We’re back, and we’ve brought a mean motherfucker in the form of IGN News Editor Jim Reilly, who joins the usual cast to discuss Transformers, Crackdown 2, Red Dead, and more, then go on for an hour and forty five minutes about this year’s E3. We’ll catch up on letters next week.
This week’s music, in order of appearance:
How To Destroy Angels – A Drowning (Treading Water Mix);
The Mars Volta – Televators
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Woohoo! Welcome back, Rebel FM!
Here I am listening to some Frightened Rabbit and wow something I haven’t seen in ages.
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Jim Reilly is all man. I bet his penis is enormous.
They could always get Jonah Falcon on the show…
I saw that he was on A Life Well Wasted so I turned it off and deleted it. I won’t be listening to that pretentious tripe any more.
Jonah Falcon’s segment was actually very good. That guy’s life is truly tragic and Robert highlighted it perfectly. I felt really annoyed in the first 5 minutes of hearing his voice, so much so that I wanted to turn it off but after hearing the full segment, I gotta say, Jonah Falcon is a very good example of how FUCKED-UP show-business and modern day fame are. He just wants to be loved for who he is, and not just for his penis-size. But he’s stuck with this ”penis-image” that he cannot get rid of, so he chooses to embrace it instead… That makes him a very pathetic individual.
It’s a very good segment, at least as good as the other segments. Plus it’s only at the very end so you can choose not to listen to it at all.
It was sad but also very vulgar and tasteless.
Jonah Falcon goes on my mental “avoid” list.
@RFM
Phew thanks RFM for not podcasting those hectic few weeks.
E3 news is always a lot to take in. Now i can relax and listen to your podcast after the E3 storm.
And i’m leaving for Iceland in two weeks so i’ll have to catch up on RFM again.
Sometimes it does feel like work. I don’t think thats a good thing.
Question: Do you think you could ever go to E3 and cover the event without torturing yourself (sleep deprivation, germs, bad food)? E3 alswys sounds like a health risk.
Awesome, wasn’t expecting this till tomorrow for some reason
Ah finally! I was going through serious withdrawls! I needs my medicine.
What’s the stuff that attract’s the ladies the smelly stuff? The name escapes me
Fat Penis.
Amber White by Nemat Fragrances, check the Rebel FM Facebook page for details on how to order it (and how to save money, if you’re a listener outside of the US.
While this may not have anything to do with this weeks episode, I went searching for the secret scent. I went to a Whole Foods in NYC (houston st.) and they were all sold out. I asked a women if she had any in the back or something and she said that 3 other people came in that day asking for the same one(the Amber). While I didn’t get it I did get a chance to smell it. I must say I was very impressed, it smelled very fresh and clean. I’ll be on the hunt for it.
I live in Ontario, Canada, and I’ve been hunting for Amber White since I first heard about it on the show. Unfortunately, I think my chance of smelling sexy has come to a dead end. After searching every hippie store and pharmacy nearby without any luck, I decided to simply email Nemat. After a long wait, I was told to contact their distributer Corwin Distribution by phone. Corwin then told me that they no longer distributed Amber White. So, currently, I’m sitting depressed in an aroma of B.O. If anyone could give me any information on how to get a hold of Amber White in my region (without having to pay a fortune online), I (along with everyone who walks near me) would greatly appreciate it.
P.S
I realize that there are Whole Foods in Ontario, Canada, but they are too far away for me. I’d give out more specific information on where I live, but I’m afraid that an internet troll will find and molest me.
http://www.nematinternational.com/RtlStore.html
I found that, I didn’t look all the way through but the closest place to me is an hour(I don’t live in NYC, just visiting. Maybe I’ll take a ride to the place on sunday, I’ll definitely be calling first.
Apparently two stores in Wyoming carry it. I’m a little bit suspicious about this site now…
Hey Mike,
I live in Quebec and have ordered it twice from http://www.nematfragrances.com/ and haven’t had any problems. Shippng costs around $17 US so that really makes it expensive. It takes about two weeks to get here but I didn’t have any custom fees etc. Also, the reason I’ve ordered it twice is I accidentally left the cap off one day and after a few days of not noticing it, the scent really lost it’s strength. So, don’t be dumb like me and put the cap on.
Go to the Nemat Fragrances website and just buy it online. It’s called Amber White. If you’re an international listener, go to the Rebel FM Facebook page (facebook.com/rebelfm) and follow the instructions on the relevant post to avoid excessive shipping costs.
http://www.nematfragrances.com/products/musk_and_amber_fragrances.php?ids=C03
If you order from the site, you have to purchase at least $40 worth of the oil, though.
You guys should replace the battery in your smoke alarm. It’s not because it’s annoying or anything, I just worry about you kids sometimes: take care of yourselves.
I’ve checked every goddamned smoke alarm in our house, and I can’t figure out which one is doing that. It’s driving me insane.
Awww pobrecito, that’d kill me. It sounds like one of you is doing basketball drills on a freshly swept kitchen floor.
Dude I was listening to it and I thought it was the smoke alarm in the hall outside my apartment. After about 20 minutes I paused the podcast and went out to the hall but then I noticed it stopped, so I was like AHA! It’s the podcast!
Also, I purchased Transformers before I got to the end of the show in which you told everyone to buy it (sorry, spoilers). At $40 on PC how could I say no?
Wow this podcast was interactive. Change the battery in the smoker alarm. I just change the one in my basement so every time I hear it i look around my basement wanting to smash it.
Fuck yeah for Mars Volta. Love ‘em. Mars Volta > Sparta
Got fat AROUND my penis!
This is the guy defending Jonah Falcon BTW. No sympathy.
Defending Jonah Falcon? Rofl, I think he can manage himself. I was just saying that Robert made a horrible interview into a great characterstudy.
By the way, it was a Smodcast reference. FOP; Fat Overweight Penis.
I’ll defend Jonah, I’ve been on his show before, and even recorded with him last week, but the recording fucked up so it didn’t go up. But he’s a very nice guy, easy to converse with, he’s one of our own: a nerd.
I don’t see what everyone’s trippin’ about. We’re all a little weird in some way.
Giant nerd thing here, Howie Mandel wasn’t in Transformers the movie. Just saying.
Indeed. Blurr was always voiced by famed fast talker John Moschitta Jr.
I thought that sounded suspicious! Transformers Animated Movie: best TV-cartoon turned-movie ever!
If Ninja Turtles wasn’t a comic before it was a cartoon before it was a brilliant film I’d call bullshit.
Tyler: Nintendo hasn’t made a new game in 20 years. Anyway, GTA Redemption was GOTY.
Tyler: All that E3 talk and no mention of CIV 5? WTF?
oh you know when Spet. 21 rolls around my life will be consumed. For real!
Hooray! Thank you for taking the time to entertain us mightily. Glad to see you all _Still Alive._
Great episode but please fix the chirping fire alarm for the next podcast. I wanted to thrust icepicks into my ears about one hour into the show.
Oh and Happy Birthday Tyler!
thanks man! And thanks for telling those fools to fix the fire alarm! Drove me nuts too ;P
Old man Tyler…
Time for a beard?http://images.starpulse.com/news/media/Joaquin-Phoenix-beard-4.jpg
I’d like to hear Arthur expand on what he was talking about during the comparisons of the “big three,” specifically the Sony won’t be doing so well this year thing, since having skimmed their press conference I thought they announced some pretty cool games and Move seems like it will be at least moderately successful.
Of all the games coming out of E3, the ones I’m most excited for are,
1. Deus Ex Human Revolution
2. Twisted Metal
3. Dead Space 2 /w Extraction
4. Fallout New Vegas
5. Crysis 2
6. Imfamous 2
7. Portal 2
8. Killzone 3
9. Arcania: Gothic IV
10. Final Fantasy XIV Online
Keep in mind I only buy games for my PS3 now
It also made me quite sad to hear thoughts on the state of Japanese games in the US, as four great games I’m playing right now are 3D Dot Game Heroes, Resonance of Fate, Nier, and most importantly, Demon’s Souls. I’d be sad if they didn’t exsist.
yes, yes, yes, yes, yes and yes
I think next generation CliffyB will be irrelevant just like David Jaffe is now.
oops, meant to over zealously say YES! to your comment.
I think next generation CliffyB will be irrelevant just like David Jaffe is now.
Fullly agree. CliffyB is only popular right now because of the suden rise of epic jsut like jaffe with the surprise hit that was god of war
Hey guys,
I’m still halfway through the show (long episode – nice!) but just thought I’d point out that a couple of things.
Dead Space 2 will have Extraction on PS3 for “free”. It’s a $60 limited edition just like Bad Company 2 was. Same for Medal of Honor on PS3 – you get the remake of Medal of Honor Frontline in HD as part of the $60 limited edition. I guess doing the Divine Edition on PS3 for Dante’s Inferno worked for EA as there’s no other explanation for making this stuff PS3 exclusive.
I’m sure Arthur is thinking “you’re wrong” as he reads this so I thought I’d post a couple of Gamestop links to confirm it ;P
http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=76622
http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=76646
Also, Dead Space 2 will have online multiplayer. They haven’t talked about it yet and I’m not sure that when Anthony said “DS2 doesn’t have multiplayer” he just meant “I don’t care about multiplayer in DS2″, but just in case.
And finally, when Arthur said “Sucker Punch is no Bioware”… he was right. They’re better!
After listening, I don’t know hwo you guys could’ve thought Dead Space 2 looked better than Portal 2. It’s just more Dead Space, which I really didn’t like anyway.
Portal 2 definitely the game of the show for me.
On a side note, does anyone else think the Crackdown 2 demo is complete ass?
Logical Fallacy of Ignorance: you have it.
Seemed like a lot of knee-jerk stuff going on this episode. Tyler’s comments about creativity in the East and his complaint that Nintendo have made the same game for twenty years now easily counteract one another. Nintendo is representative of creativity in the East, if we take the mainline Mario series you can see vast differences between each game. I think that Tyler is being short sighted. Sometimes people don’t like things, but that doesn’t mean that they’re devoid of creativity!
Everyone likes something different.
That said very very few Japanese games catch my interest because of strange/archaic design choices.
Most japanese gamelogic strikes me as inefficient and alien.
This is of course true of a lot of Japanese games, but I think the games that the crew seemed to have particular problems with were poor examples, Mario games have excellent controls, as did Bayonetta. Also controllers can be remapped so that should fix the problems with Vanguish.
I didn’t contradict myself. I’ve always said that Japan has a weird duality of being both wildly creative (think: Nobi Nobi Boy, Katamari) while at the same time being very conservative (think everything Nintendo). That’s not a contradiction, it’s called a paradox – a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
@Tylertea Ah sorry, didn’t mean to appear a bozo. I’m more curious than trying to start a fight! Is your issue with Nintendo concerning their visual and graphic design? Surely you’ll agree that the mainline Mario series is far more varied than the game play of Katamari?
yea yea, totally cool. love the comment.
So yes, your point here is totally what puzzles me. I recognize Mario games are designed and control perfectly, but it’s almost just that I feel I’m getting the same game every time. And that could have A LOT to do with visuals (art style etc). But then that makes me think about Zelda Wind Waker (beautiful, new art-direction, but same Zelda game).
And totally, Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong… are all ‘better’ more ‘varied’ than something like Katamari, but it’s that Katamari is a completely new kinda game you know?
Then again, we’ll see how long I’m into things like the Battlefield series. I’m not sure how I can defend being ok with shooters over-and-over, but Nintendo games are a no-go for me. All I can say is we’ll see if next-gen, if DICE hasn’t switched up Battlefield enough, maybe I’ll tire of that too.
Yeah, I think Battlefield 3 will really be the big test for DICE and the series as a whole, it seems that a lot of companies are in the Modern Warfare rut, trying to chase that illusive money carrot I guess! Not to go back to this again, but I think maybe my post was written in hasty nerd-rage mode. I can concede to the fact that I may have taken up your comments during the podcast differently to how they were intended. I can understand how the iterative rather than innovative trajectory of a series such as Zelda would be frustrating, but when Zelda does what it does so much better than anything else out there, I guess I find it hard to argue! Take it easy Tyler and the rest of you guys.
Also, I know this looks like one of those situations where once I got told what was what I totally retracted, and in a sense it is, but it’s moreso that I jumped the gun in writing my initial comment as opposed to a left turn into Asskiss avenue!
I don’t understand your logic, you lambast Nintendo for supposedly retreading their established properties even though you seem to enjoy doing the fps thing over and over again.
Nintendo is not as traditional with their properties as you might think. So you think Mario is sa
e ‘ol same ‘ol everytime? Try Paper Mario. Completely different concept using Mario as a base. Want something completely new within this decade? Pikmin. Advance Wars. Something casual? Nintendogs. Old franchises that have been completely overhauled? Metroid Prime and WarioWare.
Of course, there will be those Nintendo games that don’t change dramatically over time, but I don’t see why that needs to be a bad thing if those games are still the shining example of which most developers today try to follow.
Donkey Kong hasn’t been in a completely traditional 2D adventure since the snes days, so DKC Returns is very exciting for me. Also, I don’t think anyone is complaining that Kid Icarus is being revived.
Katamari is an example of ‘new game, same old stuff’ as well. The first game had the big original idea, but now namco keeps on rehashing it for various platforms.
As a non-oldschool gamer, the Nintendo E3 announcements weren’t interesting to me, with the exception for the 3DS. I’m sure I’ll be excited to play the games that get good reviews when they come out, but for now it’s all pretty meh.
For me, the big problem with Japanese games (mostly jrpgs) is that they tend to stick to outdated genre conventions at the expense of the player. Why do I have to go all the way back to the title screen when I die? Why does the battle music have to be the same in every one of the hundreds of encounters I have to slog through in order to beat the next overpowered boss? Why such a reliance on random chance for everything?
Half or more of my collection is great, at least partly original Japanese games, but a few of them really give me the shits sometimes.
Please fix the chirping fire alarm. I went crazy trying to see if it was mine or a neighbor’s.
Why is troll Tyler still on this podcast?
as opposed to elf Tyler?
Tyler good people. He rep Houston…the city of Devin the Dude. Plus he smokes with cigarettes.
He knew that he could kill somebody but he likes doing hood rat things with his friends.
I’ll be in the bathroom booboo’in. LOL
Shit is the greatest song of all time on any planet.
We all need an insightful, cool, funny hipster on every podcast
insightful, cool, funny hipster
“DOES NOT COMPUTE”
Disappointing to hear Tyler dismiss APB so casually (Personally I’ve had a blast during the beta and am looking forward to the imminent EU retail release). It’s a tactical team based shooter at heart, and much like Counter-strike it requires a degree of commitment to get into it. Getting to grips with the layout of the districts is key & well as using VOIP (ingame or otherwise) effectively.
Here is hoping that you collectively reassess it in future podcasts.
Here’s hoping the game takes the feedback from the beta to heart because APB isn’t that great of a game. Don’t let the fact that you’re in a Beta and you’re playing a game for free cloud you judgement to the fact that this game will be $60 plus whatever DLC will be attached to it.
Mechanistically it’s sound. It’s not everyone cup of tea for sure, but then again neither is Counter-strike, MW or L4D Vs mode. I’ve already committed to retail.
Kick ass podcast guys. More Devin the Dude music would be appreciated and coy references to other podcasts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11_ywaTT-MY
Leigh good people, but damn that was some hilarious shit.
Whats the email for the letters?
I love you Tyler, but please, do everyone a favour and don’t judge games by having seen them (Medal of Honor) or having barely played them (Halo Reach).
You will give your listeners wrong impressions about those games.
Take Arthur as an example. He always supports his opinion with good arguments and his statements with facts.
except when Arthur makes stupid sly comments like:
“Sucker Bunch is no Bioware.”
This statement is true, and Bungie is no Retro Studios. Naughty Dog is no Epic. All these are true in sense of “Yes, these developers do make different types of games”, but nothing more. To suggest that one developer is better than another in different genre is a false comparison.
or
“Kirby’s Epic Yarn is the most creative thing to come out of Nintendo since the SNES.”
Apparently Super Paper Mario, Warioware: Twisted, Metroid Prime, Wii Sports, DS or Wii aren’t creative. Those are just some of things off the top of my head that I consider to be creative or something total new for the time they were released.
When the podcast first started, I actually liked to hear what Arthur had to say. Since then, he has just gotten more and more irrational with each podcast. And Tyler as of late isn’t much better.
How is putting Mario into a tried and true RPG formula original? They did that on SNES. Metroid Prime was ages ago. Wii Sports and Warioware consist entirely of mini-games.
I really don’t understand what you consider creative about any of these examples. And even though the Wii and DS are both excellent pieces of hardware, they were still pretty safe bets financially. I’d call Nintendo shrewd, not creative.
How is system with 2 screens a safe bet? To go from the GBA to a system with 2 screens and 1 touchscreen is pretty daring and creative.
How is a new console with the introduction of motion controls a safe bet?
Both of these pieces of hardware were unprecedented at the time.
What other games were like Warioware and Wii Sports before both of those came out? I’d like to know.
And even if Metroid Prime came out a while ago, it was still a huge gamble. They put Metroid in first-person and it worked. It was like nothing we’d ever seen before.
You must have a very strict idea of creative if you consider any of this to be trite.
Love the podcast guys, but this 3D brightness complaint really is a non issue. I’ve been using Nvidia 3D vision shutter glasses with my PC games for a year now and never had an issue with brightness. First, when I switch my HDTV to 3D mode the brightness automatically gets bumped way up. Second, I’ve never had to but if need be I could manually adjust brightness/contrast/gamma settings in the TV. And Third but most importantly, most if not all games have gamma settings at startup with the shades of grey test. In a demo you are locked into the way they set it but on a consumer level it really is a non issue. You get the TV, set the brightness levels for each input just as you would with any other TV and once it’s set it’s set.
Another misconception about 3D games is image depth and eye strain. Just like the 3DS, nvidia 3D has a depth slider but also you can adjust convergence. Too much stuff popping out, adjust convergence to make it go into the screen. Too much depth making you queezy, dial it back. I play all my games at max depth with very little pop out. But everyone sets it differently, just like with the 3DS.
All that said, Matt is right, shutter glasses have a slim chance in hell to ever go mainstream. But for the few PC gamer graphics whores left, like me, the tech really works, and I am willing to wear some glasses in order to be immersed in the 3D world. Anyone I show it off to is blown away.
PS: Here is possibly something to discuss on the next podcast. When I comes to consoles doing 3D a good comparison is doing split screen. Some games have it some games don’t. The resource demands are about the same, to do split screen you need to render 2 perspectives, player 1 & 2, for 3D you need to render 2 perspectives left eye & right. We have seen games drop split screen in favor of pushing graphics over the past few years but now we are dropping quality to push 3D. Maybe there is a discussion in there somewhere…..
Tyler saying Nintendo hasn’t made a new game in 20 years ignites a fire in my soul. Considering it was them who practically created the template that modern developers strive to replicate in games today, I think Nintendo is still trying new things with varying success. Pikmin says hi, Nintendogs says hi, the Wii is practically a harbinger of new, fresh ideas. Not all of those ideas are well conceived (Wii Music), but you can’t say they ain’t trying.
Plus, I don’t see why reiterating on their legacy titles is so bad. Your surprisingly uncharacteristic knee-jerk comments immediately followed the discussion of the new Kirby game and the new Zelda. Why is it a bad thing to get more games based on good existing concepts that are done in new, interesting ways (ex. Metroid Prime and now Metroid Other M). Shit, man, if we follow your logic, you should have lost your shit everytime a “new” FPS comes out. How much do you really love COD or Battlefield if, by casual observation, they’re the same games Infinity Ward or Dice has ever made?
I don’t get it. That was like anti-Tyler stuff coming out of Tyler’s mouth this week.
Tyler’s “Who is considered creative in the East!?” reaction to the “typical” design of the protagonist in Vanquish was bizarre.
If a generic looking white guy with brown hair is representative of creative failure in the East, then what does this represent, given that only three of the 20 characters pictured come from Japanese games?
http://www.psu.com/forums/showthread.php?t=220569
The person from the Japanese TV show who said “these days Japanese games don’t sell in America” obviously didn’t look at the March NPDs where Japanese games took 6 of the top 10 spots with almost 4 million units sold. Obviously, Japanese games aren’t in the dominant position they were 20 years ago, but acting like they don’t sell in America at all is just ignorant.
Just going by NPD top 10s since the start of 2009 – Street Fighter sold, FFXII sold, Wii Fit Plus sold, Wii Sports Resort sold, New SMB (Wii & DS) sold, Mario Kart never stopped selling, Pokemon sold, Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story sold, Resident Evil 5 sold incredibly well, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days sold, and Dissidia sold well for a PSP game.
Obviously a lot of those are Wii and DS titles, but that’s not surprising when those Japanese manufactured consoles are the clear market leaders in the United States.
Vanquish was my surprise of E3. Too bad nobody on the RebelFM crew thinks of it this way.
But then again, I didn’t play it. Though I can hardly imagine that controls are that big of an issue after playing RE5 without too much problems.
They make it fairly obvious that the Wii isn’t exactly their favorite console, that the 360 is generally perfered over the PS3, including it’s devolpers as well apparently, and that Japanese gaming should, in most part, be shot and retired.
Still, one wonders if it’s possible not to be biased in such areas. I’m fucking guilty. I say Halo Reach can suck Killzone 3′s big, fat cock, but that’s just me. I perfer this podcast to the majority out there, so much so that I’m willing to let the occasional comment that would warrant a “go fuck yourself” response to slip by.
couple of quick questions:
what are Rebel FM’s verdicts on the following:
Mass Effect 2
Sony / PS3 exclusives
Modern Warfare 2
Bad Company 2
Japanese games
Listen to past episodes and you’ll get the answers to all of the questions you have just asked.
sorry, forgot to turn sarcasm lock on
Love the podcast guys, but this 3D brightness complaint really is a non issue. I’ve been using Nvidia 3D vision shutter glasses with my PC games for a year now and never had an issue with brightness. First, when I switch my HDTV to 3D mode the brightness automatically gets bumped way up. Second, I’ve never had to but if need be I could manually adjust brightness/contrast/gamma settings in the TV. And Third but most importantly, most if not all games have gamma settings at startup with the shades of grey test. In a demo you are locked into the way they set it but on a consumer level it really is a non issue. You get the TV, set the brightness levels for each input just as you would with any other TV and once it’s set it’s set.
Another misconception about 3D games is image depth and eye strain. Just like the 3DS, nvidia 3D has a depth slider but also you can adjust convergence. Too much stuff popping out, adjust convergence to make it go into the screen. Too much depth making you queezy, dial it back. I play all my games at max depth with very little pop out. But everyone sets it differently, just like with the 3DS.
All that said, Matt is right, shutter glasses have a slim chance in hell to ever go mainstream. But for the few PC gamer graphics whores left, like me, the tech really works, and I am willing to wear some glasses in order to be immersed in the 3D world. Anyone I show it off to is blown away.
PS: Here is possibly something to discuss on the next podcast. When I comes to consoles doing 3D a good comparison is doing split screen. Some games have it some games don’t. The resource demands are about the same, to do split screen you need to render 2 perspectives, player 1 & 2, for 3D you need to render 2 perspectives left eye & right. We have seen games drop split screen in favor of pushing graphics over the past few years but now we are dropping quality to push 3D. Maybe there is a discussion in there somewhere…..
You guys set me off and I ranted a bit about something you said/did in the podcast. When Anthony brought up Gray Matter and Jane Jensen. Anyways, if you want to hear it (it’s audio), follow the link in my name here, it’s the newest post (Ep 2). It’s the first 9-10 minutes or so.
And yes, I realize it says it’s a “podcast” but it’s more of an audio blog.
By the way, I used the clip from your podcast without permission. Hope you don’t mind. There was no hostile intent or anything.
I just realized that I never played a point and click adventure game… Any recommendations? Myst is good I hear but I want something nice to look at. But not so nice that my pc would crash… I think mine is 3 years old.
The thing about most adventure games is that they likely won’t tax your system too badly, while still looking good. This is due to using pre-rendered backrounds in some games, etc. For instance Syberia, which I recommend to you, is “2.5D” where the characters and certain objects animate in 3D, but the backrounds are static. So, yeah, Syberia is a good one. Another one I’ve heard is very good (but haven’t yet played myself) is Scratches. These games are sort of two different ends of the perspective. Syberia is all about these big beautiful locations with a lot of scenery and sense of place, etc. It’s sort of relaxing in a way. Whereas Scratches is a horror game.
They both look great, thanks man!
Machinarium. It’s not eye candy from a technical perspective, but the art in it is beautiful. It’s one of those games that seems like a labour of love all the way down to the little things like the way the title screen animates. Also, it has an in-game walkthrough if you get stuck. It’s half price ($10) on the Steam sale right now.
Bought it and enjoying it. I think I’ll play this to cool-down on all the shooters. It’s really relaxing and still engaging enough because the puzzles are really good.
Wow, I haven’t been a console fanboy for 5 years, but those old defense mechanisms kicked in while listening to Arthur and Tyler go off on Nintendo.
In honesty, though what was said was a little to the extreme at times, I can’t really defend their games. It may be similar offerings year after year, but that’s what gets my gaming engine going.
I’ve been holding out on buying a current gen console choosing to buy games for my roommate’s consoles. I’ve played Killzone 2, Uncharted, Gears, Halo 3, Infamous, and Heavy Rain in all their HD glory, but I never could commit to purchasing a system. Up until recently I played mainly on my PC. I’ve enjoyed Fallout 3, Oblivion, Bioshock, Modern Warfare 2 in high res goodness. But, it was Nintendo conference that got me to go out and pick up a console that I can call my own.
I’ll admit that it was largely a nostalgia buy, but the genuine fun I’m having with the games legitimizes it for me. I’m truly excited for the games that are coming out for the Wii, something I haven’t been able to say about any console for a long time.
Anyways, guys I love the show. I’ve been listening from day one and will be listening for as long as you guys want to share your perspectives in podcast form.
PS. Get that damned smoke detector fixed.
Really liked the music this week but can’t seem to find the Treading Water mix version of “A Drowning”. Not on iTunes, Amazon, and not part of the single. My guess is it’s somewhere out there on a blog but google has been unable to find this particular version. Helps?
Nevermind. Tweeting to one Arthur Gies has revealed my answer.
For those who have asked (there have been a few), that’s my own remix of “A Drowning.”
I just started listening to the show again for the first time since the first 20 or so episodes. (Three cheers for internet access at work) You guys had me cracking up a lot during this show. And now I feel the need to buy the transformers game. I miss the Civilization stories though.
Hey Tyler and such, if you were big into GI JOES back in the day, you should really check out the recent cartoon mini-series G.I. Joe: Resolute. Its about as bad ass as you could ever expect a show based on ‘action figures’ to be.
I was wondering if you guys had heard about the way in which Epic Yarn was made?
They supposedly scanned in actual yarn and fabric and then wrapped polygons around it. So if you were wondering why it looks so good that’s why.
Anyone else think that Jim Reilly sounds exactly like Richard from LOST?
Excellent episode as always, gentlemen.
What the hell is that beeping in the background of the last couple of episodes (this one especially)? Do you have a smoke alarm that needs a battery replaced in your apartment or something? Sorry for being the crazy internet person who notices your ambient sound shit! Keep up the good work!
Excellent episode, I jumped for joy when you played out with The Mars Volta.
So did Gamespot (6.5/10) and Giant Bomb (3/5), but I doubt Arthur will rip them they way he rips foreign websites when they give games scores that he doesn’t agree with.
“As long as Arthur grants that War for Cybertron is a ‘legitimate’ 6 in the minds of many I think we can hold back on writing to our local congressman.”
Why would he do that if he thinks it’s a 9? No sense in stating an opinion if your so willing to go back on it.
“I only get annoyed when the review seems to think it’s THE definitive measure of a game.”
No reader should think any review is “definitive,” so what would it matter what the reviewer thinks of his own review?
Dam those reviewers actually put opinions in their reviewers.
Hitler? Are you serious? Do you really think comparing Hitler and the Holocaust to just some dude named Arthur and a review he wrote of a Transformers video gamer isn’t a tad over the top? I don’t want to call you an jackass, or someone who’s just not right in the head, but perhaps forgot your meds?
Your “point” is more than a little inane, and has now offically become a waste of time and effort – especially on your behalf.
Have to admit I was half-wrong. Arthur (and Anthony) did indeed rip Gamespot for their review.
Love how every episode Aurthur becomes more and more of a douche. Has this guy ever admitted he was wrong about something? He talks as if he is the one and only center of gaming knowledge. And to say Microsoft had a better E3 than Sony? Wow, I thought he was a a bit of a fanboy before, but fuck, this is getting sad. Anthony and Tyler are awesome though.
Sadly I have to agree. I saw him at PAX East and tried to defend Playstation, even though I own both systems, but apparently I failed. )))
Wouldn’t this podcast be boring if everyone had the same opinion as you?
I want different opinions. But this guy shits on anyone elses opinion besides for his own.
ps. I respect your opinion
Okay so this might be an odd question that has been answered but what happened to game club? I don’t think I’ve heard anything on the regular podcast it just seems to have disappeared. I understand that with everyone actually having jobs they may not have time to play the games but some kind of official “we’re done” statement would have been nice.
To Arthur. I would like to point out that the second Half Life 2 Game Club episode is not appearing in the iTunes feed or the RSS feed.
Wow with each passing ‘cast Robert is becoming more of a badass.
Arthur, you need to investigate uncompressed audio a bit more. You mention 360′s audio capabilities and DTS and such. All that is the past.
Uncompressed audio means 6 or 8 discrete channels of audio. No need to compress it just to squeeze it on a single wire (or optical cable) to send it 6 feet to your amp and decompress it.
360 doesn’t support uncompressed audio (except for 2 channel) so what happens internally is games produce a 6 channel audio (from compressed source data usually) then it is mixed and fed into the real-time Dolby Digital (5.1) encoder (360 doesn’t support DTS for games, only DD) and then sent to the amp. This encoder is lossy since it is squeezing 3.9mbps of audio into about 384-512kbps of stream (Dolby Digital Plus supports 1.5mbps streams, but I don’t think 360 uses it outside of HD-DVDs). This compression is also inferior to a good compression you’d do on material like a DVD because since it is required to be real time and low latency, it can’t spend a lot of time thinking about how to best compress it or “look ahead” at data that is coming (because that would increase latency).
On a PS3 with discrete uncompressed audio output once those channels are created, they are just sent to the amp, no compression. Since there is no compression, there’s no Dolby Digital, no DTS, no nothing. It’s just (PCM) audio.
So if a game has good source material and you have a decent surround system (5.1 is okay, you don’t need 7.1 to get the advantage) with HDMI uncompressed audio, then uncompressed audio can make a difference.
360 doesn’t support uncompressed audio, it can only output the same audio over HDMI that it outputs over the optical audio out, and since optical audio out can’t carry uncompressed audio, that means no uncompressed audio (except 2 channel) on 360.
Tyler has changed
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