Giant Bombcast 480: Bad Ball Feel

Word!!

WOO

Excellent title!

Looking forward to hearing about Prey, I'm really curious about it.

EDIT: What a great opening.

I feel you Ben, I've never been able to roll my R's no matter how many pointers people have given me.

Filed Under: NBA Jam

I know this is precisely why having two games with the exact same name is a database nightmare, but still, I have to think that this is the link you wanted @brad. How else will the untold tens of future people who might peruse NBA Jam wiki page know that you discussed it?

So Ann is my girlfriend now on Persona 5. She's VERY much into crepes.

Rolling R's is one of my favorite things to do, I do it even when it's not necessary to add spice to bland words.

So I guess Jeff has an ally in Ben because they prefer the first Terminator movie.

T2 is the better movie, so team Dan.

@nickfoley: T2 just has better special effects. Are you sure you want to be on team Dan for anything in life?

Last week we had to hear all about how hard Ben came. Now this week it's ball feel.

I don't know what kind of sick game you guys are running but it stops today.

Hearing Ben say he has a Luigi amiibo made me realize that he would be the perfect Luigi. He has the mustache already and he's incredibly tall. I bet he jumps higher too!

HOO

Great!

I'd love to hear more about lé Prey.

BOO

............GOO?

ok i will mention this now because they're probably going to get some emails, but as a Canadian I will say that Wayne Gretzky is NOT on our money. he might be on some commemorative coin but if so it's not something i've ever heard of...

edit: the queen is on all our coins and $20 bills, and the $5, $10, $50, and $100 bills have former prime ministers.

JOO

I feel like Matthew's indictment of Battleground's lack of polish is misplaced. An early access game shouldn't be expected to be polished, I don't think.

YOO

LOO

Demolition man is a great film and so is is Terminator 2. Facts.

FOO

@ghostfish: GLOO

Wasn't he on the old $5 bills? The ones with the kids playing hockey?

At least that's the story I always heard growing up.

Ian Eagle is a prolific sports announcer with over 20 years experience calling NBA, NFL, boxing and other sports. To me he sounds fine, but I don't have the nostalgia for NBA Jam that Jeff does.

@three0nefive: you know, i've never heard that before. i just googled a picture of it and there's some kids on there but it doesn't really look like any of them are supposed to be Wayne Gretzky, they're just kids.

Rorie will always be streets ahead

as opposed to good ball feel

@thepickle: :D

That was an odd choice to spoil so much of Dark Tower...

it's probably garbage so i won't care anyway. :(

idris elba and mcconaughey were well cast, but other than that i'm really unsure about it.

they need to have a stake next Murder Island stream. First person dies is booted off next game. for rotation purpose

Persona 5 romance, you say.

I'm very glad Ben and Alex have been talking about Persona.

I am in the middle of reading the dark tower - should I avoid this beastcast then? Thanks for the heads up ... that is a sucky thing to do if so.

Glad to hear from Rorie. I was worried that he was banished now that Ben is here.

Lot of talk from Brad about youtubers wanting to forget that they exist because youtube lets them. Is existing at the whim of CBS very different? Hope they don't decide you guys need to be more "advertiser friendly". Also giantbomb premium is basically the same as patreon. Face it, youtubers are you except they live on a different content delivery network.

I kind of want to start shoutcasting pinball now.

@steveurkel: it's not the crux of the story by any means but a pretty weird and somewhat integral bit. so yeah i suppose you should. maybe they shouldnt have, but hey, this isn't a book podcast.

Haha. Was already a bit squeamish about the piss buckets thing. Then the description of Spam Soup?

Turn it off. Stop.

Time until Rorie mentions WoW: 18:45

New

Paused at a pretty good moment, we all know what @rorie is always thinking about. XD

Terminator 2 is fine, but it is no doubt a big step down from the greatness that is The Terminator.
T1 is a 5/5, T2 is like a 3/5 at best.

I'm just as bad at rolling my Rs as Ben. I have Dutch lineage so I'm just really good at speaking with phlegm.

I watched Terminator 1 and 2 for the first time a few years ago because they were discussing this on the bombcast, and I'm in agreement with Jeff that the first is the best. The second Terminator is a kids movie with a pretty bizarre amount of violence. "Boy with robot friend" isn't that unusual, but you're not gonna see anyone being impaled through the head with a spike or obliterated in a nuclear explosion in Big Hero 6 or The Iron Giant. Still, I think they're both movies that are great fun. I'm amazed that they kept making sequels after how T2 ended so conclusively.

Does Rorie press Ctrl with his thumb?!

45:27 Welcome to Cringetown. "lit"

@jeff Check out the custom servers if you want to play Battlegrounds pistols only