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
Can you dig it?
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.
I wrote a "defense" of histrionics here:
http://brilli.am/writes/2009/02/06/in-defense-of-histrionics-and-65/