Post by: Yoshidious on July 19, 2009, 09:30:00 AM
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Episode 154: Audio Slow Motion
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It's always a pleasure to welcome a new member of staff to RFN, and on this occasion we had the timely opportunity to hear from our new Japan Correspondent, Matt Walker, on the biggest gaming event of 2009 in the Land of the Rising Sun: the launch of Dragon Quest IX. After getting to know our new colleague (and ourselves) a little better to begin the show, we hear Matt's impressions of the long-awaited DS RPG, as well as his thoughts on the final version of Wii Sports Resort.
There's no shortage of games for the rest of the crew to discuss in New Business; James and Jon discover the strategy games of the past reborn on DS with Front Mission and Fire Emblem, and Greg tries to stay in rhythm as Ouendan 2 becomes the latest title in his recent string of music games. In the second segment, RetroActive #7 comes to a close with a bloodcurdling digitised howl before we respond to your questions in Listener Mail, including: the dos and don'ts of using Wii Speak, a puzzling hiatus for the Mario Party series, and a look back at our favourite RetroActive moments so far.
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This podcast was edited by Greg Leahy.
Music for this episode of Radio Free Nintendo is used with permission from Jason Ricci & New Blood. You can purchase their newest album, Done with the Devil, directly from the record label, Amazon.com, or iTunes, or call your local record store and ask for it!
Post by: broodwars on July 19, 2009, 05:45:54 PM
Post by: Jonnyboy117 on July 19, 2009, 07:14:24 PM
Post by: kraken613 on July 19, 2009, 08:14:05 PM
Ah my letter was read! But by James? I think this is my first letter not read by Greg! I am depressed.... But at least James got to read the "skillz"! That made up for it!
Wii Speak SUCKS! Give us a headset!
Mario Party 8 has sold over 6 million worldwide.
Lindy you haven't finished SMB3 or Galaxy! I don't think you should be able to be director of this site!
Post by: AV on July 19, 2009, 09:08:29 PM
i put a few games on the list in that topic that are varied and different . Neo Geo, Virtual Console Arcade, and Sega Master System don't have that many games on their perspective console so that rule may come back to bite you in the butt. Also limiting the console also limits the gameplay that can be shown off.
Post by: Jonnyboy117 on July 20, 2009, 12:00:49 AM
Post by: NWR_Lindy on July 20, 2009, 12:05:04 AM
No Chrono Trigger love in their top 3..... It's one of my tops, first game I ever finished when I was 5 years old(I did have some help, but mostly I played it all). My brothers are much older so I grew up with an NES and SNES.
Final Fantasy III is my Chrono Trigger. I still haven't really played CT, but I do have it for DS. It's one of my summer projects, along with...
Lindy you haven't finished SMB3 or Galaxy! I don't think you should be able to be director of this site!
...Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Bros. 3. I actually tossed three hours at SMG today. I'm up to 27 stars and I just opened Rosalina's storybook. It's getting better as I go along, but for some reason I found the first 15-20 stars just excruciatingly slow to get through.
Post by: broodwars on July 20, 2009, 12:25:42 AM
No Chrono Trigger love in their top 3..... It's one of my tops, first game I ever finished when I was 5 years old(I did have some help, but mostly I played it all). My brothers are much older so I grew up with an NES and SNES.
Final Fantasy III is my Chrono Trigger. I still haven't really played CT, but I do have it for DS. It's one of my summer projects, along with...
I'd prioritize that one if I were you, as it's easily my favorite game of all time. Frankly, I don't think Final Fantasy 6 has aged as well as CT (except for the music and Kefka), especially in the painfully-dull second half of the game. I don't want to have to use a pun, but Chrono Trigger really is timeless. I think if Jonny were there for this podcast it would have been in his Top 3, just based on his previous discussion of the game.
Post by: kraken613 on July 20, 2009, 12:47:43 AM
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LINDY WE NEED TO PLAY FREAKING L4D! WE HAVE BEEN GOING TO SINCE APRIL!
Post by: NWR_insanolord on July 20, 2009, 07:31:30 AM
* I'd like to unnecessarily point out that that was not a euphemism that referenced GTA: San Andreas
Post by: yoshi1001 on July 20, 2009, 09:07:39 PM
Post by: ShyGuy on July 20, 2009, 09:16:10 PM
Post by: Yoshidious on July 21, 2009, 03:05:59 AM
When the "20th anniversarry" thing came up, I was sure Greg was going to mention The Wizard rather than SMB3 (which, if memory serves, actually came out in 1990 in the US). I expect there'll be mention of the movie in any SMB3 special, but I would like at least a Wizard segment on RFN.
When I was thinking of the 20th anniversary of SMB3 being at the end of this year, I was unfortunately mixing up its Japanese release (which was at the end of 1988) with the US one (February 1990) in such a way that I thought it came out at the end of '89. It's not that much farther out though, so it remains a possibility. I'll have to try and recall the previous episode where Jonny talked about The Wizard wth Karl and Mike and direct you to that if you haven't already heard it, yoshi1001.
Post by: NWR_Karl on July 21, 2009, 07:35:22 AM
Great show as always, gentlemen.
Post by: NWR_Neal on July 21, 2009, 10:48:06 AM
I actually finally bought Cho Aniki instead of getting Ninja Spirit. Not that I think Cho Aniki would have generated much more discussion, but the amount of awkward "...And then I shot my MAN BEAM at a guy playing a harp and my friend questioned me sexuality" stories would be worth it.
Strangely enough, after my initial near silence on the Super Ghouls n Ghosts Retroactive that I made an appearance on, I played more of it with a friend of mine and while I think it is one of the cruelest games ever made, it's pretty damn awesome. Although I'm stuck on the final level the second time through now.
Post by: jrlibrarian on July 21, 2009, 12:18:21 PM
Post by: ShyGuy on July 21, 2009, 02:19:01 PM
Post by: NWR_Karl on July 21, 2009, 04:05:12 PM
I can never seem to get the radio bug out of my system, though, so I doubt it'll be the last you'll hear from me. I'm doing a one-off special for RFN coming up soon (recording it this weekend), and in the next couple months I'll be starting my next web project - still sort of throwing stuff together.
EDIT: Oh, I forgot. Anyone who wants the last couple unaired eps of TAWK-112 should email tawk112@gmail.com. I'm gonna throw them up on MegaUpload.com or something for people who're interested.
Post by: Plugabugz on July 21, 2009, 05:53:39 PM
Post by: NWR_Lindy on July 22, 2009, 08:13:45 PM
Post by: jrlibrarian on July 22, 2009, 08:27:49 PM
Post by: kraken613 on July 22, 2009, 11:55:01 PM
But you laughed it off....
Post by: Plugabugz on July 23, 2009, 09:59:10 AM
The region where people play difficult old-school games like real man. And smell of Old Spice.
So follow the scent of teeth-crunching and despair?
Post by: Yoshidious on July 23, 2009, 10:27:40 AM
Plugabugz, your difficulty placing my accent is a product of me having spent the first twelve years of my life in the Midlands just outside Birmingham, and then the next twelve in the South East of England in Hertfordshire, so my voice is a weird composite of the dialects from those areas.
Post by: Plugabugz on July 23, 2009, 01:53:21 PM
Plugabugz, your difficulty placing my accent is a product of me having spent the first twelve years of my life in the Midlands just outside Birmingham, and then the next twelve in the South East of England in Hertfordshire, so my voice is a weird composite of the dialects from those areas.
That makes sense :) You have a very "region-less" voice. It's undeniably British, but you can't narrow it down from there. Like nobody can ask you ARE YOO FROM LIVERPOOOOOOL?
Post by: DAaaMan64 on July 23, 2009, 03:28:32 PM
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on July 23, 2009, 04:29:34 PM
Post by: NWR_Lindy on July 23, 2009, 04:35:18 PM
Post by: Yoshidious on July 23, 2009, 04:45:33 PM
Hahaha, I'm glad somebody did. I don't think anybody heard it at the time.
I think people would be surprised at how much we don't catch during recording due to Skype issues or good old-fashioned cross talk--which is of course why we record our audio separately in the first place. When I edit the show I often hear a bunch of stuff that I must have missed at the time, and on some occasions I'll deal with cross talk to ensure that the listeners have the chance to hear a particular remark more clearly than we did at the time.
Post by: kraken613 on July 24, 2009, 02:50:36 AM
Post by: adadad on July 24, 2009, 09:36:07 AM
Plugabugz, your difficulty placing my accent is a product of me having spent the first twelve years of my life in the Midlands just outside Birmingham, and then the next twelve in the South East of England in Hertfordshire, so my voice is a weird composite of the dialects from those areas.
I had wondered about this too, although it's fairly obvious you're southern - as someone who goes back and forth regularly between Birmingham and London I can fairly confidently say that the litmus test is simple - is it ass or arse for you Greg? Grass or grarse?
Also just wanted to say that Matt was a very good guest on the show!
Post by: NWR_Lindy on July 24, 2009, 05:11:33 PM
it ass or arse for you Greg?
I've often wondered this myself.
Post by: Killer_Man_Jaro on July 25, 2009, 01:27:30 AM
I think people would be surprised at how much we don't catch during recording due to Skype issues or good old-fashioned cross talk--which is of course why we record our audio separately in the first place. When I edit the show I often hear a bunch of stuff that I must have missed at the time, and on some occasions I'll deal with cross talk to ensure that the listeners have the chance to hear a particular remark more clearly than we did at the time.
Balancing everyone's audio to make sure we hear as much as possible from each person must be an absolute pain when it comes to editing. I suppose it's easy after a lot of editing experience, but still, I bet it's fairly time consuming to separate out all of the overlapping bits of speech. Do you all use Audacity or is there superior recording software I don't know about?
Post by: KDR_11k on July 27, 2009, 09:28:06 AM
There is more than one speed, hold the triggers down to go faster or slower. It's not a large difference but it's more than one speed. I find slowing down useful for getting more time to shoot at ground targets.
Failing the first mission gotta be fairly pathetic, I ran it on Hard the first time and then on Expert, no real difficulty. The reduced ammo of Expert makes no difference since you won't use nearly 100 missiles and the increased damage doesn't matter if you've got the tiniest bit of skill and just avoid getting hit (it's trivially easy anyway and that's without safeties off). I did run into the ground once when I tried to gun a ground target to death, after that I just learned not to do that and went with missiles instead.
Post by: Crimm on July 27, 2009, 09:21:09 PM
Post by: KDR_11k on July 28, 2009, 09:46:36 AM
Post by: jrlibrarian on July 28, 2009, 05:02:55 PM
HAWX just never felt challenging. The enemy A.I. never put up a fight, and the quantity of enemies was never so high as to counter their relative impotency.
This sounds like something that I'll get from Gamefly eventually.
