Episode 344: Origin Problems

In this episode, Jonah complains about Origin and his inability to play Dragon Age: Origins, while a heated discussion between Jonah and Paul occurs over various topics, along with discussion of Frozen. Jordan discusses his son’s college tuitions as well. This week’s Gaming Flashback is the coin-op arcade game Wizard of Wor.

This week’s news items include:

  • Sony PlayStation honcho Jack Tretton stepping down
  • Disney Interactive cutting about 700 jobs
  • New Xbox Live updates coming in April
  • SimCity gets offline play today
  • Report: Microsoft working on augmented reality headset for Xbox

This week’s Question of the Week: โ€œEver purchase new games for an unsupported console?โ€

0 thoughts on “Episode 344: Origin Problems”

  1. Nice to have a three man podcast again ๐Ÿ™‚

    @Occulous Rift: This is the first I’m hearing it called an absolute joke after seeing constant praise for this device.

    I agree with the bring on the Holodeck sentiment, I’m sure society will fall apart when everyone decides to live in one.

    @Simcity offline: This feels a bit like too little too late for me.

    @QOTW: I once bought a Neo-geo and ten games for 20 dollars from a pawn shop. The games were a soccor side scrolling platformer, a space game that didn’t look better than Star Fox, a mystery game with very cheap animation, a doom clone and DragonSlayer. Aside from Dragonslayer most of these games looked like they could have been done on the other consoles at the time. We eneded up using it as a media player, funny how a out of date console can play CD’s while the Ps4 and Xbone can’t.

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