Where do we go from here? We need a leader. In a world of conscious followers who will be the Shepard to lead us into nirvana? There, in the distance, aglow with the confidence and good posture necessary to see the dawn, it’s Nick Coffman and Max Petersen. Well, not really. This week we talk about, mostly around Lemmings, and some odd news. Did you know there is still a Dreamcast exclusive publisher? They’re being forced by the market to diversify. Apparently only publishing games for a system that went under 8 years ago can’t make money anymore. This damn economy! Also, New Neverwinter RPG and a Portal 2 Co-op trailer. Life is good. Next week’s game is Panorama Cotton, whatever the hell that is.
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Where do we go from here? This week’s game, MDK 2, was enjoyed handily by both parties, and then unceremoniously not completed by either. Max did get enough time carved out of his busy week to play just enough Zelda so he could talk shit. I get my fill of Privates, which was both a mouthful and handful to say the least. Xbox 360 gets more indecipherable Japanese Shmups and we ramble one about the best selling 3rd Party Wii games. None are acceptable. 20% involve Mario racing Sonic at 4 year intervals. In the category of good news, Irrational is making a new Bioshock I want to have sex with and MW2 has the capacity to make all gaming free forever (warning: hyperbole). Listen, enjoy, tell a friend.
There’s more to be said, more to be heard, more to understand than what is contained within this episode. But that is for another time (next week).What have we been playing? Ermm, not much. I guess school+moving+apathy-money=a slow week. I have a feeling that equation will come in handy more often than most would assume. I might have to copyright it. Also, holy New Batman Game, Batman. We take a look at Zombie Cow’s Privates and like what we see. Pokemon Black and White is even more segregated than the title implies. The game this week is Halo: Combat Evolved. Max has a begrudging acceptance of it now, while I am a genuine convert. Halo 3 here I come? Finish the Fight? I no longer respect women? Next week’s game is MDK 2, so play with it all day like it’s your dick. Then we’ll talk about it next week. MDK 2, not your dick.
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No, this isn’t our one year, anniversary. This week is our birthday episode in that both of us have officially survived one more revolution around the sun. So, you know, it’s our birthday. Talk washes all around this ep, starting in San Andreas, taking a pit stop in Limbo, hanging out in Hyrule and finishing off in Trials. A lackluster top 10 list actually reveals a top 8. News is faint and depressing. After the sweet tunes we get on about my least favorite game so far, Metal Gear Solid. Sorry Kojima-philes, I can’t hang. Max talks it up enough for both of us. Next week’s game is a bit of a mystery, even to me, but play along anyway. Notes and contact info after the break.
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The first, and in my mind most important thing, to happen this episode, we now know how to begin the show. You’re all little monsters. Not Howie Mandel/Fred Savage style, Portal 2 style. This week’s show is fun, talking about how, without any good reason I continue to play Zelda and Max trudges through even more San Andreas. Top 10 list was a doozie, Licensed Games. In a feat of best-friendsmanship we both guess the other’s #1 pick. Then talk of news, mostly just Capcom fighters and Shank‘s imminent arrival. After the break we have Zelda talk and a promise to keep it to a minimum and we go on. Deets and all that after the break.
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Fine, the cat’s out of the bag. We get physical (by which I mean defensive and catty), in this, our luckiest and highest numbered podcast yet. This week’s lists are below and are almost of a cliche ilk, I hope it doesn’t offend our more modern listeners. Others will find it refreshingly retro (much like the games we play). We also get down and dirty talking franchise fractions with Oddworld, Assassin’s Creed big dreamin’ and a little white lie from Sega. The game this week, Cave classic DoDonPachi, doesn’t click with me and Max takes it personal. It gets ugly, then sad, then happy, then really ugly, now we’re not talking. Next week is a personal fav, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap. Show notes and contact info after the break.
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This is not your momma’s episode of the WGP. This is full of big talk (out our ass), grand (unresearched) declarations, and big (full of shit) ideas. There’s pathos, backroom corporate scheming, much talk of the elusive “stockholder”, and explaining “how it is”. It’s hard to listen to unless you feel like fighting. And you will once it’s done. No funny picture, no game talk, no music. This is the kind of crazy, middle of the night jabbering that inspired Max and I into starting a podcast in the first place. I’m just going to leave the normal contact info on the bottom. Oh yeah, one more thing. It’s 3 fucking hours long. Good luck with that.
We’re legit bro. Just like pro skateboarders and up and coming musicians, the biggest turning point at the beginning of any fledgling podcast is getting signed. And we’ve done it. This week is very back-to-basics with news, an interesting top 5 list and a tale from the Mamba Moose all before the break. But that’s not all. Even the break is snazzy. Young Marcus from Sony told us to step our game up, and we did. The game of the week was a nostalgia trip for me, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie’s Double Trouble!. Try saying that 5 times fast without getting wicked bored. Next week is a bullet-hell shooter from the revered shmup creators, Cave. If anyone in Oly needs me, I’ll be downtown at Old School Pizza playing the DoDonPachi on their multicade machine.
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Adios, sayonara, adieu, aloha, lebewohl and goodbye Joe. Well, not really. Joe, being an actual adult, has moved onto getting high-paying and successful jobs with amazing and pleasurable glittering opportunities opening to him at every turn, like a erotic theme park fun-house with a vagina-shaped house of mirrors. And he’s getting paid. So he doesn’t have time for us, more specifically he doesn’t have time for the game of the week. If we can get him on, we will, because we love him. If we can’t, we’ll bury our sorrows in convoluted metaphors based in genitalia-roller coasters. Ahem…
This week’s news is all about the little guys like Twisted Pixel, the XBLA and Microsoft. Ok, it’s mostly about the little guy. We also talk awesome dudes (and 2 dudettes), that we’d love to share a metaphorical cigarette with on a rooftop and why GTA:SA will always be the most broken/addictive game of 2002-2005. The game of the week is Rayman, which we all felt the need to cheat on, and is admired at length. A lot of fun had by all.
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We’ve finally done it. With a new member, 2 lost episodes and 10 games played, we have finally reached double digits. It’s something I will tell my grandchildren about, and by grandchildren I mean random passers-by on the robotic super-trams of the future. This show had a somber tone, partially because our game this week, Knuckles Chaotix, is one of the main impetuses for most philosophers eventually slipping into nihilism. It brings upon malaise. Kevorkian uses it on those who wish to go, for surely after 45 minutes a player simply wants to give up the ghost and be rid of it. We also rap about Gaga, God, Beyond Good and Evil 2, and a bevvy of other worthwhile topics.
Next week’s game is the original Rayman, maybe in honor of the Rayman sequel being made, maybe in honor of Beyond Good and Evil 2. Who knows?
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