Episode 394: Paul Bravely Defaults

August 5, 2015| Jonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 9:01 pm

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Paul is back from being deathly ill, and joins a half-asleep Jonah and Scott, where he and Scott try to have better timing. There’s no Gaming Flashback this week but plenty of weird news.

The list of news items include:

Disturbing portrait of Konami corporate environment alleged
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided: player choices more impactful, boss fights optional
ZombiU drops the “U,” preps for August launch on PC, Xbox One, PS4
Fallout 4 fan releases schematic for 3D printed Pip-Boy
Vote to play coming soon for PS Plus members
Hitchhiking robot is decapitated, left in a ditch

There’s a new Question of the Week that wasn’t going to be the Question – listen and find out what it is.

Gaming Flashback: Double Dragon II [NES]Gaming Flashback: Double Dragon II [NES]

Double Dragon II: The Revenge, this is a sequel title to a game which arrived earlier on the NES as an arcade port, something pretty standard back in the day of arcades, and like it’s original port, has variations from the arcade.

The trick is, the variations are much less than that of the original (which might as well been it’s own version of the arcade game but sucky). I was a huge fan of the original Double Dragon title in the arcade and was met with extreme disappointment when I found out it was strictly single player on the NES console.

This game was 300% better than the disappointing Double Dragon release on the NES. Granted, the NES version was fun to play, in single-player, but I purchased it for the two-player nature of the arcade version so I could play the game with my friends. Double Dragon II, on the NES had finally restored my faith in Technos Japan and the american publisher Acclaim. They took a bad situation and made it much better in the second release, why they didn’t make the original multiplayer is beyond me.

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Episode 689: PlayStation PortableEpisode 689: PlayStation Portable

The guys discuss Apple and Epic going to the Supreme Court, Nic Cage being in Dead by Daylight, the death of Emile Morel, Mortal Kombat 1 fighters, Clockwork Revolution, Skullgirls, and Mojang complaining about Wiki adverts.

The news includes:

Jagged Alliance 3 details how it will support two-player online co-op
EA confirms single-player Black Panther game from new studio
Microsoft tells court Sony “expected to release” PlayStation 5 Slim and ‘handheld PS5’ this year
Hi-Fi Rush update includes a new ‘blistering 200 BPM’ challenge

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Episode 442: RPGs And StuffEpisode 442: RPGs And Stuff

This week’s episode is full of computer roleplaying game goodness, as well as some of the disbelief of a Nintendo-owned Harry Potter franchise. All that and Civilization VI and Turok excitement to boot.