The Giant Beastcast: Episode 06

The Robot Beastcast!

I, for one, welcome our new Vinbot overlords

To quote Rick James "Give it to me baby"

I needed this in my life.

Star Citizen will be a game...someday. In comparison look at Elite Dangerous right now...its basically only 30% of a game :|

Here's something to think of when a game give you the ability to "focus" on stuff, such as Witcher vision. In video games we have only 2 "sense" available to us: hearing and seeing, and in many cases we are only getting a stilted player view and not a "character view". Something like the Witcher sense allows us to mimic a character honing all 5 senses to view his surroundings. With Batman, its just Batman using crazy technology.

This beginning is making me cry.

I don't know what we did to earn a weekly podcast with four of my favourite dudes on the webosphere but I will be eternally grateful every Friday around 11am.

Also, HOLY SHIT that Austin throwdown at the start.

those ties are hideous

Hahahahahahahahaha, Austin's pun flow.

Beastin' in the AM.

Awww yeah! Beastcast morning show!

I have one of those ties. I haven't ever worn it, but I have it...

THIS IS AMAZING. Austin throwdown. I can't wait to hear a throwdown for each guest!!

Yu Suzuki has the rights for Shenmue 3, Sega owns the rights of Shenmue 1 and 2.

Holy shit that outralar

I played star citizen before, it was fun (more than i expected).

Flight mechanics allowed for real creative maneuvers, it actually felt like i was controlling an object with thrusters pointing in all directions, quickly swapping between flight assisted mode and complete control felt good, lots of potential there. I look forward to playing the real game in 2018/19.

My friend gave me that blue tie as a gift years ago. I think it is okay.

Did I dream the beginning of this or did that just happen...?

Listen til the end

>:OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO RARR

See I'm a beast too.

That was the most beautiful opening imaginable.

A podcast that's bookended by Austin dropping rhymes? Beastcast > Bombcast now. Pack it up.

"You're not even a real person, you're just a clip on tie!"

Vinny Caravella for President!

@vinny Fact-checking ruins podcasts.
With that said, and only because you included a corrections segment in this episode, Magical Chase (the US version) is the ridiculously expensive and rare Turbografx game. Magical Drop is a fairly tenured series that's appeared both tangibly and digitally on consoles, handhelds and arcade machines. Don't let your ebay robot buy up all the copies of Magical Drop.

That was some pretty sweet beatboxing!

Vinny... what can one say.

@ladyshayne: Good heavens yes. I made the mistake of listening to that while walking down the street, and busted out laughing, catching some awry looks in the process.

The Beastcast continues to be *fantastic*. As I know I've said before, I love that they go deep, and give their chosen topics room to breathe.

Needs more kazoos.

Cloud Chamber is the cloud game they were thinking. Well, at least I'm pretty sure it is.

I don't think that's particularly fair on Elite. Whatever you think of what's in it, it's a complete game, especially when compared with Star Citizen. I would agree that what's there isn't as engaging as it should be, and there isn't enough variety in it - you'd have to say that Destiny's not a game if falling down on those points stopped something from being a game.

Where you can definitely criticise Frontier is that it looks like some of the more interesting forthcoming developments of Elite (planetary landings, explorable ship-interiors etc) are likely to be packaged as paid-for expansions... Why am I feeling the urge to mention Destiny again..?

So just to clarify for worst band names. 311 used to be known as rainbow butt monkeys.

@dennistm: still don't think that encompasses the shittiness that is 311.

Almost missed this because it wasn't on the giantbomb front page.

Without listening to this: No, Star Citizen is not a game. 1.0 will never come out. Forget it. The dream is dead.

Two minutes in and this podcast does not disappoint.

my favourite podcast

My bad band name submissions (looking through a 90s Spotify playlist): Alien Ant Farm, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Meat Puppets, Stroke 9 vs Sum 41 (tie) for "worst band name ending in a number", Presidents of the United States of America, Verve Pipe.

But, I contend the worst band name of the 90s is Semisonic.

Just started the episode, reminds me of the old GFW Radio days.

Could you guys record a Beastcast Promo for them to cut into the Bombcast?

Sort of like this.

This was fucking glorious, also that fucking ending!!!

Two minutes and I'm blown away.

Holy shit that beginning.

Vince, Ozzy and Lex are Bakular with another great episode.

I'll be honest: I've been skeptical about how well Austin's more reflective style fits into Giant Bomb's shenaniganry; telepresence robots, Mario Party, and Yellow Russians make a seriously-crazy juxtaposition against Austin's "let's talk about games and society" approach.

And then Austin threw down.

Yeah, I think he fits here just fine.

Amazing.

And we're talking about gender diversity in video games and how it's a mega problem, again...

I feel like the Jeff Bakalar song needs slightly less air horn and a constant hey chant.

Nice work Austin.

I demand a new, original Jeff Bakalar song every week!

If ya'll are actually curious about the evil nurses from Silent Hill and where that trope comes from, it was originally a psychological apparition derived from the main character of Silent Hill 2. I don't want to spoil too much for that now old game, but the nurse is derived from that story's revelation. Much like pyramid head actually who is as well. But people just like to co-opt these characters into other games as if they are icons of Silent Hill (like they're the Mario of Silent Hill or something) when there's more to it than that.

Also, of course, the whipping vibrating head concept (as well as the way a lot of demonic images in some of the Silent Hill games) is inspired by Jacob's Ladder as well.

It's actually a shame people use these as staples of Silent Hill when in actuality you can use these concepts to make something much newer by deriving your own characters based on your own story very easily. The concept actually isn't hard to replicate, but no one has even attempted it. They just want to design similar concepts already done so people feel like "Hey this looks like Silent Hill."

That's actually why P.T was so interesting. It invoked Silent Hill without using the same designs, but using story elements they built up for P.T. instead. This is why P.T. as seeming proof they understood what made Silent Hill 2 work was so exciting. At least for me (I don't want to speak for everyone else).

Hockey talk > Wrestling talk