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Playdate: Tender Loving Care (04/07/2017)

We learn a lot of about John Hurt, art, and each other as we begin a new FMV journey.

The crew of Giant Bomb invites you to join us for some fun times with video games.

Apr. 7 2017

Cast: Vinny, Alex, Dan

Posted by: Vinny

In This Episode:

Tender Loving Care

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Wait! I think some friends and I "played" this way back when it first came out. Except it was just a DVD movie and you would navigate with your remote. Was that how it was originally released I wonder? I remember that was a hilarious night. Man, what a flashback. Forgotten all about this.

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You guys need to stream the rest of this. What an amazing mess.

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@joker369 said:
@pip_fox said:

I am shocked to find that no one made a gif of Alex doing his fantastic interpretative dance.

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Don't think I've ever seen Alex so happy! And he's not even hugging his shameboy! Reason enough to delve deeper into this piece of interactive art.

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I love this. Please more!

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Huh, you can find Michael Esposito on Linkedin. Looks like the same dude.

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Did you guys just really watch a soft core porno together? I feel like you guys need Austin back you guys are going down a dark road lol

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@dxodus: If you think Austin "Bastion fucks" Walker could help us now, you're sorely mistaken.

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@Retris haha I am mostly curious what that 4 person dynamic would be watching this "movie"

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@stordoff said:

An FMVinny stream is one way to find out John Hurt died this year :/ With how prolific he was even in the last few years I somehow missed that completely.

e: Huh, apparently this was just released as a movie at some point. Fun fact according to Wikipedia - the game is fairly broken:

This interactivity is severely diminished due to a faulty implementation of the game's logic, so the user answers to questionnaires do not impact the relevant scene, but the next after that. As a result, the last questionnaire has no effect at all in the ending scene.

It was also a book first.

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FMV? I'm all in!

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Even John Hurt got roped into FMV. Fantastic.

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I seeent the boobs

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"John Deere before his Dear John letter."

holy shit lololololol

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This is the best thing GB has put up in a long time. This game needs to be returned to. I laughed so hard I cried.

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Yay! Dan is back!

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@creme said:

Even John Hurt got roped into FMV. Fantastic.

A lot of Hollywood actors did, although 1998 seems a bit late for that phase.

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Please stream the rest of this 90's jewel!

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This game is insane

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When dan tweeted the menu screen for this, I responded that it looked like someone made an FMV game out of one of the movies they'd air on USA Up All Night in the 90s... I couldn't be happier with the result.

Also @danryckert was right. They call Varys the Spider in Game of Thrones because of his web of information.

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Aw yes, this HAS to be the next wealth of absolutely incredible content next to the Contradiction playthrough.

MAKE IT SO!

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$6 on Steam for steamy game....sold

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Please play this game to completion!

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OH BOI

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That's a big bush.

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I have bowel problems.

...

...

This game can see into my soul.

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I always find it sad to watch some trash and see a great actor like John Hurt giving a great performance. I mean, at least they're getting work but still.

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P R E M I U M

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"Shame boy pocket" Is one of the funniest things Dan has ever said.

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I think springing for the helicopter shot might make this the highest budget FMV game in history.

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Please make this into a series. So hilarious.

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The video player bar appearing was sooooo funny. You would think they'd hide quicktime in the background. I've never seen that in a game.

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20/20 would hug more

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please finish this guys

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Please keep playing this guys. Hug those shame boys!

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This was fantastic. Finish this game please!!

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RIP John Hurt

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Dan needs to release an audio tape of "Dan Reads Poems"

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B A N N E D

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GBeast is carrying the site so hard right now... Hopefully GBWest gets a new hire sometime this century.

Dude, it's not a competition. Enjoy the parts of the site you want to.

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I'm a big John Hurt fan. He's the the elephant man after all. Although, I like William Hurt from body heat too. But he is definitely the lesser Hurt.

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There's apparently a heavily edited (read: no nudity, some of the other sexual stuff is edited) version of this gem on iOS.

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@stordoff said:

This interactivity is severely diminished due to a faulty implementation of the game's logic, so the user answers to questionnaires do not impact the relevant scene, but the next after that. As a result, the last questionnaire has no effect at all in the ending scene.

I'm not sure this is true. I played through the DVD version twice (once answering normally, once answering the exact opposite of that, with additional futzing around with some sections), and there were quizzes that did indeed affect the next scenes. For example, an answer of "Yes" to the "Are girls smarter than boys?" question had Kathryn act bossier toward Michael in the next scene; answering "No" had Kathryn act a bit deferent (with "Sometimes" getting what we saw, of course). An upcoming quiz about whether or not you like children triggers the presence of a certain scene in the following video segment, etc. I don't think what Wikipedia's proposing could be true, at least wholly, since there are certain questions that clearly do trigger certain specific scenes and aren't (solely) part of a cumulative score, so to speak.

(But the interactivity, as we all might guess, covers mainly the degree of nudity and come-ons you see.)

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I want these guys to watch the Neil Breene films for Films and 40's. Would be amazing.

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@indigozeal: Interesting. I wonder if the Wikipedia comment refers to a specific release (the first?) and it was fixed for the DVD.

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I mentioned borderless gaming its on steam if you arent comfortable downloading the software and its 99 cents on sale today but you can get it on github for free

you can turn any windowed appl,ication into a fullscreen app with the press of a button, and also hide the cursor if you really want (with a hotkey)

http://store.steampowered.com/app/388080/

https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming

its really helpful and would make this easier on the eyes for some of us who have bad eyes

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Oh an Ingmar Bergman joke, now that's a first?

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Vinny's deadpan delivery on "I'm a professional shithead" made me BURST out laughing.

I know they implied they would, but PLEAAAAASE finish this game. We're all learning SO much about Dirty Dan Rykert.