Episode 017
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About This Episode
Recorded Tuesday October 31st, 2006
Happy Halloween! In this weeks gaming podcast, Tobin and Yuzo feature Contact on the Nintendo DS. We also cover a couple of crazy japanese arcade games and Reservoir Dogs, and sneak previews include Final Fantasy XII and Need for Speed: Carbon.
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Featured Game
Games We're Playing
- (Arcade) The Idolmaster - [09:31] “There’s no game within the game”
- (Multi) Reservoir Dogs - [16:07] “Not very fun”
- (Arcade) Neo Counterstrike - [18:59] “Looked pretty cool”
- (DS) Children of Mana - [22:36] “It’s kind of boring but better than Contact”
New Releases
- (PS2) Final Fantasy XII (10/31) - [26:14] “Really looking forward to it”
- (Multi) Need for Speed: Carbon (10/31) - [28:45] “Didn’t like the demo, so not looking forward to this”
- (Multi) FEAR (10/31) - [29:12] “Probably rent it, not looking forward to it”
- (PSP) Power Stone Collection (10/31) - [32:45] “Will definitely check it out”
- (DS) Pokemon Ranger (10/30) - [33:19] “Looks like it will be more annoying than the others”
Culture
- PS3 Entamatsuri in Akihabara - [34:02]
- Heavenly Sword - [36:52] “Looks really nice”
- Devil May Cry 4 - [38:03] “Kind of fun, but not that great”
- Resistance: Fall of Man - [38:54] “It looks fun, but nothing special”
- Motorstorm - [41:17] “Looks beautiful”
- Gran Turismo HD - [41:41] “Looks great"
- Virtua Fighter 5 - [41:47] “Looks good"
- Eye of Judgement - [42:15] “Looked awesome but simple”
- Flow - [43:37] “Looks really cool”
- Sloth mentioned different audio levels for each episode and Range replied that they’ll all be standardized from here on out - [46:46]
- Jakandan had no problems with Sam and Max Performance on his PC rig, Tobin responds that his video card sucked - [47:37]
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- Listener Homework: List your PC rig specs and 3D Mark scores here. - [49:10]
- Japan Week 2 pics, check ‘em out! - [49:53]
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Memorable Quotes
Tobin: “We’ll blow all of our cash, like assholes"
Yuzo: "So you don’t have to” - [28:34]
Yuzo: "The entamatsuri, I think it’s like enta-tainment"
Tobin: "Enta the dragon!" - [34:07]
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Audio engineering is done by...
Range Strunk
- For all the names of strunk: Many Faces of Strunk
