Topic: Episode 214: Something-a-Trois

[KDR_11k]

Considering how well the Wii remote works with FPS/TPS games and how much of the 360's library is FPS/TPS games it's downright pathetic that an FPS on the Wii is a major event.

[Pandareus]

I just listened to the podcast and... I really hope James doesn't put too much emphasis on 4 Heroes of Light being super hard and "you'll die over and over at first" in his review.
 
Johnny's question was very much relevant: you must have been playing it wrong, James. I'm not as far into the game as you are, but I did complete a few dungeons, and I've yet to have had my party wiped out.
 
My only theory as to what you did wrong would be that you didn't make full use of your spells at first. Limited SP/MP/whatev in JRPGs have conditioned us to rely on magic only as a last resort, but in this game you are encouraged to use it at all times, since your AP replenish automatically, and are therefore an infinite resource.
 
You get the Cure spell very early in the game, so there's little excuse to not have near-full HP at the end of every battle.
 
The "strategy" that hasn't failed me once so far is to thin out the enemies until there's one left, preferably low on health, and then use Boost and Cure before landing the final blow, so as to start the next battle fully prepared.
 
I haven't had to grind yet. Game's really not that hard. And any JRPG that encourages you to use the magic system as much as possible instead of having you make your dark mage attack with his staff for 3 points of damage in most battles, saving your MP for an eventual boss, should be praised for it.

[NWR_Neal]

Pandareus, you just made me way more interested in this game than anyone else has before. And that includes playing the demo at E3.

[Pandareus]

Haha, I wasn't trying to sell anyone on the game, but cool!
 
The battle system is just really interesting. Each turn, you get one Action Point. Choosing the command Fight will use up one point, but casting most spells will consume two.
 
UNLESS your character's job is White Mage, then casting Cure will only consumer one point. That's in addition to other bonuses that come with that class, such as being able to cast a white magic spell for the entire party, etc.
 
It's very simple, yet pretty cool.
 
 

[llaffer]

I have a general question about how the podcasts are constructed.  I got a launch model AppleTV 2.0, and when I point it to my laptop that stores my unheard podcasts, I'm able to listen and/or view them on the AppleTV without a problem EXCEPT for yours.  Episodes 212, 213, and 214 are visible on the list of podcasts on my TV, but when I attempt to select it to listen, I just hear the "click" of my button press, and it doesn't launch.
 
So I'm wondering if you do something unusual with the construction of your podcast files that other people don't do, that may prevent this from being played (I'm sure unintentionally) on an AppleTV.
 
Thanks
 
-Llaffer

[Yoshidious]

I have a general question about how the podcasts are constructed.  I got a launch model AppleTV 2.0, and when I point it to my laptop that stores my unheard podcasts, I'm able to listen and/or view them on the AppleTV without a problem EXCEPT for yours.  Episodes 212, 213, and 214 are visible on the list of podcasts on my TV, but when I attempt to select it to listen, I just hear the "click" of my button press, and it doesn't launch.
 
So I'm wondering if you do something unusual with the construction of your podcast files that other people don't do, that may prevent this from being played (I'm sure unintentionally) on an AppleTV.

As I am not a Mac user, the show is edited in Audacity rather than Garage Band, and the enhanced AAC version (with the chapter breaks and art) is then created using third party software. The method I currently use to create AAC files (employed since about Episode 203) resolved the problems iOS4 users experienced with the old AAC files, but I would think it's fairly likely that the problem you describe here is similar in that it's related to how the AAC files are constructed outside of Garage Band.
 
Having recently scoured the best available software options for making the enhanced versions of the show, I'm afraid there's not a great deal of scope to resolve your problem at the present time, but I'll be keeping my eye out for any opportunities to improve the process going forward.

[Kytim89]

My DSi plays this podcast in pretty good sound since about episode 200. The Newscast, on the other hand, had been suffering from poor audio quality on my DSi but it got resolved in the last couple of episodes.

[llaffer]

Thanks for the quick reply Greg.

[Plugabugz]

LEROY!!!!!!!!!

[Jonnyboy117]

Llaffer, you may get better results on Apple TV with the MP3 version of RFN, with the downsides being larger files and lack of chapters and the chapter art.

[adadad]

I want to take a stab at guessing the mystery guest: Denis Dyack.

Seconded! I have the distinct impression this may be correct...

[leroypantweather]

great show guys....

[NWR_Neal]

So the talk about Faxanadu (I called it Fax-ah-nadu when I was a kid) got me thinking about my own copy of it. I had no idea it was rare at all.

I looked it up. It's not actually hard to find for NES at all, and you can get it off of eBay for a few dollars.

[MegaByte]

Heck, I'll sell you my copy.  I lost interest after the first few minutes.