Giant Bombcast 02-22-2011

As far as the Demon's Souls discussion goes, I never played it, but a game not telling you what the best thing to buy is or telling you what to spend skill points on is not that ridiculous, and that's the way it should be. The game still sounds messed up in some ways, but that ain't one of them.

Protip for you, Vinny:
 
You're digging too deep. Most of the stuff you're reading is unnecessary for your first playthrough, Just hang back and enjoy the game as you go along, and maybe dump a few points into Vitality. If you really want to go the faq-way, it would maybe be more useful to just look up specific tactics against the boss or section you're having trouble with.

Sorry Ryan, but Vinny's totally right. Go back to the 70's and 60's and there is some great Sax music. Stan Getz is an absolute jazz legend and he helped popularize Bossa Nova. Ain't nothin' wrong with that.

I put all my porn in the GTA IV Lock Box. Nothing says ominous like BLACK LOCK BOX.

KID BOUGHT A DSi AND IT HAS BALLS ALL OVER IT

 cause saxophone is shit :D ahaha

Yush!

Listening to Vinny describe Demon Souls was hilarious. I swear he said crazy a few dozen times.

oh man I was expecting Jeff to start yelling DSI games after Ryan finished reading the 3DS launch titles hahah.. I was like c'mon Jeff c'mon Jeff I know you want to xD. 
 
edit: valve achievement sound: a valve opening and that squeaky whistley sound when steam comes out.

" Lesson learned: never talk/think about Demon's Souls ever again. Thanks for making it easier guys! "

Regarding the Demon's Souls discussion, why are these RPGs still having crappy animations and stupid hit detections, with points coming out of attacks, waiting for the enemy to launch his attack and such, and when you finally kill him, he just disappears?
And for fuck sake, why it's gotta be the same medieval fantasy/Tolkien shit , with dragons, orcs and fuckin' elves and always big insects? Speaking of which, I always hated my character fighting giant/out of proportion insects in any game- that childish shit always broke the immersion and reminded me I'm playing a game
 
Also, regarding the special/limited edition stuff, I would rather prefer them to offer physical objects like statuettes, artbooks and such than exclusive in-game content , no matter how useless they seem. Offering exclusive in-game content, no matter if it's just appearance crap, it's unfair and gross, especially the pre-order exclusives. Now it's like having to choose between having the regular game with 70-80% of the content or having to preorder the special edition from a certain specific retailer and hoping to get 100% content. This stupid shit is like having to choose between buying an apple or an apple cut in half, without skin -it's fucking gross and humiliating.
Developers and companies already pushed the envelope too far with the whole DLC crap, having the nerve to announce DLC even before the game is released. This whole greedy capitalistic shit needs to end and some rules and regulations should be set for all the parties, because these companies are behaving like drug dealers, treating us like drug addicts. And really now: would the world fucking end if these guys can't have their Ferraris or Lamborghinis today, but instead next week?  Is it that big of a deal to lose a few pennies, when you're still winning millions of dollars?
It's  a shame that the ESRB, consumer protection agencies and other organizations like that still haven't evolved to much important matters than blood /violence, gore and sexuality in videogames. For fuck sake, regulate this market first and THEN measure the amount of violence or sexual/non-sexual nudity a game has, because I think it's more important to prevent consumers from being REALLY cheated for their REAL money by REAL companies and REAL retailers, than protecting their "virgin","pure", "innocent" minds and intellects against the POSSIBLE dangers of ARTIFICIAL  violence, gore, political and/or sexual content.
 
I want to see a regulating institution/organism protecting my rights as a consumer and that can actually penalize companies for putting out games and not delivering a feature/ or delivering a faulty feature that was highly advertised before release or offering exclusive content  for specific retailers or special edition content that cannot be  available otherwise post-release. Why such a thing still doesn't exist, when stuff like DLC or online support was so easy to implement?

" Lesson learned: never talk/think about Demon's Souls ever again. Thanks for making it easier guys! "

If you want to play demon's souls learn to use the wiki. I went through the first world without it then I just started hitting a wall. Then I learned to read the wiki. It's pretty much the user manual for the game.

I'm glad Vinny is continuing to give Demon's Souls a shot. It's difficulty is greatly overstated; once you can remember every monster's placement in a level(in my first run, this happened when I started going to old levels and farming stones to improve my weapons), soon you'll find that dodging is more important than blocking, so you'll ditch the armor, then you'll lose the shield because you'll find all the monsters to be predictable, and you'll be able to go through levels faster and faster. Also, first run through the game, magic and/or bows are your best friend. It allows you to kill most standard enemies in two shots, and cheese the bosses to oblivion. 
 
I only started using the wiki to find where all the stones were, but it is there if you need help with a particular boss (for me, that was Flamelurker and Maneater). 
 
The only real problem I had with Demon's Souls was the menu design, but everything else was calculated perfection. Once you get deep into the game, you'll start to realize this. 

Bomboblato!

" I'm glad Vinny is continuing to give Demon's Souls a shot. It's difficulty is greatly overstated; once you can remember every monster's placement in a level(in my first run, this happened when I started going to old levels and farming stones to improve my weapons), soon you'll find that dodging is more important than blocking, so you'll ditch the armor, then you'll lose the shield because you'll find all the monsters to be predictable, and you'll be able to go through levels faster and faster. Also, first run through the game, magic and/or bows are your best friend. It allows you to kill most standard enemies in two shots, and cheese the bosses to oblivion.  "

Prince. 
 
Best. Bombcast. Ever?

Whatever, CnC Generals 2, let's do this!

Tuesday, it is Wednesday!
:D

One of my favorite Space Quest deaths, not putting on the thermal underwear.   
 
Another favorite Space Quest death I believed involved stabbing yourself in the eye with a pen.  Could be wrong on that one.  

Yea my Fallout 3 lunch box takes up a lot of space on my shelf but it does look cool.

Ahhh the bombcast.  Thought something was missing in my life.

Just one thing to say about their Views on Demons souls
 
I played the entire game with a melee only character, without doing any sort of stupid tendency trickery(killing yourself etc), without looking not even once at a guide and without summoning blue phantoms for help, Upgraded 4 weapons to the maximum level (without knowing the Christal gecko thing) and had a effin great time, I really dont understand why they hate it so much.
 
edit: I love how Jeff always manages to slip one or two nintendo download titles on the bombcast.

Jeff too cool for popular media. Shocking.

" Just one thing to say about their Views on Demons souls ... I really dont understand why they hate it so much. "

Yeah Prince is absolutely amazing live, I saw him a few years ago during his 21 night residency in London and I would see him again in a heartbeat, really hope he makes it back to the UK. The guy is 52, hasn't released a truly great album in over 20 years but on stage he brings it every time. Really under-rated as a guitarist as well.

John Van Caneghem worked on all the Might and Magic games (including Heroes, which is a spinoff) up to the point where New World Computing went out of business and Ubisoft bought the license. Just a pointer.
 
Also, all this discussion about Demon's Souls in the comments makes me less inclined to play DS, as someone who would consider himself vaguely interested in it.

Ryan was wrong: Rez HD does not support the USB trance vibrator. You can set additional controllers to vibrate though.

I love Demon's Souls!

Destroyer - Kaputt just came out this year and has incredible saxophone work, but I really can't name any other examples

" @Vlad_Tiberius:  fucking AMEN!!! "

" I kinda dont like how the giantbomb crew is so like minded. basicaly, not one of them thinks Demon Souls is a decent game and I rarely hear them disagreeing with each other to begin with. Kinda makes it boring. "

Yecchh, Demon's Souls. 
 
Blech, Prince.  
 
Hour 2 is swell, though.
 
 

@Vlad_Tiberius

" All these podcast guys act like all is good and perfect, so let's fill the podcast space with meaningless stupid topics and way too many personal issues like anyone is supposed to give a shit about what you did in the past weekend or how do you sleep at night."

SO you guys made this podcast after the quicklook of bullet storm?? =) @least the intro sounded like it =P