After a delayed absence (my fault) coverage of the Giant Bombcast resumes with spiders and strategy! The guys spend much of the beginning of the show cowering from a spider that has made itself welcome in the studio, except for Ryan who takes every opportunity to mock the other three. Starcraft II talk dominate the conversation with Vinny taking a slight deviation back to the original Starcraft. Jeff and Brad spent a very short time with Monday Night Combat and seem mixed thus far but Ryan seems much higher on Civ 5 from the 16 hours he has sunk...
Noticeably absent from this week’s Bombcast is one Brad Shoemaker, who is apparently suffering from food poisoning (get well soon Brad!). But in his stead, we get the Eastern Bloc-loving Dave Snider who always adds a great dynamic to the show. The surprisingly popular Singularity starts things off this week, with Jeff and Vinny doling out praise for some unique mechanics. Jeff spent much of the weekend watching EVO and trying to keep track of all the fighting game nonsense going on. Ryan and Jeff also touch on their experiences with APB,...
The guys are in the new Whiskey Media offices and one of the first things they did was set up the podcasting equipment– such dedication. They spend the first few minutes talking about the new digs before Jeff jumps into talking about Crackdown 2. The guys don’t have too many great things to say about the game, but they certainly don’t think it is awful either.
Vinny talks a bit about getting around having to buy Microsoft’s overpriced Xbox 360 wireless adapter though some inventive wireless networking, and then Jeff gets...
Now that E3 is over, the Giant Bombcast can get back to it’s regularly scheduled programming…almost. After 9 hours of podcasting last week, the guys wonder amongst themselves why exactly they are still recording and seem to be even more baffled that there is still a lot they have not discussed. That being said, most of the podcast is taken up by events of the last day of E3.
Before getting into personal favorites, the guys discuss the positive impacts that X-COM and Super Scribblenauts made on them. Brad and Jeff then proceed to gush...
Okay, this is one of those “these episodes are out and you should check them out if you like Giant Bomb and the craziness that happens when they get a bunch of guests to come on and talk about games while drinking” posts. There really is no way to sum up all the craziness that happens here.
The game talk is heavier in the earlier episodes and the off-the-wall discussions reach an apex in the final episode with another polarizing appearance from Leigh Alexander.
(Day Zero) We run down the day’s events, including the Microsoft, Electronic...
After a few quick drink taste tests, Red Dead Redemption dominates early parts of the conversation with the guys wondering how in the world Vinny spent 49 hours on the game. Jeff andRyan have been playing a lot of Green Day: Rock Band and as good as the game sounds, it still doesn’t do anyone any good if you aren’t a Green Day fan. Brad is almost baffled when asked what games he has been playing and can only manage to force out a couple thoughts on Doom II. Turning back to rhythm games, PowerGig takes up more time than it sounds like...
This week’s Bombcast is brought to you by a long Memorial Day weekend. Brad spent a good portion of the weekend playing Doom II on XBLA when he, like Vinny and Ryan, weren’t locked into Red Dead Redemption. Not having picked up on the craze of the other three, Jeff played a lot of kart racers, spending time with ModNation Racers and Blur. He also laments the game that Alpha Protocol could have been. After a little talk of Crackdown 2 from Brad and Vinny, a discussion takes place about whether or not Crackdown was even that good of a...
Pre-E3 leaks and Jeff’s time doing his E3 judges thing start of the cast this week. Rock Band 3 is now all but official. Tron Evolution sounds like it may have something to offer, and Jeff is surprisingly excited about the forthcoming non-movie tie-in Pirates od the Caribbean game. Vinny and Brad get into Sam & Max before the big Red Dead Redemption talk begins. Blur, Mod Nation Racers and Super Mario Galaxy 2 end the played games talk.
News kicks-off with talk of the recent reveal of Killzone 3, and quickly moves onto a hate-fest about...
The guys are running a three man show this week with Jeff out of the office on a super-secret project. Aside from some cooking stories, Vinny hasn’t been playing a whole lot outside of a small bit of Damnation of all things, which he says is easily in the running for the worst game he’s ever played. Brad has also been focusing his time and mostly only playing Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands which he thinks does a lot to bring the series back to what people expect, but could have been much better. Ryan though has been playing a...
This week’s Giant Bombcast has a couple of guests and starts off living up to the name of the show. Alex Navarro and Matt Rorie are there to announce that they have become part of the Whiskey Media family and will be a part of the new movie site Screened. Vinny brings things back to reality by saying how playing Wheelman sucked all the energy out of him, but turns it around by discussing his time with Ryan at Pixar. Jeff recently reviewed Skate 3 and seems to enjoy it, although he feels it may be more for hardcore Skate series fans. Brad runs...
This week’s Bombcast starts off with Vinny discussing the end of his time with Splinter Cell: Conviction and Jeff making a bold proclamation, that headshots are ruining video games. Vinny has also been playing Wheelman for some odd reason, which leads to an amusing conversation about how Vin Diesel’s time has passed. Jeff hasn’t been playing a whole lot he can talk about aside from Picross 3D, which he says changes the game up a lot, but is a must play. Brad has been splitting his time between wandering in the woods with Alan Wake...
The Bombcast has leveled up with new headphones for all it seems for the purpose of not blowing out listeners’ ears. Vinny starts things off like usual by talking about the fun he’s been having with the Just Cause 2 modding community and it has reinvigorated his interest in the game. Jeff has been playing a couple of games for review in Super Street Fighter IV and Dead to Rights: Retribution, one of which he loves, the other he doesn’t. Brad talks at length about the Starcraft II single player that he had seen recently as well...
Brad is again out of the office on assignment this week, so Dave Snider sits in on the Bombcast for the first time in a while. Vinny starts the show off talking about his early experiences with Sam and Max: Season 3. Dave brings his obscure hardcore simulation tastes to the table this week with Mount & Blade: Warband, a medieval battle sim that scares me just hearing about. With embargoes lifting this morning, Jeff discusses a lot of the games he saw while in Hawaii at Capcom’s Captivate event, which are too numerous to begin to mention...
Jeff and Brad are back this week from various events before setting back off later this week. Vinny starts off the conversation with a little Game Room talk before the rest of the guys quickly commandeer it with some talk of high level retro game action. Ryan and Vinny went to see Ghost Recon: Future Soldier last week which Ryan says is more of a third person cover-based shooter with some sci-fi elements. Jeff moves on to discuss his experience with Splinter Cell: Conviction, which he says is the most approachable game in the series. Also, Ryan...
This week on the Giant Bombcast, there is markedly less Jeff and Brad, but much more Norm and Will from Whiskey Media’s newest website Tested.com. After some random tales of dismantling iPads, talk turns to Just Cause 2 which most of the guys have been sinking a lot of time into doing as little of the story as possible. A quick stop on XBL Game Room pops up next before a long dive back into the world of the iPad follows with Norm and Will discussing their impressions of various games that have been released thus far. Ryan closes out game talk...
