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Watch Us Watch Nintendo Direct 03/08/2018!

Sit back and witness all of our collective excitement! Squids, Captain Toad, and more!

Mar. 8 2018

Cast: Jeff, Brad, Ben

Posted by: Jan

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I demand videos like these for every Nintendo Direct going forward.

ESPECIALLY FOR THE BORING ONES

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Gamespot are a buncha marks.

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Is Jeff trying to impress someone by shitting on everything? Why does he feel the need to be so cynical?

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I was legit hopeful they would do this, but it being such a small direct I doubted it would happen.

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love how brad rifles that couriered game into a pile behind him.

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More "JEFF REACTS" videos, please.

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anyway we can invest in a tri-pod? the swaying camera made me so nauseous. not fun in the am...

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Pretty embarrassing hearing folks cheering for Smash Brothers in the background.

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Is Jeff trying to impress someone by shitting on everything? Why does he feel the need to be so cynical?

As long as you ignore all the stuff he did like in the video, I guess what you're saying is true. Some people aren't excited about ports of games they played 12 years ago. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Waluigi is a Tennis Goblin

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Jeff Gerstmann: "Pikachu sholdn't talk"

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The dude that keeps awkwardly standing behind Ben and walking away (and also leaning over a promotional arcade style console game randomly every now and then) only to come back again and again -- No offense to the guy, just seemed a bit odd. Who are you duder!?

If I'm not wrong he's Dave Nillasca, the member from Giant Bomb we usually don't see. He's the one that keeps the lights on, the business dude. He was on Kingdom Heartache:

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Dammit, I wish someone would make a REAL tennis game again rather than a fakey, cartoony, silly almost-tennis game. :(

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Captain toad?

HELL YEAH!

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Ben on Undertale: "it's funny, but not for everyone"

Ben on South Park: goes out of his way to show how he dislikes South Park

I really like Ben, but his weird hate on South Park and his reactions every time the show or the game is mentioned can be a bit off-putting.

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@stordoff: lets be honest here, making a big deal of these Nintendo Directs is silly. It's a glorified press release at best.

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@johnymyko: I don't want to be "that guy" but look into South Parks/creators shitty attitude on right-wing politics and you will soon very much understand why there are people who despise the show. It's all very gross.

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@johnymyko: I don't want to be "that guy" but look into South Parks/creators shitty attitude towards right-wing politics and you will soon very much understand why there are people who despise the show. It's all very gross.

They make fun of all the sides of the political spectrum, it's satire and they do it on their own style but it's far away from being gross. And they make jokes about politics just like they make about pop culture, celebrities, children, etc. They've made fun of things I like multiple times and that doesn't make me want to hate them, I just accept that it's a joke and move on with my life. If he doesn't like it, just let it go instead of having to play for the camera some overreacting way of showing how he hates it every single time.

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@johnymyko: If that's what you want to believe that's fine. I'm not here to judge anyone for something they like, there is just a lot more to it then some dumb jokes is all I am saying. Honestly even talking about this is making me uncomfortable because of the rancid shit they have said in the past. I am just leaving it at that.

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What was up with Ben harassing the guy using his chair at 29:15? That was super awkward.

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@thepunk28: Joking around, light-hearted banter, not really awkward at all.

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@mrgreenman: Plenty of people on the left have the exact same issues with South Park. If people on the left think South Park has a right wing bias and people on the right think South Park has a left wing bias then maybe the problem is with the ideologues who are completely unable to laugh at themselves.

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@thepunk28: Humans interacting with each other in a playful manner sure are awkward! What even?

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@johnymyko: why does it not remotely surprise me you're one of those people. I watched the first 8 seasons of South Park and it absolutely has a downward punching slant against gay (Big Gay Al, Mr. Slave), trans (Mr. Garrison's surgery), and minority individuals. it's disingenuous to say otherwise.

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GiantBomb dudes placidly staring at a smash bros announcement while the office next door loses their fucking mind is the most GiantBomb thing ever and I love it.

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Considering how poor my internet is and how the Switch has no quality options, I'd prefer to watch every Nintendo Direct like this.

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What shoes is Jeff wearing?

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Smash Bros. is awesome, I wish the GB staff was more into it.

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There is some high quality dead pan Jeff in this video I love it

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I don't think I would be able to get any work done in an open office space.

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Giant Bomb, where we hate all the video games.

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Jeff is right shape of water is bad

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The guys turning hard on South Park is weird when you consider that they seemed to enjoy Stick of Truth. I enjoy the cynicism all the same, though.

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That No More Heroes looked really disappointing. :(

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Ben on Undertale: "it's funny, but not for everyone"

Ben on South Park: goes out of his way to show how he dislikes South Park

I really like Ben, but his weird hate on South Park and his reactions every time the show or the game is mentioned can be a bit off-putting.

South Park is played out. Almost everyone on the staff acts the same way, it's not exclusive to Ben.

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This was a weird place for a random hot take about “The Shape of Water.”

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Man, that enthusiastic voiceover was nauxious.

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Jeff's "They're coming to Smash Brothers" was really savvy

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Ben Pack is the best addition to GB since Austin.

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Every Direct should be shown this way.

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So does Ben have a speech impediment or does he think Wario is called Wårio? I mean, Wario is pretty clear on what his name is in the cutscenes.. Not once have I heard him call himself Wåhrioh... "I'm-a wåhrioh, I'ma gonna win!" nope...

Just trolling I assume? I mean.. He doesn't say Wåluigi...

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Really loved the format of this video; felt nice and chill.

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@mostlysquares: People pronounce things differently my dude.

Wish we didn't have the same pointless comments on videos but why change a habit of 10 years I guess. Anyway, I enjoyed this was cool to get a video since they don't normally do anything for these and was cool to see their thoughts.

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@kingyo: So that's the full explanation? He just says it differently like how some people who grew up before games had voices call Mario Mærio?

Furthermore, I seem to have struck a nerve somehow. That's on you, no reason to throw a fit.

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@convox said:

@lonelyspacepanda: Boy, *enthusiastic* fans *of anything* are exhausting.

FTFY Let's not imply that having extreme emotions over something (and playing it up on camera for a young youtube audience) is a Nintendo specific problem. That being said, I physically could not watch that entire video.

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So pumped about Warioware.