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"and I'm gonna get audited!"

I remember listening to this episode when it came out and being the same age as the emailer. Hearing "as a certified millennial" gave me a good laugh 8 years later.

They mention around 41:50 or so to not buy a predatory game to send a message to devs, but I would argue even that doesn't solve anything now. I haven't bought a Madden or 2K sports game for over a decade and both of those games still make money hand over fist with super predatory mechanics, largely because they shoehorn you into microtransactions by frustrating you with everything else in the game and they usually give out free codes by the hundreds of thousands to offset people not buying the game with billions in MUT or MyTeam/MyFaction earnings. Not buying the game doesn't really solve things like it used to. There needs to be either a reform forced by a higher power than the industry itself or a complete collapse of the industry. Seems we're almost guaranteed to head for the latter at this rate.

I like this video game history as told by people who followed the industry at the time way more than all those videos of 14 year olds reading wikipedia.

I too had a couple of the McDonald's Transformers things.

Some of y'all in the comments are wild lol. This person has posted *350 highlight clips.* They've already given so much to the community. If that's all they upload then so be it! It almost sounds like those people who comment "dead game" on a single player game that's 5 years old.

Watching this in 2024 "are you sure"

Lol Jeff is a treasure.

I still have not beaten Fallout 4.

Ben might've the most annoying laugh I have ever heard.

Dan is a loser

It's finally out

I got to actually play it when the original owner brought it to MO Game Con pre pandemic.

Love Jeff dropping a parents-owned-a-tire-shop reference at 6:40

Where are all my Knack Maniacs at these days???!! 🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟

I love that picture

The threat status has never been more still.

Coming back after Starfield.. Jeff and Vinny are absolutely right. To sit there and say "we shouldn't be disappointed because it's Bethesda, and that's what is expected" is a joke. It's what has led to such an apathetic industry that just throws out the same tripe again and again, with little to NO improvement. Bethesda is a disaster, and has stagnated since 2011.. That's 13 years ago for god's sake.

I can't stand alex

Meh. Jeff's point is overstated, since when these remakes are released of various games, they are some of the best games that come out. It turns out a lot of the time, you can provide consumer a better experience by remastering games than by making new ones.

Jim Ryan nearly destroyed PlayStation. Not surprised he was the one who said this back then

if only they knew how much worse it could get...

good vid

I remember listening to this back in the day and dying laughing for 25 mn straight. Thanks for uploading.

As is often the case, gerstmann right

Where is this picture from?

The ultimate in how much they turned me off was the day after I got my PS4 Pro, they offered the PS4 Pro at the same price point I got a deal on, WITH Battlefront 2 attached, and I felt like I got the better deal by not artificially inflating their sales count by waiting a single day to gain that console bundle.

Talk about a bate and switch!

Ten years later and this rant is still unrivaled in its fuckin righteousness

Jeff was right

Update as of June 1st 2024 The album is about to be heard for the first time in Australia at Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art (Mona)

Listening to this in 2024 is hilarious

Fuck. I really miss this Giantbomb.

Microsoft the legacy of Sega's console run with an American twist

7 years later, and they were correct to guess this game was just vaporware.

That last post. I wish this man kept on

Lol I remember this episode

Tony Hawks games were amazing when I was like 12. Soundtrack was superb

Now they're remaking remake

Really funny coming back to this nearly a decade later and having watched Phil Spencer make a mess of things.

In the year of our Lord 2024, and we're hearing rumors about a REmake of the REmastered version of the REmake of the first Resident Evil game. Lord help us.

You can tell that most of the guys really never dived into drugs hard by the way they talk about it lol.

Love these stories about behind the scenes gaming industry

The amount of talking over in this podcast, i actually thought i had another giant bomb video playing in the backround lol. Miss these days tho

Ah, yes, he is internet boy?

Funny coming back to this after Starfield's launch, which had an extra year of polish and launched in a generally more stable state than FO4. Brad playing the "game dev is complex" card and claiming to know more than Jeff (who's been in the industry longer than him btw) is so annoying.

Dan mentions his Catholic school days starting at the 3:12 mark. #CatholicPodcast

I will never understand how they liked Vanilla D2. D2 was an even worse disaster at launch

This was my question!

Who’s here after season 1 ended - but had Jeff’s voice in the back of their head when you’re like “maybe I’ll play this finally?”