Topic: Episode 208: Basic Hearing Ability is Required

[greybrick]

The word "Family" implies some sort of childbearing, this is apparently a reality the ESRB feels individuals of ages 3+ are ready to experience.

[AV]

FYI jonnyboy your ad worked. I am listening to CrossTalk: Box office Poison right now. I am really enjoying so far. If you need somebody to talk about piranha 3-D I'll be willing to contribute to the podcast :-)  PM me if your game

Yeah, It's an entertaining podcast. It's interesting to hear Jonny talk about something non-Nintendo related.

I enjoyed the podcast allot, subscribed and even wrote a letter.

[jrlibrarian]

Kytim, I think the NES TMNT game must have not sold that well on the VC. It is clear that the legal issues aren't that bad (Konami and Ubisoft reached a deal for that one), but it must have not sold well enough to convince them to do the sequels.

I bought that game and felt like it was not worth any thing. I would bet that the SNES games would sell a lot better if they were released.

I also bought the NES TMNT game for $10, and I feel as if it is worth every penny. It may seem primitive to some people, but in the end, it is a fun game that I will replay many times until I complete it.

[NWR_Karl]

FYI jonnyboy your ad worked. I am listening to CrossTalk: Box office Poison right now. I am really enjoying so far. If you need somebody to talk about piranha 3-D I'll be willing to contribute to the podcast :-)  PM me if your game

Yeah, It's an entertaining podcast. It's interesting to hear Jonny talk about something non-Nintendo related.

I enjoyed the podcast allot, subscribed and even wrote a letter.

Thanks for the kind words, guys! It's much appreciated. And Adolph, are you sure you sent it to the right email address (crosstawk[at]gmail[dot]com)? All of Crosstawk's emails are forwarded to me, and I haven't received any from you.

[FZeroBoyo]

The episode was great, but it was especially James' postal shoe odyssey that had me laughing the most. I certainly can't wait for the Other M discussions next time. 

[NWR_insanolord]

I thought Mirror's Edge was a fine game so long as the focus was on movement and evasion.  Towards the later parts of the game, the game shifts towards combat, which is where the game just falls apart.  A particularly annoying section for me was in this one level where you're running through a deserted mall with the cops close behind.  At the end of the level, there's a sequence where the game obviously intends you to climb up into the catwalks, perform a wallrun to a hanging bar, and then swing to a piece of scaffolding to make your escape while the cops below are ineffectually shooting at you.  The problem is, I tried that sequence for something approaching an hour and never pulled it off: the moment my hands touched the hanging bar, every cop below me would instantly fire at me and kill me while I could do nothing about it.  The only way I got through that sequence was to go against everything the game was telling me to do and trigger the cops running into the area so I could pick off the first one; take his weapon; and then mow down all the cops in the area so they couldn't shoot me up in the catwalks.
 
Of course, it didn't help that later PS3 firmware updates seem to have caused stability issues with the game.  I had problems with that game crashing, especially at the end of the second-to-last stage just when I hit the end.  I never did complete the game.

The trick to the combat in Mirror's Edge is to play it on Easy. It doesn't change the platforming, but it makes the enemies do a lot less damage.

It's probably asking too much to wish for Move support to be patched into Mirror's Edge on the PS3 to add pointer control.

[Kytim89]

My dad is 64-years-old and about eight years ago he had a stroke. Since then he has been paralyzed on his entire right side(hemiplegic) and is unable to use his right arm and he can still walk to an extent. A while back I convinced him to play wii sports. He play bowling, baseball, tennis and golf, but he had trouble with boxing for obvious reasons. My point is that Nintendo has created a game that can accomodate the disabled to some extent.

[KDR_11k]

Anyone know how the Last Ninja games could come out at a time when all we had was Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles?

[Kytim89]

If the wii 2 is going to include any kind of multimedia functions such as a music player, I have a good idea of how to use it and make it unique. Basically have a music player where I create the miis of my favorite band, assign certain songs to them and then play the music and have some kind of rock concert going on inside my wii 2.
 
For example, I like the band Godsmack, so I would create the miis of the band such as Sully Erna, the lead singer, and then assign a song like "I Stand Alone" to the band and then play the song. The same would go for any other bands such as Korn or Disturbed.
 
There would also be sound amplifiers and what ever applications needed to alter the sound of the songs in a similar fashion to what the DSi music player does with soundtracks

[Crimm]

I'm not sure there's much need for a dedicated multimedia device unless it has all the outputs I need to hook it up to my audio system easily and with the best results. I also need a HD to store media.

Right now I'm more inclined to get a nettop and use it to remotely access media on my network or online.

[Miyamoto]

Was this the ep where they were talking about old-school revivals? Shame no-one mentioned Star Tropics.