NQcast33 – Randy Orton’s Terrible Theme Song

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This episode we talk Saint’s Row the Third/2, Skyrim, Skylanders, WWE ’12, Battlefield 3, Vanquish, Shadows of the Damned and plenty plenty more. Check the show notes below for more details!

 

NQcast33 – ‘Randy Orton’s Terrible Theme Song’ Show Notes

First half!

  • Saints Row The Third (BJ & Harlo finish the story. BJ enjoys the craziness but dislikes the controls. Advice for next time? “Dear Volition, please unfuck your game.”)
  • Saints Row 2 (Chuck & Maki debate the merits of this prequel to Saints Row 3, and see where they fixed the tone and a lot of mechanics. Also, they spray poo on buildings!)
  • Skyrim (Harlo gives us a new entry in Tales of Skyrim™. This time we learn of how he would dispose of bodies, were he in need of doing that.)
  • Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure (Harlo begins his journey down the figure collection rabbit hole. Is it really just DLC? Our wallets shudder if they take this model and apply it to the Marvel or Transformers universes.)

Second Half! (1:01:30)

  • WWE 12 (Chuck beats it, Harlo gets frustrated, controllers get murdered! Also, fuck Sheamus… And The Miz… And Randy Orton’s intro music.)
  • Battlefield 3 (Harlo joins the single-player club. He’s not impressed with the graphics and the story doesn’t connect with him in any way. There’s your box quote!)
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops (Chuck loves it in all the ways he didn’t enjoy Battlefield 3. We all agree that Treyarch made an amazing game!)
  • Renegade Ops (Dual-stick shooter b-movie insanity by the Just Cause 2 guys? Where has this game been all our lives!?)
  • Shank (Maki returns to this side-scrolling beat-em-up… And ends up hating it by the end, sadly.)
  • Jetpack Joyride (Maki and Harlo enjoy the hell out of this free iOS game. You get to high-five scientists!)
  • Vanquish (Chuck dives into the world of Platinum games with this crazy shooter he describes as “Halo meets 9/11.” But not in a bad way!)
  • Bayonetta (Platinum time continues, as Chuck plays through it on Very Easy mode. And loves it!)
  • Shadows of the Damned (Speaking of insanity, Harlo finally gets into Garcia Fucking Hotspur’s demon-hunting, strawberry-gathering story.)
  • Dark Souls (Harlo is tempted to play this by a whole bunch of top-10 lists. Is he a bad enough dude to rescue the Dark Souls?)
  • Dragon Age Origins (Chuck goes absolutely nuts and drops 80 hours into this game. And he doesn’t even like fantasy settings! He does like dogs, though.)
  • Game (xxxx.)

Listener topic! (1:56:08)

  • Moonpir asks which games have freaked us out the most. (Scary games are mentioned! Quite a few of them, actually.)

A New Year’s Resolution! (2:04:33)

  • Maki makes his new declaration for 2012. Only 6 new games! Seriously! (The games are Diablo 3, SSX, Mass Effect 3, GTA5, Tomb Raider and Borderlands 2. The new Assassin’s Creed will be added to the list, when one of these doesn’t come out this year. Anything he’s missing? Let us know!)

Picks of Value! (2:12:53)

  • Rayman Origins (Maki loves this gorgeous side-scroller!)
  • Video Games (BJ has an emergent concept about maybe buying them!)
  • No Video Games (Chuck says to wait until Black Friday!)
  • Fable 2 (Harlo loves this game and his dog! And it’s only $5!)
  • Just Cause 2 (Harlo gives a bonus pick! This games is amazing!)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

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