Shadow of the Colossus Online was announced. Has there ever been a worse idea in recorded history?

How come everyone bashes squeenix with their remakes, but everyone praises Capcoms remakes?

Does it have to do with the replayability with the games ?
Are people idiots and don't know what they want ?
Is square enix stuck on a rut?
Are you wearing any underwear ?

New Max Payne look, a good thing? Or do comparisons and memories of what happened to Splinter Cell make you cringe like I do?

What is a man of questionable posture? In what way does he stand in a world of liars, traitors, and Jim Sterling? Is Samit a Famit? Is Jim a Kim? Is
Anthony a Banthony? Is Topher a Gopher? Is Aaron a Baron? Is Tiff a Whiff? Is Summa a Puma? Is Penis a Wenis? Is poop a doop? Is Chad a Rad? Do you want Anthony to be fired. Do you want him to die. Do you want him to die in a fire filled with poison, spikes and things that make you itch?

What do you think should be included in Resident Evil 6?

What are you hoping will come out of this GDC, not just in terms of game announcements but also ideas, concepts, infrastructure (ie XBL, PSN) news?

A Fading Melody was released on XBLA Community Games. The trial game ends with you either guiding the protagonist into the door to purchase the game, or guiding her into a pit to exit to live.

Doesn't this make an interesting statement about consumerism and gameplay.

Oh, wait Anthony's not on? Fuckin' A!

Samit, please give your opinion on MLB games. Do you actually play all 128 games? How do you decide when to sim? What's your pick this year and why?

Also, Topher: Dude, Twinbee. Discuss.

Also Jim and Aaron: HAWP getting twittered by TychoBrahe. Discuss!

Samit, why are retro sports games 87 million times more fun than modern sports games? It's a scientifically proven fact. Do sports games of this generation get too wrapped up in absurdly insignificant details, like a baseball jersey's fabric realistically flapping in the wind?

Whatever happened to the simplistic, yet satisfying ecstasy of RBI Baseball?

Broken Sword: The Shadow Of The Templars - Director's Cut = £39.99

£40 for a PS1 remake has the world gone mad?

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Just use this as your Anthony replacement. Enter stuff like "I hate Braid." or "You eat dicks." and he'll tell you what he thinks.

What is your favorite ______?

My Bison is a sad panda

But, Do we really need Co-op put on everything nowadays? I mean take RE5 and use that, RE has always been a single player. But with the big trend of Co-op whoring itself everywhere is it really needed?

Can't we just have a good single player experience? or is that asking for to much?

This question is probably directly mainly at Aaron Linde since he is the only member of Podtoid that I think has played the Dragon Quest series.

I have recently been going through four different RPG remakes that I have never previously played in any incarnation: Final Fantasy II for the PsP, Final Fantasy III for the DS, Dragon Quest IV for the DS, and Dragon Quest V for the DS. In playing these four games closely enough, I can for the first time understand why it is often claimed that in Japan, the Dragon Quest series is much more popular and well-regarded than the Final Fantasy series.

Playing through the two Final Fantasy remakes have been difficult for me as I just constantly feel like I've seen the plot before and the gameplay just seems uninteresting to me. Yet there is something about the two recent Dragon Quest remakes that simply feel more narratively interesting and fresh, despite the fact that, from a certain point of view, it's arguable that the combat system and gameplay of Dragon Quest games are the most dated of all RPGs.

I am inclined to think that much of the appeal of these two Dragon Quest games for me is my looking at the innovative storytelling such as multiple chapters and character groups with IV and passage of time in V, things that impressed me during play and made me wonder why more games haven't done anything like this.

So finally, my question is, what do you Aaron (or any of the other guys with experience with these games) think of the two JRPG franchises of Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy, particularly how similar or different they are and what draws you into one or both.

Don't get me wrong, I still like Final Fantasy. I just could not help but wish while playing these games that Dragon Quest IV for the NES had come out in the U.S. much closer to the Japanese release (over 2 year gap) when it might have had a better chance of doing well and standing out as opposed to its late 1992 U.S. release, by which time the attention was on the SuperNES and its Final Fantasy IV, causing the game to bomb and lead to the cancelations of U.S. installations of Dragon Quest V and VI for the SuperNES.

@Char Aznable,

I feel that this is largely due to the fact that in the past, a baseball game or a hockey game was simply meant to be a fun video game that tried to capture the basic gist of the sport in a fun entertaining video game structure. I don't play sports at all in real life. However, some of the earlier sports games such as NBA Jam are ridiculously fun regardless of whether or not you know how to play basketball.

In contrast, I feel that alot of the modern sports games are overly fixated on approximating the real life sports experience to such an extent that they fixate on the little details and are too complicated for a sports-illiterate fool as myself to understand.

HEY FUCK YOU

Buying used from Gamestop "steals" more from game developers than "pirating" every would, even if "pirating" could be proven to take a dime from them. Discuss.

not to jump on the Recession/Financial Tsunami bandwagon, but do you feel that due to the current economic situation, more moneyless gamers will be turning to Piracy; or do you think gamers will realize that, you know, ACTUALLY PAYING for things is beneficial to digging ourselves out of this econo-rut ?

With the news that Sony will charge $0.16 for every 1 gig of download to pay for bandwith, who is to suffer the most, Developers or consumers?

Or will Sony only see less Demos on PSN?

What's the best way to get Rev to swear at you?

Jim, you big cows head. before you ran to the sun (little one), you said you went to a sparks gig. how the blithering fuck isnt there any sparks in rock band or that guitar hero fella?

i want Sparks DLC!

The $64,000 question is, will Anthony listen to his own show if he's not on it?

Also, why is Anthony so hung up on the idea that a story needs to be the driving force behind a game? Shouldn't the game just be a game, and the story be sort of an ancillary tidbit that can propel the game along and make it slightly more involving? Why try to force story telling into a medium that is naturally not a good fit?

TL;DR Deep engaging plots are for books. In a game they're going to be second bannana, to gameplay, at best.

Did your parents ever play games with you?

I recently started replaying Banjo Kazooie, and the game is still as charming and laidback as I remember it, but I've found the one thing that I could never do before is still impossible: I just can't defeat Gruntilda, I can get close, but she's still so cheap and the boss battle is can take forever. So my question is have you ever had a game that you really loved, but you either couldn't finish the game due to a bug/hard boss battle/etc.?

As of yet I've held on to just my 360 and talked myself out of dropping the $400 on the PS3. However, my roommate next year and I are lining up every system ever created and all we're missing is the PS3, with its awesome Blu-ray player. Do you think there will be a price drop announced before September? If not, should I just go ahead and fork over the money now that the PS3 exclusives are actually starting to look promising?

I want Topher to talk about Touhou for an undetermined amount of time. GO!