O Fandom, you can come and render your brand dumb, But we're not just random, we're acting in tandem. You came and you lynched, but we're under Dan's thumb. Corporate synergy? It's lethargy, because you have no energy. Business model was proven but now you pray for RNG. Pal, you had value, but now all you can do Is hunt for that dollar and live like Ayn Rand do. You bought up Coca-Cola and remo...
And by "hatch" I mean "are made unavailable for purchase due to the closure of the 3DS eShop". Sleep Clock , a DSiWare app, is the best alarm clock I've ever used. How good is it? I wrote about it in 2014 when I started using it and I've legitimately used it every single day since. It's the only alarm that hasn't eventually become annoying to me and it wakes me up immediately every time I use i...
I've been thinking for a while that it would be cool if other people took turns curating the Giant Bomb Infinite Out Of Context Twitter account . I've been running it for a relatively long time now and I've been doing it my way, but I'd like to see how other people would do things. I'll retain control as founder and overseer of the account, but for the most part the curator will be able to run...
My adventures in Spira continue ! Final Fantasy X: HD Remaster Edition is my first Final Fantasy game, I just passed 25 hours and here's what I know so far. For context, I'm currently on my way to Lake Ice World and, yes, I dodged 200 lightnings. -- In no particular order, my thoughts: Wakka just gets more racist, huh? I like that most of the side characters have names and personalities, like t...
I've been playing Final Fantasy X ( HD Remaster ) on Twitch near-daily (also being gradually archived on YouTube for dedicated VOD viewers) and just passed the 10-hour mark, so I want to get down some of my thoughts about the game so far. In no particular order: Tidus is the stupidest person in the world. Maester Mika has a cool voice. Fire, Thunder, Water and Ice is a bad selection of RPG elem...
Snake, we're sending you into an isolated environment to find and destroy a bipedal nuclear weapon: Metal Gear. Before you reach it, though, you'll likely have to do battle with a helicopter, as well as a sniper who is probably a beautiful woman and may be able to use photosynthesis. Should you find yourself captured, a mysterious third party will help you escape. They may be some kind of cybor...
A few years ago I talked about starting a Giant Bomb subtitling project, as I think others have before, but since the videos tend to be hours long, it's a lot of work. I had some time I couldn't do much with, so I spent the past few days subtitling this 4-minute one-man Quick Look . You can download the results here . Some of the audio is colored to represent the game announcer. The original pl...
The Game : A puzzle platformer in which the player is equipped with the ability to take an afterimage of the level, moving obstacles and enemies around. The Quick Look : Running time: 29:12, starring Vinny Caravella and Alex Navarro. Vinny introduces the game as "not terrible" before starting up the fifth level of the second batch of levels, 'Crushed Crosswalk', in order to show off how the gam...
The Game : A puzzle platformer where the player is equipped with the ability to take an afterimage of the level, moving obstacles and enemies around. The Quick Look : Running time: 29:12, starring Vinny Caravella and Alex Navarro. Vinny introduces the game as "not terrible" before starting up the fifth level of the second batch of levels, 'Crushed Crosswalk', in order to show off how the game w...
The Game : Hitman but you're a devil child. The Quick Look : Running time: 50:28, starring Vinny Caravella and Alex Navarro. Vinny starts a new save, "Not Omen", to show the beginning of the game. He expertly completes the tutorial and when the opening cinematic (which includes a scene where a man gives Satan a blowjob) ends at the 8 minute mark, he's ready to play. His mission is to kill as ma...
The Games: Three iOS games big enough to have commercials play during the Super Bowl; Game of War , Clash of Clans and Heroes Charge. The Quick Look : Running time: 28:13, starring Drew Scanlon and Jeff Gerstmann. To begin, Drew shows us and Jeff, who hasn't seem them before, the ads in question. Jeff questions who Kate Upton is and Drew describes her as a "professional pretty lady". Drew says...
The Game : Fame Douglas is... DOATEC was trying to... Look, let's just get to the video. The Quick Look : Running time: 55:30, starring Jeff Gerstmann and Jason Oestreicher. The first nine minutes is spent looking at and trying to figure out the vast amount of confusing and contradictory DLC packs. Then, it's on to the fighting! Jeff is player 1 and Jason player 2. 1st Round: Sarah v Tina on Th...
This is the most popular thing I've ever done online, I think, and all of the positive comments and encouragements really mean a lot. Thank you! I now know the meaning of "Like, comment and subscribe, it really helps a lot." The Game :Link vs. Majora's Mad Moon The Quick Look : Running time: 48:51, starring Dan Ryckert and Brad Shoemaker. Dan mostly does side quests, like saving an old lady fro...
The Game : RTS Monopoly in space The Unfinished : Running time: 32:47, Starring Alex Navarro and Vinny Caravella Alex plays a single-player quick match at the third tier of difficulty against three bots. He explains most of what he's doing, but a lot of it he does without explaining what he's doing or why and there are a few concepts that go unexplained entirely, but he can be excused for not e...
The Game : A choose-your-own-adventure role-playing game in a collectable card game format with segmented 3D sections. The Quick Look : Running time: 54:56, starring Vinny Caravella and Alex Navarro. Having played up to the fifth level, or 'challenge', already, Vinny goes back to the third challenge in order to demonstrate how the game is played. He turns down the chance to arrange his Equipmen...
The Game : A story-heavy steampunk cover-based third-person shooter with lashings of quick time events . The Quick Look : Running time: 41:04, Starring Jeff Gerstmann and Dan Ryckert. As Jeff explains, this game is a single player story that you play and then you're done with. As such, all this Quick Look shows is different parts of the story. Jeff starts on a level from Chapter IV before movin...
Let me know what you think of the new name. For the record, it's a hard G. The Game : Kirby's Epic Clay The Quick Look : Running time: 24:53, Starring: Dan Ryckert and Jeff Gerstmann The video opens with a bit about 'clay' homophones; Klei , Clay . After that, Dan dives into showing off the gameplay, drawing lines to propel Kirby across the stage. This is the only means of controlling Kirby bes...
The Game : FTL at zee. The Quick Look : Running time: 43:25, Starring: Alex Navarro and Vinny Caravella Alex explains the backstory to the game (taking place in the Fallen London universe) while he walks Vinny through the beginnings of a new game; creating a character and setting up his ship for launch. He then proceeds to wander around aimlessly at the slowest speed, clicking through half-read...
The Game : A survival horror game from Russia starring Katrine, who must uncover a dark conspiracy. The Quick Look : Running time of 30:50, starring Vinny Caravella and Alex Navarro. Vinny’s three things to consider about this game: 1. Making games is hard. 2. Learning a second language is hard. 3. This game is $2. Vinny decides to show off the game in English initially, loading a save before e...
Here's a new thing I might be doing if there's enough interest or if it works out well enough or if I have enough time and stick with it. Tell me what you think and suggest some names for this thing. The Game : A pizza restaurant management simulation game on Steam. The Quick Look : Running time of 27:06, starring Vinny Caravella and Alex Navarro. Vinny starts a new game to show Alex the genera...
Somewhere around last week, Tubesynch came into existence. So, being one of the first people there, I made what has been requested for a long time: a chat room where Giant Bomb fans can watch Giant Bomb videos together non-stop. You can find it here . But, I'm not making this post to advertise, just to clarify my uses for the room. Here are the guidelines I follow when choosing which videos to...
I've been using Wake-Up Club every time I've needed to wake up for anything since I got my Vita, which feels like two years ago and I'm not going to check to see if that's possible. It feels like it should have more clock themes than it seems to have, but I'm okay sticking with my Journey one. The best thing about it is that the alarm sound is actually not annoying after two years. I use the ru...
Because I really have to tell this story to someone who'll appreciate it. It was my second match and I was up against someone I'd seen at the top of the leaderboards, who I knew was a streamer because I'd seen a stream of his a couple of days ago. I picked MarkMan, who I'm pretty sure takes some skill to play well, and he picked Dr. Shoals, his favorite character, or "main". After he won the fi...
I guess everyone else had their computers destroyed or accounts locked by GFWL or they had to spend ten hours signing up, but I've never had any problems with it. In fact, I like buying games that are connected to Xbox Live, for the achievements and other tracking purposes. Was I the only one disappointed that Mark of the Ninja wouldn't be a game for Windows Live? I'll probably buy it since I'v...
I'm going to stop doing this for a while. I started it at a time when I didn't really have many other games to play, but now I have a lot. A few months wasn't bad for a projected I started the day I conceived it, so I don't feel bad. Plus, I'll come back to it. I just have less time, it seems.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa AAAAAAAAAA aaAAAaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAaaaAAAAAaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaa is the game I started off the week with. I always felt like I'd played quite a bit of it, but Steam said I'd only played about 20 minutes before this week. So, I spent a lot of time this week BASE jumping while listening to podcasts. Eventually, I got around half-way through the levels and found it d...
And Just Give Up. This is going to be a bigger, longer and harder update, probably (I haven't written it yet), because the last update was late and the next week would've covered about three days. So instead, this update is covering two weeks of the Steam games I've played. It felt like a lot at the time. A Game Of Thrones: Genesis Two weeks ago, I'd just discovered the basics of AGOTG ; moving...
Boy, a week sure does go fast, huh? Sorry this update is late, but I told the time machine operator that I wanted to go to Sunday and he took me to the very first Sunday! What with the time differentials and all, it took me a while to catch up, but here I am once again to regale you with stories from lands afar. Or, more accurately, I'm going to update you on what it's like to play through a li...
18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul starts out slow, but then after the first few times you're fined for not undergoing mandatory checks or because you exceeded the limits of how long you're allowed to drive, you realise it's just a very technical game. And so, with that in mind, I stopped playing the career mode and just stuck to single delivery jobs. What am I, a trucker's manual? After sw...
This week, I "played" 18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul . Well, not really. I tried starting a career and once I figured out how to pick up an order, I drove for days until I figured out where my fuel meter was and saw that I was almost out, with no fuel stations close enough to save me. Forunately, I still have a save file from earlier, so I should be able to fill up next time I play. "Pl...
This week, it was my sworn duty to play 1000 Amps , a Metroidvania puzzle platformer. I really liked this game and it shouldn't have taking me all week to beat it, but you know what they say, unemployment is a full-time job. Well, I shouldn't say I've beaten it just yet, no matter what the completion meter says, because I've still got the final boss to go. I've never been great with bosses, mos...
Well, my Metal Gear series playthrough doesn't seem to be going anywhere, and since I seem to enjoy starting projects I'll never finish, I thought "Hey, what's one more?" Now, this may sound crazy at first, but during this summer's Steam sale, I heard a rumour that you can actually play the games you buy on Steam. I know, I know, I thought I misread it too, but then I tried it and what do you k...
A couple of weeks ago I finished Myst for the first time. It took me about 12 hours over the course of just over a week and it was really fun. There was a lot more story to it than I imagined and I can't wait to start playing Riven . Well, I did start it after I finished Myst, but it crashed and I haven't gone back to it since. So here are my notes: I started from the bottom, for the most part....
My sim got pregnant, but she's still living at home and her family don't have much money. I guess she could move in with her boyfriend, but I'm not sure where he lives. I hope the baby's healthy, because I want to keep this family going and she can't have any siblings because her dad's a old ghost.
I missed a day of my Super Sup Check. I almost had ten.