Although we talk about a lot of things in Episode 7, the titular fight takes up the bulk of it, and concerns the merits, or lack thereof, of the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360—specifically re: These Difficult Economic Times. Go ahead and take a listen if that sounds like your bag of chips, or take a look at the show notes and see if we might have something else in this episode to interest you.
Introduction
- Your host this week…Aaron. Everyone knows him, even if they don’t love him.
We’re not sick
- Well, Jared is. Merry Christmas.
What’s new?
- New Flash Header on the website. Now with buttons.
- We’ve been working on ?????
- Aaron has been playing Prince of Persia. Jared doesn’t like it.
- Jared doesn’t like that you can’t die. It’s too easy.
- It eliminates skill, and there’re no puzzles, unlike Prince of Persia: Sands of Time.
- Aaron thinks that all recent Ubisoft games are part of something larger than him.
- Enough about other people’s games.
The fall of printed media 
- It’s going out of style.
- Aaron gets free subscriptions for some reason… So does Harry.
- You can get up to date info on the internet…why get printed media? Quality bathroom reading.
- Print media relies on ads, but they don’t get them since the internet or TV has replaced that. People just don’t like them as much anymore.
- The Spanish version of EGM has tanked. Harry isn’t traveled enough to know.
- Even big newspapers are being hit hard.
- Roger Ebert is even talking about it.
- Gail feels that people like tabloids more than a good story.
- But we can get news, and get it right now.
- Harry wants to band together with other publishers to put an end to online.
- Jared has an idea: More story, more opinion.
- Harry wishes everyone luck.
Trouble in the game industry
- People are closing shop. It sucks.
- EA is doing layoffs. If we laid anyone off….
- Games are still doing well, just not as well.
- Jared didn’t like the new Call of Duty.
- Smaller companies are getting the boot while bigger companies are taking over.
The Game Debate
- Aaron – 3 classes of games: low class for low money, middle class for some money, and super awesome for tons of cash.
- Gail: ya, and then there was Hooked: Real Motion Fishing.
- Jared with the rebuttal.
- Surprise guest: Ben! Time for some more action. Case in point: Legendary.
- Big Budget Games = Big Budget Movies.
- Money does not always equal success.
- Valve takes forever to make things, but they’re wildly successful.
- Aaron wants to clarify.
- Jared: Artistic mediums are different than other industries.
Give Ben some Game Fuel!
- If you’re prepared for the zombie apocalypse, please give some to Ben since he needs it.
- All Aaron needs is a shotgun. Jared disagrees.
- Email us and tell us what you think: podcast(at)aksysgames(dot)com.
PS3 Y/N
- Aaron: PS3 sucks and here is why.
- Jared: STFU and here is why.
- Gail: You won’t get the PS3 to be the PS2.
- Harry: Wii is on another level.
- Jared fights for the PS3. And thinks Metroid Prime 3 sucked.
- At what cost?
- Even Nintendo knows that you can’t release a big name Nintendo game at the same time as a different big game (Wii Music and Gears of War 2).
- PS3 is an investment, but when does it pay off?
- Xbox may be cheaper but it doesn’t come with a HDD. Ben: That won’t matter.
- Why do people by the PS3?
- Aaron: people buy the PS3 for gaming! Jared: You’re ridiculous!
- PS3 vs. 360. You decide. If you could only buy one…
- Yes, but what about cost?
- Gail: for some reason, things just look better on the 360.
- If you want better-looking games, buy the PC version.
- What about the Blu-Ray player? Are DVDs going out of style?
- Jared prepares to school Aaron on the Entertainment Market.
- But, how long?
- COUNTERARGUMENT TIME
- DVD vs. Blu-Ray
Playstation HOME
- No free stuff. You must pay for everything.
- Only thing at the movies: Twilight trailer…
- Gail claims he saw Indiana Jones.
- We’re disappointed.
- Also, if you want to play a virtual game, you have to wait in virtual line.
- And then there’s the ol’ “A/S/L?”
- Except for people like Aaron who make female avatars.
- HOME = Sims.
- So, HOME avatars, NXE avatars, or Miis?
Mailbag Time
- A Battle Fantasia Question. Special guest: Bo. Impressions.
- Bo likes it. Harry likes it. Send more questions to podcast(at)aksysgames(dot)com.
- Eric wants to know some things about BlazBlue.
- Problems with the A button? Sounds like something wrong with the cabinet or something. Something like that…
- Invincible frames for Noel? Definitely.
- Tager impressions.
- Someone playing as Carl is pretty impressive…
- Send inquiries to podcast(at)aksysgames(dot)com.
Harry’s Cash Money Cosplay Contest
- Till February, dress as any Aksys character and win Harry’s $$.
- Send all entries to podcast(at)aksysgames(dot)com. Title it with “Cash Money Contest”. Put it anywhere.
Thanks for listening!
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Damn. I feel kinda left out of this heated podcast, heh. Good stuff all around.
Curse you, unannounced projects, for taking me away from precious fun time!
*shakes fist*
Hmm . . I don’t know if I completely agree with you guys here, but I’ll tell you what; in any situation (that I can conjure) that a shotgun would be a useful, a katakana would work just as well without the potential of becoming a deadly burden. Then again, it depends on how you approach a horde of zombies. Trust me, I think about this at least two hours a week.
As for the game debate, I ain’t touching that! But, I will say as someone who doesn’t own a PS3 or 360, the focus has to be on the games, and maybe to even a greater extent, the online capabilities (where I believe the *next gen* should/will improve upon in a phenomenal way). As well as both systems are selling, there are still people like myself that are waiting to see what both really have to offer. Not being a videophile, it has to be more than bloom and Blu-ray, know what I’m sayin’, baby!
Oh, and the VHS jump to DVD was a HUGE format leap. Remember Laser Disc? We saw what was coming around the corner. For those who waited you didn’t have to switch through 6 huge laser discs of A-vs.-P and got a compact one, ‘ala DVD. Even then, it took a while for DVD to completely phase out VHS entirely. With B-R, I dunno, man. I feel it’s more like a stepping-stone rather than a ‘here and gonna stay’ thing. My film critic friend tells me there’s gonna movie hard drives where you d/l movies into… legally! That’s awesome if ever comes around, and knowing how fast technology moves, it could be sooner than we expect.
A katana would be less reliable than a shotgun, in a zombie attack because of these reasons:
A katana limits you to only melee combat, and relies on the skill of the wielder a great deal. While a shotgun can work as kind of a melee weapon, it also has several different kinds of ammunition available and they are pretty common to find. Also, melee weapons are much easier to find then reliable, strong, multi-use ranged weapons. Lastly, the learning curve for a shotgun is far less steep than that of a katana; especially if you must learn on the fly.
And yea, laser-disc is classic. I still got a small library of those things and a trusty dvd/laser-disc player in my house hehe.
Heavenscent: you should just do less work and join us next time.
You totally should have named this podcast “Zombie Apocalypse”.