The Giant Beastcast: Episode 158

Ahh yeah. Time for the Beastie.

I assume this was recorded before the Assassins Creed announcement?

@jonny_anonymous Maybe it leaked?

Bear-sties!

@walreese55: Oh yeah, it totally did.

Just like Dan, I also found a tick on my scrotum as a teenager and had to ask my mum to get it off for me. I'm still confused how it got there to this day... (especially since the UK suburbs aren't epecially known for harbouring ticks).

Spoon!

In Jr High I'd walk to my friend's house for lunch and play Street Fighter 2 on the SNES every day. It was the best.

YAY!!! Something for me to listen to this morning at work. =)

Ah the benefits of relationships, having your significant other scouring your taint for ticks.

"Finally, Jeff spends a lot of time talking about a tick on his taint."

Oh god

I was hoping for someone to have played Yoku's Island Express. Basically a 2D puzzle-platformer/metroidvania mixed with pinball. I've seen people call it a pinballvania. It looks, sounds and plays amazing, and it seems like a great game to bring with you on a trip on the Switch.

In disagreement with Vinny, the core Pokemon RPGs are very mechanically dense. I think it's accessible in a way because you can get through those games without engaging with most of the mechanics, but things like EVs, IVs, Catch rates, encounter rates, berries, poke puffs, hundreds of items, hundreds of moves, almost 1000 pokemon. It has a hell of a lot of baggage and density.

real talk, Lyme disease fucking sucks.

Way more AC stuff leaked than just a keychain all the way back on the 19th.

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WARNING: Don't eat while listening to this podcast.

"I pulled out my Wii" is a really weird sentence.

Film and 40s Ghostbusters or I'll...make a firmly worded e-mail!

Man! Beastcast crew is on point. So good.

The thumbnail got me hyped, but after reading the description I'm disappointed to know that they're talking about ticks instead of talking about The Tick.

@alistercat: But all that stuff you listed can be (and I suspect is by the majority of players) completely ignored in the interest of completing the main game. At the end of the day, all those systems are just extra layers (IMO superfluous systems) feeding into the basic rock-paper-scissors format that's existed since the beginning.

Everytime Abby complains about not getting emails I die alittle inside I literally send 1-3 every week or so like IDK it's kinda mean

@awkwardloser: maybe that's why? quality over quantity friend :)

'specifically the first one'

KotOR II is the best Star Wars ever though :'(

I work outside in Missouri I am more tick than man this time of year, I can no longer be concerned with them.

I also heard "Far: Lone Sails" as "Far Loan Sales". The actual title makes a lot more sense by comparison, haha. A game title where 2 of the 3 words are homophones is maybe not the best idea.

@kirkyx: gameplay is improved from one but the story and characters of one are better (though some of sith lord's companions are pretty cool, Kreia in particular).

Kotor 2 is so much better that it is barely even held down by the minor detail of literally being an unfinished game on release.

The thing is though.. Kotor is a game about cool Star Wars shit and Kotor 2 is a game about how much of Star Wars is total bullshit.

First Ghostbusters doesn't really hold up :|

@noobsauce: I couldn’t disagree more! I think KotOR II is the single best story ever told in the Star Wars setting, and I find its cast of characters vastly more compelling than KotOR I’s.

I do still like KotOR I a bunch—it was a formative gaming experience for me, and I still have really fond memories of it. KotOR II, though, is probably my all-time favourite game—and I think it holds up much better than the first, too. I replayed both last year, and came away with, if anything, an even stronger positive opinion of KotOR II, while I found that KotOR I’s story, dialogue and roleplaying systems really hadn’t stood the test of time nearly as well.

@avioto: How else are you going to examine that tick on your taint?

@kirkyx: I appreciate what II's story tries to do, I just think it misses the mark, which is a shame because I think the areas it explores are very interesting. I think most of my issues just stem from the game being incomplete. Since we're talking about them, I'll probably give them a revisit soon. Who knows, maybe I'll end up liking two more this time.

@meatwad2567: I even said in my post that it's accessible because all of that can be ignored if you just want to go through the game.

Baldur's Taint

@drachmalius: Ya and hard to diagnose .

5 years ago almost to the day today I met my Wife's parents and was given a tour of there 10 acres of forest. Subsequently had 3 ticks on me that night.

I have nothing specific to say about this week except this was a very good episode. One of my favorites in a while. Good job everyone.

SPOON

Lyme disease has stolen 10 years of my life so far. It is no joke. Check yourself every day if you spend a lot of time in the wild.

Dan was extremely happy to steamroll Jeff's tick story with his own tick story.

Same.

They sounded pretty certain that a new elder scrolls game would be far in development by now. But it seems like Elder Scrolls 6 is not in development at all based on this 4chan leak:

Considering the guy got the name right for Fallout 76 and the fact that it's multiplayer back in December it seems like it's legit.

@vinny I think you just got a platinum trophy for a game that has seasons.

No joke, whatsoever: I would absolutely, 100%, watch a "Dan goes back in time to use future-knowledge to become rich and powerful, but has no idea how anything actually works" movie. That legitimately has some serious potential.

I tried to look up the term suffer sim but found nothing. Can someone fill me in?

I'm happy that Vinny spoke and paid his respect to TB. However, i'm disappointed the West coast did not bother to even mention it in their podcast news section. Whatever you think of the man, it was news worthy.

I am only a premium member to this site because of the way Totalbiscuit spoke about his love of their content. I don't agree he was a negative influence on the gaming space, yes he was opinionated and yes he was abrasive and yes he did call out gaming journalists for their actions but most importantly he spoke up for us the gamers .

I will miss the guy a lot and remember him for the years of great content he provided. Maybe the West coast could at least try to be a bit more respectful in future and not just stick their head in the sand like they did with Kingdom Come.

I know from listening to many a game devs perspective TB did more for their games lifespan than this site ever will and that's a fact my friends.

Anyway i still love this site i'm just disappointed in the West Coast.

Cheers

I love the idea of Dan jumping out of a time portal/machine/whatever blabbling in a weird foreign language (maybe considered a weird dialect if he went to the British isle) aka today standard american english to a bunch of illiterate people about equations and gravity. I give him half an hour to an hour at best.