Episode #021 “Muffins in a Baking Tin”
In this episode of Bearfighting Extravaganza, we review the new STAR TREK (2009) Movie, as well as talking very briefly about games we have been playing.
I enjoyed making this one, so hopefully that enthusiasm will rub off on you! You can tell as I’ve written a lot of bullet points below, whoops.
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This podcast is about:
- Audio issues (soon to be solved!)
- Motorbikes are scary
- Cupcake? (Mobile phone bit!)
- Bears in supermarkets! (Gits)
- Please review us on iTunes!
- NEWS: Nintendo harasses dentists?
- 3D Realms dead, DNF looks good according to released material?
- Wii Sports: 45 million copies sold
- Wii Anger
- Beyond Good and Evil 2 Trailer? Possibly?
- Liveblogs suck
- GAMES: Condemned! (The original)
- All the usual Condemned discussion, listen to Fightbait’s episode for all the things we mention!
- Castle Crashers – “A fun romp”
- Virtual on: what the hell is this name : Crazy controls
- Street Fighter 4
- Xbox Live names: Luke: “TropicLuke” Elliot: “Elliotpage”
- 34:30: Fightbait anime and gaming podcast. Also now doing Manga!
- Star Trek Movie!
- Cinema gripes
- Radiohead?
- ALMOST A SPOILER
- NO SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW
- Dickhead Children
- Zulu is awesome.
- Mixing bowl learning sphere thing
- Editing? What’s that?
- Vulcan architechture sucks
- Bad ship designs
- Villainy and motivation
- References
- Nerdiest conversation ever
- Simon Friggin Pegg!
- SPACED! SHAUN OF THE DEAD!
- Shrekette
- BONES! HELL YEA
- Old star trek is painful
- DS9 + goatee = woo
- WORF! Q!
- GO SEE THIS MOVIE! EVEN MY MUM LIKED IT! (Hi mum!)
In closing, I have finally bitten the bullet and bought new audio equipment. The pro? We should sound a lot clearer soon (once I get used to the new equipment), and it is not costing me much.
The con? The new equipment is costing the exact same as our current setup, so if I had known about the stuff I am getting back then, well, we would sound better already.
BUT ENOUGH WHINING. LOOK TO THE FUTURE. FIGHT BEARS. DRINK BEER. THUMBS UP TO THE CAMERA.
I forgot to bring this up when we were on Skype:
Condemned is full of flaws and I don’t think I brought them up in my review. This is likely because the flaws didn’t detract from my enjoyment of the game. I might also suffer from wearing rose-tinted glasses whenever I play a game where you can beat a hobo to death with a pipe.
It sounds like you weren’t that far into the game. The enemies in the first level or two aren’t too bad, but eventually you’ll come across a few tough ones, and they throw 2-4 at you at once. For me that was a pain in the ass, but I figured that it had more to do with my being terrible at Xbox games.
If you don’t like the CSI aspect, then there’s a level near the end that I’m sure you’ll hate. You spend the whole level following invisible ink with you tools. It took me forever to figure it out, but I think that’s because I didn’t understand what I was supposed to be doing at first. The basement in that level was terrifying though. I shut the door when I was done down there, but I stood there for a few minutes just in case the hobos could open the door.
As I mentioned in my review, the last level is kind of terrible, but I still enjoyed the game as a whole. I paid less then $15 for it and I had more fun playing it than a lot of the Xbox games I have. Fuck, I paid full price for Left 4 Dead and that was a disappointment. The other reason I go easy on it is because very few games have been able to truly frighten me. As of late, three games come to mind: Bioshock, Dead Space, and Condemned.
The fear in all three was mostly from being afraid to fight enemies, but it was fear nonetheless. There must be more to it though because I get killed a lot playing Gears of War, but the fear of character dying is nonexistent. In the case of Bioshock and Condemned it had to do with the small amount of damage you can take before dying, but Dead Space was truly a frightening experience (especially that god damn asteroid level. I was so scared that I’d never get past that stupid level).
Well, it seems that I’ve written you a novela instead of a comment. Eh. You’ll have to tell me what you think once you’ve played more Condemned. I’m pretty sure that most of the flaws are forgiven because it was a launch game, but I’m sure if they made it now the same problems would be present. Look at Condemned 2. I’ve only played the demo, but it was awful. It seems like the company got lucky with the timing of the release of the first game.
See ya