T w e n t y S i d e d
Josh is on vacation this week. By some strange coincidence, someone else is on vacation next week. I can’t remember who. Oh! That’s right. It’s Josh. Again.
Now, if it was any other cast member I’d suggest we just keep doing the show without them. But since Josh is the one with all of the save games, recording software, editing software, special equipment, and the souped-up computer, we can’t just cut him out of the deal. If we did, the show would consist of Mumble, Rutskarn and I all showing up and watching a blank Livestream window for an hour, not recording anything, and then releasing no content whatsoever.
So, the show is taking a break. I promise to pick up the slack by maybe linking to some YouTube videos or some crap. If I remember.
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Batman: Arkham Origins
A breakdown of how this game faltered when the franchise was given to a different studio.
Playstation 3
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Good to be the King?
Which would you rather be: A king in the middle ages, or a lower-income laborer in the 21st century?
Well how dare he.
No Spoiler Warning for two weeks. Josh Why?
I’m gonna have to announce another Hitmas, aren’t I.
If you do that will probably result in the end of the series unless you start replaying missions.
Three missions in six days? At this rate? Yeah, that’s likely.
Especially since the mission after this one is…not difficult, but long. I’d recommend going down a difficulty, just because you’ll want to put a save halfway through. Getting inside the building takes several minutes, you don’t want to do that 6-8 times.
You may be underestimating how amusing it can be to watch Rutskarn try and fail at the same thing ten times in a row.
If only there were some additional people around to help provide (even more) witty and insightful commentary!
Hitmas with guest stars? Ruts, get on this.
I don’t think I even can do that. How could I get those people on the stream? I guess maybe it would include them as speaker audio?
Hm…
Doesn’t Livestream just allow you to stream in Skype and/or Ventrilo with your gaming hijinks?
I’m like 90% certain I’ve participated in something like this in the past.
Can’t you just have Livestream pick up the game audio as well as TeamSpeak (or whatever)? If so, your guest(s) could just be on the TS commenting on your stream.
Hell, how about you invite us all so that we can all shout at you to GET THE INVITATION!!!
EDIT: Bah, I’m blind. Didn’t notice Jarenth just pretty much said the same thing.
I have that effect on people.
Ruts, don’t look(spoiler tags aren’t working).
It’s the hotel with the Demon and Angel parties. 3 targets, separate floors, a half dozen different costumes needed, and even getting in to the hotel requires waiting through multiple NPC routes. Doing the whole level in one go will take weeks.
You mean 2 targets, and they eventually get together if you don`t fear dying from old age..
Just checked. It’s actually 4 targets, and an intelligence retrieval. Do you really think Ruts(or anyone, really) could do that in one run without saving or just shooting everyone?
Actually, I did manage to do that in one run once. There’s a trick with the elevators I think I remember.
Rutskarn, We play videogames the same: Fail, Fail even more, do it the way you’re supposed and fail, fail, kill everyone and then get shot down by someone you missed, then somehow win from sheer dumb luck.
Is there ever a bad reason to do that?
Clearly it is time for Shamus and Mumbles to join Jibar and Rutskarn.
Oh, the inanity :D
I approve and support of this suggestion. Truly Jibar’s unique sense of decorum would fit in well with Shamus and there’d be no awkwardness with Mumbles whatsoever.
Orrr they could do a special two week series that uses Randy instead of Josh….But it’d a bit too late to truly suggest this.
Ohgodyes. Left 4 Dead 2, featuring the Bootlord, the hipster, the curmudgeon, and the sin against god. THIS MUST HAPPEN!
Yeah, with Mumbles, Jibar and Shamus commenting!
Hehehe. Hehehehehe. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Don’t be too pleased Ruts. All of those were just your nicknames. =P
Kidding aside I’d totally watch that.
“If we did, the show would consist of Mumble, Rutskarn and I all showing up and watching a blank Livestream window for an hour, not recording anything, and then releasing no content whatsoever.”
Im in favour of you guys doing this.
For some reason I think that would still be entertaining.
If they added a broken link to a video, and then added the same kind of comments after the video, it would be a spoiler warning version of ‘Comments on a Postcard’:
http://www.mezzacotta.net/postcard/
Argh, I kept hitting reload even after I got the joke. I need help ;_;.
There’s a good chance that would be far more entertaining than watching people ostensibly comment on the New Vegas DLC. :)
Awwww damn. :(
You should do a “let’s watch” of a TV show instead.
That’d fall into serious copyright issues. YouTube’d take it down faster than Rutskarn can swallow a whole taco.
They could always MST3K a public domain film.
Or a Let’s Critique of someone else’s Let’s Play.
Those are called Retsupuraes.
In other words, they should Retsupurae Season One of Spoiler Warning.
(Stolen from http://xkcd.com/917/)
It's so meta, even this acronym
Whatever the thing I wouldn’t say no to some substitute content. Though I imagine the rest of the crew could also use a breather so no pressure ;)
Okay, Shamus. As a way of punishing you I am now going to play KOTOR 2 during these two weeks. AND ENJOY IT.
You’d punish someone by subjecting them to a gem of a game? I’m almost afraid to ask what you’d do with people you want to reward.
I’ll, erm, let’s see. I’ll send them to Mumbles with questions like, “I wonder how Batman pees in all that armour,” and, “So Riddler is basically Joker, right?”
Aha! Now, I see what you’re up to. And then you give them headphones and let Mumbles answer them through her BioShock-season setup.
You’re a evil man, dude.
Oh God. Even I’m not so evil to inflict THAT upon any mortal. Unless she promises to just say two words on repeat: KAIZER and BEEEEEEZ!
Two vacations in a row? Clearly Josh is the new Notch.
Does this mean Minecraft for Cuftberts?!
Pickpocketing dynamite into the hammerspace-pockets of Creepers now NEEDS to be a minecraft feature.
“and then releasing no content whatsoever”
I dunno about that. You definitely don’t look like you really need the game running in the background.
On the upside every original fallout is coming in the mail. History can now be accurately experienced so that all of your angry complaints will have context.
No Spoiler warning?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3IjRgoGWUBo/TNMm5Reo8vI/AAAAAAAAA0o/6KgGWN0LxaI/s1600/sad-pandas-demotivational-poster.jpg
I demand more Trainz!
This!
You could just repost your script from Spy is Demoman, that would count as Spoiler Warning content.
This image encapsulates my thoughts on this matter.
I might actually get work done if this happens…..maybe.
Hey Shamus, have you seen the ME3 Marketing Story video on Youtube? Same guy who did the plot analysis.
Some if it makes me want to weep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCmX4jVwRdo&feature=share
Yeah, Shamus linked to it on twitter. It’s…quite sad.
Oh, did? *Checks* Huh, he did. That’s my tweet… didn’t think he got it. Well… sorry for the redundancy Shamus….
smudboy even uses a clip from Spoiler Warning in one of his vids.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVa3hKWQFgk&NR=1 at 9:31, Regina Shepard is having trouble with AI on Haestrom. I think it shows the quality of the glitches Josh can find.
Not only that, but he also references Shamus Young’s ME2 plot analysis in another video where he’s in a debate with another Youtuber.
It’s nitpicking unfinished mechanics and things which were in the game from the very start (the holographic glove you push buttons on). Then goes on to say that the game will suck.
I call that hyperbole. And bullshit.
However, in the Video Description, he puts “You really should relax” or something along those lines.
So I think he put it there to DOOM and to be amusing at the same time.
There’s plenty of errors besides the nitpicking (which is fun), and it’s still looking like a “watered-down GoW clone”.
I’d say it’s more like a good GoW clone. Take the brown and the strict corridor design out of GoW and make the combat a bit more interesting, and you got a great game right there.
Of course, you still don’t have Mass Effect. Mass Effect has dialogue.
So why talk about an unfinished feature, like the omniblade, in EVERY marketing piece about the game? Answer: BECAUSE ITS FUCKIN’ COOL MAN.
By “unfinished” I was reffering to that nitpick about it doing 0 damage to someone. That’s a bug. The game comes out in 9 months. Are we REALLY going to nitpick bugs for a game that is far from being finished?
I agree that we shouldn’t view the demo as the final product, but I got a good laugh out of the observation. MASSIVE DAMAGE! (Zero damage.)
Heh.
I actually expect the feature will be OP in the final product. That’s a pretty common thing to make melee attacks ridiculously strong, in order to balance the extreme risk of leaving cover to engage in fisticuffs.
I’m expecting it’s a slower version of the normal melee attack from Mass Effect 2. More damage, slower animation, maybe a cooldown. Makes the game more “tactical” instead of spammy.
And it’s a single-player game. What’s OP is more commonly associated with enjoyment than frustration (see: aoe shotguns in ME1).
I didn’t mean to imply that “op” was a bad thing. I meant it in the more lazy way of “this is more powerful than you might expect”.
I agree as well. Things like melee attack will obviously be fixed. I’m just cocking an eyebrow when they say things like “grenades are new” when they’re simply being reintroduced. Also, with BioWare’s claims that “It’s unlike anything else out there,” which is not true, I’m starting to see similarities with the ME2 marketing errors.
Claiming they’re some kind of genius-inventors appears to be BioWare’s new marketing shtick, or something. They’re also trying to convince us that Dragon Age 2 was “innovative” and did new things.
This feels a lot like EA claiming to be “the same guys we’ve always been”, even when it’s an irrefutable fact that they literally are not the same guys.
This is more due to some guy being charge of marketing who honestly shouldn’t even be charge of fetching coffee.
That “Button – Awesome” guy is their head of marketing, right?
David Silverman? Yep, he was head of marketing for DA2 and is now head of marketing for ME3.
But the video was about the marketing. And marketing chose to show a clip that goes against what they’re saying. Sounds like a genuine marketing screw up to me.
Oh yeah, and it does damage. Just very little. So it’s a balancing problem, not a bug. Just nitpicking.
If you want to believe rumors then marketing didn’t chose to release that clip, but it got leaked somehow during E3.
Apparently it was solely meant for a behind-closed-doors-session with the pers and to give nice screenshots of Shep being in the middle of one of their new animations.
Well, if it was genuinely leaked then the video is not really fair. Funny, but not fair.
I love the top comment about 2007 ME excitement vs 2011 ME disappointment…
Im suddenly seeing a major comparison with The Matrix.
It’s funny that you say that, because this guy has another vid where he does just that. It’s rather humorous.
I want to see video of you walking over the entire Frontier continent, in real time.
Come on man, don’t hold out on me!
I need my fix!
Also, fun fact. I’m on vacation right now.
You guys could just do a straight up podcast this week. Split it up like Spoiler Warning, and put it to a colourful dancing square or something. It’d save a lot of people from getting seasick, anyway.
But yeah, vacations are alright! Disappointing, but you know. Whatcha gonna do?
I vote for podcast.
Wait, I just got this crazy idea: A series of podcasts about THINGS YOU LIKE IN GAMES! Seriously. What kind of games you like, why you like them, what outstanding things about them you like. Perhaps something like a game per podcast. Or a debate club of the above.
Or just praise Portal and Portal 2 for hours.
I NEED MY FIX, MAN.
Once again Josh proves that he is the most effective troll on Spoiler Warning.
{weep} *sob*
[Note: due to vacation difficulty, the weep tag cannot be closed at this time. Please have patience while maintenance looks into it…in a couple of weeks. Thx -Mgmt]
*cries*
Do the train game again
Does someone ‘liking’ this via facebook seem really petty to anyone else? :P
Well, I guess even crazy bastards need the odd holiday. Hopefully Josh will return refreshed and ready to troll once more.
I just had an epiphany!We should have (a written) Shamus plays fable 3!
That’s just cruel.
I’m in favour of this idea.
Second.
Sounds like a good idea to me.
Got me thinking…
When you eventually wipe out the Brotherhood, you’re going to kill Veronica in the cruelest and most humiliating/sadistic way other than just punching her, right?
For example, if her corpse is still intact, strip her of her cloak (if possible), take off her limbs and put her bloody stump on top of the bunker?