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The GiantBomb Quick Look Thread
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If you want a Quick Look you might have missed, during a promo GB did for some show in July they played some games.
http://www.justin.tv/giantbomb/b/290741426
Dave/Vinny playing some obscure RPG at around 42 minutes and at around 1 hour 13 minutes there is an amazing Cliffs of Dover game with Dave/Vinny/Drew. The ending is hilarious. Click on Part 2 to see the end of it too.
http://www.justin.tv/giantbomb/b/290741426
Dave/Vinny playing some obscure RPG at around 42 minutes and at around 1 hour 13 minutes there is an amazing Cliffs of Dover game with Dave/Vinny/Drew. The ending is hilarious. Click on Part 2 to see the end of it too.
DaBuddaDa said:I just came in here to post about this too. I was really looking forward to finally seeing a bunch of Serious Sam 3 but now it's disappeared
Its up:
http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-serious-sam-3-bfe-preview/17-4753/
Short quick look. Brad is not ready for Sam xD
SapientWolf
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It's not like it's gonna make the game any easier or less frantic. I'm not complaining as long as the enemy counts are high.Dizzy-4U said:
Aquavelvaman
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Quick Look: Ico & Shadow of the Colossus: The Collection (57:40) Brad/Ryan
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Ico looks like it could've been a launch game for this gen. Man, it's purty
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Quick look only shows the beginning of both games but these two are more about the experience than the story and I would just go in blind if I were you.rhfb said:
Quick Look: God of War: Origins Collection Ryan/Brad (24:44)
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In terms of FPS, surely!Freedom = $1.05 said:
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Launch games this gen don't look much better than the games in this collection.Bufbaf said:
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StuBurns said:
Did you watch Ryan play tetris? lol
hey_it's_that_dog
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StuBurns said:
I feel like during a lot of Quicklooks I find myself asking how veteran game journalists can have such a bad intuitive understanding of games. And it's not always Brad.
And I don't mean they are literally bad at succeeding in games, but they don't seem to figure out very quickly what to do in a given situation which is odd considering how similar all videogames tend to be at some level.
hey_it's_that_dog said:
Yeah. You'd think that someone who had been playing and reviewing games for a living would be able to decipher and figure out game systems a little quicker than it seems like they do sometimes.
"Oh, I seem to be randomly falling off the colossus despite always holding the grip button. Mayhaps I should look for some sort of indicator on the screen that might explain this phenomenon. Nah."
"Oh, constantly hitting only one of the attack buttons in this game doesn't seem to be giving me much success. Perhaps by hitting the other attack button in sequence with this first one I can perform some sort of combo. Nah."
It's not just Brad yeah, Ryan was watching it too, you have this huge pink circle in the corner of the screen, that starts shrinking when you hold something. How that can't be apparent to anyone, let alone someone who's already beat the game and is a professional reviewer of games is beyond my comprehension.hey_it's_that_dog said:
As for the Tetris QL, I do remember watching one, on PS3, don't remember how good they were at it, although even having played for years I suck at Tetris so I'm not sure I'd notice.
It's like trying to fire a weapon with a massive ammo counter showing 0 in the corner, it's hardly a question of being clever.derFeef said:
derFeef said:
If I had watched that Quick Look without any previous knowledge of SOTC I could now think that it includes a mechanic where your character randomly looses his grip while climbing with no indication as to why. And since climbing seems like an important part of the game I would definitely consider the existence of said mechanic as a negative when making a buying decision about the game.
hey_it's_that_dog
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derFeef said:
Are you saying we're wrong? That we're video game savants, unfairly holding the common man to an unobtainable standard?
Video games have a universal grammar and all you need to do to learn it is to play them enough. Surely these guys have played them enough. Maybe they play artificially slowly for the benefit of Quicklooks, I don't know. There's just a surprising lack of expertise on display, and I'm not saying this because I think I could do what they do better than them, or because I think I should be a games journalist and they shouldn't. I was just pointing out something I find very odd given how humans learn things.
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for god's fucking sake it's a big pink circle in the corner that shrinks when you start gripping and makes a noise when your grip is almost gone and when the circle is gone you fall off and then it starts building up againderFeef said:
brad could quick look super mario bros. 1, never find the run button, consistently die to the first goomba, and never beat the first stage, and people would still rush in to say "he's not that bad guys, i wouldn't do any better"
BlazeHedgehog
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Ironsights, reloading, and sprinting still don't feel "right" to me in Serious Sam. Just reloading by itself completely changes the feel.
Like somebody in the comments said:
Running and not being able to gun at the same time? Nope.
Like somebody in the comments said:
Running and not being able to gun at the same time? Nope.
derFeef said:
Watch this Quick look:
http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-warhammer-40000-kill-team/17-4532/
then tell me how 'clever' you feel. Watching an experienced reviewer pick a melee class and complain for 20 minutes about his gun, rarely using his sword and hiding behind another guy is funny, I agree.
hey_it's_that_dog
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Brad: "There's a way to call your horse, I'm trying to remember how to do it but... whatever."
*doesn't even try to call horse*
Just push the buttons and see what happens! There is no risk!
*doesn't even try to call horse*
Just push the buttons and see what happens! There is no risk!
They are showing the games off for us, not always remembering everything while going in fresh, talking at the same time and whatnot. You guys know those games in and out, have probably played them a few times even, so it is clear that you know what to look out for. And it's not like that this small pink circle is flashing like crazy, its slowly shrinking and that's it - so if he had forgotten about the mechanic, he could have easily overlooked that. And that's what happened - clearly - Brad is now awful at games!hey_it's_that_dog said:
hey_it's_that_dog
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derFeef said:
I fully admit that it's hard to judge from the perspective of knowing a game inside and out and watching someone who doesn't.
But my claim isn't limited to ICO and SOTC, I see this kind of thing regularly in Quicklooks, and I have never played most of the games they show. Like I said, it's not about knowing a particular game very well, it's about having a keen intuitive sense about how games, in general, work. This sense is built through experience, and they definitely have experience.
EmCeeGramr
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it's like the only hud element that isn't items or healthderFeef said:
it could only possibly be grip
it is the central mechanic in the game
It just makes for very frustrating viewing. I think this is the second time I've complained about it, the first being Zelda which was insane. It's not disdain, it's just expressing what I and others thought of the video. If you don't like reading criticism, I recommend you never come to NeoGAF again.derFeef said:
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