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Giant Bombcast 05-12-2009

This week we're joined by Treyarch community manager Josh Olin, who stops by to chat about the upcoming map pack for Call of Duty: World at War. We also discuss PopCap's rise to prominence, dog-monkey versus monkey-dog, Duke Nukem, and much more!

The Giant Bombcast is the world's most beloved video game podcast, and now it's available in video form.

May. 12 2009

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just started listening.

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That's the second batch of drinks I've sent you guys that you didn't try. What's the dealio dawgs?

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Why, thank you, Mr. Davis. Thank you very much.

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Hell yeah! Brain Candy reference!

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pop games for the htc g1 i dont  care for the i phone 

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I dislike Treyarch, makes the shittest games.

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Edited By Mullet_Gear

Great show, but LOL @ Jeff saying Sony paying for an exclusive is "anti-consumer."

I just thought that was a surprisingly clueless and vaguely fanboyish comment.

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@Artemis_D:

Agreed, but i also wish people would read each others comments before they post so that they can see that i already told them Vinny was in it. God that makes me mad.

no need to be hating on Treyarch so much people...seriously
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Oh come on, Vinny isnt on the Bombcast this week either? Why is he always away now?    :(

EDIT: Oh wait, he came in later, its been awhile since they were all together on the bombcast

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@Venatio:

Please...dont...annoy...me. I already said vinny comes in later, in the comments, twice! Plus other people have.
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@Mullet_Gear:

It's not clueless. What he means is that with a game like GTA4 being an exclusive, it would annoy people but draw in more console sales. But with Ghostbusters being a much less anticipated title, it just means that people will just not buy it and be disgruntled that they can't. As it makes no business sense, it just comes across as weirdly spiteful.
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...Uncle Kracker

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The idea of Will Wrights robot ripping off peoples heads and sh*tting down thier necks while throwing pipe bombs everywhere had me laughing out loud at work. Thanks for the great podcast guys.

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I think this is the first time you guys brought in a random PR flack for some random PR flacking.  Is this what GB is doing instead of running ads?  I'm not complaining... the conversation you guys had was more interesting than a straight up ad, but if you guys had been paid to put him on I don't imagine the conversation being any different.

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Excellent podcast, this is one of my favorites out of the past few weeks.

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Yea I would never go to a place called zombie swamp.

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According to Amazon's page, the All Fronts is just a code retail package, all the extras are digital. http://www.amazon.com/Gears-War-Fronts-Collection-Xbox-360/dp/B0028MJLFI

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While I pretty much agree about Ghostbusters, it is really no different than the exclusivity buying that's been going on a lot this generation (mostly by Microsoft). Starting complaining about the anti-consumer aspect seems a bit weird and late.

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finally the whole crew is here

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Why is it not on itunes yet

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That guy claims that the zombie theme is not oversaturated in gaming by claiming that people thought that the WWII genre was dead, and yet World at War sold well.

Here's the thing, dude: The World War II genre has been dead for well over five years now. The only reason anyone bought your game is because either they're a hardcore Call of Duty fanboy or for the aforementioned zombie mode.

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Dead Snow has Nazi Zombies...

Ugh wanna play Fallout 3 but screw Microsoft for exclusive DLC...got to level 7 on the PS3 and gave up on it. Really need to put it back in and restart it eventually...

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The Treyarch thing sounds like a paid-for advertisement.

@Deusoma: Dude there are still loads and loads of World War II game selling, including Call of Duty and the Company of Heroes series.  Battlefield is also moving back in that direction with Battlefield 1943.  The setting is played out, but it's by no means dead.  People are still buying the shit out of these games.

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jeffs stance is neutral and logical u fanboys... (i only own a pc)

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I don't understand the motivation for inviting the guy from Treyarch on to the Bombcast.  He contibuted nothing.  If GB made some money off of that, that's cool, but if not, that was a bit of a waste of everyone's time.

It's bad enough Treyarch are tasked with milking a franchise, but having a PR guy pitch it as "new and different" and saying "we want it to be a fresh experience" without much back-and-forth with the GB guys is of no value.

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all i have to say is this:

Impossible Creature 2 -  not coming soon enough.

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oh yay, another map pack. Well all i can say is i won't be geting them. I was looking forward to the last ones but was very disapointed at how 'SHIT' they turned out. So i shan't bother wasting anymore money on anymore packs.

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If you guys don't like the treyarch people then skip past the first 18 minutes. It isn't fucking rocket science. Nobody is going to force you to listen to the first 18 minutes of the show. Yes I would rather have them in a separate podcast but it doesn't bother me that they are in there. It's the magic of the internet people.... USE IT!!

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wait a minute....so you mean to tell me that you have an issue with Sony locking up ghostbusters and making it a timed exclusive "last minute", but you don't care that Microsoft does the same thing with dlc and other titles???  come on jeff...really???  or am did i misunderstand something...please explain....

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sony might not be doing that to be underhanded... they might have been a good sport and decided to release the European version, but since they were doing it already were like "hey, why not give ourselves a leg up and not release the Xbox version for a while", i mean when microsoft is the publisher of stuff they wait on pc versions all the time, so its not that off.

 sony might not have "paid extra" to be underhanded, it might have been a "since we are already publisher why not push the Sony version.."

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if u guys do another bombcast before map pack 2 comes out can u talk about the wunderwaffe Dg-2 and the flaming hell hounds!!!

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What, no taste test this week? Fail...kinda

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The more people talk about Duke Nukem Forever and 3D Realms' demise, the sadder I get...

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Josh Olin is making his rounds.  I wasn't expecting him to be here AND the Hotspot.

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@coffeecrash
Jeff basically implied that Sony should be looking out for the MS and the Nintendo consumer. To gain a timed exclusive is not good business for Sony? You guys are just upset at the timing of it. I find it weirdly timed as well, but I'm not going to do this whole "d00d its a dick move, bro." Besides, we don't even know who to fully blame anyway. Maybe Atari accepted some additional funds in which case they'd be the ones to hate at this point. Phil Harrison does work for Atari now...

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this podcast made me realise that Jeff is a M$ fanboy (mildly)

and it saddens me

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Just started listening to this weeks podcast today (yes, today) and I hate it when gaming podcasts sub one of their staff members for a game devoloper/ pitch man. The Hotspots been doing it for the past couple months and now GB has done it. All he's trying to do is to get you to buy a stupid map pack. There's fucking ads all over XBL for that stuff usually. I'm not really mad at GB or even the guest (because that's is his job) but it's just really annoying. Hopefully it doesn't happen a lot.

Luckily, I can tell by reading some of the comments, Vinny shows up later so that's good. Maybe the Bombcast needs to have 5 mics from now on?

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Just because Jeff raises questions about what Sony is doing, does not make him a MS or Nintendo fanboy. Why don't you go to Gamespot or 1up.com if you are going to start that crap.

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oh come on. jeff is the most neutral gaming journalist out there. he's smart enough to realize how stupid "fanboyism" is.

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Im sure its the least politically correct thing I could possibly do....but wtf is with americans and eating with their mouthes open, talking while eating, and making profuse amounts of so called 'juicy mouth noise'.

I literally turned off an epidose of Curb your Enthuisiasm the other day cause i was about to tear my friggin eyes out.

Dude...just wait the 10 seconds, swallow, then tell us.


....thats what she said.



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You guys get respect points for letting Treyarch get on and talk about the upcoming map pack. I've felt for awhile now that Nazi Zombie mode (although not perfect) wasn't getting the credit it deserved. World at War's multiplayer not special compared to COD4? Agreed. But I think World at War deserves credit for their coop campaign mode and nazi zombie mode. Especially now that the map pack is out - they updated the mode alot with Verruckt.

If you remotely like stuff like Left 4 Dead or just solid cooperative, you need to check out "Verruckt".

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That was great.

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Another awesome episode

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omg , i got to this site by accident ! this podcast is better than The Hot Spot ! woohooo !
they just a new listener !
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rest in peace duke

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Mullet_Gear said:
@coffeecrashJeff basically implied that Sony should be looking out for the MS and the Nintendo consumer. To gain a timed ... [more]


That's because the timing is exactly the problem here. Gaining an exclusive right out of the gate or early on in development is one thing. That stuff happens. Suddenly grabbing a timed exclusive one month before release day is something else. This game has been a known multi-platform title with a known release date for quite a while, but now it's suddenly Sony-exclusive without warning.


A big shiny prize has been dangled in front of gamers only to be snatched away at the last second. Of course people are going to be upset.

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when is map pack 2 for cod wAw comeing out?????????????????????

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I come from the FUUUUUUTUUUUUREEEE - We have flying cars! They're great! Duke Nukem came out! It's terrible!

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boom. Old podcasts are old, and fun