Paul returns to the show to drown his sorrows in the discontinuation of a game series he loved, and the podcast ran so long it has to be split into two parts.
The first half of this podcast includes the following news items:
Stay tuned for Part 2.
Episode 425: Paul’s Return Part 1
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Episode 704: Pointless AwardsEpisode 704: Pointless Awards
This week, we discuss the Videogame Awards and Destiny 2‘s final DLC The Final Shape being delayed, as well as the following news items:
- Mario Kart X out in 2025 claims leaker
- Pony-inspired fighting game Them’s Fightin’ Herds abandons its unfinished story mode
- Nier: Automata sequel is coming – but not just yet
- Former Xbox employee reveals game EA made them cancel
Let us know what you think.
Episode 508: MarriageEpisode 508: Marriage
TJ announces his nuptials the previous week, finally marrying his live-in girlfriend of 10 years. All that, and many parables that had to be cut from the podcast lest it last 90 minutes.
That said, there’s plenty of news this week:
- The Battlefield 5 beta will take place in early September
- Rainbow Six Siege now insta-banning players using hate speech
- Pokemon GO Fest attendance announced
- Star Citizen refund refusals
Let us know if you spent $50,000 on a virtual spaceship.
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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