The first thing to note this week is that Lewis is once again absent. He did have a rather good excuse this week though, what with it being his birthday and all. Although it was back on Thursday, I’m sure all our listeners would like to wish him a happy birthday anyway.
Fortunately, despite Lewis’ absence, we did manage to get through a quiz this week as Peter had kindly provided one. Not only has he been putting together quizzes from internet sources, he’s also been playing Killzone Shadowfall and praising Peggle 2. As if that wasn’t enough, he had plenty to say about the recent copyright issues on YouTube if you feel like getting some insight into that hornet’s nest of an issue.
As for Kev, he’s been playing Guacamelee and reading Justice League. The latter of these fits in nicely with my comic reading, so we took some time to talk about DC’s ongoing Forever Evil event.
As well as that, we’ve got the ever present news and a few of your questions to really fill out this week’s podcast.
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Germanos
I think you guys are a bit overreacting on the ‘going to shops matter’. I understand the benefits of internet shopping etc., but sometimes it’s just nice to see the stuff you are buying and pick it up personally. For me the most important factor is the price. I buy stuff from whom has the lowest price. On the other hand I think it’s sometimes better to buy a thing from a “real” shop for warranty and stuff.
I use TV speakers :( never used any thing other than TV speakers or headphones while gaming. I’m thinking about buying the SONY Elite Pulse headset for some great gaming sound.
Peter, playing with people you know, your friends is like the essence of FPS shooter online. It’s like 50% of the fun from them is made by playing it with friends. I don’t understand why shooting people is the worst part for you, but everyone can have their own opinion :)
‘Gandhi dance’ made me spit coffee on my keyboard. Thank you Kev.
Peter Chapman
It’s not really the shooting people I dislike, it’s the being shot by people.
The endless spawn-die-spawn-die cycle of almost every online shooter completely breaks any pacing or rhythm a game might otherwise have and that’s a big part of what I enjoy about games.
I like the immersion of feeling empathy with the player character, I like it to matter when I die halfway through a level because that character has died and I care about the character. Online shooters are very much a videogame in the old fashioned, almost shallowest sense, which is great, if you like that kind of thing. I generally don’t.
I also massively overthink my failures so when I don’t do well (which is almost always), I really feel bad for letting my team down. So I tend to not want to put myself in that position.
Also, real shops with people in them suck :P