Broddity

Hello!

I love this app and have been using it for years.

Recently I've had an awful lot of 'video failure' results. They don't seem to resolve.

I'm not sure if this is related to a wider issue. I saw some reports there may be other issues with video uploads in general on Giant Bomb?

Sorry if asking obvious questions. Just an uninformed GB fan looking for some advice.

Thanks!

A cheeky entry from me -

I don't think expectations were that high to begin with; but there was definitely a buzz at a certain point about this, and the fallout was a messy spectacle in the best Peter Molyneux tradition:

Curiosity: What's Inside The Cube?

5. "Mr. Needlemouse" should definitely be a villain - ideally, one impersonating Sonic.

God, Headhunter.

I truly loved that game. The soundtrack kicking in whilst you were riding the most noisy, throaty bike was banging.

Fair enough. God knows I'm slow enough in real life.

I am curious if anyone can find the first suggestion of this on GB though?

I distinctly remember Jeff suggesting "I feel like the only way Valve can make good on Half Life 3 now is if they make it some awesome VR thing, or something".

It was in a Bombcast, Unprofessional Friday, or similar.

It was the first time I heard this suggestion and it made me go "Yep, that's perfect".

I'm sure it was a while ago but when I commented on the YouTube video I got a bit of flak ("Obviously, everyone knew this").

No problem if I was simply late to the party - definitely the first time I heard it anywhere, maybe my bad - but was GB late to this, or am I the only one who first heard this suggestion and thought "Yeah, didn't occur but that would be about right"?

Firstly yes, games do look kind of amazing now and are approaching what I think I was imagining when the PS2 / Dreamcast / 360 launch hype was in full flow. I'm old and wise enough now however to ever think "we're done, can't get better".

But the stuff which most consistently has the ability to genuinely startle me is more in animation than in graphics. The moment a character does something incidental but so completely natural, or affects the environment in some way physical which has no actual bearing other than "immersion", that's the stuff which impresses me.

I think we're getting there with facial animation too. Use of motion capture has done a lot for this. I've been watching the girlfriend play Until Dawn lately and honestly the fidelity on the faces kind of blew me away.

... Or was the N64 found to have been hidden in an old SNES title or something, in a game released before the new console was unveiled to the public?

I've got a memory of it maybe being hidden in a painting (for some reason I think it was a Rare game) in the background and only noticed after the N64 released.

Or I could just be completely misremembering.

Either way, what are the all-time great great retrospective "it was there all along!" easter eggs hidden in games?

The mournful visages of tmartn, Palmer Luckey and the Konami management team - all appealing for you to mercifully release them from the Phantom Zone.

Unable to vote as there's no "Last Crusade is better" option.