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SweatyTravolta

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Nah, he'll be a nightmare when teamed up with Dan who wrote

"This sense of wonder is something that I haven’t felt so strongly since I played A Link to the Past when I was seven years old. Ocarina of Time was able to capture some of that same magic in my teenage years. Now that I’m in my thirties, I don’t think that I expected it to be possible for a game to make me feel like that again. I’ve been reviewing video games for twelve years now, and I’m used to describing games in a certain way. “This game controls well. This mechanic is innovative. The graphics are stunning. The skill tree feels limited.” That type of language doesn’t adequately convey how Breath of the Wild made me feel."

This years GOTY discussions were notable for being the first time I can remember since Ryan died that the Jeff didn't just dominate the discussion and steam roll his choices to the top.

I'm not saying my opinion is fact but unless Destiny 2 devours Brad again then I can't see Zelda not winning GOTY on their site.

To be fair, a lot of Jeff's points were stupid but he argued them well as to why it was something that he personally wasn't into.

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deerokus

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Jeff is just very critical even of stuff he loves. It sometimes gets misinterpreted as being negative but I think he just takes his job seriously, and it can be more interesting to look at what doesn't work in something that is otherwise brilliant. Although he does have weird taste at times. 

 

I haven't played Zelda yet, the little annoyances he mentions would certainly bother me mind you. Horizon is doing what no open world game has done in ages for me other than Witcher 3 - gets more interesting and compelling as it goes on. 

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Harsin

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The thing with Jeff is that with something like Zelda he usually appreciates that a game is good even if he doesn't personally enjoy it and can articulate clearly what he likes/doesn't like. Brad seems to struggle with the entire concept of subjectivity and can't understand why if he loves something not everyone feels the same. Kind of amazing for someone to review games for decades and not to be able to have that outlook. This leads to him being a massive manbaby at GotY time. Although in fairness he was better this year than usual.

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It is weird because I find those two games so different I find it hard to pick one as just clearly better. Zelda is just very unique and artistic, it kind of puts you into a groove. Horizon is more of a refinement and evolution of where games have been going in the past 10 years. I find myself liking one of the other better depending on my mood that day. Sometimes I want to explore the meadow and sometimes I just want to watch the robot burn. Jeff never likes high concept pretentious shit and Brad just loves that (ori and the blind forest, brothers a tale of two sons, etc.)

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12 minutes ago, Harsin said:

All the cool kids know Yakuza 0 is GotY anyway. ;)

Won't the cool kids move on to persona 5 by April?

13 minutes ago, ryodi said:

GOTY is going to be Destiny 2. Brad will get addicted again and they will fix enough of the original game's faults for Jeff to like it as well. 

And fuck sticks like destiny :D

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Mr. Gerbik

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30 minutes ago, Harsin said:

All the cool kids know Yakuza 0 is GotY anyway. ;)

YES! Just ask the Eastie Boys with their epic playthrough

 

18 minutes ago, Oz said:

Won't the cool kids move on to persona 5 by April?

Persona 5 will make for a good second place :) Followed by Zelda at 3, Styx: Shards of Darkness at 4, Nioh at 5, and then the rest. Destiny 2* at 10 because otherwise BRAD SAD.

 

*more like DESTINY POO amirite?

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I listened to some of this weeks Zelda talk on the podcast and as much as I think the new Zelda is exceptionally good, I found myself in agreement with some of the things Jeff was saying about the game. Perhaps my mind will change the more I play it though? 

 

Drew news - he posted this on Twitter....hmm indeed!

 

 

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Mr. Gerbik

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4 hours ago, deerokus said:

I'm almost certain he's going to be a travel youtuber. 

In all seriousness, I don't think he's starting something for/by himself because then he could have left GB whenever he wanted. If that were the case I imagine he would have waited until the new hires had arrived instead of leaving while they're already severely understaffed and Jason is on holiday. I think it must have been an offer he couldn't refuse and that he had to act upon immediately.

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deerokus

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The most recent GBW premium show is lazy as fuck. 'Here are a small number of older games which Brad vaguely remembers running badly, here is how they run on PS4 Pro boost mode but Brad hasn't played them in two years so has no frame of reference for what difference it makes'. Presented by charisma vaccum Matt Rorie. 

 

Leave it to digital foundry, guys. 

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Radish

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3 hours ago, deerokus said:

The most recent GBW premium show is lazy as fuck. 'Here are a small number of older games which Brad vaguely remembers running badly, here is how they run on PS4 Pro boost mode but Brad hasn't played them in two years so has no frame of reference for what difference it makes'. Presented by charisma vaccum Matt Rorie. 

 

Leave it to digital foundry, guys. 

 

I was so disappointed when I loaded up the video to see Brad and Rorie sitting on a couch. I misread it as GBE Playdate :(

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HarryBizzle

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I don't have a premium sub but what exactly is West coast putting out right now that's premium other than UPF (which always looks incredibly boring)? I know East do Yakuza, Megaman and maybe contra or something?

 

 

Matt Rorie's very presence is an admission of failure to find anyone else to do a video/podcast. And he looks utterly miserable most of the time. At the beginning of that Shadow of War Unfinished (which I quickly realised was them just lazily talking over a flipping 16 minute trailer and then wondering out loud about mechanics which were probably being explained by the voice over if they'd just shut up), he looked at the camera with a look that said to me "I'm stuck here with these two."

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Harsin

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The obvious thing to do is shutter the SF office and move everyone over to NY. At this point NY feels like the main operation and SF the spin-off, which is really weird. There was a period where it felt like they spend 20 minutes of each podcast moaning about how terrible SF is live and work in and how you don't really even need to be based there if you're covering tech any more. It won't happen though, anyone who's spent any time watching/listening to Giant Bomb knows that he's a creature of habit and really doesn't like moving outside his comfort zone.

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deerokus

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I like Austin but Vinny and Alex reigned in his pretentious tendencies just the right amount. At his own site that is gone, and they're pumping out stuff I have not an iota of interest in.  

 

It's a pity, I like quite a lot of the people involved in Waypoint - both Danielle Riendeau and Rob Zacny are great and - but I don't like that podcast at all unfortunately. 

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