Jeremy808

Yes I would like a shady business trip massage. Hook it up, fam.

I don't have either yet, I just have the base launch versions of both consoles, but even with just those and having gotten an 4K HDR tv about 6 months ago has gotten me itching to upgrade both consoles. I really feel like the 4K HDR tv is the key to the equation in all of this. Even just having a base model PS4 that does HDR on my tv now feels like a game changer for the games that support it. It kind of amazes me that the base PS4 can do HDR and was added support with a patch afterwards. To the point that it makes me angry that my base Xbox One can't do the same. Like obviously because it doesn't even go up to 1080p and sits around 900. It's just all the more reason for you to wonder what the fuck they were thinking with the Xbox One.

I'm eventually going to get a One X and Pro, i'm just kind of torn on which to get first. Now it seems like the One X with more power is the platform poised to become the place to play a lot of multi platform third party stuff, but then again that's also kinda it besides their 1-2 exclusives a year now. I barely turn on my base Xbox One as it is...

Just saw this old thread pop up and read through it, i'm pretty new to the series with just having played 0 and Kiwami last year, although it's a series I always wanted to check out and just never did.

Reading through this thread and seeing people's puzzlement at Majima's turn at the end makes me feel like everyone either didn't pay attention or skipped that scene at the end with Sagawa when Majima basically tells him that Sagawa and Nishitani inspired him and it was kind of like his own little way of saying "there's only so much time on this earth so i'm gonna get a little weird with it".

Granted I haven't played yet the rest of the series where apparently more of Majima's backstory is explained, but that's how I interpreted his turn.

My thoughts: I really liked it. It had some rad body horror stuff. I didn't care for the first Cloverfield. Found footage style films are cool and all but I felt like it was a gimmick that that movie leaned on too much and so was the arg surrounding it, and the whole series so far actually, I largely don't pay attention to that aspect of it. I really liked Cloverfield Lane though. I think it's kind of neat what they've done with these three Cloverfield movies. Like, they could have just made a Cloverfield 2, and Cloverfield 3, and had those be found footage style monster movies as well. And i'm sure people would have liked them and they would have made money. But instead they did something, which I think is far more interesting, and kind of turned these movies into sort of this weird anthology type series of movies where each movie is different than the last, in a different genre, from found footage (Cloverfield) to psychological horror (Cloverfield Lane) to sci-fi horror (Cloverfield Paradox) and they're all loosely connected in the same fictional universe. That's kind of cool.

Agree. Sometimes I feel like, even often listening to the Beastcast, that many times the other staff members of Giant Bomb don't really feel comfortable having a heated discussion or challenging Abby. I'm not sure why that is although I can make a couple guesses. So they just back down or don't really call her out on it.

I'm pretty happy with this. The only thing that would make it better is if they just had her (as well as the other former voice actors from the previous season) come in and re record lines. I don't particularly feel bad for the new voice actor. It is what it is. She's done a serviceable job but it's just not the same and won't ever be. When you're playing it you tend to forget, and there's long stretches where she kinda sounds similar enough that you just go with it, but then there's other times where it's so different it's jarring. Before The Storm ended up being a real good season and addition to the franchise in spite of the problems, the new voice actors and different developer. It's like Gregg Miller said on the bombcast about a month ago, this had no business being as good as it ended up being.

As far as people's concerns on adding in Ashly Burch in the middle of it, or tacking it on, this episode was always planned. My understanding is this episode is coming out last specifically because the developers were waiting and hoping that the strike would end soon, so that they could have Hannah Telle come back as Max specifically since you play as Max. So it ended up working out that it did and Ashly is coming back too. Which sort of begs the question on why they didn't just wait a few more months altogether and the whole season could have been Ashly Burch reprising Chloe.

It's a fucked up situation, but ultimately as said above, net positive.

Super Nintendo or S-N-E-S spelled out

Like said above by others, I had never heard in thirty something years of my life someone just call it SNES (as one word) until Giant Bomb.

I usually tend to start to tune out or lose interest once the podcast starts the email/corrections/postcard/kisses portion.

I think a lot of the emails that get sent in and read aren't that good, the post cards section is lame. I don't know. The only bad part about skipping it is sometimes they tend to include some banter in between and then that gets referenced next week or becomes some sort of running gag throughout pods later. So now because you didn't listen to arguably the lamest part of the pod, you're not in on the joke later. Soooo.. yeah, i don't know.

I'm about 50/50 these days. It really depends. But the library I have for each of my consoles is about half physical and half digital. Actually for Xbox One I only actually own maybe 3-4 physical disks for it. But I have a ton of games on it that are digital. Then again I have a bunch of 360 games that are back compatible with it too. For PS4 I have a ton of physical disks, but about the same number of digital games too.

For me it just comes down to price and availability. And i'm getting lazier to where it sure is a lot more convenient in not having to physically swap disks than just go to the game in the library on the console and start it up.

It also depends on how much i'm looking forward to a game. If I literally want to play it on release, the minute it releases, then i'll usually preorder digitally rather than waiting to go to the store the next day. It's really nice to be able to pre order and preload a game and then play it, usually at 11PM or midnight the minute it unlocks.

I'm more inclined to buy physical when it's a game that goes on sale at Best Buy or something within a month or two when the digital copy is still full price. At the same time i'm more inclined to buy digital when there's a really good deal on a PSN flash sale or something. I'm usually pretty good at shopping around before buying, so when I see a digital flash sale I usually look to see what the same game is at pricewise physical.

I know it's more or less unfounded at this point but having an entire digital collection of games still makes me uneasy simply for the fact of not knowing what happens or what will happen to those games. And not having a physical, tangible copy that is "mine". There's still stories every now and then of games just disappearing or being changed because of licensing issues. That's still one of my main hangups on preferring physical sometimes.

I have it for 360 and have been thinking a lot lately about playing it again because I don't remember much of it when I played through it originally. Thinking ill just pick up this remaster instead.