I Love Mondays: 07/18/11

Red Alert 3 Awesome =) 

@Meltbrain: happy birthday! more reasons to love monday. lol

Damn you, Cowboy Iguana!

*shakes fist*

Red Alert sweet!

RA3 excellent one of the few games I have that isn't fucked up right now because Steam says my account "CAN NOT BE FOUND"

I hate this monday , i have diarreah from playing too much ps3

Happy Birthday Hunter Thompson.

"Reload this page right now, in case you missed anything." How do they KNOW?!

Is it actually Vinny singing the opening theme? 
 
Please tell me this is true.

I really like the new I Love Mondays. They get the information across nicely (and I like the format consistency from week to week), and Ryan writes funny and interesting scripts. Hoo-rah!

Ryan's beard is unfair.

A week of Bastion and devil ether! The American dream.

*refresh* nope didn't miss a thing...

I am just gonna stay in the AC and watch videos on Giant Bomb becuase it's to hot out.

Is that a good or bad sign that Giant Bomb wont be having a proper review of Bastion on their site?

I felt like pouring my coffee on the keyboard this morning.

@JauntyHat: I think they just feal to biased towards it.

I'm sure they'll talk about Bastion on the bombcast. We'll definitely know whether they like the game or not.  I think it's kind of good on them for not doing a full review.

Boy, I sure do love Mondays.

big respect for not reviewing bastion due to your connections with the game!

@Sharpshooter said:

RA3 excellent one of the few games I have that isn't fucked up right now because Steam says my account "CAN NOT BE FOUND"

Oh, god, someone else is having that problem too?!? Do you have any idea what happened? Did a server crash with our account info on it or something?

@Buckfitches: Also, yes, it is Vinny singing the opening theme.

Damn, no Bastion for me yet. Is there a date for the PC version.

BASTION ER!

Is that a good or bad sign that Giant Bomb wont be having a proper review of Bastion on their site?

Red Alert 3 TNT! YES! The one C&C I actually bought because it was good.

I'm so installing it for TNT.

EDIT: Oh damn, no easy friend list like GB TNT... I bet there's still some if not a lot of non-GB'ers playing that game.

yep, site is super slow right now. can't stream any videos.

Love Mondays.

site's running super slow for me too guys..

I can't wait for TNT, Red alert is awesome.

Super slow downloads for me too, across all WM sites. Tested some HD videos from Vimeo, Youtube and others, no issues. Am in UK too. I BLAME THE GOVERNMENT.

Is that a good or bad sign that Giant Bomb wont be having a proper review of Bastion on their site?

No bastion review? oh well, we'll get their review from the bombcast i guess

@Branthog said:

Yet another boring week in the gaming industry. More developers need to get their shit together and realize that in an age where the average gamer is 37 years old, the concept of "summer break" is fucking meaningless.

Also, the obvious reason that Bastion won't be "properly reviewed" is that if they did - no matter how they disclaimed it or how they reviewed it - people would be spamming "durp durp GiantBomb sold out in the forums".

A perfect example is Trenched, where it got a review and some idiots went apeshit. The stupidest part of it all is that one way or another we will hear their opinions of Bastion, maybe through a quicklook, maybe through the Bombcast, but somehow a review is sacrosanct? There is no real logic to it other than not pissing off certain people of course.

I would suggest just writing a review but leave the rating off. Just to show how stupid the outrage is.

@Branthog said:

Yet another boring week in the gaming industry. More developers need to get their shit together and realize that in an age where the average gamer is 37 years old, the concept of "summer break" is fucking meaningless.

Also, the obvious reason that Bastion won't be "properly reviewed" is that if they did - no matter how they disclaimed it or how they reviewed it - people would be spamming "durp durp GiantBomb sold out in the forums".

A perfect example is Trenched, where it got a review and some idiots went apeshit. The stupidest part of it all is that one way or another we will hear their opinions of Bastion, maybe through a quicklook, maybe through the Bombcast, but somehow a review is sacrosanct? There is no real logic to it other than not pissing off certain people of course.

I would suggest just writing a review but leave the rating off. Just to show how stupid the outrage is.

Hey Tim Curry. No shit.

@JauntyHat said:

Is that a good or bad sign that Giant Bomb wont be having a proper review of Bastion on their site?

It's like you didn't pay attention!

@Crono said:

@enemymouse said:

@Branthog said:

Yet another boring week in the gaming industry. More developers need to get their shit together and realize that in an age where the average gamer is 37 years old, the concept of "summer break" is fucking meaningless.

Also, the obvious reason that Bastion won't be "properly reviewed" is that if they did - no matter how they disclaimed it or how they reviewed it - people would be spamming "durp durp GiantBomb sold out in the forums".

A perfect example is Trenched, where it got a review and some idiots went apeshit. The stupidest part of it all is that one way or another we will hear their opinions of Bastion, maybe through a quicklook, maybe through the Bombcast, but somehow a review is sacrosanct? There is no real logic to it other than not pissing off certain people of course.

I would suggest just writing a review but leave the rating off. Just to show how stupid the outrage is.

I like that idea of the review without the rating. Also agree with everything else you both said. Of course, we'll never see that idea put into practice, but it would be nice to see.

Metacritic would still try to tie a number to it.

They said up front they wouldn't do a review of Bastion, before the actual exclusive looks began. So all the people whining are just late to the party. The whole idea was to let the Giant Bomb community see how a small team develops a game, which is a far more worthwhile goal than a single review.

Plus the game looks amazing anyway, so no review needed. Just take my damn money, Kasavin!

Oh man. I'm stoked for that TNT.

To me weekdays are a religion, and Monday's are the shit.

@NeverDave said:

@JauntyHat said:

Is that a good or bad sign that Giant Bomb wont be having a proper review of Bastion on their site?

It's like you didn't pay attention!

That's the truth, truth

When did you guys hire David Lynch to direct I Love Mondays? 

aww man i loved the command & conquer series of games so i can't wait for tnt this week

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