Chris Gardiner spearheads the British invasion of the Qt3 Games Podcast, joining us from rainy Queen-loving England, where he helps make Echo Bazaar as good as it is. How good is it? Listen to find out! For our news of the week, we discuss eccentric game-loving millionaires, sleeping dogs, and unrealistic sci-fi. For games of the week, Jason fondly recounts his latest honeymoon, Tom insists that maps of America suck, and Chris changes his mind.
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Justin Gary, the founder of Gary Games and designer of Ascension, talks about his inspiration for the game, some of the changes introduced in the two expansions, and what’s next for fans of this breakout deck-building game and iPhone app. He’s also kind enough to humor Tom Chick’s observations on game balance, the mechana construct nerf in the latest expansion, and interpretive readings of the new card art. Which Mr. Gary doesn’t confirm, but neither does he deny. Victory!
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This week Matt Nute joins us and explains how he might not be eligible to join the VFW, but he is kind of a conquistador. It’s complicated. We also talk JRPGs, which at least two people on the podcast are qualified to do.
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This week we offer you twice as much McMaster as any other week. What’s more, we also bring you 100% more Brandon Cackowski-Schnell than any other week, lending the podcast some serious Dr. Who and 50 Cent cred, yo.
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You can’t very well talk videogames right now without some serious RPG talk. Particularly with this week’s guest. Jeff, who posts as Sapper Gopher, is a bona fide JPRG enthusiast with the credentials necessary to talk about the Final Fantasy XIII-2 demo. You’ll also hear a bit about Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Diablo III, Payday: The Heist, and various other games where you level up. Such as Dungeons and Dragons. Jeff also casts what is by far the most memorable vote in the ongoing zombies vs. SWAT debate.
For our posts of the week, Tom picked this defense of Diablo III, Jason picked this guarded defense of the Kingdoms of Amalur demo, and Jeff picked this riff on Skyrim written by someone using a familiar moniker.
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This week we welcome spaceship expert Brian Rubin (his credentials here) to help us determine the greatest spaceship of all time, whether Supernatural is just for tween girls, and who would win in a Dance Dance Revolution last-man-standing showdown.
For our posts of the week, Brian chose this thread of Terminator geekery, Tom chose this announcement of the impending Fallen Princess Enchantress beta, and Jason chose this discussion of 2K’s other X-com game.
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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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Bill Abner joins us this week, bringing a report from the front on the war against MMO fatigue, where Jason McMaster is still valiantly fighting and Tom Chick is engaged in a mostly successful flanking maneuver. Casualties are heavy all around.
Our posts of the week are as follows: Bill picked this canny evisceration of the MMO model, Tom picked this personal tale of an Advanced Squad Leader module, and Jason picked this furor over a customer service nightmare.
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Dogs playing poker is one thing. But this week’s guest, Jamie Madigan, apparently envisions dogs (pictured) assassinating Templars! Join us for a bit of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, a bit of Star Wars: the Old Republic, a bit of Serious Sam 3, and even some non-derisive Tony Hawk talk. Plus a contest in which you could win a free game. Also, Ezio up there wants you to rate us on iTunes. Just look at him. How can you refuse a face like that?
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Saints Row 3 lead designer Scott Phillips shows up to solve a few mysteries like why you can’t replay missions, why butts are pixellated but purple dildos aren’t, what’s going on in that mission where you’re suddenly drugged and naked, and what happened to Freckle Bitches. I should warn you that if you haven’t finished the storyline, we do discuss specific plot points, such as the fate of [redacted], the late game arrival of [redacted], and the [redacted] on Arapice Island.
In possibly related news, the Qt3 Games Podcast score for SWAT vs. zombies is now 2 to 1.
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This week, we welcome Jared (aka Otagan), who makes at least three of the following four claims: he doesn’t own an Xbox 360, he doesn’t care about pinball, he prefers a SWAT team to zombie hordes, and he is from the fictional land of North Dakota (allegedly pictured, although we know a screenshot from Red Dead Redemption when we see it). Furthermore, expect strange choices all around for games of the week. And speaking of strange, gremlins ate our discussion of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, in which Jared explains that it’s not hardcore enough. Yep, he’s one of those guys.
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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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We try mightily to talk about stuff that isn’t Skyrim (pictured). We succeed part of the time. It doesn’t help that this week’s guest, Justin “Demon G. Sides” Utegg, is more hardcore at Skyrim than McMaster and Chick put together.
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Join Tom “Dragonborn” Chick, Jason “Housecarl” McMaster, and special guest Gary “Drastic” Achenbach for this week’s Minnesota nice discussion of the latest in DLC, virtual real estate scams, TV shows, medical issues, and world religion. Plus a little Saints Row 3 and Skyrim talk.
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This week we welcome Wade “Wade42” Richard as we talk about the misadventures of Steam, Zynga, and that Hellraiser cube in the middle of the Paranormal table for Pinball FX2. Also, Tom sells out and goes to bat for mainstream titles like Modern Warfare 3 while McMaster and Wade advocate for indie games.
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