GameCrashers Radio Ep.45 – Stop the f**cking presses
Today our special guest Jon Barrickman helps us tackle the fall of print journalism, the death of used games, and how this industry thinks way too highly of itself (and takes itself way too seriously).
The Rundown:
- Game of the Week: Final Fantasy XIII, Yakuza 3, Fuel, The Humble Bundle
- Valve has a sense of humor
- A day at Metacritic
Stupid News:
- Facebook to save PC Gaming? (Epic Games)
- EA’s bid to kill used games
Paying more for games
Discussion Topic: Print vs Web – Physical vs Online
Upcoming guests on GC
Update: so now Ubisoft is eyeing EA’s pay model. It starts!
Here is the link to the thread with the Gabe Newell/Valve emails I referenced in the beginning of the podcast:
http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=620064
Johnny B here, kids.
Thought about it a bit, and bet that optimization is the reason development starting on the PC has slowed. Rather than shooting high and then spending months trying to tweak it to run on the consoles, they’d prefer to make sure the consoles (the moneymakers) give the best performance they can. So, as expected from corporations, it’s the money.
Final Fantasy XIII continues to be a great presentation and a worthy story, but I’m getting tired of the tween girl having exactly two noises – giggling innocently or moaning suggestively. There something about a girl’s first time you obsess about over there in the Land of the Rising Sun? And then, there’s this at around 1:15…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRkMM_GzKS0
You stay classy, Japan.
You were definitely not singing the FF7 music Rob, and I know you’re not tone deaf, so you can hear it. The music is my phone’s ringtone, so I’m very familiar with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O151h76ykF4
I believe this is what you were singing… From Final Fantasy 10, like Brian called you out on.
And Brian, grow a pair, seriously.
yes yes yes…I sang the wrong music. But I put the correct music in the show.
Whatev. It all sounds the same in the end, right? *commence flamewar!*