9:06 PM on 08.20.2007
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Dyson
Happy Monday, my little Retroforcers. Is your week starting off as well as you had hoped? Considering that it’s Monday, I doubt it.
Hopefully, this latest installment of RetroforceGO! will alleviate the animosity that a hard day in the salt mines can engender. In other, more normal words: work sucks, here’s a new show.
Highlights!
- Almost the BEST WEEK EVAR!!
- Who replaced regular Chad with Evil Chad?
- Like heroin, Top Ten lists are so passé
- Colette has something to say about hedgehogs
- Sorry Chad, the pen has spoken. WRONG!!
- Gaming is not a sport (Ask Rev about that)
- Jim Sterling is going to hate me forever
- Lets just assume that there is a CONTEST every week, mmkay?
So that’s it in a nutshell, folks. Hope this new Sunday/Monday format isn’t too painful on you guys. If it is, well, sorry, it’s completely my fault and you can yell at me
here. But in the meantime, enjoy this week’s show and prepare yourselves for next week’s. I have a feeling that it will be the most epic BEST WEEK EVAR!!, ever.
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Also Evil Chad sounds awesome. Which speaking of, hay Chad, you were talking bout Earthbound hella last week. Have you heard this? It's fucking awesome.
On a completely unrelated note, on the topic of new games that are still hardcore, I really enjoyed the Maximo games as an extension of the Ghosts N' Goblins series. They were so deliciously difficult. I think it had been fifteen years since I last gave the middle finger to my screen and yelled, "Land on the damn cliff already!" I was also totally surprised by Devil May Cry 3. This comes from someone whose bread is buttered with 8-bit and 16-bit games. That game was extremely tough and a complete blast to actually succeed at. My fingers have never moved so fast, not even during the final levels of Ninja Gaiden or Zombies Ate My Neighbors.
I restarted Earthbound, and I've gotten reasonably far in it, but scheduling horseshit (namely, school and BioShock) will probably prevent me from finishing it in the near future.
Given the game's sense of humor, though, I have to wonder: how is Mother 3 supposed to make anyone CRY? Based on what I've now seen, the series seems pretty damn surreal and nonsensical. Not so much with the tragedy.
Pac-Man/Puck-Man (Pac-Man)
???
Simon Belmont (Castlevania)
Mario/Jump Man (Donkey Kong)
It's really bugging the hell out of me I can't get the second one. It's obviously an old arcade sound effect, but I can't recall what for.
And the best part is, it's freaking backwards compatible.
Wedge, you have three out of four, so no hints for you! Although, I'm pretty sure that someone else here knows exactly what number two is ...
And by the way, you should listen before posting, we covered XBLA just fine ;)
Kif, I haven't started EB yet, I actually forgot that we said we'd give it another go. I will, though, but this is Dyson's Games to be Replayed list:
Phantasy Star 1, 2, 3, 4; Secret of Evermore; Super Metroid (in under 2 hours); Goonies 2; Bionic Commando; Stinger; BioShock; Final Fantasy 3-SNES version.
It may take me a little time to get to EB, but I'll do it goddamnit. Oh, and there still are plenty of hard games around, but I when I think of hard games I think of ones that are hard for reasons like: 3 continues only, limited amount of players, and stuff like that.
Games like Ninja Gaiden Black are too hard for me, but I can keep continuing forever if I really need to, thereby making it an easier overall task. Don't take that as a blanket statement about all new games, though, I know that there are many exceptions to the rule.
Sorry about there not being a link, folks. I guess I just assumed that everyone knew where the podcast page was, or that y'all had subscribed to it via iTunes (it would be cool if you did, and then gave us an awesome review or at least some five star love). Thank goodness for beedog!
Thanks Suff0cating, I knew that I was right!
And thanks to Niero for his technical robotic black magic!
Love-O-gram for Mr. Hairdo!
Next week though, I will bring the hurt. I'm charging mah lazer at this very moment, in fact.
1. Pacman
2. Arthur
3. Simon Belmont
4. Mario
You're welcome
On GTA, I can see the technological part, the whole "OMG my city is in GTA" or "OMG i can visit lots of places and do lots of stuff", but seriously, looking ahead, i guess GTA 5 will be just like 4 or SA just with a bigger area, better graphics and a few new interactive things, like i dunno, play tennis, baseball or something like that.
And does it even have an ending? if it does, does it only have one? Cause i don't see the point in a game where "you can do whatever you want" when anything you do that isn't related to the main missions will have no effect on the story.
Anyway, Dyson i forgive you for the missing link, after all it didn't affect me =) (itunes subscription ftw!)
I really don't think Crackdown has more story than GTA games, though. Crackdown was what? "There are gangs, kill them please. Oh, and at the end, you're evil. But you didn't know." Whereas, in GTA games, the story is very simplistic in that it's the main character's rise to power in the underworld or desire for revenge against someone. Of course, the story is only present in the cut scenes and main missions, so if you don't play those or are watching someone who just likes to dick around, I can see people thinking there's no story there.
It depends on who's playing. If you just dick around and drive aimlessly, there's no point or story. Isn't that the point of non-linear games? That you're allowed to stray from the story?
Oh, and I have to say, Dyson.. do you really think you could go out and do all the stuff in a GTA game? That would mean you live in a world where all the car doors are unlocked, guns lay in the streets for you to pick up and use expertly instantly, you can fly a helicopter without training, and you can get away with any crime simply by getting a token pick-up that gets the cops off of your back. So even though GTA is set in modern day cities, it's obviously just as much of a fantasy as WoW or something else.
do i think that i could do everything that i can do in gta in real life, not really. but the main premise is the same: regular guy goes and does whatever he wants. at least in crackdown i get to be a super cop, who can do things normal people can't. regardless, i guess it just comes down to what type a person you are. i've never really felt compelled to just be a thug in real life, but i've certainly wished that i could pick up a car and whip it at some idiots head.
your delaying of the goodness of bioshock is awesome, your loyalty to the cause shall never be questioned ;)
Also, yeah, the GTA hate was a bit much, which you guys seemed to realize near the end.
retroforce@destructoid.com, not gmail :P
Also that was the most moot Rev Rant ever. Games are not sports, but sports ARE games. I don't see how this elevates sports to anything more "serious" than video games. Obviously they are viewed this way by media, what with the huge retarded overpaying industry they are. However it's total bullshit, and it SHOULDN'T be that way.
And on that note... Chad is a Yankees fan? My whole world just came crumbling down. Go M's!
Anyway, great episode. Sorry about the loss, Topher.
Late responses are wonderful.