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In this week's episode of Post-Ramblomatic, Yahtzee and JM8 discuss their extended thoughts about Marvel's Wolverine.

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Daniel

First one I’ve listened to after Nick was on the first one… Trying to not be upset that the YouTube normies get it too…🙄😛

Second Wind

It's only this episode, not a regular thing going forward.

DNJ

X-men 97: "Time to suit up." "We going to a circus?" "What were you expecting? Black leather?"

Johnnyfebruary4

Best Post Ramblomatic so far, JM8 and Yahtzee had great chemistry.

Tom M

I do wonder how many of the decisions made for Wolverine were a result of them having to rebuild parts because of the ransomware leak or were just there from the beginning

Megan Writes SciFi

The classic depiction of Wolverine works best in the "lancer" position of the classic 'five-man band' trope. In that role he gets to say and push for the "most obvious thing" that a reader might think. The most straightforward solution, most likely reactionary thing that probably in the long term won't make anything any better. He's the voice of the mad child who just wants to throw a tantrum and punish everyone around him for whatever he perceives as bad in that particular moment. Sometimes that's called for. Most of the time it's not. His best stories are him trying to retain or find his humanity again. Fighting against the beast and towards a more caring and understanding person. There have been depictions of him that have even succeeded in this. But that's not his status quo. His status quo is to be the barely restrained monster. So can you write engaging stories about this character. Absolutely! Are they about combat? Probably not

Nicholas Russell

Fuck, the Jean and Logan relationship’s just the Will Smith movie Hancock, isn’t it?

Lil' Cass (CJ)

The Post Ramblomatics with Marty and Nick are also great, they all have such great chemistry together

haroldthewhite

Am I a psychopath for enjoying getting into rage tier 3 and having the combat just turn into “press both shoulder buttons to turn every single guy into mincemeat?” I spent basically the back half of the game doing this and it felt like it trivialized combat but was also good in a way because it’s sort of what Wolverine does. Did make some of the cutscenes a bit annoying though, like no, Wolverine didn’t need to be airlifted from infinite red hand guys when he can just turn them into a fine mist all day.

Nick Rollins

I fondly remember first seeing QTE in Die Hard Arcade, but if you failed you'd have to fight some thugs instead of moving on to the next section.

melchar

A Post Ramblomatic so nice, I listened to it twice! I like that this episode was also shared on YouTube. It helps demonstrate the kinds of goodies that were get from supporting Second Wind on Patreon. Positive PR is - IMO - never a waste. ...Plus this was a banger of an episode.

Tim Wilson

All I’m thinking of when they’re discussing the QTEs is Yakuza and how well they work in the combat. Had a 20 year old set of examples to work from, how hard would it have been to have had Yahtzee’s thought of “why not just keep hitting square?”. Loved this episode, both of you have really complimentary ways of looking at game design.

Evil Anagram

What sucks about the QTEs having no stakes is that Wolverine has the perfect power set for this. Failing a QTE could easily just make things more difficult for him as a character so instead of accomplishing his goal in the moment he just gets scraped on the road or hit by a car and keeps moving but looks more fucked up and loses health. Then you're at least participating for the most minor of stakes

Jakob Hjorth Hansen

Regarding the qte. I kinda liked how Mass Effect 2 pulled it off. It wasn't a reaction test, it was a possibility of interrupting the "planned" course of the cut scene, either through paragon or renegade actions. My favorite is still shoving a merc through a window as he goes "what you gonna do". Or hugging Tali. Always hug Tali