I started listening at 21-22, ending college and a bad relationship, and subsequently one of the darker periods of my life. In a few days I turn 31, and man, it's a bit startling both to think that it's been ten years since those times and also that through those rough times (all the way through later, tougher times) and the present and future, the Bombcast and cast of Giantbomb have made my weeks so much better over the last decade, so, so much better. Everyone added something and kept my attention, informed on something or inspired me to start learning or goofing in areas I'd never considered or would discover on my own. It's video games, it's entertainment, and so many people can sum up what I'm trying to say better; but through rough times and good times, thank you Giant Bomb Dot com for everything you do and congratulations!
@eternalgamer2: I hear you, but I'd let it go or learn to forgive it. Media is a different world than blue collar working class status where times are tough 80% of the time, where 4k tv talk is almost comical in just how unrealistic and in contrast to every-day life it sounds. I have to go into hearing about other people's lives conditioned that they've achieved somehow a level of comfort and success that affords them access and at times petty complaints about what sound like luxuries- at the end I manage to not care much- understanding that it's just people talking. They are about as aware of how entitled a position they hold is as about everyone these days is, myself included. For example, I am privileged enough to type a comment on the internet, many people are not.
Still, I hear ya, stay tough and maybe one day we too can complain about trips to san-francisco and 4k tvs.
Maybe everyone does this all the time and i'm discovering a sense I never knew I had...
i just woke up and started listening to this and suddenly all I can hear is the word 'like' being repeated dozens of times, and, like, makes me appreciate all the times people, like, can, like, get through a sentence, like, clearly
love ya guys and talking for two and a half hours is not easy, just kidding, like everything you want to like, like
Not having played an AC for fun since Black Flag- this game is fucking awesome.
AC Oddys is basically in spades giving me what I needed out of grand scale 'open world rpg games' for right now, gameplay, structure and story/setting wise, so while I'd give it a five stars, if someone has beaten this thing already and reviewed it, I don't know that you actually could enjoy it given how dense this thing is; especially if you set it to exploration/harder difficulty. Not dismissing Alex at all, but I found the setting for origins flat and weirdly serious and could 't identify with the story and never got into it, nor did I ever play the witcher games, but do love greek history and grew up on clash of the titans, so Odyssey is kind of a "holy shit this is awesome" moment I haven't had yet and I'm digging pretty much every minute of this thing. Glad to know the gripe is there's too much of that after weekend burning through GOW, spiderman, HZD etc.
side note- the regular controls with attacks on the triggers felt mega weird to me and highly reccomend the alternate/classic control scheme with attacks on buttons instead of a soulsy controller layout.
i think one of the bombers said it but, you do kinda have to pick and choose which AC you go in on. I wasn't compelled by a self serious egypt AC game, but an adventure based around the athenian spartant conflict as well as all the mystical and mythical ancient and animus first civ stuff, I'm 20-something hours in and still pretty gripped....and also only in the third main area of what must be 18 or more. Gonna be a long game, but that's exactly what I wanted, and the systems at play being half RPG half AC game hit a sweet spot for open world RPGS that not any I can think of have recently. I just wish the proximity wasn't so close to RDR2...oof
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