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Unfortunately the current owner of giant bomb, Fandom, could not give two shits about the back catalogue and has actively let the giantbomb website shrivel into a bloated ad invested husk of itself that may or may not load videos from the archive. To be expected since they used to have like a team of 3 or 4 engineers working to keep their archive robust and the video player modern. But after two corporate sales that's all gone and now it's just youtube variety shows with typical YouTube hosts and also Dan rykert devolving into the worst version of himself.

Why why?

I can only manage it with a talk over stream. So I used Remap (Patrick klepak and Rob Zacny and Cado) to get a slight leftist dunk on the whole proceedings.

I was thoroughly unimpressed barring seeing new titles from a few indie devs I've liked and the reveal for monster hunter 6.

The awards are farce (although this year mostly good titles were nominated, but in such a stacked year any of the nominated games could be seen as acceptable winners) given barely half a minute to say thanks, while Kojima is given 5 minutes to say he's working on a game. And it feels like a security guard told all the winners that they would have their legs broken if anyone mentions the real world, no mention of either the mass layoffs within game development or the Palestine situation. Because Geoff is a coward who wants to get paid and is afraid of offending anyone especially his friends at the big publishers and advertisers.

The reveals are mostly garbage slop. the indie stuff is fine because they just announce a game quickly and show some gameplay and move on. But AAA bullshit is just big long reveals with no gameplay and you just wonder what the game is, until Geoff says "wow what a game, I saw it a few months ago and let me tell you to keep your eye on that title!"

Basically avoid the show at all costs unless you have streamers you enjoy and trust to dunk on the shitty show.

Oh I've enjoyed it immensely from what I've played but it takes a lot of focus and usually I just don't have it these days unfortunately.

Podcast games are generally games that you are very good at, but also require input at only one level. That's why being very good at the game helps a game become a podcast game, you can turn off your brain to the plot or thinking parts of the game and just vibe on instincts.

So rogue like games often become podcast games for me. But only after I've mastered the loop and the plot isn't happening.

For me diablo games and it's clones. Slay the spire, enter the gungeon, monster hunter. Vampire survivor type games can be good but sometimes you get focused on completing objectives which can mean I lose focus on the podcast for the game. The second playthru of a dark souls type game are usually good podcast games too. Or anything where you're grinding for a bit to earn levels.

I played Sea of stars. It's good but simple, chrono trigger Mario rpg type game. Good vibes, I cried. I'm playing their previous game the messenger now, I've beat it once but nice to see connections to sea of stars.

I played punch club 2, it is very mediocre management tycoon approach to boxing/mma. Too many reference jokes and the plot is pants on head farcical.

I've started disco elysium, physical build, sorry cop. I looked at the body explored the doomed commercial complex and keep not finding the commitment to dig into it. I really need to focus to play rpg games. Especially good ones.

There's some void game that has me very intrigued and I might buy it. Everything I've heard says it starts as a basic sokoban game that becomes something way more so that could be neat.

Control has a damage reduction slider in options, just crank it all the way up. The combat is very tiring and I cranked it so I could enjoy the world rather than get frustrated at the same 5 combat encounters.

Now remove the outliers from the millennial group (basically Zuckerberg who has fully half of all the millennial groups wealth) and the line is even worse.

Able to touch their toes

The most positive I've heard is that it is a by the numbers Bethesda rpg game. It doesn't try to be anything more. If you liked fallout 4 and skyrim odds are you'll like this.