Giant Bombcast 07-16-2013

I usually agree with Jeff on most things, but, I was ALL about the cereal marshmallows like Alpha Bits and Lucky Charms.

We like safe sequels over sci-fi films with ZERO marketing budgets?

I agreed on most of their cereal discussion, except they confused Golden Crisp with Honeycomb. Sugar Bear is on the Golden Crisp box, they are basically the exact same as Sugar Smacks which have a frog dude on the box. That and Coca Pebbles are the best chocolate cereal but they seemed to get no love.

I'm not finished yet, do they talk about Last of Us? These bastards need to play that game nowish, I felt like I dragged my heels cause I didn't start playing it til 4 days after release cause I wanted to beat some other games first. It is def game of the year, I can't see GTAV or any of the Next Gen launch games beating it.

Whoa whoa whoa, Rebel Assault is bullshit? Let's not say things we can't take back.

Considering the likes of Uwe Boll (especially), Michael Bay and Adam Sandler make a TON of their money overseas, we seem to be in fine company.

Your just out of the cereal loop Jeff, Trix is back to being just the balls. And there are new cereals all the time. Chocolate Krave is a good one.

Safe as in safe to assume it's bad?...

@ruthloose: Lol did you see Pacific Rim?

nice to know i have some Peanut Butter Crunch brothers out there

Nothing stops the Bombcast, mother fucker.

This is how I personally feel about Saints Row III, and I'm sure Jeff would disagree, but I honestly feel that Russian Woman Voice is almost canonical. SR3 is just too damn silly of a game to play as a character that has a macho-manly serious voice like the thousands of other crime games out there that are on a different "cinematic" level. But a Russian mafia-sounding female? Fuck yeah!

B-B-B-But...Americans! The're like stupid and stuff, right guys? Guys?

@bucknasty84: Hell yeah. Exactly the character description I am using right now playing through the game for the first time.

@m2cks: they're*

Yay more Drew.

No, I am not saying I fall into typical "Derp'merica" classification, but I am saying that a well-funded marketing campaign for a light, schlocky Adam Sandler comedy vehicle will almost always triumph over anything else here. It offends nobody except sterile, wine connoisseurs who only go to see "films" anyway.

@gbrading: All shall be crushed under our quietly introspective boot heels! Muwahahah!

Also, that last puzzle in the Selenitic age can go F itself. That crossed the line from fun to unfun puzzle.

It's funny, because he's using Pacific Rim to make this point. Pacific Rim, while endorsed by Jeff and Vinny, and a fun action film, is pretty much a giant, plotless CG combat spectacle in the vein of Transformers.

It's not identical schlock to Grown Ups 2, but it is the OTHER kind of schlock Hollywood churns out most of the time.

I admit its dumb, but I've been sucked into the Steam trading card thing. If you use the marketplace wisely to buy and sell cards, you never really have to put a cent of real money into it. I've made 17 badges and had about 7.50 steam bucks left over that I've spent on games, without spending any money. It's a weird virtual economy...all this non-existant money floating around...no surprise that Valve has economists on the staff....

I this Vinny should host the podcast. I thought he did a great job during the Hotspot days. I thought no one could host the Hotspot after Rich Gallup and he proved me wrong.

This.

I've financed ~17/20 dollars of my Summer Sale purchases through cards.

I think Jack in the Box tacos are a college students dream Food. 2 for a dollar get 10 for 5 bucks equals full

It would be if vinny tried hostin for a week I think jeff works better as the opposition/ devils advocate. Great podcast though <3 you guys

Master of Orion 2 is still astoundingly intuitive for a 4X game that came out in '96, so maybe Drew was talking about the first one? In any case, Endless Space isn't a bad choice if you want a 4X game that isn't overwhelming.

Another great bombcast. Love you guys glad you are keeping them coming. You help my long drives to work. It's like hanging out with my friends. Best video game podcast out there hands down. You pay Ryan mad respect by keeping it going if you ask me. Thanks guys.

agreed

I watching Doomsday and Vinny is right.it's the greatest movie ever made.ha haha

@matoyak:

You can definitely hear the pain in their voices throughout this podcast. It'll take a long time until things feel like they are back to normal.

jeff always has to find some significantly disappointing problem about something. the last movie hes seen in the theater was IN TIME? WHAT? LOL

What is the gold doco Brad is raving about?

After listening to this weeks Bombcast, I am worried that Brad may be a Wendigo.

Instead of printing out the game guides GB crew, why not just do what I do which is buy a small box of index cards? Easy to note game stuff on & easy to toss when done with them.

2nd time listening to this Melvin and the squirrels still cracks me up.

The mashed potato taco came up on the podcast this week. Here are my adventures with this very item several months ago. It was delicious with the special touch of Sriracha!

http://bitesnbrews.blogspot.com/2013/02/grand-opening.html

Gonna guess you haven't seen it, cause the two movies, despite both involving giant robots, could not be more different in terms of things like tone, plot consistency, quality of dialog and characters, etc. But yeah, those trailers sure make 'em look similar.

Brad mentioned a special on nova about gold digging available on Amazon instant, but I'm not seeing anything. Does anyone know what episode he was talking about?

Thank you for continuing the podcast. I know it's hard with the loss but you have done an amazing job. I was a bit wary at first of coming back since there are so many memories that will remind us all of Ryan...

However, he would have been proud and I am proud too to have followed the crew from gamespot => giantbomb => giantbomb/gamespot.

Kudos from a real fan.