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One could say it's not that obscure (it did appear on UPF and got an Unfinished video, and I think the OST got a brief mention during GOTY that year), but I'll say Robot Roller Derby Disco Dodgeball. It's one of my most listened to game soundtracks, up there with more widely known games (Skyrim, Stardew Valley, Celeste, Chrono Cross - still the GOAT).

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He's not so much a full-blown companion, more of a temporary coworker, but my vote's for Congo from Shenmue II. If you choose to work with Congo, you're forced to complete an infuriating QTE minigame. Ryo has to help Congo carry crates across a room, by hand (no forklifts in this warehouse, apparently). You slip up on your D-pad presses (which is pretty much guaranteed to happen), you both drop the crate and Congo chews you out. Add to that bad English voice acting (in a style that I assume is meant to convey that Congo isn't super fluent in Ryo's native tongue) and it didn't take long for me to hate Congo.

I looked for videos of the Congo minigame on YouTube, just to see if it was super easy and I was just bad at it. But the let's play I found had the players making the same mistakes I remember making. (Embedded video should start at 08:33.)

This game wasn't really on my radar much at all. But I watched the quick look tonight, thought "that looks like a good time" and preordered, picking up this weekend.

I never played the PS2 Spider-Man that everyone seems to love for its web slinging, so I don't have that nostalgia factor for Spider-Man games, but I haven't played a big open world game in quite a while, and this one looks great, the combat looks fun, etc.

Hoping it's still okay on PS4 non-Pro, assuming the Quick Look was on a Pro. Haven't listened to the review yet, not sure if they cover that or not.

Side note: Best Buy included a free disc copy of Destiny 2 w/ my preorder, so I'm now up to three free copies of that game. (It's free on PS Plus right now, and I'm getting a free PC copy from a recent GPU purchase.)

Plus coverage ended immediately after the podium interviews. Cut abruptly to commercial before Webber had left the stage, then back to their regular ESPN programming.

No recap of the race, no drivers/constructors standings, no post-race interviews, nothing. I assume Sky broadcasts all that stuff, but ESPN viewers certainly didn't get any.

While I had no real problem with Sky's content here, ESPN's presentation of it is certainly a step down from what we were getting with NBCSN.

Not a bug, but a request.

When looking at a list of video results, the Poster, Month, Day and Time of upload is shown, but not the year. The year is shown on an individual video's page. And a few videos (ex. Unprofessional Fridays, GBE Playdate) have the m/d/y in the video title, but most don't.

While this isn't really an issue for categories with a lot of recent videos (ex. Latest Videos, Premium, Quick Looks), since everything's sorted by most recent anyway, showing the year would be useful for other categories with fewer and/or older videos, and the "Continue Watching/Finished" page.

For example, under Endurance Run, the most recent result shows "Posted by Vinny Caravella | Oct. 10 3:00am." Clicking on the video, you see it's from 2016. For some categories like Demo Derby and Breaking Brad, the first page of results has videos spanning several years.

Hey, I just wanted to say thanks for your work on this app. I started using it a few months ago to watch Premium content on my FireTV.

I was still using the YouTube app to watch free Giant Bomb content, as sometimes it's easier on my slow connection. (And I watch stuff from Polygon and Waypoint there, too.) But the FireTV YouTube app is going away in January, because Google and Amazon can't get along. Which sucks, but I'll still be able to stream Giant Bomb content with FireTV, thanks to the Enthusiast App.

IF you live somewhere with internet that is such shit that a download takes literal days, then forgive me, I totally understand the gravitation towards physical, but even still those games aren't ready to play.

This. Even if there's a 5GB update, it's much less hassle than downloading a 50GB+ game in its entirety.

On the PC side, it's pretty hard to find physical games that actually have the whole game on disc. (Especially for games that don't fit on a single DVD, which is most of them these days.) But on the console side (where blu-rays are the norm), it's still expected that the disc has the whole game (pre-updates and DLC). I'm sure there are exceptions, but usually you don't have to re-download the whole game in a day 1 update.

Another thing to consider - some stores (Amazon, Best Buy) offer discounts on physical games (Prime preorders, Gamers Club Unlocked), but not digital. So you might be able to buy a physical copy - even if it's a code-in-a-box - for cheaper than buying it straight from Steam/Origin/PSN/Xbox Live, etc.

From what they've shown so far, I don't think there'll be any problem with going into VC4 without having played the first game. I'm sure there will at least be some nods to/cameos from VC1, but sounds like it's mostly telling its own story.

But since VC1 is now available on PS4 ($30) and PC ($20), I'd say it's definitely worth checking out.

The PS4 disc version might be out of print? I'm not seeing a lot of new copies out there from the usual places (Amazon, Gamestop, Best Buy, Walmart), but there's a few out there (Newegg, Play Asia, and some third-party sellers). Can always get it digitally, of course.

From what they've shown so far, it looks like everything fans of the original have been wanting since the original.

I was a big fan of the first game, and it's what sold me on getting a PS3. There were a few things it could have done better (easy to cheese some levels with a buffed scout; some menu interface stuff was cumbersome; physically aiming a gun but missing a shot due to stats feels odd), but there were a lot of things it did right (art style/visuals; big cast of recruitable, voiced characters; ability to replay missions/cutscenes; Japanese audio option; non-grid-based movement). And though it's probably one of the more subjective/divisive elements, I really liked the story. If VC4 is more of what we got in VC1, which it looks like it is, then I'm on board.

This news got me thinking of finally playing VC2. I bought it digitally when it released, but probably only played a few hours. Was thinking, well, I'll have to get a new PSP battery, as mine is shot. Or maybe I can just get an external battery pack. Or just play with the power plugged in. But VC2 is playable on Vita. Since I'd already bought it, I just found it in the Vita's PSN store and downloaded it. (Now the imported UMD copy of VC3 is another matter...)

Here's hoping Enterbrain/Udon put out another big, high-quality artbook, like they did for the first three games.

I also need at least forward and back buttons on the thumb side, for forward/back navigation in web browsers. I don't care for having forward button on the pinkie side, as some mice do.

For binding, in Overwatch, I bind the back button to melee attack. Default is "V" key, which is a real pain to hit in standard configuration (WASD for movement, space to jump). This makes it easy to hit and I don't have to take my finger off left-click/primary fire, or other hand off WASD.

And I bind middle-click (scroll wheel click) to voice line.