With the talk of MMOs, it is possible to create an MMORPG that will cater to the casual crowd?

I got to thinking about product placement and there ability to make a game more realistic. However, I realized the problem with these ads that subtract from realism is that there are too few of them. To have a game that creates a realistic world paralleling our own the ad's would have to be endlessly diverse. You can't have one soda in the game you need like twenty and having one type of car zooming around would hurt the realism so we would need atleast a dozen or so different car companies. So my question is there anyway to allow ads to add to this realism without out requiring a landslide of diverse ads or is it the only way it could work.

I was listening to the RFOG podcast on Chrono Trigger. I myself have never completed the game, since I had actually reached a boss (one way in the future, found in the tunnels) and got amazingly frustrated, so I quit and never played it again. Later on in life, I hear the game's all great and that i had reached a boss who I wasn't supposed to fight yet, so I thought i might give it another go. What "epic game" have you guys ever totally quit on that you ever came back to or currently wish to revisit?

How can one website have so many awesome podcasts?

but seriously...
ah...Louis CK is distracting me- I'll ask something later. Maybe.

what is you thoughts on the new bat man:arkham asylum game being made by E.A.

I know that Anthony has been really vocal in the past about 'art games' and their place (or lack thereof) within the mainstream. Do you think that a game like Braid has the potential to inspire more games that would be considered 'artful' due to things other than pretty cell-shaded graphics?

When is it ok to "kill" discontinue and MMO ? what about players that are still paying ? do they have any rights or any saying ? SOE I'm looking at you >_< since they simply disconnect theire servers its not like they just don't deliver any more expansions. I'm talking about taking down the games website.

1.- is rev as excited as i am about the new carmen sandiego game for the DS?

2.-is luc bernard an alcoholic yet?

3.it's 2008 and recently sony began to release games and consoles oficially here in chile. before, we have to wait for private importers who got us the consoles but without garanties and such.

what took'em so long? considering microsoft is representented in their gaming department since 1996. and nintendo was here since 1984

I've got two Braid inspired questions-

1)How did you feel about the political themes and is this something you would enjoy/tolerate in other games? why/why not?


Braid was the first game in a long, long while where I felt that music played a strong role in making the atmosphere of the game even more tangible for the player.

2)Given that musical taste is a personal choice what are some of the games that you played where you felt like the musical score was more than just an accompaniment? Is this something you think is or isn't being neglected in recent years? Examples?

Holy crap, I just told a lie. Here's a question, inspired by mikeyed:

There's about three games of mine that I've given up on beating recently: Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings; Final Fantasy Tactics A2, and Contra 4. In all three cases, I got to the very end, but the last boss/battle was so incredibly difficult that I waved my white flag of defeat and moved on to the next game.

Have any of you ever played a game that you never finished, but still put them back on your shelf, satisfied and convinced that you got your money's worth? Do you think that you have to complete a game to be done with it?

This of course does not include shitty games; I was done with Harry Potter 5 fifteen minutes after I started playing, but you can rest assured it didn't stay with my collection for long.

Thanks.

My DS is the only system that has continued to please me. I'd much rather play shooting games on my PC than my 360, PS3 only seems to have one game going for it right now (MGS4), and I don't use my Wii except to play Super Smash Bros. Melee. I know I haven't mentioned the PSP, but it goes without mention that it is bad.

So, I ask you this, what system has continued to please you through the time you have had it?

Where did you guys all first meet each other?

(HAHAHA now your podcast is an hour too long too!)

Question: Will Jim be at PAX?
Because, i have a gold plated monocle in my left hand as I'm typing this. And i want Jim Sterling to be the new owner of this exceptional beautiful eye accessory. It would be a great honor to pass this on to the one and only who truly can embrace the power that it possesses.

What the hell is this???

With Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Rhythm Heaven) releasing outside of Japan, do you think that it could become the next Katamari Damacy?

Question time:

1.) Is EA Sports' current structure of releasing a new Madden/NCAA Football/etc. title every 12 months resulting in the number of glitches we are seeing in these games? Is 12 months a long enough development cycle for these kinds of games? What would you like to see change in this genre? Why?

2.)I mentioned this before, but with the recent cuts at NCSoft and Midway's Austin studios, is the gaming industry in for a crunch or recession? Has it been in one for a while and we just have not bothered to take a look? If so, what is to blame? Ballooning budgets? Increased sales expectations and titles falling short? Just too many games being made in quick succession?

Jim, please talk about the little girl who says "Dic".

why isnt "fez" out yet?

2 Questions:

1. How do you feel about the label "Gamer"? Personally, I dislike it. It feels way to much like a marketing term. It makes me feel like a target demographic, which I know I am, in a way, but it just feels kind of...shallow. Besides games, I really like to read, but I don't consider myself a "Reader". Also, I mean no disrespect to anyone who identifies with the label, its just a personal thing.

2. Have we become so fucking spoiled and demanding that we now tell people who actually make games for us to "go fuck themselves" to their face (sort of) when their efforts do not please us? How Mr. Bernard reacted is irrelevant to this question, even though he went very very low in blaming his programmer, but that is not the point. I feel like the DToid "shitstorm" was a very effective mirror for a prevailing attitude among the general community. What I am asking is, what does this reaction say about us? Is that how "Gamers" react to dissapointment? Don't we not want the medium to be seen as "child's entertainment"?

Ok, Too Human totally deserves it though.

Also, another week of Lego Event Horizon?

Where's Tiff? Did she leave the show? Samit's a good guy, but he's no Tiff. He doesn't even have working breasts.

bunch of fucking stupid questions by everyone but my fucking stupid question is does anyone think video games will eventually gain mainstream support and when or what might be the catalyst of said event?

Honestly, why do people want a new Shenmue? Can someone please explain this to me?