Giant Bombcast 513: 2018 Stick

@adamlcook: I'm with Jeff regarding Fortnite. The building mechanics completely change the tension of that game mode. The end game of Fortnite is just building a big tower, taking pot shots at other towers, and hoping when the circle closes in your tower is still inside. Everyone just instantly builds defenses when you shoot at them and then waits for you to come to them.

Always good conversation when Will Smith is in the show!

Jeff and Brad's mic discipline is really something else

@mendia: Thanks for that, the endless discussions around PUBG have become incredibly tedious

You guys joke about Digimon Cyber Sleuth but it is a pretty good JRPG.

The talk about the ancient internet was cool. Never heard of "Eternal September." That's a very cool dumb term. The PUBG talk was a bummer, though. Really hope we can move away from seeing and hearing so much of it.

Wendy's nuggets are my favorite, but McD's has the best barbeque sauce. And McD nuggets are perfectly fine, too.

Fornite BR is a lot of fun. If you want action and 22-23 minute games, give it a try. Don't worry about the building too much, it'll come with time. Put walls on Q, ramps on F, or your mouse buttons. Have fun!

Are they ever going to fix the color/contrast/whatever it is on the main camera, its clearly off from the rest of the cameras. And surely they know about it.

@unastrike

@janman

@munkippo: No, your eyes are fine. Color is incredibly flat.

I need more Will Smith in my Giantbomb.com

I was shouting "YES!" at my car stereo as Jeff mentioned the version of Oregon Trail with the buckshot that shoots from the bottom of the screen. I have only been able to find the more recent Apple II version that lets your character free-roam around the screen, to the point I thought I had imagined the whole thing. Now to find public domain disk 108 - or whatever it was.

Edit: here's the version mentioned - https://archive.org/details/MM.SS1010_Oregon

(https://archive.org/details/OregonTrailMainframe) Here is the txt bang version Jeff was talking about

Audio was super quiet and the colours are messed up on the camera that faces everyone.

The Anno games could do 2007 :)

You only got 3 out of 4 versions on this episode with this comment, missed the premium podcast, fyi. If you had gone 4 for 4 your resolution could have been carried, but sadly it was not and now the Giant Bombcast is the Giant PUBGcast. Sorry! ;)