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[PlayerOneCJ]

This week! We talk about the following game tapes: Super Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 7, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Infinity Blade 2, Voltron: Defender of the Universe and House of the Dead Overkill Extended Cut. Plus! GamePro closing down, Vita PSN accounts and memory pricing, and Xenoblade Chronicles being released in North America.

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[levitynyc]

Weird that Sewart had online issues with MK7. No issues here and its been great. Im very surprised.

Please Phil say that you got Skyrim on 360 rather than PS3.

Edited by levitynyc, 04 December 2011 - 11:45 PM.

[PlayerOnePhil]

Weird that Sewart had online issues with MK7. No issues here and its been great. Im very surprised.

Please Phil say that you got Skyrim on 360 rather than PS3.

I only played one race in MK7, and I was able to connect the first time with no dropping. Sounds like a Canada problem.

And of course we got the 360 version.

[Owozifa]

Funnily enough that Voltron game was made by one of Phil's favorite game companies, Behavior Interactive. Formerly A2M. Sounds like they're still living up to that.

[dfj]

Any chance of getting a video podcast version of Generation 16 instead of just YouTube?

[RobTurboGA]

I heard mik make an offhand comment about the humor in Saints Row not doing it for him. While a lot of it is pretty dumb, and not even funny in a winking "Hey, look how dumb we are!" kinda way, there are some clever aspects to the story missions in the game. Especially with some of the Decker missions towards the end.

Don't give up if you just started! Stick to the main story missions and just keep going. It starts a bit slow and is heavy on the "ho" humor, but there's some good stuff there and some fun crazy combat, too.

[PlayerOneStewy]

Any chance of getting a video podcast version of Generation 16 instead of just YouTube?

I haven't really explored that at all. I'm just assuming it would cost me to host the episodes somewhere, and I don't really want to spend any money on that sort of thing.

[Planet_JASE]

Another enjoyable episode.

I was damned surprised to hear a Tim Minchin reference in the podcast band agree that it's an excellent Christmas song. Not being religious, it reflects some of my views about what Christmas has become and that it's more about spending some quality time with family and enjoying the time you have with them. And for one day a year we try not to annoy and antagonise each other and expend effort to get along and have a lovely day. We always say that "it's for Mum" when in reality I think we quite like each other, deep down at least.

Apart from that I can't believe how quickly this year has evaporated, how many games I've played but how many I've missed. I'm still trying to get through the games that came out during the first half of the year and the last 2 months has dumped 6 or so titles that I'd really like to get to. Most of these I haven't even purchased as I can't justify it, so I've put them on lists for my birthday and Christmas. This not only saves me valuable money but also insures that I don't buy any more games this year.

I was hoping to that the Rayman Origins talk would continue this week, having started the game yesterday. I agree that the game starts off easy but I really don't care. In the old days we would talk about a video game looking like a cartoon but this surpasses any cartoon. It's a shame that not many people seem to be giving it much attention.

[mrkgoo]

Still listening to the episode.

Glad to hear CJ getting more into Skyward Sword.

I think people have to realise that this version of Zelda is quite different in design compared to previous ones. This has been designed to be COMPLETELY about mini quests before every dungeon.

CJ's right - it's like a dungeon before a dungeon. I mean, really, it's all just tasks and gameplay challenges, more along the lines of 3D mario games, like "to get a star, collect the 8 red coins". I think it's a mindset.
If you take it that way, you'll have fun. If you look at it from the perspective that gameplay tasks are 'hindering' your progress, then you'll hate it.

I for one love that the Zelda formula is mixed up a bit. Will I like this style forever? Perhaps not, but I like that it's something different. I do like the overworld and exploration (find the dungeon) style of previous Zeldas, but this make your way via tasks to the next is refreshing.

In a way, I see it as a more modern style Zelda. People's attention spans are a lot shorter these days in regards to gaming. Less time to dedicate to epics, less time to sit down for long sessions.... in this fashion, Skyward Sword is very suitable, since the entire game is broken up into constant tasks one after the other, pretty much continuously even BETWEEN dungeons. YOu can play the next challenge for 20-30 minutes, stop, and pick it up later right onto the next challenge. There's no real urgency to "find" the next dungeon in case you forget what you were doing.

So yeah, Phil, you may hate it. It's essentially 'fetch' quests, but how mindless and inessential you think these are is up to your interpretation. I guess the one complaint that I would level at it, is that it does make you do them all. It's like playing Mario 64 and not allowing you to progress unless you did all of the stars or something. That said, the tasks are never difficult.

[gamer812]

I heard mik make an offhand comment about the humor in Saints Row not doing it for him. While a lot of it is pretty dumb, and not even funny in a winking "Hey, look how dumb we are!" kinda way, there are some clever aspects to the story missions in the game. Especially with some of the Decker missions towards the end.

I agree. Even the characters in Saints Row comment on how ridiculous certain situations are. It's not funny as in "haha" funny as it is just a fun, crazy game. The last missions, presentation-wise, do more than any GTA mission has ever done. I actually had a grin on my face playing those missions. Maybe Mike is too old.

I kid.

What is funny is every time I hear that Christmas song, I instantly remind myself of the PlayerOne cover. There is no way I'll be able to get it out of my head especially CJ's mistake.

[Ondore]

Greg, you'll probably have to go to Nintendo or m... Chips 'n Bits for Xenoblade. As far as Gamestop and EB Games are concerned, it doesn't exist yet.

[TheKurichan]

I also picked up Zen pinball on iPad, it plays well. Also picked it up on 3DS, looks pretty cool in 3D (if a little too small).

[Kirbutashi]

I've got chat logs from April where we started on the intro, Greg. What I don't see is me saying to do Nintendo instead of Sega. Just making fun of Sega.

[PlayerOneStewy]

Obviously those chat logs have been tampered with.

[Modandrocker]

Just a quick thing: Xbox 360 version of Outland is currently only 400 allards: http://marketplace.x...15-d80258410a05. Played up to the first boss and it's quite a lot of fun - the mormon was right.

[mik]

Oh, it gets SO much better.

[MojoBox]

So, I'm wondering about Saints Row. I've always found the humor and "satire" in the GTA series to be sophomoric and groan inducing (LOL Grup Sechs! Speedophile 2000! Dick jokes!). I can't help but wonder if Saints Row will be equally bad, or if by going way, way too far with it will it somehow loop around to being funny again. Or maybe the fact that the humor isn't playing against the otherwise serious tone of the game, does it come off better? Anyone have any thoughts on this?

[levitynyc]

Saints Row is completely over the top and it doesn't apologize for it.