Back from our lengthy hiatus with a lengthy rundown of what we've been playing lately. The gang dishes on The Wolf Among Us Episode 5, Watch Dogs, Shovel Knight, Dark Souls, 1001 Spikes, and so much more. Our Watch Dogs analysis will shock and amaze you! (no it actually won't)
Featuring Richard Naik, Chi Kong Lui, Brad Gallaway, and Mike "your enjoyment must be approved by me" Bracken.
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Great to hear the best games podcast back online. The bash E3 GC podcast is legendary. I have no idea why one person missing is a good reason to ignore the rest of GC crew opinions.
That Dark Souls lore conversation bored me to tears. Almost as badly as playing through Watch Dogs. Stealing genres and making them worse to engage from those genres you stole from is a fucked up time waster and patience wreaker.
Sleeve> I haven’t talked about that person because I don’t know about them. I played Dark Souls pre-release, so there were no guides, wikis, or any general knowledge about the game at the time other than what a person found for themselves. I had a pretty unhappy time with the game and never came back to it once I finished it, and I never went to read up on it once I was done and the wikis started popping up. Until you mentioned it, i had no idea such a character was in the game, but i’ll go check it… Read more »
This is the character in question Brad:
http://darksouls.wikidot.com/dark-sun-gwyndolin
Like most of the game, his existence isn’t made apparent unless you know he’s there or if you take a very specific set of actions. He’s actually a pretty significant part of the lore, but like everything else, the game doesn’t bother to tell you about him.
Just to clarify, we *will* be discussing E3 eventually, most likely on the next show, when we can have Ashley and possibly another E3 attendee on. I know it will be late, but we need to do it to fulfill that part of the Game Podcast Contract.
[quote=sleeve]Mike Bracken, for the love of all that is holy, please stop swearing so goddamned much. I’ve said this repeatedly, and I know other people have complained about it as well. It is really distracting. Seriously. Stop it.[/quote] Swearing saved this show. That’s a fact I kid you not. [quote=sleeve]I always enjoy hearing Chi talk about MMA and musou gaming, both subjects about which I know little. Chi, are you excited about the new Zelda musou game that’s coming out for the Wii U?[/quote] Thanks bro, glad my talk of men grappling each other and trying to get the other… Read more »
Tom, I have a love/hate relationship with the E3 show every year. I love that people enjoy listening to us be cranky bastards about the biggest gaming event of the year, but I hate that it always winds up being an outrageously long episode to record. I thought I’d be happy to skip it this year — but I actually wasn’t. I wish we’d done it. The problem with E3 this year was that we had a hard time getting everyone together to record it in a timely fashion. I mean, even if we’d covered it in this show, it… Read more »
Sleeve,
Go fuck yourself.
Love,
Mike Bracken :p
Glad to see the podcast is back. A few comments: Mike Bracken, for the love of all that is holy, please stop swearing so goddamned much. I’ve said this repeatedly, and I know other people have complained about it as well. It is really distracting. Seriously. Stop it. I enjoyed Brad’s discussion of 1001 Spikes and the notion of difficulty in gaming. I agree that there a difference between a fair challenge that comes from a well-designed system based upon solid controls, game physics, and predictable enemy behavior (perfect example: Super Meat Boy) versus “unfair” challenge based on arbitrary rules.… Read more »
Normally I don’t grant my balls the autonomy to write into podcasts but you guys were gone for so long I made an exception.
If the fake Tim ( human Tim ) can’t do hosting duties due to life demands ( and Fake Tim was the best games host out there ), then there no excuse for the newly revealed conscious life form of Real Tim’s balls, to share the hosting duties as a trio with Sinan and Richard.
What say you Tim’s balls ?