SHOW ME YOUR NEWS! - Gaming News PODCAST (Ep. 76 OUT!, New WEBSITE and iTunes!)

[Terios the Hedgehog]

Please stop asking mailtime questions about E3. They will go over their thoughts on E3 in the roundtable.

Yeah but people want them to answer. SPECIFIC thoughts from E3 that they might have skipped over otherwise. Just sayin'

 

[Youko]

While SwordHunter's at work, I might as well continue OoT on Stickam...

I won't be at the chat, so feel free to chat with whoever stops by...


Roughly 48 hours 'til SMYN 38 LIVE!

 

[piffman2]

Mailtime

To Panda- being a classic Wario fan are you excited about Wario Land: Shake It and as a classic Megaman fan are you excited about Megaman 9?

To both of you (warning: this could turn into a rant) do you truly believe Nintendo has abandoned the core or are people just over-reacting somewhat due their mostly casual E3 showing? And please consider, even though it's a weird opinion, Nintendo doesn't believe E3 is the place to show core games anymore and instead they hold an event in the fall like they did last October for Smash, Mario Galaxy, Battalion Wars etc. I would like your feedback because I'm considering writing an opinion piece about Nintendo, core gamers and the whole casual catastrophe. If anything happens anyone who can read my sig will know where to find it or read this rough draft http://www.mediafire.com/?lx231194xtc

EDIT: This comic sums up all of the news stories I would have otherwise mentioned

http://http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs32/f/2008/202/c/7/Nintendo_and_E3_and_whatever_by_madfather.jpg

E3 did suck this year and it has become irrelevant. I just disagree with everyone using it to determine the entire future of Nintendo so please, what are your thoughts?
Chekc this out, Iwata is sorry for E3 http://wii.kombo.com/article.php?artid=12380

Finally, how do feel about Dead Rising on Wii with the RE4 engine and The Conduit with 16 player online and voice chat?

 

[Darkurai]

If only...

...except that's exactly what happened.

Only Miyamoto said it instead of Reggie.

 

[Youko]

Soooo the Stickam server decided to stop working all of a sudden. Go figure. So I just stopped at the start of the Fire Temple and called it a night.

 

[AgentJGV]

hey did stickam end? I got booted off and when i returned no one was there

EDIT: ok disregard this post. didnt see youko's post above meh

 

[cmpr94x]

I got kicked off of the stickam

Oh ok.

 

[Terios the Hedgehog]

Oh so that's what happened. I thought I went all crashy. XD

 

[Youko]

Yeah, sorry about that, guys. Totally out of my hands. Hope you enjoyed it nonetheless, though!

 

[Darkurai]

****. I was talking about creepy chanting in the Fire Temple music,
Have you ever heard the original version of the music, Youko?

 

[WilldaBeast]

That was fun, and I'll definitively be there for the podcast too.

 

[Shock the Hedgehog]

So is the podcast chat going to be on Stickam or that IRC thing Sariku was showing us?

 

[Terios the Hedgehog]

Yeah. I believe they're getting Mic_128 too.

 

[Darkurai]

So is the podcast chat going to be on Stickam or that IRC thing Sariku was showing us?

I'm pretty sure episodes 36 and 37 were done on Stickam. Though 35 was done in the IRC.

And btw, here's that Fire Temple music I was talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDcQVzu_kc8

 

[Youko]

You can't listen to streaming audio in IRC...so obviously you'll listen to it through Stickam...

 

[Shock the Hedgehog]

You can't listen to streaming audio in IRC...so obviously you'll listen to it through Stickam...

Well I know that, I'm talking about where the chat will be happening. It's not like you can't have two windows open, right?

 

[Sariku]

If Youko does what I and SwordHunter say to do, you just need to have a window open for the stickam and a window open for the IRC. The IRC will be Java based, which means you don't have to download anything. For those who want to see what it will be like, follow these steps.

- Go to www.gamesurge.net/chat/
- It will come up with some warning message, just press "run."
- When it fully loads, type "/nick YourName" (Example : /nick Sariku)
- Now type "/join #SMYN". (Example : /join #SMYN)

You are then there and ready to chat with everyone else. Youko may not decide to do this, but it would be easiest, as SwordHunter and myself decided.

 

[Terios the Hedgehog]

Easiest would be just using Stickam chat. >.>

But this is certainly more aesthetically pleasing.

 

[Sariku]

Unless Youko sees a completely different chat window, that would be hard as hell to moderate.

 

[WilldaBeast]

Wow, that actually is really easy, you have my support.

 

[Sariku]

Haha, thanks.

We should so update these tags with Sariku somewhere in there. >:D

 

[Terios the Hedgehog]

Well if you're used to IRC it's easy as hell but IRC almost died out by the time interneting became a big thing for most people. I believe a lot of people HAD to navigate this way before a friendly interface came to be. I remember playing games on a REALLY old Mac and having to type /run Tetris or whatever. That might have just been a weird computer though.

 

[Sariku]

For moderating, at least, I think that this would be the easiest way. Also, with a PM system, kick, and ban system if needed.

 

[Cyberlink420]

Panda's going to be happy about this: According to my new Nintendo Power, in Sonic and the Black Knight, you get to play as Knuckles...WHO DUAL-WIELDS TWO MASSIVE SWORDS.

****ING AWESOME.

 

[cmpr94x]

I actually think that panda will be outraged. This game is like Shadow the Hedgehog except, instead of guns, we have sonic with the alondite.

 

[SamuraiPanda]

I want to be pissed off, but I... I can't bring myself to hate Knuckles.

On the other hand, seeing Sonic with a sword was enough to evoke a gag reflex.

 

[Sariku]

Haha, Panda. It's confirmed to be the second game in the "Sonic Storybook" series.

 

[WilldaBeast]

I want to be pissed off, but I... I can't bring myself to hate Knuckles.

On the other hand, seeing Sonic with a sword was enough to evoke a gag reflex.

Oh come on anyone would want to play as Knuckles with swords, even if the game is a god awful piece of crap.

 

[Terios the Hedgehog]

Shadow's IN it. I'm calling for slaying Dragons with a Gunblade.

It doesn't look too bad actually. Like a really fast DMC on a track.

 

[Anth0ny]

I want to be pissed off, but I... I can't bring myself to hate Knuckles.

On the other hand, seeing Sonic with a sword was enough to evoke a gag reflex.

I think Kotaku put it best: "New Sonic Wii Game Revealed, Brings Much Needed Swordplay To Series "

 

[Mic_128]

Haha, Panda. It's confirmed to be the second game in the "Sonic Storybook" series.

Guh, thought they learnt their lesson with Secret rings. :/

 

[Terios the Hedgehog]

Guh, thought they learnt their lesson with Secret rings. :/

Secret Rings was good. >.>

 

[Sariku]

Guh, thought they learnt their lesson with Secret rings. :/

Nah, Mic, it may be better now.

They said this will use the WiiMote Nunchuc controller, just like Unleashed.

Unleashed also supports the GCN Controller, so Black Knight may as well.

 

[Mic_128]

Secret Rings was good. >.>

It was on rails. Felt like a "My first Sawnic" game. Not to mention the 'Failure Party' minigames.

 

[Terios the Hedgehog]

Meh. I've always liked Sonic games for doing precision movements at high speeds to lower my time. Once you get the Crest of Wind and all that neat stuff it gets much better. So yeah. From a "I want to lower my time" mindset it was great.

Not like Sonic 360 where the levels were probably shorter than the loading screens. >.>

I've NEVER wanted to go through again to lower my time on that game since the loading screens THEMSELVES weren't worth it much less how bad the gameplay was. I didn't even get all the abilities in that one.

 

[piffman2]

It was on rails. Felt like a "My first Sawnic" game. Not to mention the 'Failure Party' minigames.

The minigames were fail but it the main was still the closest thing so far to capturing what was good about 2-D Sonic in 3-D. Just look at Sonic Unleased trying to improve upo what secret Rings laid out, until he turns into a werewolf. Anyway, we all know Sonic 360 was awful and I still that once you take out all of the nostalgia and awe of a 3-D Sonic for the first time, as games, Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 were awful too. Sorry Youko

 

[Mic_128]

Just look at Sonic Unleased trying to improve upo what secret Rings laid out

Wait, is unleashed an on-rails game too?

 

[Terios the Hedgehog]

Wait, is unleashed an on-rails game too?

Umm...no?

The 3-d parts might be. Shifting between the left/right on 2-d to left/right 3-d as fluidly as they did.....

Crap. Now I'm worried. Thanks a lot.

 

[Cyberlink420]

Actually, they're doing things a bit differently from Secret Rings. Take a look.

Maybe my senses have been dulled after years of being a Banjo/Sonic/Transformers fan and regularly decrying any form of change before it even happens, but the game actually looks like fun.

 

[Youko]

More OoT this morning and afternoon...w00t!