Ep 384 – THQ Nordic showed off a bunch of games they’re working on, including a sick TMNT adaptation, Call of Duty is giving players options, and Microsoft is shutting down the storefront for the Xbox 360.
0:00 – Opening
2:04 – Corrections
6:01 – THQ Nordic Showcase
31:15 – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
40:42 – A Word From Our Sponsors
42:35 – Xbox 360 Store Closing
52:17 – Xbox: 8 Strikes and You’re Out!
1:02:57 – Also This Week
1:08:49 – L&R: “It’s Just a Movie”
1:24:38 – L&R: Role-playing habits
1:28:22 – L&R: The Next 3D Mario
1:32:14 – L&R Game: Um, Actually
1:46:22 – Time for Bets
1:52:06 – Closing
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Correction: Brad was referencing Minecraft Dungeons not Legends when comparing it to the new South Park co-op game. Idk how to make a time link thing but its at 12:08 in the vid.
Accept when your wrong with grace, the reaching is insane! c'mon a tesla ball?..lol isla and the "i said that though" every episode makes me wonder if the corrections are worth having. gonna start skipping them personally.
"what a diverse group of friends" walks in three white people and one black person. 🧐
id play mw3 if it werent $70 lol. maybe $30, but no more than that.
Correction (or, Um Akshually):
1:37:57 Paldea is not just based on Spain; it also has several architectural references to real Portuguese places.
hope they enforce the guidelines better than they have, reading some of the racist reviews on gamepass riddled with slurs and the mass amount of messages i get from people trying to buy my gamertag with real money make it clear the whole reporting system is useless. when it comes to the messages i can only report for voice chat interaction not text.. reported a review on atomic heart full of racist slurs that has been up for months, still up.
blame voice chat being fugged on the kinect mic and the ps5 controller having a mic built in. whoever decided to make those things killed game chats. even the mic that came with the 360 was tolerable cuz it didnt pick up every little noise going on around you.
Worst L&R game of ALL F$#@ TIME!!!!!
Correction: at 1:37:55, it is said that the Paldea region from Pokemon is based on Spain. It is actually based on the Iberian Peninsula, comprised of both Portugal and Spain
How have you guys still not delivered on all the EZX goals lol
On the map editing topic: Fun fact the Mega Man Maker fan game has coop map editing, which is funny because the game itself does not have multiplayer, haha
I really like the "Um, Actually" game idea, but I think the blurbs were way too difficult and specific, especially when put on the spot on a podcast. I'd suggest next time doing EZA specific favorites (Pokemon isn't that big with them, I would say) and maybe have multiple mistakes for them to try to latch onto one of them. It doesn't need to be that hard if the goal is just to answer first, because a lot of times they will freeze up under pressure.
THQ Barcelona put a playable teaser for the Gothic Remake a few years ago on steam, it was free for anyone who owned any Gothic games in the series
34:15 Clarification if you're interested – "No Russian" is an instruction to avoid speaking Russian – the attack is carried out by Russians but is an attempt to frame the US; the perpetrators speak to each other in English to this end.
49:35 Correction: It's easy to forget but the original Xbox 360 only supported component, composite and VGA cables. HDMI support wasn't added until the "Elite" and later the "Slim" revisions of the console.
1:43:43 CORRECTION (about Okami's Cat God)
Um… actually 😛 the Cat DOES exist in the Chinese Zodiac according to the legend "The Great Race": The Jade Emperor decreed that the calendar years would named after the first 12 animals that would cross a river. The Cat and the Rat struck a deal to hop on the Ox's back, since they weren't good at swimming. However near the other side of the river, the Rat double-crossed the Cat, pushed it off the Ox and the Cat got washed away, making the Rat and Ox the first 2 animals to reach the Emperor. This is why in Okami, Kabegami is found at the top of a tower, meowing loudly, as if it was stranded. On a sidenote, this is similar to how in our own zodiac, the Ophidius (a snake) was a lost 13th sign.
HOWEVER, in Okamiden (the often forgotten actual sequel to Okami on Nintendo DS), there ARE two new Celestial Brush Gods based on non-Zodiac animals:
– Michigami, the Penguin God of Guidance, which allows Chibiterasu to guide his human friends.
– Kyokugami, the Whale God of Magnetism, which grants Chbiterasu the ability to magnetize objects and inverse their polarities.
For a second there at the start I thought Isla had gotten one of those neck tattoos 😄 but it was just the microphone mount
Correction @ 1:07:25
Whenever the conversation is about the Saudi investment into gaming is brought up, it's about how controversial it is. A point of discussion for the region is how Saudi is actually diversifying it's industries beyond oil and Gaming is one of those industries that the Youth of Saudi and the region are interested in and been part of their lifes but had no way in terms of (Studying, Career) to pursue.
Investments in eSports main focus is to attract the companies into the region, but are not monetary only in nature, as the country is also funding local players to pursue their passion into eSports, Game development and Game journalism as part of this vision. Similar thing with Racing – Golf and other sports.
Just gotta say that I absolutely loved Brad's hoodie this week!
I used my Xbox 360 to view old TV-shows via Plex on my CRT TV for a long time because it has great RGB-SCART output and nothing modern can even do that without spending crazy money and time on setting up video scalers and custom resolutions and VGA-SCART sync converters…
When people complain about "this is just a movie" is probably that they want some agency in the story
Just upped my support from $1 to $5. Don’t really care about getting the episode early or have a ton of time to engage with the other bonuses. Just want to see you guys succeed. L&R
As somebody who's not a native english speaker and doesn't live in an english speaking country, the use of "they" nowadays as both singular and plural is confusing af.
Don't mean to offend anybody, as my problem is that I get the stories twisted thinking the talk is about a number of people when its just one person. How do native speakers know when is which (singular/plural)???
Thoroughly enjoyed this weeks episode. Keep up the great work everyone!!!
1:07:27 Saudi Arabia money all over video games isn't too surprising considering is MbS is apparently a big gamer. Dude already owns like over 95% of SNK if I recall :/
A big difference between a movie and a video game is that the former has 0% interactivity. If a creator wants to make a narrative with even 5% interactivity, they need to make a video game. Whether it is paced well is a different box of worms. But even though 95% of button presses in Phoenix Wright is advancing text, I wouldn't want an alternative universe where that franchise was an anime and not a game series. That the player is responsible for selecting the right evidence and scouting for clues is part of the engagement factor.
Um, actually is the perfect game for Isla because she always has to be right
Dialogue being cut off by something else is THE WORST!
And speaking of bad Audio Logs. Watch Dogs Legion had audio logs that were "podcasts" but you couldn't listen to them in the background while you do something else… you know like a real podcast! 😅
In regards to the first L&R question, I'd say there's an equal if not larger amount of people who consider only the audio-visual and narrative aspects as "art" of games. While completely disregarding what sets this medium apart – the interactive elements.
Also imo, the "should've been a movie" criticism mostly stems from overexposure to the Sony-styled narrative design and not the stories told themselves.