Podcast #6

Hello! It’s a podcast. That’s all you need to know.

Oh, other than that you can get it here, or listen through Internet Archive, and it’ll hopefully be on iTunes soon.

And this is what we talk about:

00:00 – Hello!
00:15 – We have hayfever!
00:40 – Red Faction: Guerrilla
00:55 – Christos has two Xboxes. The bast!
02:45 – He’s also been playing Dragonica.
06:00 – Quick Spelunky chat.
07:30 – Simple visuals mean more time crafting the actual game bit? Case study: Runescape vs Fallout 3.
09:20 – Lewis has been playing Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines.
11:00 – The seduction feat in RPGs is underused.
13:18 – Bethesda’s parent company buying iD! Christos makes a fool of himself in public.
14:47 – Mirror’s Edge and Christos’ dealings with EA PR.
17:47 – Er. Technical issues. Probably could have edited this out, but Christos’ response made me chuckle.
18:20 – We’re looking forward to… hmm, what are we looking forward to?
19:05 – Max Payne 3. New art direction is… interesting.
21:00 – Rockstar are awesome. Er, except Manhunt.
23:22 – The Ballad of Gay Tony. A courageous name…
24:30 – Barry’s article about good things in bad games. Let’s talk about that.  Also, the importance of well-crafted environments in Pathologic, Saboteur and SSX3.
36:00 – Questions from Twitter, Facebook and Steam.
36:25 – “Goldeneye was the greatest game ever made”?
40:45 – Lewis’ girlfriend asks us to talk about how great she is. We don’t.
40:57 – “Have you discussed any of the big deals at E3? All the big three going motion-controlled on our asses.”
45:05 – Nadal’s Milo appealing to paedophiles? Hmm… How interactive would we want Milo to be?
47:48 – “Talk about the awesomeness that is Virtual Families.” Neither of us have played it, or know much about it. Sorry.
48:25 – “How much impact do you think the PSPGo, a download-only portable console, will have on the industry?” An interesting one.
55:00 – Segueing neatly into the inaccessibility of certain PC games. Make them work on our computers, for goodness’ sake!
01:01:15 – Oh, that’ll do.