Vinny Bought Bot Colony. Now What?

@1:21:25 Everyone knows cyber ninjas can't cross water.

Amazing Video! Still gold!

Apparently Bot Colony is still active and as of May 5th 2021 just posted an updated about being implemented in the current Unreal Engine.

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The best solo content on the site.

Still amazing in 2020

According to Wikipedia, "The natural language processing technology cost $20 million and the game itself $2 to $3 million to the developer... Bot Colony was cancelled on January 29, 2015 because of low sales; it had sold 814 units and made $10,000 of revenue."

@kirkdouglas: Hey thanks. Genuinely did not expect a response, so much appreciated.

See kids? Always try. Always.

Originally it was just Alex out there, he did Bombing in the AM with Scoops and the Wolf, with Patrick, who I think was in Chicago at the time. Then Vinny moved out there and they tried to build a PC

This video falls in somewhere between Vinny moving out there and building the PC.

So this just went live as a Premium Unlock so I figured I'd post here asking for context.

What is going on? Why is Giant Beast from 2014 just Vinny alone in front of a web cam?! Was he all alone in New York at first?I

Also; it worked. This is gold.

Does Andrew Philips still work at Giant Bomb?

Nothing will stop me watching Bot Colony.

GB TV IS A POLICE STATE

My body hurts from laughter.

Did you mean?

Bot Colony - still seeing updates as late as December 2017. Still probably a giant piece of garbage.

Man, a followup video would be great. It qualifies as an Unfinished still, if that tells you anything.

Oh my god, just I just found this through The Best of Series. 15 minutes in and I'm in tears laughing!

Going through the classics and just found out that this video exists, lets do this!

I watched the QL a while ago and I think that this game is true art, its absolutely can be seen like some sort of absurdist abstract statement. Its like saying things through a filter and weird words come out that somehow still make sense from the perspectives from the game but not the player and that makes it into a complete laugh riot.

I'm glad that the community love the game enough to save it. These are the true heroes of our times.

EDIT: "Thats wrong!" "Yes, you are wrong!" this has to be the funniest thing I've seen in a very long time.

THIS

IS

THE

RUN

This is the first time I've seen this in it's entirety and it was definitely worth it. Jimmy and Vinny/Andrew/Phillips/what is you name are a great team.

PUT DOWN THE PEPPER GRINDER

This video never gets old. The way Vinny flips out is priceless.

I'm an Engineer and I occasionally work with a piece of shit software, that I thought had the worst speech training setup ever...but this is just hilarious. Vinny seems to think so as well. Good times.

God this video is funny. But there's a sad sorry behind Bot Colony:

Pulling the plug on Bot Colony

But it looks like there might be light at the end of the tunnel for the devs:

Community Support Keeps Bot Colony Alive!

Insanity starts at 1:30:00

So basically you talk to Microsoft Sam with an Ipad, great video. I can't wait for games like this to get better so they understand different accents, and speech patterns or even just understand what the hell you are saying.

What we see here is commercial voice-over Vinny in training.

what the Faulk is wrong with you Jimmy?!

I love you, Vinny. You are the best, unequivocally.

When GBNY was announced, I said they needed more than two guys.

I rescind that statement.

Rewatching this while I work. That moment 23 minutes in, after Vinny has read a novella of backstory for the voice trainer, when the gibberish characters appear - THE BEST SHIT EVER.

You cant write an ending to a quick look better than that. Thats why GB is what it is, its not the quantity of content, its those spontaneous moments and personalities. Vinny is one of a kind and lucky to have him provide this kind of fun entertainment.

Game of the year

Just Jimmy things

This is some of the best Giant Bomb content in years.

I'm exhausted from laughing.

Why did Jimmy walk off to be by himself in the hallway? And this guy must be the stupidest and laziest spy every if he can't even do things like close doors and not reverse the positions of salt and pepper grinders and instead makes a robot do it for him while he stands outside staring in the window masturbating to the robot cleaning the house.

Holy fucking shit I haven't laughed so hard in a year. So glad I decided to watch this at home rather then in the office :P

Vinny you're the best.

Vinny: In your ass

Game: a mature acts

I just completely lost it there.

WE NEED AN ENDURANCE RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This was magical and Vinny was the perfect man for the job, hell, perhaps the only man who could have survived as long as he did. Jeff would have peaced after 5 minutes. Haven't laughed that much in a long time. One of the best videos on the site, bravo Giantbomb East, I was worried about the move but I'm glad we're getting even more Vinny content than ever.

try downloading maybe?

This video stays as a black screen every time I try to play it and won't let me change the quality to try html etc, someone help :(

edit fixed it

Vinny's beard is haggard as shit.

This video is destined to be a classic.

Thank to you, Vinny. And thank you to the creator(s) of Bot Colony who has been commenting here, the things you have been posting are super interesting (=

It's safe to say that Jimmy will not be leading the robot revolt...

this is hall of fame funny

Vinny is looking so disappointed whilst playing this. That father patience in action!

Well that was entertaining. It's an alright looking game, though needs a little work, and maybe something funky happened with the voice config at the start.