Unprofessional Fridays: 05/02/2014

Matt was hilarious on this one.

Alan wake 2 would be sah-weet, but I'm not holding my breath. :(

I'd buy wayward souls on the vita. Controls like fucking shit on my ipad sadly.

will watch again for the parts i missed, last night was a shambles

Sulky Brad is best Brad. Too funny.

Ahh the Brad multiplayer smack talk, always and without fail the precursor to a horrendous loss and extreme levels of Salty attitude.

For some reason the Titanic game makes me think of that Encarta interactive maze game.

Yeeee...his perfectly hairless, shiny legs really freak me out.

"Who is that, on top of me?" -Brad Shoemaker, 2014.

nice kicks @jeff! are they some kind of special edition SB janoskis?

Jeff's intro smile was too amazing. Maybe too professional.

Nothing makes me happier than seeing @brad lose and get sulky, especially after mad hubris.

@thatonedudenick: just download them... he wrote as he immediately realized the ps4 removed that. well, use a ps3 I guess, like me.

Really curious to how that Titanic game was animated because it reminds me a lot of Archer.

Omg when Drew said "Its Not My Fault you picked this" amazing.

Always great to see Brad lose after talking shit.

I remember really liking that Titanic game as a kid, just going around exploring the ship from a historical aspect seemed so cool. The endgame consists of beating down the bad guy inside a smokestack! Never thought I'd see this game ever again, much less here on GB.

In all seriousness, I fucking love Dust: A Tale of the Wired West.

"I can't get it up" -Jeff 2014

Did Giant Bomb just make a reference to Dragonball Z The AbridgedSeries with that Mr Popo impression? I wasn't expecting that.

Yeah, but coming off Dark Souls 2 it feels like all fog doors are just doors to bosses. Haha. I remember getting into trouble with that because I was totally like "There can't be another boss behind here, I fought one five minutes ago."

But that Titanic game was amazing! Probably some of the creepiest animation I've ever seen.

I still have to use a bent paperclip to get discs out of my 360 sometimes :(

Wow, I remember playing that Titanic game when I was a kid! Pretty sure I didn't know you could talk to people since all I did was stand around waiting to see if the ship would sink if you took too long.

@deadpanjazman said:

I think the default values do the game a bit of a disservice since most new players will score at most 2 points and then soon after be back to 0-0. I think the trick might be to jack up the scores for a goal or yeah eliminate the ring-out penalty.

Yup

If I die via shooting, I will do my damnedest to make my last words be "Mein leben!"

Yeah I think taking a second or two to re-spawn is penalty enough, allowing the other team a better chance to score and all.

I like Drew's hair.

Rats off to ya!

"I slept with my back door open last night, if you know what I'm sayin'." -Jeff Gerstmann, 2014

I approve of the Janoskis

Loved the fireworks conversation... good fireworks are so much fun. Our local shady guy used to traffic the good shit into NY. It was insanely fun to get a giant variety box of crazy, different shit. It's a blast just to see what each does and there's some really novel, clever stuff out there that we in nanny states never get to see. Those flying capsule-discs Drew mentioned were crazy because for me they'd either work phenomenally well, zipping straight up and emitting dazzling colored fountains and reports, or it'd just instantly DETONATE on the ground. The explosion was so much more than you'd expect, and cannot be safe at all... that's what's fun!

This clip from Idiot Abroad is relevant:

Oh shit Titanic. The people were as scary then as they are now. Made for a great "something very bad is about to happen" atmosphere though. Also introduced me to the Rubaiyat and Omar Khayyam. Adventure games, always educational! I have learned an alarming amount of history from games, and even how to do base 8 and base 16 math (Rama).

Woah, that Barabariball Poleriders stage actually does look like the Princeton fountain. Did the devs go there?

@meansoup: I think Bennett Foddy (the designer) used to be a professor there or something.

I just realized that Barabariball's scoring system is like tries in football. You can go for the easy 1-pointer (falling with the ball) or try for a full 2-point run.

Pretty funny how Matthew Rorie tried to play dumb, at the start, when Drew started playing Alpha Protocol.

Was that before the stream started?

i like what jeff is wearing

Damn. Jeff's "Mein Leben!" comment made me laugh loud enough that I woke up my kid. (around 15:30 - and my apologies for spelling)

Once I saw Chaser on Drew's Steam, I immediately thought about the guys over at Inside Gaming.

JEFF IS WEARING JANOSKIS!

GUYS,

JEFF IS WEARING MULTICOLOURED JANOSKIS!!

I'm so glad @drewbert didn't play Still Life. I really enjoyed it but it's not a UPF friendly game. It is a very serious and atmospheric point and click adventure game.

One of the very first areas in Dark Souls 2 has like 5 or so fog doors in a row with no bosses behind them.

That was my weak attempt at a joke. "Cold War" looked like it played a lot like Alpha Protocol.

I do believe there indeed was a bus buried in the desert which some people used to make meth in Breaking Bad.

Saltiest couch on the internet

Nope...

@faltini: You'll still get ads with a monthly membership (always been that way), but if you're a yearly member you should PM Rorie for support.

The Skull Cracker part is hilarious.

One of the things I remember about that Titanic game...it's great cutscenes...