Giant Bombcast 648: jeffminter.txt

Ok, I guess. I remember a lot of timed exclusives for all sorts of products over the years, but I must be wrong and Epic is very, very bad.

Again, exclusivity implies the game is not available anywhere else. Lots of them are available on places like uPlay and the Windows store.

Not to mention the situation with the developers of DARQ. Epic did not allow them to release the game on Epic's store at all after turning down a exclusivity deal, a deal which they received a day before the game would release on Steam...

@alwaysbeclothing: I just paused the podcast and watched about an hours worth of these videos. Thank you.

App store politics sucks. You can't get HBO on Roku or Amazon anymore after HBO Max released. Stuff like that is such a bummer.

@shevar: I believe Minecraft, Castle Crashers, and Mark of the Ninja all gave me the remastered Xbox One versions of their games (at least at a discount) because I owned the originals on 360.

Activision 1998-2010 was a lot of Star Wars, Star Trek, Spider-Man, X-Men, and Marvel.

Activision's properties were Guitar Hero, and Call of Duty. True Crime and Wolfenstein too.

That first cave in Zelda 2 Brad is talking about has literally one enemy, otherwise it is a straight shot with no pits or anything else. Also if you look closely you can still see that enemy moving.

I say this as someone that also has to work from home in close quarters with a toddler and other family members: it might be useful to invest in a way to quickly toggle yourself on and off mute. There’s been a lot of background noise (kids, dishes being done, etc.) lately. I get how hard it is, but having a physical mic mute button for me has made a huge difference.

Ben talking about Avengers like he's played the full game is ridiculous. It's a fucking beta. Quit complaining about a lack of content and characters and variety.

There's literally 2 story missions. The rest are repeatable side missions. His "15 hours played" is 90% side missions that he repeated.

They spent so much time shitting on the game when they've only played a small beta slice of. Maybe they should just pump the brakes a bit and wait for the full game.

@topcyclist: I just played FF9 for the first time recently, I loved it!

While everyone is hoping on the screw Epic Games bandwagon I think they forget... We stand to benefit from Epic winning this lawsuit. Just saying.

http://www.taiganet.com/

I came looking for this too, ended up having to do it my damn self.

People criticizing how the Avengers look in the game is not just people going "they don't look like the guy from the movie," as Jeff put it. It's because they made an effort to have the costumes look incredibly similar to the movie renditions of those character, but then the person inside the costume looks only vaguely like the actors in question, but not enough. Yes, those characters have existed for much longer than the movies. But they obviously wanted the video game characters to look like the popular movie versions, but then didn't go all the way with it and license out the appearances as well. They could have used any number of looks from those characters' histories. But they didn't. (For the default costumes, anyways.) It's a fairly jarring juxtaposition. If you don't care for the movies, which no one on the crew does, then it won't stick out to you very much.

Seems like there is a lot more background noise from someone this episode. I know people gotta live during these times and all that, but it makes for rather unpleasant listening. It'd be nice if they could mute themselves when they're not talking.