Comments on: Gaming Podcast 160: Latchkey Kid

By: Marie

Marie — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:44:45 +0000

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By: jonahfalcon

jonahfalcon — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:16:20 +0000

Incidentally, the company EA bought for social gaming is Playfish. They spent $300M on them.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:04:55 +0000

Any 1 watch D3ATH NOTE or the last Samurai Champloo, not games but epic shows =] (if you do watch Sponge bob death note on you tube just for laughs XD)

By: Ivan

Ivan — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:01:51 +0000

I believe the best game turned into a movie would have to be Final Fantasy: Advent Children. The movie is very EPIC. When Square Enix 1st started developing advent children the software wasn’t available to do the task @ the desired standard so as a software company they developed there own. Also the rendering in there PS2 game FF X look better than nearly any shorts I have seen on 360/PS3 games. One of the aspects of game development which is of most interest to me is the Art. I love it when the developers pay close attention to detail. For example HALO 3 is amazing, some of the landscape designs aren’t necessary but are amazing & you really appreciate the effort when you spend the time to notice. My love & appreciation for art is probably due to my old man being such a great artist.

By: Herr_Alien

Herr_Alien — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:29:12 +0000

@Sony Thinking of Charging for PSN:
That’s why I hate depending on a service. Now here’s what will happen: people will complain, but only a few will drop. So Sony racks in the dough.

@Web Access To WoW Auction House:
Hmm, do I feel a trend here? This is the second service in the same podcast that increases costs.

Rant about subscriptions:
I hate it when the terms of subscriptions change after the user subscribed. It’s like changing a contract after signing it.
Now I know that a lot of banks have a contractual point going like “we reserve the right to change the terms bla bla bla”, but game makers? Since when game makers decided to use the same policies as banks?

@question of the week:
Mortal Kombat. Although Resident Evil was also good, I saw MK first, and that had more impact on me.

By: Jonah Falcon

Jonah Falcon — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:06:19 +0000

The best movie based on a video game would have to be “Resident Evil”, just a bit more than “Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.”

A lesser known game based on a video game is “Cloak & Dagger”, which was pretty meta in that the film was about a kid who loved the game so much that he had an imaginary spy friend (Dabney Coleman!)

There was a French film called “Karate Champ” about a young 13 year old who loves the game so much he pretends to be the character from the game. The squicky part is that he has an affair with a woman in her 30′s.

“Tomb Raider” got okay reviews. “TRON” doesn’t count because it’s a movie that video games were BASED from.