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Unprofessional Fridays: 06/27/14

In honor of the Steam sale, we turn UPF into TSRL and try a bunch of weird games before YOU buy them. Or not.

The end of the week is here! You made it! Let's sit back, relax, and close the week out in style with some video games.

Jun. 27 2014

Cast: Jeff, Danny, Drew, Matt, Alexis

Posted by: Drew

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I agree this was a great show, and hope they'll do something like this again.

This also made me buy Next Car Game, the first "racing" game I bought in I think 3 years.

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Honestly and without irony, I think i need that You Need a Budget

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@counterclockwork87: Agree, absolutely love the attitude of Jeff and everyone. Would love to see more of this energy.

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So Marvel Heroes looks pretty cool, I'm gonna have to dick around with that for a bit.

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Fantastic content, thank you dudes!

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This was the best UPF in months. I was starting to lose hope. This made me happy. Watch about half of it so far.

I wish I could jump around the video easier than the video player allows. I usually end up downloading the mp4 because it's quicker/easier if I'm not going to watch the whole thing in one sitting. This one was 6.8GB...

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4 hours! That's a lot of unprofessionalism!

Also, 60fps Jeff!

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@assinass: This is great, thanks for culturing me. Looks like I got some content to watch.

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Glad to see Jeff in a good mood

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Cool, new people this week, that's what jeff said at the end. Get hype for new people!!

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Really great episode!

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@cold_blooded_chiller said:

Cricket 2005 (EA Sports) for PS2 is easily the best action cricket game available (but has a STATISTICS section which is completely broken despite the 2004 version having no such problems). The Codemasters games were more fun and Bradman seems to be a similar type of game.

If people want to play a decent cricket game, probably better of going the strategy route where I'd suggest a look at "International Cricket Captain III". Effectively the game puts you in the role of coach, so during a match which you decide player aggression, fielding positions etc. Really good game, difficult too. You can watch the match being played and it has commentary from the same bloke that does the Codemasters games.

The Bradman game plays quite similarly the to codemasters games but definitely has a lot more nuance to it. For instance, the Bradman game includes things like batsman expectation... three outswingers followed by an inswinger will surprise a batsman and have more of an effect than just bowling all inswingers for example. At higher skill levels, you have to get cute with things like varying delivery speeds, lengths, and lines all with the subtlest touch to the right stick during delivery. Batting also has a greater sense of 'feel' to it with foot movement and timing mattering just as much as playing the right shot to a delivery. Basically this is the best skill-based cricket simulation so far. Which is going to either sound amazing or dreadful depending on basic interest of the player in the sport in the first place!

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Holy crap! You guys played the game from the studio that I work at and contribute towards towards making a better game?! That just blew my mind.

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It really made me excited to see Jeff feeling good... I hope we can see this more often (not only for our viewing sake). I like to see people being in a good place.

Very excited to see the new people but I really hope it doesn't mean we see less of Drew. I totally dig the positive vibes he brings to everything he is in.

And GB New York getting started is super exciting!

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It's nice to see Jeff in a gloriously good mood \o/

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As an Australian, the unwitting sacrilegious treatment of national treasure Don Bradman was goddamn amazing.

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Anyone else having weird video player issues with this video? It refuses to play if manually set to HD. It only works in Streaming/Auto but as usual, in spite of having a fast connection, it keeps dropping down to low quality. Normally I just set HD and it plays fine but it won't start. :(

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HA! I use YNAB

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This was a gem of a show!

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@rorie I applaud for your efforts of trying to pronounce a Finnish last name.

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Is Burnout Paradise still a great game without any Friends List stuff?

I've tried to play it, but always felt like it was not built for one lone person to fully enjoy.

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Drew Scanlon, director/actor.

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60FPS JEFF IS GENIUS.

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I can't seem to get this video to play.. I'm not having any issues with any other videos on the site. Anyone have any ideas on what I need to do?

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That's some fine poll work, Rorie. Mighty fine.

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awesome upf

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Welp, here I go, downloading Burnout Paradise yet again. I never did get around to getting that platinum Hawker on the PC... I wonder...

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Holy cow the 60 fps video is awesome......and weird! I kinda like it, and hate it! Sweet!

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Long Live The Queen is deceptively complicated and brutal. It only looks cute on the surface.

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I can't explain it but I found the You Need A Budget segment to be hilarious.

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Late comment, great UPF. I got my Putt-Putt fix.

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WHAT THE FUCK IS A BULLET BOB, @rorie?!

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2:59:35 MY GOD, MATT RORIE, genius.

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Thank you, Matt Rorie, for going so hard on explaining Silver Surfer.

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Have the guys played BeamNG yet? Much prefer the destruction in that, way more impressive.

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Jeff! Rorie needs more salary,so he can buy socks without holes in em' xD

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Man, Next Car Game looks fantastic.

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Burnout Paradise Crash Mode... If that wasn't an addition to the game, I went all these years thinking it was a lesser game because it didn't have it!

Although it still doesn't have the sort of intricately set up levels that Revenge had, where there was a theoretical highest achievable score.

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Being an Australian the fastest I've gotten from Steam is about 4.5mb/s and that is faster than about half my friends.

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Toribash is fucking crazy.

I love it.

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Drew always has the best shoes.

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Hi I'm Don Bradman!

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Eat a dick, Fatty Bear

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lol you monsters choose Bad Rats as the 1st game???

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alexis and danny were totally fucking with drew love the long stream guys looking forward to more keep it real guys