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Giant Bombcast - 05/12/15
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Twin Tails
Member
yis tues is complete
BUNTING1243
Banned
Hey guys does Jeff like the Witcher Three?
Aw no Drew
Aw no Drew
Twin Tails
Member
Someone is doing it on the desk.
Dan said he was gonna bring songs by both to see if Brad could hear who's who, a blind test of their music or something
Anyways, looking forward to listen to The Giant Witchercast tomorrow.
MrTroubleMaker
Member
yay!
GoonerTRON
Banned
Damn that is awesome art by Fobwashed!
MiniBossBattle
Member
Leave Drake alone Dan!
chaobreaker
Member
Come on Daydream at least change Jason to Great Tiger or maybe Super Macho Man.
They probably have limited time in the podcasting room.
They probably have limited time in the podcasting room.
Hey guys does Jeff like the Witcher Three?
Aw no Drew
'It's not The Witcher for me'
To be fair, a podcast over three hours is crazy town.
Twin Tails
Member
Brett has no thoughts.
Also skipping stuff is present again.
Also skipping stuff is present again.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Ouch Jeff goes hard on Witcher 3-
looks janky
rough animations
bugs and what not
looks janky
rough animations
bugs and what not
Revengineer
Unconfirmed Member
So Witcher 3 plays similarly to Witcher 2 which played somewhat like Witcher 1.
Man, I'm awestruck.
I guess since I really loved my first playthrough of TW2, I will love my first playthrough of the third. Good to know!
Man, I'm awestruck.
I guess since I really loved my first playthrough of TW2, I will love my first playthrough of the third. Good to know!
Witcher 2 played nothing like Witcher 1.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Timecode? Gonna talk to the guy who runs that studio.
First time for a skip is 45:19, it's not super obvious but it's there. I'll update if I hear any other skips~
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Everyone hates David Cage, but Beyond Two Souls does everything they wanted to do with video game endings and choice.
Messofanego
Banned
12:23 - 22:27 Dan loved Wolfenstein The Old Blood, yay. Brad hasn't finished The New Order...
Incandenza
Banned
There's one at 1:00:16 too.
Timecode? Gonna talk to the guy who runs that studio.
ScottSullivan
Member
punchout themed OT amazing work
ReturnOfTheRAT
Member
Go watch Ex Machina.
GoonerTRON
Banned
It used to be about the music maaaaaannnnn.
Incandenza
Banned
I'm glad Dan really committed to Kirkhope or Wise.
Twin Tails
Member
Brett gotta eat man
OdysseusVA
Banned
Jason is a pirate
Mad Season
Banned
Take with grain of salt
EmCeeGramr
Member
I'm gonna PM Dan some suggestions for Kirkhope vs. Wise round two. I think I pulled from a much wider selection.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
They, along with every single podcast who has the same ad network, has been pimping Ex Machina for a while.
It's made me hate the movie because I just keep hearing bad ads for it.
ScottSullivan
Member
Can someone fill me in on kirkhope and wise? I listened to all the casts but I don't know who these people are
Leafhopper
Banned
Composers of some of the best video game music. Mainly Rare games.
Twin Tails
Member
Banjo and Dk composers
Timecode? Gonna talk to the guy who runs that studio.
I just realized your avatar is a Pac Man grenade. Woah.
Messofanego
Banned
23:15 - 35:30 Jeff Gerstmann's impressions of Witcher 3
"Maybe this will end up being the Witcher game for me. I don't think this is the Witcher game for me. I ended up not playing much of it. They sent it to us on PS4, the build that had the Day 1 Patch pre-installed and then it crashed twice on the Gwent tutorial (Gwent is their card game that they put in there). I've not played a ton of it. I don't know, man. The combat is exceedingly straightforward. You hit the block button, if you time your block well it's a parry. You can swing the shit out of your sword, there is a stamina meter but it seems fairly forgiving compared to how I remember the Witcher 2 being. There's something about the way it moves. Felt the PS4 version based on what I saw didn't particularly run great. There were parts of it that looked perfectly acceptable but I don't know, seemed a little janky. Some of the character movement, some of the animation in cutscenes and stuff like that didn't really - you think of that game as a graphical powerhouse - ehh it looks really good but it didn't...
I'm not saying this to scare people. I literally played 3 hours of it but I also had that and it crashed a couple of times...Basically you start preparing for a hunt as it's going through the motions, you're chasing for Yennifer (who's a lady). You're hunting her down originally. To get information, you have to do odd jobs for people. In the tavern, you're talking to people, shaking them down for info, you gotta go talk to these guards and they kinda say like 'hey it's really cool you want to know this information but we have a Griffin that's fucking people up around here'. They'll kick you off into setting up traps and hunting this Griffin. You're out in the world. They do some really nice stuff with some of the movement, like you get on your horse, you just double tap R3/L3 to call your horse and get on it. You can basically get on roads with the horse and hold down X, it'll follow the road even if it curves which is pretty cool. You have to know where you're going, though. Holding X is the middle speed, tapping X is the high speed, so you can't high speed and stick to the road I think, it'll deviate at that point. It seemed like a relatively elegant system but there's also fast travel. You'll find signs in the world and you can walk up to them and fast travel to any other sign. I wandered and found fights. Fought various enemies. Wolves. This doesn't feel like that [Witcher 2 combat]. You have a light attack, heavy attack, go to town. It's got a little bit you can have animations get interrupted if you're not timing them properly. It seems the move is to properly time your block which creates a parry opportunity which then counters off that. So you just counter off your blocks and murder wolves all day long. You start with 4-5 different spells, 1 trap. There's a pretty decent combat tutorial that you can skip if you like. The magic like Agni, the default fire spell, never seemed like that powerful anyway. It seems potentially interesting but it just there are things about it that seemed rough right out of the gate. Some of the character movement [turning radius], walking through tight doors in a tavern, just felt fidgety. The movement speed, the radius, just didn't feel right. [Momentum stuff]
I would actually sum up my time with the game with by saying I don't think it feels good. People who are more into Witcher will have a lot more to say, one way or the other, about the changes they've made and the scope of the story and stuff like that. But like, first impression kinda, you know in terms of hoping this would be the game that grabbed me - I could really go for a gigantic open world-y quest-y thing, I don't think this is the game for me. I'll check out the PC version, maybe give that a look and see if it controls a little better there or mouse and keyboard or something or what the deal is. I don't know, felt weird."
39:40 - 41:00 Westerado sounds awesome. Sounds like it has better branching/emergent narrative than most.
Jeff "You can go all kinds of crazys ways in that game."
Dan "Yeah, my uncle turned into a ghost!"
Jeff "Because he shot him! But he's an important tutorial character."
Dan "He just hangs out at the ranch and still helps you in tutorials even though you murdered him."
Brad "Everything I hear about that game makes me feel like I need to play that game."
Jeff: "It's really neat. It's really really neat."
"Maybe this will end up being the Witcher game for me. I don't think this is the Witcher game for me. I ended up not playing much of it. They sent it to us on PS4, the build that had the Day 1 Patch pre-installed and then it crashed twice on the Gwent tutorial (Gwent is their card game that they put in there). I've not played a ton of it. I don't know, man. The combat is exceedingly straightforward. You hit the block button, if you time your block well it's a parry. You can swing the shit out of your sword, there is a stamina meter but it seems fairly forgiving compared to how I remember the Witcher 2 being. There's something about the way it moves. Felt the PS4 version based on what I saw didn't particularly run great. There were parts of it that looked perfectly acceptable but I don't know, seemed a little janky. Some of the character movement, some of the animation in cutscenes and stuff like that didn't really - you think of that game as a graphical powerhouse - ehh it looks really good but it didn't...
I'm not saying this to scare people. I literally played 3 hours of it but I also had that and it crashed a couple of times...Basically you start preparing for a hunt as it's going through the motions, you're chasing for Yennifer (who's a lady). You're hunting her down originally. To get information, you have to do odd jobs for people. In the tavern, you're talking to people, shaking them down for info, you gotta go talk to these guards and they kinda say like 'hey it's really cool you want to know this information but we have a Griffin that's fucking people up around here'. They'll kick you off into setting up traps and hunting this Griffin. You're out in the world. They do some really nice stuff with some of the movement, like you get on your horse, you just double tap R3/L3 to call your horse and get on it. You can basically get on roads with the horse and hold down X, it'll follow the road even if it curves which is pretty cool. You have to know where you're going, though. Holding X is the middle speed, tapping X is the high speed, so you can't high speed and stick to the road I think, it'll deviate at that point. It seemed like a relatively elegant system but there's also fast travel. You'll find signs in the world and you can walk up to them and fast travel to any other sign. I wandered and found fights. Fought various enemies. Wolves. This doesn't feel like that [Witcher 2 combat]. You have a light attack, heavy attack, go to town. It's got a little bit you can have animations get interrupted if you're not timing them properly. It seems the move is to properly time your block which creates a parry opportunity which then counters off that. So you just counter off your blocks and murder wolves all day long. You start with 4-5 different spells, 1 trap. There's a pretty decent combat tutorial that you can skip if you like. The magic like Agni, the default fire spell, never seemed like that powerful anyway. It seems potentially interesting but it just there are things about it that seemed rough right out of the gate. Some of the character movement [turning radius], walking through tight doors in a tavern, just felt fidgety. The movement speed, the radius, just didn't feel right. [Momentum stuff]
I would actually sum up my time with the game with by saying I don't think it feels good. People who are more into Witcher will have a lot more to say, one way or the other, about the changes they've made and the scope of the story and stuff like that. But like, first impression kinda, you know in terms of hoping this would be the game that grabbed me - I could really go for a gigantic open world-y quest-y thing, I don't think this is the game for me. I'll check out the PC version, maybe give that a look and see if it controls a little better there or mouse and keyboard or something or what the deal is. I don't know, felt weird."
39:40 - 41:00 Westerado sounds awesome. Sounds like it has better branching/emergent narrative than most.
Jeff "You can go all kinds of crazys ways in that game."
Dan "Yeah, my uncle turned into a ghost!"
Jeff "Because he shot him! But he's an important tutorial character."
Dan "He just hangs out at the ranch and still helps you in tutorials even though you murdered him."
Brad "Everything I hear about that game makes me feel like I need to play that game."
Jeff: "It's really neat. It's really really neat."
Messofanego
Banned
But go see Ex Machina, seriously great sci fi movie. Once you've seen it, read FilmCritHulk's article about the awesome ending.
Twin Tails
Member
Giant Bombcast in text form!
Basileus777
Member
I don't think this comparison is making the point you think it does.