This week, on the Midwest Nerds Podcast…
Joel’s back, and in the first half of the show, he shares some scandalous opinions about Burnsie’s favorite game franchise. Words are exchanged, families are threatened, and pets are taken hostage. This then leads to a discussion about Kat Bailey’s Joystiq article on the nature of JRPG’s, and do they REALLY need a good story?
Also featured this week:
-Mass Effect 3 game copies, IN SPACE
-Notch (The developer of Minecraft) asks the Internet to chill out a bit
-Is Xbox Live DOOMED without indie developers?
-Is Resident Evil still Resident Evil?
Plus Steve’s Zombie Tip of the Week. Straight from the interweb tubes to your braindome, it’s the Midwest Nerds Podcast.
Owlsey – Undone is the break song
I missed when the show was recorded, but maybe you could take a look at the below article next week. It seems EA/Bioware is releasing day-one DLC, complete with a core character and mission. \From Ashes will not be provided to all paying customers; accessing this day-1 content will require separate purchase for $10 or acquisition of the Collector’s or Digital Deluxe Edition.\
http://www.pcworld.com/article/250546/controversial_day1_mass_effect_3_dlc_prompts_calls_to_boycott.html
Spoilers.
Ack, just missed getting this one on show #94, but we might be able to get to this for show #95.
Plus, I’m terrified of Mass Effect 3 spoilers
I’m going to have agree with Jason about the replay of ME2. It’s still a good game. I was an adept my first play through, and now I’m currently replaying it as a Vanguard. I also bumped the difficulty up for my second play through. I just finished a 50 hour play through of Skyrim, so to me the combat in ME2 is AMAZING compared to the shit, boring combat of Skyrim. I don’t think your second play through invalidates your past opinion on game of the year. I think we’d be asking for too much for every good game to stay a good game as it ages – lets just judge it on its initial merit.
I think difficulty/challenge is key to perception of a game.
This didn’t make it into the show, but Joel did let slip that he thought he was playing it at too low of a difficulty this time through.
Hey,
I ams Scott. I’ve been listening forever, I know Joel, working with him, with your previous sponsor, BeefJack. But I haven’t commented before, because I suck…
I was listening to the episode where you talked about Mr. Dietz and his Mass Effect fuck up. I thought you guys would be interested to know that this guy also wrote the novelization of Halo 1, Halo: The Flood, as well as around 10 other game books(Hitman, Resistance, some Star Wars stuff). So there is some precedent for him to be writing this kind of thing, and surprisingly little precedent for him to be fucking it up.
I know some of you had read the Halo books, so I thought you’d be interested. Keep up the awesome podcasting.