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Giant Bomb @ E3 2015 | L.A. on Lockdown

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Lijik

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GIANT BOMB THREAD DRINKING GAME
Take a shot everytime someone scapegoats ryan's death as the catalyst for giant bomb becoming ultra cynical
 

CB3

intangibles, motherfucker
I don't appreciate some of those games you listed. Who cares if people do or don't. People need to stop expecting validation of their opinions and things they are deeply invested in from online gaming personalities.

This is a great post.

I was like that for a while. Being able to accept and let go of those feelings is really freeing. Funny enough, Giantbomb helped take that away for good. Alot of Jeff's most famous rants have been against some of my favorite games ever. And they are all hilarious. Who gives a shit if he doesnt like what i like. His hatred of NiGHTS doesnt take away from my enjoyment!
 

Kathian

Banned
Let's be honest here they'd probably have gotten more excited at an Animal Crossing with a new inventory system :D

Sony had three big shock announcements but for me there's no value in any of them yet. What does FF7 change and keep; TLG still does not look a very enticing game and I need to play the other Shenmue games.

They ticked the boxes but we need a bit more than that. Sets them up strongly for future E3s.
 

Blastoise

Banned
Another thing that bummed me out was Brad and Alex announcing names and games 5 secs before they were shown on the stream, just because they both had twitter open...

...And I know it's my fault for listening to their stream.
 

Tabris

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It's like going to Disney Land with 2 friends as an adult -

One person is super excited and has a huge smile on their face.
One person acts too cool and just goes "Meh"

Who do you want to hang out with?
 

Fjordson

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Giant Bomb has sort of morphed into the Earl Swearshirt of gaming sites. They ain't getting excited for shit and they probably won't like that game you like. Part of the charm tbh, but I get why some people may be tired of it.

Everyone will be having fun once they get some guests in tomorrow (I think it starts tomorrow?). That's always the best part of their E3 coverage anyway. Just weird stories about the conferences and shit with friends of the site.
 

squadr0n

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When have they ever been hyped for another Final Fantasy. They were slightly impressed by XV just because it mixes it up finally. Shenmue is it's own thing entirely.

They pretty much all got excited about all the same games I did which were the ones that actually looked like it came from this gen.
 

Antiwhippy

the holder of the trombone
I mean it's fair to level some critisicm, like Brad saying that the ff7 remake was a waste of time and money seemed more like him having his bias cloud what could be a very lucrative venture, and his reasoning seems so nonsensical that Dan had to speak up.
 

CB3

intangibles, motherfucker
It's like going to Disney Land with 2 friends as an adult -

One person is super excited and has a huge smile on their face.
One person acts too cool and just goes "Meh"

Who do you want to hang out with?

I mean, if you went with them both i would assume both. If you didnt want to go with the "meh" friend, why invite him?
 

Lazulic

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It looks fine, it just doesn't look "this took 9 years" fine

it was a ps3 game. eh

I mean it's fair to level some critisicm, like Brad saying that the ff7 remake was a waste of time and money seemed more like him having his bias cloud what could be a very lucrative venture, and his reasoning seems so nonsensical that Dan had to speak up.

dont agree with the waste of money sentiment. goes back to the acknowledgment that plenty of people want this
 

demidar

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It's like going to Disney Land with 2 friends as an adult -

One person is super excited and has a huge smile on their face.
One person acts too cool and just goes "Meh"

Who do you want to hang out with?

I'd hang out with the "meh" guy because I like him more than the other guy.
 

antonz

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It's like going to Disney Land with 2 friends as an adult -

One person is super excited and has a huge smile on their face.
One person acts too cool and just goes "Meh"

Who do you want to hang out with?

Then don't watch them.

I know it might be shocking but to a bunch of people Sony's show did nothing for them. Sony used a few high impact things to cover for another disappointing year
 
This is kind of why I miss Patrick at GB. Last year, he was the only one on the panel getting excited for games. Not jumping on table excited, but optimistic and happy for new games ( captain toad? Phantom Dust? ).

but yeah, this is GB, this is part of the charm. I would never thought Jeff would enjoy splatoon from last year announcement to the actual release, but there it is. They're cautious. That's fine.
 
GIANT BOMB THREAD DRINKING GAME
Take a shot everytime someone scapegoats ryan's death as the catalyst for giant bomb becoming ultra cynical
It's hilarious if you think about it. Ryan was the best at putting a stop to dumb hype and telling Nostalgic Gamers to calm their shit over announcements like this.
 
This is a great post.

I was like that for a while. Being able to accept and let go of those feelings is really freeing. Funny enough, Giantbomb helped take that away for good. Alot of Jeff's most famous rants have been against some of my favorite games ever. And they are all hilarious. Who gives a shit if he doesnt like what i like. His hatred of NiGHTS doesnt take away from my enjoyment!


Wait, wait... Jeff doesn't like NiGHTS?

GIANTBOMB HAS LOST ME AS A LIST---

Jeff fuckin' loves Mari- I mean Super Mario Maker.

All is forgiven
 

Jintor

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It's like going to Disney Land with 2 friends as an adult -

One person is super excited and has a huge smile on their face.
One person acts too cool and just goes "Meh"

Who do you want to hang out with?

if disneyland was representative of a soulless commercial juggernaut painted beautiful out to secure as much of your patronage as po- wait a minute..
 

Jintor

Member
besides, i'm going to disneyland with my hype friends later! SUPER BEST FRIENDS AWAY! (Though let's not pretend they're not cynical as hell, just in a hype way)
 

Lazulic

Member
besides, i'm going to disneyland with my hype friends later! SUPER BEST FRIENDS AWAY! (Though let's not pretend they're not cynical as hell, just in a hype way)

nah theyll be hyp or at least all "thats super cool"

edit: realize how every rumor pat mentions as "crazy" in the microsoft video comes true?
 

Tabris

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if disneyland was representative of a soulless commercial juggernaut painted beautiful out to secure as much of your patronage as po- wait a minute..

I wouldn't invite you to the happiest place on earth :p

You have to not be dead inside and still have the inner child to enjoy it. Same as enjoying FFVII:R and Shenmue 3 :)
 

Zemm

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Then don't watch them.

I know it might be shocking but to a bunch of people Sony's show did nothing for them. Sony used a few high impact things to cover for another disappointing year

Pretty much. I think people are clouded by FF7 and Shenmue (which aren't even exclusives and won't be out until 2018 at the earliest) to see Sony have nothing this year. Pretty bad.

And now for the reason I cane here, are giant bomb doing the day 0, day 1 etc podcasts/ live streams still? Can't see anything in their site.
 

Jintor

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I wouldn't invite you to the happiest place on earth :p

You have to not be dead inside and still have the inner child to enjoy it. Same as enjoying FFVII:R and Shenmue 3 :)

I hate theme parks.

I do like Theme Park World though... where YOU are the relentless capitalist fleecing suckers of their money! Remember to triple the salt in your cheap fries and put an overpriced beverage vendor right next to them!
 

Tabris

Member
I hate theme parks.

That's because you're dead inside. You should apply to work at Giant Bomb ;)

EDIT - I'm kidding around there (well with you guys, I won't be listening to GB again), but in all seriousness, they should get a bit more diversity on the panel. Replace Patrick with someone with a similar attitude so it's not all negativity.
 

HK-47

Oh, bitch bitch bitch.
GIANT BOMB THREAD DRINKING GAME
Take a shot everytime someone scapegoats ryan's death as the catalyst for giant bomb becoming ultra cynical

I havent kept up with this thread but is that really becoming a thing? Because THAT would make me hate fucking video games.
 

Raiku

Member
It's like going to Disney Land with 2 friends as an adult -

One person is super excited and has a huge smile on their face.
One person acts too cool and just goes "Meh"

Who do you want to hang out with?

They're critics bruh. They've been doing this for a good while now. They've seen alot of things come and go. Seen things underperform and not deliver. They're not the type to get super juiced about an announcement of a game, they actually need to play it first. They (usually) have a measured reaction to shit. It's why I love em.

Gaf is the type to get hyped over a vague twitter post. That can be endearing. In the same way it's why I love gaf as well.
 

MarkusRJR

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Jeez, Brad + Jeff were being total downers during the Sony conference. I don't even own an Playstation and I got annoyed at the constant complaints with PS and Sony. Shame on the people in this thread making fun of people who are excited (GT staff). I'm a pretty big Giant Bomb fan but that doesn't mean you have to shit on other people for being happy. It's a low blow and just makes this community look bad.
 
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