Playdate: Tender Loving Care (04/28/2017)

Hahaha, thanks guys!

Been refreshing every few minutes for this!

Yes!

Wooohoooo

Oh man I've been wanting more of this but there is no chance of hell of me playing through this game solo.

Giant Bomb Playdate Go!

Let's visit the Penis Farm

May God have mercy on us all

I REALLY need a pizza.

Love Vinny

Posted after I already ate my fucking pizza.

2 hours of glory await me!

The ending(s) of this game straight up ruined my morning.

Ooooo boy, can't wait to watch this one :3

EDIT - This game redefines the idea of what a terrible game is for me, I won't use the term so lightly again.

FUCKING PIZZA!

Well, we know what clip leads off the next Best of Giant Bomb....

This is what my premium subscription is for!

32 minutes in and this maybe one of the best Giantbomb things EVER

What a wonderful, horrible piece of shit this has been.

But god dammit, I was invested in these characters.

I fucking hate this game

But despite how bad I think it is I was still very anxious to see the end. Maybe its art?

Watched this live, I dont think I've laughed this much in YEARS, thanks guys!

Alright, I'll bite: who has time to watch 2 hour videos at work? Should not you be working?

@avyshue: IT jobs for one. I knew an IT guy who played enough games to be a full-time game reviewer for a major site.

Also, you can just slack off. In his memoir, Dan talks about doing pretty much the same at a call center by cheating the system so he could appear to be working while slacking off.

This... this thing should have never happened.

It shouldn't have, but I'm glad it did. Because.... wow.

@avyshue: I typically leave streams or podcasts on in the background while I'm doing something stationary.

So Michael called the Hospital to just rant. pre-bloggers

This game is so bad but these streams were so good. I'd watch a series of just the guys answering those weird questionnaires for a half hour.

I love how the warning gets longer every episode.

you just know "fucking pizza" is going to end up on a t-shirt

What in the fresh hell was the least ending?

Boy this one sure is a hell of a thing, huh?

That hot dog looked really good.

I watched a couple youtube clips after this to try and make sense out of that ending reel, and I think the game uses a bunch of those scenes to put together different endings. An ending I saw on YouTube showed the scene where Michael hits the nurse with the hammer, and it was followed up with the scene of her in bed as the daughter.

What on earth was that last ending? How does that fit in with ANYTHING?

Is it me or does the nurse talk like Trump?

I can't believe this somehow held my attention more so than any Telltale/Cage game ever has. Must be that fucking pizza.

This was amazing. Definitely a terrible game, but so entertaining. I love Vinny's reaction at the end.

This is the best Giant Bomb video. Right here.

I just watched this video and NOW I GOTTA GET A FUCKING PIZZA!!

Wow, that last ending....

The real victim here was the dog.

WHO MADE THIS.

All these endings are horrible

Wait what.

That last ending is fucking me up.

Guess I gotta get a pizza .

Oh dear god this was so fucking funny!!!

So it would be:

Ending A: Nurse gets hit, dies, Michael goes to jail (what the duders got)

Ending B: Nurse gets hit, becomes fake daughter

Ending C: Michael gets hit, dies, Jody's "murder" pinned on him

Ending D: Allison pushes nurse, Michael goes to jail

Ending E: Allison pushes nurse, becomes fake daughter

I can't find a plot summary for the novel anywhere (doesn't even have a Wikipedia page) so can't tell which one is actually "canon."

Edit: OK so I got curious. There's an eBook available for $10, but the Google Books preview contains the prologue...which is actually an epilogue (similar to the game but has nothing to do with John Hurt's character, who woulda thunk).

So the canon ending is one where Randolph, the nurse, has left and Michael goes to Liliam's room (they changed her name to Jody in the video game) to say good night and turn off her TV, but Michael knows that she isn't real and is only doing it to keep Miriam (Allison) happy. I think they took this scene and put it into the game, but just slotted it in the beginning instead of the end. This would imply that none of the game endings actually happened in the book, or that after this took place John Hurt came in and the "usual" ending happened.

Wow. Those endings... yeesh. What a ride.

What in the actual fuck was that