The Final Giant Bomb Live Show of 2015

I must have some OCD in me, I wouldn't be able to sit amidst those boxes without at least trying to align them with each other or stack them neatly someplace. I'm old enough to remember playing that Atari 2600 Star Wars game, the thing I most remember about it is how sore my hands were after using that joystick for extended periods. I never played the Superman game but clearly I didn't miss much. I sorta remember a Spiderman game that I liked but that could be faded memories.

It looks fine. Slow-motion in a game that came out in 1997 is pretty fucking impressive.

Seeing water rendered on a Sega Master System is a strong memory of my childhood, it's always so insanely blue and sharp looking.

Oh man, watching Jeff boot up Total Annihilation is crazy. It's my favorite game! Still looks great,

@notallama: There used to be an achievement for getting a First on this site. An achievement! You have no idea how sweet getting that one felt.

@davidh219: You should go and find Vinny's solo stream of Bot Colony. It is some quality entertainment. He gets SO UPSET.

@lazyaza said:

Alternately, some kind of tactical squad GiTS game would make sense, like an XCOM/Shadowrun/Satellite Reign sort of thing. It could at least show off the diverse capabilities within the fictional setting.

Agreed that a pretty standard multiplayer-only Call of Duty clone seems like a misuse of the license. This game is as unremarkable as something like Blacklight Retribution.

Jesus Christ, that Superman game looks as insane and confusing as ever.

One man Ten boxes.

I like all sonic designs up to a point, i also like the first Bubsy, i am your enemy Jeff :P.

There's 4 distinct timelines of Ghost in the Shell stuff, but for Jeff I'd probably recommend Stand Alone Complex, 2nd GIG and Solid State Society, which are the two seasons of TV Anime and the TV movie that capped it off.

There's the manga which I seriously doubt Jeff would ever be interested in, the movies which are very pretty but emotionally dull, and the new ARISE series which is just flat out bad.

Watching bits from the Bubsy games makes me want to track down footage from the mid 90's Australian game show "A*mazing". They would play Bubsy fornsame damn reason

I usually download all the extra life archives and skim through that in VLC.

I'm not sure why, but I feel the urge to give Auralex all my audio baffling business.

EDIT: I'd forgotten that "Elevator Action," much like "Space Invaders" and "Spelunker," is now a Square Enix joint.

Yep, watch ghost in the shell.

Really, watch it.

The movies too, The Matrix-inspiring classics that they are, but also the show for sure.

Y'all should know Jeff well enough to know that suggesting he do something too strongly or insistently is the surest way to make sure he never does it.

@paulunga said:

Seriously I've had fever dreams that made more sense than anything in that.

An achievement that you wouldn't get I'd you simply spammed out "First" in the first comment. You had to post an actual comment to get it, not just spamming out "first" which is annoying and stupid.

Way to go Jeff. Who needs the other fools. Ha!

Jeff's anger towards Sonic 3 borders on "Old Man Yells At Cloud".

we almost got Jeff on anime watching. LOL

Absolutely baffled by the Ghost in the Shell game. Every other genre would be better suited than a multiplayer FPS.

"I don't remember Turok being a key hunting game"

Not? Both Turok 1 and 2 had you hunt for secrets to get the keys needed to reach other levels, I always found it a real dick move. 2 was worse than 1 by having additional objectives like "save all the children" which are also hidden and if you miss any of them, too bad, finishing the level doesn't count, go back to the start.

Oh and I also remember the pre-release talk about Turok 2: "It only uses fog for atmosphere, not to reduce the draw distance". Atmosphere my arse.

@fobwashed: The heads of the other giant bomb staff

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is a very solid anime series and probably my favorite, as someone who would give @austin_walker a run for Cyberpunk-genre fanboy-ism. (And as someone who is at almost-Dan-Ryckert levels of anime-avoidance).

The 1996 movie (which I somehow saw in in a full-fledged theatre) is cool, but pretty preachy in the way a way that a lot of 90's anime were -- you know, the whole "What is God?" "What if Man Becomes God?" "Why is Man so Horrible?" "God/Politicians are Therefore Horrible. Let's get Depressed! Wooooo!" line of philosophical thinking.

In regards to the GiTS / anime-cyberpunky shooter...man. NEOTOKYO° has a HELL of a lot more soul than this.

The First Ghost in the Shell movie is amazing. I haven't caught anything else, but I've heard they're really good.

@notallama: i am sorry to tell you this, but you are second... yeah...

Just watch Stand Alone Complex for now. If you like it enough to can dig through the movies that follow a completely different timeline.

\m/ Total Annihilation +shootall -- That game is so damn cool. I actually like the water units in that game (you're right, they're usually garbage in RTS) because w/ CC and BT you can build fully functional rogue bases underwater just incase your main one gets destroyed or as a surprise for your opponent.

As much as I loved TA, I rarely played Supreme Commander because my computer was shit when it came out :(.

Edit: Metal maps were my least favourite in TA. Was nice to place metal extractors wherever you wanted, but they are fuuuugly.

You need a pint in order to wait for all of this to blow over.

@davidh219: I'd watch solo Vinny.

Turok, you are soooo nauseating... why would you have the player lean on every strafe, ahhhhhhh, i'm dieing.

I liked Turok on the N64, but it looks pretty tedious now.

Also, you should at least watch the first Ghost in the Shell movie.

Jeff's solo shows are what I come here for at the end of the year. His seemingly impromptu hangout sesh's are amazing!

Excellent choice of Thumbnail

Indeed. And yet he's right; Sonic looks like shit in Sonic 3.

The chat's reaction to Superman was really something.

Turok 2 was fun, dammit! (with cheats, anyway...)

Kinda liked Turok Wars as well, but more as a curiosity than anything.

@davidh219: you wouldn't watch Brad or Austin? Austins delightful lol

Bubsy was the first video game I played as a child that made me realize video games could be bad.

Wait jeff likes anime ... wasn't he the one making fun of it all the time? We need to see @austin_walker play the ghost in the shell game ... just so we can see the tears. I know I cried when I first heard about this game and then when I saw it played here ... oh god such crap.

@nukleon: wow no the movies are great deep philosophy and very emotionally moving. Asking the big questions and providing some interesting possibilities of answers. Movies are great I don't know what you are talking about ... sigh..

Nothing reminds me of Sega Channel more than Bubsy.

@petethepanda: That shit was ahead of its time. The Sega Channel was pretty amazing when I was a kid.

Internet predators. They exist.

I was legitimately afraid for Jeff's health when he was going on about "Sonic 3." I was afraid he was going to have an aneurism. He almost started speaking in tongues at one point.

EDIT: That Tron (non-)endless runner really made me jones for a current-gen port of "Tron: Evolution." An OK game but really nice art style.

Sonic 3: The Yoshi's Island of the Genesis