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Giant Bombcast - 11/10/15 - Live From The Lang Zone
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Mase Gumble
Member
How many times did Lang say monked? that becoming part of his vocabulary was my favourite part of his stream,
WrenchNinja
Member
Timestamps for the normal podcast
00:00:00 - Squarespace ad
00:01:29 - VIDEOGAME TUESDAY STARTS (Extra life discussion starring Dave Lang)
00:13:24 - Jeff talks about Fallout 4, no spoilers, mostly technical discussion ("IT'S A WASTELAND FULL OF MORONS")
00:50:34 - Destiny Garbage (Fuck Dave Lang)
00:59:00 - Back to Fallout 4 ("Maybe play the PC version if you can")
01:06:25 - Draftkings Ad (lol)
01:08:27 - Dave Lang goes into Arkham Knight PC debacle, Third Strike, Iron Galaxy business, and VR bullshit ("Trickle down buckanomics")
01:31:27 - Brad talks about Rise of the Tomb Raider (Spoilermaker isn't here anymore)
01:40:00 - Call of Duty: Black Ops III talk ("Christopher Meloni rules")
01:54:15 - NEWS (what's a beastcast)
01:55:14 - Activision-King buyout (Kotick is Heihachi Mishima)
01:59:40 - Overwatch and fighting game discussion (is this e-sports)
02:13:20 - Xbox One-Xbox 360 Backwards Compatibility List (Yays and fart noises)
02:27:52 - E-MAILS
Ok, I'mma eat dinner now
00:00:00 - Squarespace ad
00:01:29 - VIDEOGAME TUESDAY STARTS (Extra life discussion starring Dave Lang)
00:13:24 - Jeff talks about Fallout 4, no spoilers, mostly technical discussion ("IT'S A WASTELAND FULL OF MORONS")
00:50:34 - Destiny Garbage (Fuck Dave Lang)
00:59:00 - Back to Fallout 4 ("Maybe play the PC version if you can")
01:06:25 - Draftkings Ad (lol)
01:08:27 - Dave Lang goes into Arkham Knight PC debacle, Third Strike, Iron Galaxy business, and VR bullshit ("Trickle down buckanomics")
01:31:27 - Brad talks about Rise of the Tomb Raider (Spoilermaker isn't here anymore)
01:40:00 - Call of Duty: Black Ops III talk ("Christopher Meloni rules")
01:54:15 - NEWS (what's a beastcast)
01:55:14 - Activision-King buyout (Kotick is Heihachi Mishima)
01:59:40 - Overwatch and fighting game discussion (is this e-sports)
02:13:20 - Xbox One-Xbox 360 Backwards Compatibility List (Yays and fart noises)
02:27:52 - E-MAILS
Ok, I'mma eat dinner now
They're not saying it's Besthda only, but that they do it to a much larger degree and at a larger scale than anyone else. Agree or disagree with that of course.
plasmawave
Banned
It's quite impressive how they seamlessly changed the topic from Fallout 4 to Destiny.
How do they do it?
How do they do it?
I think that Dan even talked about it before.
Lets not forget Witcher 3 had its issues, but the issues there kept getting patch after patch. Also vanilla had a liveable amount of jank. Nothing like FO4, where game where the frame rate is tied to simulation speed and other such nonsense.
Lang is a monster.
Mad Season
Banned
Fallout 4 talk? Spoilers?
brainzelda
Member
Dave Lang going off on employees was baller. I would love to have a boss like that.
Infinite Justice
Member
Lang said as much as he could say about Batman aka nothing.
Gotta wait some years i guess
Gotta wait some years i guess
What exactly did Iron Galaxy do on the Batman port?
As massively widespread as Batman:AK's problems supposedly were, it seems a little weird to me that Dave Lang claims it was a surprise when he started getting Twitter-bombed shortly after the game's launch. Someone who worked on the game would have to know that it was borked, right? I suppose it's possible they just worked on something like art assets or audio, and had no idea that the clunky builds they got were actually going to be the shipping version of the game.
As massively widespread as Batman:AK's problems supposedly were, it seems a little weird to me that Dave Lang claims it was a surprise when he started getting Twitter-bombed shortly after the game's launch. Someone who worked on the game would have to know that it was borked, right? I suppose it's possible they just worked on something like art assets or audio, and had no idea that the clunky builds they got were actually going to be the shipping version of the game.
Clockwork5
Member
SatelliteOfLove
Member
Sober Lang is as great Drunk Lang. Informative rather than hilarious.
Yup. This is why companies go the white label route. He's history's greatest monster, but even he doesn't deserve that garbage.
Yup. This is why companies go the white label route. He's history's greatest monster, but even he doesn't deserve that garbage.
skLaFarebear
Member
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Tradition basically.
Basileus777
Member
You'd never get any good discussion of it in the OT, it'd get buried behind under all the anime talk.
Basileus777
Member
Yeah, ruining his business and screwing over all the people he employs so he could make some comments on a podcast about videogames would be such a great move. That'd bring justice to the world.
Yeah well there are people that choose to do the right thing and those that dont because contracts. Like i said, perfect example of why greed and corruption survive so well.
Purple_Tentacle
Neo Member
What fantasy world does this perspective come from?
Scientist Supreme!
Banned
Chill dude.
What's the right thing? Telling people exactly why the PC version is fucked while ruining a big business relationship he has with Warner Bros, which hurts his own company and all the people who work for him?
Even if the truth comes out it's not like anything will change the current Batman PC situation. All it would do is hurt Iron Galaxy.
skLaFarebear
Member
Warner Bros is offering a full refund for anyone who bought the game on PC. People in the future will be extremely sceptical of buying a Warner Bros PC game before hearing whether it's busted.
At this point what outcome would there be from Dave Lang breaking a contract and spelling out why Arkham Knights port was fucked that would make it the right thing to do?
Spoken like someone who's never worked for a large multimedia company before.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
And what would be solved by Lang talking about what went wrong, solve? Nothing at all. It'd be an interesting discussion, but it's not worth it to him, his life hood, the people he employs, and his potential partners.
Jeff's sentiment about Bethesda games seeming so impressive and impossible on consoles last gen is spot on. I remember thinking a game like Oblivion on 360 was too good to be true.
Fast forward a decade later and some of that jank just doesn't fly anymore. I guess part of that too is because PC tech is so far ahead right now versus when Oblivion launched and it was hard to buy a PC that could do console settings.
Fast forward a decade later and some of that jank just doesn't fly anymore. I guess part of that too is because PC tech is so far ahead right now versus when Oblivion launched and it was hard to buy a PC that could do console settings.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Good episode. I think Jeff's characterization of waning tolerance for continued Bethesda shoddiness was spot on
BreezyLimbo
Banned
pizza is an open sandwich
FriedConsole
Banned
Because GAF is about gaming personalities. Threads about games go into the Community dungeon.
I beat the Witcher 3 and I'm 7 hours in FO4 and I've already encountered bugs in FO4 that I have never and probably would never in the Witcher. Like, there have been entire areas in Fallout where no textures loaded at all, so I was falling through non-existing objects.
Messofanego
Banned
Because each podcast has its own discussion to get into rather than fanfiction about who secretly hates who and who'd you want to be your daddy.
skLaFarebear
Member
I believe the audience for the podcast is much bigger than the audience for the site itself, and the podcast has enough listeners on this site to warrant its own discussion separate from the OT itself.
No doubt about that. If not "lose his company" it would be professional suicide to talk on record about something like that. You can bet on WB having some really draconian clauses in their contracts.
"The game was tailor-made for consoles. The PC version was an afterthought with an insufficient budget. Warner Bros. decided to cut the chord at some point." - completely made up quote
It's not exactly difficult to imagine what he would've said. There's only so many ways a game can end up like that.
It's not exactly difficult to imagine what he would've said. There's only so many ways a game can end up like that.