RPGCast - Episode 203: "Arrow In The Knee"

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RPGCast - Episode 203: "Arrow In The Knee"

Is anyone going to pay for Final Fantasy XIV? Will the Last Story ever come out in the US? Will Final Fantasy Tactics ever come out for iPad? Will Mikel ever find his Skyrim version number?

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[Firemyst]

Oh come on! I even found it before the show was over.

[MasterChief]

OK, I gotta bring you guys to task again on Call of Duty.

While not as good narratively as Black Ops, the Modern Warfare series has quite the thrilling set of events, and they culminate it in the gassing of many European cities and the destruction of the Eiffel Tower. As to the length, while it's not Skyrim, it's only going to be 4 hours if you're playing on Regular (normal). The game is best played at Hardened, where it's more in the 6-8 range. Good rule of thumb for this generation of shooters, created by Halo and Gears of War and followed by everyone else - "Normal" is the new "easy."

And Anna... I have to ask why you think it's only the 360's online players that are full of crap. The following videos are from the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 and the PS3 version of Black Ops respectively. It should go without saying that they are not safe for human consumption, much less work.




Perhaps, Anna, you should take a moment to educate yourself and not let biases toward one system's fanbase or the other stain your views. You're far smarter than that.

[Quin]

Personally, I just hate "modern war" themed FPS games, I'd prefer to see more FPS titles like Half-Life or Bioshock than endless World War Three variants.

Heck, I'd take a Marathon remake at this point.

[Paws]

Whoa, down boy, no need to jump up on your XBox and defend it so lovingly, though it is sweet to see. It's a stereotype, I was making fun of it, I'm perfectly aware of the number of garbage players across all forms of play.

[hoktomaster]

Man i lol'd so hard
So is it the guy talking recording or a guy recording the other people?
and are knife one hit kills or something?

[MasterChief]

Personally, I just hate "modern war" themed FPS games, I'd prefer to see more FPS titles like Half-Life or Bioshock than endless World War Three variants.

Heck, I'd take a Marathon remake at this point.

Well, not liking the setting and/or theme is all well and good (I personally prefer sci-fi shooters in the vein of Halo or the original Red Faction). My issue is with people who look at modern war FPS games, and Call of Duty in particular, as the end times of the gaming industry or exclusively the pastime of idiots. It's just a game, and seeing RPGamers rag on it is especially disheartening as we often complain about RPGs being maligned by other genres' fans.

Whoa, down boy, no need to jump up on your XBox and defend it so lovingly, though it is sweet to see. It's a stereotype, I was making fun of it, I'm perfectly aware of the number of garbage players across all forms of play.

Well, I dunno about jumping on my 360. I'm 300 pounds, so that probably won't end well for either it or me. And yeah, I'm aware of the stereotype, but the implication "if you play on the 360..." is a suggestion that other platforms are safe, which as you say isn't the case.

Maybe I'm just expecting more from a normally thoughtful community.

I will say, though, that your impersonation of a raging tryhard was hilarious.

And to show you that I'm not really trying to defend the XBL community, here's an 360 Black Ops videos. Same warnings apply.

[Paws]

I will say, though, that your impersonation of a raging tryhard was hilarious.

And to show you that I'm not really trying to defend the XBL community, here's an 360 Black Ops videos.

Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the chicken!

I can't decide which of those videos is the most epic...they've all got their winning points.

[MasterChief]

Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the chicken!

I can't decide which of those videos is the most epic...they've all got their winning points.

Oh it gets better, Paws. Check this kid who's obviously way too young to be playing anything online.



It amazes me sometimes just how seriously people take video games.

Anyway, I also have to contend with the the idea that the next consoles are the last to have a disc drive. While certainly there are some who would connect if that was the only way to play video games, I imagine many more would simply find something else to do. Then there's the issue of investment. At $50-$60 and up, people are going to want to have something that can't just be taken away on a whim. Hell, look at Steam: How many people only buy games there when Valve has one of their crazy ridiculous sales? I see the two methods of distribution co-existing in peace for a good, long while, much like movies. This is, of course, assuming the size of games doesn't increase. I'd love to see people reacting to a 2-BD release...

Seriously though, I get that Chris and several others who are privileged enough to have the absolute top-tier of internet service feel oppressed by the existence of ways to get things offline, but discs aren't going away any time soon.

[Drav]

I listened to this whole episodes and don't remember CoD being mentioned.

I had a discussion with some guy at work about Call of Duty the other day and he hadn't heard of Deus Ex. Prejudice vindicated.

[flamethrower]

Swords are better than guns. That is all.

[Quin]

Swords are better than guns. That is all.

Makes a compelling counter arguement.

[Firemyst]

Personally, I just hate "modern war" themed FPS games, I'd prefer to see more FPS titles like Half-Life or Bioshock than endless World War Three variants.

Heck, I'd take a Marathon remake at this point.

Wasn't that the point of Halo in the first place? Another sci-fi shooter from Bungie? Besides, Marathon was good.. I dunno about the rest of the series.

[Cavalier]

Michael is right about the Skyrim version number. It used to be in the bottom left corner, but now there's just a Bethesda logo there.

[Rya.Reisender]

Important question: Is it "in the knee" or "to the knee"?

[bain_nick]

I thought they were making the ZOE HD remake of 1 and 2 so to lead IN to ZOE 3? Oh my mistake, Kojima still intends to make it.

[MasterChief]

Man i lol'd so hard
So is it the guy talking recording or a guy recording the other people?
and are knife one hit kills or something?

Melee is one-hit kill, yeah. And the guy recording isn't the one raging in any of these cases. It's just a dude playing and recording the reactions he gets.

Important question: Is it "in the knee" or "to the knee"?

Definitely "in the knee." That's how the guards say it.

[KisakiProject]

This episode was particularly painful to listen to. Directionless as always... but the stinger at the end almost made up for it. I'd take you guys arguing about sci-fi over awkward pauses and google searches....

In terms of The Last Story I'm hoping if Xenoblade does okay and TLS does well in Europe like Xenoblade we'll see it over the summer before Wii U's fall release.

[risingsun]

This episode was particularly painful to listen to. Directionless as always... but the stinger at the end almost made up for it. I'd take you guys arguing about sci-fi over awkward pauses and google searches....

Fact checking kills podcasts. Half the fun of listening to a podcast is sending angry letters to the hosts about which particular details they got wrong.

[Firemyst]

This episode was particularly painful to listen to. Directionless as always... but the stinger at the end almost made up for it. I'd take you guys arguing about sci-fi over awkward pauses and google searches....

In terms of The Last Story I'm hoping if Xenoblade does okay and TLS does well in Europe like Xenoblade we'll see it over the summer before Wii U's fall release.

I think wandering off on tangents isn't a bad thing, but we seem to do it, then realize we've done it, and cut it short. It's almost like we should accept the tangent, or breeze through the news and then come up with something we thought of that we wanted to tangent off with.

As for awkward google searches, yeah. That's why I try and wiki while Chris talks, because the host pausing to search for something after someone said "I dunno" just invites dead air with open arms.