Unprofessional Fridays: 01/29/2016

Totally agreed. Saints Row 2 ran quite badly, which 3 rectified to some extent, but yeah, the difference in feel between the three stories and the somewhat Tarantino-esque tonal contrast between the humour, brutal violence and powerful character moments worked really well in that game and distinguished it from the rather straight-laced open world games of the time, including GTA IV. The later games leaned more towards spectacle and cartoonish wackiness. Which is fine, but mmm, 2 was a lovely blend that no other game has done quite the same way.

I preferred 4 over 3, even, the superpowers really were fun.

Say what you want, but the video poster image is great.

"I'm a forty year old man from the suburbs." - Jeff Gerstmann

The best UPF since the last one!

@savhage: It's a Qanba Q4. I have the same stick and it's fantastic.

I like amiibos...THERE I said it! Good for you dan. Follow your crazy dream.

@kasaioni: Thank you kind sir. Thank you.

Saints Row 2 had a much livelier city than SR3 and 4. Also food to skip the health regeneration delay. That's what I felt was missing from later entries.

Also I guess the cartoonier look for 3+ was odd.

@brad: useless information: the line ending issue there is the use of unix line endings (\n) vs the windows line endings that notepad expects (\r\n). This difference in convention has annoyed untold thousands of developers who work in mixed operating system environments throughout the years.

Studio and couches are to dark.

T-SHIRT!?

I liked 4 a lot too. It seemed like a happy medium between 3 and 4. It had the wacky humor in 3, but it also had some pretty good character building moments like what Saint's Row 2 had with those loyalty missions and such.

lol, someone doesn't have a date for valentines day

What a weird complaint to have.

New Dan must be stopped.

I really want one of those DONUT CREATE PUSH t-shirts.

2 > IV > The Third > Saints Row

@wrecks said:

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The fact that he's using the squid girl amiibo makes it even more creepy great

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Didn't know Jason actually is a fighter. No wonder he's into fighting games.

I like the keyboard they have on their PC - anyone know what it is? I'm in the market for some new accessories and want to see if it's not a crazy high price.

"I own a few ski masks"

Jeff confirmed as YouTube malt liquor video poster

I want to get one of those Donut Create Push shirts simply because they are so stupid. But even seeing the UPF with Lovebeat, I have no idea what those shirts mean. And, I have a problem getting shirts with a reference I don't know about.

I need a better reason to get a shirt than " I think it's stupid"

Yes, I do remember when someone other than Dan has brought up their significant other: Vinny, Brad, Jeff, Jason, Patrick, and Ryan long ago, have done it. I don't remember if Alex has. I don't listen to the Beastcast much, so I don't know if Austin has. The only person I know that hasn't mentioned their SO is Drew.

It was so sweet of Jason to wear the same shirt so he can be just like his hero and best buddy Dan! :3

I would love to hear more Doom stuff on here. Look at some old classic wads. Not just Alien Doom, but stuff like Eternal Doom (or anything else TeamTNT did), Batman Doom, and especially Cyberdreams.

"Patrick Klepek ruined this song for me". This made me laugh so, so hard.

Really diggin' the shirts

Swapped to an Apple keyboard because of noise issues? I did the same thing (:

NewDan is either a Replicant, a Synth or a Pod person. Do not trust New Dan and never be caught alone with him.

I'm sure I heard somewhere that Capcom and/or Sony have hinted that EX characters like Skullomania are viable and very possible inclusions to the SFV roster in the future.

Awesome UPF!

Rivalry is great, I just bought it and played it for a few hours with some friends.

Love it at 40.40 when Geoff comments on Brad's WASD keyboard setup 'so you're not actually playing pure Doom' and cracks himself up. I laughed.

" DONUT CREATE PUSH"

Dan, you are collecting tiny plastic figures. You can never say Pixar and Harry Potter are dumb kids things.

Brad is sleeping again...

@jeff I would not buy a new CPU at this time, in your case I would buy a new cooler and overclock your existing chip. The bottleneck exists in the frequency, buying a new cpu at this time is a waste of money afaik you have a 2500k. With a minor bit of tweaking you can get away with waiting till the next revision of the chips, I personally would not change the chip. You can also defer a lot of computing to your GPU(depending on what software you use) in my case I have a 980ti(about %25 faster) and I run extremely intensive computing software(matlab w/ simulink etc).

This comes to the fact that Intel is about at the end of this chip cycle and WILL change it soon.

If you need more info PM me.

edit: chip cycle

"They went with the EA menu" haha

I like how Jeff scoffs at the idea of decorating his desk when in every mailbag I've seen, his desk is a disaster zone. I don't think it would be possible to decorate his desk with all the mess he has going on.

The new transitions are amazing.

The main draw for me about Saint's Row is that it is an amazing co-op game. It's a decent GTA-style game that has the ENTIRE single-player experience incorporated into co-op, without a single thing being removed/watered down. It's something I've always wanted from GTA and Saint's Row made it happen. And the fact that you can switch between SP and co-op at any time you wish with zero loss of anything is superb. It's something that MORE games need to do. I've actually never played SR2 since I never had access to it. I played a couple of hours of SR1 at a friend's place (it was actually the very first time I had ever played a 360) and I was a huge GTA fanboy back then so I was like "yeah this is fun but they copied GTA!" SR3 is amazing, played most of it co-op (I started SP since I was impatient and didn't play with my friend at first). Played all of SR4 in co-op, and that game... Still a great co-op game. Fun to be had. But I kind of hated it. The powers are cool, sure, but I also hate that they exist. They make cars 100% pointless, and I quite like driving around with whomever my co-op partner is a lot. The side games were insanely repetitive with little flavor, and the fact that the setting is constantly so dark because it's a simulation was somewhat depressing. Gat out of Hell looked like a lazy and sleazy moneygrab so I didn't even bother with it.

Robin and Lucina are the new super hard to find amiibo, haven't been replenished in the US since their launch on Splatoon day.

Gold Mega Man is exclusive to the 3DS CE of Mega Man Anniversary Collection.

Man listening to their reverence for Street Fighter EX is nuts. I was not a fan of those games. I played EX2 recently and it has not aged super well.

The characters were okay though I guess. There was that one chick with roller skates and a mega buster.

The explanation for Maximum Overdrive is that Stephen King took a LOT of cocaine in the 80s.

I love Dan and Jason's squabbles. Childish, but in an endearing way.

A little over a year later Maximum Override was, in fact, released. How much it changed from this I have no idea, but always nice to see something leave Early Access.

And I agree about Dan and Jason's squabbles. You can tell those dudes have been around each other for a bit too long.

Never reach into the wrestle bag...