The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Rob Zacny. Fucking nice
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Waypoint Thread: Vice City Stories
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avengers23
Banned
Time to reunite Danielle and Rob.
Now Rob can focus on important questions like, "Do board games fuck? Does the artillery piece from Risk fuck? We know that the cavalry piece from Risk fucks."
HamPster PamPster
Member
Personally I'm looking forward to Waypoint Radio's sister podcast Three Fucks Ahead starting Rob Zacny, Bruce Geryk and Tom Chick
for those who are unaware, Austin guested on this past weekend's Idle Weekend with Danielle and Rob
and it's a good one
and it's a good one
avengers23
Banned
Austin and Patrick won't let him get a word in, so it'll be fine.
People criticize Patrick and Austin for being longwinded and dominating a conversation, but the only time Ive ever felt that way about a gaming podcast host was Rob on Idle Weekend episodes without a guest. Maybe that show got better and maybe hes different on other podcasts with a bigger group, but its part of the handful of things that left that dude leaving a bad taste in my mouth.
edit- for what its worth i do think waypoint is a good fit for him
and i dont think hes a bad person, i just found him really offputting and my hope is i dont continue to do so.
BUNTING1243
Banned
Is Mike still at Waypoint? When they launched he kinda felt like the odd one out in the UK, which was a bummer since he's pretty great and is technically the one there the longest
I saw stuff about Rob being hired and was wondering if that was because Mike was stepping back or something.
I saw stuff about Rob being hired and was wondering if that was because Mike was stepping back or something.
John Kowalski
Banned
Wow really cool to see Danika mention Juri, i really love Juri too.
Why isn't dumb stuff like this put on their youtube channel? I don't use twitter so if I hadn't seen that Sonic fan art I never would have seen this video.
https://twitter.com/waypoint/status/840039279501824002
It is fucking fantastic. I want more dumb videos from Waypoint.
https://twitter.com/waypoint/status/840039279501824002
It is fucking fantastic. I want more dumb videos from Waypoint.
They really should. I didn't see this until you posted it here.
John Kowalski
Banned
You shouldn't keep your poop books on the bathroom....
Mister_Bubbles
Member
Agreed, that was ace. Austin keeping his Madden game strong, you know.
WreckTheLaw
Giant Bomb Japanimation Correspondent
It will hopefully go up on the YT soonish. Believe it or not, legal teams have different degrees of worry about stuff going up on social media versus being archived forever on YT or our own video servers!
(also: ty)
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Oh god you actually read this thread
My first thought too lmao, sorry Austin! haha
whew. that tag of yours expired rather quickly in retrospect.
John Kowalski
Banned
Unexpected senpai
As if Waypoint wouldn't want to read their fanfiction. They'd probably publish it!
IanVanCheese
Member
Mike is indeed still there and running the UK side of things. People in this thread tend to be here for the podcast more than the articles though. He runs his own UK Waypoint podcast if you're interested. Mike is great ran VICE Gaming before it was Waypoint. Dude doesn't get the credit he deserves.
Spring-Loaded
Member
Avert your eyes austin, plz
It was good. Making sure to explain one's stance on something is real important, though I understand why someone wouldn't have time to do so on a podcast.
Also really liked hearing about games people didn't want to end and why. Never played Mass Effect and hearing Danielle's experience painted what I know of the game in a different light.
It was good. Making sure to explain one's stance on something is real important, though I understand why someone wouldn't have time to do so on a podcast.
Also really liked hearing about games people didn't want to end and why. Never played Mass Effect and hearing Danielle's experience painted what I know of the game in a different light.
I honestly don't know how this video ended up as perfect as it did.
I want to play Nier but used copies are still like 30 bucks where I am and I don't even think I'll like it.
Did he spoil it on the podcast? I haven't listened to Monday's yet.
Good, I might skip that bit. Though I'll probably never play the game and I think I've inferred what the twist is about so maybe there's no point lol.
I'd say there are more than one twist to the old Nier, three if you count where the origins of that game lie which you would never learn unless someone told you. I haven't listened to it myself yet but i don't know how patrick will spoil two major elements of that game at once. Besides twists ,knowing who Emil is is for sure the biggest thing one misses out on when playing Automata.
Aarglefarg
Member
He did give a spoiler warning so other people shouldn't worry about it, though it lasts longer than the 30 seconds he says and it also goes into Drakengard. I suggest skipping about two minutes if you want to avoid those spoilers.
HamPster PamPster
Member
(Listening to Friday's podcast) Rob graduated in 2008? I always thought he was older than me. Such a good radio voice at such a young age
Man, I gotta say the multi-location format of this podcast really threw me off in Episode 47.
While Austin steers the ship, it feels like the podcast is him having separate conversations with Rob, Patrick and Danika/Danielle. I think the co-locating makes it hard for other members to jump into the conversational fray.
I have no idea if the chemistry would be there, but I wonder if they should adopt the Giant Bomb model where Patrick and Rob do a one-on-one Skype Conversation for one podcast and Austin, Danielle and Danika do one from the Vice offices.
As an aside, I really like Danika's increased presence on the show. Her sense of humor seems to throw Austin off in a way that cracks me up, and her perspective as someone as someone that is slightly newer to games coverage contrasts with Danielle/Austin's experience nicely.
While Austin steers the ship, it feels like the podcast is him having separate conversations with Rob, Patrick and Danika/Danielle. I think the co-locating makes it hard for other members to jump into the conversational fray.
I have no idea if the chemistry would be there, but I wonder if they should adopt the Giant Bomb model where Patrick and Rob do a one-on-one Skype Conversation for one podcast and Austin, Danielle and Danika do one from the Vice offices.
As an aside, I really like Danika's increased presence on the show. Her sense of humor seems to throw Austin off in a way that cracks me up, and her perspective as someone as someone that is slightly newer to games coverage contrasts with Danielle/Austin's experience nicely.
Rob is already a really good presence. I can listen to Rob and Austin talk about strategy games for hours (in fact I did go back and download the Three Moves Ahead with Austin on it, plus a handful of eps about games I've played or have been interested in). Makes sense that that part was one-on-one, nobody else has real strategy experience. But I'm looking forward for the crew to start rubbing off on one another: get everybody into Endless Space 2, get Rob into giggle at horny games.
I enjoyed the five person podcast, even with the inevitable "offness" that skype brings. Hope Rob and Danika can be on more often.
Nier conversation was good too. For me, while 2B's butt is very obviously meant to be sexy, it doesn't "bother me" (more of a eye roll/"look at the camera" feeling really) like Quiet sticking her ass in front of Big Boss' face or EDI's cameltoe in ME3 did. Maybe it's because of Nier's more anime aesthetic? She also hasn't been sexualized in-game like those two were (not as far as I've played anyway). I don't know. Kaine didn't bother me either and her underwear leaves her goddamn butt crack visible.
I guess I appreciate Yoko Taro's honest horny.
Nier conversation was good too. For me, while 2B's butt is very obviously meant to be sexy, it doesn't "bother me" (more of a eye roll/"look at the camera" feeling really) like Quiet sticking her ass in front of Big Boss' face or EDI's cameltoe in ME3 did. Maybe it's because of Nier's more anime aesthetic? She also hasn't been sexualized in-game like those two were (not as far as I've played anyway). I don't know. Kaine didn't bother me either and her underwear leaves her goddamn butt crack visible.
I guess I appreciate Yoko Taro's honest horny.
shnurgleton
Member
from Danika's twitter
i can't stop watching this
https://twitter.com/MarachiiSoup/status/841579100577923073
i can't stop watching this
https://twitter.com/MarachiiSoup/status/841579100577923073
He already got friggen owned by a sick tweet yesterday so how much worse can it get?
https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/841800104667422720