Thursday Night Throwdown 01/10/13

Awesome glad to see this up so quick

Mechwarrior looks cool

Anarchy looks like a good thing for me +friends to fuck around with in our dorm room

SUPER FAST

Fuck wig bowling!

Man, that was helluv fast

That Taku128 guy is pretty good at Death Ball. Showboated a lot though, so he's probably some kinda asshole.

Oh god! I have a souped up Hunchback. I would have joined in the fun if I'd just known about it.

Dag yo

Thanks so much for getting these up so fast. I go to trivia Thursday night and it's always great to come back and watch these!!!

I freaking love Jeff's Wutang shirt!

What is that thing on Jeff's Face? It scares me a little bit.

Stop trying to make me want a PC!!!!

Thanks Drew for representing the PC overlords as per the usual. Great show!

Madness!

Mech'n'cheese

Mech a wish foundation.

my puns were the best that stream.

There's a Ryan Davis at my school.

"Taking pictures of this Fudgehog" sounds like a horrifying act.

Do a Phantom Dust Bombastica Patrick!

Yeah!!!!

I was really really burnt out with Anarchy Reigns by the end but as soon as I heard those dope ass heavy lasers firing in Mechwarrior Online, I was back in this TNT. Damn shame it took until about the end to realize that they were being matched with other 8 player groups that were way more experienced or team oriented than they were.

First TNT I've gotten into play, so good. I gave Virtua Davis the business.

Mechwarrior online must have been exciting, it had drew on the edge of his seat.

No bowling then?

@Hawkerace said:

Mech'n'cheese

Mech a wish foundation.

my puns were the best that stream.

I once got killed in MWO by a player named Mech Romney.

I wasn't surprised at the blowouts in the drew portions. You get fucking WORKED in this game if nearly your whole team isn't on voip.

No wigs?

I'm pretty impressed about how much Drew knew about Mech Warrior Online. I didn't really play it alot but I played the table top for 100s or 1000s of hours and I was pretty impressed he knew that only rapid fired ballistic weapons can jam.

MechWarrior Online looks fucking amazing, screw Hawken!

Was that an option to have bots in multiplayer? This is more reason for me to get this game. I was worried that the user base might drop off in a month or so, but with bots, the fun never ends (as long as the AI is good)

I've been playing quite a bit of Mechwarrior when I have some free time on the computer. I purchased the elite founders pack back when the started offering it during the private beta. There is still quite a bit of things they need to change and fix, but I find it really god damn fun.

Just maxed out the tier 1 perks on 3 of my catapult varients, now I have the elite perks open to unlock.

It's not perfect, but it has great potential.

@cbarnes86 said:

Was that an option to have bots in multiplayer? This is more reason for me to get this game. I was worried that the user base might drop off in a month or so, but with bots, the fun never ends (as long as the AI is good)

If you're talking about Anarchy Reigns, it has a Simulator mode where you can play all the modes of multiplayer with bots. The AI is fairly competent. I've lost to them on a number of occasions.

@Vinny (I'm only 30 seconds in but) Are you guys using new cameras/methods or am I just going crazy? I watch everything you produce in HD on my TV, and this just looks....better. I can't say whether it's the sharpness, colour, lighting or what, it just looks better!

OH! I wish I had a good pc to play MechWarrior. I loved it back growing up.

More mech pun's please!

The bowling is next week, next time actually listen to the podcast people. They said it like three times with Ryan at the end stressing the fact.

I got into this TNT and killed Ryan a few times. It felt goooooood :D

I wish they would stop doing online competitive games for TNT. It's boring, and doesn't prompt any conversation other than grunts and "I'm dead" over and over again. they should dip into the back catalog for co-op and couch competitive games. Would be way better for the viewers IMO.

@NekuCTR said:

I wish they would stop doing online competitive games for TNT. It's boring, and doesn't prompt any conversation other than grunts and "I'm dead" over and over again. they should dip into the back catalog for co-op and couch competitive games. Would be way better for the viewers IMO.

Some of the best TNTs have been competitive multiplayer like with Street Fighter and Stacraft 2. TNT was conceived as another way for the bomb squad to hang out with their users. I won't deny that it's morphed into something else almost entirely, but to put a ban on competitive multiplayer games and thus removing another facet of community interaction is overall detrimental, in my opinion.

Keep in mind, competitive TNTs are just as much about the other people people playing as it is about Ryan or whoever "grunting" on the couch.

Someone should get Drew behind the original Steel Batallion...

@snide I wish I could watch this.

Drew sits so straight! Oh so envious.

@Obinice said:

@Vinny (I'm only 30 seconds in but) Are you guys using new cameras/methods or am I just going crazy? I watch everything you produce in HD on my TV, and this just looks....better. I can't say whether it's the sharpness, colour, lighting or what, it just looks better!

New lenses!

Cyberpunk trailer "kind of gross?" WTF is wrong with you? Fuck, you should start another campaign on twitter.

Oh my god, Jeff's fake sign language at 45:30 just about killed me! Perfect.

I have got to get in on that MechWarrior Online. I was way into MechWarrior 4.

@SniperXan said:

@McGhee: Yeah booobs woo! Lets all objectify the fuuuuck outta women woo! (Please go die.)

Yes, I happen to like seeing beautiful women. This does not turn them into objects in my mind. Go fuck yourself.

Hell yeah, Mechwarrior back online.

@SniperXan said:

@McGhee: Yeah booobs woo! Lets all objectify the fuuuuck outta women woo! (Please go die.)

I don't think the intention of the devs was to get people off to the lady. You have the dolled up lady in revealing clothing in what appears to be a shady part of town and you also have her covered in blood and with robot blades coming out from her forearms while a cop is pointing a gun at her head.

@Generiko said:

@SniperXan said:

@McGhee: Yeah booobs woo! Lets all objectify the fuuuuck outta women woo!

I don't think the intention of the devs was to get people off to the lady. You have the dolled up lady in revealing clothing in what appears to be a shady part of town and you also have her covered in blood and with robot blades coming out from her forearms while a cop is pointing a gun at her head.

Her dress may make perfect sense within the story if she ends up being some kind of sex-bot gone crazy or assassin-bot acting like a sex-bot, which I'm willing to bet is the case.