The listeners of Gaming Podcast finally get introduced to the third member of the Videogame Roundtable podcast team, Paul S. Nowak, who only desires hate mail and more time playing Dungeon Overlord on Facebook. This week, the Gaming Flashback looks back at the Gamecube title mentioned by Jordan Lund last week, Eternal Darkness, and the guys respond to the reader mail from episode 217, and if you’re interested in other types of games such as escape rooms you can visit the Room escape games in Portland Oregon just for this.
The trio also discuss the following news items:
- Microsoft: Halo won’t be a yearly franchise
- Analyst: Kinect appealed to “more hardcore” than expected
- 2M users sign up for COD: Elite beta
- Wizardry Online announced, will feature permadeath
This week’s Question of the Week: How much do you think the Wii U will cost? All this and more in this delightful podcast that will have you begging for more.
Electronic Arts has announced SimAnimals, a game where you play the godlike hand and control the lifestyle of over 60 animals. In the game you’ll play the role of a disembodied hand which moves around and life animals, pick flowers and interact with the environment much like a past Lionhead Studios game: Black and White.
“Last time I checked, they’ve never had a console that’s been on the market for more than four or five years and we’ve committed to a ten year life cycle, so you do the math…,” he says. He goes on to state that the Xbox 360 won’t have a larger install base by the end of their 10-year plan has been completed, “unless things go really bad.”
@ Halo won’t be a yearly franchise:
Right, I’ll take their word for it. Thing is, with their current schedule, yearly franchise or not, they will have sales for the earlier one eaten up by the later game.
@ Kinect appealed to “more hardcore” than expected:
Microsoft doesn’t have to do anything. I believe that the game developers will manage to create a control scheme for hardcore game(r)s.
@2M users sign up for COD: Elite beta
Protest or not, this is just an improvement in the matchmaking service. Why not play Quake Live?
What I am saying is that there will always somebody willing to do this for free.
@Wizardry Online announced, will feature permadeath:
Permadeath + PVP = niche market. The only thing that can make it worse is high-damage / insta-kill weapons.
Speaking of MMOs:
http://thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=19
@How much do you think the Wii U will cost?
Man, I hate price guessing …
I say 150 USD. Middle way between a plain controller and the 3DS. Bare in mind, this is just for the controller.
oh yeah its back
QOTW:
I’d say $350 USD including the console and a controller. Which will probably end up being $550 Australian or more 🙁
QOTW – I’m going to say $350. Probably 250 for the console and 100 for the controller. Maybe less for the controller and more for the console, but I’m thinking somewhere around 300. I can’t see it going much higher than 400 though, I don’t think the casual audience that the Wii appealed to will want to shell out the extra 300+ dollars for a new console. Its going to be interesting to see what the official price is.