BisonHero

Can someone direct me to the anecdote they alluded to where Dan tells a Death Stranding voice actor that it’s a 4/10 game?

Grubb shopped onto Agent 47’s head is the stuff of nightmares.

Do people have a strong attachment to the Suicide Squad in general? I skipped both movies, but I’m continuing to assume that it’s coasting on the wide popularity of Harley Quinn and no one else?

It’s just always struck me as a somewhat obscure pull from the comics compared to an Avengers or Justice League, and as much as the Warner movie and video game execs are trying to insist that people know and care about the Suicide Squad, I continue to question if that’s even remotely true.

I ask because maybe I’m an outlier among nerds, but my own gut feel is “just make a Suicide Squad game” is already a crazy gamble in the first place, let alone making it a live service shootey game (already an over saturated genre).

It definitely has the vibe of a monkey’s paw wish that multiple site users complain that Dan isn’t on the Bombcast enough, and then when he is on, the audience realizes they’re getting 2023 Dan whose vocabulary has passed the wrestling event horizon. Shoot, gimmick, heat, etc.

I do wish more of the staff were over wrestling, but sadly in the current lineup it seems like only Bakalar fits that category. Everybody else is a pretty active fan so it seems to come up all the time. Can’t win ‘em all, I guess.

Jan Ochoa *reverb on* INTEREST OF THE WEEK

@deathmetaldan: Looting Dan is a classic PUBG moment.

The comms are so remarkably bad anytime Giant Bomb ever plays a co-op game like a battle royale or PvE game like Deep Rock Galactic. It’s a time-honoured tradition. I think the only time they pulled it together was for GB Crime Crew because the feature depended on it and they had to coordinate to finish those GTA heists.

The fast forward button really saved me on this one. The Powerbombcast is its own podcast feed, and for good reason.

@xenonxylophone: lol yeah, my entire recollection of this game is that the gunplay is ROUGH and the game is much more tolerable if you spend most of your time sneaking around doing stealth melee takedowns. The hand-to-hand combat isn’t bad if you level it up a lot, I guess, but I remember there being some missions/scripted sequences where it is just not helpful.

Melee takedowns for life.

I would generally agree. Even short form stuff like This Is The Run and Going Rogue are incredible stuff.

The return of Matthew Rorie’s Alpha Protocol.

I remember having a genuinely fun time with the game. It’s very uneven, and the balance on the different skills/playstyles is way off, but on the missions where this game works, it *really* works.