Arkham Knight, Mass Effect, and E3 Predictions

Welcome to Altergeek Unlimited, episode 91. I'm

your host, Steve Megatron Phillips, and joining

me this week are... I guess I'll go first, uh,

Michael Powers? And Mike, the Birdman Dodd. Hello!

Hello. It's a Steve sandwich. Nooooo! How the

hell is everybody? I'm great. I am a - pumped

up like a hamster on coffee right now. We usually

record this very late on Thursday nights. Most

people are getting ready for bed. I'm getting

ready to stay up all night. Just recently watched

this. There's this Kickstarter back movie. It's

free on YouTube right now. Kung Fury. It's a

ninja going back in time to fight Hitler with

dinosaurs. That's all I'm gonna say about it.

It's the most amazing thing you'll ever see.

with David Hasselhoff doing the theme song. I

have literally seen the greatest accomplisher

that mankind will ever do. Everything else now

is just gravy. That's how I... Me personally,

I've spent the last week working with, well,

you guys, I'll know them as the Off the Cuff

crew, but I've been working with them on launching

a new podcast that more or less went... Live

this afternoon if people were smart enough to

figure out how to find it It's the geek stuff

garage cast Going for a little synergy with Joe

Reed's geek garage sale, so That's actually now

available wasn't supposed to be available told

tomorrow, but we decided just to let it go crazy

You said you can do it And then I've then working

on stuff for my class, the cinematography class,

the rise of superheroes class online. This week

we get to create our villain. It's interesting.

I'll release pictures later this week of some

of my hero villain combinations that I've made

for the class. The cinematography class, we had

to write a paper on The Hollywood master paper

it was basically you had to choose like a art

director or casting director or somebody I wrote

mine on a voice casting director Andrea Romano,

so it was real easy for me. I was one of the

few that got a hundred percent on the paper.

So Yeah Good old American grading system. Yes.

Well, it helps if you're very knowledgeable on

the person you're writing about And a lot of

people weren't very knowledgeable on the people

they were writing about. So if I can name any

casting directors, maybe a few art directors

I could name, but I know of her, but that's because

of the fact that the D .C. used them. Yes. It's

like she's done everything you've watched. She's

done everything that Warner Brothers has produced

in basically the last 30 years. Oh, I could maybe

I think. I know she produces now. She's won like

eight daytime Emmys and been nominated for 22

other ones, so. So I'm guessing your paper was

fairly in depth. It had to be 800 words. I think

I hit a thousand and I was like, OK, you overachiever

you. Yeah. Yeah, I think that was with the the

citing my sources at the end, too. And then of

course I was using all of our friends sites like

behind the voice actors and shit like that So

it was like I didn't have to do any research

Sometimes it's great when stuff like that happens

like When I was in college we had to write our

like thesis we had to write like 25 to 45 pages

in year three about about a specific topic One

of the guys I work with David Dennis did his

thing on voice actors So whenever we did an interview,

basically any interview that we did for the site,

we just took certain questions out and used the

audio for his actual project. And I did mine

on podcasting. I'm like, I could write this in

my fucking sleep. So yeah, we just used the resources

we had at hand. Everybody else was scrambling,

like they left all their interviews on the last

minute. And you had to have your paper in. It

had to be, specifically, it had to be bound and

stapled a very specific way. Like you had to

send it to Staples or Kinko's or something. If

you didn't, you lost like 30%. Something fucking

stupid like that. Wow. Yeah, I was not happy

with that college grading system. But yeah, we

took advantage of every possible resource and

I don't know, it's kind of nice to have that

advantage. Because for once, you can be smug

because you were prepared. it's so great so yeah

other than that just been working on some stuff

on the site and changing some things around just

out of boredom but yeah another thing that I've

been working on one of the shows I work on is

terrible warriors which is a role -playing podcast

kind of like Tabletop and the like. I've been

working on a Mass Effect based RPGs. I've been

playing through the trilogy over the last week

and a half. I'm three quarters of the way through

Mass Effect 3. I'm ridiculously powerful. I'm

playing a female soldier Stephanie Shepard and

I found a system online which is sort of like

Call of Cthulhu -esque where it's a base 40 system.

Basically you have a four in ten chance of doing

anything. But if you you add skill points to

that, so you just have to roll under it. So rolling

a hundred is very fucking bad. But rolling a

one is you're amazingly awesome. So I'm going

through that developing it. I didn't realize

how steep and how interconnected most of the

Mass Effect lore is. I kind of wish when I met

the writing team at PAX East back in 2012 I'd

had more to say then because now I'm like, holy

shit, that connects to here, here, here, here,

here. So I'm hoping for E3 in about two weeks

that we get a release date for Mass Effect 4.

That would make me ever so happy. It's not coming

out this year. I'm so betting it's not. No, it'll

be a trailer or something. It'll be well, they'll

yeah, they'll show something because they teased

something last year. Yeah, but I think you'll

get the definitive edition of Mass Effect this

year. Oh I hope so because then again, I really

hope if they do the definitive and it's HD upgrade

and everything I hope they do pack in all the

DLC for it like like bring down the sky Mass

Effect 1 Project Overlord Shadow Broker from

aspect 2 All the DLC for Mass Effect 3. I don't

think I don't see any reason for them not to

do that Yeah, for Mass Effect 3, there was so

much DLC. There was from Ashes, there was Citadel,

Leviathan... What else am I missing here? I think

EA and Bioware would take a Crapstorm if they

didn't put DLC in there. I'd be really curious

if they'd still leave in... the multiplayer component,

the Mass Effect 3 multiplayer community was so

much fun to be a part of way back in the day.

Like I used to play that religiously for like

a year. I spent way too much money on Specter

Packs. Thankfully a lot of it was Microsoft donated,

so I'm not bitching. But speaking of video games,

gotta... Look at Arkham Knight this week, the

first seven minutes or something. It wasn't the

first seven minutes, but it was seven minutes.

There's a gameplay or something, yeah. I'm excited

for it. I got it for Xbox One though, so I don't

get the exclusive PlayStation 4 content. Why

would you do that to yourself? Because I can

get the special edition mostly, because getting

the special edition for PS4 I would have had

to pre -order the day of. And I just wasn't around

a computer on that day. So I got lucky. I even

got this one. I got the battle Oh So I'm pretty

hyped for that. I'm looking forward to it Now

I was paying the $40 seasons pass, which is kind

of weird that with the specialist they wouldn't

include that No, it's not It's just kind of crap

that they Yeah, I think it's kind of crap that

they even promoted it Before the games actually

come out. Well, that's what happens. I that's

one of the things I have against I hate when

I I immediately lose interest in almost any game

when DLC or season passes are announced before

the game even comes out Like if they were to

wait until I don't even know I don't know it

has nothing. I don't care what's included I I

feel like let the game release and then because

you always get that Everyone gets that backlash

which is why isn't this in the game? Why aren't

you including this now? I'm only getting half

a game for my $60 like I don't understand why

they can't figure this out Like if you want good

press up up to your launch, then don't announce

anything until your launch like Well stuff like

that sometimes having a Seasons Pass announced

trailer will boost Pre -order sales plus sometimes

if you pre -order the Seasons Pass you get extra

content anyway I've never seen a positive reaction

to a DLC announcement before a game's come out.

No, I really... Mortal Kombat X, I could say.

I guess people were hyped to play as Jason and

the Predator. That was fairly positive. Were

those pre -order bonuses or DLC? Those are DLC

included in the Seasons Pass. For Call of Duty...

A lot of people get hyped for zombies, which

is only available if you have the Seasons Pass,

or you purchase the individual map packs. But

if you buy Seasons Pass, you get additional weapons,

such as, I think it's the Ohm energy weapon,

and the AE4, the laser assault rifle, either

way. The Call of Duty one is really annoying

because that game type was available in other

games for free, and now it's like, well... people

really like this so let's charge them for it

that way we just get their season pass money

anyways yeah yeah yeah i i can totally totally

see that like that's that's just malicious in

my opinion yeah like when i bought my call of

duty special edition this year i bought it mostly

because i wanted the uber edition had all the

extra crap very well i'm gonna get the season

the season fat anyway so i thought it was i think

i saved maybe 15 20 bucks when i broke it down

but yeah i could see how that could like pissed

people off a fair chunk. Borderlands 2 ruined

season passes for me. I had never gotten a season

pass before at all for any game. I thought they

were like the dumbest thing in the world. But

Borderlands 2 was on the horizon and they announced

a season pass. And I know that I bought all of

the DLC for the first Borderlands. I loved all

of it. So I was like, hey, Why not? It's going

to be, you know, same caliber stuff. And no,

it wasn't. The DLC for Borderlands 2 was like

three quarters of that DLC was pure bull crap.

And I was like, I felt burned and I will never

buy a season pass again for any game whatsoever.

By Destiny's? Nope, I didn't buy Destiny's. Wow,

that surprises me because I know you were all

like hardcore over that. I figured you would

have got House of Wolves. I forget what the other

one was called. Nope, I, there was, and I'm glad

I didn't because I was irritated with that game

after two weeks. Destiny, I thought, I, no way,

who am I thinking of who was all hardcore Destiny?

Was that you? It was me for like the first two

weeks. And then I was like, nope, there's nothing

here. Like I love Destiny. I like the gameplay

mechanics in it were solid. Like that was a really

good shooter. It felt really good to play that

game, but. Two weeks after and I had finished

like everything that was like there in the main

game outside of like just you know doing deathmatch

or like grinding for materials I was like, um,

nope done I I was and then all the negative like

the negative reaction to People dissecting the

video journals that Bungie had put out for that

game that you know content that they said was

gonna be there and then stuff that was changed

like down the road and I was like, you know what,

this is not the game I signed up for. And I was

like super glad that I did not buy the season

pass. So I downloaded it, but I haven't played

it, which that's another thing, too. I hate it

when I get a season's pass for a game like and

I don't use the content. I think for Far Cry

4, I'm the same way. I got everything downloaded.

I played it or actually one thing I could think

of one DLC pass. that almost consistently pisses

me off is the WWE stuff. 2K15, it's not a great

game by any stretch of the imagination, but this

year just seemed really lackluster in what they're

offering for DLC. And considering what you've

got in the season's past, you still had to buy

certain things like the NXT roster or stuff like

that. I'm just thinking that's not cool 2K games.

I'm not happy with you in this regard. See, I

think I think I've just decided to start treating

DLC as like me giving the developer a pat on

the back Like if I buy your game for $60 and

I had a lot of fun playing it And you release

a piece of DLC that might give me more to do

in that world Sure, if I don't have another game

that I'm playing on the horizon. I will give

you you know Ten fifteen dollars, whatever you're

asking for that DLC like going back to bringing

this back around to Arkham Knight One of the

DLC things that i'm looking forward to but not

enough for me to buy the season pass is the bat

girl DLC Yeah, i'm i'm trying to figure how the

hell i'm gonna pay for this because my addition

I think a loan is like 130 40 bucks And with

another 40 bucks on top of that Figure this you're

gonna pay you're gonna pay the 60 bucks when

it comes out most people will anyway. And then

there's the $40 season pass, and then you figure

shortly at some point there's going to be an

expansion that's not included in that. But my

whole thing with it is, one, I'm not buying a

new console to play it, so I'm going to have

to play it on my PC. So that's one strike against

the game for me. Two, I'm not going to buy all

that crap, bundle, like, pay the price separately

and risk spending $100 to $130 for this game

that some of this crap could have been included

in the game for the $60. And at the same time,

if I wait a year and a half, I can get the entire

game with all of the stuff included in a game

of the year edition for like $20, $30. See, that

one I agree with, but like, and I don't want

to make it, I don't want the listeners to think...

I can't I'm impatient to and I love the Arkham

series the only problem I have is the amount

of money that they want for it it too because

I can I could justify the 60 if it came with

the season pass already included in that 60,

but if Because I mean otherwise I would wait

until black Friday by the game for half off Which

it'll be half off this year, which it'll be half

off. I Don't be some kind of a digital sale on

the season's past Don't want I want to just clarify

for the listeners So we don't get like slammed

here that we're not naive to the way that video

games work after a certain point the game is

actually the main game is feature complete and

so other teams smaller teams go and work on this

DLC stuff to be you know as extra stuff to be

completed after said game and that's that that

goes back to what I said like wait until the

game's released to announce this stuff. Then

people don't think it's content that was deliberately

cut to, you know, ask for your kidney. But that's

what you guys were saying about being impatient

and whatnot. For me, it's not so much about being

impatient. It's about, I've noticed I have this

trend that if I don't play a game while it's

in the news cycle, I probably won't play it.

I find it hard to go back to older games too

sometimes. Yep. Cause like I was three quarters

the way through Borderlands 2 and then I want

to say Mass Effect 3 came out or something and

I just like don't care anymore. Well, I just

I just noticed like if it's you know, I listened

to several video game podcasts and I was not

planning on pick like for example I wasn't planning

on picking up Diablo 3 on my PS4 but because

i already had it on the ps3 and i had already

bought it on the pc and i was like it's okay

but then i got i get i get i get swept up into

not necessarily like the like i don't get swept

up into like youtube video hype or like video

like gameplay videos or anything like that i

get hyped up by like podcasts and listening to

people's general physical reaction to like a

game um and how excited they are for it i'm like

man This is really making me feel like I'm missing

out on something. And no article or YouTube video

has ever done that. It's usually like podcasts

with hosts that I've been listening to for like

a decade. But if I don't play a game while they're

talking about it, while I might buy the game

at a later date, I probably won't play it if

no one's talking about it. So I guess I could

be considered the... It's the lore that has to

grab me. Like right now I'm trying to get into

the Dragon Age series because of Mass Effect

because I want to unlock an armor for Mass Effect

2 that I have to have to get a save file from

Dragon Age 1 and 2 to unlock the Blood Dragon

armor or something. I heard good things about

the series. A lot of people really liked Dragon

Age Inquisition. So I'm very curious to see what

people are talking about seeing if it's this

epic fantasy world because fantasy games Typically

don't interest me Until I played Skyrim. I was

a complete fantasy virgin. Like I hated Diablo

and most kind of dungeon crawlers but Skyrim

made my wife a widow for about a year and change

with all I played So, yeah, like I can agree

with you like Something has to grab you to get

me into it. And for example, like even this year

Titanfall I think I think I got roped into that

one I think I just like the idea of mechs even

though there's fucking zero story in that game

which really sucks because the lore could be

interesting and I think I got into modern warfare

this year Call of Duty in which I'm normally

not a Call of Duty guy yet I keep buying it every

year. I know but figure that one out later Because

it's shared elements with Titanfall with 3d movement

i actually don't listen to any hype about anything

and i work in the video game industry um like

right now i'm reviewing splatoon which comes

out today i knew nothing going into it i know

next to nothing going into batman it takes a

lot for me to look into games to actually kind

of give a shit Well, like I I don't want to say

like it's not like I said, it's the podcast I

listen to which I don't really I don't necessarily

consider the podcast I listen to like jumping

on the hype train Like Articles and stuff like

that YouTube like none of that does anything

to drive a hype for me like I can read that stuff

and be like Okay, whatever. We'll wait and see

what it is when it comes out. But when I'm listening

to a podcast I listen to for ten years, it's

it's a little bit different so Yeah, I'm I'm

I like YouTube series to some degree but like

I don't some of those Yeah, some of those I just

don't care it kind of depends on where this stuff's

coming from Yeah, like I just I feel like I can

trust the people that I listen to I mean a lot

of them are ex EGM Electronic game monthly one

-up guys that like I said, I've just been listening

to for 10 11 years So I feel like well, I've

never met them I've interacted with interacted

with some of them on Twitter and stuff like that

So I feel like I know them so like when they

you know Say that like they're having a lot of

fun playing a game. I'm like, maybe I should

check it out. I Think it's just like getting

sucked into a friend's enthusiasm is what it

is For for something but yeah bet the whole Arkham

thing I'm excited for the bad girl DLC, which

I'll probably end up buying separately I have

my usual nitpicks about the game with an additional...

I don't care for the Batmobile. I don't care

for what is at the... where you can switch between

Batman and another character, the tag team stuff.

Yeah, Batman or Nightwing or... Robin. Yeah,

like I don't care. Yeah, I don't care for that.

I don't care for the Batmobile I don't as usual

everyone anyone that's listening to this will

probably know I still don't care for Kevin Conroy

as this Batman I know that sparked a debate When

we first talked about the art when we were talking

about Arkham origin on this podcast a long time

ago And another small little nitpick I have is

the cape I was Kind of like long shot. I was

really hoping for a game that didn't have clipping

with the cape but you know, whatever yeah, the

other thing the that kind of sent me into a whirlwind

the other day was the Somebody going oh They

got a Batman Beyond skin and I'm like, that's

not Batman Beyond. That was my Was like it's

not Batman Beyond. It's far from it. It's like

an arbor, you know Batman suit with the Batman

Beyond logo Well, I think it's the it's well,

first of all, you're right at that. Well, you're

right. It's the Arkham Knight It's the Arkham

Knight model because you can even see the old

bat logo on the chest plate underneath the red

one Mm -hmm. But at the same time, I feel like

that's Rock City's take on the Batman beyond

but that picture that was posted he looks more

like a sif Lord Yeah, because it doesn't look

like a mat. It doesn't look like he has a cowl

It looks like he has like a the lower face thing

on and then real pale skin like ash colored skin

So But I'm looking forward to it my wife I'm

I'm probably gonna end up buying it I mean, I've

still got it in my pre -order thing on Amazon

And my wife is playing the Arkham games and she's

having a lot of fun with them. So it'll end up

in the house. The question is, will I actually

play it? And I probably will. Who am I kidding?

Yeah. I need something to play. Switching gears.

From that, have you watched the Supergirl pilot?

I did. I was pleasantly surprised, but I feel

like I got exactly what I expected out of it.

There's two things. The only negative thing I

have really to say about it is I hate the final

version of her cape. I don't know if you notice

how it like kind of evolved throughout the course

of the show. Mm -hmm like I like the second to

last one which was just you know a red Superman

esque cape The the final cape which is you know

spoilers for anyone that hasn't seen it yet Comes

about after she receives a gift from Superman

They end up putting like this lace thrill across

the shoulders for the final cape And I was like

that's completely unnecessary you didn't have

to make her look more girly As bad as that might

make me sound I Think she was sufficient anyway.

Yeah, like I was like really I was like pleased

with the outfit like I was like Yeah, this is

super girl and now now and then the last one

was like, wow, this is super super girl But I'm

What I'm interested to see is because it was

quote -unquote leaked so early. I'm interested

to see the actual aired pilot. To see if they

made any changes like any casting changes or

character tweaks. Stuff like that I always find

fascinating and it does happen because one of

the Since I started religiously watching TV,

one of the biggest ones to me was, I don't know

if anyone remembers Bionic Woman back in 2008,

when NBC rebooted that. The leaked pilot had

a completely different actress playing the main

character's sister with a completely different,

she had a deficiency or a handicap if you will,

I think she was deaf. But the actual aired pilot

that was actually episode number one had a they

Redid all of that character scenes with a different

actress and she did not have the handicap So

they made her a completely different character

So I'm interested to see if anything like that

happens here Plus anyone who watches TV regularly

knows that the pilot isn't what matters. It's

the second episode that matters That is true.

I'd be very curious to see what they're what's

going to be presented at Comic -Con this year,

because I'm almost 99 % sure this was done, obviously,

to gauge reaction, to basically see what the

community thinks before they get too far invested.

And the fact that it was leaked on a long weekend

also heavily suggests that, I mean, if I was

CBS, I would have done the exact same thing.

Because what better way to market test your show

than to release it for free exactly I mean this

way you get people talking about you get every

entertainment blogger youtuber and radio station

talking about it so Although the response to

it seems to been pretty good so far. I Just haven't

bothered to download it I'm gonna be bummed if

it doesn't cross over with the other stuff. I

hope they find a way to work together Mean at

least at least with flash because it felt very

flashy Yeah, like the same universe Well, it's

got that same kind of vibe where it feels less.

It's not arrow It's not dark. It's got a certain

a Happy charm to it. I guess would be how I would

describe it Mm -hmm Like they like really lacking

from a lot of superhero shows Like, the hero

that likes being a hero? Or likes their powers?

Like, I like that. When Flash is a smile and

you genuinely believe it. Like, Arrow, like,

Ali always seems like it's a burden for him to

be a superhero, whereas Flash is excited that

he can do what he can do, and Supergirl, same

thing. Yeah. It's refreshing. So hopefully it's...

I really hope it... Succeeds I'd be very curious

to see how they're gonna handle Her rogues gallery

like who they're gonna go. I know Hank Henshaw

is the villain of the first episode He turns

into the cyborg Superman at some point he's but

he's not The villain Isn't he no not in the first

episode well He'll become a villain at some point

Hopefully if they stick with the continuity if

there's one thing I don't know if there's one

thing about the series is I don't know enough

about the character to know her rogues gallery

So like if it's not like a blatantly obvious

DC character I'm not gonna be able to pick it

out, but that doesn't really bother me What bothers

me is that there for the first outing it looks

like she was fighting Klingons You mean the blingons

Didn't know what was I was like, wait a minute.

So CBS is really toying around with putting Star

Trek back on there, huh? Well, you got to get

some extra mileage out of those props I Mean

they were like a batliff away. I mean they had

a substitute for a batliff. Yeah, basically.

I mean, come on I'm trying to think who the hell

would be in a rogue's galley. See, I can name

a bunch of Superman villains, but I can't name

any for her. And that's the thing, though, because

she's... Actually, no, I was about to say you

could... I guess that's how Smallville got around

that issue. They weren't their big, bad versions

of themselves kind of later on, so I don't know.

It'll be interesting to see who they drag in.

Yeah, that's I'm not familiar enough with her

like most of my DC knowledge comes from the animated

stuff. Yeah, same here Because I can't read their

comics for anything. I really can't I think it's

funny that they they managed to douche out the

new 52 with their convergence event that basically

resets it to pre new 52 and pre pre -infinite

crisis. Yes some kind of hate from DC when you

did something with them and we did an altered

geek or something and we blasted the new 52 saying

it was just gonna be undone. Do you remember

this? Yeah, basically. And DC themselves came

after you? Yeah, it was... GeekCast Radio was

doing a promotion with their comics or something?

Yeah, I think so. And I said, give it three years,

they'll reboot. And DC didn't... I don't know.

I guess they didn't disappoint. Three years.

ECPR is hot and cold to deal with anyway, so

I wouldn't take it personally. Oh, we didn't.

Like I've dealt with them over the years and

sometimes I'll get a really good response and

I'll get a lot of support. Other times I won't

hear a peep. Yeah, that's kind of how some of

it is. Like I'm pretty well able to get like.

responses for for like the the digital media

that I need but some of the the comic side of

things is a little dry I work with a lot they're

really good to me it's up it's dynamite like

they're so good to people like because I read

Pathfinder which is based upon the role -playing

game and Yeah, like every single week without

clockwork, or sorry, white clockwork. Here's

all the new comics coming out this week. Here's

all the DLC links that you need. If you need

any additional art or interviews, just give us

a call. I love it when comic companies are that

accessible. I remember Devil's Dew publishing

being really good a couple years ago with hack

slash as well. Alright, moving on. Anybody excited

for the new Doom game that's supposed to be coming

out? Yes and no. I love Doom. Or do we even care?

I want to know more about it before I get excited.

Because like, I liked the old Doom games, but

I don't know if it's still relevant enough to,

you know, return to. I like doom one to way back

in the day doom three felt like it tried too

hard It can't be any more or less relevant than

Wolfenstein. That's true Yeah, and look how well

that's doing right now. So although the DLC for

that game sucks Maybe the game sucks too though.

No the main The new ones like yeah Actually,

I I've only watched my friend play that But I

the vibe I got off of it was finally someone

made a first -person Captain America game It's

pretty much what it is it's more narrative than

I expected and that's really good. It's fun.

It's genuinely really fun What can doom for really

do I mean doom It doesn't have a super deep lore

and when they try to do it in three it felt like

I said once again really forced The best doom.

Oh, sorry. No, I was gonna say but I mean, I'm

pretty sure you could give it something Yeah,

the new one the new one looks like it's it's

got Like they actually have an idea what the

hell they're trying to do this time I was not

a fan of three but again, I'm I'm a fan of the

original games, but I don't know, I'll give it

a shot. Sorry, go ahead. One thing for Doom is

there's one piece of lore that existed in the

90s, and it was really interesting. They had

a series of four novels which did do more. They

did Doom 1, Doom 2, and then 3 and 4 sort of

went off in their own direction, where it got

really fucking weird. I'll tell you that much.

But, I'd like to, if Doom 4 happens on Earth,

if they try and adapt Doom 2 Hell on Earth, that'd

be interesting to me. Like, because we fought

on Phobos and Deimos for so long, because we

had that with Doom 3, Doom 3 Resurrection of

Evil. So, I don't know, I'd like to see a different

setting for it. I just don't know how much more

narrative stuff they could add to it, because

at the heart, Doom's always been about ultraviolence.

Not necessarily basically I don't think they

could pull alien isolation, but would do I don't

see that happening Yeah Well, it's it I don't

think they would want to plus doom is also known

just for being a straight -up shooter Yeah, I'd

like to see a really interesting competitive

multiplayer with it Yeah, if I want to play something

like that, I'll play on real tournament The new

one of that But All right. I guess the last thing

we'll just say, since we're kind of talking about

games here, any early predictions for E3? Oh,

I just we just did an off the cuff E3 prediction

episode. Fallout four. I have no idea. I don't

follow. I wait for information to come out. I

mean, there is a. Nintendo is going to announce

something big. I've got a fairly reliable source

on the new console. No, they're not talking about

that. No, it won't be a new console. I think

it'll be a brand new IP. Oh, God. And it may

be something we don't expect, but I think we're

going to get fairly excited. I think we'll get

a concrete release on Star Fox. Well, that's

got to be this fall, otherwise they have nothing

to do. Yeah, it'll be this fall. It'll definitely

be playable on the show floor. That's what I'm

predicting. Think you might see something Metroid

I'm I'm really hoping what I really want to see

is retro studios take on Metroid again Yeah,

the zombie you mechanics Yes. Oh my god, that'd

be so cool for scanning Yes, it'd be amazing

But I starfox I'm I'm a big starfox fan I'm just

really worried because what they showed last

year, which was you control the our wing with

the like with an in cockpit view in the controller.

And I'm not a big fan of that. For for me to

pick that game up, it's really going to come

down to, can I just play it like a classic Star

Fox game? Yeah. Which if I if I can't, I probably

won't pick it up. See, I'd be OK with having

that mechanic in certain sections. But yeah,

for the vast majority, I want to be able to play

with a pro controller or play with just the the

pad without having to look down at it all the

time. Exactly. Or even if the pad just showed

you, like, maybe it was, like, the radar of the

battlefield. Or maybe, like, your, like, instruments

or something. Yeah, something like that. I mean,

just not, like, don't make me look at that to

fly, like, because some of us, you know, have,

we all have really nice TVs and I don't want

to look at my gamepad the entire time. Yeah,

like for one example Nintendo they just did this

with Splatoon and this really pissed me because

I think the game is fun But I hate controlling

it. You have to use the pad you can the only

way you can use a pro controller is if you're

playing multiplayer and That's such a pain in

the ass. I really wish Nintendo would move away

from gimmicky control. Is it because they have

you use the touch screen? Not really you just

you have to do it. I'm trying to remember how

about how do you fucking describe this? Why would

they if you don't have to use the touchscreen?

Why would they not allow you to use the pro controller?

I think it's just because they want more games

to actually utilize it I mean when you look at

all the games on the Wii U Very few actually

utilize the second or use the pad, right? But

they I can think of two games that did it fairly

decently but they're very early launch zombie

you was one of them and Splinter Cell blacklist

you could control the drone That little helicopter

thing with the deep and it felt really cool My

my understanding is the issue with the control

with with Utilizing the controller that people

are running into is that Nintendo also makes

it a requirement to have off -screen play So

like even like even their own game Nintendo's

guilty of this to like Mario Kart 8 the touchscreen

is a horn Like why is it not the map? Yeah, that's

a fucking way I've never played that game with

the with the pad. I only ever play it with Yeah,

all it's it's a horn, but the other thing that

it does is it just duplicates what you're seeing

on screen So it's like you're you're doing off

-screen play But if you touch the screen you

beep your horn like well if you're just gonna

repeat what's on the screen Why don't you just

make it the map? I? I don't know like Nintendo's

guilty of not using that controller themselves,

so yeah like If you're gonna have a gimmicky

controls game at least have it make sense Like

for example, there's one game. They did a couple

years ago, and it was a great game for the Wii

Now the skyward sword great game Fuck you waggle

controls and I love Being able to swing my sword,

but my arm gets tired after about 10 15 minutes

I'd rather play that game with the GameCube controller

if I have the option or even the pro controller

I Don't know other predictions Yeah, we're gonna

see fallout 4 or at least something fairly significance.

Well, yeah, cuz they have their own conference

mass effect or you'll see something pretty big.

I think there'll be a surprise for Halo. Oh,

that reminds me. I think, honestly, today's the

29th. We get the Halo Master Chief Collection

ODST today, if I'm not mistaken. Are they going

to announce a workable version of the Master

Chief Collection? I would hope so my god, although,

you know, it'd be really great if they announced

you can download reach into it for like ten bucks

and Actually, you know make everything work They're

gonna do gears. I know they they did the first

game. I hope it's one through judgment for that

is I'm trying to think of what else I'd like

to see out of them. I know they're Crackdown

crackdown crackdown, which I never got the point

of those Love crackdown. That's at that right.

There is probably the only reason my Xbox one

is still in my house So I'm looking forward to

Halo 5 this year, obviously we'll get more Hopefully

they'll show off the legendary Edition at e3

see what the statue looks like Out of everything

going on at e3 the one the one manufacturer we

couldn't really come up with any type of a prediction

for was Sony because you'll see something for

the Vita but it's gonna be so small as to who

gives a fuck but I don't even care but like I

couldn't even think of any I mean they're gonna

show like uncharted they're gonna show games

but the thing is like they have there isn't a

single first -party game that I can think that's

coming this fall yeah another can I can't think

of maybe Gran Turismo No. No, because we would

have heard something by now. They'd announce

it, but then it'd be another two years. Fuck

yeah, I've got nothing. I can't think of anything.

Maybe they'll announce shit, but yeah, there's

nothing coming out in the fall that says buy

this shit now. It's all multi -platform, so...

But which is fine, because they've demonstrated

that multi -platform games run better on their

system anyways. One thing... One IP I'd like

to see them pick back up. I know it didn't sell

super well, but I love the concept I'd love to

see them bring back PlayStation all -stars Battle

Royale. I love that game Sure, it was a Smash

Brothers clone, but it was fun I think we'll

see something from a criterion Yeah Because they

did that was that the base of that extreme sport

motor game they showed off like last year or

the year before yep um oh i know what we'll see

this year maybe not likely but it's possible

maybe more stuff out of project morpheus yeah

because it's supposed to come out this year isn't

it i think so yeah i think oh or next spring

it's next spring and even that i'm like Can't

think of anything. I'm that anxious to play in

VR Yeah Yeah, it was but yeah, it was really

easy for us to pick out stuff for Nintendo and

like Microsoft and like individual studios, but

when it came to Sony we're just like What they've

got nothing, but then again They've pretty much

come into the last two e3s with nothing and like

stolen the show so I'd like to see them do more

with Vita because that's it's such a good platform

But nobody's doing anything with it except small

indie developers and JRPG people I think I think

they'll there will be a price cut I think they'll

try I think they'll match the not that they need

to but I think they'll match Xbox one with 350

I think I'd like to see them do more with the

PlayStation TV which i think was kind of cool

um but i i think you can get that now for like

50 bucks um where amazon oh yeah it's the thing

that lets you play beta games on your oh i know

oh i know what it is i just i didn't i thought

it was still 100 bucks but oh yeah i saw it at

amazon for 50 bucks recently Don't quote me on

that, like, in the last week, but I know I've

seen it in the last month or so. Oh yeah, I saw

specials on it, like, recently too. I just didn't

know if it was still that, so. Which, um, I'm

really trying to think here. If there's anything

that even could be ported to the Vita, that might

be kind of a big deal. Nope. Yeah, nothing. I

really can't think of anything. I would love

to see... I hope they pull out something really

cool, something that we don't expect. You know

what, they can - I like my PlayStation 4. I want

release dates for Bastion and Geometry Wars on

the Vita. Yeah, I would like that. That's what

I want. I'm kind of thinking what I'd like to

see ported to the Vita. I'd like a portable version

on Portal Combat X, actually. That'd be fun.

Well, if they're not doing the PS3 and 360 versions,

I don't think they're going to do a Vita version.

Yeah, considering it's been delayed again. It

was supposed to come out on like Tuesday. I don't

know. I really don't um Yeah, that's all I all

I all I can really think of I mean I'm looking

forward to that looking forward to the Nintendo

World Championships I hope they stream that which

they probably will like I hope everyone I hope

everyone's just forced to play Mario Brothers

3 I know they're they're using Ness remix for

the Wii U and the the 3ds Which It was pat dns

punk was talking on his podcast about it You're

gonna see the same optimal roots everybody who

makes it to the big city qualifiers Ultimately,

it's gonna come down to a dr. Mario competition

at the end Because that's the last game and that's

you make up the most score like in the original

Nintendo World Championships it came down to

Tetris Rad racer was a little bit more random

and how it assigns score and the amount of cars

that were on the road that tried to kill you

But every every single Mario run was basically

the exact same very little variation with Tetris

you had to have a strategy going into it so I

Would be very curious to see what happens with

that. It's kind of shitty though, but they only

did eight best by locations across America Open

it up to North America and more kind of cities,

but then again, they've waited so long to do

it If they announce it back in say February And

now and then maybe say like a 20 city tour Maybe

I'll see how it can be a world championship if

it's only the United States Yeah, you three predictions

whoo I'm looking forward to it though. I always

get up early and watch these streams that I'm

always live tweeting or blogging during some

of it. I'm not going to the E3 this year again

because I don't think the E3 floor would be too

kind to a wheelchair or my cane. I'd rather watch

E3 from the comfort of my couch rather than the

sweaty unwashed masses. That's how I do it. See

I like packs because it breathes more and the

fact that it's in the winter or spring It's not

as funky. You know what I mean? You don't have

that like LA heat. You've got that Boston cold.

I'm okay with that Well, I'm tapped Alrighty,

I had some other things that I was gonna bring

out but oh well, we'll do it next week. Oh, um,

okay No, it's it's late I've been recording for

three hours, so So yeah, uh anything you guys

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