NQcast23 – Ready? Fight!

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This episode is (mostly) all about virtual pugilism as we talk Mortal Kombat, WWE All Stars and Fight Night Champion. Also there’s this quirky puzzle/maze game we all played that maybe you’ve heard of. We hear it really takes the cake.

NQcast23 – ‘Ready? Fight!’ Show Notes

First half!

  • Portal 2 (Just like 99% of the world, we really love this game. Controversial, we know!)
  • Mass Effect 3 (BJ predicts it will not be as good, the rest of us vehemently disagree with him.)
  • Playstation Network (Yup, it’s down, and we hate hackers. Controversial, we know!)
  • Mortal Kombat (Once again, we eat crow since this game pretty much rules. Unless you’re going for 1000 achievement points. Then it’s crazy stupid.)
  • Customizing a SF4 joystick (AKA this is how much Harlo enjoyed MK. Paradise Arcade rules, check them out at www.paradisearcadeshop.com)

Second Half! (44:26)

  • WWE All Stars (Harlo picks it up and the rest of us spend time naming forgotten wrestlers that are not in the game for some reason.)
  • Character Customization (WWE All Stars leads us into a discussion of customizing ourselves into games. Most of the time it involves us making ridiculous amazing things.)
  • Fight Night Champion (Harlo goes nuts and buys yet another game… And loves the story mode a million times more than he figured he would!)
  • Gears of War 3 Beta (Maki and Harlo just can’t get into it. I guess Horde mode will always have our hearts. And chainsaws.)
  • Modern Warfare 2 (Spec Ops still rules and it is still HARD AS HELL on the higher difficulties.)
  • CODBLOPS Call of the Dead (We debate whether it will be any different from the other zombie maps. Probably not.)
  • Mass Effect 2 (Maki beats Insanity mode… And our long national nightmare is officially over.)
  • Mirror’s Edge Time Trial DLC (Maki thinks it still looks amazing, but it is controller-snappingly difficult.)
  • Burnout Paradise Big Surf Island DLC (BJ and Maki enjoy corkscrewing and flatspinning their flying deloreans in the coolest car sandbox ever.)
  • Torchlight XBLA (BJ & Harlo achieve 100% in it! They definitely got their money’s worth.)
  • Magicka (Nobody played Vietnam yet but we figure out some really good spells!)

Value Picks! (1:29:31)

  • X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Harlo declares it “the best movie-based game of all time.”)
  • Mercenaries 2 (BJ declares it a “sandboxy South America blow-shit-up” game.)
  • Motorstorm (Maki declares this PS3 racing game “an excuse to put you in CRAZY environments.”)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

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