[Update] Looks like LonexWolf606actually won the contest. Sorry! Worse still, I can't PM him/her for some reason. If you're reading this LonexWolf606, email me at jonathan@destructoid.com so I can get you your winnings.
[Original Story] First, the winner of the contest from last week. It's blutapes. Congratulations! You named the most games with the words "Dead", "Dark" or "War" in them. Yikes, I expected there to be a lot of games, but I didn't think there were that many. I sent you a PM, so be happy about that.
As for this week's episode, it's all about Final Fantasy. It's pretty standard stuff for the first few seconds, but things go berserk pretty fast.
It's hard to think of what else to say about this without giving away too much. Maybe I'll just say that lately I've been thinking a lot about how arbitrary the standards of gamers can be. We recorded this episode (and all of these episodes with Birdie) about a month ago, but still, I've been pondering the strange ways that some gamers assess the worth and appeal of their games for at least that long.
That must have something to do with the episode... or maybe it doesn't? I don't know, it's all sort of a blur. At this point, I feel like this series pretty much makes itself. I get to steer where it goes a little bit, but for the most part, it all just sort of happens, and then I'm stuck with it.
So yeah, I hope you like this one. It's got Final and Fantasy, so that's got to make at least a couple of you happy, right? And even if you hate it, you might want to stick around for the ending. People are saying that it's better than the beginning.
Jonathan Holmes is the most lovable Associate Editor on Destructoid. Catch him on videos, original editorials, and on back episodes of the Destructoid Show and MTV's Road Rules. Jonathan is a retro gamer's gamer.
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Wow. That was AWESOME, and that's coming from a dyed-in-the-wool FF fan! That whole bit at the end with the girls, guns, and FFIV battle music was pretty damn hilarious. Good job, sir!
I never thought about this till now but the whole cast of final fantasy seems gay..:/ Except the black guys....and the animals....and the girls...and not counting 13....ok Just Vaan FRom 12 he seemed pretty gay..
Gaaah you missed a great chance for a joke at the very end, Birdie! You should've used "The Man With The Machine Gun" for the bit with the chick shooting stuff! Ah, oh well.
Really preferred the regular Sundays with Sagat. Sheer absurdity of Johnathan Holmes (probably my favourite member/part of this site alongside Dale and HAWP) dressed as Sagat provided humour, but you always had a good point to make and genuinely interesting things to say. Bad English accent is kinda funny, but these skits are lame humour in general. Plus, using the old 'Final Fantasy, why isn't it Final'? We've heard that about fifty million times already.
Please get back to the proper game commentary as Sagat, it was glorious.
Haha! I love the bad English accent, it's so bad it's good. And the end was definitely awesome. Maybe if Itagaki made the new Final Fantasy game it would have more tits and bums in it. :)
The "Final" treat.
It's like "Aliens vs Predator". Since most games don't are on Earth. Until the marines are aliens. Só everybody is alien and obviously everybody it's a predator, since they blow each other mercilessly.
couldn't agree more with FF being played out. fuck that game. numbers popping out of heads and everything. i never did get the switch from sagat to whoever you are with the mohawke wig, what's up with that?
He should play FF7 then.
Girl with big boobs? Check.
Blowing up someones mother? Check.
I can't remember something about biting nipples, but nobody knows what really happend with Mucky and his friends in the tub...
@ bobyoko- Like Sagat, Birdie is a character from Street Fighter 1. He's also in the Street Fighter Alpha games. He is British, and sort of brown-ish too.
@ Everyone- Thanks for watching the video. For those you you who miss Sagat, or just don't like Birdie, we'll probably stop with Birdie pretty soon. All the episodes I shot so far were done at a time when I only had access to a video camera, editing equipment, and a person to help me use both of them, once every six weeks or so. That meant shooting as many episodes with Sagat as I could in the limited time I had with the camera, then editing them as fast as I could while I had access to editing equipment, and then posting them once a week, just hoping that they don't suck too bad.
With Birdie, it's been even worse.
Hopefully, that will all change with the next roundd of videos. That may mean the return of Sagat, or starting with new characters, or God knows what.
I love birdie, for me he's much funnier than Sagat, but I can see why others like Sagat better. Looking forward to whatever is next. Good work Jonathan!
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Please get back to the proper game commentary as Sagat, it was glorious.
Another great episode. Keep em comin Holmes.
It's like "Aliens vs Predator". Since most games don't are on Earth. Until the marines are aliens. Só everybody is alien and obviously everybody it's a predator, since they blow each other mercilessly.
Girl with big boobs? Check.
Blowing up someones mother? Check.
I can't remember something about biting nipples, but nobody knows what really happend with Mucky and his friends in the tub...
@ Everyone- Thanks for watching the video. For those you you who miss Sagat, or just don't like Birdie, we'll probably stop with Birdie pretty soon. All the episodes I shot so far were done at a time when I only had access to a video camera, editing equipment, and a person to help me use both of them, once every six weeks or so. That meant shooting as many episodes with Sagat as I could in the limited time I had with the camera, then editing them as fast as I could while I had access to editing equipment, and then posting them once a week, just hoping that they don't suck too bad.
With Birdie, it's been even worse.
Hopefully, that will all change with the next roundd of videos. That may mean the return of Sagat, or starting with new characters, or God knows what.
I'm looking at you, Usedtable.
I'm amused for 2.23 mins