We Talk Over: Gamescom Opening Night Live

had a message saying the youtube vid was blocked in my country,
but worked fine after clicking the three button symbol to switch over to the GB player

-just saying this in case anyone has the same issues - it took me a bit to figure there was a way to switch over.

"Video unavailable
This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds"
.. interesting.

@geirr: click the little 3 dot icon in the middle of the player window and click Back to GB Player

@babe: thanks for the player switching tip!

@babe: Thank you for that! I was just about to comment about that lol

It took me 9 minutes to realize that Jeff G had a different background, even though I was fully aware that he moved houses

@krisx: Thank you for this tip!

Kyle rockin that MG Gouf Custom on his shelf

Did that dude have a Pito from Hunter x hunter in a framed picture? Lol. Fellow fan waiting 1000 days for a new chapter as of today. XD.

PS surprised Jeff is so down on the COD video yet it's a series on his goty list nearly annually. LOL. Can never get my finger on what that guy enjoys.

Ah a great time to be showing off the next product in the Call of Duty™ franchise made by Activision Blizzard, Inc. Nope just business as usual showing off the fancy new war game.

Also that Halo Infinite trailer being two steps away from a US Marines ad.

Call of Duty Vanguard being sold as a bulletpoint for "diverse stories" sure is a fuckin sham that I don't feel like hearing about, given everything going on with Blizzard/Activision. I know they aren't the same teams within it all, but it sure still fuckin sucks.

THE MORPHEUS CHIP

Shout out to people who hate their given first name! I always hated mine, too! I started going by my middle name after I moved across the country

The Red Bull "it gives you wings" has been used since the mid to late 90ies, so it's well over 20 years old.

AoE > SC > WC > C&C

Any way to hide the big list of games to the right of the video?

I rarely catch these live and want to be surprised.

That lady really put absolutely zero effort into selling me on Saints Row. Geoff gives her a fairly broad question about gangs rivals and action in the city and her response is "the gangs are dangerous and unique from one another and, as everyone can guess, you gotta fight them and defeat them all to reach your goals."

Tell me your game has no soul without telling me your game has no soul.

Polina is so interesting I can't wait to hear more.

Haven't been able to watch all the way through yet, but so far the Saints Row reboot and new COD seem deeply insipid. Conducting non-interviews with voice actors who seem barely aware of the game really doesn't help either. Why not just show more game?

UPGRADED FOR PISS

Apparently Morpheus Chip is a real thing btw. It's a computer processor architecture developed at the University of Michigan 2 years ago that seems to be unhackable.

The Morpheus Chip

Props to Jan for pulling attention back to the pretty fun roster of the Marvel XCOM game. Jeffs and the young upstarts at nextlander were entirely consumed by complaining about the music.

Jan saying “Wesley Snipes” really got me.

Jan happy dancing during Midnight Suns could be the next viral gif for GB.

Holy shit I was not prepared for when Enter fucking Sandman kicked in. Lord.

Man, that fucking Doke-V looks so good.

When are we going to get a series where @janman plays Pandemonium and Pandemonium 2 on the original PlayStation? Obvs called Jandemonium.

A lot of games which is good. The new Saints Row and the long DokeV trailer stood out the most. I also don't understand those trailer awards for games that haven't come out yet. The Death Stranding DC which is pretty much the game it should have been in the first place, instead of a delivery simulator is something. Almost like Kojima is trying to No Man Sky his own game.

I'm also someone who has a first name that isn't considered normal and dealt with my share of teasing when I was in school, but like Jan, I now love my name. Because its not the same Tom, Dick, or Harry kind of name.

And shout out to Jan for reminding everyone how the MCU really got started... with Blade.

Jan please put to the Dokev song in the playlist for the bombcast!

Morgana in Monkey Ball and Dokev was the only interesting thing... everything else looks generic af , dull and boring

i don't mean to be flip, but that saints row looked bloodless. not bad, just very much design by committee.

Unfortunately for Saints Row, every game looks like this now.

I guess I don’t get the Morpheus thing. Greek god of sleep and dreams right? Is it because the Matrix also used that reference 20+ years ago?

I think I'm missing why the Morpheus chip bit was so funny.

Also Jan is a treasure!

top contender for most confused gamescom of 2021 ★★★★

I'm pumped for the new COD - last one I really enjoyed was the 2019 MW - that game was fantastic, this one looks good too. I did not enjoy cold war which is a shame because it had the potential to be a really good time period

Was that Halo cinematic just the Overwatch cinematic.

I love how The Morpheus Chip completely broke Jeff G for a minute there. That might be the most he's been disrupted since Doreen Henderson intro'd the evening news

"The world could always use more Spartans!"

Also, I'd really like someone to put together a feature of "Video game industry fashion faux-pas" because good gravy, what the fuck was Keighley wearing? Tuck in your shirt man! And wear actual shoes rather than whatever the hell those overly shiny off-brand Reebok Pumps were.

I just know that I could look that Enter Sandman cover on youtube and find tons of comments about how incredible and better than the original is.

@babe: Yep got that on on youtube. (in Australia). so here I am. to watch it on the site.

Also anyone get the feeling Germany is just as weird as Japan?

@brewster: It's just the absolute seriousness and the long linger on an entirely made-up sounding MacGuffin. Plus, Morpheus already has very obvious connotations. It would be like playing "The Digimon Device" totally straight.

Yeah this isn't showing up on YouTube for me either.

May all of us have an honest, happy reaction to a character the way Jan did to Blade.