NQcast28 – Dudebro

This episode we talk Gears of War 3, Driver: San Francisco, Dead Island, X-Men: Destiny and plenty more. Dude. Bro. Come get some.

 

NQcast28 – ‘Dudebro’ Show Notes

First half!

  • Gears of War 3 (Who cares if it’s more of the same? It’s more of the same but with months worth of content and BETTER!)
  • Bulletstorm (Chuck brings our percentage of people on the cast that have beaten it to higher than 0%! He enjoys playing it, though he hates the dialogue. Sorry, dicktits!)
  • Dead Island (Harlo calls it Borderlands With Zombies. That should basically sell everyone on this game!)
  • X-Men: Destiny (Maki takes the bullet for all of us and says not to spend more than $20 on this game. Ever!)
  • Captain America: Super Soldier (Harlo hits the other end of the spectrum, with a $20 game he’d pay full price for. This game is Arkham Asylum with a Captain America skin!)
  • Turok (Chuck gets angry and hates Maki for loaning him this piece of crap!)
  • Ico/Shadow of the Colossus Collection (Harlo borrows Maki’s copy and goes nuts over SotC all over again. Ico not so much since it’s a big escort mission. These games are gorgeous, though!)
  • Ultimate Spider-Man (It may be old and last-gen but it’s still a really good Spidey game!)
  • Batman: Rise of Sin-Tsu (Do not play this game. Punch, kick, it is NOT all in the mind!)

Second Half! (59:55)

  • Driver: San Francisco (Chuck & Maki love the hell out of this completely insane entry in the Driver series. It’s like Quantum Leap meets GTA meets a 70s cop show!)
  • Forza Motorsport 3 (Maki guns for level 50 before Forza 4 arrives! That is a LOT of driving!)
  • Mortal Kombat Arcade Collection (Maki says stay away unless you enjoy losing to psychic computer opponents on Very Easy mode!)
  • Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock (Chuck dives into the last dregs of the music genre for some reason. And guess what? It sucks!)
  • Pinball FX2 (Maki comes around to accepting that it’s not Williams Collection and finally enjoys it as much as Harlo & Chuck!)
  • Demon’s Souls (Harlo decides to attempt to brave the pain. It makes him realize that he is done with Lord of the Rings type settings. Aside from Skyrim, of course!)
  • Beyond Good and Evil (Harlo immediately gets sucked into this world after a couple minutes worth of demo!)
  • Lair (Maki has a brief $10 Challenge game and regrets it. A dragon flight simulator with Sixaxis controls? Yup, this is a recipe for disaster!)
  • Nyko Zoom for Kinect (Maki tries it out and finds it works… Kinda. It’s for VERY specific situations!)
  • Demolition! 
    • Sesame Street: Once Upon A Monster (We think this Dance Central knockoff is the best thing ever if you want to wear your child out!)
    • Gunstringer (Maki is itching to get this, once he has less than 30 games waiting to be played!)
    • Crimson Alliance (Harlo gives this Diablo-style hack & slash a thumbs-up.)
    • The Baconing (Maki gets his ass (death)spanked by this game. Fun humor, though!)
    • Rock of Ages (Funny idea, iffy gameplay. Bowling/tower defense/Age of Empires/Monty Python/What?!)
    • Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon (Do not even waste the time it takes to download this game. Atrocious!)
    • Lucha Fury (Shank with luchadores! What could go wrong? Apparently, everything!)
    • Burnout Crash (It’s not Burnout Revenge’s Crash mode. Once we get over that fact, we actually enjoy the hell out of this puzzle game!)

Listener topics! (2:04:20)

  • TheSuperHungry1 Wants to know if there were any more Kung Fu Rider shenanigans? (Spoiler: No!)
  • BRoy0505 asks: “I have a huge pile of shame. Should I start with mass effect series or the assasins creed series?”  (We disagree a little but come to a consensus. Listen and find out what it is!)

Value Picks! (2:11:12)

  • Captain America (Harlo would gladly pay full price for this sub-$30 game!)
  • Prince of Persia (2008) (Chuck enjoys it, even if he thinks he might not finish it!)
  • Marvel Ultimate Alliance (Maki knows we’ve recommended it before but he doesn’t care. This game is still way better than X-Men Destiny!)

What we are getting this fall! (2:16:05)

  • Harlo is getting: Skyrim, Batman: Arkham City, Rage and probably Uncharted 3 and Modern Warfare 3!
  • Chuck is getting: Battlefield 3 and Saints Row 3!
  • Maki is getting: Forza Motorsport 4, NBA 2K12, Modern Warfare 3, Dance Central 2 and House of the Dead Overkill: Extended Cut!

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

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