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Oh no they totally were not 'into' the game, but by the end, Vinny said it was like climbing a mountain and it wasnt Dan who said they need to play 2... it was actually Alex, in the final episode was like "You know this means we need to play Shenmue 2." lol.. so I think they have some interest beyond just Dan.. more of a sheer morbid curiosity than anything, I think... which as we know, morbid curiosity is the GiantBomb way lol

Hey everyone,

So my favorite series on the site is arguably the Shenmue Endurance Run. The voice acting, Vinny, Alex and Dans reactions to it all, just being blown the fuck away when they would get somewhere and it was like "'come back tomorrow" and made them waste like 20+ minutes doing nothing.. sheer insanity lol.

I just wanted to know, cause I dont absorb EVERY piece of Giantbomb content, have they ever mentioned trying Shenmue 2 out? I only ask cause I was considering playing it for myself (never have played it, but the endurance run made me curious).... but Id prefer to watch the GBeast go thru it with some laughs.

So does anyone know if theyve mentioned a Shenmue 2 playthru at any point? Didnt know if it was one of those things they decided against, at the end of the Endurance Run they seemed pretty 'into' the idea of doing Shenmue 2.. just was curious what their current 'status' on this might be.

Thanks for your time and please stay safe and stay on LOCKDOWN. 2020.

@sethmode: If I was told I could only play one Souls game ever again, including all the clones, not hate on em - but if i had to pick ONE, desert island situation..

Id go with Dark Souls 2. Is it as meticulously crafted as the others? No, I dont think so. I think its a fantastic game; but like Bloodborne is almost perfection in regards to gameplay and design.

All that being said - I can beat Bloodborne in a single sitting (and have done so with Dark Souls 1)

Dark Souls 2, legitimately, probably has around double the content of every other game in the series. Is it AS GOOD of content moment to moment? Probably not; it does excel at some things, though.

But if I had to pick one cause you were sending me away to a desert island and giving me a PC... Ill take DS2 with DLCs and accept my dark fate as the Accursed Undead...

I would have rather been a posh Hunter; but, Yharnam is a small place :(

lol

Just needed to spread some DS2 love as well

@wemmick: Thanks for taking the time to respond - and yeah, that would be awesome if you guys could get that up and running. I often leave GB on while doing work or chores and being able to queue up a few random videos would be appreciated 100% by me.

that being said, digging the new site, good work and again, thanks for responding!

Hey everyone, it seems like with the remodeled site we can build a watchlist for certain series - like when i search shows i can click 'add to watchlist' - but this isnt appearing for every video..

for instance, im trying to watch Gotta God Hand, wanted to just put them in a watchlist but when i 'search' for them, i dont see the option to 'add to playlist' anywhere.

Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks for any help!

I was just chatting with a friend about Vampyr and we got to talking about Bloodlines and just realized its probably not a game id go thru again - but i could totally see it being a cool series for Giantbomb to play through. Its rough around the edges these days but not many people got to play it, and for those of you who missed out on it - its basically Deus Ex gameplay, but with different races of vampires with different skills

Just thought this might make for a cool game for one of the coasts to try to do a playthru of - it was pretty damn cool when it came out... too bad about the developers getting shut down though

I wouldnt restrict Vinny from calling in help by any means. Some of BB's bosses are actually quite tough due to how it does scaling, even with coop.

It would be GREAT if No Mans Sky makes a sweet series... But i think that game is gonna be garbage.

People are gonna play about 5-15 hours, realize its essentially just a big Rogue Like, recycling the same damn environments again and again - or maybe not, but the environments being so barren and boring no one cares.

I foresee No Mans Sky being "most disapointing game of the year"; even beating out Dark Souls 3.

I think people are way way way way way way way overestimating the 'fun' of a procedurally generated world. I could even make a Bloodborne comparison here - Chalice dungeons were essentially the procedurally generated version of the game's content and it was fucking garbage. Just like Dark Cloud's dungeons, just like most rogue like games.

No Mans Sky will be the space equivalent of that.. a few people will be flipping out OMG for a few weeks, but once everyone visits about 10-15 planets and realizes theyre barren wastelands full of nothing to do... then youll see the truth of that game coming to light in people's eyes.

So, Im with ya, I hope its cool, id love a FPS Kerbal adventure lol.. but im not at all hopeful in that game, meanwhile, we have Bloodborne here and now.. and we know its pretty goddamn rad :)

@ivdamke: Also Bloodborne goes beyond a game to me with its foreray into Cosmic Horror. Cosmic horror is one of the most tantalizing subjects in entertainment, in my mind.

Because its not just entertainment.. its the human condition. Questioning ourselves, questioning our reality.. the implications of existence and what it would mean if there were these "higher level" creatures in our universe just playing with us... or even worse - not playing with us cause we are absolutely insignificant.

When the implications of cosmic horror set into Bloodborne i think it elevates the game above the sum of its parts. The "eyes on the inside" concept has been around for a long time, the idea of being able to see 'beyond' into what the universe truly is, what it has to offer... and usually that results in madness because the universe truly has nothing to offer, just endless torment and eventual death as our bodies succumb to age,death and disease.

its the futility of the question that drives cosmic horror - you shouldnt even bother asking questions is the twisted message of the genre - but asking those questions is innate, its human nature.. so we ask them.. only to be disapointed by the results... and in worst case scenarios, madness ensues.

So Bloodborne isnt just 'gross out' to me, its philosophical and even a commentary on the human condition, the thirst for knowledge, this innate human need being a hopeless endeavor that results in nothing but misery, pain, madness and death.. because there is no purpose... as much as we wish and hope there was... we ask those questions to find a purpose only to realize asking those questions proved to us our greatest fear : Nothing matters. Your hopes, your dreams, your loves, your thoughts - youre just a sack of meat waiting to die.

So.. im big into Cosmic Horror and BB delivers in spades

edit: i should be honest.. i really want them to play so we can see if Alex's head explodes ala Scanners as he further questions reality and the implications of existence :P lol

@ivdamke: I think that might be because Dark Souls 3 was far and away the worst of the series.

People can bitch and moan about Dark Souls 2 all day - Id play that again over 3 in a heartbeat.

3 is just a clusterfuck.. i dont know how they messed it up so bad. They somehow took Dark Souls and integrated Bloodborne in in the worst way possible..

I dunno, Dark Souls 3 took me about the same time to beat as Bloodborne and I was pretty.goddamn.pissed.off.

I was okay with Bloodborne being a tighter experience - cause that was the whole point of it. Tighter combat, less options, but more visceral (literally visceral attacks :P ) but a new setting with utterly unique monsters and concepts...

Dark Souls 3 I expected to be walking into an expansive world like DS1 or DS2 and I got a streamlined Dark Souls that felt more like a bastardization of Dark Souls and Bloodborne - without the charm of either.

I will say this for DS3 tho - totally works in VR. Played thru 70% of it tho with a 2 handed melee character and loved every second of it.. but again, 70% of it on a follow up playthru was like 13 or 14 hours... no where near the depth and length of DS1 or DS2 to me... and it didnt have the absolutely engrossing setting that Bloodborne had.

Basically.. Dark Souls 3 either needed more time or needed to go back to the drawing board 100%. I still dont understand how the Souls community acted like they were impressed by this one.. its been far and away the most disapointing of the series, worst than their initial attempt at this genre with Demons Souls, in my opinion.