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Failcast Episode 26: Screw Lists, Cataract
FAILCAST | 5:44 PM on 02.06.2009 10 comments




Welcome to another episode of Failcast! We hope you will be amused by our antics as usual, but if not, there are tons of other video game podcasts out there for you to choose from. None of them, however, cover the Dtoid community quite like we do. This week's guest is none other than Cataract, who joins Yashoki, Charlie, and Necros to talk about the 10 things you might not know about Mexicans. King3vbo is MIA somewhere, so make the necessary jokes and insinuations that you know you're thinking of.

Outline of Fail:
04:50 - Yasholie!
12:40 - I swear, Necros isn't that much of a geek
16:35 - Community questions
20:55 - Buzzwords FTL
27:00 - The lack of new, iconic music
29:55 - The proliferation of "10 things" blogs - like Cataract's!
38:20 - Freefall makes us dream of visiting video game places
45:25 - Brilliam comes up with a better way to review
56:20 - New segment: "Pimp My Blog" or something
57:10 - The Completed Games List for 2009
59:40 - TaumpyTears spearheads the BioToid thing

Music Credits:
OP: Powerglove - Power Rangers
FFXII OST
ED: Revolucian - BaleOut


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Guagloves's Destructoid Blog
People hate blog spam/trends?! Who knew!
Spartacus's Destructoid Blog
A list of screws sounds intriguing indeed! Downloading now.
AgentMOO's Destructoid Blog
lol haloes... You skipped the part where I was ineptly tk'ing you guys with my grenades
Cataract's Destructoid Blog
>_>
KamikazeTutor's Destructoid Blog
Fuck Failcast, Cataract killed it.
Cataract's Destructoid Blog
Also, Google Docs, GOTY 2009
king3vbo's Destructoid Blog
I second Cataract on that. Google Docs = GOTY
Brilliam's Destructoid Blog
Hey awesome, I loved hearing the conversation about the review method :)

To clarify though, I do care about graphics and sound and gameplay, but the point of my system is that it's less about "whether the graphics are good" and more about "how do the graphics make the game good?"

If a game has shitty graphics, and the game suffers for it, then perhaps ADD would suffer (because it's less constantly enthralling) or escapism (because it's harder to get lost in its world). If a game has amazing graphics, likewise, it might contribute heavily to those categories, or it might not matter a damn.

And for the record, N+ would score pretty well in OCD because its gameplay is so precise that you, if you give it a chance, becomes incredibly rewarding, skill-wise. Something with a bad OCD score would jsut be something that's not very technically enthralling; a lot of jRPGs are liek tihs for me because their combat systems are same-y and boring and take up altogether too much time.
Brilliam's Destructoid Blog
oh, and histrionics would almost definitely rank Guitar Hero 3 low, because, exactly, who cares? Although, Gear of War 2 would be pretty high because the ultimate question is, "should you play this game?" and people should play Gears of War 2 for no reason other thna that a lot of people talk about it and you'll be left out of those conversations otherwise! (hence why it's contreversial).

I wrote a "defense" of histrionics here:

http://brilli.am/writes/2009/02/06/in-defense-of-histrionics-and-65/
Necros's Destructoid Blog
Thanks for listening and getting back to us, Brilliam! I'd love to have more of these conversations going on after a show goes up, since we sometimes are a little off from the exact point a blogger is trying to make.


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Failcast is a community-focused podcast featuring Destructoid's regular users. It is recorded every Tuesday night and (usually) is released on Thursday. Every ten episodes, Failcast features a Destructoid editor.

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