Quick Look: Minecraft: Story Mode

This reminds me a lot of the video for Money For Nothing, by Dire Straits.

It bothers me that they don't recognize Brian Posehn.

i played that too. it was ok but it was really nothing special. and its not like i super enjoyed walking dead either. i really just want someone to make adventure games that dont feel like theyre appealing to the lowest common denominator. i mean just look at this game

@sl1ppyfist: i was about to say this

They should have used the whole Nerd Poker cast

Funny how Paul Reubens does that "regular-guy" voice on like every cartoon I hear him in, yet his Pee-Wee role is still the most notable in his career. It could be the celebrity appeal it kinda has, but I think this game looks kinda great. Great sense of humor, at least.

Come on guys Brian Posehn is not a small time comedian, learn his name.

Stoked to see Brian Posehn and Patton Oswald working together on a game. Been following Posehn since the Mr. Show days, his stand-up is fucking riotous.

You guys, this is clearly for kids who like Minecraft and looks totally decent. Sometimes the cynicism on here is too much.

I take issue with the fact that Austin insists that "red dust" comes from "redstone," after Vinny corrects himself. In fact, "dust" hasn't been referred to in the naming since Alpha 1.0.4. At this point, its purely a colloquial reference to redstone itself. So its crazy to me that you would mess up and call it red dust, when the game never explicitly refers to it as such.

Edit: Ultimately I quit about 4 minutes in because I realized that I needed this game to be treated with a modicum of respect. An ample supply that GB East simply cannot provide to any game.

Looks better than I expected, I'm going to wait until the series is done though, the "Take a year to deliver 6 episodes" format just doesn't work for me.

TESTED

It's cool seeing the world of Minecraft realized in a different way, and this doesn't look bad, but it does just kind of seem a bit soulless.

Also maybe Minecraft is just so done to death thanks to Youtube, but I'd actually love watching Alex, Vinny, and Austin fucking around with it. It's been a damn long time.

I'd imagine that this is designed for kids and honestly, It seems fine for that. Not that kids deserve any less quality than the rest of the market, but this looks fine.

Actually you know what, this looks pretty good. Looks way better than I expected.

Weirdly enough thats what I thought ... it's way easier to get a diamond than a wither skull.

It's actually in development - it's a retro styled pixel platformer.

I'm sorry, but I can't get myself to like this game. I've had a copy of Minecraft since the early days of the alphas and I love it. I don't play it all the time, but I go back to it from time to time. This game looks like a glorified YouTuber fan-fiction. Everyone is so fucking smug all the time they look like they were taken from one of those stupid thumbnails they are always using, with stupid faces and stupidly large text.

Ugh.

I hate that shit eating grin the characters do

@joeyravn: Its obviously made for the kids who love that stuff.

So that narrator is just totally Professor Farnsworth AKA Billy West...right?!

@joeyravn said:

I heard markiplier did the mocap and facial animation and he broke three microphones with his screaming, even though they weren't getting audio.

Never cared for Minecraft at all and kinda hate that it's become as stupidly huge as it has and yet this still seems weirdly interesting to me.

Yes, it most definately is.

Does anyone know which Patton Oswalt bit Austin was talking about 8 minutes in?

lol

I'm not sure I'd think an all-silent run of a The Walking Dead would be as "brutal and upsetting" to watch as Austin makes it to be.

It's just a video game... and one made by Telltale to boot. You'll more or less end up in the same place no matter what you choose.

Hee hee. Incredible.

Wow, amazing, this turned out to be even more stupid than I thought it would be.

Any day that reminds me Mission Hill exists is a good day.

I think Patton Oswalt voiced his character Remy in the Ratatouille game. The movie's way better!

Looks decent but isn't for me, sure kids into Minecraft will adore it.just seems flat especially after coming off of Tales From The Borderlands which did an incredible job of doing a colourful adventure, the characters in this game don't seem that great.

I honestly can't tell if this is a serious comment or not.

I dont think you know how making products work

@mysterious0bob: Is it seriously that crazy to ask that GB East actually pay attention to the game instead of countlessly getting sidetracked while the game just gets played. Its like I'm watching a Let's Play channel on youtube, not a Quick Look.

In his first book he goes into detail about it, we don't really get his specials over here (UK) so I haven't seen anything since My Weakness is Strong.

Your avatar grosses/freaks me out :(

Minecraft is serious business you guys. Like, real serious business.

Just a comment for Vinny about Max playing Minecraft. My oldest son is 7 and plays Minecraft regularly. He started being interested in the game at age 6 and is pretty great now at building things in the game. My middle son is 5 and will regularly play the game alongside his brother (he also enjoys playing the Lego based video games.) I think you will find that once your kids hit school and there are friends in school playing Minecraft (my guys have even played the game in school on the Library computers) that they will want to play the game at home. I have sat and played the game myself with my boys and it can be quite a lot of fun to work together and build a giant structure.

Patton Oswalt has actually been in several prominent games. Two GTAs, Dead Rising 2, and Metro: Last Light to name a few.

There definitely seems to be some quality here, but I expected this to be 110% kid-friendly, and the presence of even very minor coarse language makes me less certain. With how many very young kids like Minecraft, that surprised me. For me, at least, that ruled it out as a gift for my friend's kid. Glad to see this got a Quick Look. I was definitely curious about this odd thing.

It's a game I enjoyed playing quite a bit. Its not my favorite game of all time, but by no means my least. If I want something other than the coverage GB is giving to it, and choose to look elsewhere, why is that a problem? Am I now inexorably chained to Giant Bomb, unable to decide that their coverage of a particular game isn't for me? Am I barred from ever seeking out a different opinion from a different place? Isn't GB a website about understanding the review's opinions and basing your understand off of that? Can I not look for a reviewer who will cover this game with an opinion similar to mine, so that I can get a full and valuable understanding of this game?

Calling Austin a creeper was a low blow :)

You're well within your rights to all of those things, but I'll point out that if you're going to only look for a reviewer who always shares your opinions, you'll very rarely get "full and valuable" understanding of games -- more often then not, you'll get just someone who reinforces your already-established beliefs.

im a big fan of both Patton Oswalt and Brian Posehn so I picked this up. The people in the comments here saying its for kids and might be a little dull because of that arnt wrong, but I had a good time with it. There isn't any groundbreaking storytelling happening in the first episode, but nonetheless it's fun.

It's never been more clear that a game is not for me, because the Minecraft graphics drive me insane.

Because theres the possibility that people playing these games have never played another like it. Weird eh?

I don't think anybody is telling you to do that. It just seems like what you're doing is ranting about "a total lack of respect for the game" for the equivalent of someone accidentally calling a mage a wizard. Clearly none of them have played Minecraft "seriously," and they all play dozens of games a year. Is that really what constitutes an unforgivable offense to you?

I don't get why they went so serious with this game. It should of been a fun little adventure similar to the Lego Movie in tone. Seemed like a natural fit.

As someone who was initially not interested, after seeing this I actually found it to be pretty cool

It feels really weird that this kid focused game has cursing in it. Probably going to ruffle some feathers if parents actually pay any attention to what their kid is playing.