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Quick Look: Never Give Up

Never give up on references from the early aughts.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Aug. 31 2019

Cast: Vinny, Alex, Dan, Abby

Posted by: Abby

In This Episode:

Never Give Up

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Dan got bleep 😝

Seth McFarlane is fine check out Orville

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Seth MacFarlane is miles funnier than any of you guys, especially you, Dan.

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"The voice actor sounds like an actor who auditioned for MadTV and didn't get on."

I don't know what's worse. This, or the fact that he auditioned for The Tester and DID get on.

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@dracomaster01: I think Dan is more mad at the fans than the show. Both Family Guy and Rick and Morty have overbearing communities. I understand, but try not to hold it against the shows. Dan loves the Simpsons, and that was full of references. The only reference in this video I heard was "these checkpoints are making me thirsty." It makes no sense in context, I think Dan's complaints apply there. But I don't think the voice sounds like Stewie. It's all subjective anyway.

I personally liked the first couple seasons of Family Guy, but fell off. I think Rick and Morty is well written, but the characters are unlikable. Seeing others go nuts for these shows, when I think they aren't that amazing is frustrating. It's easy to blame Seth MacFarlane for getting 3 fox animated shows when Futurama was cancelled (and better than them all) after it was repeatedly bumped for baseball. But the Orville is great, and so were those early episodes of Family Guy.

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(In Ben voice) I've got news for you Dan... YOU'RE GONNA FINISH IT!

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I prefer meatformer, thank you very much.

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This game seems bad, but mostly this just seems like Dan is in a bad mood? He is guilty of so many of the things he shits on this game for.

Dan is great, but maybe have someone else QL/Review games that infuriate the player.

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I prefer to be entertained (and occasionally support) Seth McFarlane over Vince McMahon any day. Some Family Guy episodes might be mostly fart jokes or Peter flashbacks but there are some pretty funny Stewie + Brian time-travel/sci-fi escapades that aren't necessarily nihilist propaganda like Rick and Morty. I guess I can identify a lot with Meg as well hehe and her stories can be really dark even without exploiting violence. The first season of The Orville is actually decent but I fell off the second season when it got a little predictable.

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i think my problem is that the visuals are so generic, and they're trying to shoehorn personality into the game with lame dialogue.

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This looks like one of those video games that people who don't play video games think all video games are like.

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Haha, Dan would have loved this if it had just used lines pulled straight from MacGruber. The gold standard of comedy. Still, this is lame looking.

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Edited By shiro2809

Feels like a lot of people are missing Dan getting into specifics about the referential humor, which the kind he hates (that he says this game has) he doesn't really do.

Anyway, this game seems like it could be better if they just cut out any story/dialog it has and just have a good soundtrack and let you go.

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@wollywoo: Ori and the Blind Forest is kind of a splatformer/metroidvania.

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@phoenixlol: Yeah, I'm super looking forward to that one coming to Switch!

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American Dad is a great, hilarious show.

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To Dan, this is bad- but Streets of Rogue? Fine.

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Please bring Danika on and plan to have everyone sporadically baby talk at Dan for an entire stream, without him knowing. While forcing him to play this game.

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@chazzi27: I'm guessing it's a political thing.

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Time to Bjork: 7:06

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Edited By Onemanarmyy

Reminds me of Exception. It's a game, it works fine, but also feels like the product of a studio that's still finding it's way in the world. Agree that the humor here seems pretty infuriating, but don't agree with the Seth Mcfarland hate. I don't think his shows have ever made me laugh out loud, but it's pretty captivating, lighthearted and a fun watch to see every once in a while i think.