield 3 TNT (which had a great player), and this one, I really think Thursday Night Throwdown would benefit from finding someone that can actually play the game's muliplayer very well, even if it's not necessarily someone in the office (this would be a great way to implement the community). That way, the Giant Bomb crew can commentate without worrying about playing well in the game. Because honestly, it's always painful to watch multiple deaths as a result of stupid, bone-headed mis-sights or unfamiliarity.

Or it could be extremley funny. No one is here to watch them play like pro's.

@GeneralDAS said:

After watching the Battlefield 3 TNT (which had a great player), and this one, I really think Thursday Night Throwdown would benefit from finding someone that can actually play the game's muliplayer very well, even if it's not necessarily someone in the office (this would be a great way to implement the community). That way, the Giant Bomb crew can commentate without worrying about playing well in the game. Because honestly, it's always painful to watch multiple deaths as a result of stupid, bone-headed mis-sights or unfamiliarity.

..Wouldnt that completely ruin the entire point of TNT?

Dat FACE!

@spazmaster666 said:

Wow I totally forgot about TNT. And I was playing Uncharted 3 earlier too . . . XD

Same here! Trying to finish the single player since I've already played multiplayer for a whole month.

I physically wince every time they zoom down a zipline by just grabbing it.

Fountain dance of death!!!

@Stubee said:

I physically wince every time they zoom down a zipline by just grabbing it.

I know right? by all accounts their hands should be on fire or something lol.

I really do think the aiming in Uncharted 3 is worse than Uncharted 2. Not much worse.... but worse. Thankfully the environments are more open allowing greater use of physical takedowns. Enemies also don't have that much health. But the aiming is worse. I had little problem with Uncharted 2's aiming.... but there were sections in Uncharted 3 in which I almost threw down my controller in frustration (in particular, one gun battle in the "Settlement" chapter. You know what I'm talking about). I also dislike how they prioritized Drake's animation over the Player's control - sometimes Drake would do these little, meaningless animations that you just know were put in there to make it more "immersive" and "realistic", but do nothing except annoy me and make Drake more difficult to control.

Still - Love Uncharted 3. Great game. Wonderful game. Not as memorable or as exciting as Uncharted 2... but it's still an awesome game. Takes a while to get going though. Uncharted 3 only starts really picking up steam at the half-way point. The beginning sections of U3 are..... kinda boring or silly. Uncharted 2 was great throughout (except for those fucking blue guys).

I'd love to watch this on my iPad, but only the HTML5 stream is showing. I've been seeing a lot of variable video options and quality since the YouTube integration, hopefully the Top Men can find a methodology that works to ensure consistency at least.

Because honestly, it's always painful to watch multiple deaths as a result of stupid, bone-headed mis-sights or unfamiliarity.

I guess they changed back to the original format of TNT?

I really enjoyed the Gears 3 TNT with 5 guys from the office just playing Co-op together.

@StormHarbinger: Uh, just click the big play button? I was watching this on my iPad not too long ago.

Haha my spiders got them at the end :D

Ooh.

Woo I can watch TNT without sacrificing precious sleep!

@StormHarbinger said:

I'd love to watch this on my iPad, but only the HTML5 stream is showing. I've been seeing a lot of variable video options and quality since the YouTube integration, hopefully the Top Men can find a methodology that works to ensure consistency at least.

If you are logged in as a premium member the site should be in its mobile form which allows you to stream video off of the whiskey media sites.

Props to whoever drops from above to High Five Ryan.

I'm still kinda bummed that this is a ps3 exclusive. the only game I care about that, with my 360, wii, and expensive ass pc, I can't play.

time to find a let's play on sa if I can.

I watch this every Friday night when I get home from work and drink a few beers. TNT is how I know the weekend has began!

@OneManX said:

@GeneralDAS said:

After watching the Battlefield 3 TNT (which had a great player), and this one, I really think Thursday Night Throwdown would benefit from finding someone that can actually play the game's muliplayer very well, even if it's not necessarily someone in the office (this would be a great way to implement the community). That way, the Giant Bomb crew can commentate without worrying about playing well in the game. Because honestly, it's always painful to watch multiple deaths as a result of stupid, bone-headed mis-sights or unfamiliarity.

..Wouldnt that completely ruin the entire point of TNT?

QFT.

@GeneralDAS said:

After watching the Battlefield 3 TNT (which had a great player), and this one, I really think Thursday Night Throwdown would benefit from finding someone that can actually play the game's muliplayer very well, even if it's not necessarily someone in the office (this would be a great way to implement the community). That way, the Giant Bomb crew can commentate without worrying about playing well in the game. Because honestly, it's always painful to watch multiple deaths as a result of stupid, bone-headed mis-sights or unfamiliarity.

I had the same thought during the last TNT, but then I thought of all the funny things we've witnessed because of their terrible players.

@GeneralDAS said:

After watching the Battlefield 3 TNT (which had a great player), and this one, I really think Thursday Night Throwdown would benefit from finding someone that can actually play the game's muliplayer very well, even if it's not necessarily someone in the office (this would be a great way to implement the community). That way, the Giant Bomb crew can commentate without worrying about playing well in the game. Because honestly, it's always painful to watch multiple deaths as a result of stupid, bone-headed mis-sights or unfamiliarity.

Yeah I don't watch TNT to see someone who is really good at the game, there are a whole bunch of JTV feeds that can give you that if you want. I was bored to death by the Battlefield 3 TNT, since Mike actually knew what he was doing and was actually trying to play the game. Honestly, that's why I don't like watching Brad play on TNT either, because he seems to actively avoid trying interesting things or having fun playing games.

How the fuck can Brad say he doesn't know whats different (if anything) from Uncharted 2 and 3 multiplayer? He reviewed the fucking game... More importantly why is it okay that they just ripped the multiplayer out of 2 and put it into 3.

Duders, from my experience, the frame interpolation thing kills a lot of the quick response times modern displays have. To the point where it affects gameplay (especially for fighting games) in a very bad way. I suggest you try and turn it off again, maybe then you don´t suck as much with the melee stuff! Just a friendly suggestion.. I know talking and playing blah blah, please don´t kill me, comments :D

Oh man, what time is that thumbnail from? That stare...

@bcjohnnie said:

@GeneralDAS said:

After watching the Battlefield 3 TNT (which had a great player), and this one, I really think Thursday Night Throwdown would benefit from finding someone that can actually play the game's muliplayer very well, even if it's not necessarily someone in the office (this would be a great way to implement the community). That way, the Giant Bomb crew can commentate without worrying about playing well in the game. Because honestly, it's always painful to watch multiple deaths as a result of stupid, bone-headed mis-sights or unfamiliarity.

Yeah I don't watch TNT to see someone who is really good at the game, there are a whole bunch of JTV feeds that can give you that if you want. I was bored to death by the Battlefield 3 TNT, since Mike actually knew what he was doing and was actually trying to play the game. Honestly, that's why I don't like watching Brad play on TNT either, because he seems to actively avoid trying interesting things or having fun playing games.

I understand what you are saying, but I found the first 20 minutes (turned it off after that) terribly annoying to watch. Sure doing dumb stuff is funny, if you are actually trying things out. This was just running around like a headless chicken and getting killed all the time. Maybe it got better after that.

@jozzy: Fair enough, I didn't think this was a particularly good TNT, I just find these things are at their most boring when someone really cares about their performance in the game, rather than making a good show. This was why I was happy they had been varying the format up a bit with different kinds of games and game modes lately. I hope they get back to that eventually.

@bcjohnnie said:

@jozzy: Fair enough, I didn't think this was a particularly good TNT, I just find these things are at their most boring when someone really cares about their performance in the game, rather than making a good show. This was why I was happy they had been varying the format up a bit with different kinds of games and game modes lately. I hope they get back to that eventually.

Yeah, I totally agree with that.

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Batzman better show up in this TNT.

@Buckfitches said:

Batzman better show up in this TNT.

this

Jeff looked like he was not into it.