Did Vinny not play Human Revolution? For example, he seems clueless to the fact that Eliza is, indeed, the only mainstream broadcaster as well as to what she really is.
That game came out 5 years ago.
Giant Bomb was founded in 2008.
That's not the point - five years is a long time. I would struggle to remember facts like that over that length of time if I were playing a lot of games. Vinny's had a child, moved offices twice and home twice in that time so far as I remember. That's a lot to deal with, so I'd give him a pass on that.
This was fun to watch. I think I would watch this whenI could, only thing I'd mention is that the polls were accepting clicks but not showing results (for me, I think it might have been working for others)
The game definitely has other issues (like the unclear purpose of items), but as far as the bomb section goes I think Dan was rushing it (talking doesn't help either). The floaty controls with the balloon bomb weren't really against a time limit. They were a kind of a reverse version of Thrust on the BBC micro (based on Atari Gravitar) which needed care to drag an energy orb against gravity and through caves into the sky/space against a fuel (time) limit. Dan seemed to start doing well when he slowed down the pace a bit. Zoom to 01:10 to see how the physics in Thrust worked:
@ultrasupermario: America were on the same page as Europe in terms of tech, just that elswewhere was where it sold. Commadore being one of the big three in Britain, along with Sinclair and Amstrad.
Although, by the time I was playing these games, Amstrad and were also making the Spectrum. Didn't realise that happened in '86. Commadore went bust in '94. Reading up on this, Amstrad is now owned by BSkyB.
I think the BBC Micro B made by Acorn is worth a mention, between that and the other variants they supposedly sold about 1.5M units. It had an educational remit (Sinclair missed out on that contract) but there was a shit-ton of games written for it, including the original Elite, Revs (an F1 simulator), Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy etc, and had both digital and analogue sticks designed for it. It's also a weird ancestor to the ARM chips used in most mobile phones:
@pop Yeah definitely, not sure if that's an in-game comment on switching or if it's residual voice work which was queued to finish from the game they played. (Austin says that phrase occasionally, but it sounds like the game not him)
I saw Double Fine offer their condolences and their mention that they were hiring (specifically?) to staff who lost their jobs, which I thought was a nice touch. I don't think that'll help JV, but there's a lot of people affected who might suit DF's needs.
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