NQcast34 – E.T. Was A Good Game

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This episode we talk on a broad range of video games. Enjoy this because we’re going to be going far far down the Mass Effect 3 rabbit hole soon enough. So much is covered I’ll leave it to the show notes for you to learn more. Check below!

 

NQcast34 – ‘E.T. Was A Good Game’ Show Notes

First half!

  • Saints Row 3 DLC (Want to beat it? Easy! Want to ACHIEVE in it? Genki is pleased by your suffering.)
  • Saints Row 2 (Chuck was right about something! Who’d’a thunk it? Your character REALLY is an asshole!)
  • Red Faction Guerilla (We rage against timed missions and excessive collectibles in open world games. And yeah, Space Asshole, etc., etc.)
  • Battlefield 3 (BJ loves turrets! And Patriotism Boners! The rest of us disagree! At least on turrets! We all agree we don’t want to stab rats, though.)
  • Modern Warfare 3 (More shootin’ dudes. What do you want from us? It’s Call of Duty. You shoot dudes.)
  • Call of Juarez (Juarez called. From 1997. He said fuck you.)
  • Left 4 Dead 2 (Speaking of fuck you… Maki loses his mind and beats all of the chapters on Expert. We don’t know what’s wrong with him.)
  • Demolition!
  • Asura’s Wrath Demo (“Quick Time Event The Game.” with Rail Sequences! And punching gods in faces! Um, ok!)
  • Kingdoms of Amalur Demo (Box smashing! And lockups! And box smashing! And Mass Effect Armor! And lockups!)
  • SSX (Maki is chomping at the bit for this game. Harlo compares it to Crazy Taxi WHICH IS TOTAL BULLSHIT.)

Second Half! (1:09:40)

  • Nuclear Dawn (BJ delves into this crazy FPS/RTS near future hybrid set in the year 20XX. Or something.)
  • Alpha Protocol (Harlo gives up very quickly due to RPG shooting skill trees. We hear they have copies with ET 2600 out in a landfill somewhere.)
  • Bourne Conspiracy (It’s a movie tie-in 7 years after the fact, without any likenesses and voices from the movie… And chock full of QTEs. What could possibly go wrong?)
  • Dragon Age (Chuck did everything, and with his total playtime, is now the same age as a dragon.)
  • Oblivion (Chuck steps in the time machine and journeys to 2006. And murders indiscriminately. And eats cheese.)
  • Tales Of Skyrim (Paula Dean ridin’ dragons, y’all. Harlo tells us about werewolves and in-game wives and Macho Man Randy Savage and other craziness.)
  • Skylanders (Harlo beats it and buys more Skylanders and wants more Skylanders and recommends everyone get Stealth Elf. Skylanders.)
  • Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection (We complain about insane basic and wizard goals, yet we are still itching to play Pinball Arcade when it’s released in March.)
  • Costume Quest (Maki beat it! Not much else to say. It’s clever and charming and stuff.)
  • Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (Maki goes online and achieves after getting utterly annihilated!.)
  • Rock Band 3 (Buy the Hall & Oates pack!)
  • Super Meat Boy (The game beats Maki. Like an older brother.)
  • Star Trek Legacy (“It’s garbage.” Chuck, noquarters.net. ”I don’t care, get it out.” – Also Chuck, noquarters.net. “Space garbage.” – Chuck, noquarters.net.)

Listener topics! (2:13:21)

  • Jens asks about our gaming backlogs. (Answers will be obvious to anyone who has ever listened to our show.)
  • Ed asks what HD remakes we’d like to see made. (“I would stab a human being for remakes in HD of those games.”)
  • Blair asks what our favorite video games were as kids. (Nostalgia abounds! ET on the 2600might get mentioned.)
  • Moonpir asks what sequels with altered controls and style bothered us. (Sports games might be mentioned!)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

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