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SbF: Super Best Friends Play Thread: ReBoot
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And Vincent hangs out at a super Japanese bar and
undergoes the nightmare stuff for super Japanese reasons.
skLaFarebear
Member
As always, Pat's right. A muffin is not a cake.
E_Darkness
Member
If part 3 of Catherine doesn't pick up I'm definitely dropping this LP. It's definitely been a while since I've hard dropped an LP, probably something to do with me liking Catherine quite a lot.
Also Matt in the Cinemassacre episode was actually really good. For some reason Matt can be pretty good when not trying to in-joke/reference every 2 minutes, shocking?
I love Nier and that LP is great, Pat and Liam carried an entire visual novel part...
Also Matt in the Cinemassacre episode was actually really good. For some reason Matt can be pretty good when not trying to in-joke/reference every 2 minutes, shocking?
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Why the fuck are Woolie and Matt telling 5 minute long stories over cutscenes in the Catherine LP
Xux
Member
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F83EtbW05Qg
Matt was on cinemassacre with James and Mike. Game looks pretty amazing.
Matt was on cinemassacre with James and Mike. Game looks pretty amazing.
E_Darkness
Member
Actually in fairness, when they start talking real about relationships it is a very interesting listen. So the Catherine LP has that. Matt being a newly married man and the Zaibatsu having general relationship experience gives them some insight.
If the Catherine LP was more this, and less 'that' I'd be really down with this.
Including that little tidbit of Matt's 8 year relationship.
If the Catherine LP was more this, and less 'that' I'd be really down with this.
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
It's a Zaibatsu tradition to start stories exactly when cutscenes start and for the love of god don't you dare pause to watch the cutscene.
TechnicaUS
Member
Yeah, what do you think this is? Some kind of professional enterprise?
MillionStabs
Banned
Choice Woolie quote of the day:
"If it weren't for the artstyle, and the amazing music, and a billion other things, you wouldn't think this game was Japanese."
Professional commentary
"If it weren't for the artstyle, and the amazing music, and a billion other things, you wouldn't think this game was Japanese."
Professional commentary
MillionStabs
Banned
Double post yay
Hellwarden
Member
Nice, thanks.
Imperfected
Member
You can tell Woolie's a true Canadian(/North American Russian) by his response to Matt talking about the horror game. "Yeah, but then I'd just keep on driving."
You can't use existential horror on Canadians because they just assume there's horrible godless things lurking just out of sight in the countryside, and as long as they're slightly farther away than walking distance it's 'K.
You can't use existential horror on Canadians because they just assume there's horrible godless things lurking just out of sight in the countryside, and as long as they're slightly farther away than walking distance it's 'K.
Chaos2Frozen
Member
I didn't get to catch the Demon Souls live stream, how much of the game is left?
E_Darkness
Member
Pat has lived a life.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Yeah, after that story, a lot of his neuroses make a lot more sense now. Yeesh.
AzureSkies
Member
I am so behind SBFC that I just finished the E3 episode. 
I need to sit down with a game like Diablo 3 and just get up to speed with the episodes.
I need to sit down with a game like Diablo 3 and just get up to speed with the episodes.
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
Yeah it's like extremely Japanese in almost every single way.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
i have no idea why Pat of all people is complaining about grinding a massive amount of Overwatch ranked wins for cosmetics.
It's Blizzard.
He obsessively plays FFXIV.
It's Blizzard.
He obsessively plays FFXIV.
SliceSabre
Banned
Woolie's story about picking strawberries was so great.
Note: I'm black as well and the moment he started I thought to myself there's going to be a bit in here about being black and picking cotton I just know it.
Note: I'm black as well and the moment he started I thought to myself there's going to be a bit in here about being black and picking cotton I just know it.
Renegade King
Member
Having played both and a number of other games that require grinding, Overwatch grinding doesn't feel as fun. You have to pay way more attention to the game, so doing it as a way to relax is of the table. Getting easy to serious about it makes it very unpleasant when playing with randos.
For the ffxiv and other mmo's, when you are grinding you can have a podcast or even a movie going at the same time. When doing these mmo grinding sessions it becomes sort of Zen like. It can be nice. You just can't get that with overwatch.
I usually juggle two or three LPs at a time for when I'm bored after work or whatever, but I am having some trouble finding any of recent I want to stick with.
I really, really prefer blind LPs but I have watched, I think, most of their's to date...
Does anyone want to list off some personal favourites?
I really, really prefer blind LPs but I have watched, I think, most of their's to date...
Does anyone want to list off some personal favourites?
skLaFarebear
Member
Off the top of my head, anything Resident Evil or Silent Hill or Sonic. Star Fox Adventures was real good, as well as Bloodborne: Old Hunters, Prison Break, and Deadly Premonition. If I remember anymore I'll add them.
Sadly, I have seen probably all of these except for a spindash quick look or two, and Star Fox Adventures.
The shitty part about watching LPs is realizing you've watched most of the good ones and having to wait for more that interest you to come along.
Hellwarden
Member
I've noticed I've just been re-watching a hell of a lot of good ol' LP's recently. The RE2 LP is basically a comforter right now.
I'll use the current midcore trial as an example but this applies to anything in any MMO ever: It's a known quantity that you're going to win it, because it never changes and adapts to your playstyle, while you can adapt around it and it has a fixed difficulty everytime.
There's more unknown variables in playing ranked Overwatch and it can become insanely frustrating with randos in ranked that only main one character and completely suck at them, or just people who lack situational awareness in a FPS whatsoever. I've seen Reapers standing there doing NOTHING while a Widowmaker that's standing right next to them is killing them.
Like, it's the most frustrating in a FPS because in Overwatch there is only so much one person can do by themselves. It's not Quake or UT where you can always run a train on the enemy team completely by yourself if you're good enough, because if you have people who suck and keep running in and dying they're feeding ultimates to the enemy team.
One of my early competitive matches resulted in us pushing them off during overtime because I was playing Lucio and rushed us to the point so Reinhardt could land a hammer ult on 3 people and I apparently had the gall to say "Wow, we pushed them off easily" and the Reaper responds saying "We? The only names that matter are in the top right" and then he and his group of friends start circlejerking themselves over how many eliminations he had. (Which is an utterly stupid metric because finishing off a person you didn't do most of the damage to still counts as an elimination.)
Not to mention 1 competitive point or whatever it's called per match when the golden weapons require 300, there should at least be a win streak bonus for it.
Personally, I view their Silent Hill: Downpour LP as one of, if not the, best LPs they've done.
It was the very first full LP of theirs that I had ever watched and I've since rewatched it probably close to a dozen times. Easily my favorite. It has Matt and Pat at their best and includes so many good moments, including the creation of Tour Guide Nixon and, of course, Matt and the Axe.
The Matt/Pat survival horror LPs are the best things they've ever done. I don't really follow through with their LPs anymore, but those are the ones I'll always go back to.
TechnicaUS
Member
Yakuza, any of the silent hills or REs, escape from bug island and CT are all pretty solid.
Xux
Member
I'm still bummed at no Yakuza 5 LP. What little was there in the New Super Best Friends videos was amazing.
TechnicaUS
Member
Xux
Member
It's working! I'm thinking of buying a PS3 for it.
Yeah, Friday Night
Scrublords
Oh God, that camera. I'm about to develop motion sickness.
beepbeepwherethesheep
Neo Member
Does anybody remember what podcast it was where pat almost got back into WoW? It was my favorite pat moment. I'm pretty sure it was before he started ffxiv.
Literally just finished INSIDE, and I don't think I'd agree with Pat or Matt when they say this is definitely GOTY material. Gameplay was okay, atmosphere was great, and it got you thinking, but I get the feeling that the mystique/mystery of the game is influencing most people's impressions of it.
GlassEmpires
Member
How About No
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Gentle Rodriguez
Member
I think their LP's have gotten as many people to buy games as they have dissuaded them but it depends on how story focused a game is I guess.
inked_illusion
Member
Wait is this mentioned in the podcast or in a video I haven't gone far in the podcast yet.
Hellwarden
Member
It's towards the end of the latest podcast.
They get asked what was the worst job they've ever had.