Burgle My Bananas: Episode 04

More wheel spins! More!

This episode is basically a David Lynch movie

This is the best GBeast-produced content to date.

@ybbaaabby I have musical anhedonia, so music does nothing for me.

Cast: Vinny, Dan, Mike, Abby

Doubt

@ahifi: Not trying to sound rude at all, just trying to understand. Why would you "love" the "leave the room" option? Do you just prefer less of the cast in the feature at a time?

This is art.

The wheel is perfect

Vinny hitting that option on the wheel right away really couldn't have been planned any better. I love it. Amazing episode, amazing series.

Leave the room is hilarious until it happens to your favorite "character" at the beginning of an episode lol

Oh no, who will think of the poor oppressed Christians! It's almost like punching up is funny and punching down is just petty, bigoted BS.

Maybe just leave the room for a turn? Either way this was the best episode haha.

Changes or not, this feature rocks. The whole opening the shop is some of the best stuff I've seen all year.

Also, they really look like they're having a good time. Shitty game or not.

Dan, that pulse in your eyeball most likely is your blood pressure. You need to start watching your salt intake. And go to your health care provider to get a complete health assessment.

I unironically love how the game show has become a pseudo microcosm of game development the way that the crew has to "patch" the rules each episode. And the wheel, which was once just a minor aspect of the game, has overtaken DK64 as one of the primary features of the show.

No offense to the others but my enjoyment plummeted when Vinny left. That wheel option needs to go.

"I've felt herpes in both of my eyeballs for most of the past week."

- Dan, hurt beats(?), around 20:18

Everyone's double-take was priceless.

It's not that I don't like this feature, just.. the Donkey Kong gameplay is the least interesting part of it.

@gamesareokay: heartbeats*

I'm really curious about this 0& (or is it zero&?) business, what caused it, and what it was meant to be. I demand answers.

I don't know why, but I get joy out of watching Mike eat the bananas. I really enjoy this series. Thanks GBEast Crew!.

1:30:37 for the title of Fiona Apple's latest record.

This episode was amazing <3 Love where the show is going and Mike is a great addition (I might be biased due to my love of Siege tho)

Well played Vinny, well played.

I haven't seen the strategy guide, but based on the context, I'm guessing that the sentence was supposed to be something like "Use the newly revealed [Tiny Kong saxophone music pad thing] to summon the bird," but imagine that the part I put in [ ] is actually just a symbol of literally that saxophone music pad printed in the middle of the sentence. Somewhere all the process of writing that strategy guide, they fucked up and broke a link to the picture or something and nobody noticed, so it got printed with some broken formatting that just said 0&. That is my guess.

That section was pretty tough to watch, but I guess they haven't learned the game's design language that if there's a Tiny Kong barrel AND a Tiny Kong music pad [or any other Tiny Kong thing] both in the same area, they're probably both relevant. Usually the goal in this game is to activate a fairly visible thing (draw distance notwithstanding). Rarely is the solution "become tiny Tiny Kong with no idea what you're supposed to do and just blindly walk around for 45 seconds."

@garr123: Or at least the leave the room rule needs a time limit! Leave the room for 30 minutes. I'm sure it was just dumb luck that it came up at all, let alone that it was the first spin on the new wheel, but it could still be improved/modified.

Spin the wheel! The more the better!

Yes! Leave the room! The excitement! Don't listen to the public who only hate this one because it was Vinny first!

New option: pick someone to leave the room! Just for fun and giggles!

Other new option: remove all items from play!

Last recommended option on the wheel: open the shop!

Love this series btw!

This series is incredible.

High impact burglary!

I wasn't sure about Mike at first, but he's perfect for this. I also love his excitement when he sees coins up ahead that will lead to a spin of the wheel!

Also the addition of Ricky during the wheel spins when Vinny was out the room was incredible. Great job!

"Are bosses Kong agnostic?" Erudite Dan leaking through.

Rewatching this, it's incredible how consistently their EVERY attempt to bring order to this madness just sends them FURTHER down the spiral.

the point where Abby used a trombone on a pad clearly marked with a saxophone and wondered why nothing happened is extremely emblematic of my problems with this series, namely that they just don't have enough time individually with the game and some of them seem kind of checked out when they aren't playing

watching someone wander around and wonder aloud what they should be doing when it's extremely clear what they should be doing isn't particularly funny or interesting to watch, especially if there's no banter happening

@inco: Couldn't agree more. I played this game 20 years ago and I still feel like this game is fairly intuitive to anyone who has any experience with gaming. They are really checked out / not paying attention AT ALL to not be getting most of this stuff. It's too frustrating for me to watch. Not sure why I've kept coming back; I keep expecting them to figure it out, but no.

@praried0g: you say that the game is fairly intuitive, but that's also because when you played it, you got the moves, you saw the moves' tutorial text, and you got to use the moves; here, only one person is actually getting the moves, and the other three might be engaged in a conversation that distracts them from the game, in addition to them just being fairly disinterested in the game

contrast this to their stint in SM64 with the same rules: there, the players are invested in the game, they are paying attention even when it's not their turn to play, and it's just far better; i think the ultimate problem is that DK64 is an extremely poor choice for this format due to its complexity and tedium

@inco: Good point; I think you hit the nail on the head. Poor game choice and 0 investment = subpar content. Oh well, the Dan's game part of it can be kinda fun in a dumb way at least. Even that feels kind of diminished with them not caring though.