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The GiantBomb Quick Look Thread

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The Gundam 2 video did sell me, by the way. I picked it up a few days ago and I'm ten hours in and absolutely loving it. Even though they clearly hated it, just seeing someone play it for twenty minutes told me what I needed to know. More sites should do this sort of thing.
 
I really hope they import Demon's Soul for a quick look. I'm really interested in seeing that in action because I really can't afford importing it right now.
 
Struct09 said:
I like how they did a TvC Quick Look right before we found out it's coming to the US.

Coincidence?!
Probably.
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Considering Jeff makes a point of saying that it's not coming to American implying that readers should import it, it almost certaintly is.
 
deadbeef said:
Is there anyway to subscribe to these as a video podcast?
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... i just wrote a plugin for my autodownloader to autodownload them :p

Code: 
#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
	include("/base.inc.php");
	include($downloader_base."db.php");
	set_time_limit(0);
	if(!checkEnabled("giantbomb")) die();

	$data = file_get_contents("http://www.giantbomb.com/video/get-subnav-content/?video_type=3");
	$rows = explode('href="',$data);
	if(!$rows) { report_status_error("giantbomb"); $se=1; }

	$i=0;	
	foreach($rows AS $row)
	{
		if($i%2==1)
		{
			list($url,$junk) = explode('",',$row);
			list($junk,$title,$number,$junk) = explode('/',$url);
			list($junk,$finalnum) = explode("-",$number);

			$dataFile = file_get_contents("http://www.giantbomb.com/video/params/{$finalnum}/");

			list($junk,$goodurl) = explode('<URI bitRate="300">',$dataFile);

			list($goodurlFinal,$junk) = explode('</URI>',$goodurl);
			if(!$goodurlFinal&&!$i) { report_status_error("giantbomb"); $se=1; }
			$urlset[] = $goodurlFinal;
		}
		$i++;
	}

	if(!$se) report_ok("giantbomb");
	print "\n\n";

	db_connect(); $add=0;
	if(count($urlset)){foreach($urlset AS $url)
	{
		$slashChunk = explode("/",$url);
		$actualURL = $slashChunk[count($slashChunk)-1];
		$blacklisted = blacklist($url);
		$selQ = db_punchcol("SELECT COUNT(1) FROM downloads WHERE url LIKE '%{$actualURL}';","COUNT(1)");
		if(!$selQ&&!$blacklisted)
		{
			$insQ = db_query("INSERT INTO downloads (url,downloaded,dlsite) VALUES ('{$url}',0,'giantbomb');"); $add++; print "!"; 
		}

		if($add>5) die();
	}}
	db_disconnect();
	print "\n";
?>

but i guess that's no good for anyone who isn't running an auto-downloading service.
 
HamPster PamPster said:
infamous looks hard
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Yeah the demo was really frustrating because wherever you went, mission or not, the hoodie guys would ALWAYS be shooting at you from roof tops and they were really hard to see and get a shot at them and since their clothes would blend into the color of the buildings, plus it was night. That really killed my hype for the game.
 
sykoex said:
Yeah the demo was really frustrating because wherever you went, mission or not, the hoodie guys would ALWAYS be shooting at you from roof tops and they were really hard to see and get a shot at them and since their clothes would blend into the color of the buildings, plus it was night. That really killed my hype for the game.
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Eh? All you do is take some cover, shuffle around the buildings unseen, and pop up shooting them in the back. It's really awesome.
 
sykoex said:
Yeah the demo was really frustrating because wherever you went, mission or not, the hoodie guys would ALWAYS be shooting at you from roof tops and they were really hard to see and get a shot at them and since their clothes would blend into the color of the buildings, plus it was night. That really killed my hype for the game.
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If you're having trouble seeing the baddies (I didn't), click the left stick. That'll highlight every threat and power source in view. That, or just use the radar.

And they're easy enough to avoid as long as you're grinding along rails or hovering through the air.
 
Danne-Danger said:
If you're having trouble seeing the baddies (I didn't), click the left stick. That'll highlight every threat and power source in view. That, or just use the radar.

And they're easy enough to avoid as long as you're grinding along rails or hovering through the air.
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Thanks a lot that sounds helpful.
 
chubigans said:
Eh? All you do is take some cover, shuffle around the buildings unseen, and pop up shooting them in the back. It's really awesome.
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Seriously. It's called situational awareness. Also the dodge button is the way to get out of gunfire if you're out in the open. You can't just run away you need to dodge/roll/etc (square button I think). Looks like Brad wasn't doing enough dodges, but then he was multi-tasking at the time.

For example with the train mission he kept failing on... All you need to do is hang on the opposite side of the train from where the emeies are attacking you. From there you can pop out and electricute their ass from cover.
 
Oni Jazar said:
Looks like Brad wasn't doing enough dodges, but then he was multi-tasking at the time.
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And he is usually pretty terrible in situations like these.

Hell even back in the gamespot days I remember the expression "pulling a Brad" being used if someone died during their live show. :P
 
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