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The Giant Beastcast: Episode 242

We continue our journey into 2020 with games from the past. While Bakalar scours CES we talk about things like Skyrim, XCOM 2, and Halo: Reach. We also get to the news, things to chew on, and even some good old roller rink talk.

The Giant Bomb East team gathers to talk about the week in video games, their lives, and basically anything that interests them. All from New York City!

Jan. 10 2020

Cast: Vinny, Alex, Mike, Abby

Posted by: Vinny

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Okay, I have a question; this “escape from tarkov” situation is confusing to me because clearly they handled things poorly but that’s an aside, to the larger issue of getting devs to put in what “you” want.

Isn’t this a largely wrong move? If someone/team creates a game then that’s that. Why should they have to commit to the demands of anything from the “player outcry”

You could say, hey I want to play as animals in call of duty they should let me do that. Ofcourse that’s a extreme example but I just don’t get this sense of “outrage” and entitlement people who, honestly probably aren’t, playing the game.

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@shiftygism: no dude what the heck you can't actually criticize media anymore im telling

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Origins <=> Oranges is a very long running joke at Eurogamer, almost as old as Camaros.

Also Abby is correct, Monday is the first day of the week, at least in the UK.

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@bisonhero: Crystal Skull was pretty terrible though, the hoops of exposition the film goes through setting things up drags the film down, the switch to cg bugs and animals was distracting, as well as the unnecessary modern camera techniques tossed into the mix (see the ant attack). Then there's that stupid chase that doesn't make use of Mutt's bike which they shipped over, has psychic monkeys who somehow knew exactly who to attack, and was way too over the top with that sword fight. Say what you will about Temple of Doom, but the minecart chase was thankfully grounded for the most part, Skull in comparison felt like a video game. That along with Karen Allen acting as if she was just happy to be there than really sinking back into the role of Marion and the lousy double/triple agent subplot, it was easily the weakest installment of the franchise outside the tv movies...if they exist in your dojo. Oh, and Janusz Kaminski is a legitimately bad cinematographer. Wasn't GB16 awful, but super disappointing.

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@shiftygism: When people call Crystal Skull or Ghostbusters 2016 “terrible”, I expect them to be like zero star garbage, and they’re just not? Both those movies are, sure, weaker than the earlier films in their respective series, but on a basic level they’re watchable-but-ultimately-forgettable 2-star kinda stuff. You can disagree with some stylistic choices, but the way people talk about them, you’d think those 2 movies were so aggressively bad people were walking out of theatres.

When I hear someone describe an action/adventure movie as bad, I expect some kind of Superman III/Superman IV/Batman & Robin/The Last Airbender situation. Crystal Skull and GB2016 aren’t great movies at all, but I still can’t fathom why people are so hellbent on telling others how they’re objectively terrible. They’re underwhelming and forgettable compared to their predecessors, but are generally pretty watchable. To people who think those 2 movies are terrible, I would ask those people to go watch some actually terrible movies and get a broader perspective.

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@bisonhero: I'd actually rather watch Superman III minus its overly slapstick intro than either GB16 or Crystal Skull. That junkyard fight and evil Superman was good stuff, and Robert Vaughn's Ross Webster was a better Lex Luthor than Hackman's.

Hell, I'm actually looking forward to WW84 because it repotedly has a high-cheese 80's plot and Pedro Pascsl's Maxwell Lord seems cut from the same cloth as those Reeve era villains. It's all about execution and tone, some can nail it...others (Paul Feig) can't.

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Oh wow, a real handful of garbage comments for this one, huh?

Great podcast, had a nice relaxed vibe to it! Vinny setting the "Best of" bar high with rag chewing already.

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I know they already hashed it out on Twitter, but I live in Virginia and can confirm it's absolutely pronounced Nor-fuck.

Just like Vinny, my entire family loves watching sports, but I have always had no interest. It actively bores me. It's hard being the odd man out like that. Lots of holiday get-togethers where everyone was content in watching football and I was bored out of my fucking mind. Played a lot of Game Boy during those.