Pictured above is the boss “Fiend Matador”. While he isn’t the most recognizable demon, or the most frightening, he made gamers scream in terror at his sight. He is a punch-in-the-face introduction to the world of Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne.
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When it comes down to video game morality choices, I usually skew towards the bad guys. Not because I’m the kind of guy that wants to go on a killing spree, but because I like the freedom evil affords. If someone is a dick to you and you’re a good guy, you usually turn the other cheek. A Sith will stab you in the face. Which would you prefer to deal with?
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Far be it from me to question the genius of Will Wright. The guy has more insight into the art of game design in his little finger than I have in my twenty years of leveling up clerics, Forza cars, and FAMASes. But when he reveals his latest project, HiveMind, as follows:
…a group of cross-platform, cross-media online applications…designed to turn a gamer’s everyday life into part of the interactive experience by building upon Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) and tapping into streams of personal information on phones, tablets, social networks and computers.
I have no idea what to make of that. My brain shuts down about half way through the description. Whatever a buffer overflow is, I think that’s what happens in my head when I try to read through those words. You’d have better luck trying to explain the third law of thermodynamics to my cat.
You can read more in this perfunctory Q&A, but I don’t recommend it. It’ll just confuse you even more.
Tom “I hate free-to-play” Chick proclaims his love for a free-to-play game, Jason “What’s Cosmos?” McMaster throws down some serious trash talk at Carl Sagan, and our guest Tim “Union Carbide” Smith breaks all the rules and goes a little crazy by bringing up Playboy magazine articles, NASCAR driver Peter Soderbergh (not his real name), and some Star Wars MMO that surely no one is sick of hearing about by now. And just when you thought you’d heard it all, special guest Rob, a.k.a. “Repo Man”, explains just how dorky things can get when he and six other grown men convene in a basement in Seattle to try to fly a spaceship.
If you’d like to check out our posts of the week, Tom chose this liveblogged starship simulator session, McMaster chose this Josh Bycer article on difficulty levels, and Tim chose this profile of the guy who will bring us a new Cosmos.
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Hey, it’s our epic (i.e. about an hour too long) end-of-the-year podcast. We go over our picks for top ten movies of the year. Rest assured that the discussion is spoiler free, thanks to the careful editing of our elite bleeping team. After two hours and 22 minutes — I know, right? — we do our 3×3 of favorite montages. Kelly Wand ends up $5 poorer for not knowing Jaws very well.
Next week: The Innkeepers
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