I've been rewatching all the Broken Pixels episodes in memoriam of the 1up network. The Total Recall episode is the "Manos": The Hands of Fate of Broken Pixels.
On tonight's Podtoid, myself, Jim Sterling, Aaron Linde, Topher Cantler, Brad Nicholson, and Brad Nicholson's guns will be talking about the death of the 1UP network, Nintendo's patent of a "let the game play for you" design idea, Bob's Game, and RPG hybridization in action games.
Until, of course, Brad decides to flex his pecs and crush all our heads between their sweaty, highly toned majesty.
As always, we need listener questions, and you are the listeners. Best question nets you a Dtoid swag bag, so ask away.
Contest:
12:20 PM on 01.12.2009
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Yes, still fixing the issues in Bonerquest. Working and trying to play video games and then make one isn't easy.
Also I could try my hand at making the gentlmen dinosaur game. Although Blazing Dragons on PS1 seems awfully close.
The guy put himself into the game as a boss, and had a very ideallic approach to getting his game completed. When it didn't work he freaked out.
It looks to me like Bob experienced his Quarter Life Crisis at the end of his game creation cycle, as opposed to when he left college.
It seems that the guy not only crashed hard, but also just went through it publicly. Does he garner any sympathy from you, or is this guy just ripe for lulz for going insane, regardless of how he got there.
Also, do you think a Dtoid soap opera would garner an audience?
Also, also, with the recent introduction of 3D in games at CES, where do you see games changing in the future outside of graphical improvement? What will be done outside of the box, literally(said like Jim) speaking.
If he publicly speaks, I may be streaking.
If 2009 is a young nubile children with a lot of promise.
What do you think is gonna be "Michael Jackson" and just ruin everything in the worst way possible?
Also to have the best abs of any gamer around. What can Brad recommend?
Or do you think they are very open to the idea and there's a story we're not hearing from bob? He doesn't seem like a stable fellow to begin with, I'm sure he's done something to scare Nintendo off...
Does it make you angry when I kick your ass in street fighter?
This guy.
Maybe it's just the hair, I dunno.
Also, what do you guys make of the Bioshock on Mac rumors? And as an extension to that question, do you guys think gaming on Macs will ever take off?
(unrelated side note: will microsoft ever make XboxLive multiplayer free???)
Also, if he does reach such a lofty goal, can he come back on you guys have an entire podcast about it?
(great topic for podtoid 100)
A question: what's your best memory of EGM/1UP/etc? I know it's not this site but you at least gotta pour one out on the curb for these guys.
I wonder why that Bob guy just didn't just "pirate radio station" his game and release it as a rom or boot disk? Why would he flip out and trash his stuff?? (unless he is emotionally disturbed)
Was EGM going to die eventually due to the speed and efficiency of blog-esque news sites, and how do you think journalism itself will change in 2009?
Is Nintendo's patent, if used, really changing the game all that much? Essentially they are giving you gamefaqs in game(don't have to use it), of course you won't be having that experience at all this way. Where would this even be necessary? When successfully implemented into Aaron Linde's BonerQuest would this work as an expression of one man's sexual inadequacies, seeing as he can't even play as a man with an erection? Would it be one step closer to creating an actual pornographic game?(watching not acting.). Will Brad Nicholson be a rival in the sequel; Aaron Linde's BonerQuest: Boner v. Brawn TM ? In the Wii version will you get to sword fight against Brad Nicholson? Just looking for comment on the rumour.
Lastly, What happened with the Faith thing? Jim can probably take this one alone but I wouldn't mind hearing what the rest of the crew has to say about it. Personally I missed the whole thing and would greatly appreciate a concise vocal summation so that I do not have to go through the c-blogs and read them all... Thats just demanding though.
Also, Call Tiff.
many of the experiences we associate with console games, console developers, and especially japanese developers, are directly related to the fact that the games themselves were designed with controllers in mind. if the PC had a standardized controller, do you think it could finally start getting its own Colossus/Zelda-style titles ?
...my question is, when are the remaining members of The Who and Pink Floyd going to unite to make a rock opera about this guy's life?
how can Destructoid survive/exist/propers with so few advertising on it ? what is your secret ? Did one of the staff find a way to turn snot into gold ?
So I've been playing Sonic Unleashed recently (I shower after), and only after reaching the Spagonia Rooftop stage did I realise that you actually hold down the boost button to continually boost, rather than keep pressing it over and over. This means you can keep boosting so long as you collect rings for ridiculous speed, which clearly made the game a hell of a lot more fun than it actually had been till that point.
So my question is, have you ever played a game where you have completely misunderstood a game mechanic, and that discovery then alters your opinion of the game? For example, not realising that you can swap weapons in the original Contra etc.
Also; Call Tiff.
Also, Ashly Burch will be mai waifu.
also
With EGM out of the picture which gaming magazine do you see dying out next?
Didn't Bob know all his problems would be solved if he snapped into a Klondike bar?
To get to the other side?
I had grilled cheese for dinner?
?
My prime example would be "The Onion", where they publish a weekly paper containing several of the articles throughout the week as well as some exclusive stuff, whilst their website has things that paper cannot provide (Video, special articles, etc.) Could destructoid do something like that? Say, available for free or for a subscription at a local EB games or Gamestop, and increase our audience exponentially that way. Have some things exclusive to the site, as well as some things exclusive to the paper, and we'd all come running for those.
I'm a student of Mass Communications, so this is quite an interesting topic for me. I can has opinion? Want to hire a new marketing guy, say...me?
I'm gonna fucking accuse YOU!!!
Because (I assume) you uploaded this Broken Pixels video they've all now been taken down from YouTube...I managed to catch a few before it happened though...so I guess I should thank you for introducing me to it.
But I won't.
Also, you have Topher and Jim in the same gym together doing your workout with you; who starts crying first?
I've already got all the HQ files off the site, burnt on a DVD, tucked away in my underpants.
He made a website with a bunch of outrageous claims about this game he supposedly made, but he gives us more information about the number of hours he worked on it than what the game is actually like. When pressed to show us content, he shows us videos of an uninteresting adventure game in a generic GBA RPG engine. Why did anyone EVER take him seriously?
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