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The Giant Beastcast: Episode 03

It's a mad dash to electronic three as the gang tries to make coherent predictions about what we'll see at the show, while also discussing early Ratchet & Clank and Mirror's Edge info, examining what goes into an E3 demo, and lighting one final candle for The Last Guardian.

The Giant Bomb East team gathers to talk about the week in video games, their lives, and basically anything that interests them. All from New York City!

Jun. 12 2015

Posted by: Alex

Episode Notes:

Be sure to check out Austin's editorial from yesterday, Why We Write: On Game Critique, Influence, and Reach.

Also, here's the link to Patrick's piece on E3 demos, which we discuss a bit during the show.

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Survey says? The perfect start to my weekend!! Thank you Giant Bomb East (or Beast) and the perfect timing for my long commute to work.

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ahh yeah

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Also thank you guys for making this a regular weekly podcast I am so hyped for Giant Bomb at E3.

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Technically *pushes up glasses* this is episode 4

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Episode 3 and not Episode 03? You're just fucking with us at this point! :P

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Yay :D

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Revenge of the Sith!

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JASON A-STREETFIGHTER!

Love these calls from the west.

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I haven't listened to this yet but I find it really weird that I actually went out of my way to watch The NeverEnding Story literally yesterday. The movie still holds up to this day I think.

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So, I'm no podcast genius, but I think this podcast is supposed to be in the other, non-premium feed now exactly where it should be, praise the sun!

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@pkmnfrk said:

So, I'm no podcast genius, but I think this podcast is supposed to be in the other, non-premium feed.

This is the non-premium feed, son.

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@pkmnfrk said:

So, I'm no podcast genius, but I think this podcast is supposed to be in the other, non-premium feed.

This is the non-premium feed, son.

It did show up in the premium RSS feed though. Both the commercial one and commercial free one are there. There isn't an episode 3 right now in the regular feed.

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Boo Jeff's Backalar.

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I like how Patrick pretty much is still part of Giant Bomb, every week there a link to his articles lol

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Bring on the BEast! And RIP Dusty Rhodes.

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Yesss please keep Jeff on the podcast!

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@scb360 said:

I like how Patrick pretty much is still part of Giant Bomb, every week there a link to his articles lol

I think this is the first time ever the GB has linked one of Patrick's articles.

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@pkmnfrk said:

So, I'm no podcast genius, but I think this podcast is supposed to be in the other, non-premium feed.

This is the non-premium feed, son.

Nope, it's definitely the Premium feed.

@amyggen said:

Episode 3 and not Episode 03? You're just fucking with us at this point! :P

I like how it went, 0, 01, 02, 3. Looking forward to 007!

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The podcast survey results are interesting, 95% dudes, 85% white, 62% single and 90% without kids.

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Yesss please keep Jeff on the podcast!

I wouldn't mind if they kept bringing him bakalar.

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...one more for the good guys.

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Great podcast. Can't wait for E3.

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RSS not updating because it's under Premium?

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A wild Beastcast has appeared?!

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@austin_walker: I was hoping the Paypal thing would be about their downright ridiculously evil new robocalling policy...

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I surveyed!

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@winternet said:
@pkmnfrk said:

So, I'm no podcast genius, but I think this podcast is supposed to be in the other, non-premium feed.

This is the non-premium feed, son.

http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/beastcast-premium/

Yep, checks out.

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@pkmnfrk said:

So, I'm no podcast genius, but I think this podcast is supposed to be in the other, non-premium feed.

This is the non-premium feed, son.

The premium link points at the non-premium podcast for some reason.

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Now that we know @austin_walker loves RPG's, how long will it be before we can get an East Coast feature? I would love to see them play something like Apocalypse World, @alex can live out all his Mad Max fantasies. Want this so badly...

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Hey all,

If you were having issues with the podcast feeds, totally my fault! Accidentally checked both versions under the premium tag. Dunno if it'll take time to update in the feeds, but it should be fixed now.

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@gaftra said:

Now that we know @austin_walker loves RPG's, how long will it be before we can get an East Coast feature? I would love to see them play something like Apocalypse World, @alex can live out all his Mad Max fantasies. Want this so badly...

They also know a professional GM/Space master. The space adventures of V-Bomb and the Wolf would be amazing.

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I literally didn't realize that Jeff was in this podcast until about 50 minutes in. In fact... I'm still not entirely sure that he is. Austin and Jeff sound super similar.

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Haven't listened yet but I love the never ending story preview photo <3

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I love the trend of having people from the west coast call in if there's a topic to report on that they're really interested in. It makes the two offices feel a lot more integrated than two totally different sites with a shared name/url.

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This episode had ads, even though it's the premium version. I'm sure it's a one-time mistake.

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Last guardian lost my interest a while ago. Not buying a ps4, even if it does release "relatively" soon.

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Last guardian lost my interest a while ago. Not buying a ps4, even if it does release "relatively" soon.

My problem with TLG is that I have no idea what it even is now, or what Team Ico is at this point with all the departures. My love for Ico and SotC is almost endless though, so I'm interested to know what the game is and looks like... but I'm highly sceptical based on my experience with most "development hell" games.

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Living on the West Coast it's a treat waking up to a new Beastcast on Friday morning, opposed to Tuesday evenings for the Bombcast.

Vinny's podcast production values are the BOMB(cast)!

Austin was a fantastic hire! Bravo to whomever is/was responsible for that! The same can be said for Jason A. Streetfighter (Chuch Norris wishes he had a name that badass).

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@daltimond said:

I literally didn't realize that Jeff was in this podcast until about 50 minutes in. In fact... I'm still not entirely sure that he is. Austin and Jeff sound super similar.

Yeah, same here. I think Jeff has a deeper voice. Anyways, hopefully this'll be remedied when Austin gets more video time and we get more used to his voice.