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Giant Bombcast - 04/05/16
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chaobreaker
Member
Yes. Good on them for bringing it up in the first place.
chaobreaker
Member
That was ages ago, breh. I'm all about the puff now.
backflip10019
Member
Drew really shouldn't try summarizing Jeff's thoughts on Quantum Break. A) He's not good at it. B) Just let Jeff speak.
What more is there to talk about?
The new leaks obviously.
jabberwocker
Banned
Its not? You know there are older people in this world that did not grow up with that?
Craymen Edge
Member
Steve is a great name for a dog.
supermetfreud
Member
Warren armor for Doom when
The 10 million number for FFXV was just an ideal, not a break even point.
http://www.psxextreme.com/ps4-news/5019.html
http://www.psxextreme.com/ps4-news/5019.html
Meh. After listening to Jeff I get the vibe that ,maybe this game just isn't for him vs it's not a good game. Like he had an issue with almost every facet of the game where I felt the opposite of it. Also he doesn't really like Remedy games, so why would this all of a sudden be the game to sway him. If I don't like Souls ganes( which I don't) wouldn't it be dumb for me to review one and lost the things I hate about them like story telling etc which others seem to love
Time stamps for Dark Souls III? I'd really like to go in fresh on Tuesday and I know I can't trust Bradley. He loves to leap into beat-by-beat discussion.
Incandenza
Banned
Not enough attention was given to "A Strike Man"
You just explained the inherent problem of what happens when people put so much emphasis on reviews and scores, haha.
Turns out reviews are written by people, and people have different tastes.
Well yeah but normally you should review a game that fits your tatstes
Brad actually seemed more interested in QB from the start so I was suprised when he didn't review it
Glitchesarecool
Member
Ha, why? The perspective is still worthwhile. Movie reviewers don't only go and review movies in genres they like, and I'm sure Jeff got more than his fair share of games he didn't find appealing when he worked for Gamespot. Alex sure as hell didn't.
It suits Jeffs taste in that he likes shooters, I would say that's enough. At some point you could just as easily go too far the other way, and have someone review the game who loves the dev so much that they overlook flaws in the game.
I agree that certain people shouldn't review certain games, but only when it's in regards to their expertise. I don't know a fucking thing about basketball, so I should never review a basketball game. I like fighting games though, so even though Tekken isn't my favorite series I'm still pretty equipped to gauge what it has to offer.
Reviews coming from someone predisposed to loving the game are 100% as useless as reviews from someone predisposed to not liking it.
Not really. If so, then let's have the European correspondent review Madden 2017 and the resident COD fan review Persona 5. I'm sure the reviews would be worthwhile
Messofanego
Banned
Timestamp for Alison Rapp discussion?
1:44:50
Basileus777
Member
Quantum Break is in no way outside of Jeff's wheelhouse, he's perfectly qualified to review it. The idea that Jeff can't review a 3rd person shooter is ridiculous. And if he hadn't reviewed it, no one probably would have.
Well all the connections he mentions are super obvious foregone conclusions if you've watched a few lore videos and read the illustrated guide before you start playing like him. Oh, Brad.
Messofanego
Banned
Thanks!
supermetfreud
Member
How did no one laugh at A Strike Man
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
If this rule was adopted across the industry, scores would become inflated and even more homogeneous than they already are. This would make them less informative. The only way to make some sense of them would be to pick a reviewer who "shares your tastes" but of course no reviewer is going to match your tastes exactly, which brings you back to where you started, with some reviews matching your opinion and some not.
Because the bomb crew doesn't poison themselves with anime.
Alex played it if you listened to the Beastcast last week.
See the Polygon review.
I'm really looking forward to hearing them discuss the shitshow that is the PC version next week.
hammertomb
Banned
Jeff is Giant Bomb West's resident COD fan and its resident Persona fan, so that actually works.
same thing for Dark Souls 3 and Hyper Light Drifter. I wanna go in blind first and listen later.
While I can understand this mentality of pairing people with works they may have a comfortable grasp on in order to produce informed opinions it also a conveys a facile acknowledgement of the breadth of knowledge individuals may bring when approaching a piece of work.
Reducing people to easily digestible labels based purely upon their supposed affinity for specific genres or titles is unnecessarily reductive and inhibiting for discussion. This is the kind of mentality that stifles broader discussion and produces a culture of homogeneity in creative industries.
Not to pile on here, as everyone seems to be tearing your post apart already but -
If a review is well written, your tastes should be irrelevant. Every review is someone's opinion of a game but if you explain that opinion well the reader can easily go "This wouldn't bother me as much" or "I'd find this more of an issue than you did" etc etc. Jeff's QB review is actually a really good example of good review writing in that respect. Hell, most of his reviews are.
The_Inquisitor
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Not going to lie. I had to skip large swaths of the cast this week. Guys it's not cool to delve that deep into new releases. 
Talks down about Quantum Break..."Lets talk about good games now...how about Street Fighter V? It's real good!"
Street Fighter V is a good game though. Whether or not you are ok with the amount of content has nothing to do with the fact that the game is extremely mechanically sound and feels fantastic to play.
Absoludacrous
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I didn't even realize people were up in arms over his QB review. I kind of assumed we had moved past the whole 8.8 ridiculousness that plagued last gen. Guess not. Sad.