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The GiantBomb Quick Look Thread
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Xater said:
The rings/health mechanic since the first Sonic is a classic example of "designing games for idiots".
Alright, not the same exact thing. I am being an ass, but w/e.
wolfmat said:
Developers go as far as make challenging difficulties unlockable after beating the whole game. Why? I can only guess because they are afraid someone clueless will pick something too hard by accident and be turned off by it.
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Did you see the Sonic Colours Quick Look last year?Guiberu said:
I thought it was a step in the right direction after finishing it.
SilentProtagonist
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This is a perfect example of what Egoraptor was talking about in his MegamanX videoXater said:
HEYSONICHEYSONICHITINBUTTITSHISWEAKPOINT
HEYSONICHEYSONICJUMPTOAVOIDHISATTACKS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FpigqfcvlM
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Xater said:
I think you can turn the hint system off, but yeah a lot of people, especially reviewers are complete idiots.
Read a few of Colors & Unleashed reviews. Dying from jumping in a bottomless pit is bad game design & apparently good game design is where there is no penalty for messing up in a platforming game.
That was literally the review of a huge chunk of reviews.
snoopeasystreet
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wolfmat said:
It should be in that gamertag preferences thing. The thing with inverted and sensitivity in it.
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Dance In My Blood said:
If the difficulty is anything to go on, the target audience is the 20+ something audience who played Genesis & SNES games.
The demeaning tutorial crap is more for those shitty reviewers who complained about the difficulty.
Zomba13
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First thing I did in Sonic Generations was go into the options and switch the chao off. It annoyed me to no end from what I played of the demo. No way could I last with him on in the full game.
Anyway, generations is fun so far. Gonna watch the QL later. So far I'm liking it more than colours but I think that is because I can play this one on my PC and it looks and sounds god damn amazing.
Anyway, generations is fun so far. Gonna watch the QL later. So far I'm liking it more than colours but I think that is because I can play this one on my PC and it looks and sounds god damn amazing.
The English Conquistador
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Jesus, just watching the Goldeneye reloaded quicklook.
Can Ryan and Jeff go through a game featuring English voice actors without mentioning the fact that they are in fact English.
"Cheers mate!"
"Shouldn't it be lorry!?"
Ugh...
Can Ryan and Jeff go through a game featuring English voice actors without mentioning the fact that they are in fact English.
"Cheers mate!"
"Shouldn't it be lorry!?"
Ugh...
cuevas. PhD.
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The English Conquistador said:
Cheerio
SilentProtagonist
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You may or may not be surprised at the average age of people who buy Sonic games nowadays.RagnarokX said:
Hint: It's young.
Kids buy Sonic games because they like Sonic (I worked with kids for 7 years at my previous job, tons of kids love Sonic), they don't care if it features "classic" Sonic or if there's references that they won't get. They will buy the game regardless, so they are the most dependable demographic for Sega.
TemplaerDude
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So what do we need to do to get them to stop releasing Sonic games? Round up the kids and tell their parents to stop supporting shit?
Keyser Soze
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PounchEnvy said:
I believe they were laughing about Dr. Sanjay Gupta, although were calling him Sanjay Gouda: The Cheese Doctor.
I guess there was more to the conversation that was not recorded
PounchEnvy said:
Dr. Sanjay Gouda, the cheese doctor. It's a pun of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay_Gupta
Haunted
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Classic Sonic levels looked incredible. Framerate drops in some parts were unfortunate, but still. Those elements definitely look like the best Sonic platformer stuff in years.
Modern Sonic is meh as usual. I'd buy the shit out of a PC version of just Classic Sonic levels. With modern Sonic this is a maybe when it's cheaper sort of deal.
edit: someone said "demeaning"? Bit harsh, but I can't really disagree.
Modern Sonic is meh as usual. I'd buy the shit out of a PC version of just Classic Sonic levels. With modern Sonic this is a maybe when it's cheaper sort of deal.
Yeah, I was about to complain about that due to having seen the Quake done today and Sequelitis videos recently, so this shit was particularly fresh on my mind, haha. It's good that you can turn these off completely, they looked pretty obtrusive in the QL.S1kkZ said:
edit: someone said "demeaning"? Bit harsh, but I can't really disagree.
So I've been thinking... how many viewers do Giantbomb have?
There's no way to know how many subscribers are there (I'm one, btw).
But with youtube there's a way to know how many non-subs exist. Let's take the Train v. Zombies Quick Look. Arguably one of the best they have ever done, and although people may not realize this by the title (they should) and the fact that many are pissed with the shitty encoding, it has almost 4 days and only 5,657 views.
And they really should split their channel into one with only intern stuff and other with site stuff. Because right now, if you subscribe to their channel, you drown in videos.
There's no way to know how many subscribers are there (I'm one, btw).
But with youtube there's a way to know how many non-subs exist. Let's take the Train v. Zombies Quick Look. Arguably one of the best they have ever done, and although people may not realize this by the title (they should) and the fact that many are pissed with the shitty encoding, it has almost 4 days and only 5,657 views.
And they really should split their channel into one with only intern stuff and other with site stuff. Because right now, if you subscribe to their channel, you drown in videos.
Neuromancer
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Yeah modern Sonic bums me out. If I could get the game and only play as classic, I would buy it in a heartbeat.Haunted said:
jediyoshi
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Oh fancy, they slipped the Uploads section back in. Unfortunately they went back into some other bad habbits.
If you mean YT subscribers, they're listed at 12,825. Averaging the viewcounts for the Quick Looks over the past week (omitting the outlier that is UMvC3), it's a little over 2000 a video. Even assuming 3/4ths of the subs are spambots, there's a bit of a disconnect between their reach and actual views (for reference, CaptainSparklez has 595,000 subs and viewcounts usually level out around 300,000 in a week). I'm especially curious at how long people usually last watching videos since YouTube tracks attention span throughout their duration.luiztfc said:
luiztfc said:
a lot of the intern stuff is awful and should be separated. it was the reason i unsubscribed from the giantbomb youtube channel.
the number of viewers giantbomb has is far less than what a lot of people here think. popularity on gaf usually doesn't reflect the real world and i think the number of viewers has dropped since going to youtube. the quality of the video is very bad now, basically unwatchable on the site since they also run choppy embedded. the only way for free users to watch the content is to copy the source url to watch it on youtube and i doubt everyone is willing to put up with that shit.
i like giantbomb and tested but man the whiskey sites need to get there shit together. they always seem hurting for money and sure video content is expensive but instead of improving things and doing it right they always pick at the sore. they really should test site and content changes before going live as well. one of their designers mentioned on the tested podcast that they do no testing before going live and just let the users find the bugs. not exactly a good method if you're trying to impress people to subscribe.
Quick Look: Nascar: Unleashed (Ryan/Brad - 11:38)
Yeah, that is a rather telling little fact.Majine said:
I skimmed through the 10 minutes and what I gleamed from it: the game has no content, it blinds you with excessive lens flare and then deafens you with shit sound effects. Hard to believe this is a boxed game and not a free to download marketplace title.
Keyser Soze
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Majine said:
The people whole made Nascar Unleased seem to be the people that make the "crap" version of bigger games
- Cartoon Network Racing (2006) for Nintendo DS
- Race Driver: Create and Race (2007) for Nintendo DS
- Ferrari Challenge (2008) for Nintendo DS
- Race Driver: GRID (2008) for Nintendo DS
- TrackMania DS (2008) for Nintendo DS
-Need for Speed: Undercover (2008) for Nintendo DS
- DiRT 2 (2009) for Nintendo DS
- Planet 51 (2009) for Nintendo DS
- Need for Speed: Nitro (2009) for Nintendo DS
- Trackmania Wii (2010) for Wii
- Cars 2 (2011) for Nintendo DS
- Need for Speed: The Run (2011) for Wii and Nintendo 3DS
I guess they had a game made, of some sort, and just stuck some Nascar logos over everything
Neuromancer
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Kids are a lot dumber these days than we were.Xater said:
snoopeasystreet
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Neuromancer said:
It's not that they're dumber. They just aren't as bored as we were. If they get frustrated by a game, they can do something else. Back when I got a game, it was the game that I was going to play for a few months so I put up with not knowing what today. Nowadays, the kid will probably just watch a youtube video or something.
Cerebral Assassin
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Xater said:
You(like most of us over a certain age) didn't have your parents micro-managing your childhood.
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jediyoshi said:Oh fancy, they slipped the Uploads section back in. Unfortunately they went back into some other bad habbits.
If you mean YT subscribers, they're listed at 12,825. Averaging the viewcounts for the Quick Looks over the past week (omitting the outlier that is UMvC3), it's a little over 2000 a video. Even assuming 3/4ths of the subs are spambots, there's a bit of a disconnect between their reach and actual views (for reference, CaptainSparklez has 595,000 subs and viewcounts usually level out around 300,000 in a week). I'm especially curious at how long people usually last watching videos since YouTube tracks attention span throughout their duration.
Well, the thing is that their main site is where people go to watch their videos.
Their Youtube channel is for people to randomly stumble across their videos & maybe want more.
Neuromancer
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That's true. You played until you figured it out, and if you didn't you kept playing anyway. Oh those were the days.snoopeasystreet said:
SatelliteOfLove
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Neuromancer said:
They're not dumber, they're just not used to thinking in their games.
And yes, those are not hints, they are doing the thinking for us.
Or didn't in some cases but that fact was not ground into our faces. We simply stopped playing the goddamn game and got on with our lives.
The English Conquistador
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cuevas said:
What does that even mean?
Majine said:
Lol, oh I get it! Tea, English, tea, English.
Brilliant! You must've thought real hard on that one!
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