Show favorite Colleen Coover joins the show to talk about Bioware, sandbox games, and D&D. Grab your controllers, it’s time for our video game show!
The Rundown
- Thanks to Colleen Coover. Check out her site for amazing art, and talk to her on twitter! Ain’t she great folks?
- Here’s the Comics Alliance Comics at the Opera post that Colleen spoke about.
- BBC article about MC Frontalot and Adam WarRock
- Once again, thanks to WFMU’s Evan Funk Davies for the love. Show him some love back!
- In NY for NYCC? Come to the Rock Comic Con show where Adam WarRock will perform with Kirby Krackle!
- Euge’s Rec: Terriers on FX
- Sims’s Rec: Project Aon
- Colleen’s Rec: Mass Effect: Lair of the Shadow Broker Expansion Pack
- Music used: Kirby Krackle “Dusty Cartridges and Long Boxes”
Shameless Self Promotion:
- Check out all Euge’s music at AdamWarRock.com.
- Check out Sims at The ISB, Comics Alliance, his new webcomic Awesome Hospital, as well as the complete Solomon Stone at ActionAgeComics.
- Check out Max Huffman on twitter, or at his site.
- Check out Rusty Shackles on twitter, or at his site.
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Hell yeah son, the LoneWolf books are big pimpin. Especially dig the Seventh Sense program.
as far as D&D goes, rules dont equal roleplay. a good player or a good DM can make anything great, game-wise. the power system is just a new set of rules to make combat more dynamic than “i swing at the monster again.” Describe the power however you want.
Outside of combat… the rules are more or less irrelevant.
Not, you know… to be a jerk or anything. diff’rent strokes and all.
I feel the same way Colleen feels about fighting games about GoldenEye for the N64. By the time I picked up the game, most of my friends were so far ahead of the curve, they would kill me within seconds, play for hours while I stared at the wall.
Also, maybe cuz I’m an old man, I can’t get into games like Halo, Arkham Asylum, etc. as using both thumbsticks at once is too confusing for me! Even playing drums in Rock Band confounds me. Trying to coordinate two hands AND my foot, no thank you!
I’ll stick with Duels of the Planeswalkers and Plants vs. Zombies, but always a fun episode.
Haven’t finished the podcast yet, but Euge is right about Yeoman Kelly – once you’ve blown up the T-100 Reaper, you can invite your love interest up to the cabin to hang out, and if it’s Kelly you can get her to dance eternally.
It’s kinda depressing for me since she got processed in my game, but it’s very popular on the youtubes: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mass+effect+2+yeoman+dance&aq=f
Back to the Future game, you say?
http://www.telltalegames.com/community/blogs/id-660
On the subject of Bioware games letting any player choose any NPC for sexy make-out times, I’ve recently been thinking their next game should be about the Ancient Greeks.
You know the ones.
How dare you guys try to poison Colleen against Castlevania 2!
Don’t listen to them, Colleen; it’s brilliant!
But don’t bother playing it. From your comments in the episode I suspect that you wouldn’t enjoy it anyway.
My choices: Grant DaNasty, Blanka and Edgar Figaro. Never played Smash Bros.
About Castlevania II, I strongly recommend the AVGN episode. Also has one talking about Ghostbusters games and Back to the future games. Lots of cursing, but great show imho.
Anyway great ep. I wish Coover had started playing ten years ago at least, so we could have heard about NWN and KOTOR. I also wish I could go to NY, looks like there’s gonna be a lot of really cool people around.
You guys! You guys you guys you guys!
The Onion’s AV Club just did an article on NEW JACK SWING!
With lots of YouTube examples!
http://www.avclub.com/articles/new-jack-swing,45805/
In all seriousness, it gave me a whole new respect for the music.