Giant Bombcast 04/12/2016

@dprotp: Yeah, I beat that game. :P

Metroid Fusion.

Thumbs up on Dark Souls III box art? Maybe if you're Mary Kish.

They prefer to be called vapists. The really enthusiastic ones are serial vapists.

oh. oopsie!

All companies are cold calculating profit driven machines. Some just make a lot of fun things.

That said if you aren't paying for a service then you are the product. You are no more of a sucker for playing Miitomo than you are for using Twitter or Facebook.

To summarize the VR discussion on this episode in one word - "Phrasing!"

Took the words write out of my keyboard.

That's sounds like a poor value proposition to me where the value is achieved by replaying the first mission multiple times (and i enjoyed star fox 64). As the above quotation mentions, Rogue Squadron was a much better evolution of the genre.

Super Mario World

Mario Kart 64

Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past

Tetris (GameBoy)

Super Mario Bros 3

I have a 770 and have had no issues... Not even fps drop...

Dildonics?!

Kasumi Ninja has the Scottish guy who could shoot fireballs from his crotch, not Way of the Warrior.

Nice. Hopefully they've nailed the issue down so I don't have to think about it in the future. I've still since had it affect me even with my current standard attire. Cloth physics should not come at the cost of gameplay/graphics. I'd imagine From and Nvidia are both on it, but they should have been weeks ago.

R9 380 4GB no crashes at first bonfire, knight

JUST TELL ME YOUR FAVORITE TV SHOW JEFF

Pretty much the same for me too. I think I had one after making that adjustment (but I might be wrong there). So I have had a few but overall not anything terrible for a new game. Runs really smooth otherwise too.

Yeah I was going to say it's the same with vaping. I actually know multiple people who vape and they're not so lame about it and they are using it to stop smoking cigarettes (which like they say on the podcast will have to be tested but hard to believe it could be worse). As someone who is very against people smoking cigarettes it's really hard to hate on too much. With a lot of hobbies there is a hardcore group that can be annoying so I think it's just poking fun at that.

But that's just Jeff's style. Dan and Jeff will both bag on something for the show. I mean listen to Jeff talk about ICP and then realize he had an ICP jersey so...

I just have a laugh and remember they are being entertaining. I'm someone who does enjoy craft beer but will drink a 40 any day too so it's all good to me.

Jason was right about the colloquial Louisville pronunciation, definitely more of a -vool rather than -vil.

Coffee cup "Roys Boys" in coins, I would buy in a second,

And the Dark Souls series is something I've always appreciated but loved to watch more than actually play. Love the show!

I would die a happy man if the Bomb crew never discussed vaping or vape culture, ever again in life. The whole shebang is profoundly uninteresting to me.

I agree but i put most of the blame with the marketing team here. Have they ever even bothered to try to explain what Baltteborn was about? The only way i know what it is, is thanks to Totalbiscuit video about it. I didn't even knew it had single player at all.

buttchugs.vodka seems to redirect to the english kremlin website.

@stryker1121: DAWG YO IS SPAKIN HERESY!

Would enjoy that 5 Nintendo game discussion if they had to choose one game per system.

Also not even a mention of Metroid Prime bummed me out.

*The following may or may not be satire. Don't take it too seriously*

Hey Leslie. I just heard your email on the Podcast and I'm here to help you.

What your father said to you, wasn't out of malice, but because he wanted to protect you.

Here are the top 5 Nintendo games you'll wanna check out and help you reinforce the love for your family, with the knowledge that they were right all along:

1. Hotel Mario: Everywhere you turn you will probably hear Nintendo fans go "Mario! Mario! You gotta play Mario!". They are just trying to scam you into their weird cult and before you know it you'll be trapped in the Amiibo hole. Hotel Mario is the definitive Mario experience. It comes on CD, so you know it's better than a cartridge game and you don't have to break your fingers on some dumb Nintendo 64 controller.
2. Superman 64: Speaking of the Nintendo 64, it's the worst video game console ever made. Aside from the controller being stupid, everything on it looks bad and there are barely any games in real genres like RPG or SHMUP. An example of this is Superman 64. Time and energy was spent to create this thing, which Nintendo fans consider the greatest game with the greatest superhero ever. Why they prefer Superman over Batman is beyond me, but you can't reason with these people.
3. IronFall: Invasion: You and me both know that mature games for mature gamers such as ourselves starts with classics such as Gears of War and Inversion. It took ages for Nintendo to catch up and when they finally got there with last year's IronFall: Invasion, it was already to little too late. A dissapointment... Just like Nintendo.
4. Yoshi's Island: You'll often come across Nintendo fans saying that the Super Nintendo is the greatest console ever made and while it does have many good games, it unfortunately also has Yoshi's Island. In a desperate attempt to capitalize on the Jurassic Park craze, Samba De Amigo from Nintendo, came up with this ridiculous game about a dinosaur carrying a baby around, because that's what he thinks of his own fans: That they are babies. In many ways Nintendo fans got what they deserved.
5. Balls of Fury: I suspect that Nintendo poisoned the water supply at some point to make the Wii the best selling console at all time, because anyone who's sane can see that what Nintendo considers premiere video game entertainment, just doesn't cut it against Xbox 360 classics like Rockstar's Table Tennis, which did everything better in every. single. way.

No, instead of spending time on Nintendo's "finest" just to get into retro gaming, you should check out a real system... Let me introduce you to the Turbografx-16.

its Louivuhl

not Vill and not Louie

one might even say Luavuhl

The only Starfox game I've ever owned was Starfox Command. I had played 64 and Assault (I think it was Assault; it was on the GCN and didn't have dinosaurs) and watched someone play a bit of the dinosaur one. So I have no idea what possessed me to ask my brother for Command for either a birthday or Christmas, but I did. I only played it a handful of times, because immediately in I was annoyed by how it was just a series of battles linked together by some quasi-RTS fog of war crap. Didn't enjoy that part in the slightest. I played the multiplayer over DS download play at lunch with friends a few times, though. That was pretty ok.

I visited my friends this past weekend, and I learned one of them vapes now. He only did it as I was leaving, so I didn't get to experience the smell or anything. AFAIK he never smoked so I have no idea what he's doing...

@belowstupid: Sorry it took me so long; I finally found it. Giant Bombcast 06/29/2010 @ 50:20.

haha that's hilarious, thanks man. Funny enough I happened to stumble onto that episode when I was listening to random old episodes three weeks after we talked about it. I wanted to leave a comment, but I was afraid I'd come off like a crazy person so far after the fact. Thanks for following up!