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fuckin' called it, man
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Giant Bomb Thread #5 - We love you, Ryan Davis
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Felix Lighter
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I bought and happily played 7 hours of Euro Truck Simulator 2 over the weekend. What's worse is I took the time to add the NPR 24 hour feed to the radio and I've been listening to that the whole time (except during the brief times I listened to East Bound and Down after connecting a trailer to start a trip to pump me up) and someone suggested the idea of delivering loads to Prairie Home Companion in the OT and that sounded appealing to me. What have I become?
CoachKevin
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Watch the whole thing. It is great.
No shame in it.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 is not like the other German simulator games. It's genuinely, unironically great.
Felix Lighter
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Right after the Quick Look, I mentioned that it looked shockingly polished and compelling. The best part is I'm getting some good use out of my wheel again and I'm actually using the gear stick. The game is super relaxing but backing your trailer into a tight parking spot on the first attempt is so satisfying.
The 2 games I bought and played the most after this last Steam sale where this and Kerbal Space Program. Both brought to my attention by hilarious Quick Looks.
theytookourjobz
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Holy shit the first 15 of the NCAA quick look are great. They scroll through every team in the game and make fun of their logo while at the same time showcasing their complete lack of any sort of sports knowledge whatsoever. Love these dudes.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Is patrick's indie games showcase video 404ing for anyone else?
vitaminwateryum
corporate swill
Yeah, doesn't work for me.
Kernkraft 400 - zombie nation.
holy fuck. people are nuts.
Are these 1 dollar bills?
holy fuck. people are nuts.
Yeah, that was before they were going to California Extreme one year to buy arcade machines. They only deal in cold hard cash there. Well checks too but who doesn't like to have a stack of hundees
Fox Mulder
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It's fun. Maybe my real calling in life is as a trucker. Getting paid to cruise down the highway listening to tunes sounds great.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
1 hour leisure suit larry quick look?
Hell yeah.
Hell yeah.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
I hope they do a Pikmin 3 QL this week!
I'm going to take a bold stand and predict that they'll never do a SMT4 quicklook.
I also acknowledge that I'll probably be wrong, but I'll also predict that if they do do one, most people will be disappointed.
I dunno, I think Drew is way more hardcore than all of them. Heh
He never sells anything. He's more likely to open it and play it on a live stream. Also, sealed sells for WAY more. He'd probably get $12,000 or so.
SuperSonic1305
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I've actually been surprised how much Drew talks about games since he's been on the podcast. I always assumed he played flight sims and that's it.
It's actually Czech and not German.
Drew plays unique and interesting sim games which is rad. He's also pretty great at describing them. Patrick just plays whatever the Idle Thumbs guys played the week before. It's a bit tedious.
TriangleOfCorruption
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I hope that wrestling podcast Alex was floating on twitter a while back is still on the cards. He had a lot of fun guests interested.
Ryan's death means a fundamental shift in the way the produce content. Absolutely. They have to find a new dynamic. Even if it's not a conscious, deliberate set of changes, they'll still happen naturally.
Brewster's Wallet
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As someone who never has, and never intends to listen to Idle Thumbs, this is ok with me
I can easily imagine them going down this road to help differentiate themselves from Gamespot
Felix Lighter
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Whatever they decide to do moving forward, I hope Jeff finds some kind of relief. He was obviously in the dumps, prior to Ryan's passing based on the constant jokes about how bad things were going. Now, of course, things have only become worse.
I would always like to see gaming to be the foundation but, for me personally, I wouldn't mind seeing them focusing even more on the less mainstream and older stuff rather than trying to keep up with the current industry stuff. Also, I'd like to see more digging deeper into some games, like Brad and Dota 2, instead of trying to touch on every major release. That's just me though. I think they strike a decent balance already.
Also, revisit Euro Truck Simulator 2.
It was funny in the, "I can't believe this is in a videogame", type of funny when sexual humor was extremely rare in games.
I would always like to see gaming to be the foundation but, for me personally, I wouldn't mind seeing them focusing even more on the less mainstream and older stuff rather than trying to keep up with the current industry stuff. Also, I'd like to see more digging deeper into some games, like Brad and Dota 2, instead of trying to touch on every major release. That's just me though. I think they strike a decent balance already.
Also, revisit Euro Truck Simulator 2.
It was funny in the, "I can't believe this is in a videogame", type of funny when sexual humor was extremely rare in games.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Was leisure suit larry ever considered funny?
Kids these days...
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I dunno man, what I've seen in the quick look seems rough.
My pessimism is actually rooted in this. See, I think Jeff and Vinny liked Persona 4, not Shin Megami Tensei in general. They liked the characters and world of P4 more than the mechanics and the like. Remove that, and they'll just mostly be bored.
I also think they're still trying to shake the reputation of being the "Atlus" site.
Yeah, it don't think it would go that great. I feel like it would just show like "that game where you die instantly because you didn't get the first hit" (which may or may not be accurate).
I dunno about them being labeled as an "Atlus site" really, but I agree with everything else. The Persona games are very character driven and that's actually why I like them a lot more than the mainline series myself.
Mainline SMT games are more of a straight forward, kick you in the ass, grind/fusion-fest JRPG with lots of religious overtones thrown in for good measure. While I still like these games, I have trouble seeing them jumping on board for this one. Maybe if Dave were still around...
Uhh... What?
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