Oh the commentaries aren't that bad and you know it.
Resident Evil will rekindle your love for them; I'm sure of it.

Anyway, here's my question for the whole crew: What's your favorite video game soundtrack? Licensed or non-licensed; doesn't matter. What are your thoughts on the place of music in video games in general?

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That is all.

Do you think we will ever play as the Nazis? It can be a alternate History FPS (if you like that sort of thing) or any other genre of gameplay.

Would it be a good idea to use a Splinter Cell/Stealth based game where you play as a nazi trying to escape Germany? More so, how about playing as Hilter himself. Always on the chase from both Allied and Russian forces.
How the primary idea would to be get out of Germany and escape to Argentina (like some think he did).
You could then advance the plot 10 years where you still would have a lush Argentina like eviroment and keep it up plot from Nazi Hunters.

Would it work? Or would we be quick to dismiss it?

A while ago, when discussing Six Days in Fallujah, Aaron Linde said that that his main problem with the game was that it sounded like it was shit and would be a horrible example to point to for games being able to effectively tackle modern day issues. How about Modern Warfare 2? Would that be an appropriate game to tackle the modern day issue of terrorism?

Also, Resident Evil movie. Zombies. Zom...Bees. Was Samit stung by a Zombee?

We all know that Metroid Prime is obviously not the Citizen Kane of video games, but do you think that Micheal Thompson had the right idea of looking at games that were already made, and trying to see which ones came close? If you had to pick, what games do you think could be called the-almost-but-not-quite-Citizen-Kane of video games? And do you think the terrorist scene in Modern Warfare 2 is a step in the right direction?

Gamers have become a huge market nowadays for a number of things, whether they be nifty glasses you wear to prevent gaming headaches or an energy drink made specifically for gaming. My question is, where do you draw the line of what might actually be useful for gamers, and what products are pointless attempts at appealing to the gamer community with a made up problem, i.e. a special pair of socks for playing dance dance revolution.

Booerns - "how about u do citizen kane already"
Please? And try to relate as many games as you can to it. Like a super version of Jims VGSID of it.

There is a community movie night now though, just started and only done one movie, but it is there.

So how bout dem zombies eh?

Speaking of movies and games, what are the best and worst movie or TV tie-ins you have ever played?

How many people will you kill in the airport?

What do you think the single most important or influential innovation in gaming has been?

...be it a specific game mechanic, the move to 3D, or even in how we interface with games like wireless, motion control, IR, touch, or VRU etc.

If brad nicholson had to choose one of the podtoid cast to oil his pecs who would it be??

IGF entries were announced today, did any of the games seem particularly interesting/awesome?

Anthony- I hate
Samit- I pitty
Lindy-Im gay for
Brad- Melts my face
Jim-I love
Topher Cantler- My sweet jazz on a sunday morning

I had a few questions that I asked Anthony regarding Modern Warfare 2 via email and GTalk, but I wanted to get the rest of Podtoids opinions on them. Here they are, in glorious copypasta:

It's also been revealed through trailers that the White House has become occupied by what we can only assume are terrorists or some enemy nation. Having enemy forces/terrorists occupying the capital of the United States seems to be a certain realization or an attempt to recreate and dramatize the current paranoia of future terrorist attacks, a common fear among people of any nation. This is where my question starts to stretch a bit. Do you think that, similar to science fiction movies around the middle of the 20th century, games (specifically the Modern Warfare series) are beginning to create an antagonist based on current common fears of society? For example, there were a lot of films during the 1950's that addressed societies fears regarding both nuclear power (Most notably being Them!, a great movie which you should all watch) and the growing paranoia of Communism (The Day the Earth Stood Still being an easy, yet somewhat subtle example). Do you think that games are starting to mirror this method of creating an antagonist based on societies fears? If so, how do you feel about this?

As a follow up question, do you think that more developers should try and address societies insecurities in games? Do you believe that by doing so could possibly give games more credibility as a medium to provoke intelligent discussion and lose some of the negative connotation surrounding the phrase "video games"?

I know these questions might be a bit hard to answer, what with the game not actually being released yet, but I think it's important to get these thoughts out in the open before the game launches in order to clear the air of any prejudice.

From Jim's review of Dragon Age it sounds like the limitations of console (360 in this case) controls could seriously hamper some peoples experiences with the game. Despite this fact the game is still receiving stellar scores, but if you actually read a lot of these reviews there is absolutely no indication of what platform the review was based on.

Do you think reviewers are doing a good job of identifying and communicating platform-specific concerns for multi-platform titles? Should review sites be allowed to submit a single score across all platforms without actually playing the game on multiple platforms?

Have you regretted not finishing an old game and try to play it recently?
Example is I have been playing Super Mario Brothers 3 with no flutes or secrets and managed to get 4 hours of enjoyment out of it so far

Also what size shoe does Brad wear

But... But the movie commentaries are so good... :(

I still think you guys should find a video game movie none of you have watched and do a blind commentary on it. /crosses arms.

I think DoubleDragon made you all hate the commentaries.
Heres hoping the epic amazing greatness that is Resident Evil changes your perception.






Yeah right.

How about you guys do a video game commentary? Grab one of those long plays off YouTube (obviously one of the reasonably sized ones), record a commentary while you all watch it and then post the episode and a link to the vid.

Much more interesting than some crappy, badly acted film.

Or not, I don't care.

okay Anthony, not one valve/half life mention or reference. i don't think you can do it and would love to be proven wrong. only if this a regular podcast though, movie commentaries don't count.

i'm calling you out on this, make or break time.

If there was a podtoid game in which each of you were a Boss what tactics would bring each of you down? What would be your weakspot? Which of you would be the final boss?

How come you guys never announce the winners of the swag bags? I forget you even award the best question until I read the post.

Chip's Challenge has some of the most creative level design of all time. Discuss.