TWIG, ‘This Week in Gaming’, is officially renamed as ‘The Vine’, MonsterVine’s premiere video game podcast hosted by Will and Zack. Watch them engage in a opinionated, informal, and humorous video game discussion regarding the latest video game topics circulating the industry.
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In this episode we discuss:
Introduction – About the Site, Podcast
-Oddworld Inhabitants coming back to video games
-Rare is fixing Nuts and Bolts to make text actually readable on SDtvs
-IW Community Director Robert Bowling rips on Activision producer calling him senior super douche
-Zack’s Game Theorem on Correlating Box Art Sales Figures with American Gun Obsessification
Games This Week Segment
Left 4 Dead – Zombie co-op four player killing madness, shoot them in the head!
The Last Remnant – Thursday worldwide release, given the “stellar” feedback for S-E’s latest titles *coughInfiniteUndiscoverycough* so far, is this Unreal Engine 3 powered JRPG worth your time?
Sonic Unleashed – Could this be the comeback of Sonic?
Games We’ve Played
Gears of War 2 – Zack’s Impressions
Conclusion – Punch and Pie
William
November 20, 2008 at 1:46 am
you get a +1 if you're not Zack and can guess what video game is that from.
William
November 20, 2008 at 1:47 am
you get a +1 if you're not Zack and can guess what video game is that picture from.
William
November 20, 2008 at 2:12 am
Yeah but I didn't say it was developed by S-E, I just said the quality of S-E of titles as a publisher has been less than stellar.
You also forget I'm a member of the press and I currently have in my computer high resolution pictures of The Last Remnant without watermarks, which I will post tomorrow. 😀
William
November 20, 2008 at 2:14 am
its our own monstervine mascot! :p
HigherBeing
November 20, 2008 at 2:18 am
Oho. Oho.
This podcast was boring as fuck.
<3 Love you guys, though. Luck with that snickering, Zack. Luck with the FOB accent, asian man.
IM me when you've got a forum.
ProjectSora
November 20, 2008 at 2:27 am
Yes, but Square-Enix and Tri-Ace have been partners for a long time. Their Valkyrie Profile and Star Ocean series were generally well-received by fans, so it didn't surprise me that Square-Enix continued to be supportive of Tri-Ace's efforts.
My point is that Infinite Undiscovery was developed by Tri-Ace, a completely independent developer studio while Last Remnant is being developed by Square-Enix themselves, which means that to base the expectation of Last Remnant based on the seemingly unsuccessful Infinite Undiscovery is unfounded when all Square-Enix did was publish it. In my opinion, it would've been more accurate to judge Last Remnant using FFXII as a basis for discussion, but even then that raises questions of doubt since Last Remnant is being developed by a new team.
I'm also looking forward to those HD pictures! ^^b.
ProjectSora
November 20, 2008 at 2:28 am
Yes, but Square-Enix and Tri-Ace have been partners for a long time. Their Valkyrie Profile and Star Ocean series were generally well-received by fans, so it didn't surprise me that Square-Enix continued to be supportive of Tri-Ace's efforts.
My point is that Infinite Undiscovery was developed by Tri-Ace, a completely independent developer studio while Last Remnant is being developed by Square-Enix themselves, which means that to base your expectation of Last Remnant's performance based on the seemingly unsuccessful Infinite Undiscovery is unfounded when all Square-Enix did was publish it. In my opinion, it would've been more accurate to judge Last Remnant using FFXII as a basis for discussion, but even then that raises questions of doubt since Last Remnant is being developed by a new team.
I'm also looking forward to those HD pictures! ^^b.
shadowjak
November 20, 2008 at 2:49 am
OH come on D: It's one of my favs <_<
William
November 20, 2008 at 3:45 am
i know hence why I let someone else have the chance :p
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ProjectSora
November 20, 2008 at 1:59 am
Tsk tsk. Infinite Undiscovery was not developed by Square-Enix. Any negative aspect about it is primarily from a Tri-Ace development decision, not SE. Oho.
And if you're interested in seeing some gameplay vids, there are a whole bunch on the official last remnant website. There's about 7 I believe. ;D
As for picture, *frowns*. I want 1. D:
DrunkAss
November 23, 2008 at 1:27 am
That is a possibility. =D
DrunkAss
November 23, 2008 at 4:44 am
I really enjoyed listening to the podcast, I will be a regular.
As for the NPD figures. You are aware that the LittleBigPlanet numbers are only for 1 week of sales since it came out in the last week on October. so 200k for a week isn't bad, so not quite LittleBigFail. =P
shadowjak
November 23, 2008 at 7:44 am
would you be DA?
shadowjak
November 23, 2008 at 10:25 am
Epic. You'll love the next podcast, Project Sora is a guest D:
Andy Jackson
November 23, 2008 at 11:05 am
Why am I always late? I'm only just downloading this now.
DrunkAss
November 23, 2008 at 11:09 am
*regular listener
XD