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@corwag: Zombieland bombed... It (despite being good) could not get people past the lack of the actors from the movie. I honestly feared the same issue with The Tick when they didn't get Patrick Warburton to do this series. Luckily people seem to not be as offended about it in this instance and hopefully this show lasts a good long while.

For me I'm not sure what the first video I saw here was... I got introduced to the site via finding the bombcast while looking for gaming podcasts on iTunes. I remember vividly the video that made me get a sub though, It was the Yakuza 4 Quick Look... I loved their joking around while playing it and the game intrigued me.

Watching that Quick Look made me so interested in the game I bought it, loved it, and I wanted to support these guys as a way of saying thanks.

Yakuza is the only series of games where I have played and beaten every one. I love it that much and I wouldn't have played it if not for these guys. That's why I was super excited when they announced Beast in the East and hope it continues so it eventually comes full circle to this game again. ^_^

Also, Miss Ryan Davis............

I love the style of Persona 5 and... that's all.

It just feels like a Persona 4 reboot in every way that a movie reboot is nowadays. A retread that is stale and lifeless. Most of the characters in P5 are less likeable, less interesting, and obvious clones of prior characters to a fault. It felt like it was an intentional setup, "you're seeing all the repeats as we intended but did you see this coming?" and I kept waiting for the twist that made it worth it. I still haven't finished but after 80 or so hours, even if something amazing happens, I just don't care. I'm at the point just past the intro part of the game and I honestly am finding it hard to even go on...

The dungeons that everyone but me seems to like all go on for way too long. They introduce a (sometimes clever) mechanic and then proceed to drive it into the ground to the point that I am just wanting the goddamn dungeon to end. The only time I can think of that it didn't happen was the vault, and I think it's because even they realized it was getting a bit long and put the 'puzzle lock' in there instead of another bit of dungeon.

The characters are all so self absorbed to the point that I just can't stand them. Their obsession with being liked makes me want to throttle them (especially Ryuji). I can't even stand most of their confidant stories whereas I couldn't get enough of P4's social links and they were my favorite part of that game, getting to know everyone. The only member of the playable cast that even stands out to me as interesting or different is Futaba both in main story and confidant story. The only saving grace is that the side characters are for the most part much more interesting to rank up than the ones in Persona 4.

The more spoilerly complaints I have are the obviousness of Akechi being a bad guy, not just the fact that his name is similar to Adachi but the fact that moment he appeared I turned to my wife and said "he's gonna be the Adachi of this game", before he was even given a name. The pancake scene was a clever touch that I actually caught when it happened but the 'screwing with your memory so you don't spoil the (non) reveal was hokey and forced to the point it was obvious... If they had done it once or twice earlier and made the 'memory loss' worse the further in you go it might have felt natural but it was very obviously deus ex machina at it's worst. The 'death' of the main character was an interesting little twist but this all came way too late that I was already super disengaged with the game, even if there are some more moments like that coming up, it just doesn't make up for the 80 hours I'd already slogged through.

I really wish Tokyo Mirage Sessions had been Persona 5 because it took chances, and managed to be interesting while Persona 5 felt like they didn't want to screw up a good thing by making it too different and scaring people away, so much so that it just repeats Persona 4 with a slightly different twist. So all they did was apply a healthy dose of style to cover up that it is just the same thing but not as fresh or fun.

Broken Age. I almost didn't back it and wish I hadn't after they reused most of the assets of the first part for the second half... It also took them FOREVER to ship the boxed copies... Like, It wasn't very long ago when I'd finally gotten it.

Mighty No 9... That one didn't ping my Bad-Kickstarter-dar at all... I was way wrong. Not only was the game mediocre, I still haven't gotten most of my backer rewards including a physical copy and the art book.

That said I have supported dozens of Kickstarters and was mostly happy with all of them excluding the above. The big standouts being HuniePop, Book of Unwritten Tales, The Dwarves, and especially Tex Murphy. Sure the game could have been more updated with the times but it was exactly what I wanted, More FMV Tex...

Yakuza 0.

1: It comes out in January.

2: It's the only long running game series i have played every installment of and loved it.

While it's a fairly mediocre fighting game based on the Double Dragon movie... the Neo Geo CD version of Billy and Jimmy's Transform theme has some very jazzy sax.

Hearing that exploits have already been found made me forget the "Titanic" issue with Dan. Once he's planned something he doesn't test it enough. See the pipe at the end of the 2nd community level. I KNEW it was a makeable jump the second Dan tried it but he just assumed it wasn't and that's where Dan is failing.

Patrick might just be the 1 2 3 Kid and Dan is Razor Ramon, cocky and too sure of himself…

Of course Dan is a monster, and that is why he will beat Patrick. He's Brock Lesnar and Patrick is Bo Dallas... Just sayin'...

@frybird: Could you change the title of my first level (currently says 1-1) to "Locke 1-1 Mind the Gaps" on the spreadsheet? It won't let me access that part to change it. Thanks.

Finally got around to finishing Locke 1-2, my second level, its SMB3 skinned. I call it "Super Mario Mazer". It's not particularly hard, just meant to be a fun level.

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