By John Walker on August 11th, 2009 at 8:05 pm.
A million hellos, and fifty welcomes to a new podcast. Jim and John (or “Jihn” as the tabloid press now call them) gathered their arms and legs together and produced a brand new audible recording. And yes, this time it is indeed audible! There’s no rational explanation found in science or myth for why the last one sounded like bad dogs, but it’s back to its usual just-about-good-enough standards. In fact, this week the audio quality is so high you can detect every microscopic creak from John’s creaky chair. This is good. No, it’s good.
In a Twitter Questions Special, the lusciously industrious pair take your queries upon themselves and proffer responses to invigorate and delight.
Discussed are matters of forming an RPS cult, the advantages of poverty, and how we’re bitter enemies of every other site and magazine. On gaming matters we talk about what we’re looking forward to before Christmas, especially Borderlands, why Jim should be interested in The Blackwell Convergence, why mediocre shooters are quite good, and how head shots should be a lot more deadly. There’s conversation on why games are allowed to use their imagination, and John might get a little bit wound up about when sharing is forbidden.
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11/08/2009 at 20:21 Hungry_Pirate says:
Woot woot.
11/08/2009 at 20:35 jalf says:
Oo, nice sound quality! I can hear what you’re saying and everything! That’s a pleasant surprise.
11/08/2009 at 20:44 rivalin says:
commies.
11/08/2009 at 21:54 4AM_Pie says:
Hurray. They fixed the audio!
11/08/2009 at 22:05 LewieP says:
“Rewind racer” was GRID I think.
11/08/2009 at 22:19 Στέλιος says:
I’ll join the cult. As long as there is a substantial discount for the membership. As in free. Maybe Joe & Simon can pay my way?
11/08/2009 at 22:23 Schmung says:
I am the angry aforementioned sim-type then I think. You can have proper physics and still make it arcadey for people who prefer it thusly, it’s just that so few people ever bother. I think maybe it’s because rally games are a rarity nowadays and Richard Burns was the last really good sim. Prior to that CMR2 & Rally Championship thanks very much.
11/08/2009 at 22:29 Στέλιος says:
Schmung : I know I’d love to see more rally games, with good physics modelling. I doubt it would happen.
11/08/2009 at 22:35 Sajmn says:
iTunes: The item you requested is not currently availible in the Slovenian store… Sometimes I wonder if this god forsaken country even exists.
12/08/2009 at 00:04 Psychopomp says:
As for the whole healthcare debacle here…
Our republicans think Obama is socialist, and any hint of socialism is THE EVIL!
Personally, I think they would explode if they ever stepped foot in another country’s politics.
12/08/2009 at 04:46 Alex says:
John has admitted to crying on the internet, so he’s obviously the Girl of any four person online group for all time, regardless of the genders of the other three people.
12/08/2009 at 05:22 TheArmyOfNone says:
Downloading now. Will look forward eagerly to words I can actually make out. I missed it last time, and the lack of british accents in my life saddened me.
12/08/2009 at 06:05 Alex says:
Oh, also the best bit about the writers guild is their awards ceremony. There’s a fee if you want to be eligible (paying the fee doesn’t actually give you guild membership, though), and so few companies submit their games for consideration that the titles that win leave you scratching your head.
Dead Head Fred? Star Wars: Force Unleashed?
12/08/2009 at 08:11 Vinraith says:
For some reason it’s so much more satisfying to screw up a historically accurate “starting state” than it is an ahistorical one, at least for me. This is the root of why I love Paradox strategy games. What’s better than seizing control of some minor European country in Europa Universalis and utterly destroying the course of proper history? How much less satisfying is it to play that same country in a wholly inaccurate and ahistorical context? Maybe that’s just me, though.
12/08/2009 at 08:13 Jim Rossignol says:
Lewie: there was a rewind racer long before Grid. Maybe four or five years ago.
12/08/2009 at 08:19 Vinraith says:
Oh, and kudos on fixing the sound quality issue. Whatever you did this time, always do that.
12/08/2009 at 08:57 Mike says:
I think you should give us John’s phone number, and we should have a text-in session via Twitter where we all try and interrupt the podcast at the most irritating moment.
12/08/2009 at 09:08 Jim Rossignol says:
“Whatever you did this time, always do that.”
That’s the thing, we didn’t change anything.
12/08/2009 at 09:34 Hungry_Pirate says:
Please don’t legally fire me into space.
12/08/2009 at 09:56 LewieP says:
Evolution GT?
Heh, I found it by googling about, and the first result for “Evolution GT rewind” is your Eurogamer review.
12/08/2009 at 10:07 Jim Rossignol says:
That’s the fella.
12/08/2009 at 11:44 Xercies says:
I have to say I agree with John that you should be able to lend games, I think most of the games I played when I was young was borrowed from someone else. I mean it really is quite stupid when they think people borrow are the same as people pirating, if they like the game they will either buy the game themselves or in the future buy the sequel/one of your other games.
12/08/2009 at 12:13 Gap Gen says:
Actually, Viva Pinata was really stressful. It’s the sort of game that would be better with less stuff happening – you don’t play a game where you build a garden and raise creatures made of chocolate and crepe paper to have a tense, challenging experience with something happening every second.
12/08/2009 at 12:26 Mat says:
You are totally right. Me and a mate who lived together at uni regularly bought games together. £20 for a game i will accept (normally it was less for older games) but i am not going and spending £40+ on a new release it is a joke.
Plus we used to play online together, one watching the other etc. And competing how long we could survive (this was supcom xD) against the pros.
Sharing is caring!!!
12/08/2009 at 17:11 Jamie says:
yes, im afraid they did bleep out the rps ‘shout out’.
12/08/2009 at 17:41 Nick says:
Do play Call of Cthulhu, struggle through the occasional crappy stealth bit (some of it is ok), its really worth it.
12/08/2009 at 21:57 Gassalasca says:
I just started listening to the show (the wireless one, I mean), and I just want to say that I love the environmental detail.