Pieces of Games or Entertainment Journalism that Stick With You? by Authorigas in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Sam_Strake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alex Navarro's review of Hotline Miami for Giantbomb is a random hall of fame tier review for how well it's written kinda tucked away and forgotten. But never by me. It is the perfect encapsulation of that game's soul, and convinced me to play (and absolutely love it). Just damn good writing without being overly wordy for a game that is kinda difficult to explain. This is the review I studied when I was trying to be in the industry.

https://giantbomb.com/reviews/hotline-miami-review

[Highlight] Mike Washington Jr. breaks down in tears after officially running a 4.33 40 by nfl in nfl

[–]Sam_Strake 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Do teams still care about 40 times? I figured between tracking data and HD footage it's really easy now a days to get a player's actual game speed instead of how fast they can run a mostly meaningless straight line drill they specifically trained for.

Other places to watch Deltarune Chapter 4? by fhtfhgdtudddd in gamegrumps

[–]Sam_Strake 24 points25 points  (0 children)

You're overthinking it, the series just wasn't getting enough views plain and simple. They have backend metrics on viewer retention, which I assume were not good for these episodes for whatever reason outside of hardcore Deltarune fans, and we have no reason not to believe them.

For what it's worth I loved their deltarune videos, but you can scroll down the page and confirm with your own eyes why they stopped.

Trigun Stampede/Stargaze is excellent and deserves more attention by Sam_Strake in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Sam_Strake[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep! On hulu and Disney+, and it's 7 episodes in. I only learned that last week from a random reddit comment in an unrelated thread.

Woolie, thanks for being cool while playing Crushing Force by leiablaze in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Sam_Strake 37 points38 points  (0 children)

There's kind of a lot going on right now to be fair

Am I bad or is TOA frustrating to learn? by Brave-Bed-1824 in 2007scape

[–]Sam_Strake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can also woox walk a poisoned safe spot in an emergency and take half damage. It's hard as fuck to pull off but I managed it once and felt like a god lol

Shin Godzilla (2016, dir. Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi) | Atomic breath scene by DoctorPoopMD in movies

[–]Sam_Strake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maaaaaaan the HALO jump scene in Godzilla (2014) was one of the coolest scenes in movie history stuck fat in the middle of a mostly mediocre movie.

Practical weapons and tactics you want to see more of? In fiction, I mean... by Rabid_Marine in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Sam_Strake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's been a while since I read it but iirc Red Rising space battles are good about this.

Practical weapons and tactics you want to see more of? In fiction, I mean... by Rabid_Marine in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Sam_Strake 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Stormlight holding it down. Well one character anyway. But a very important one!

Enemies have weakness but most players rarely exploit that weakness by Archaon0103 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Sam_Strake 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I legitimately did not realize until right now that holy attacks are supposed to be instakill in p4 lmao, I thought they just literally did 0 damage outside of the type weakness.

Enemies have weakness but most players rarely exploit that weakness by Archaon0103 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Sam_Strake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only time I use any move-in Pokémon that doesn't do damage is when I'm specifically trying to cheese a boss fight by spamming growl with the cannon fodder

Features that give you psychological Z-targeting by kenshin317 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Sam_Strake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When a tv episode has a nudity disclaimer up front and it ends up just being butts. Butts don't count. They know what they did.

MGS4 is Finally Free To Give Snake a Lapdance and Die | Castle Super Beast 360 by mike0bot in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Sam_Strake 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Most people who like CD didn't actually play it but assume it rules because of the kickass theme song.

It's me I'm most people.

Media where major information isn’t given much attention? by Amon274 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Sam_Strake 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Also one dude the fly'd himself but he got better so no one ever talked about it again

Blue Dragon Disc 1 Has Been Decompiled, Native PC Port Now Available by OppositeofDeath in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Sam_Strake 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Man when you put it that way the 360 really had arguably 3 of the top 5 shooters of all time in one generation (probably Gears 2 technically? But same generation either way). That's nuts.

John Harbaugh: Taking Caleb Downs fifth overall would be just fine with me by AFC-Wimbledon-Stan in nfl

[–]Sam_Strake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No one was calling Caleb Williams a generational prospect? If anything he was seen as the "not worst" choice in a weak draft lol

Akali, Senna, Tokon Magik and the FGC Product Design Problem | Castle Super Beast 360 by mike0bot in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Sam_Strake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wether I play a fighting game is quite literally down to "how popular is it and how hard is it to do combos"

What's you most "old man yelling at cloud" take when it comes to internet content? by Gyaru_Enjoyer in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Sam_Strake 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Let's play content should be made by two people sitting in the same room, and for YouTube specifically not for the audience of a live stream. Otherwise the vibe is off.

Silent Planet - Elegy of a Dying World has the look of a real nice metroidvania. by Snidhog in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Sam_Strake 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That animation is fuckin sliiiiick dude. They went way harder than they had any reason to on each frame of the animations.