Page 4 is the sexiest page. I'm on it with Julian and we totally own it.
I'm glad this feature finally came out, it turned out really great. There were more contributers than I thought, and a lot of interesting perspectives.
This was super good, Liana is an incredible addition to the conversation and she's perfect on this show. I can't wait for the second half next week.
Angelo just needs to play Thief already and stop beating around the bush lol. I beat the game a couple weeks ago and was really satisfied with it overall. I encouraged Travis from here at the site to play the game and he said he's enjoying it. The story is really bad and makes no sense but I don't care, so was Dishonored's story but I love that game.
Thief is a satisfying stealth game with its own charm. And it's not the action game Angelo feared it would be. The combat is awful and extremely difficult, and you don't need to engage in it, so just sneak and focus on stealing. You can kill people if you want to but you need to be a predator about it stay unseen. I spent most of the missions being a ghost and leaving people unharmed. It's a pretty fine game, just play it. It'll be a while till Dishonored 2 so just play Thief.
Julian would make a great Agent 47, and if Angelo dressed as Garrett it would leave me to dress as Sam Fisher. I never cosplayed before but I'll take any excuse to pretend to be Sam Fisher.
Over the lifespan of the N64 I mostly rented games and owned a very small selection of the ones I ended up loving most (after renting them and realizing I needed them for good). Loved both Zeldas that came out, Body Harvest, Goldeneye, Turok 2, and a lot of others.
Battle Tanx 1 and 2 were games I loved that nobody talks about. I really preferred playing those games to Twisted Metal or any other driving combat games. I was a Nintendo kid and I didn't own a PS1, but I played a lot of playstation games on machines that friends or cousins had. I loved the big maps in Battle Tanx, the player guided missles, the tower defense style turrets you could place and upgrade, and the variety of tanks. Each level in the game was almost 100% destructible, and you could prove it by finding the Nuke and setting it off, then watching the whole map blast into pieces.
I also liked Starfox 64 alot. My cousins and I tried for a long time to get perfect scores on all the levels and we have a home video on VHS of us beating the game and getting everything perfect, and celebrating like crazy.
You're getting in on BaD this year? Awesome, there's a lot of people who seem pretty excited for it.
I'll be super interested to see where Destiny 2 goes with its structure and scope. I wonder if they'll heed the widespread criticism of the base game and make sure more content is in the shipping game, and if they'll make any significant changes to things like mission structure. I don't expect Destiny 2 to be a huge leap in design choices, but I hope they'll iron a lot of the kinks out and expand on the good ideas they actually have.
I played the demo on 360 and the game looks pretty slick and performs well. It looks stunning on next gen and still peforms well from what I've seen. I'd like to see what they do when they're solely focusing on X1 and PS4.
Destiny 2 definitely has all the potential to be something pretty great but the 1st game seems creatively and substantively to be a colossal letdown. The most disappointing thing is that there's some really solid gunplay, co-op, and really cool ideas like making a lot of gameplay elements and sociability be so seemless, but they really bunked just about everything else. They have a lot of solid core mechanics and rad ideas they can build on for Destiny 2 thankfully.
Destiny is definitely a disappointing game, but the demo still got me addicted and made me want to buy the game still. It's fun, but I'm under no impressions that addictability means I'm playing a good game. A lot of people get addicted to bad games, like Farmville for example lol. Once I get the game I'll still get quite a bit of fun out of Destiny despite its massive shortcomings I'm sure. It's a dumb mindless sandbox with some pretty fun things to do socially.
I didn't even think about grabbing extra controllers or hardware until you mentioned it, but now I'm seriously considering it. I have a big library for the 360 and I've been through three different red rings. Once it hasn't happened for a few years you start to feel complacent about it all. I definitely should do the same and try to grab hardware and controllers sometime when the price is just right.
Destiny is bad, definitely a huge bummer for somebody like me who has been waiting for the next Bungie IP, but if I can grab it at $20 or so this year I won't feel any buyer's remorse. There's at least that much fun to be had out of that sandbox they built.
I unironically love The Hobbit by Sierra on GC, as well as that disappointing Turok reboot that Touchstone put out in 2008 so I have no room to talk about liking bad games. I even kind of liked parts of Soldier of Fortune 3 and that's absolutely the worst FPS I've ever played.
Looking forward to see your updates during BaD Larry
This was thoroughly entertaining, I listened to it all while I did homework, but it was so long that it's hard to keep track of any specific comments I'd want to make. It's like spending 3 hours with a bunch of buddies and listening to great conversation, and then trying to sum it up and comment on it at the end of the evening lol.
It was a fun listen and Angelo definitely scored a homerun getting David Evans and Jaime Roboz onto the show. They were naturals at it and I hope they come back sometime.
This was a pretty good episode of the sony fanboy fanclub hour lol. Kidding, but it was good to see Julian beat the drum for the 360 a bit, I would have to agree that if Super Step was open to getting one of the last-gen consoles the 360 would be a great choice.
I still haven't bought any of the new consoles but I'd prefer to have them all if I could. Picking a single one of them and sticking with it for the whole generation seems like an extremely sad and limiting prospect. If I had to only get one console I'd rather just play all PC games instead.
Patrick should know that I played the Destiny demo that Bungie released and I got addicted to even the demo. I really didn't want to play Destiny at all, it seems terrible and everything about it seems like it's not my type of game, and I'm a huge Bungie/Halo fan from the beginning. Once they came out with the demo I gave it a shot anyways and I got sucked into the grind of it.
The encounters are super lame and uninspired, the level designs aren't anything special, and the mission designs are probably the most egregious examples of fluff and busy work in an FPS ever, but the second you come across other real players and do random crap together it changes everything. I didn't think I'd say that but it happened. Playing Destiny alone is terrible, but the fact that other players just seemlessly come in and out of your world makes things super fun. I find myself roaming around looking for other weird Destiny demo players like myself to play around with and there's a lot of dumb fun to have. Today I spent a couple minutes in The Tower kicking a soccerball around with strangers and it was great. I don't know why, I hate soccer, but it was great.
With all that said, I have no money for Destiny. I may find a chance to grab it later in the year though so.....I guess I more or less like Destiny? It's not even a good game but I totally want it.
Thanks for going so in depth on the backlogs subject, I was definitely curious where everyone was at with theirs. Since I don't have a new console I've been almost 100% focusing on my backlog. It's such a great time to be picking up 360 and PS3 games. They're super cheap, easy to find, and there's lot I haven't played yet.
I watched the first season of Longmire and kind of want to see what the books are like now. I want to buy War and Peace as well as Crime and Punishment first. I found those for super cheap on Thriftbooks.com recently and realized I don't have them
