In this podcast with Dean “Dean” O’Donnell, you will hear him begin a point with the words “So I was fighting these black dragons the other day.” And he’s not talking about a videogame. You know you’re in good hands for a discussion of Neverwinter Nights 2.
But first, we range across such topics as Super Columbine Massacre RPG, our backgrounds in theater, and banning fun and zombies.
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Jason Cross discuss with me the idyllic yesteryear of videogames journalism, whether writing about PCs is fun anymore, and how to bail on bad TV shows. Then we talk about No One Lives Forever, the game whose acronym is more fun to say than any other game except Master of Orion. NOLF! Say it out loud. Your mouth will thank you. NOLF!
Does No One Lives Forever hold up? Why wasn’t it more successful? Is Cate Archer to blame? And how would NOLF do if it came out today?
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Me and Jason — a.k.a. pyrhic [sic] — discuss ancient Greek tactics confused for drinks, real-world calamities including matchmaking in DICE’s games, and how Left 4 Dead is a rage machine. He also totally puts the “ass” in asymmetrical, but catches himself on it before I can give him any guff. Then we get around to wishing more games were like Pirates. We’re at it for a while, but if you listen, you could win a free bad game!
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Me and Kate — who you know as Athryn — discuss what happens if you go down that path leading into darkness. Then we discuss World of Warcraft.
Also on the topic of paths leading into darkness, there’s no small amount of Breaking Bad love in this podcast. Join us for your chance to win a free but lousy game on the platform of your choice.
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This isn’t just a podcast, it’s a gauntlet. You won’t just meet a guy who came up through delicatessens to bring you the hard-hitting news, day in and day out. You won’t just join a couple of dudes having a Demigod love-in. You won’t just hear one of the best Qt3 accents I’ve heard yet. You will be challenged to participate in one of Quarter to Three’s greatest events that wasn’t conducted by Bill Dungsroman, a months-long game to end all games, a battle to rule the galaxy and all that stuff. Are you one of the three people we’re looking for?
If not, you might still win a free game if you listen. Freak out on a moonage daydream, oh yeah.
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You know Ken “w00t!” Wootton as fuzzyslug. After this podcast, you might mistake him for a Playstation 3 evangelist for all the glowing talk about Little Big Planet, Ratchet & Clank, God of War, Resistance 2, Uncharted, and ass slapping. Speaking of ass slapping, we also totally talk about the sports. Listen for your chance to win a free game.
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We talk existential knock-knock jokes, bored teenager antics in rural America, getting in bed with Dan Hsu, armed Frag Dolls, and gamerscore pride. I mean, shame. Gamerscore shame. We also play a clip from the new cop show Chick and McMaster.
Plus, listen for our world-premiere announcement of Gordon Cameron’s Danger Cats and your chance to win a free game. Finally, there’s some stuff about Heavy Rain, starring Nommen Jaiden.
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It’s the OG podcast! We’re like Statler and Waldorf going on about the old days. How did Qt3 start? What happened to it? And why? But I should warn you we’re not above talking about girls and cars. Oh, and Diablo. We get a little of that in there. And Mark Asher shows off his mastery of Spanish. And I trash talk model train enthusiasts.
Listen to win a free game like ddtibbs did from last week’s podcast.
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This week I intend to give Abilio Carvhalho a hard time about the Portuguese monarchy, but it turns out there is no longer any such thing. So we talk Warhammer, owning a gaming shop, and real time strategy games. It’s a nerd paradise with an international twist and you’re all invited.
Congratulations to nixon66 for winning last week’s free game. Listen this week and you can not only be eligible for a free game, but you’ll find out just how weird Europe is.
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What kind of guy has seven crocodiles in his backyard? Adam Britton, aka krayzkrok. Meet him on this week’s podcast. We squander some valuable time that could have spent on crocodiles talking about Dead Space.
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Meet Matt Manghi, hydro-geologist, house painter, ski bum, baked goods snob, and the guy who draws those slightly creepy hobbits. Listen as I try — unsuccessfully, I think — to convince him Demon’s Souls is a horror game. It’ll quickly become apparent he knows the game far better than I.
Congrats to Dead Buffalo for winning last week’s contest. This week you could win Greed Corp, which would be cool because then I’d have someone to play with.
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Marley Malloy is simultaneously supercool (wait till you hear about her Master’s thesis and how she has literally licked dead people) and an uber-dork (I’m still trying to wrap my head around that stuff about Q from Star Trek). She’s also got way more hours than me logged in Oblivion, which we discuss this week. I should warn you that I don’t recommend booting up Oblivion to “take a quick look at it again”. That’s simply not how it works.
Also, stick around for the end, at which point she reveals a dark shameful secret about someone else on the forum. And congratulations to StGabe for winning Bioshock 2 in last week’s drawing.
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Morgan Gee, also known as John E Motion, is from Victoria and lives in Prague. How unfair is that to those of us who live in or come from ugly places? Listen to this week’s podcast as he explains that you don’t have to be into wargames or real time strategy games to get into Close Combat.
This week’s random question is, uh, kind of weird, so I’m raising the stakes. If you win, you get my extra copy of Bioshock 2 for the Xbox 360. Which you probably already have (you do have Bioshock 2, don’t you?), but every one of us knows someone who should have Bioshock 2 and doesn’t.
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Rorschach is here to tell us his real name is Paul Tobia and that he is not really a superhero from Watchmen. He is also here to tell us that not all Banjo Kazooie games are for babies. He also reveals the desperate lengths to which he has gone in Nuts & Bolts. Suffice to say Klungo is involved.
As if that wasn’t enough to get you to listen, how about the chance to win a free game on the platform of your choice? And congratulations Lenkenobi for winning a free crappy game.
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R. Corey Elzey — you know him as Cubit — talks about Fallout 3 and why we love our apocalypses. We can’t help but also get in some Mass Effect 2 and Star Trek Online talk (by the way, I hope this isn’t a spoiler, but Cubit totally caved and picked up Star Trek Online).
Also, listen to win a free game on the platform of your choice. And congratulations to Morkilus for winning a crappy game yet to be determined.
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