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re. dingdong and julian era vids

While it of course strayed off into "podcast with game footage" style on some of the longer LPs, I always liked how the trio more consistently talked about the game itself/series as a whole during the videos. Even if the game was bad or boring they'd rip into the "why" for shit like Yooka Laylee, as opposed to just using it as an excuse to do improv. I think Dingdong brings that kind of commentary out of people because you can tell he's passionate about both making games and the good games from the time he grew up.

I'm not denigrating going off topic if there's nothing to talk about, or if it's just really entertaining, I just liked that for a lot of their time on the channel, if I watched an LP on a game, no matter how retarded and obscure, they'd talk about the game and I'd learn something about it.

Too bad their games and the Yiik finale will never come out.
 
Rich Evans Ayypologist said:
So in their playthroughs of D or Illbleed, you get to see a lot of critique of the unerlying, obvious flaws of the game underneath with a modicum of appreciation for what the creators were trying to do, and especially what they were trying to do at the time and on the hardware. I like that a lot. The YIIKthrough, even if incomplete, is a fantastic experience precisely because that game comes so frustratingly close to "average" that it's genuinely engaging to see them chew on it, and chew on ideas of how to improve it. It's captivating in the way the Running Shine review is.

Forspoken is not really much different from the average in terms of modern shit-tastic open-world RPGs, and its combat system is as shallow as you would expect given the engine it was baked into. The writing is abhorrent, but no more abhorrent than Borderlands or Saint's Row reboot. I like that they played it for a little while and then rightfully shelved it, but I don't see the appeal of going back to it. The gameplay is going to be the same. The systems, and the godawful menus, are going to be the same. The abhorrent writing will be applied to a different particular plot beat, but it'll have the same complete oblivious lack of self-awareness (or consideration for its own setting) that the rest of the game had.

To me, Forspoken is bad on the level of Biomutant - entertaining for a little bit, but very quickly on "this is the rest of the game" sets right in there.
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The mst3k riff on the woke plot makes it so dam hilarious though man.

Some of my favorite playthroughs are of the gang actually reacting to the plot that's happening on screen and tearing it a new asshole. Stuff like them imitating goofy and Donald or just laughing their heads off when something dumb happens.

I vastly prefer that to them actually playing a good game and talking about other random stuff.
 
I Do Not Post said:
re. dingdong and julian era vids

While it of course strayed off into "podcast with game footage" style on some of the longer LPs, I always liked how the trio more consistently talked about the game itself/series as a whole during the videos. Even if the game was bad or boring they'd rip into the "why" for shit like Yooka Laylee, as opposed to just using it as an excuse to do improv. I think Dingdong brings that kind of commentary out of people because you can tell he's passionate about both making games and the good games from the time he grew up.

I'm not denigrating going off topic if there's nothing to talk about, or if it's just really entertaining, I just liked that for a lot of their time on the channel, if I watched an LP on a game, no matter how retarded and obscure, they'd talk about the game and I'd learn something about it.

Too bad their games and the Yiik finale will never come out.
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It's kind of like how the best AVGN episodes are the more informative ones. Sure, the mostly comedic ones are memorable, but you get a lot more out of the console retrospectives.
 
starborn427614 said:
It's kind of like how the best AVGN episodes are the more informative ones. Sure, the mostly comedic ones are memorable, but you get a lot more out of the console retrospectives.
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I think one of my favorites is the Pong Consoles episode. Not focused on much comedy, but it was cool to see all the different ways companies tried to rebrand Pong of all things.
 
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Michael Wade said:
The mst3k riff on the woke plot makes it so dam hilarious though man.

Some of my favorite playthroughs are of the gang actually reacting to the plot that's happening on screen and tearing it a new asshole. Stuff like them imitating goofy and Donald or just laughing their heads off when something dumb happens.

I vastly prefer that to them actually playing a good game and talking about other random stuff.
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I also prefer this, especially when Zach or Lyle are there because they both seem to have a fairly good sense for shitty writing and can riff on poorly written games really well. Zach shitting all over the Saints Row reboot was a treat, and I love listening to them blow Forspoken to bits. It kinda reminds me of old Super Best Friends Play LPs where they'd rip apart David Cage games and it was hilarious
 
Rich Evans Ayypologist said:
So in their playthroughs of D or Illbleed, you get to see a lot of critique of the unerlying, obvious flaws of the game underneath with a modicum of appreciation for what the creators were trying to do, and especially what they were trying to do at the time and on the hardware. I like that a lot. The YIIKthrough, even if incomplete, is a fantastic experience precisely because that game comes so frustratingly close to "average" that it's genuinely engaging to see them chew on it, and chew on ideas of how to improve it. It's captivating in the way the Running Shine review is.

Forspoken is not really much different from the average in terms of modern shit-tastic open-world RPGs, and its combat system is as shallow as you would expect given the engine it was baked into. The writing is abhorrent, but no more abhorrent than Borderlands or Saint's Row reboot. I like that they played it for a little while and then rightfully shelved it, but I don't see the appeal of going back to it. The gameplay is going to be the same. The systems, and the godawful menus, are going to be the same. The abhorrent writing will be applied to a different particular plot beat, but it'll have the same complete oblivious lack of self-awareness (or consideration for its own setting) that the rest of the game had.

To me, Forspoken is bad on the level of Biomutant - entertaining for a little bit, but very quickly on "this is the rest of the game" sets right in there.
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I disagree, the ending to YIIK series was perfect: One shotting the impossible to kill boss with an OP LP Toss that was one shotting everything else before this. The actual ending is shit, especially during the launch of the game, so we're not missing out on anything unless they go full Ross Scott and actually mod the game to make it fit the episode ala Freeman's Mind 2.
I also can't agree with you on the writing of Forspoken. Sure, it's not good, but even that game is better written than Borderlands and nu-Saints Row. Not by much, but I will take a game that is unintentionally funny and one I can laugh at rather than just pure cringe written by spiteful millenials who would rather be tweeting about the cause of the week than writing for yucky videogames! Even if it's an awful game, at least Forspoken feels like it TRIED, the devs were trying to make something that they thought would appeal to a certain facet of gamers...even if that audience doesn't actually exist(or rather it does but they don't buy videogames) because marketing department is out of touch and full of shit. Borderlands 3 and nu-Saints are just straight up soulless garbage that were made to appeal to the developers and nobody else, just look at the "Friends" in nu-Saints and tell me they weren't some sort of self inserts or even DonutSteels from the devs. Absolutely nobody liked them and yet the devs thought they would be charismatic enough to carry the franchise for years, not just that but they're written in a way that makes sense only if the players are already invested in them, completely out of touch. Frey, on the other hand, is organically entertaining since the writing is often times so bad it almost almost laughable, plus the idea of an entitled zoomer sheboon getting isekai'd with a talking, smartass british bracelet is just asking for a comedy routine. Now compare that to reddit humor of Borderlands and MUH STUDENT LOANS! of nu-Saints.
You're right in that Forspoken is less of a nuclear meltdown that will be talked about for years and more of a bargain bin game with some memey moments, looking at the gameplay I can at least see some appeal to it, even if it's only for a small minority of players.
Oh and Forspoken actually has like a 20$ DLC that lasts less than 4 hours, it's pretty bad from what I've seen and I would love for the boys to do a video on it. It's so cute that they left what is essentially a cliffhanger ending cut out of the main game and sold as DLC to hint at a game that will never come out. How cute for the developers to think that literally anyone other than them gives a shit about that stock fantasy universe, the only memorable thing about the game is Frey and her retarded antics.
 
30+GameOvers said:
Sure, it's not good, but even that game is better written than Borderlands
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FFFFFFFUCK you for making me defend Borderlands but even with all of its Anthony Burch DNA, any Borderlands, even the PreSequel and 3, are better written than Forspoken. They may be annoying but there's characters with arcs, and the humor may be cringe but at least it's not as predictable, like a fucking flowchart, as Forspoken's. It may have been a funny moment that Zach and Lyle could predict with astonishing accuracy what was about to be said, but it's because everything they say in that fucking game is already a tired cliche.
"It feels like it TRIED", my ass.

And let me be clear, I hate Borderlands (except for the gameplay, and only the gameplay, in 2).
 
Nick Obre said:
FFFFFFFUCK you for making me defend Borderlands but even with all of its Anthony Burch DNA, any Borderlands, even the PreSequel and 3, are better written than Forspoken. They may be annoying but there's characters with arcs, and the humor may be cringe but at least it's not as predictable, like a fucking flowchart, as Forspoken's. It may have been a funny moment that Zach and Lyle could predict with astonishing accuracy what was about to be said, but it's because everything they say in that fucking game is already a tired cliche.
"It feels like it TRIED", my ass.

And let me be clear, I hate Borderlands (except for the gameplay, and only the gameplay, in 2).
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Everything you said is fair, I guess I meant that somebody tried with the world rather than writing or characters. There is surprising amount of lore to this isekai world nobody will ever give a single fuck about, and Frey kind of sticks on me the same way other ironically bad characters of recent days do(example: Not Important, Alex Yiik, Ryder the autistic girl from Andromeda)
Even when there is so little qualities about the game, and the best one is "writing and characters are so bad it makes me laugh" it still added something to justify it's existence. What did Borderlands 3 accomplish, make people lose even more hope for Gearbox? What about nu-Saints Row, do video essays and that one Fleekazoid video counts as "justifying it's existence" when there is nothing in-game you could easily point to?
 
Nick Obre said:
FFFFFFFUCK you for making me defend Borderlands but even with all of its Anthony Burch DNA, any Borderlands, even the PreSequel and 3, are better written than Forspoken. They may be annoying but there's characters with arcs, and the humor may be cringe but at least it's not as predictable, like a fucking flowchart, as Forspoken's. It may have been a funny moment that Zach and Lyle could predict with astonishing accuracy what was about to be said, but it's because everything they say in that fucking game is already a tired cliche.
"It feels like it TRIED", my ass.

And let me be clear, I hate Borderlands (except for the gameplay, and only the gameplay, in 2).
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I feel compelled to remind you of the sidequest in Borderlands 2 where the british explorer caricature is trying to come up with a name for a new monster and he ends up getting frustrated and settling on the name "Bonerfarts," which really encapsulates all of Gearbox's horrendous writing to me. Or the lesbian girl in Pre-Sequel's "joke" about americans: https://youtu.be/kbcVI5pPkNM?si=YYSFR-U0N6pbwI-I
 
Hiphopopotamus said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6WXlSwSBkFY
I hope they play some more souls games.
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I'm hoping the 3 of them will play DS 3 & Bloodborne at some point. Maybe even one of the Armored Core games.

Nick Obre said:
FFFFFFFUCK you for making me defend Borderlands but even with all of its Anthony Burch DNA, any Borderlands, even the PreSequel and 3, are better written than Forspoken. They may be annoying but there's characters with arcs, and the humor may be cringe but at least it's not as predictable, like a fucking flowchart, as Forspoken's. It may have been a funny moment that Zach and Lyle could predict with astonishing accuracy what was about to be said, but it's because everything they say in that fucking game is already a tired cliche.
"It feels like it TRIED", my ass.

And let me be clear, I hate Borderlands (except for the gameplay, and only the gameplay, in 2).
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Yeah for all its flaws, Borderlands is at least fun to play to an extent. Forspoken is just garbage through and through.
 
SomethingProblematic said:
More forspoken??? Erm...yeah that just happened I guess...
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I'm tremendously happy they're continuing Forspoken. It's already surpassing KH2 for me, I've had genuinely some of the hardest laughs I've in a long time when my friends and I get together to watch these. The India bit almost made me choke on my drink. I'm almost sad I can't use these as background noise like I can with KH2/YIIK because I'm just so engrossed in how terrible the game is. I know it's a pipe dream, but I hope they finish it.
 
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