Giant Bombcast 544: Watch Streaming or Eat Delicious Pizza

Jeff right in there during the IGN conversation "2nd biggest gaming site"

I find a lot lately there's one or two mics that are really quiet, one that's really loud, making it difficult to listen without headphones in certain environments as turning it up to hear the mumbling on the quiet mic results in someone else bellowing over things. I think the balance was better this week, though the overall mix was quiet. Jason does pull back away from the mic quiet a bit so it'd be hard to balance that.

I don't feel super comfortable with @benpack going as far as bringing up the spectre of match fixing around the Smash 4 finals. CaptainZack is 16 years old and Lima is 17; they were relentlessly booed and heckled throughout the entire tournament by grown-ass adults just because they play Bayonetta (CaptainZack has claimed in the past that he's received death threats - because of the damn Smash character he mains). Maybe the way they reacted in grand finals was a bit childish, but they are literal children and putting all of that on them without any accountability for the way they were treated feels pretty terrible.

I hope they like G better when they find out he's not the President, just an insane person who wants to go viral.

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Man Jeffs rant against The Crew 2 and his interesting take on reviews being written was very facsinating

its pretty crazy that once people who were into games in the late 80s/early 90s die off...nobody will remember who Bernie Stolar was.

@ripelivejam said:

No, I pronounced the h. You probably couldn't hear it.

I think Jeff's complaint about SFV is a little unwarranted.

All of the traditional and fundamental characters are there except I guess for Honda. The characters with the more specialized and weird playstyles are there just because there's tons of Street Fighter characters and unless you start introducing some crazy playstyles like stance characters, characters with extra bars or puppet characters then you are just going to get retreads of characters that already exist

I saw Ben in a bathroom at EVO. He was very tall. The end.

I was ready to not be at all impressed by G and man, that character is for me the best one yet. His theme is Godlike, his moves are flashy and effective, he has a unique mechanic to his gameplay, and I dunno why a tribute to a historically well liked president is a bad thing.

Jason might like him after seeing high lvl G and Jeff might like that move that only happens when you're idle for a minute, it's the right kind of dumb.

@hippie_genocide: Yea, I was surprised that Ben didn't realize that Daigo had an amazing year compared to last year and looked to be having a lot of fun streaming as well.

This is somewhat of an explanation on what happened during the Smash 4 finals with a little more context than what Ben provided.