Qt3 Games Podcast: zombies vs. SWAT

Posted by on November 30, 2011 in Game Podcasts

We enlist Eric “shellfishguy” Campbell to help us solve a dilemma. Then we settle in for some serious talk about World of Warcraft and Star Wars: The Old Republic, at which point Tom Chick sets a couple of n00bs straight on the finer points of Star Wars lore. Plus a touch of Distant Worlds, Battlefield 3, ESRB controversy, and pinball. Skyrim doesn’t come up. Oh, wait. Yes it does.

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  • Ben

    You guys always talk about Walking Dead, but Death Valley never gets any love. I mean come on , it’s a cop show about zombies in the San Fernando Valley. Walking Dead needs to pick up the pace as or it may be in some trouble.

  • Superslug

    Should M rated games have kid zombies or should there be a market for AO games?

  • Anonymous

    M-rated games should allow for violence against zombie kids, just like R-rated movies and TV-14 shows. The AO is never going to be a viable rating for a game with a major publisher, so whatever we want to see in our games is going to have to come under the M-rating.

  • Abilio

    I refuse to listen to this unless someone tells me that one of the participants chose Hatoful Boyfriend as the thread of the week.

  • EHX

    Given Tom’s overall reaction to Skyrim, it’s probably best he left the civil war and main quest line alone. I don’t know how to describe it, except after finishing the “game,” I felt somewhat ambivalent about the implementation of both. Supposedly, there’s a bit more in the main story line if you don’t finish the civil war thread beforehand. Though, given what I did see, I’m not sure why it would. DLC may play a role in picking up some of the threads (and hopefully a fleshed out expansion as well).

    Also, as a heads up, there are places in the main story line where you can make choices, but it’s not clear you have a choice to make. After years of being trained by linearity in videogame, I didn’t really think twice about following what seemed like the game prodding me along a single path. I don’t think branches are all that wide, but it does appear they are there, after going back to various actors I was introduced to, but never really come up again unless you make a point of revisiting them.