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| Topic | Nintendo officially endorses "Search Action" as a genre name |
| Epyo 08/09/21 9:10:38 PM #139 | no then it's myst or 7th guest or something like that --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Nintendo officially endorses "Search Action" as a genre name |
| Epyo 08/09/21 8:06:49 PM #137 | Jakyl25 posted... thatalso excludes Metroid yep I'd exclude Metroid 1 from being a Metroidvania. the lack of map really leads to a very different experience I think (a crappy one) --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Nintendo officially endorses "Search Action" as a genre name |
| Epyo 08/08/21 10:06:03 PM #119 | Kenri posted... There are a couple more, though the places they let you explore are optional IIRC. Wolf, super jump, snorkel for water. You also need items/equipment to go certain places, I think, like the spike breaker armor. ohhh right, the snorkel's a pretty good example --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Nintendo officially endorses "Search Action" as a genre name |
| Epyo 08/08/21 8:13:05 PM #111 | NeatoAnAccount posted... OoT isn't a metroidvania. Plot flags open areas up, not your abilities. Also, it has distinct dungeons. I know it's kind of a separate discussion, but IMO "abilities unlocking new areas" shouldn't be a requirement to be a Metroidvania. Because like, it doesn't even happen that often, within one of these games. And if you took it out of these games, the games would feel p much the same I think. In Symphony of the Night, there's the double jump, the mist, the bat...and that's it, right? Other areas get unlocked by keys, switches, or plot. In Metroid Fusion, areas are almost always unlocked by the plot, or by switches. Etc... I really just feel like you need the cool map that fills itself in. That makes it easy to exclude stuff like Castlevania 2 --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Nintendo officially endorses "Search Action" as a genre name |
| Epyo 08/08/21 4:26:51 PM #81 | I just believe that jargon should primarily be designed for uninitiated. When all the jargon depends on other jargon, it's way harder to get into a hobby --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Nintendo officially endorses "Search Action" as a genre name |
| Epyo 08/08/21 12:40:16 PM #63 | WazzupGenius00 posted... I believe IGA has been on record that SOTN was more inspired by Legend of Zelda than by Metroid (makes sense since Metroids never been that popular in Japan) so the connection is even looser Well if they really did independently come up with the format, maybe that's more reason to put both names into "metroidvania" but anyway I'm realllly starting to like the phrase Exploration Action after this thread. such a useful term --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | AVGN Behind the Scenes Room Tour 2021 |
| Epyo 08/07/21 6:47:35 PM #2 | i love him --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Nintendo officially endorses "Search Action" as a genre name |
| Epyo 08/06/21 11:20:15 PM #13 | search action just sounds like knuckles stages exploration action would be better --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | The Giant Bomb Topic 2021 - Never Be Game Over |
| Epyo 08/06/21 7:33:32 PM #187 | Jakyl25 posted... just out of curiosity, what was the context here? Mike revealed he's never seen any Simpsons episodes (basically) and Dan and Mary were like, it's likely the greatest comedy show ever, you have to see more of it. So they came up with a list of 30 episodes they remember being great (not ordered) (mostly Dan) and gave it to Mike, and he's gonna watch a handful every week and report back. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | The Giant Bomb Topic 2021 - Never Be Game Over |
| Epyo 08/04/21 9:54:55 PM #172 | wait is the simpsons bad because these first 2 were pretty bad --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | The Giant Bomb Topic 2021 - Never Be Game Over |
| Epyo 08/04/21 9:12:19 PM #171 | nevermind found it: Lemon of Troy Homer Goes to College Marge vs. the Monorail The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show Cape Feare Lisa the Vegetarian Krusty gets Kancelled A Star is Burns I Love Lisa You Only Move Twice Duffless Radioactive Man Homers Barbershop Quartet Homers Phobia Last Exit to Springfield Itchy and Scratchy Land Homerpalooza Kamp Krusty Homie the Clown El Viajo Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer 22 Short Films About Springfield Homer the Great Homer at the Bat Deep Space Homer Bart Sells His Soul Mr. Plow Homer Loves Flanders The Last Temptation of Homer The Curse of the Flying Hellfish King-Size Homer --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | The Giant Bomb Topic 2021 - Never Be Game Over |
| Epyo 08/04/21 7:17:33 PM #170 | did anyone write down the 30 simpsons episodes from fire escape --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Outer Wilds Expansion: September 28 |
| Epyo 07/30/21 12:00:48 AM #19 | that's part of the game too --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | What is your favorite red hot chili peppers song? |
| Epyo 07/27/21 10:58:58 PM #18 | yeah dosed is real good also --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | What is your favorite red hot chili peppers song? |
| Epyo 07/27/21 7:08:50 PM #15 | road trippin! --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Cleveland baseball is changing it's name to "Guardians" |
| Epyo 07/23/21 6:30:00 PM #40 | I'm from Cleveland and still live here! Guardians is a great name, I love it. There's a very tall, very old, very useful, art deco bridge, 50 feet away from the stadium, that has a bunch of old statues on it, called the Guardians of Transportation (as seen in the picture above), so it is a cool meaning. Cooler than the meaning of most team names, anyway. Here's the google street view of two of the statues, and the stadium in the background (I'm surprised the image posted above didn't pan 2 feet to the right to show the stadium lol!): https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4927797,-81.6882384,3a,75y,28.14h,99.26t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sD4RYZc00eKq1VQd3QTn1cA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 Spiders would have been good too, because of all the visual baseball stuff you can do with webs and catching things. However, I'm glad Spiders didn't get picked, because I don't want people to get tricked into thinking there are more spiders here than any other place--when actually, there aren't very many icky critters here at all, of any type. We have enough trouble tricking people into living here already!! --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | oh man I just learned that ff7 remake had a post credits scene |
| Epyo 07/18/21 2:46:33 PM #17 | that ruled --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Metroid Dread. |
| Epyo 07/02/21 6:50:12 PM #137 | Objectively, I agree with the internet about how Other M is bad... ...but for some reason I actually really like it anyway, because the running around and shooting just feels really good to me. Love the weird semi-fixed camera style, it makes every room feel interesting. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | The Giant Bomb Topic 2021 - Never Be Game Over |
| Epyo 06/30/21 8:28:56 PM #138 | heck yeah grubbsnax as for the other show: oh boy, people playing dark souls on the internet, haven't seen that before --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | How often do you drink soda or pop? |
| Epyo 06/29/21 8:28:14 PM #23 | I drink 5-6 diet soda cans a day --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | The Giant Bomb Topic 2021 - Never Be Game Over |
| Epyo 06/20/21 3:20:31 PM #132 | After like 10 years of listening to the premium bombcast, I just figured out you can subscribe via RSS to get the premium bombcast on any normal podcast app. I've been manually downloading the premium mp3, and sending it to my phone via usb, every freakin' week this entire time. I thought it was the only way to get the ad free version. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | The Giant Bomb Topic 2021 - Never Be Game Over |
| Epyo 06/20/21 10:33:43 AM #131 | That's good news about Jason, I was always worried about him in that tiny apartment and all his health problems, felt like he shouldn't have to keep paying the crazy SF cost of living --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | What is the most famous/popular solitary game? |
| Epyo 06/18/21 9:57:30 PM #10 | oh I figured it out, it's Ristar for the sega genesis --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | What is the most famous/popular solitary game? |
| Epyo 06/18/21 9:54:46 PM #9 | I feel like bloodborne is too new to count --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | The Giant Bomb Topic 2021 - Never Be Game Over |
| Epyo 06/14/21 12:05:08 AM #128 | oh it's dan kayla stream those are the best! --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Rank the Tracks Week 14: Pixies' Doolittle (plus Pink Floyd's The Wall results) |
| Epyo 06/10/21 8:07:24 PM #25 | I like this album a lot. My high school physics teacher originally told me to check it out, around 13 years ago.
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| Topic | The Giant Bomb Topic 2021 - Never Be Game Over |
| Epyo 06/07/21 7:05:47 PM #66 | the best news i have ever heard in my entire life --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Recommend me some Female Fronted Pop-Punk |
| Epyo 06/05/21 1:36:44 AM #23 | Oh yeah, I saw that SNL performance and thought it was pretty good. It strongly reminded me of one of my fav artists, Alanis Morissette, who you probably already have heard to some degree. She's in a similar territory of being very famous when she was very young. I don't think she's generally considered "pop punk", probably because her most famous album Jagged Little Pill, is more on the side of 90s alt rock. But this is one of my favorite of her songs, which came way later in her career, and I'd say it's pop punk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28NxV5KmprU --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | B8 Hadespinions Day 36 (Final): Favorite Thing About the Game (write-in day) |
| Epyo 06/03/21 7:14:05 PM #4 |
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| Topic | The Giant Bomb Topic 2021 - Never Be Game Over |
| Epyo 05/27/21 6:59:12 PM #25 | oh. that IS very weird. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Hott take time: What is the best story you've ever seen in a story-driven game? |
| Epyo 05/26/21 1:25:51 AM #21 | metal gear solid 2 --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Resident Evil Village Postgame Topic |
| Epyo 05/20/21 10:51:10 PM #160 | oh yeah, I bought all ammo possible from the merchant whenever he had it. I mean, during the factory bit I always had like 100k to 300k dollars, so the ammo felt relatively super cheap --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Resident Evil Village Postgame Topic |
| Epyo 05/17/21 7:44:38 PM #132 | I kinda liked the factory at first, but it quickly became the exact same 1v1 fight repeated over and over--the fight against one of those guys with the red spot on their chest! It felt like 20-30 repeats of the exact same 1v1 fight, and they didn't even try to change it much each time, except doing it in a different hallway each time. And it's a pretty boring fight--you backpedal until they reveal the spot, you shoot it, you wait, you backpedal again... OK, a couple times they did change it up (this guy has two drill arms, this guy has armor plating), but it barely made a difference, and, then they'd go back to the same normal 1v1 fight again next time. Maybe a couple times it was a 1v2, but really, one of them is in front, so it might as well be a 1v1. I don't think 1v1 fights in general are very good in video games, unless the opponent is extremely versatile or interesting (e.g. fighting game genre, or a boss or miniboss fight), and even then, you can't repeat the same 1v1 fight multiple times in a row. Fan Death boss was very good though. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Resident Evil Village Postgame Topic |
| Epyo 05/17/21 1:03:24 AM #127 | I finished this game and love it. Interesting how, in all the RE games I've played, the first half rocks, the second half is boring. RE8: Village is good, Castle is amazing, Dollhouse is good, everything after is pretty boring... RE4: Village is amazing, Castle is good but gets boring after a while, Island is kinda meh... RE2 Remake: Police Station is amazing, Sewers meh, don't like the Lab at all... --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | The Giant Bomb Topic 2021 - Never Be Game Over |
| Epyo 05/11/21 11:28:00 PM #11 | honestly i agree with dan. milk is vanilla. good question though --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Elon Musk Wario SNL Skit |
| Epyo 05/09/21 6:36:33 PM #12 | As a pretty intense SNL fan, who watches it live, and rarely misses an episode... Yeah, that sketch was pretty bad. But, most live comedy sketches are pretty bad--I don't think it's that easy to write one, especially 40+ seasons into a show. And, an episode is put together all in one single week usually, so they barely even have time to rehearse. And, jokes are often swapped in/out minutes before the show begins, so you can't really memorize anything, you have to read the cue cards. And, these live sketches truly are live, so there's no covering up any mistakes, you just have to roll with it. Maybe something seemed funny on paper, but isn't working at showtime, but you can't back out. To top it all off, in this case, Elon and Grimes (princess peach) aren't comedic actors...so of course their timing's not gonna be very good. The reasons to watch SNL are, in my opinion:
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| Topic | Vinny, Brad, and Alex all just announced they're leaving Giantbomb |
| Epyo 05/09/21 1:26:26 AM #132 | Hmmm that does sound like a potentially cool lineup. I actually wasn't a big fan of the era of the Bombcast where Brad hosted. My favorite part of giant bomb is the silliness, and Brad hosting made the show feel very serious. I don't think it was his fault--I love Brad and I think he has a good sense of humor, but I think he would ask a lot of questions, and Jeff's instincts were to answer right away, because he knew the answer, and it didn't really leave much room for any jokes, or really much input from the others at all. If anything, the problem was Jeff being too knowledgable. A good solution to this is making him the host, as it forces him to prompt others to talk, plus, Jeff naturally is very silly when he hosts things (e.g. the aftershow, or whenever he guest-hosted the bombcast), so it ensures the show gets the silly atmosphere. Of course, maybe they wanted to go for a serious atmosphere, and decided to leave the silliness to the Beastcast, that's fine too--just wasn't my cup of tea. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Vinny, Brad, and Alex all just announced they're leaving Giantbomb |
| Epyo 05/05/21 3:10:00 PM #79 | I don't think I'm gonna be able to listen to the episode. I'm way too sad about all this. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | So how weird is it to take yourself out on your birthday? |
| Epyo 05/01/21 6:23:31 PM #9 | Don't take yourself out, self-harm is never the answer --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | What's the most famous spoiler of video games? |
| Epyo 05/01/21 12:13:36 AM #81 | LeonhartFour posted... I'd say MGS2's "big" spoiler is probably 2nd place for the same reasons. It was huge at the time, but pretty much everyone knows it happens now. That's a good one too, although I want to take away some points from MGS2, 'cause konami had already done MGS2's thing in SOTN years earlier: you play the prologue as the series traditional macho guy, then turns out, you have to play the real game as the blonde feminine troubled sword guy. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | What's the most famous spoiler of video games? |
| Epyo 04/30/21 9:06:00 PM #78 | Just to keep some more ideas flowing though, I think I'd give 2nd place to Symphony of the Night's mid-game "twist". Among game players, that one is pretty legendary and highly regarded. Although, people don't even care about spoiling it, because it's such common knowledge, huh. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | What's the most famous spoiler of video games? |
| Epyo 04/30/21 9:04:09 PM #77 | I bet 75% of Metroid players never even beat it, that's why I would disqualify it. Also just feels more like an "easter egg" or a "secret" than a "spoiler". +1 vote to FF7's end of disc one, I mean it's extremely close to "Luke I am your father", which is what the OP asked. Both of them might as well be historic memes. Although ironically, I don't even think that's the biggest twist of FF7. I feel like a better twist comes a few hours later. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | What web browser do you use, and when was the last time you switched? |
| Epyo 04/27/21 11:56:16 PM #48 | I've used mainly Vivaldi, since whenever it launched, like 2-4 years ago. I love it. Chrome rendering engine, but fun innovations, especially the left sidebar with all my bookmarks. Can't live without it. Before that, I was a big Opera user for probably 10+ years. (Although, I always have a Chrome instance open as well, I usually play background music from there. I just find a lot of advantages to having two different browsers open.) I'm shocked Firefox is so popular here, I remember liking it a long time ago, but it quickly got janky, and still feels janky whenever I open it today. I probably need to give it more of a chance, 'cause I do enjoy reading their tech articles about their rendering and stuff. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Overwatch director leaves Blizzard |
| Epyo 04/20/21 6:53:18 PM #10 | this is the worst thing that has ever happened to me --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | What did everyone end up thinking of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night here? |
| Epyo 04/12/21 7:32:38 PM #17 | I hadn't enjoyed a new Metroidvania game in a long time, I thought I might be "over" the genre... ...but I actually super enjoyed Bloodstained! I love it. The key to what made it so good, was how it kept adding fun light-hearted systems, as you progress through the game. As soon as you think "ok cool, this is all the systems, nice", they suddenly add yet another one. It's also not very serious about its balance, which I really respect. I think part of the fun of single player video games is slightly breaking them. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Prepare me for Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 |
| Epyo 04/06/21 11:18:07 PM #21 | I love the galaxy games a lot, but I have to admit, they don't hold my attention as much as my favorite video games. I have never finished 1, and probably only finished 2 once, but have started replaying it several times since then. Definitely didn't have the energy to 100% either one. Odyssey on the other hand, I 100%ed twice in a row in the first several months, and then beat it again a year later. I think the problem with Galaxy 1 and 2 is the hub world and world map--every time I get sent back there after a level, there's such a temptation to take a break, and shut down the console. And then I never feel like spending the effort starting it up again. But Odyssey extremely rarely sends you to a hub/map, and the switch has all the sleep/resume stuff. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Sleeper titles that are among your top ~25 games? |
| Epyo 04/03/21 6:18:53 PM #26 | Solioxrz362 posted... So far, this (Steep) is the only game mentioned that I have played myself. I thought it was a fun game, although it was very punishing if you were going for top marks on all the events. Nice! Yeah I was surprised so few people played it, I thought it was a unique concept, had some marketing behind it, and was from a pretty big Ubisoft studio, but nobody I know IRL played it, even the people who play everything. I'm guessing critics didn't like it, which makes sense, I mostly love it for the soothing atmosphere--the gameplay loop is not great, but fun, like you said. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Sleeper titles that are among your top ~25 games? |
| Epyo 04/03/21 4:42:06 PM #8 | Steep Infantry Online Shadowhand everything else is very popular --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Playing through FF7 for the first time (spoilers duh lol) |
| Epyo 03/27/21 12:44:45 AM #54 | Yeah my memory of FF7 combat is almost entirely just mashing basic attack, and occasionally throwing in a heal. Except for unusual battles like boss fights or whatever. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | What's the worst game you've sunk 50+ hours into? |
| Epyo 03/27/21 12:37:02 AM #221 | All I remember about the Law system is, doing something annoying to get the laws I wanted for every battle. Like walking around the map and/or rebooting my system or something. So the system was pure annoyance for me. I remember generally liking FFTA except for that aspect. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
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