Do you think EA and the other game publishers actually learned from the supposed low sales of Mirror's Edge in the holiday crunch or will the publishers still have at least one AAA title released each week of October and November this coming holiday season?

Do you think they constantly adapt this release schedule because they believe their game is truely the best or do they do it in a proverbial "I have the biggest dick" contest in terms of sales?

Anthony, looking 10 years back to Goldeneye on the N64, video game graphics come leaps and bounds from plain colored polygons to textured and mapped models we see today. Do you foresee gaming graphics becoming similarly better over the next ten years, or will technology like Nvidia's 3d graphics setup become the next area of expansion?

I don't know if you're going to talk about this anyway, but what is your take on (this month's MM) "Expanded Universes"?

I think they're silly, but there's no reason not to have a bit of fun with them. Jim's fanfictions are particularly noteworthy, I feel.

Your stalker is kinda cute. Would you mind if I got a tan, grew a scruffy beard, and became bitter and verbally abusive in the hopes she'd take interest in me?

Also, if Chad's dream is to swim with dolphins (which he accomplished), what is your animal based obsession?

He blinded me with SCIENCE! That guys got a jungle in his eye brows. As for adapting another medium into a videogame, it really has to do with what the story is about. If you try to adapt Forest Gump into a videogame, chances are it will probably be boring, mostly because of no action or adeventure. However considering that there are some non-violent games with a good story and good gameplay you could probably adapt a non-actiony movie or book like Cast Away and still make a good game. Also another question to be asked, "is the video game canonical or stays faithful to the movie or book?" Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay was actually a pretty good game. However, there were some bits of the story from the game that contradicted the movie. Also even though the Chronicles of Riddick game had the same characters and in the same setting, the story was totally different. A challenge to the upcoming Dante's Inferno video game is the book's lack of action packed adventure. The book is just a political commentary about life and society using Hell as an allegory. The deveopers of the game however have used artistic license to the max by making it an action game. Now, the game could be a great action game, but it might dissapoint fans of the book. What they could do is make it an action game WHILE making a political statement as the story progresses to keep it sort of faithful to the book's ideals. Anyways that's all the questions that I can think of.

I ask this yet again ... Your getting married for god knows why, what video game character would you want to be your best man and why? Also Snake and Gordon are out of town that day.

Left 4 head is a porno based on the popular game left 4 dead, my question to you is though what games would you like to see turned into porn and what would thier porn names be?

PS Womb Raider and Bonerquest the live action movie are not allowed as they have already been made/are in development?

I have been playing Halo wars(thank you blockbuster) and My question is that do you think Cross medium (i dont konw the term)continue. I mean Halo was a FPS and HW is a RTs, any other franchise would take on a different medium?

I can only assume that Gears would be a logical choice for said expansion. But it doesnt only have to go from FPS--> RTS. I mean hell a FPS Final Fantasy Game(sort of what Dragon Quest is doing) or FPS Gears...Etc..etc..

I mean a FPS Resident Evil?

Do you think that Killzone 2 and it's shifting mission objectives and gameplay modes during matches could be a new FPS standard? There were games before it (Resistance 2) that have done it but KZ2 is the first one to pull it of right. Might this be another addition to the list first person shooter elements (regenerating health, cover systems, classes) that we see more often now? And would YOU like to see it more often?

Why don't game developers just make the movies that their games are based off of, like Capcom or Square Enix with their films Resident Evil: Degeneration and FF: Advent Children? Keep the characters the same visually and keep their same voice actors. Sounds good to me.

Would this solution work?

Julius Sumner Miller is a God among science educators via the medium of video. Julius Sumner Miller and Mr. Wizard could collectively defeat Magneto with their mind power and knowledge of science.

A Question: Assume Game of the Year (and all increased sales that entail) is something all games should strive for. Considering that most GOTY winnners involve either great quanitity of story and content, or a breadth of multiplayer versatility, is there any value left for developers to create interesting, medium-length story based games?

Or alternatively, should games like Portal, Mirror's Edge, Deadly Creatures and Assassins Creed (Easily condensed into a shorter game) start to see releases bundles like the Orange Box as a standard?

OK you got to spend half the show talking about the greatness that is Julius Sumner Miller, I'm just going through all his videos on youtube now.

So, yeah

Also,

What would Aaron Linde's Inferno be like?

I think we're forgetting the most important contribution to physics since Isaac Newton fucked an apple or whatever.

That would be realistic boob jiggle physics.

Discuss.

Do you guys think that the Dante's Inferno game would have recieved less of a literary backlash if it had a name other that 'Dante's Inferno'?

Take God of War for example, narrative wise it basically turns greek mythology into an action film, but since the game isn't calling itself 'The Oddysey' or 'The Iliad' we can all accept it as a loose interpretation.

Perhaps if Dante's Inferno was called something else like '9 Circles' or 'Go to Hell' then people would see the game more as a loose interpretation instead of a perversion of a literary classic. What's in a name eh?

Your thoughts?

With games like The Sims and Animal Crossing having been around for years, and newcomers on the scene like flower and Noby Noby Boy, do you think that the upcoming release of Aaron Linde's BonerQuest: Just Dicking Around will garner a lukewarm reception due to the overcrowding of the "pointless games" genre, or is interest picking up enough that it will be heralded as the pinnacle of the genre?

I realize now if the roman centurion was replaced with a dick, the game could've been Bonerquest 2. Keita Takahashi would've loved that.

@Jonathan Ross
Thanks for bringing it up. Yeah guys, show a fellow Dtoider some love and talk about Remote Masseuse.

I'm a whore....

When talking about taking one piece of media and adapting it to video games, the sheer amount of suck makes it difficult to realize that the pendulum swings both ways. We've all seen our fair share of bad movie licensed games and shallow beat 'em ups and fighters based on beloved comic book and anime characters; but what about movies, comics, and anime based on the games we so enjoy?

Movies are almost universally shit, that's a given, but I've seen horrible pieces of creative abortion in the forms of comics and anime too (Example: Malibu's Street Fighter comic or the Persona Trinity Soul anime). Is it the fault of the people adapting the media into its new form, or is it that difficult to keep a compelling narrative when switching the form in which it is presented?

since the Watchmen arcade game is out this week i've thought of some appropriate questions.
Will it be any good?
Would Alan Moore approve?
Is the game an example of movie studios selling out and pillaging an aztec gold mine? or embracing video games as a legitimate from of story telling?

I attended an Ian Bogost talk early this year and he was saying that innovation is often a distraction to developers and that 'adaptation' is much more important during development. He was speaking in terms of mechanics and genre, but I'd argue that this is being applied to IP aswell. Considering this, what is more important: That a game adaptation is affecting in the same way as it's source material, or that the game adaptation works as a game?

Dante's Inferno could have been a fantastic game if EA wanted to be artful and appeal to a MUCH smaller market, but of course they don't and it appears to be a GoW clone.

Anyways, not to go on too long but it begs the question: Is Aaron Linde's BonerQuest going to be borrowing more than aesthetics from it's graphic novel counterpart or does sir Linde hope to expand upon his original masterpiece by changing it to appeal to GAMERS?

Also, maybe, what games would have been better movies, movies as games, etc...

'Shoot 'em up' for example, should have been a game.

If the internet had never been invented, what do you think you guys would be doing for a living?

@ chris24680:

Going with the obvious... Mass Effect = Ass Effect (though seriously, could that armor be anymore "stupid sexy Flanders?")

Also space phallus ftw:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS-1G-ZyGMM&fmt=18

The most incredible SHMUP ever made.

have you come across any arguments or maybe examples of media crossovers that want to make you say "fuck it, they should stop trying and ban the practice."? if so what are they?