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Episode #039 “Licking a lightsaber May Not Be Tasty”

October 7th, 2009 Comments off

In this episode of Bearfighting Extravaganza, we lament the lack of news and instead talk about a BUTTLOAD OF ACTUAL GAMES! No Mobile Phones this week, just GAMES. Hell yea!

If you can leave us reviews and ratings on iTunes, we would be dead chuffed. If you would like to ask a question or suggest a topic, feel free to e-mail us and it’ll appear in the next show.

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This podcast is about: (Long goddamn list for this episode, as it is CHOC FULL)

  • Walnuts
  • Intro Music!
  • Spottify offline caching (Thanks Hannah!)
  • Vitriolic Ars Technica Review of the PSPgo
  • GT PSP early review (oops)
  • Wii 4.2 update is bricking consoles! Check the news before updating!
  • Digital clocks?
  • Charlie Brookes Gameswipe! Awesome show, watch it on iPlayer now.
  • Kicking the WoW habit
  • Risen, the new PC WRPG
  • Western as hell
  • Actually runs really well!
  • A way to get NPCs to talk to you again – what every RPG should do.
  • Gnomes: Thieving little gets.
  • Motorstorm Arctic Edge (PSP)
  • Runs smooth, with graphics you wouldnt expect on a PSP
  • PSP divides – hardware versions, UMD/digital
  • Overall games thing: How to hide loading screens and why it is a sin not to.
  • Custom soundtracks? Online Multiplayer!
  • US PSN account signup – Mr. Cake Boy = Elliot. :D
  • Big props to Ant, who is an awesome dude!
  • Disgaea 1 – its Disgaea.
  • Prinny: Can I have a long subtitle?
  • Hardcore boss fights, anger
  • PROMO: Ani-Gamers Podcast! Their lastest podcast is about Digital Distro, which I may have accidentially inspired after a random tweet. Its a damn good episode, and podcast in general.
  • Mafia Wars, Facebook games (ugh)
  • Harvest Moon: Game too Long
  • Free Wife!
  • Gran Turismo PSP
  • Luke and Elliot butt heads for a bit
  • Luke: “Its what I want.”
  • Elliot: “But… But… agh!”
  • No Progression
  • HIOPB, WDIDTDT? (Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman!)
  • HARD AS BALLS
  • TRY THE DEMO FIRST
  • THIS and THIS
  • Evil Genius : Awesome idea, game left something to be desired
  • US and UK prices, PSN stores, ugh.
  • Majesty 2 Like Dungeon Keeper meets WoW
  • Russian developer, which tells you a lot
  • Questgiver sim, with good checks and balences to keep the fun.
  • Good accidental humour, poor intended humour.
  • Crisis Core: PSP, and Aeris
  • FF Dissidia Demo = what the hell?
  • “Crazy Bullshit”
  • Failed fighting game translations
  • Katamari Forever (PS3)
  • Controls or broken, or I just suck. Who knows?
  • Roll up foul evil BEARS
  • Points?
  • Annoying unlocks that should be available at the start.
  • Soul Caliber De-volution
  • SPAAAAWWWWNNNNNNN
  • Risen Story out of nowhere
  • Next Bit.Trip game
  • Borderlands: 12 Pillion guns, 4chan invasion, PREORDERED
  • L4D2 = “Meh”
  • I Made a Game with Zombies in it, it is a dual stick shooter, it costs a dollar.
  • Elliot is made of plague
  • Almost a year old! Vague plans for this coming soon.
  • MGS4 SUCKS
  • PatzPrime (Hi!)
  • Random cool guy: Hi!
  • E-mail us for the love of Cake!

As mentioned at the end of the show, we are looking into doing a full-on one year celebration with the coolest people: You, who is reading this right now! (And our podcast buddies!) More details to come soon. Hint: It will involve the BEST GAME EVER.

Intro music is a remixed version of “Reset” by Fishandchip8bit from 8-bit collective, and you can find his page here.
Music used under the CC BY-NC-SA licence, same as everything to do with this podcast and site.

Episode#017: “Don’t Blow my Helicopter Buddy Up!”

April 1st, 2009 1 comment

In this weeks episode of Bearfighting Extravaganza, we talk an awful lot about Resident Evil 5!

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How did I pull Luke away from WoW? Well, it wasn’t actually me who did it…

Long list of junk:

  • Computer failure
  • News: RE5 DLC Delayed
  • Max Payne 3: Better not be another sniper rifle bit.
  • Ragnarok/Vodka!
  • QuestHelper, Wow Addon Changes, Blizzard are gits
  • Mass Effect 2!
  • Jesus Shepard, Wrex
  • RE5: Local co-op and total Co-op solutions
  • WEP, WPA and idiots
  • Also, Academic paper! (Google the title for the paper text)
  • Hardware Tech 2000 podcast
  • Graphics!
  • Controls and how to confuse them, archetypes, button misuse
  • Gamecube Controller = good? WTH.
  • Intelligent controller mapping (Game developers listen to this)
  • Terrible shop/local Co-op interface
  • Free Ammo in upgrades!
  • THE GAME IS REALLY FUN, WE FORGOT TO MENTION
  • Gripe magnification
  • Narrative and scene setting, the wish for it.
  • Helicopter Buddies in Resi and their lifespan.
  • Regenerators from RE4  = OH GOD
  • Inventory system sucks
  • Trial and Error
  • COVER MECHANIC?
  • NINJA DOG?
  • Enemy design
  • Bosses!
  • Logic vs Sense
  • The intro at the end.

I really enjoyed recording this show, and hopefully we are now getting the hang of dual microphones. Next week will be a bonus episode due to travelling, after which the “Get people to listen to this show!” Juggernaut will restart. And by restart I mean actually do something instead of endless planning.

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