Bear with us, please. The podcast is going through structural renovations.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we present the newest member of the Radio Free Nintendo family: Guillaume Veillette. On his first episode as a regular member and our new official editor, we spend some time getting to know this mysterious fellow with his own alluring accent. But first, New Business! Sadly, James had to miss this week, so you'll have to wait a little longer for the entire crew to form Captain Planet (GameCube). Therefore, Jonny kicks it off with a renewed dalliance with Mario Kart 7, now that the online mode has been patched to be far more bearable. (If you haven't already joined the NWR "Communities", be sure to do that now!) He also adores The Walking Dead's first episodic entry from Telltale Games, who continue to push the point/click adventure way beyond a simple revival. Lindy focuses on a single game, but it's a big deal: Diablo 3. We compare it to the imminent Heroes of Ruin for 3DS and also ponder if this mega-hit from Blizzard would make sense on Wii U. Guillaume closes the segment with a laundry list of games, starting with an old favorite: Link's Awakening DX. He also test out a pair of WiiWare titles recently offered up on Club Nintendo: Intelligent Systems' Eco Shooter: Plant 530 and Skip Ltd.'s Snowpack Park. Which boutique studio will come out on top in this duel of the free games?
After an especially awkward Now Playing (as it should be), we return to Guillaume himself and ask a series of interview-style questions to catch up with our newest cohort. How did gaming help him learn English? What are his favorite games and genres? How did he end up doing podcasts? What are his other interests? And what's his preferred style of poutine? We hope his answers will help get you up to speed so we can focus on building up the new chemistry. And on that note, we also address some of your Listener Mail! This week's letters cover Nintendo's exclusive deals with GameStop, the future of consoles as subscription-based devices, and the ongoing efforts of Operation Rainfall. We're still digging through a big pile of wonderful emails, but don't let that keep you from adding your own to the stack!
I expect Ceric to release an NWR musical tribute album very soon.I actually sing quiet a bit. Especially when it comes to theme songs. Though I'm not very big into finding new music. Hence why I haven't helped with Dr.Metts Podcast XP Grinding over at DMP. I know I should listen.
...Consider what you enjoy in a game. If you like story that spans 3 games and a lot of lore for the universe itself with interesting, albeit a little large at times, areas to explore. You'll like the single player. For me Co-op or Single Player is about the same experience except I get someone else who is uber-powerful to BS with. WoW is very much the Group over coming the individual. Diablo 3 is the Individual overcoming the group. Enemies are like cockroaches. You see one there is probably a good 10 or that 1 is the equivalent of 10.
My friends and I actually expect to buy the game together when we all have the free time to do so. Seems like a game that wouldn't be as enjoyable as a single player experience. The screenshots and comments I've read on the internet seem to make the game out to be a similar experience to WOW, where you'll get the most reward out of it for co-op play.
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...Consider what you enjoy in a game. If you like story that spans 3 games and a lot of lore for the universe itself with interesting, albeit a little large at times, areas to explore. You'll like the single player. For me Co-op or Single Player is about the same experience except I get someone else who is uber-powerful to BS with. WoW is very much the Group over coming the individual. Diablo 3 is the Individual overcoming the group. Enemies are like cockroaches. You see one there is probably a good 10 or that 1 is the equivalent of 10.
My friends and I actually expect to buy the game together when we all have the free time to do so. Seems like a game that wouldn't be as enjoyable as a single player experience. The screenshots and comments I've read on the internet seem to make the game out to be a similar experience to WOW, where you'll get the most reward out of it for co-op play.
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Though don't start with a Wizard. A monster sneezing at you kills you. Its very frustrating.
I think you guys misunderstood the question about the Kid Icarus 3D Classics exclusivity. I'm pretty sure the pre-order bonus was not exclusive -- rather, it was available through other stores like Best Buy and Amazon. But the game itself was only available for purchase at GameStop, much like Xenoblade and the Circle Pad Pro -- and even went so far as to not be available for purchase on the eShop for the first month. I'm personally not a fan of this policy at all, even less so than the case with Xenoblade or the CPP.
In Fact, My biggest problem with this episode would be all the Uhhs and Umms, looks at Dr.Metts.Was it really that bad? I try to take those out when it's possible and when they're too jarring, but some are not worth taking out, plus you kind of want to leave some in to make the speech still feel natural. I did not notice excessive "umm"'s while editing, Jonny's speech in general flows very well. He seems to know exactly what to say before he starts saying it, something I need to practice, haha.
I didn't hear any complaints about Diablo 3 issues with connecting to the internet while playing. I take it Lindy didn't have too many problems with this?The connection problems were touched on during recording, but I took that out as I felt they've been discussed everywhere, plus I thought it unlikely that there would still be connection problems by the time the podcast came out. Also, Jon did not have too much trouble, no.
...Applause and SMite. Once you've posted 1,000 times you can appluase or smite people. It use to trigger some thing initially, but know its just for fun and there is no real way to figure out who gave you the smite or appluase. Obssessing over it happens and gets laughed at.
edit - Hey, can someone explain to me what this "= / -" thing below our avatars is? I just got my first "minus" and I don't know why, haha!
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I didn't hear any complaints about Diablo 3 issues with connecting to the internet while playing. I take it Lindy didn't have too many problems with this?The connection problems were touched on during recording, but I took that out as I felt they've been discussed everywhere, plus I thought it unlikely that there would still be connection problems by the time the podcast came out. Also, Jon did not have too much trouble, no.
edit - Hey, can someone explain to me what this "= / -" thing below our avatars is? I just got my first "minus" and I don't know why, haha!
My comment about the warm welcome still stand, haha.
If you want to go back and play some Freespace, I demand you have a look at Freespace open (http://scp.indiegames.us/). You will still need the retail data files from online or the retail disks, but they updated everything for modern systems and beyond. Some of the community campaigns are sequel worthy in quality. Despite been released back in 1998, FS is still the pinnacle of space shooters to this day. The game is also Linux and OSX playable these days.Thanks for the heads-up! I did get Freespace 1 and 2 off gog.com, so I'll have to check it out. What I'm missing is a joystick, however.
