Giant Bombcast 03-18-2008

All right, it is uh Tuesday, March eighteen, two thousand and eight,
and you are listening to the Giant Bomb Cast. I'm Ryan Davis.
Uh so, yeah, let's get into it. Jeff, how you how
you doing? I'm doing pretty good. Uh. We just wouldn't got sandwiches.
We just got sandwiches to prepare. It's probably a good idea to get
sandwiches to laid down a base for our our drink taste testing. Yes,
we have a double shot. We do of of drinks this week. I'm
pretty scared of both of them. I think, all right, Yeah,
we've got two drinks here. Let's uh, let's set this up. Which
one do you want to talk about first? Here? Well, I think
we should talk about this one here. This is uh we ordered a case
of this on advice of a ton of people in Europe, Scotland around around
that area over somewhere that's not inside the US. Scotland seems to be the
main place made. I guess. So this is It is iron Brew spelled
i r n hyphen b run Brew and it's made by bar Yes, original
and best it says on it. And there's a I think I brought it
in I ordered this case off their website. They actually have a US operation
that is more than happy to sell you cases of it. I notice it
has all like the US Nutritional Facts in California Redemption sticker along with it.
That that kind of bothers me. It's a picture, it's it's like,
it's pretty typical. It's a picture of old white dude smoking a pipe,
a couple of dogs, you know, rich guy near the fireplace. And
then the quote is I love ironbrew and soda. My bitches get it because
they're dogs. Oh get dogs, get it edgy? Yeah, well we'll
delightful. So it's I want to describe this drink in color. It is
a terrifying orange, like I kind of neon lit. It looks like some
sort of coolant. It looks like I should pour this into my car.
Yeah, I guess it doesn't look quite like orange soda, does it.
No, it's it's kind of it's too clear, right, Like I can
see through it too much. And it has almost like a viscous quality,
like it's there's like if you switch it around a little bit in the bottles,
it's mad viscous. It's it's a little looks a little juicy. All
right, let's let's crack these bottles open and get into this. Okay,
Now, I've heard like everyone who recommended this also said you'll love it.
It's terrible, So all right, crack that open. Oh I open it
near my nose. How's that working out for you? Oh? I'm not
even having I don't even have it near my nose, and I'm getting a
little a little waffed. All right, first, smell vitamin E bubble gum.
Bubble bubblegum is the is the centime? Getting out of that? All
right, let's let's give this go. Jeff, this tastes like a pubble
bubba soda. Yeah, this tastes like bubblegum soda as far as I'm concerned.
The bottle says it's citrus, but that is a lie. Like this
tastes like bubble gum soda. We are on board with awesome. You bought
a case of bubblegum soda, Jeff, good jobs. And it's orange for
a reas. So I wonder if if that means that oranges taste like bubblegum
in Scotland. Yeah, that would explain why GTA is the way it is.
Absolutely all right, I'm gonna keep drinking this because this is pretty good.
Yeah, we can get to the second drink later. Let's just say,
are these talk about some games or something? Yeah, I hear,
I hear. It's in Scotland. It's a good hangover cure. It's this
is used a lot for that. And then also on the other end of
that fence, it's also used as a mixer. Yeah. So uh so
this will lead to bad things, I'm sure. Great. Yeah, we
have a whole case of it, so that that's Yeah, we'll do something
stupid with with the rest of these, like drink them. Also, I
love that right here on this so it's with iron like you would think My
understanding is that this was some sort of health sports drink or you know,
had some kind of stuff in it. Really because it's you know, because
it says iron. And also I thought I remember reading that somewhere. But
right here on the front not a significant source of iron. Well that's good
to like, you know, they say made from girders. Yeah, but
there's no iron in it. Oh no, it has five percent iron.
Well, apparently it's not. That's not a fairly five percent. It's not
a significant source. So that's that's or five percent of your daily value of
iron. So that sounds pretty significant to drink twenty of these to get all
the iron you needed. I think we only have sixteen, so well fourteen
now, damn it. Give me the rest of that one so I can
drink them all and get my iron for the day. Your flint chewables,
jes get your iron from there. All right, let's uh, you want
to talk about the world of games. You want to talk about what we're
planning right now? Yeah? Sure. I just finished up Lost via Domis
for the Xbox three sixty wrote a review of it. You can find it
on the site. Uh not great. Well, yeah, the best thing
I can say about it is it's mad easy points if you're if you're a
points kind of guy, Yeah, and you slid this game my way where
it sits now with CSI, which I'm currently playing on a Jumper which I
have not started on yet. Yeah, I gonna stop giving you points games.
If you're not gonna play him immediately, I'm gonna I'm gonna play him.
I just I just you. You've passed me too many all at once,
so I need to I need to make that happen, but he's off
on that. So so yeah, the Lost game, it's it's kind of
stupid because it's all about this character they made up and they just kind of
like throw him into the story, right, So it's like, what if
there was another guy and he was a photographer. I mean, I can
understand why they would have to do that, because, like, you know,
just the mythology is so tight with the characters, like the core characters
on the show, that they couldn't just go off in some weird direction.
Yeah, you couldn't just like, all right, here are the other adventures
of Jack, because you pretty much see everything Jack's doing, which also makes
it weird for whenever your character interacts with other characters, because you're like,
wait, how come I never heard about any of this stuff? If it's
happening right in the middle of all the high drama of the show. That'll
be explained next season. Bro. I'm sure, I'm sure I could go
find a Lost Wiki entry somewhere that totally explains how all these figures in.
And they should have made this game where you play as the smoke Monster and
say as the Smoke Monster, that would be pretty good. I will see
the smoke Monster doesn't look bad, and neither does the Jungle Smoke Month.
I've never seen Lost. I don't intend to start watching it. Yeah,
then you're gonna be so totally confused by this game because it is made for
people who watch a lot of Lost. Like there's occasionally there will be little
cues. You'll see something like, oh, okay, there was that explosion
just then, which is when they were blowing open the hatch, which means
that this is where you are in the storyline. But since they never say
anything explicitly you have you'll have no idea like why was there just that explosion?
I don't know. So it's in that regard, totally totally exclusionary.
Well that's kind of cool, you know. I think that there's something to
be said for making a product that is that goes off the deep end and
is explicitly for a certain audience, rather than doing all the hand holding and
saying like, well, this just happened and just explaining every single thing to
death, which tends to alienate the people that are super fans of everything.
I mean, the only people that are going to play a Lost game,
or people that know what the hell's going on with the loss. Yeah,
I guess that's not not my primary issue with it. It's just more it's
not it's not that good. It's like they have some they have some good
ideas. It's like, Okay, we'll have this puzzle solving stuff and we'll
have this part where you have to run from the smoke Monster and we'll have
you go through caves. I just love the idea of smoke Monster, like
this this whole show. Like hearing you describe the show to me, Yeah,
over the past day or so, it just sounds like someone took like
season two of Twin Peaks off the deep end and just is now just inventing
a billion different things that have no hope of ever wrapping up in a satisfactory
fashion. That's kind of my sensation of it. Like in the past two
seasons, it's definitely turned into that which was which is disappointing because after the
first season, like the producers came out and said, yeah, we're not
going to fall into the X Files trap of building up all this mythology without
ever explaining anything. Yeah, and then you told me that there's a guy
who's invisible on the show. What the hell it's like they're just they're just
throwing every single like just played out sci fi thing. It's like, oh,
there's magic, or there's that guy has telepathy, or there's time travel
or ooh magnetic fields, and like magnetic fields are real. Man, I'm
sorry to have to spring that on you, but those actually happened. That's
a myth. That's a myth, a myth perpetuated by scientists. That's the
smoke monsters at the North Pole right now. Actually, yeah, and they
in the show, they do stuff like they'll cut away to the North Pole
and there's something happening there, and then they'll cut away to the desert and
you'll see like something that relates to the island and it's like, oh,
what does that mean? I don't know because you never tell me lost thanks.
Actually got into several heated arguments about this recently with some of our engineers
and even my roommate. Uh, They're like, no, what are you
talking about? It? Totally it's gonna I'm like, nah, dude,
this is just gonna whatever, keep keep going up its own button and it'll
never There's no way. They have so many weird loose ends that I there
is absolutely no way that that show is gonna wrap up satisfactorily. So but
yeah, I will never know. You'll never know, and I'll watch it
and I'll go I was right or I'll be wrong. I would love to
be wrong about this. I would love to have J. J. Abrams
say, all right, check it out, dude, here's this is what
we were thinking all along. We were thinking this all along. I mean
supposedly they like came up with like a bible of what their major plot points
were going to be at the beginning of the show and like how that would
run over a sixth season run for the show. But I don't know.
I just don't know. What is this? What is that? What is
the smoke monster? We don't know, we don't know. It's it's a
monster. Like for the first for the first season, they showed people looking
at the monster without showing it, and they showed like from the monster's perspective,
and then whenever anyone would ask what did you see, no one would
answer. That's the thing that makes me most that's the thing that makes me
most crazy about that show is no one ever talks to each other, and
when they do, they speak in ellipsies. They always leave out the most
important pieces of information. So it's about the narration video. Yeah, so
if two people are talking, they'll both know what they're talking about, but
they won't include the viewer because they'll leave out the bits like ooh, I
wonder what they're talking about. And it's just I feel like that show just
jerks you around NonStop. Yeah, as does the game, so in that
regards, perfect I guess. So that's that's what I've been planning. Also
playing more More Condemned too, which is quicked awesome. Yesterday you got to
see me put a dude's head into a giant nomadic press. Yeah, that
was awesome, and then you turn the wheel and dude's head exploded from being
crushed in a damn press. And people curse really well in that game.
Yeah, a lot of that good kind of muttering, like really angry sound.
Yeah yeah, it's it's the kind of swearing where it's barely words,
where they're just so into cursing and being angry at that moment, which is
really satisfying. So I'm still enjoying that a fair deal. And so jeff
you, yesterday you got Rainbow six Vegas two Vegas two, the sequel to
Las Vegas. Oh, the Second Vegas, the Second Vegas. Yeah,
yeah, this is the latest Tom Clancy game. Everyone loves those damned Tom
Clancy's, especially Tom Clancy and his paychecks. He goes, wow, I'm
great they put so glad they put my name on this one. Yeah.
But yeah, yeah, totally Rainbow six Vegas the original game, a lot
of people loved it. Yeah, this game doesn't seem like it's strays too
far from the course of the first game, and obviously it's a different story.
Start too out in the Pyrenees, which is pretty funny because that's not
at all Vegas. Yeah. No, during like the first two levels,
I just kept yelling at you, that's not Vegas. It's just outside of
it. It's this is definitely not Vegas. You're lying to me. He
plays his dude Bishop, who's you know, kind of coming out of retirement
to lead this squad. And yeah, yeah, like pretty much right off
the bat, there's like a you're you're chasing after some dudes's some chemical weapons
involved, and it goes from there. I'm somewhere, I guess I'm at
the start of Act three, and that's not meaning the final third of the
game. It's just that they call every mission in an act, okay,
and there are different scenes in the acts. It does not follow the three
act structure right, not at all. Uh, the sub but it was
weird seeing like act three, like, oh, I must be nearly done.
Oh wait, this is this is where I kept my revenge and win.
Uh yeah, it's uh, it's cool. It seems I need to
go back to the first game and play it some more to kind of verify
this. But I really get the feeling that they streamline some of the stuff
with the controls and basically made it a little bit easier to kind of pick
up and shoot. It's not, you know, it's not the the easy
kind of call of duty, real basic shooter. It is still a more
tactical game, a slower paced game sure, which you're what you're having to
adjust too because you used to just walking into rooms and smoking dudes. Yeah,
I want to walk into the room and shoot dudes in the face.
And the game actually is pretty forgiving on a lot of stuff cases like that,
where you can just kind of go ahead and and and shoot a lot
of guys. It definitely has those kind of higher action moments where you do
get to shoot a lot of guys in a very short period of time and
not really think too much about the tactics. But then there are cases where
you want to slow it down and you're rolling with a pair of guys that
you can order around, and you have them stack up against doors and have
them breach doors with flash bangs or grenades or you know, different different ways
that they can run into a room and clear it of enemies. Yeah,
and that's all pretty satisfying. It has the same kind of snake cam thing
where you're sticking cameras under the door and tagging enemies so that when they do
breach, they shoot the guys that are pointed at the hostages you're trying to
save, as opposed to just some guy who's smoking off in the corner or
something like that. So it sounds like they're just kind of continuing to streamline
the Rainbow six tactical experience, because the very first Rainbow six game was crazy.
Oh yeah, no, I mean I think Graw was the first actually,
you know what, Graw was the first game with Tom Clancy's name on
it that I thought was any good. Yeah, I don't care about splinter
Cell never have all those Rainbow six games all that stuff. I I like
the last splitter Cell game. I thought that one was pretty that was the
That was the first one I tried to play since like the second one,
and I like some of the multiplayer stuff in that game, but still didn't
finish it. Didn't want to, just just lost interest about maybe halfway through
the campaign. But so so this may be the another Tom Clancy game that
you approve of. Yeah, yeah, I think that that's pretty much where
it's at. The Vegas series and the Grass series are are the Tom Clancy
games for the rest of us fantast some sense, Yeah, you know,
some of the some of the early word on the game that people people have
been putting out there are saying that, oh, this is Rainbow six Vegas
one point five, not Rainbowsi's Vegas do, saying that the graphics haven't improved
that much, which they really haven't. It still looks nice though, but
it's still Yeah, it looks it looks pretty good. And you look,
you look weird, I look weird. In the game, it has that
same kind of camera feature where you can scan your head in face mapping for
you. Yeah, and you were saying, it looks like like like if
if I was in an action movie and they made an action figure out of
it, crappy action figure. It's a little too pla sticky, and it's
like I could, oh, I could see what they were trying to do.
They were trying to make it look like Jeff but not quite. Yeah,
it's what happens when you don't let Todd McFarland make your action figure exactly
with his stunning realism. My ears are not that big. Yeah, it
made your ears crazy big. Yeah, but uh and then also your hairline
was really far back, which is really weird. That's just maybe maybe I
didn't Maybe it's because I stopped the picture at the top of my forehead as
opposed to scanning in all of my hair. I don't know what you're supposed
to do if you're supposed to I don't know where you're supposed to stop.
It wasn't really clear at what it defined as the top of my head,
so I don't know. And I also noticed when you're doing the face scanning,
it didn't really give you a lot of options as far as like looking
at different angles of your dudes. So that was a little bit difficult to
get it perfect. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, there's a lot of weird
little stuff like that. I kind of fit and finish things that you would
expect from a sequel, where you know, when you when you get out
of a ranked match, or if you're trying to join a game that has
already started and you can't join it, yeah, it dumps you all the
way back out to the main menu. It's just it's just weird. Yeah,
it's supposed to Yeah, I supposed like jumping you back into the all
right, well, I guess I'll find another game then. And when a
ranked game ends, it drops you out and says your connection to the host
has been lost. And then you hit a on that and another screen comes
up and says you can't keep playing with the same people in ranked games,
because then you could you know, then you can cheat, yeah, and
effectively. And it's just it's just weird that it seems like they just added
that in the last minute, like to get people to realize why it kicks
them out to the main menu, but it just shouldn't. It should kick
you back to the join another game screen, so you can just kind of
keep going, Well, there you go. Here's your your immediate impressions.
There's also you have a first impressions of the game up on the site.
Yes, giant bomb dot com. Oh, is that what's called. That's
where the website. We have a website. Thanks for plugging your website on
my show. Sorry dude. While we're on the topic of RAMBA six Vegas
two, let's talk about the sweet Comcast map, right, Yeah, Well,
there is some weird advertising stuff in there. You go through a convention
center that's covered with MLG logos, the Major League am Yes, I'm familiar
with them, those pro gamer types. So there's that in there. And
then also there's a on the menu screen there's something that says like Comcast Extras,
And if you go to that screen and type in Comcast faster two words
capital letters on this on Comcast and faster, it unlocks a map called like
Comcast Event And it looks like it's just like the same convention like event center
level or whatever, but with more Comcast logos advertising. Yeah, it's it's
it's kind of I don't know, it's kind of filled. Why is that
an unlockable if it's just the same damn thing for the same reason that Burnout
has a circuit city car. You know it's it's it's that same type of
deal bloss So so there's that. If you want to get your your Comcast
event map and you got Rainbow six Vegas too, that's how you do type
that in, it'll unlock it and then you know you can play as that
in Terrorist Hunt and online and all the other stuff the game has. I
think the cool part for that game is it as co op throughout like Terrorist
Hunt. Also the storyline, and I guess it actually has the full storyline
this time, as opposed to cutting out cut scenes like the first one.
Did. Our garbage bag, Our garbage bag just fell. We had a
garbage bag. Okay, we don't have garbage cans in this office yet,
we're supposed to get them. We'll do some video on a little bit to
show people. Yeah, yeah, we'll shoot a video so you can kind
of see how we're podcasting. And we actually have most of our new podcast
equipment. We're just missing a few key pieces of it, so we're still
using the old stuff. Yep. Yeah, So expect next week's show to
sound maybe better, hopefully hopefully better. We just spend all this damn money
bucks on mixers and mics and stuff. Yeah, so we had a garbage
bag threaded through the circuit breaker box. There's a little loop on it,
so I kind of pulled some of the bag through there and it just fell
out because I think, I think that means it's full, it's too heavy.
Yeah, I just put like a half empty drink in there, so
that means that there's no potentially drink slashing around in that bag. Whatever.
Uh So, moving on from from Rainbow six v two and garbage, you
want to talk about our next drink? You're still enjoying the Iron I'm still
enjoying the Iron Brew. You keep riding that you have. We have way
too many drinks on our I got like a half empty root beer over here
that I had is kind of like my backup drink in case either one of
these drinks is awful. Yeah, which so far going pretty good, although
I don't know. I've I've gotten maybe like halfway down to the label on
this bottle, and I'm not sure that I can drink a lot of this
at once. Yeah, it's a little it's maybe a little much. YEA.
On the Iron Brew? You want you want to talk about our our
second drink. Now, sure, yeah, let's open. Let's gonna have
three open drinks over here. Let's do that. Let's make that happen.
I've got two going as well, So let's let's up the Annie passion fruit,
pineapple, ginger, vitamins B twelve and C, and guarana. Those
are all the things on the top of this can. Uh. So,
yeah, I'll let you set this one up, since again you were the
point of contact on this right. It also says get it on down here
by the ingredients, which I've been known to get it on and I enjoy
it. Well, Jeff, let's get it on. Okay. Wait,
I don't think that means what you think it No, no, no,
no. Uh. This is Mojo Energy Drink from the people at Mojo Sciences
in Los Angeles. And actually, so we got two cases of this stuff
from Mojo Sciences. They heard that we were talking drinks, yep, and
the president of the company wrote and said, hey, I want to send
you a couple of cases. I said, hell yes, and uh and
it showed up yesterday. So here we are. So, Jeff, I
think this this is the sign for me that we've made it this is really
yeah, really starting to get free games in the mail again, like like
condemned in Vegas, like that was signed number one. But this is this
is a bet. Much is where the rubber hits the road. Baby.
It's a way better sign getting people coming to us wanting us to taste their
drinks and then talk about them. And I want to I want to preface
this by saying, I feel no obligation to h to be overly positive about
this. I put the same harsh critical eye towards this that I have.
That's alright, we take these drink tastings very seriously. You know. It's
swaying attempting to sway us with free drinks. Not would have bought this drink
eventually, indeed. All right, so crack it, all right, give
it a sense it little smell, kind of citrusy, kind of sit Yeah,
smuzzled, dangerous also maybe like a squirts, but yeah, it smells
like something that would have liquor in it or would be used or would be
used to clean automotive parts. No, no, I know my solvents.
I know very well what solvents smell like. This is not smell like all
right, Well, the smells like like the like Go Joe orange cleaner.
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, it's got a fresh for a refreshing all right,
here we go. Whoa, whoa. I'm gonna say immediately the ginger
is very Chinese restaurant is very prominent in the flavor. Yeah yeah, definitely,
I'm getting a very strong kind of ginger beer and that is Is that
why immediately equated this to eating Chinese food? Yeah? Probably, yeah,
probably. Let's I want to give it another go here. Oh uh,
I see what they were going for. Not great at least it doesn't have
kind of like a It doesn't really give you a nasty after taste. It
gives you everything and it's got you in the face and then says like all
right, cool it lets you know what it's all about right up front.
It's kind of weird how it like it disappears so quickly like tasting, you're
like, whoa, that's crazy, what happened? Every time I take another
sip, it's like a surprise all over again, like whoa, it's like
you still taste like that. I forgot what it tasted like. I'm not
really well, yeah, I don't know. It's I'm not really into it.
Well, I don't know. It's definitely different. It's different. This
does not taste like any other energy beverage that I've had, and I've had
my fair share. I'm not really tasting the pineapple or the passion of fruit.
I feel like the or the vitamins B twelve and C. Definitely not
tasting the beat. Uh uh. The ginger, I think is is pretty
Oh it's on there, right up on top. This is very fruit forward
for sure. The heavy nose, a nice earthy finish okay, okay,
sense and hints of tobacco and cherry notes of yeah. Uh but yeah.
So if you like ginger, yeah, definitely like yeah, if you if
you're into like a ginger beer or Chinese food, I guess, I guess
yeah. And you want to be reminded of that while you're trying to stay
up late, check out Mojo Energy Drink. Yeah, I guess so.
I guess we should charge the rest of this and see how the the energy
portion works. By the end of the show, we should know no,
well whatever, all right, Jeff, you can do that. I will.
In the meantime, look at what our next topic would be, all
right, what else do we want to talk about here. Oh, while
we're talking about about games, Uh, you want to talk about Space Invader.
Yeah, yeah, totally. There's a video on the YouTube which is
a site on the internet, oh the world Wide Web, Right, that's
the one where you can watch videos, And there's a video up for Space
Invaders Extreme, which looks awesome. It looks like someone took Space Invaders had
crossed it with luminess. Yeah. Like it's got like a kind of a
rhythm based thing to it, and it's like it's a lot faster than old
school Space Invader. Yeah, it looks like it just is constantly changing up
and has like crazy color cycling background madness. So we ordered a copy of
that. Waiting for that to show up. I think that's that's gonna probably
end up that's out on PSP and DS. I think that's gonna end up
being our first first bit of PSP coverage unless something happens between us ordering it
and it's showing up. Right, which is the reason why there is not
yet a PSP tab on the site for people who are wondering, right,
we don't. We don't have tabs on the site for platforms. We have
not yet covered because if you went and clicked on APSP tab right now,
you wouldn't get it. It would just be busted. Yeah, it would
just be all, what what are you talking about? It's it's just yeah,
it's been funny like as we've been adding those tabs like people have been,
we've basically been shutting people up every time. You're like, why don't
you have a wee tabs? You guys hate the wee? You guys hate
the wee Huh. It's like, no, we just haven't written the Smash
Brothers review yet. And now there's a wee tab, so there you go.
And it was and yeah, yeah, and now we have a DS
tab. And when we first started it was PC Arcade six and Arcade is
still up there, which I think it's hilarious. Well, you keep talking
about the damn Street Fighter four, so right, it's actually, yeah,
it's more relevant now than it's been in a very long time. And you
got shut down on your dream of buying an arcade board thank god. Yeah.
Yeah, I was actually very close to just writing a rebuttal to your
posting dude, what, No, that is a poor expenditure of company money.
No, I probably would I don't think I would have put that on
the company. I think i'd probably have your money, as I would have
spent my money on it. Why did I do this? But yeah,
So NCS posted an offering saying that they were taking pre orders for street Fighter
four kits. And these aren't the full cabinets, is just the boards and
basically the innerds of a street Fighter for machine. And they were selling them
for about twenty five hundred bucks twenty six hundred bucks, and they would and
uh, I guess it's gonna ship in late August August twentieth, and so
I posted a story to the site on Friday just saying like, dude,
we listen, who's with me? We're getting a street Fighter and and Shawn
upstairs posted a comment saying, dude, can't we just expense this. Let's
just do it. And I'm like, yeah, We're just do it.
And then like by the next day, and CS had posted something saying like,
sorry, our supplier was misinformed. These are actually only to be sold
in kits of four, so you can only buy four. So if we
wanted to buy four street Fighter machines, we could probably do that. We
could have the the Northern California Distribution for street Fighter four machines on lock.
Yeah, yeah, you want to street Fire, So I guess maybe you
know, if NCS can still get these from these suppliers, you could probably
ride them and ask maybe you and three other friends could go in and each
BIA street Fighter for kit. Oh. I hope no one has three friends
like that. I wish I had friends like that. I hope that doesn't
exist anywhere. That's the easiest way to spend a lot of money on dumb
things is to have friends that are with you in doing it. I mean
that's yeah, you push each other into just like we should just do that.
Yeah, let's just do it. Let's get sidekicks, like when we
went and got sidekicks when those sidekicks first came out, or like when I
when I bought my my Sony airboard, my future TV, my wire TV.
Yeah that was all because we were in Japan and I was with a
mirror yeah, and we were both just like, yeah, dude, we're
so gonna go get those tomorrow. Let's go. And we went and I
was like filling out the paperwork from mine and I turned him and going like
all right, dude, and he's like, yeah, no, I can't.
Oh he punked you out. And she's like, oh dude, you
got faced. That's a burn right there. He had to buy his car.
He just bought his cars some excuse. That's that's fair. And then
of course they came out with a better airboard like three months later, and
I was like, ah, but actually gets a lot of use. But
should but he shouldn't have goosed you like that. I'm fair. Yes,
it was way cool. Like I'll do that. I'll say, I'll tell
you, dude, yeah, go do it, but I'm not gonna try
and fake like I'm gonna do it with you. I think he I think
he was. I think he was just he thought that we would both forget
or or I don't know what. He thought. Well, we'll get him
on here is and when we get the rest of our equipment, we will
get a phone interview with ea LA's own mirror Johnny. Figure out what exactly
went down, man, clear up the contracts in Ike's apartment. Man,
if that what if that doesn't mean something? What does in this crazy world?
Well, I'll tell you something that does make sense, Jeff. It's
free downloadable content for Burnout Paradise. Yeah, so everyone's favorite insane Englishman.
Alex Ward, creative director at Criterion, the creators of of Burnout, has
come out and said we're gonna put out some some expansions, including a couple
of islands of actual new territory for Yeah, for Gratis, there's there's a
big there's a big chunk of water in that game. Yeah, and you
could. Yeah, They're they're gonna fill that up with some islands, some
stuff, and they're gonna do that for free, which is totally cool.
They had mentioned before that you know, they were going to try and have
some free DLC. Yeah, uh, and it's it's good to see that.
Then they're you know, from there came the question when they're talking about
having some paid some free. It's like, okay, you know, if
it's gonna be like locations are paid, then is that going to mess up
the online Like how is that going to affect? Is that gonn affect who
you can join with? Is that gonna splinter the market? Right? Well,
they'll just be like if you if you don't have it, will you
drive up to the island to just see a big gate that says no,
dude, pay us and then and then you see your other players magically flying
through the gate. Yeah, or if if you're playing with someone who if
the host bought it, then you can drive on it, but you have
to download it every time like an UNO deck. But a non issue apparently
because because and this, this is starting to make all the stuff about requiring
a hard drive for online play a lot clearer. Sure, sure, yeah,
you can only play the online stuff, I guess if if you have
a hard drive on the three sixty version of course. Uh. And people
were kind of up in arms about that, which you know, I didn't
really get two up in arms about it, because I think if you're serious
enough to want to play a lot of online, you were probably serious enough
to buy the three sixty that has a hard drive, agreed. So there's
that, And then you can imagine them maybe just charging for cars. Yeah,
I mean that's kind of the speculations cars and challenges like. I assume
that they will have downloadable challenge packs because one of the achievement for complete challenges
references excluding DALC. Yeah, excluding DLC. So that was something that when
they wrote those, they were at least thinking, hey, we could have
challenges for online put content, which I think it would be great on account
of I've already finished all three hundred and fifty challenges. I'm still I'm very
close to being done with with with Burnout Paradise. I still have a few
Gates and Johns. I think I'm actually at this point, I still have
maybe forty races to go to get my Elite license, but I think at
this point, I'm just gonna wait for the download stuff to come out and
then go back to it and do all that stuff. So yeah, So
Alex Ward also does officially say that yeah, it's not all going to be
free, but he doesn't really expand on that much. So people are speculating
that that'll be charged for cars and challenges, but we'll see about that,
and we still don't have any sort of release information about that. But yeah,
the weird stuff, the whole downloadle bit content free versus paid thing,
is really kind of crazy because, yeah, companies that keep kind of coming
out, like Valve came out and said we would love it if all of
the Orange Box content was free to download on consoles, but Sony and Microsoft
have a say in that decision, and it's kind of on them, right,
And it's it's I don't know, it's it's kind of a little a
little messed up of Valve, but but great in the long run that they
came out and said that, because it really does put the onus on Sony
and Microsoft's to say, like, hey, do you want to do what
the developer wants to do and actually do this for free or are you going
to cover your bandwidth costs that you will have to pay to distribute this content
and charge for it. And that's that's that's kind of the hold up is
that you know they have to host those files on their servers and pay for
that bandwidth, so it is costing them money to distribute even the free content.
So if they want them, though, then theoretically aren't aren't isn't stuff
like that supposed to be covered with my annual Xbox Live righte? Yeah,
you would think at least on the the Xbox side that that would cover it.
Though still remembers can download that stuff, so maybe that's where they could
They could have the split like it's free download for Gold members but not for
Silver. That seems like that seems reasonably fair. That seems like a good
benefit for the people that are paying, it, says the guys who have
Gold accounts, right, I'd be down with that. Yeah, if it's
free for me, that sounds great. I have two Gold accounts. Do
I get it free twice? Yeah? I guess you could. Yeah,
Uh, I guess. Moving on from here, we talked a little bit
about Street Fight or four before. I briefly want to mention they have released
some information about some of the new fighters, some of their new abilities,
and also, yeah, the crazy Mexican wrestler, which was also a gourmet
chef, which you're into and I think couldn't be more played out. I
feel like having the luchador adding him to your game is like the desperate thing
that it seems like all fighting games late in their lives are doing. Like
Virtual Fight or five had Raymistereo Junior in it. Yeah, basically yeah,
and yeah, yeah, I'd think he's a good looking character and that it
could be he could have interesting moves in that kind of two D fighter street
fighter context. Yeah, I guess it's just kind of an archetype that I
feel is is quickly becoming played out. I think you're played out. Okay,
fair enough, but I didn't want to mention out of this that they
have mentioned some of the new characters moves and Crimson Viper has a move called
that's the Lady called the thunder knuckle. I had a bad case a thunder
knuckle last summer. It laid you up pretty bad. Yeah, like I
was. I was. Yeah, I was holding up in my house for
a couple of weeks. I had to go get some penicill and shots clearly
right up the device in her glove and it's a powerful electric shock as Viper
charges forward the jab version of the device in her glove. Yeah, what
are we like trying to explain how Street Fighter works? Now? Midic Clarian's
are how she uses How does Ken throw a fireball with Wu Tang magic?
Okay? Or shall in magic? I guess show to con magic do totally
different, right, So, yeah, apparently she has a device that's I
don't know how I feel about that. I don't I don't know about controversial
women with devices? Are women even allowed to have devices? I don't know.
Apparently in the world street Fighter and the other guy's able, right,
And what's he is like a he's like martial artists. He's like a dude.
I think he's I think he's your Chuck Ladell. He's the iceman Chuck
Ladell, and I don't know both of those. Just yeah, like the
luchador and the MMO guy or the mm A guy, right, yeah,
MMO guy would be way funnier. Though. It's just like a guy in
an office chair that just keeps emitting strange smells. Stay away from the MMO
guy. Here he am he charges down then up and it just makes a
horrible noise. But yeah, but I don't know, like, yeah,
having the your UFC guy in your fighting games, like, look, this
is what's happening in the world of fighting today. Yeah, yeah, Able
and Crimson Viper gave me a real just SMK vibe. Yeah. No,
looking like Viper especially, Yeah, they just look like like I just thought,
oh, it's king, Like, oh am I gonna be yeah right
am, I gonna like finish her with a fireball and it's gonna bust her
shirt open? Does that doesn't work like that? That? They should totally
just do that. They should straight up just bite that off of off off.
I don't he sk fighting guy. Isn't that all K fighting games?
Yeah? Pretty much? And as as another minor side here. What's up?
My mind cannot differentiate between artifighting and fatal fury anymore. I can't remember
which one King is in because of King of Fighters mashing them all together,
I can't, right, I just think of her as being from Fighters,
right, Well, they all came from somewhere, did they? Aren't there
a bunch of characters that only show I guess now? Yeah, it's fine,
Okay, all the ones that matter, But even the two d ones
weren't weren't some of them are all still two d on Goose Howard Geese from
Okay, Goose Goose, Howard good Old, your favorite fighters like Goose Howard,
Barry Bogard coming soon from SKN. We got all the hits here.
Uh so they're making King, They're making a Prince of Persia film, Jeff
Great More movies about games, Jerry Jerry Bruckheimer. Oh well, Jay Brooks
involved, and I'm that I'm in, he says when they cut the commercial
to go, he's behind the wheel. And I guess there was the iesb
dot Net had a or they got their hands on a worldwide casting survey.
People trying to figure out, you know, who they want to have be
the prince to stand in the movie Edward Norton. Uh And apparently the the
guy that both international and US audience is overwhelmingly voted for was David kay Zandi,
a motion picture executive actor, sham champion, equestrian model, and honest
to goodness Persian prince. And I'm looking at a picture of him right here
and said that he beat out, you know, like Killian Murphy and Orlando
Bloom and zach Efron. Why was anyone considering zach Efron from that role?
It's like the worst. Oh, I don't know, It's like the stupidest
casting you could possibly have. Yeah, well he need a lot more he
need a lot more fake tan to pull it off, though. Yeah,
but this guy, totally, this is probably the most authentic looking Prince of
Persia that I could, I could hope to see in that film. So
I hope that they do go in that direction or they go with zac Efron.
I hope they either go ye authentic or just like he Check it out.
We're Hollywood, right, yeah, check it out. We're crapping all
over something you like yet again? Enjoy, please come see it. Please
don't download this movie? All right? Next next up on my list of
fun stories that I like, which is pretty much what this show is all
about. Apparently. Yeah, uh Namco Bandai is bringing mister Driller to Xbox
Live Arcade. Yeah, I am excited about that because I love me some
mister Driller. I actually I love me some mister Driller. But I have
to say I'm kind of over it, really kind of want to go skiing.
I don't know. It's a mister Driller. It's what you know.
I mean, it's still gonna be the same, although it's gonna be the
same. This is now online, okay, and an HD that's high definition,
Oh high deaf. Well, if it's high deaf, it's high mister
Driller and high def. Dig dug in mister Driller. Yeah, they're in
there. And in this like picture of the title screen, there is totally
a little anime uh dig Doug hanging out in the background. So or whatever.
They don't call him. They don't just call him dig Doug. No,
his actual name is something else that it's and it's like a play on
words in Japanese right that they think is hysterical that we just go it don't
make no sense. Just call him dig Doug. Mister his name is Dick
Dug. Right, Oh, man, dig Dug, call him dig Dugger
and spilled Doug with it. Oh you in and instead of just to use
dig Douglas. I sure, dude, dig Doug me too, man.
That guy can party. Uh yea time man, we went out, damn
welcome in jail. Yeah. I guess it's been long enough since I've played
a Mister Driller game that I'm just happy to have a new excuse to play
more Mister Driller. Yeah. I have my Dreamcast hooked up. I hooked
it up recently, so I actually straight up you have a mister Driller device.
Yeah, I have a Mister Driller friendly device. And they did that
like there's a d H there's a DS game, wasn't there. Yeah,
definitely four years ago, right, Yeah, they definitely have seventies. They
made some some new Mister Driller stuff. Yeah. I think my problem with
Mister Driller is that I really really loved the first game and then they just
have remade it over and over again since like none of the changes they've made
perfect. It is because you can't beat one hundred percent. Jeff, I
guess you're right. I guess that makes sense. Just follow follow that,
all right, fine, but that doesn't mean I well, well, it's
coming out in Japan sometime this spring, so I imagine it'll it'll hit us
Xbox Lab Arricade at some point thereafter. Kind of a bummer week for Xbox
Lab Arcade. Yeah, let's let's talk about that. Doom and Assault Heroes
are being cut from eight hundred points to four hundred points, which is great
if you didn't buy Doom or Assault Heroes, but we did it for us,
so yeah, let's let's let's wind that bag. It's not a bummer
week for Xbox Lab Arcade. It's a bummer week for us for Xbox Live
Arcade. I think they're one and the same. I don't, I don't
know. I like see this is interesting to me because I wondered this from
the start, you know, whether they were going to start reducing the prices
of back catalog stuff, because you know, the logic of reducing prices on
in a retail environment is to get stuff off of shelves. But since there's
theoretically unvirtual shelves, unlimited virtual shelf space on Xbox Libricade, they could just
keep everything up for as long as they want, and they could, you
know, sell it for however much they want to. Yeah, and I
guess they're experimenting with the trying to goose sales on on older products and dud.
Five bucks for that version of Doom and five bucks for Assault Heroes is
yeah, those are both. Those are both solid games. A saut Heroes
is awesome, and they're working on a sequel to Assault Heroes, which I'm
pretty happy about, absolutely, because I could use a good dual joystick shooter
after playing so much Rocket Man, which was not a great dual joystick shooter.
You'll give that an anaconda. I'll give that a snake wrapped around a
Chris sandwich preventing you from getting at the Kris sandwich out of five or is
the cry sandwich keeping you from getting at the snake? Think about it,
think about it. That doesn't make any sense. But if I want the
what if I want the snake and I'm allergic to chrissand which is if you're
allergic tore sandwich is go outside and blow your brains out. You have to
do it outside, Yeah, because I don't want to clean up in here.
I guess it would be kind of messy. Yeah, I couldn't use
this chair again after that. Yeah, well, I don't know, I
wouldn't mind too much. Uh So, So yeah, that's so nothing new
coming out on Xbox Live Arcade this. Yeah, and it's There's another interesting
story I saw about it was it was one of the people that are one
of the firms that are developing for we Wear uh complaining about Xbox Live RCAD
just saying that it's full of SS, It's full of S, it's full
of that ish. Yeah, that that because of all the crap games on
Xbox Lave Arcade, that he didn't want to make more games for that because
it would just get buried under mountains of retro stuff. I guess the problem
I have with that argument is, what about all of the virtual console stuff
on the Wii? Is that not exactly the same thing, Dude, It's
a separate button. Okay, Okay, there's a we wear button, ann
a virtual console button, so it's totally different. That's a week I read
I read this. I read the same thing of these guys talking about it,
and I feel like there are other things bothering this guy about Xbox Libricide
development beyond right. It's it's similar to the argument there some of the stuff
that Jeff Menter was saying in the wake of Space Giraffe, where he was
he was just super distraught. He was he was updating this blog and he
said, stopped updating. I think, uh where he was just like totally
couldn't just just couldn't come to grips with the concept that the Frogger outsold Space
Giraffe, that this, you know, remake of Frogger, This this emulated
version of Frogger outsold his original new game, not even particularly well emulated,
right, Yeah, that it wasn't like a great it was not a great
version of Frogger, though. I mean, you know, you can make
the argument that a large chunk of his game is tempest. Sure, it's
it's it's a don't. But also that Space Draft is completely impenetrable to anyone
who isn't crazy. I love Space Draft. Yeah, it's a little tough.
I have not played a lot of Space Draff. I guess Space Draft
is a game that I respect. Yeah, but no, I yeah,
I respect and love it. But at the same time, if you came
to me and said, hey, dude, Frogger outsold Space Draff. I'd
be like, well, yeah, no kidding, because people get Frogger.
So I think that, you know, really, if developers are having these
sorts of problems and can't cope with the concept of twenty year old arcade games
out selling them, then maybe they need to look into getting the word out
about their games a little bit better on line and in print or something like
that, because, I mean, the coverage of upcoming Xbox Live arcade games
has been pretty abysmal because a lot of that stuff isn't made available to the
press beforehand. And also and and just the nature. I think more developers
need to get on Microsoft about having a really good schedule for games. I
have to imagine that they cut these prices and are doing this this week because
something fell through. There was probably some game that they originally had scheduled and
went, oh wait, crap, that game totally failed. Sert well,
we could we could do this price drop we were thinking about, Like,
I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. So it's just like shoring
up all that stuff and making it a more reliable channel that you can easily,
you know, so you can promote these games ahead of time to the
audience and say, hey, guess what spaced Raft or you know, whatever
game is coming out three weeks from now, here's a video of it you
can download. Here's some more information about it. You know, then you
wouldn't have these situations where cool games like Undertow don't sell anything because no one
has any idea what Undertow is. You tell someone, hey, dude,
froggers out, they go, oh, frogger, I remember that. I'll
totally pay five bucks where you tell them there's this game undertow and I don't
know it's underwater. So if you come at me with your downloadable game that
I've never heard of before from a developer that no one's ever heard of before,
right, you know, without much of a you know, kind of
marketing or advertising push. Although again, you know, these these are games
that are often being published and produced by people who don't have budgets for that
kind of stuff, right, And I think that that's something that Microsoft has
to get better at. Yeah, you know, because they take a chunk
of these sales. It's in their best interests to make sure that these games
do well, especially in cases where they're only available via Xbox Live Arcade,
because that helps sell the service to people, you know, helps helps people
understand why they want an Xbox three sixty or you know. I think the
same goes for Sony. They just don't have as big of a catalog,
but they're gonna have the same problem they have their Mortal Kombat twos and their
Cuberts and all that. I think that it's just a matter of figuring out
a way to get out in front of people and showing them these games before
they come out, and letting and letting them prepare themselves for the game's release
instead of just like the day before or two days before, going, Hey,
Bliss Island's coming out. What's Bliss Island? Dude, I don't know.
Fuzzy something puzzle? Nah? Eight ten bucks. The more I think
about this, and that was five bucks. The more the more I think
about still, the more ridiculous it is to me that, you know,
people are basically complaining there's too much competition. Yeah, I can't sell I
can't sell well because there are too many other things out there for people to
buy. What do you think is going to look like months from now or
you know, six months after it's release. Guess what. I don't mean
to be a jerk about it, but poor baby, you know, deal
with the open market system. Yeah, while we're on the topic of Xbox
Live Arcade, one of my personal favorite XBLA releases from last year, puzzle
quests quests in effect, Challenge of the Warlords, is getting an expansion pack,
and that is an Xbox Live Arcade game. Now, they've they've we've
seen like got some kind of content packs, you know, of new vehicles
or levels or you know, multiplayer stuff for various Xbox Library Aid games.
But I think this is the first occurrence of an actual Undertow, like I
just said, Undertow. So so this is the first time that this has
ever happened except for Undertow. It's it's kind of interesting. It's groundbreaking of
them to to, you know, try this to be the first ones out
there. It's it's it's pretty daring. You mean Undertow. No, I'm
talking about puzzle quests. I'm sorry, what were you talking about Undertow.
There's expansion for the Undertow, was there. Well, I'm not excited about
Undertow. Yeah, I'm excited about the underwater Battlefield well, here's my question.
Did the people who make Undertow allow players to name the expansion pack?
No, they did, well burn on them, because that's what the folks
that are making the Puzzle Quests expansion are doing. They're yeah, just saying,
Hey, the story is basically revolving around Lord Baine's brother and Tharg,
the Lord of the Plague, and he's gonna come after you for killing his
bro and that's to be a little a little more puzzling action for you if
you're so they give you that those tidbits of information and not want you to
come up with a name for the expansion, and you know you're gonna submit
this somehow to them for prizes, for cash and prizes. Yeah, puzzle
hyphen quest dot com you can. You can go there and submit your your
suggestion. Jeff, do you have anything off the top of your head.
Plague Lords that's pretty good. I like it. Lord of the Plague,
Yeah, because he's a lord of the plague. So Plague Lords lords or
onset of the Plague that sounds uncomfortable. Plague Masters, Masters of Terrace Casi
perfect, I love it. Puzzle Quest yeah, Master to the Ters.
So yeah. So don't. Don't send it into them, send it into
us. Send it to us, and then we'll send it in and we'll
pick the best ones from from those ones, and then and they'll submit them
with our names on them and see if we can win. Yeah. Uh
so that's that's that's pretty awesome, Jeff. Did you see that they have
in Japan? They have revealed the for the MGS four PlayStation three steel It
looks kind of like black. Yeah, this just kind of looks like a
washed out version of the curt It's like a more of a flat black.
Yeah, if you were going to spray it down with cans of cryl on.
Uh, let's see here. And they also did some some pricing here
in Japan. According to Famitsu, the regular version of middle Gear Solid four
will retail for eighty eight hundred yen approximately ninety one dollars US eighty eight hundred.
Yeah, that's uh. Japanese game pricing is kind of funny that way.
When they know that people will pay it, they charge it. They're
not all I was. I was totally ready for you to say ninety eight
hundred yen for that. Oh No, special edition is ninety eight hundred s
and the and the Big Bundle will go for fifty one thou eight hundred,
approximately five hundred and thirty four dollars, which actually gets not a bad price
for a play the game. Yeah, and that's a duel shock. Yeah,
I guess I guess by then that's gonna be a duel dual shock.
Hum, that's not bad, uh, I guess I would have expected maybe
uh, some sort of sweetma book. Yeah, yeah, Camo would have
been. Kamo was a big part of MGS three that era. So that's
why, Well they can't make an active Camo PS three. Why not because
active Camo doesn't work yet? In that they can't do it. They do
it. But but Jeff, this is Japan. Even in Japan, dude,
I gotta say, the energy giving properties of the of this, the
mojo mojo, we're feeling it, you're drinking both that in the Iron Brew
kind of concurrently, I am, but I don't think the Iron Brew actually
has anything energizing in its well, caffeine like that does anything to me anymore.
Whatever receptors in my mind that are supposed to work when caffeine hits them
have been corroded over oh uh so so there were some rumors about this last
week and I guess now it's it's been scuttle butt, uh Internet, but
there's some buzz. There was some buzz, some smoke on the streets,
the internet streets. Yes, uh that Prey to Pray two oh awesome pre
too. That everyone's favorite, everyone's second favorite Native American first person shooter series
is back. What's our first favorite? Oh sure? Yeah right, ah
right that is yeah, yeah, sequel to Prey. Maybe it'll take them
like nine years to make this one too. No, but see Human Heads
doing it from the start, so they don't they don't have They give people
to know how to ship games right away. Yeah wait yeah, so uh
we'll see here and and it is two k involved in that, like no,
right, this this whole Radar, this new company that Scott Miller started
up, it's like their thing. Yeah, Radar Group is going to be
the ones making it. In Human Head, the guys who made the I
guess finished the first Prey are developing, are developing it. You're gonna plays
Tommy again, the Native American warrior who saved Earth from alien and evasion in
Prey, this time abandoned and framed for the disappearance of his family and girlfriend.
Tommy escapes on Earth that no longer wants him for a future that cannot
survive without him. Man, that game takes itself mad serious. Yeah,
and it's goofy. Well, I don't know. The first one was just
goofy. The first one was pretty goofy. Uh. It was silly gravity
twists. Like. I don't want to talk too much crap about Prey because
it's it's not It's not not a bad game, was not bad. But
I could go the rest of my life without seeing a sequel to Prey.
And I think right about it again, maybe Human Head getting to, you
know, take a crack at this from scratch. Maybe they'll do more interesting
stuff with like the portal stuff, right, and they are. We are
living in a post portal world. Pray did have these portals that would occasionally,
like there was one portal right right in the beginning of the game that
teleported you inside this tiny uh sphere that was encased in glass, so it's
like it totally changed your size and everything and teleported you down into this little
box and then you teleported out of it, and it was like the coolest
thing in the whole game, and it happened right off the bat and they
never did anything like that again. So so yeah, in this regard,
Portal has definitely upped the anti for these kinds of gameplay mechanics. Yeah.
I think that the Human Head should just license the source engine and they should
totally give Tommy a Portal gun and make the Portal like Portal with guns thing
that you know Half Life two episode three is going to end up being.
Is that your that's your guests for sure? Did you finish that episode two?
No? Yeah? Well okay, well don't say anything else, jerk.
I haven't. I haven't gotten to dude. I didn't even finish the
original damn half Life two, so I hadn't either until right before Orange Box
came out because I knew I was going to have to review that and it
would do me well to have actually finished the other might help. Never finished
Half Life one really well, yeah I can't really, huge fan, I
can't. I can't fault Yeah, yeah, for I mean, yeah,
basically the end of that game is a massive bummer. Yeah. I actually
once I I went and I went and watched it that once I get once
I once I go to Alien Town. I turned on all the cheats just
so I could get through it. It's like, I don't I don't want
to do I don't care about this stuff. This isn't this isn't asked having
so much for so much more fun when I was fighting teams of tactical soldiers
and tactics using tactics. So that's Prey. I guess, are we still
talking about Pray? I let's know, we're done. We're done talking about
Prey. Let's talk about Guitar Hero Beatles Edition. Yeah. Where where did
this story come from? This comes from? On the Beatles side of the
LA Times reported that Sony ATV CEO Marty Bandler was basically saying that, you
know, they've they've talked about getting the Beatles into Guitar Hero and something that
they want to pursue, which kind of makes it sound like the ball is
in activisions in that regard, which I think at that point you say,
okay, which is crazy to me because you know, the Beatles and or
you know whoever, the license holders for that stuff have been very tight with
any sort of online distribution. You can't buy Beatles songs anything other than I
believe forty fives. You have to have a record player exactly. I have
a record player, have some sort of turntable. Yeah, eight track.
I think they made some eight tracks. They may have done a couple great
greatest hit promo only radio stations label. Uh that's end. And as as
much yang as we talked about Guitar Hero Aerosmith and about how you know,
the single band music game concept is ridiculous and would never work, I think
this is probably one of the rare instances where I looked at it and said,
oh, yeah, totally, I would go and buy this game if
this had you know, songs from throughout the Beatles catalog, because yeah,
I feel like like they specifically cover such a range of different like their sound
just changes so much from you know, over the course of ten fifteen years.
But at the same time, like this just makes me think, I
really don't want a Guitar Hero Beatles game, right, I want a rock
Band Beatles game because there are four Beatles, and rock Band is a four
player game. Each one could be one of them. True perfect done ship
it h Yeah, But you know, there was all that, there was
the kind of rumor going around in light of the Aerosmith thing that that they
would be coming out with other peripherals to allow that sort of thing for Guitar
Hero, which I think at that point the name Guitar Hero really doesn't make
any sense. I feel like actively is going to have to respond to the
multi instrument game that that Harmonics brought with Rock Guitar Hero is still selling so
well. I don't really think that they have to respond to anything except for
the like the well they have to be seeing like all of the money.
Yeah, that's true happening. And then also yeah, in mind shared people
like you and me are sitting here saying Rock Band good, Guitar Hero bad,
right, which is not entirely true. I still like Guitar Hero,
and I would totally I would still play this game, even if I would
prefer a Beatles tracks in Rock Band instead. Any other bands that you would
play a single, single, single game from, I mean not I could
go. I could go for a led Zeppelin game. I know you're not
the sure. I don't always like to get the lead out. Seven o'clock
on the bone. It's time to get the lead out, man. Yeah,
you know no, most of the most of the groups, most of
the artists out there that I have a deep love of their entire catalog.
I don't think would fit in. A WEEN might be okay, but only
if it came with like a voice changer microphone you could built into probably I
guess it is. Yeah, that's software, so yeah, I don't know.
It should give you extra points if you can actually sing like that,
though, imagine playing roses are free guitar hero it'd be good. Yeah,
man, it'd be a good one because Ween in there. There's there's some
ween in there. Yeah, because you know, it's like they have the
country they put out their country album. They have all the weird old low
fi crazy stuff. You know, they have all the weird ridiculous musician ship
later late model stuff all there, all their weird lengthy all the weird.
No, by the way, we totally know how to play these instruments,
we just weren't playing them very well before you got this twenty minute version of
this song. Now, but they should come out with a new microphone controller
that is a gas mask, and it should come with a can of Scotch
card. Yeah, absolutely good for kids, good for kids for kids.
Yeah, ween would be a good one. But I was gonna say like
they might be giants. I think that, you know, that wouldn't be
bad. I think that they would fit into some kind of video game.
Well, but so much of their older stuff is not so guitar driven true
that that I don't know that that would be a really great fit. And
then the rest of it, like I I, you know, I think
that someone should make an ice Cube game. I just don't think it should
be a music game. I think it'd just be ice Cube two D side
scroller him walking to the right, busting people's asses. Sure, I'm sure
ice Cube would like that as well. Yeah, I don't care if it's
a flash game or whatever. I just want ice like ice cubs new album,
his new albums coming out in June, dropping, the time is right
for an ice Cube flash game where he walks to the right and busts people's
asses. I like it like Shaq Foo, Like Shaq Foo, but instead
of a basketball damn fists. Uh. And Keith David isn't it a narrator?
He's David should be in everything. So I think that's that's where the
music game, the music genre needs to figure out how to do rap Alex
for Goblins of Harmonics, kind of came out and said, yeah, you
can't really do that in rock bands so well, because it's the same drum
loop. It's like a sixteen bar drum loop if you're lucky, but it's
more likely a two or a four bar loop. Yeah. No one wants
to play that for two and a half three minutes. Yeah, yeah,
I guess. I guess in that regard, although and you can't really play
the guitars. I mean you could, but that's just totally contrived of that
place. I guess. The thing is that I don't have an issue with
using the guitar controller to play instruments that aren't guitars. Like if there's a
synth line, right, I'd happily play. I mean like they you know,
they did the freeze pop stuff they did in the past, but those,
I mean they like freesepop went back and did more rocky version of those.
Personally, I don't think they needed to. I don't. Yeah,
I would have glad I preferred the originals myself too, but I would gladly
pretend that you know, I'm using a key tar, which frank you know
pretty much I am. Anyways, it's a shape they need they need a
French house music game. Yes, totally. There's like there should just be
a daft punk game that is part music game, part robots with their faces,
with their faking and faces melting off, robots driving across the country in
silence. Yes, dude, that would be an awesome game like silence.
Yeah, just one synth note for like an hour and a half for this
whole level, just like that. Yes, them driving silently and then one
of them kills the other one just to set him free, and then the
game as fantastic. Someone I want a Justice game. Someone make these things
happen for us, we decree them to be so. Or at the very
least, someone make a futuristic racing game and put all that music in it.
I would settle for that. What are the Crystal method doing? Where
are they? I think they're in Las Vegas doing crystal meth jerks. Well,
well can we talk about this. We'll be down there soon. Uh
yeah, yeah there is Uh yeah, actually that was that was the story
I wanted to talk about. If you go to nube dot com and oob
dot com, uh, ed boone or someone someone involved with Mortal Kombat.
Let's just say Ed Boone because it's probably Ed Boone has been running that site
for years. Yeah, and if you go there right now, there's a
countdown and are you are you looking that up Temple? What's left on the
countdown? I wasn't, but I'll do that anyways. You keep talking.
Oh, yeah, so they have they have a countdown and there is a
Mortal Kombat logo as part of the countdown. So people have been thinking,
uh, is this going to be a countdown to the announcement of the next
Mortal Kombat game. Yes, basically, yes, Midway is having an event
in Vegas that is going to coincide with the expiration of this countdown. Thirty
days, one hour, fifteen minutes, and six seconds fight No, five
seconds, It just keeps going down, all right. Well but that's roughly
where we're at. Yeah, And so there's a month from now, which
is about when the thing, which is about when there's a Midway thing out
in Vegas that they're inviting the press too, and uh, and Giant Bomb
dot Com will be there. We will be there to provide coverage, yes,
some kind and yeah, I'm looking forward to this. You're actually yeah,
I'm not so much. But you are a huge fan of the MK.
Yeah, like I like it Boom, I think more than I like
MK. That guy's awesome. That guy is solid, so enthusiastic. That
guy is legit. He does not have any of like the weird game designer
pretentiousness. He's right, He's like, he's like the fighting game designer that
you can believe in because he's the guy who will tell you yeah, you
know, I think Techen's pretty good. It's like Itagaki where he just comes
out and says, I think teckn his crap four that's a fighting game.
Yeah, he's not. He's not all ego. He seems like he's the
dude that was well whatever. He was making pinball machines before he was doing
yea doing this, so he's he's got history. Yeah, like and that's
I mean, back back when dudes were doing this, we're like, you
know, engineers and mechanics. I have a huge soft spot for Midway.
I have for for a long time because that they have this this huge arcade
history, Like some of the greatest games ever made have come out from Midway
or or Williams before they were using the Midway name. You know, just
stuff like Defender and Robotron. It just like this Eugene Jarvis, just all
this early stuff awesome. You know, Spy Hunter technically a Midway product.
Joust Joust, Yeah, yeah, a lot of rules, you know,
just like all these great arcade classics. And then you know when they shift,
when everything shifted over to consoles, and you know, Midway was on
top of the world. They had NBA Jam, they had the Mortal Kombat
games. Then like MKA four came out, and then consoles started really taking
away from the arcade business, and it seemed like it was really the three
D shift, right like they try Like there are some some early three D
Midway arcade games, The Grid, The Grid It's not so bad. Another
Ed Boon game actually, but uh yeah, I don't know. Midway kind
of lost its way when they when they got out of the arcade business and
and it's like they they're always on the verge of finding it. They have
always on the verge of getting there. And then it's like, well like
yeah, strangleholds sold okay, and I don't really like it so much.
And they have they have flashes, and I can understand why you want to
keep believing in them. I get that. Yeah, and then I imagine
that, so I imagine we'll be seeing more on their TNA wrestling game,
which I hear is fast, yeah, which is something that I think would
really benefit a wrestling game right about now, because all the HQ games are
just so slow. Well, we'll we'll have all sorts of fun stuff from
Vegas next month when they drop all this at the event. So look forward
to that. Yeah, let's talk about new releases. Let's h hot Shots.
Didn't that come out this week? Well, let's let's I'm going through
the list. Give me a second here. Well, obviously Rainbow six Vegas
two came out, right, Yeah, that's out. That's that's out.
Oh, and I guess Condemned two for the p S three comes out this
week. Yeah, yeah, they staggered that a little bit. Uh three
sixty was last week? PS three this week? Why who knows. Oh,
there's the MGS Essential Collection for the PlayStation two. You're right, hot
Shots Golf out of Bounds for the PlayStation three. Sweet more more hot shots
for you? Yeah? Should you get that? Yeah? We should?
Uh? You like yourself some video game golf. I like video game golf.
I have not been hot on the hot Shots for a while because I
felt like the last few games they kind of were just treading water a little
too much, don't I don't know that you'll be into this one then,
because I played the demo that came out like eight months ago, and it
seemed like it was kind of the same thing. But that was just demo.
Maybe it's great. Well, I from what I've seen of it,
it seems like they are kind of embracing the multiple shot styles. Okay,
so it's not all just three button click stuff, right, Yeah, you
can do yeah, which I guess. Yeah, basically the tire Woods games
kind of spoiled me on, you know, having more nuance in the action.
Uh you know, not that the three button style is bad, it's
just kind of got tired of it. Yeah. Uh so, so that's
out. What else we said, Rainbow six Vegas two already h oh and
we should get this too. Sega's Superstars Tennis right hit for a variety of
like every damn console. Uh So, that's so I can go play tennis
as sambade amigo yes or Amigo Amigo amigo, not as the dance and LaaS
in the game too. Isn't it. Yeah? Yeah, and night or
nights nights dude? Is his name just nights? I don't know. All
right, fantastic, pretty good, pretty Can you play as a car from
Daytona? God? I hope. So they need to do a sequel to
Fighters. Mega Mix is what they need to do. Just take the VF
five engine and fill it full of crazy again. That's that's But those are
this week's major releases, it seems that's. Yeah, a few good stuff.
Yeah, let's let's track down some hotshots. Let's track down some some
saga sure, yeah, some Sega tennis. I'm interested in those. Yeah,
you're a golf and tennis kind of guy, I am. I'm not
a big sports game fan, but I like the odd sports. Like if
the volleyball game comes out, I'm all over that. H yes, please
Little super Spike, Yeah, absolutely, well v ball. Uh let's uh.
So that's that's it for new releases. For this week, we cover
topics. Do you want to jump into emails? Yeah, let's take some
questions. Let's take some questions for the folks at home. Folks at home
home, if you want to write in and have your question read on the
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That's right, BombCast at GiantBomb dot com. Any comcast any comments or questions
or anything of that regard uh sitting in there and uh yeah, and we'll
read it and go now, I'm not gonna read that on the air,
that's crazy, and then delete it. So people are out their minds,
all right. Our first question comes in from Quentin and we hawk in New
Jersey, and he wants to know he's been hearing probably the same buzzy rumors
that you and I have about about how now that the the HDDVD is dead
and gone that you know is Microsoft, you're gonna start talking to Sony about
getting a Blu ray drive attachment for the three sixty Would they ever ship you
know, is their next system, would they have a Blu ray player in
it? It's a I mean, it's it's an I guess it's a an
evocative question because it kind of, you know, makes that weird crossing of
the line for this whole console. Sony just being a bunch of different businesses
having a bunch of different parts to it, and Microsoft being the same way.
Well, I think this is partially fueled by Sony kind of come out
and saying, we've been talking to Microsoft about Blu Ray possibilities. But they've
been talking to Microsoft, not necessarily to the Xbox division, right, And
there's a lot of parts of Sony that could be talking to a lot of
parts of Microsoft. Right. So Aaron Greenberg, who works specifically on Xbox,
kind of came out and said, no, we haven't talked to anybody
at Sony about a Blu Ray drive for the three sixty. I don't know,
you guys crazy In my opinion is that that they shouldn't. Then that
it would be ridiculous for them to do this. Oh, I think they
should totally do it. All Microsoft has been doing with Xbox Marketplace these days
is pushing you know, HD movie downloads. Yeah, and they make mad
money off of that stuff. They don't, I mean, they're I get
to feel like, in general, the whole Microsoft business is all about getting
away from disc based media. I mean, with Xbox, librakide downloadable stuff,
with downloading TV shows, renting movies. I would be surprised if the
next Microsoft console has anything more than a DVD drive. I don't know,
dude, I think I personally and I think Microsoft feels the same way I
think discs are played, putting discs into stuff to use content. I see
where you're coming from, because I've you know, I'm a big fan of
stuff like Steam. Yeah, I think Xbox Live, Arcade and PlayStation Network
are awesome. But at the same time, those Blu Ray discs look pretty
good. And now that it's the dominating format, I mean, there are
going to be people that just aren't set up to take advantage of online downloads,
and for those people, there's always going to be a need for disc
based distribution. But what you know, how does that ever benefit Microsoft?
It eats into their notable movie rental business. They have to pay Sony a
buttload of money to license the Blue Ray, they have to manufacture the Blu
Ray player, they have to do all this r and D to get it
to play nice with the you know, the existing Xbox software. Uh,
you know, and they I imagine they probably already got burnt doing for the
av D already, although I also have to imagine that that Toshi but probably
subsidized a good portion of that stuff. Anyways, But yeah, you know,
Sony has no desire to do that. Frankly, because you know there
would go buy a PlayStation. Yeah, just go by to NPS three,
sir. But there are different divisions of Sony, and while SCA and or
Sony Computer Entertainment would much rather you go buy a PlayStation three, the Blu
Ray division wants as many Blu Ray players out there as possible, and I
imagine they will cut deals with whoever whenever just to get that installed base up
so that the movies start selling more and they start picking up all the licensing
fee from the movies. So there's definitely a benefit to Sony to making all
that stuff happen, and it might be enough for them to make it worth
Microsoft's while. But I agree with you that Microsoft's position is definitely moving more
and more online, and I think that they've done really well with that stuff.
Yeah, but I have other than one time when I accidentally rented Norbit
was a d D no less and bought five God anyway, other than one
time when I screwed up and accidentally rented Norbit, which I didn't actually watch.
You watch some of it. I watched some of it, went oh
man, this is God. Damn Eddie Murphy. Wait, yeah, I
have not purchased anything from the video marketplace, and I would much rather get
a disc than than a rental. I like, I don't even rent movies.
I don't have a Netflix account. Yeah, I don't believe in it.
Uh. It's something where like something that Greg Kazavin and I would always
be totally firm on, is this concept of just like you want, you
want to watch something, got and buy it. Forget this rental crap.
It's like you want something, just go get it and and and just have
this movie, this ridiculous movie collection like that then, and that's and which
is why you have a whole bunch of movies you've never watched, right,
That's the other awesome thing is that I've purchased and thousands of dollars one hundreds
if thousand, hundreds of thoo hundreds if thousands on stupid movies that you never
watch. So I think in that in this regard, you are approving exactly
why the downloadable rental thing is the right way to go. Oh yeah,
it's way smarter. But that doesn't mean I'm gonna do it, sure,
I mean I get your perspective. Yeah, a lot of people prefer to
own that there's plenty of movies that I would like to own a copy of,
But there's plenty of that's like, all right, I can watch that
once and then never see it again. I don't need that taking up shelf
space. Yeah, so well, see, eventually I'll come around and that
stuff will probably make more sense. But for now, I'm I'm pretty psyched
to buy some more Blu ray discs. I mean, if you could buy
these HD movies for download, would you no? Because they would take up
space on something forever. To me, hard drive space is more valuable in
shelf space. Being a homeowner and having a lot of room in a garage
and all that kind of crap. Yeah. See, I'm living an apartment.
So if I can get rid of all those damned shelves full of discs
and whatnot that I have, yeah, i'd be I'd be happy. Like
I did that with CDs a while back, like ripped all my CDs and
trashed them. Yeah, and by trash I mean sold them to a CD
east or compact disc retailer, A compact disc retailer and rebuyer. Yes.
So I eventually made the jump with music to where I don't feel bad about
buying stuff off of iTunes, though at the same time, I would rather
buy it off like Amazon because as those just straight up m P three's I
get doing this. Yeah, I've started. I've started going to Amazon because
all their stuff is is deer and free and cheaper, yeah and cheaper.
The yeah, the way that stuff is working, and it's got a nice
on OS ten. It has a nice download client and everything, so it's
it's a pretty clean interface and then it it'll actually automatically import into iTunes.
It knows how to do all that stuff, so it's like an extra step
beyond what you do through the iTunes store. But getting it, you know,
completely DRM free all the time is pretty sweet. But at the same
time, I think I would still rather buy the CD so that I can
have control over it. Uh what, how I rip it? How it
goes? I am an impatient cat, and that's and that's the thing that
always gets me is it's like, oh, I want to get the CD.
I'm not gonna wait to order it from Amazon or I'm not gonna go
to buy to a store. If I can just click over here on my
computer that I'm already sitting in front of and hit go, Yeah, I
mean, I think that what they need to do is start figuring out solutions
where I can go to a site like Amazon or something and say, I
want this album. I want it on CD, and but I want also
want it now, and maybe they charge me like two bucks extra or something
like that so I can download all the m P three's and then they send
the disc normally like I would. That seems like it'ld be awesome, like
the money, the extra money would cover the bandwidth because okay, so perfect
example, I ordered the Goldie Looking Chain album on Amazon on UK. It's
not coming out in the US. It probably never will because it's the GLC
and weird, like two of the seven people that live on this continent know
what that means, and uh, yeah, it's you know, I didn't
want to pay like nine pounds for shipping, so I got the slow shipping
and now it's gonna take me over a week to get this damn CD.
Whereas if it was made available online somehow, right, you could have it
immediately. Yeah again, and then part of me wants to like go look
at torrent sites and see if I can find it, because I would feel
totally justified and downloading it because I already paid for it, paid money for
this, I own a copy. It's like I legally own this, just
I just want to hear it now. So that's super frustrating. But then
again, like they're like self releasing this album because they got dropped from their
label or anything like that. So it's like, I don't even think that
they're gonna make it into the iTunes UK store with this thing which you couldn't
even use, which I couldn't even use even if they did, So it's
just I don't know. It's just I just I think discs are played.
I think I think physical media is totally play it out. That's that's kind
of my overall perspective on this, and that's that's where I'm coming from on
all of these fronts. Is I am happy paying for what is basically information.
I do not have to pay for the physical thing that the information is
coming on. I don't really care about that anymore. Yeah, I don't.
I don't look at CDs while I listened to stuff. I'm you know,
I'm driving in my car, I've got my iPod plugged in. I
mean, yeah, the first thing I do with the CD is rip it
and then throw the CD somewhere and never see it again. Yeah. So,
but it's just nice knowing that I have that in case there's a hard
drive crash, case is something else we're going on, Sure, I just
back up everything. I just have it on a second local show. I
know. Crazy. Well, we spend way too much time to talk about
that. Let's get on to our next question from Guillermo in Tijuana, Mexico.
That's how Mahicans say Mexico, last of the Mahicans. Yep. Uh.
He wants to know about HDMI cables that we use for our our TVs.
Here are actually he asked about for his TV specifically, and wants to
know about if we have any HDMI brands or anything. Yeah. Just go
with the monster name, dude. It's like nine thousand dollars but totally worth
it. Uh. Yeah, Let's let's tell this little story when we went
and bought kind of our first wave of gear for this office. Yea,
we were. We were at a big box retailer. I don't know if
we can say the name of it. Oh, you're the best buy.
Yeah. Uh, we were there and we were buying TV sets and or
no, we were buying consoles and stuff, and we said, oh,
we're gonna need some Hdmi cables for these bad boys. Let's see what they
have in stock here, and everything was insanely price. Even the regular store
brand was still like sixty bucks for likeink. Forty dollars was the cheapest for
like a six foot Hdmi cable that we saw in that store. And the
ones they put near the game consoles are are always the most expensive ones.
Yeah, they're the worst ones as far as as far as the value of
your price. I will I will tell people where I've been getting mine.
I guess I feel like kind of plugging these guys. Monoprice dot com.
You can get Hdmi cables there for like like a six foot Acmi cable for
like four bucks. Guess what they work awesome. Like I've seen online people
doing crazy like wave length comparisons for like the purity of signal over various lengths,
and you know, these things compared totally toe to toe with the most
high end Monster brand stuff that's out there. Yeah, So so don't be
don't let yourself get played by by retailers that are charging ridiculous prices for HDMI
cables because they somehow think that they can. Yeah. I I totally pay
like seventy dollars for like a five foot or four foot HDMI cable last year
because I needed one right that minute, and I knew I was getting bent
over in the process, but I needed it that bad. And it's just
it's just, you know, cables, they they're always like for since the
beginning of time. Cables has been one of those things that that they screw
on because they can, because they can try and tell you all, these
are the premium ones, gold tips, dude. The ones we have are
gold tipped ferrite cores. They have all the same premiums, the same premium
features that monster also and also you know, not to not to overplug this
site. But they let you choose what color you want the cables to be.
Yeah, they have a variet of colors. I have blue ones,
have orange ones, has orange ones. They're going to be offering purple ones
in the our future. Man, you get we should have waited. You
get discounts for buying like more than two, like, they have various So
yeah, I I honestly my experience with them have been great. They're good
fast shipping. Monoprice dot Com. If you are in the market for ACMI
or really any cable they have like crazy all sorts of other ridiculous actually need
a bunch of weird, really weird cables they would probably have if you need
like like twenty foot parallel port cables or Suli Matrix printer. In the other
room, monoprice, I get it jacked in man LPT two son hit the
dip switches words. So that's answer your question. So the other the other
awesome thing about our equipment run is we went and bought Xbox three sixty arcades.
Oh yeah, talk about that because we have hard drives and all other
stuff. Like I bring in my hard drive every day because it has my
account, my saves on it. We don't need we don't need pros,
we don't need elites over here because which actually I actually I'm kind of into
the arcade pack. It's like when we broke it open, it's like,
hey, this isn't what you get for the price is pretty good. You
get the two hundred fifty six mag card. You don't get the hard drive,
which is obviously the big yeah yeah point, but it has the HDMI
port on it, like you know, all of them do at this point,
right, all the currently manufactured ones do. U. It has a
wireless controller. Uh you know. The the other bummer is that only comes
with composite cables yea, not even components. So if you want to do
any HD you're gonna have to pony up for something. But yeah, for
for our needs in here, I thought it was pretty Yeah, it was.
It was perfect. And they also get that disc that has the five
Xbox Labarcade games on it, So that's a little Astro Bonus Championship Edition.
Yeah, one of one of the best Xbox Labarcade games out there. Yeah.
So Ryan opened his up and hooked his up a lot sooner than I
hooked up, mind, Yeah, like within a couple of days. But
at some point last week I finally busted mine open and started hooking it up.
And when I got to the bottom of the box, yeah, empty,
no power supply. But you need that for plight to make it go.
That you need that is not that is not something I I thought for
a second, like, do these are these so stripped down? Did they
don't even come with power? What the hell is going on? Yeah?
Yeah, someone had busted open that box or or something and jacked that.
And then you said you realize afterwards that like it didn't have the bag on
the console, and like all the paperwork was on top of it. So
yeah, like it had obviously been opened. Someone that obviously rooted through there
and jacked it out. I don't know if they I don't know if they
were so brazen as to just take it and do that on the floor at
the store, or if they bought it, jacked it, returned it.
Well, the best Buy people were all claiming, well, we never sell
stuff that's been opened for consoles. It's like, yeah, well, guess
what, check this out. And I remember thinking back when we first bought
it, because we were buying such a volume of stuff, it was easy
for something like that to slip through. Yeah. I thought, oh that
the little label, little sticker that they used to steal the box shut looked
a little bit loose. I was thinking maybe there was something, But then
I also thought maybe the dude had opened it up to look at the cereal
or something because he couldn't see it through a little stupid window. Yeah.
Yeah, but either way, we had to go back because of that awesome
and that's always the worst possible situation for returning something of like, hey,
this thing that I took out of your store, it's not that's supposed to
be in here, isn't in here, because they immediately think, dude,
you just jacked it. You totally stole that disc Like I've bought movies and
games and popped open the case and had there be nothing in there. Yeah,
and it's the most depressing thing in the world because you're fighting such an
uphill battle. Yeah, And but I was also ready to throw down.
I was, Yeah, I mean we did have that receipt that had you
know, like two grand worth of weird equipment on it. Yeah, So
it's it's a lot easier at that point. And say, look, dude,
do I really look like I'm trying to conju with this, Like,
with this much money we just spend in here, are we really looking to
jack you for this twenty dollars table? Yeah, no, we're not.
And they eventually, they once they figured out that they stared at the serial
numbers for I think it took like eighteen different customer service people say wait a
minute, serial numbers a match. That's because there's two on there. That
was confusing the hell out of them they couldn't deal with. We bought two
xboxes xboxing. Uh, let's see here. Next question comes from Trey Pierce
in Plano, Texas. Trey Trey has the question that has been burning in
the minds of men like Jeff and I. He wants to know about deleting
achievements for Xbox three sixty games, games where he has either no or very
few achievements. His issue is that he has six thousand, four hundred and
twenty five out of eighteen thousand, four hundred and fifty five possible points.
And I know where he's coming from on this completion percentage. Completion percentage,
it for me is the number to really that really matters, far more so
than you know overall score. At this point, I don't care. You
know you don't care. I think I think my maximum total right now is
is over two hundred thousand. Like if I went and played all the games
I've played so far, I could have Damn I could have two hundred thousand.
Mine is I'm at about forty five percent completion rate. Yeah, so
mins like one hundred plus. I'm at like twenties, So I don't know.
Anyway, Uh, this was something that was speculated during previous dashboard up.
Yeah, the last dashboard update actually at least made it so that when
you're playing demo versions of Xbox Live Arcade games, those no longer show up,
those no longer get added to your profile. Yeah, so they took
that step. But the other thing is they they said at the time that
you would be able to erase games from your profile to you. Yes,
to me directly, I opposed the question, said do you said, you
said, hey, Xbox, we need to be able to take this stuff
off man. Xbox said, oh yeah. I said, oh, yeah,
that'll be in there. But that was a miscommunication and it did not
make it into the update. I wouldn't be surprised if this is something that
they eventually did add, at least the ability to remove your zero point games.
I don't know that they would. I think that that's where they could
draw the line and reasonable. Yeah, if you've earned achievements in that game,
then no, because I imagine a racing points from your profile is probably
a hassle on the back end. Yeah, I'm sure that that makes things
ridiculously complicated. But so yeah, no official word. There has been rumors
and miscommunications to that effect in the past. I would love to see that.
Yeah, yeah, I have a bunch of weird stuff on my profile
that I could get rid of that. I wouldn't mind wiping clean stuff that
I popped in for ten minutes. It said, all right, that's enough
of that. Uh So that's there. Answers your question there, sir,
thank you for writing in Trey. All right, here's a good question.
This comes in from a reader or a listener, user, a person,
a player, ideally a human. We're thinking human. We're gonna go with
human or you know what. A metal head writes in in from New Jersey
and say there no Carl's Juniors and thus no Captain Crunch milk shakes in Jersey.
So he went rogue and made his own, dude, and he said
it was awesome. His question is what other cereal do you think would make
a good milk shake? Tricks you'd go, you go fruit flavors. I
think a tricks would be good. I think actually just like frosted flakes or
corn flakes. I guess I would go for a something chocolate e like a
cocoa pup, Coco pup, a cookie crisp could be good. Although then
that's kind of a weird line of a milkshake made out of breakfast cereal that's
supposed to be like cookies. I guess you'd just yeah, you just have
a chocolate chip shake at that point. And then and then you're just you're
a hair away from Oreo shakes, which they've already done. Yeah. Yeah,
I'm gonna say it's the well worn Oreo shake pathway. Yawn. Uh,
you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna take the I'm gonna kick this up
another level. Here's what I want to see, all right. I want
to see the rice Crispy Treat milkshake. Yeah, throw some Rice Krispy treats
in there with some marshmallows. No, it's gotta be let it do its
thing. No, No, it's gotta be the treat because that's got to
already have the melted down marshmallow, yeah in it. You don't want to
throw a whole marshmallow and just have chunks of marshmallow hanging out in your milkshake.
Marshmallows are weird, they are. They are, so if you just
got one of those coming up your your pipe, that'd be no good I
think you're eating marshmallows incorrectly, sir, or maybe you are question Actually,
Jeff, there are no more questions. We're gonna call that the end of
our question segments. All right, fantastic, So thanks for everyone who wrote
in. If you didn't get red on the podcast, keep trying, keep
you come up with questions. Bomb cast at giant bomb dot com. Yeah
we uh, we totally neglected this week to come up with a contest for
our Xbox three sixty h D DVD drive. But just think the longer we
delay on this, the more valuable this amazing piece of rare technology becomes.
You'll be able to think back and be nostalgic about early two thousand and eight.
Remember back then, when when the HDDVD drives was everywhere, when you
could still buy hddvds regularly and not in weird bargain basement bins. They still
haven't hit that bargain basement level. I know. That's a bummer. Although
since my year broken, I'm broke, I'm free, shackles of HDDVD have
been lifted from me. Now it's me just wondering did Fletch ever come out?
That's a good thing. To wander would have come out last week.
I'll need to look that up. That's it for. That's it for for
emails, that's it for new releases, that's it for. Yeah, we
got any shouts Phil for the music. Oh yeah, I want to thank
thank, thank Phil who provided O our wicked, awesome new theme music.
We we tortured him with various vague requests of what we wanted to sound like,
no man, more electronic E and then we and then he produced something
and then we said, no, we're not gonna use that. Where to
use the thing you'd showed us first? But yeah, the other music will
show up. We will, we will use it. And I want to
want to thank him for that. And also a happy birthday to Destructoid days
turned two. Well good for them. I like those guys in their weird
metal helmet. Yeah, yeah, they're sweet metal helmet and uh and Ron
Workman is a real American hero. Uh this morning, I uh, I
totally set off the alarm in the office. Yeah, way to go on
that. So that was that was sweet And saw Mickey Dolan's Are those are
those two things connected? Maybe I was so distracted because I was walking across
the street coming to the office from parking my car, and as I was
crossing the street walking the other way, was what I believed to be in
my heart of hearts, Mickey Dolan's with his of the Monkeys, of the
Monkeys, with his tight ponytail and his scrunchy face, and I was so
thinking about, Wow, was that Mickey? That was totally Mickey Dolan's.
I totally was distracted, and I set off the alarm, and then the
cops showed up and and then they left, and it was less dramatic than
I had hoped it was. But yeah, when you called me to tell
me you set off the alarm, you sounded very grim. It's like,
hey, man, are you gonna be here soon? I just set off
the alarm. Oh well, that's why you'd be here, so that we
could if we right, Yeah, I know, but still it's had a
very grim sound to it. Well, I wasn't sure because it was terrifying
because it when I'm down here, like I put in the wrong number on
the on the alarm and then it started going off and it's this horrible loud
noise at the other end of the room. I'm like, oh God,
stopped and I start hitting other buttons and then like it's it, Like the
panel starts beeping at me and I'm like, ah, there's all these noises.
Quiet Still, I'm not ready yet for this to happen. I just
have my my morning drinks still and tried to run upstairs and ask people.
It's a very like Kneel from the Young Ones moment. Just machines hating you.
Yeah, it's happening again. All right, techno fear tech, no
fear. So that'll do it for the Giant Bomb Cast. Thanks for listening
and back next week. Yeah see Youah done, Griff