Congrats SCXCR. nice job on the podcast

EDIT- Beat ya coldguy

One of the best features on the site.

I already made my comments over at bliptv, but I'll just copy and paste them here.

Scott won hands down. Sorry Joe.

They should create a Cowbell Hero.

Great episode guys. It was just hilarious from start to finish.

Because my co-hosts betray me and add dramatic Fail Horns to the podcast in POST_Production doesnt mean I lose. LoL.

#5. Joe (Its not our fault co-op AI is difficult to program for)
#4. Scott (Melee is easier than I made it out to be)
#3. Joe (DLC is BS)
#2. Scott/Joe (Stalemate. Its the direction of the series that should dictate the control scheme and inventory system)
#1. Joe (Scott agrees with me)

Joe: 3 (4)
Scott: 1 (2)

It was a good effort but I win. Either Scenario.

Looks like Joe got a grade A wooping from the TA crew.

HOWEVER, I do agree with more of Joe's points than SCXCR's points.

NEED MORE PUPPET REFERENCES!

I agree that there should be more 2d games nowadays. Muramasa: The Demon Blade is a good recent example of 2d gaming done right, and I would like more games like that.

lol, poor Joe. Ya got your ass handed to ya lol. Dont worry, I see where you were coming from, and I actually kinda agree with ya on some of your points

As for the Paw's Button, nice, I was wonderin when some hip hop was gonna be used. If ya ever use some more nerdcore hip hop, you should look up the 8 bit boys on their myspace channel. Their MCs that sample old NES music

the guitar hero thing sounds like an in-joke I had with some friends a few years ago. May theend of the world forever be haralded by triangle hero!!!

So people were still reserved about DJ hero when Grandmaster Flash was announced to be part of it, but now they're excited since Daft Punk part of it

People need to be educated on Old School Hip Hop.

Not that really care bout DJ Hero

Just because it's old school doesn't make it something people will enjoy. People enjoy Daft Punk.

could never get into the hellraiser series, always prefered nightmare on elm street

Imma have to back up Joe on this one. His points, as far as I'm concerned, are still valid, even though they do kinda switch from flaws in the game to flaws in the company from time to time.

5) Co-op AI. To be fair, Sheva is better than a decent amount of other partner AIs out there. However, she does have a tendency to stand there and take damage, get in your way, and stop fighting to pick up useless items. SCXCR's point that it's hard to code all the different scenarios is true as well, but that doesn't excuse anything, as it's their job to code those scenarios. If AI is bad, it's bad, and if no one speaks up they won't try to do anything better.

4) Melee. Eh, Joe says what needs to be said here, and SCXCR is right.

3) DLC. Again, Joe makes his case here, and he's right. The company should release a demo video, a review page, or something to that effect. And really "vote with your wallet" doesn't stand up because the morons who buy the stuff just because it has the name on it are the ones they are going to cater to, because that's where the money is.

2)Inventory. I can't actually back Joe up on this one, as my only real complaint about it was that it was way too small.

1) Direction. It really has gone down a different route than it started on. From action/horror slowly to just action. No more scares, no more ambience, no more fear. Even the jump scares are absent.

A very informative podcast guys, no joke
and a battle between Joe vs SCXCR towards Resident Evil 5 that would make CSPAN lay in the corner and cry in fear while in a fetal position MWAHAHAHAHA....
I need help.

Anyway great podcast guys and congratulations to SCXCR.

Hmmm...who I do I think won the Great Debate between Joe and SCXCR (congrats on winning the contest!)?

I think we all won from getting such knee-slapping entertainment from all this!

I know it's such a cop-out answer but I really have to hand it to you guys for putting together such a great podcast this week. That "Twilight Zone" intro was probably one of my favorite things you guys have done (we need more creative intros, stat!) and I can see you guys invested in a shiny new "wah-wah" machine and put it to great use.

Awww, thank you Paw for featuring my comic as an awesome blog of the week!

Anyone remember those deformed hamster creatures in the Quizno's commercials that were all like "WE LOVE DA SUUUUUUBS"? Yeah. I think a comic about those two abominations would be an oddly outlandish comic...or in the same Quizno's vein, a comic book about the torrid, forbidden sexual tension between Scott and the oven. ("Say it sexier, Scott..."

...now I have given myself some nightmares!

Marvelous work, lads! Now to check out that "Gex" review!

nice job with the sound effects Paw, Joe got ownd (sorry Joe)

The nerd references in the Paw's Button made me giddy.

It seemed like Joe raised several valid points, though I haven't played RE5 myself. Personally I don't usually mind real-time inventories though.

I totally agree that 3D is aggressively overused in the industry today, and in a lot of games it just isn't necessary. I'd love to see more big-budget games that ditch the 3rd dimension and put those resources into gameplay and other areas.

The whole "3D versus 2D" thing in platforming already has a champion on the 2D side.

Megaman 9.

Megaman 9 was beyond fucking awesome- that game was amazing, and not just for nostalgic reasons. And that's only in the industry. The indie developers have done a massive amount of awesome stuff- La-Mulana, Cave Story, Spelunky are all amazingly good platforming games...in 2D.

Thing is, though, that I think that the point that 2D games aren't really profitable anymore rings true; as such, platforming, which works best in 2D is going to go the way of the adventure game- where the real quality is in the indie sphere of things.

I got an awesome blog of the week?!
Yay!

Oh don't worry Joe, I won't kick your butt for this ...yet.
Haha, just kidding.

Oh, I love you Transmission Awesome boyz.

Scott won

Thanks again to the TA guys for choosing my video and letting me embarrass myself on a site that isn't YouTube.

Also I'd like to think that no matter who 'won' the debate, everyone that listens is a winner.

I think Joe definitly won the argument. Most of SCXCR's arguments were basically just 'yeah it sucks, but its not that big a deal'. Dont buy the DLC isnt a valid argument at all, since its basically saying 'yeah it sucks, but i couldnt care less'. And saying that it doesnt matter that the AI is bad because its hard to do... come on now, really?

Anyway great podcast )

Congrats to Pie and Jenna for their AWESOME blogs of the week. Both ladies deserve it and they will be hoisted up on the shoulders of Awesomeness by this site. Because they rock!

Yeah! Anyway, as for who won between Joe and SCXCR? Hmm. It's hard for me to judge as I don't have the game. I DO have to agree with the assessment of Sonic now. Why is he a knight? Why is he turning into a werewolf?

It just doesn't make sense. At least classic Sonic can be found in collections, VC and other places.

Yeah, I was a big Sonic fan back in the day. I sorta liked Heroes. But, I hated falling into oblivion.

What song waas playing in the background while u were having the Dj hero discussion?

A Pedobear comic would be AWESOME!!!!

SCXCR was pretty funny throughout the podcast. If you were a co-host, you would fit well with the rest of the cast. Joe, face it. You lost. As far as 2D games vs. 3D games, you can't go wrong with 2D games. It has always been a staple for video games and even after new technologies are created, 2D games will never go out of style.

Omochao wrote:

I think Joe definitly won the argument. Most of SCXCR's arguments were basically just 'yeah it sucks, but its not that big a deal'. Dont buy the DLC isnt a valid argument at all, since its basically saying 'yeah it sucks, but i couldnt care less'. And saying that it doesnt matter that the AI is bad because its hard to do... come on now, really?

Anyway great podcast )

Did you see the videos associated with this?

Actually a couple of the arguments were Joe saying something sucked, then me saying why it didn't; the controls, the melee system, etc. The DLC and AI were the exceptions.

For the DLC (which I didn't say sucked) I really couldn't care less, largely because when I could get my hands on a 360 with RE5 it didn't have Internet access and thus no DLC. And while not buying DLC isn't a valid argument to you, it certainly seems to be one for Capcom. Enough people bought the DLC pack that they're going over more DLC options, including but not limited to RE5: Director's Cut.

And I never said it was okay to have bad AI because it's hard. I just said it's hard, more so than most people realize. Joe's citing recently-released titles with the same problem supports this. In fact, the AI argument in the video I submitted turned into a joke about how poorly-conceived Sheva Alomar was as a teammate and a character in the RE universe.

Prince of Persia 1-3, and even the current gen Prince of Persia I believe have done 3d platforming excellently. 3d platforming can work.

What was it Joe said? He can't loose cause he was in a vidya gaem?

Rare needs to get back into 3d platforming, I want a REAL banjoo-kazooie game!

Why am I in the forum focus but never mentioned?

Sorry but I have to vote Joe, I hated RE5.