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Bombcast Breakdown!! - 4.29.2008 - GTA IV edition (#11)

by matthew

Because two exclamation marks means you're super serial about it! I have this weird goal of going through each show and taking copious notes, as this whole college thing has taught me. This is a fluid list. Beta as its popular to be know as. Things are going to be dynamic, pertaining to formatting and such, until I get a feel for how things are going to turn out. Categories may be added, rename...

Because two exclamation marks means you're super serial about it! 
I have this weird goal of going through each show and taking copious notes, as this whole college thing has taught me. 
 
This is a fluid list.  Beta as its popular to be know as.  Things are going to be dynamic, pertaining to formatting and such, until I get a feel for how things are going to turn out.  Categories may be added, renamed, or simply taken away on 'cast to 'cast basis. Let me know if you see something wrong!  This is as much mine as it is yours!  
 

Legend:   

  • Voices - obvious enough, who's in the podcast
  • Reviewed - initially going to be reserved for the taste testing they did early on in the series, will see how things turn out later when they start phasing it out 
  • Movies mentioned - despite being a videogame-centric podcast, these guys have some serious debates on movies and people/ideas pertaining to them
  • Games mentioned - games/game series mentioned on the 'cast.  Listed if the game has some type of discussion or context behind it, not simply if name dropped
  • Names dropped - much like the games mentioned, people mentioned if it pertains to the 'cast
  • Out of context quotes - the tiny crazy bits we all love our boys saying.  taken directly out of context makes it even more hilarious
  • Timestamps-the parts of the 'cast that are fairly easy to distinguish with Ryans segway ability.  Oft times these will seamless lead into a bigger discussion on the topic
  • Definitive quotes - the bits where they're all business, and give their honest opinion/prediction on a topic. If you were to jump to a time in the 'cast, these would be it
  • General notes - ideas I've garnered from the crew during the 'cast
  • ******* - multiple astricks denote a few minutes of the 'cast you'd do well listening to, if for nothing else than the hilarity/gravitas of it all       
 

Giant Bombcast ep.8 -- 4.29.2008 -- Grand Theft Auto IV edition

 

Voices 

Ryan Davis, Jeff Gerstmann, Alex Navarro 
 

Reviewed

  • Charge Supershot - Healthy Energy (1.58)
  • Spike Shooter (24.14)     
 

Movies Mentioned

  • Revenge of the Nerds (9.15)
  • Amazon Women on the Moon (9.22)
  • The Godfather (18.08)     
 

Games Mentioned

 

Names Dropped

 

Out of Context Quotes

  • so that arguement totally never happened, everybody is friends still, you have never seen him without clothes on, just for the next few minutes here, just pretend, everything is normal - jeff (.05)
  • party of 7, nobody got steak - ryan (1.35)
  • whenever you're using car keys to ingest something, chances are, things have gone awry - jeff (5.39)
  • there were a couple of underage kids there, with a guy in a van who was clearly not their father - jeff (8.21)
  • my mispent youth.  with a cable box that got showtime. - jeff (9.30)
  • I'm writing my wii/360 slash fiction - jeff (13.41)
  • no calories, no carbs, no sugar, so you know they're going to taste AUS - ryan (25.08)
  • so far, yea, nothing going for me on the zit front - ryan (31.34)
  • I wonder if they got drunk and mocapped it - jeff (45.51)
  • I'm still in short pants, so suck on that - ryan (49.53)
  • I wanna talk about taking a nap! - jeff (55.44)
  • it is 2007s game of the year, according to giantbomb.com - jeff (58.03)     
 

Definitive Quotes

  • so yea, Grand Theft Auto, early word on the streets is buy it. - jeff (1.03.42)     
 

Timestamps

  • Drinks (1.55-7.55, 23.55-28.20)
  • from about (8.00-22.02) they just pass the time with talking about the tiny things they've done throughout the day, dropping between GTA4 talk and life talk
  • how some of the reviews are getting a bit out of hand in dishing out the good words (16.41)
  • voicework of GTA4 (19.31)
  • Timelapse before/after playing with GTA4 (22.24)
  • 15 hours later, we get the 2nd half of the podcast (22.49)
  • where they get their drinks (28.28)
  • Rockstar Social Club (29.55)
  • shoutout to interns - miguel (32.38)
  • physical mailtime (33.03)
  • bestbuy trying to upsell weird items at the midnight launch (35.08)
  • day 1 sales talk//general finances (38.05)
  • talk about the game proper (40.18)
  • quick final word on the game and what they've experienced thus far (47.20-49.06)
  • Emails (49.18-1.00.47)
  1. easy achievements (50.40)
  2. phoneline to the podcast (54.32)
  3. will cod4 suffer from people moving to gta4 (55.44)
  4. region specific versions of giantbomb (58.43)
  5. I love you so much (1.00.27)
  • jeff and his strep throat story (1.00.57-1.03.30)             ********** 
 

General Notes

  • starts on monday night the 28th 10pm, eve of release of GTA4, meaning it'll be dropped throughout the entire 'cast
  • alex is allergic to walnuts (14.16)
  • ryan and jeff hate tequila so much (24.52) 
  • this is what would turn out to be the first dedicated bombcast, where they talk near exclusively about 1 game