Qt3 Games Podcast: wumpussed!

Posted by on February 22, 2012 in Game Podcasts

This week we welcome Jeff “wumpus” Atwood to the show, only to embarrass ourselves horribly when we fail his basic interview process. But then he embarrasses himself horribly when he references what he thinks is a Bioware game. So we’re all even! We also talk a fair bit of Darkness II, Far Cry 3, the Game of Thrones card game, Rock Band and…well, you kind of have to hear Jeff’s pick for game of the week to believe it.

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  • http://profiles.google.com/matthiaswatkins Matt Watkins

    That looks exactly like the version of Hunt the Wumpus I used to play on my family’s TI-99/4A when I was 5 years old. Shoot the arrow, NOW!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-McMaster/607680289 Jason McMaster

    I feel I didn’t do Game of Thrones Card Game any justice. It’s really cool. Maybe I’ll write up a bit with pictures of our next game. 

  • Inverarity

    Aren’t adventure games basically games that skip the combat in favor of the dialogue trees? 

  • Dave Markell

    If the QT3 forums are a game, does that mean Jason McCullough is the end boss?

  • http://twitter.com/CHGardiner Chris Gardiner

    Another Dreamworks movie that doesn’t smack of Shrek and is really good: How to Train your Dragon. Bit of a revelation, that. I was enjoying being all gumpy about Dreamworks stuff. Now I’m confused.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-McMaster/607680289 Jason McMaster

    I really wanted to see that movie when it came out. I’ll have to get it and check it out.

  • Anonymous

    Excellent point, Chris.  How to Train Your Dragon is so good that I forgot is was a Dreamworks movie! 

    Also, unfortunately for folks who didn’t see it in theaters, it was a really good example of effective 3D.  I normally hate seeing movies in 3D, but How to Train Your Dragon made great use of the technology.  And given how good the movie looked, it’s no surprise that cinematographer Roger Deakins (if you’ve seen many Coen brothers movies, or Assassination of Jesse James, you’ve seen Deakins) worked on How to Train Your Dragon.

    Man, now that you mention it, there’s a Blu Ray I really need to own…

  • triggercut

    1 moment I greatly enjoyed (I enjoyed all of them, but this one stood out) was Tom poo-pooing the idea of Atari designers working on the mobile platform by saying it would be like a director coming out of a 20-year retirement to make a movie.  Oh Thin Red Line, how soon (ten minutes?) we forget you!

  • triggercut

    Oh, and when Tom was describing a movie set in New York where everything was just a little bit “off” in a macabre sort of way, I sure thought he was going to say he was talking about “After Hours” instead of “In The Cut”….

  • Anonymous

    Spoken like someone who never had to sit through New World. :) But for every Terence Malick, there’s a dozen George Lucases!

  • Anonymous

    Ooh, that’s definitely a good one.

  • http://twitter.com/CHGardiner Chris Gardiner

    God, I wish I’d seen it in 3D. The dragon flight sequences are incredible even on my plain old TV.

    I totally missed the Roger Deakins connection!

  • Chris Gwinn

    You left us hanging with the bit about how Pixar made one perfect movie. Which one?

  • http://twitter.com/CHGardiner Chris Gardiner

    I’m betting ‘Up’.

    Am I right?

  • tomchick

    Toy Story 2! I feel as far as movies go, it belongs in the company of a handful of perfect — yes, perfect! — movies like Jaws, Casablanca, and Chinatown.

  • tomchick

    I do love Up, but I can see how some people might feel the early gravity leads into a bait-and-switch for a kind of glib, but superfun, adventure movie. This didn’t bother me in the least, but I can understand that as a criticism. Parts of Up might also be a bit too cutesy for some people, with the talking dogs flying biplanes and whatnot. Again, I adored all that stuff, and I love that Tom McCarthy — who wrote and directed The Visitor and Station Agent — was one of the writers of Up. But I’m not sure I’d let it into my own teensy vault for perfect movies.

    A perfect movie has to be an immaculate collaboration between actors, a writer, and a director at the top of their respective games, with no fat, no wasted space, no missed opportunities. It has to be smack-you-in-the-face memorable. It has to be one of those movies that only comes along once every ten or twenty years, if you’re lucky. Now, I hold no special qualifications to name a perfect movie, and I’m sure different people would pick different movies. But as much as I love Up, I don’t feel it’s as immaculate a package as Toy Story 2.

  • Mike Cathcart

    The Game of Thrones card game is a way more better implementation of the theme than the board game is. Seriously, how much of those books is about armies moving on a map? Plus the card game has the best characters in it: Hodor and Shaggydog!

    You can get a nice set of four solid decks of cards with two base sets. Those are about 30 bucks each, though I picked them up for 18 each on Amazon around Christmas. There are two expansions–also about 30 dollars–that will each give you a new house. So up to six houses when you add those two in. After that there’s a ton more cards you can buy but you can play for a pretty long time before you have to worry about that. 

    Also, Tom, I read on Boardgamegeek that Randy Bookman has a set, so tell him to bring it over and play. Or come out to the east coast and we’ll play here. 

  • Pogue Mahone

    Fuck me*, that’s probably about the same list I would have.  Though I would add Ghostbusters in there.

    *figure of speech.

  • Furiousdave

    Am I the only one who was yelling ‘MODULUS’ at while listening during the Stump the McMaster portion?

    My wife came downstairs to try and figure out who I was talking to.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-McMaster/607680289 Jason McMaster

    I couldn’t think! I felt awful