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Balatro and Manual Samuel were my favourites. had to mute the Pizza Tower run because it was a shame the guy sitting on the couch kept insisting on talking over everyone, even the dev of the damn game.
Also as a side note I don’t know who the marketing team is for GDQ but man they need to hire a new one and have for a while now. It seems like a constant thing where people are like “oh I didn’t know it was on” they hardly advertise the thing even when you’re subscribed. the only reason I knew it started last weekend was because I sub to the youtube channel. that’s it. and even then there was no videos advertising the start of it just them showing up in my live feed, that’s it.
Also seriously peoples motivations for donating should not be just to have their donation read on stream. we don’t need to read EVERY SINGLE DONATION that comes in. I know most won’t agree with me on this but years and years of “greetings from Germany” is getting old. it was old 5 years ago.
The single worst couch instance I’ve ever seen was actually for one of my favorite childhood games. Tomba! (or Tombi! if you’re European) was the first game I ever owned on the PS1, and I still play it once or twice a year. It’s a cute little 2.5D side scrolling metroidvania. It wasn’t super popular when it launched, but it has a sort of cult classic following nowadays. I’ve gotten to the point that I can 100% the game in about a day. Not professional speed running levels, but decent enough for a casual like me.
The sequel (Tomba! 2) was released a little while later, and I still play through it occasionally as well.
I was excited to see Tomba! 2 on the lineup back in 2014. It was in a pretty bad timeslot (the bigger, more popular games always get the better prime time slots), but I made a point of waking up early to tune in. And I got to witness the most cringeworthy couch interaction in GDQ history live.
For some context, the dude in the striped hoodie (Chibi) basically invited himself there. Chibi just sort of showed up, and the rest were too nice to tell him to fuck off. What’s the worst that could happen, right? Turns out, he was pretty consistently annoying for the rest of the couch, didn’t really vibe with the runner, had a few social faux pas moments, (like calling his own hype, which is generally considered very cringe unless the announcer calls it for a donation announcement), and all of this was while everyone was sleep deprived from being awake at like 4AM for the awful timeslot.
It wasn’t even Chibi’s first time doing stunts like this. He also invited himself to several other couches that year, and annoyed several other runners before this run started. So by the time this run happened, lots of runners were already pretty annoyed with him.
yeah I remember that one. another great “cringe” moment was from a few years prior when someone was speed running one of the Zelda games and this woman who had been on stream in the audience the entire time knitting asked the runner to “pause the game” so she could tell her story about something regarding cancer or whatever.
Balatro was great with Roffle commentating. They randomly hit one of the worst seeds to try to naneinf.