Little_Socrates

gonna be honest experiencing a second wave of "whoa" at the fact that there's a bigsocrates on this site i didn't meet when i was a regular user a decade ago

anyway, yeah, glad the giant bomb podcast family gets one larger. gonna have to give up screen drafts at this rate to keep listening to everybody

Jesus, I joined this site in December of 2009. I was posting in the forums almost daily for years. The Bombcast was my first podcast, and by the end of 2010 I was marathoning through Deadly Premonition so I could start my own podcast for the first time.

To call it the end of an era is an understatement for me. Really cannot exaggerate how formative this site was in terms of who I am today.

Thanks, everybody. Jeff, I can't wait to see what you do with the place for a new decade.

If I were gonna give someone a gift to "get them into gaming" I'd still probably buy a Vita and load it up with more amazing games than one can keep track of. Most of the best indies of the last five years have come over, it's got the Persona games taken care of, it's got SO MANY PS1 JRPGs, Symphony of the Night, Metal Gear 1-3...it's a pretty amazing little device. The dedicated Vita software never really took off; even Danganronpa is on Steam now, right? But between a 3DS and a Vita, you can catch up on a massive swath of the period before the PC-console convergence as well as the indie scene.

Otherwise, yeah, thing's dead.

TBH the only game I've played this year is Overwatch. I watched my brother play through Uncharted 4 and that was probably enough for me, but it's quite good!

I am gonna have some degree of disposable income this autumn, though, so I've got a list of stuff I'm interested in, and I bolded all the ones already mentioned in this thread.

• StyleSavvy 3
• No Man’s Sky
• Abzu
• Quadrilateral Cowboy
• I Am Setsuna
• Videoball
• Inside
• Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE
• Kirby: Planet RoboBot
• Doom
• Hitman
• Hyper Light Drifter
• Stardew Valley
• Street Fighter V
• Darkest Dungeon
• Fire Emblem: Fates (I can't tell if this one was the Fire Emblem @ccffbb mentioned, or how firmly they recommend it, but my ex-girlfriend is CRAZY for the Fates saga!)
• Firewatch
• The Witness
• Oxenfree
• Superhot

And then, here's my list for the rest of the year to keep tabs on because these games could be great, some more likely than others...

• Pokemon Sun/Moon
• Batman: A TellTale Series
• Grow Up
• Phoenix Wright
• ReCore
• Pac-Man Championship Edition 2
• Mafia 3
• Paper Mario Color Splash
• Gears of War 4
• Rez Infinite
• The Last Guardian (I missed that this got a confirmation at E3? I guess it did?)
• World of Final Fantasy
• Titanfall 2
• Dishonored 2
• Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
• Watch Dogs 2
• Final Fantasy XV
• Dead Rising 4
• Danganronpa v3

I voted four because I don't pre-order games, but it's as close to a Day One as it can be otherwise. I'm waiting to find out what the deal with the review embargo's lift will be, and I wanna know whether or not the PS4 version is comparable. (Not because I'm worried by comparison to Skyrim on PS3, just because I could buy it on PC and end up a little playing less of it than I would on a TV.)

Guarantee that it's better than the Idle Thumbs email section which somehow continually manages to have Remo rereading emails from the previous week and zero cast members going "we read this one" 80% of the time. LOVE that podcast, though.

The keys thing was boring both times but also dealt with in seconds. I missed the other one.

I wouldn't be surprised if Icon is better than Gyrodisc, but both will definitely be better than the sucky-looking Way of Redemption.

My favorite is Pulp Fiction, but the best is certainly Django Unchained. Jamie Foxx. I absolutely HATE Django Unchained, mind you; it fills me with violent furor towards the powers that be, and I don't like to be angry. But it's an amazing film.

Generally, I'd say he's super overrated, but he also hasn't made a film I've seen and disliked. I was really underwhelmed by Reservoir Dogs, but I'd still probably give it three stars. I haven't seen Death Proof, and that's the popular caveat, so it's possible it's no good. He's no Paul Thomas Anderson (and he'd probably agree with that statement) but he's made two or three great films. The rest are all at least fine.

In my list of working directors, I'd probably put him below folks like both popular Andersons (I'd choose Boogie Nights and The Life Aquatic,) the Coens (Inside Llewyn Davis,) Christopher Nolan (who can pick? Maybe Inception) and Terrence Malick (impossible not to choose The Tree of Life) before him. I'd need to see a couple more films by Darren Aranofsky (Black Swan) and Nicolas Winding Refn (I love Bronson, but Drive), and there are a handful of fantastic up-and-coming directors that come to mind.

That "greatest working directors" question is a lot tougher now that Hayao Miyazaki is supposedly done and guys like Martin Scorsese (picking Goodfellas, picking on Hugo and The Wolf of Wall Street) and David Fincher (his best is probably still Fight Club, and what a disappointment Gone Girl turned out to be) have fallen off.

I feel horrible for the poor kid that D'Angelo put out Black Messiah just three months beforehand; both come from similar inspirations, and both wound up at a similar combination of jazz, funk, and hip-hop. I probably prefer Black Messiah, but only slightly. Each is one of the best albums ever recorded.

I dunno, the games I've sold the PS4 on look more like Towerfall, Nidhogg, Sportsfriends, and the like more than the snicker-worthy inFamous Second Son or the just-fine Assassin's Creed IV. Far Cry 4 is a game none of my friends have had any interest in seeing, even by my endorsement. Alien Isolation has been a no-go. Destiny elicits laughs. I convinced a friend that Middle-Earth was a game worth checking out and played his copy, but everyone else I knew was totally embarrassed to be anywhere near such a "dumb game."

The landscape is changing, and No Man's Sky is the game which makes the PS4 a big deal console.