In this conversation from Destructoid's virtual office, I'm accompanied by Dale North, Jordan Devore and the charming Jonathan Holmes. We discuss how Nintendo is going to patch The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and how Hollywood is scraping the gaming barrel for ideas.
Also, Holmes gives us the skinny on the new Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 "Heroes & Heralds" DLC and we demonstrate that we are clearly not technological wizards.
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Hollywood has been scraping The bottom of the barrel for years. Remakes, sequels, remakes of sequels, sequels of remakes, reboots of series of sequels of remakes. Movie adaptations of crappy cartoons, comics and videogames. It's fuckin rediculous.
Also, The smurfs.
People hate the Heroes and Heralds mode? I think you are confusing this with the Gem system in SFxTekken. Most folks in the community are really looking forward to the craziness that Heroes and Heralds will bring.
@Frogboss: Nope. The fighting game community™ is made up of some of the most immature/racist/homophobic/childish/generally-douchey people on the internet and will also complain about everything. See Dtoid's own forums for proof.
@Rammstein Yeah I know they complain about everything but I have seen far more positive posts over how much fun H&H is going to be over the usual posts from people that hate everything no matter what.
Awesome episode as usual, guys. This is a great little series you've got going on here.
And Frogboss is right, I think Holmes has some wires crossed. Heroes & Heralds is a free downloadable mode that pretty much everyone who has the game is looking forward to. The Gem system in Street Fighter X Tekken is what people are actually annoyed at (coupled with the Pandora thing as well.)
With the Gems, they take a long time to actually set up into a proper loadout, it has to be done on a separate screen to the character select screen which wastes more time, and I think the biggest issue is that Capcom will be selling additional Gems as DLC down the road. And because they'll likely be far superior to the ones packaged with the actual game, it'll create an imbalance if not everyone buys the DLC.
Yeah, it's optional - obviously you don't have to buy the new Gems if you choose not to - but I think it's the fact that Capcom announced months ago they'd selling them in the first place is what has people's backs up.
Most Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3 players are probably too busy complaining about Wesker and Zero anyway.
Oh, an addendum: The one legitimate complaint about Heroes & Heralds is that, for some bizarre reason, Capcom has decided to not let it be playable in offline versus mode. That's just silly, and that IS something people are complaining about.
That and the fact that replay mode is being touted as a Vita exclusive. Ok so maybe they are complaining about a few things. What can you do.
Office Chat is the tits. Tell Jim to make new The Video Game Show What I Made (or whatever) episodes and bring back YTMND Tuesday! I miss those things oh so much.
@ tomothy25 & Frogboss- It was silly of me to say anything "the fighting game community", because like any large group, there are many different opinions within the group.
What I was talking about with H&H is the many, many people I've talked to about the mode who are bitter than Capcom bothered to spend additional time and resources on "a mode for noobs and scrubs" when they could have made UMvC3 a few dollars cheaper, or used that money to include more characters in the main game (Mega Man and Gene are the two that immedietley come to mind), etc.
In some extreme cases, I've heard people say that they are made that Heroes and Heralds exists because Capcom could have used that money to finish Mega Man Legends 3. I'm not sure that was from someone in the "fighting game community" though.
It's hard to tell sometimes where the fighting game community ends, and where the diehard Capcom fan begins sometimes. Either way, it's inarguable that there is a huge split in both communities right now, with some people still very angry at Capcom for some of their recent decisions, and others trying to look on the bright side. I'm figuring that will be the way of things for a while.
You can tell Holmes has television experience simply from the fact that he's the only member of this show who looks directly into his camera. The others all have their gazes fixed on their monitors.
I realized this because of how penetrating I found Holmes' gaze as he maintained eye contact with me throughout this show.
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I do enjoy these very much.
Also, I love Office Chat.
Also, The smurfs.
And Frogboss is right, I think Holmes has some wires crossed. Heroes & Heralds is a free downloadable mode that pretty much everyone who has the game is looking forward to. The Gem system in Street Fighter X Tekken is what people are actually annoyed at (coupled with the Pandora thing as well.)
With the Gems, they take a long time to actually set up into a proper loadout, it has to be done on a separate screen to the character select screen which wastes more time, and I think the biggest issue is that Capcom will be selling additional Gems as DLC down the road. And because they'll likely be far superior to the ones packaged with the actual game, it'll create an imbalance if not everyone buys the DLC.
Yeah, it's optional - obviously you don't have to buy the new Gems if you choose not to - but I think it's the fact that Capcom announced months ago they'd selling them in the first place is what has people's backs up.
Most Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3 players are probably too busy complaining about Wesker and Zero anyway.
That and the fact that replay mode is being touted as a Vita exclusive. Ok so maybe they are complaining about a few things. What can you do.
What I was talking about with H&H is the many, many people I've talked to about the mode who are bitter than Capcom bothered to spend additional time and resources on "a mode for noobs and scrubs" when they could have made UMvC3 a few dollars cheaper, or used that money to include more characters in the main game (Mega Man and Gene are the two that immedietley come to mind), etc.
In some extreme cases, I've heard people say that they are made that Heroes and Heralds exists because Capcom could have used that money to finish Mega Man Legends 3. I'm not sure that was from someone in the "fighting game community" though.
It's hard to tell sometimes where the fighting game community ends, and where the diehard Capcom fan begins sometimes. Either way, it's inarguable that there is a huge split in both communities right now, with some people still very angry at Capcom for some of their recent decisions, and others trying to look on the bright side. I'm figuring that will be the way of things for a while.
I wish all podtoid was with video
I realized this because of how penetrating I found Holmes' gaze as he maintained eye contact with me throughout this show.