[ALL] Giant Bomb's Games of the year

[jms493]

Sometimes I swear, you say the dumbest shit. Of course it's just a podcast. Of course hanging on every word isn't important. But in case you were wondering, we all came here to talk about shit. This is about as dumb as your "It's his opinion" shit. WE GET IT! It's all opinions because it's all based on shit that is completely based on the consumer.

i wont argue with u on that one, i do say some pretty stupid shit.

 

[Twigg4075]

I do agree with you there. He speaks in absolutes in a way that doesn't a good journalist make. But maybe he just shouldn't be in front of a microphone? I'm beginning to think that that is the case because the stuff he writes is infinitely more even-handed than most of what he off-handedly shoots in the podcast.

I still like it, and the fuckers can still be very funny. The Spelunky heave last couple of days has been great (between TNT and Breaking Brad). Even if watching Brad play games often makes me FUCKING INSANE.

Yeah, that's exactly my point. Perfectly said. Klepek (and Gerstmann also for that matter) seem to be so absolute with almost every opinion they have on the podcast. Everything is either complete shit or fucking amazing. It's pretty apparent that all of those guys are very intelligent and articulate and seem to know their shit, but they basically lose all credibility in my mind when they start making ridiculous statements like that.

I also LOL at Brad's complete homerism about the Mass Effect franchise. No matter what anyone said negative about the game (mostly Gerstmann) he would have some counter trying to make everything llok like skittles and rainbows. I almsot crashed my truck when he tried to say the shooting mechanics were on par with Gears of War!

 

[Garrett67]

Giant bomb podcasts are a waste of time. Why the fuck does it take them 3 hours per show?

These things shouldn't be more than an hour. It's all wanking beyond that.

They are basically jobless losers that get paid. Maybe they're not but they look like slobs. I guess I'm mainly talking about Jeff and Ryan. Take a freaking bath , and not together this time.


/end rant


I'm off to play with my one eyed monkey

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[jms493]

New intro song...kind of.

 

[Twigg4075]

Again, on the last day of deliberations, Brad was droning on and on about how technically shitty the Xbox version of Walking Dead is. Klepek finally chimes in and says "The PS3 version has ZERO issues. I played through it on PS3 and never had a single issue. It looked and played great. No save issues either." I honestly don't understand why any of those guys would've played the 360 version when they could obviously play whichever version they want. Console preference aside, when one version is that shitty why would you subject yourself to that. And why would'nt Klepek implore him to play the PS3 version? I think Ryan played on the 360 too. The problems they had with the 360 version (and the save issues with the PC version) really colored their opinions of the game in general.

They also all apparently only played Far Cry 3 on 360 or PC. I can understand PC because I have no doubts that version looks and plays beautifully. They talk about how horrible the framerate is on 360 and on at least one occassion it was so bad the sequence ( a turret sequence at the end of the game) was nigh unplayable with the Frames per second being in single digits. I already played that sequence on PS3. Not only did I not have any issues but I never had any issues throughout the game, with the exception of one or two scripting glitches where the game wouldn't progress. I think both times it was during an interactive cut scene and the prompt never showed up. I just restarted the mission and was good to go. That kind of jank is alsmost expected in any huge open world game but I have to admit that this game had the fewest bugs or glitches of any open world game I think I've ever played.

But it just brings me to the point that these guys juse tend to make blanket statements that ALL console versions of a game have issues when in actuality they have only played the 360 version. So annoying. During the Walking Dead discussion, after Klepek mentioned his play on PS3, Alex even said that you can't just let one platforms misgivings skew your opinion of a game.

 

[jms493]

I think developers send them games....they play what is sent to them... If I sent you free games on XBOX you would probably play them on that console....or at least try them.

I couldn't listen to the Game of the Year Deliberations...there were too many spoilers for games I want to play. Ala Mass Effect 3. Sucks because I wanted to listen to them.

You are right twigg they make blanket and ridiculous statements all the time but if your listening to that podcast then you are the kind of nerd that knows better and most of it is them just bullshitting and trying to be funny or prove some point.

They are talking about game of generation or some shit in this weeks cast and you should hear Jeff blasting RDR and the rest of them saying to turn off his MIC. Its all opinions...I don't agree on a lot of the bullshit they say but they entertain me on the walk to the bus, walk to work on before I pass out on the bus. What I like about them is they say whatever the hell they want to say about anything and don't seem be following any corporate agenda.

 

[Twigg4075]

I think developers send them games....they play what is sent to them... If I sent you free games on XBOX you would probably play them on that console....or at least try them.

I couldn't listen to the Game of the Year Deliberations...there were too many spoilers for games I want to play. Ala Mass Effect 3. Sucks because I wanted to listen to them.

You are right twigg they make blanket and ridiculous statements all the time but if your listening to that podcast then you are the kind of nerd that knows better and most of it is them just bullshitting and trying to be funny or prove some point.

They are talking about game of generation or some shit in this weeks cast and you should hear Jeff blasting RDR and the rest of them saying to turn off his MIC. Its all opinions...I don't agree on a lot of the bullshit they say but they entertain me on the walk to the bus, walk to work on before I pass out on the bus. What I like about them is they say whatever the hell they want to say about anything and don't seem be following any corporate agenda.

The spoilers did suck but I just fast forwarded through them.

I know the publishers send them the games but everything I've heard from them says that unless it's a small release they get every version available. And usually in their actual review on the site they talk about all the versions and what differences they have. Yet on the podcast they make blanket bullshit statements and thousands upon thousands of people listen to it. I would be willing to bet that more people listen to their show than visit their site. So all of those people, whom rely on them for advice, are receiving bullshit info. "The console versions of X game are just fucked." No, the 360 version is dick.

 

[padman59]

On that last point about what Alex said, it depends on the severity of the console specific problems. I think it's perfectly fine to not give a game like Skyrim GOTY based solely on the shitty PS3 performance especially when you consider that Bethesda already published two games on PS3 with the same fucking problem.

Now, I don't know what technical problems they had with The Walking Dead outside of the save bug on PC since I skipped anything in the GOTY podcasts that spoiled the games I was planning to play. However, there was a problem in Jurassic Park where the game would hang for a second and suddenly speed up when it was loading the next piece of content, and if that happened during one of the QTEs, you would be screwed because the button prompts would fly by so fast that you couldn't react fast enough. If that problem were still in The Walking Dead, that seems to be a justifiable reason to not want it as your GOTY considering those failed QTEs could result in someone you could have saved getting killed off and drastically alter the choices you wanted to make.

 

[Twigg4075]

On that last point about what Alex said, it depends on the severity of the console specific problems. I think it's perfectly fine to not give a game like Skyrim GOTY based solely on the shitty PS3 performance especially when you consider that Bethesda already published two games on PS3 with the same fucking problem.

Now, I don't know what technical problems they had with The Walking Dead outside of the save bug on PC since I skipped anything in the GOTY podcasts that spoiled the games I was planning to play. However, there was a problem in Jurassic Park where the game would hang for a second and suddenly speed up when it was loading the next piece of content, and if that happened during one of the QTEs, you would be screwed because the button prompts would fly by so fast that you couldn't react fast enough. If that problem were still in The Walking Dead, that seems to be a justifiable reason to not want it as your GOTY considering those failed QTEs could result in someone you could have saved getting killed off and drastically alter the choices you wanted to make.

Other great examples. The PS3 versions of Bethesda games are horrible. They sepcifically told you that, constantly. They didn't just say "The console versions of Skyrim are terrible and nearly unplayable." Double standard.

But yeah, what you;re describing is one of the things that Brad complained about with the 360 version of TWD. There aren't any issues like that with the PS3 version. Coincidentally, the game "hanging" like that also occurs in the 360 version of Hitman, but not on PS3.