The crew talks about the games we've been playing and share what we anticipate most out of CAPtivate 2010.
Jason R leads off with a discussion of two games he's played recently, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith and The Beatles: RockBand, and leads into a discussion about the differences between the two franchises.
Jason H then takes over and shares a bit about his opinion of Batman: Arkham Asylum, and later, the StarCraft 2 beta.
Chessa jumps in and brings her newly discovered opinions of stealth-based games with Splinter Cell: Conviction, and Penny-Arcade earns a shout-out for all the shout-outs.
Nick brings everything together with a discussion about Final Fantasy XIII's faults and merits, and with it came another reference to Penny-Arcade. He concludes the first segment with a discussion of Just Cause 2 as well as its mystery zeppelin.
Part two of the podcast begins with a discussion of CAPtivate and ends with a little bit of Urban Dictionary, so watch out!
Edited by Jason Ross
Music by Andy McKee
Podcasters seemed more chipper this time, makes for better discussion IMO.
I had the same experience with Nightfire on Gamecube. It had the same broken-record-baddies (who even cut each other off like you described), and in Chinese no less... I felt like more like a Vietnam POW than James Bond. Any functioning human being who playtested it should have caught that.
I think we're always a bit chipper to talk about the little things that annoy us with various games. That could very well be why.
We would've been extra chipper had we had listener mail!