Author Topic: Metroid Prime Trilogy Marathon Weekend (Read 31204 times)

Nick DiMola · « **on:** August 19, 2009, 12:05:38 AM »

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This Friday (8/21/09) at 6PM EST/3PM PST Chessa and I will be hosting our second live broadcast marathon weekend!

The review copy of Metroid Prime Trilogy is in, and in celebration we will be trying to dash through as much of the Trilogy as possible.

We will be taking live calls via Skype, and will hopefully have a few extras helpers to keep this party going for 48 hours straight... or even longer!

Please tune in and join in the fun! There will be a live chat available and a nightly contest where we'll be giving away some random Wii strategy guides and a Virtual Console copy of Super Metroid to finish out the weekend.

UPDATE (8/21):
Alright, we won't be going 48 hours straight, but unlike the Zelda Marathon, we are going to keep to a strict schedule.

All times are EST

Friday:

6PM - Begin Marathon
9PM - Call In Question: What is your favorite Metroid game?
11PM - Live Trivia Contest
2AM - End of Day

Saturday:

10AM - Begin Day
2PM - Call In Question: Who/What is your favorite Metroid character?
5PM - Contest #2: Stump Zach Miller
9PM - Call In Topic: Describe your ultimate Metroid game
2AM - End of Day

Sunday:

10AM - Begin Day
2PM - Call In Question: What game would you change in Metroid series and how?
5PM - Super Metroid (VC) Giveaway
TBA - End of Day

I urge everyone who has an interest in participating to download Skype. It's how we will handle on-air communication, and it's totally free. We'll be taking calls the whole time we are playing and we will have appearances from various staff members throughout the weekend, including the RFN cast!

Just as last time, we will also feature a live chat via IRC right below the live broadcast, so please join in there and chat with fellow viewers!

Protocol to call in is as follows:
First send a chat message to the handle nintend0nick (that's a zero in there). I will then initiate the call from my machine and I will broadcast our call live. We can talk about anything (Video Game or Site Related, of course), just use the initial chat message to describe the topic of the call.

UPDATE (8/23):
Thanks for tuning in everyone, the weekend was most definitely a success! Please leave us feedback on what you enjoyed/disliked so that we can improve future marathons.

Over the course of the week we are going to be completing Echoes and possibly Corruption. If guys are interested in us broadcasting them, please also let us know in the feedback. If there is enough demand, we will certainly do just that!

If you have any questions at all, please feel free to ask them in the Talkback forum thread!

BeautifulShy · « **Reply #1 on:** August 18, 2009, 11:33:13 PM »

Great to hear you are doing this again. Loved the Zelda Marathon.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #2 on:** August 18, 2009, 11:43:39 PM »

Turn off hints, thanks.

King of Twitch · « **Reply #3 on:** August 18, 2009, 11:55:30 PM »

I'm gonna watch. Who's going to call in?

Stele · « **Reply #4 on:** August 19, 2009, 01:02:11 AM »

I'm sure we'll all be doing something similar by next weekend, just not broadcasting it.

Should be fun to tune in again though.

Killer_Man_Jaro · « **Reply #5 on:** August 19, 2009, 01:17:44 AM »

Very good choice for a marathon. I look forward to following your progress this weekend.

Speaking of which, I'd be impressed if you managed to complete all three Metroid Primes within 48 hours... especially if you aim for 100%. Are you going to try and collect every upgrade?

Mop it up · « **Reply #6 on:** August 19, 2009, 02:10:31 AM »

Are you really going to try to play for 48 hours straight? That's just crazy. Who's going to be watching at 2AM?

I'll probably stop by the chat a few times during the event to see how things are going.

broodwars · « **Reply #7 on:** August 19, 2009, 02:16:48 AM »

Quote from: Mop_it_up on August 19, 2009, 02:10:31 AM

Are you really going to try to play for 48 hours straight? That's just crazy. Who's going to be watching at 2AM?

I'll probably stop by the chat a few times during the event to see how things are going.

*looks around, and then glances at the clock. It's 2:17 AM*

Hey, if I'm still in the middle of trying to grind my way to the end of Wild Arms Alter Code: F (I'm in the middle of a massive pile of End Game sidequests/optional bosses), I probably would just for something interesting to watch in the meantime.

Mop it up · « **Reply #8 on:** August 19, 2009, 07:50:54 PM »

Quote from: broodwars on August 19, 2009, 02:16:48 AM

Quote from: Mop_it_up on August 19, 2009, 02:10:31 AM
Are you really going to try to play for 48 hours straight? That's just crazy. Who's going to be watching at 2AM?
*looks around, and then glances at the clock. It's 2:17 AM*

Irony?

Nick DiMola · « **Reply #9 on:** August 19, 2009, 10:28:57 PM »

Quote from: Killer_Man_Jaro on August 19, 2009, 01:17:44 AM

Very good choice for a marathon. I look forward to following your progress this weekend.

Speaking of which, I'd be impressed if you managed to complete all three Metroid Primes within 48 hours... especially if you aim for 100%. Are you going to try and collect every upgrade?

I'm expecting we will blast through the individual games as quickly as possible. Thus we will only be getting what's necessary to complete the game and moving on. If by some miracle we complete all three ahead of schedule we'll probably revisit the first game and try and find some of the upgrades.

It looks like our friends that were intending to join us aren't going to make it due to work on Saturday. Sooo... we'll be putting up an official schedule tomorrow detailing start and end times for each day, as well as what we'll be doing at specific times (contests, call blocks, etc).

kraken613 · « **Reply #10 on:** August 20, 2009, 10:42:01 PM »

We will have to at some point see how many people we can get on a skype call.

Mop it up · « **Reply #11 on:** August 20, 2009, 11:04:38 PM »

What is Skype? Is that some kind of voice-chat program?

BeautifulShy · « **Reply #12 on:** August 20, 2009, 11:46:15 PM »

Quote from: Mop_it_up on August 20, 2009, 11:04:38 PM

What is Skype? Is that some kind of voice-chat program?

Here is its wiki page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype

And here is where you can DL it.
http://www.skype.com/

To answer your question yes I believe it is a voice chat program.

Nick DiMola · « **Reply #13 on:** August 21, 2009, 12:24:04 AM »

Skype is a voice chatting program (it's owned by eBay). It works very well and we use it to do all of our podcasting at NWR. We will be using it extensively over the weekend, so if you have any desire to talk to us live definitely get it installed!

BeautifulShy · « **Reply #14 on:** August 21, 2009, 12:33:24 AM »

Is there any special equipment you need?

broodwars · « **Reply #15 on:** August 21, 2009, 12:37:18 AM »

Quote from: Maxi on August 21, 2009, 12:33:24 AM

Is there any special equipment you need?

A microphone, the Skype program itself, and a phone bill capable of supporting your call (the program comes with I think 5 free minutes, but that's all you get).

Nick DiMola · « **Reply #16 on:** August 21, 2009, 07:00:18 AM »

No phone bill required. As long as you call another Skype user it's completely free. My Skype name is available in my profile and I'll have that active during all of the hours we're playing.

Any time you want to call the show, I'll have you guys send me a chat message first through Skype, and then I'll call you back. This way we won't get people calling over each other (assuming the feature is popular enough).

Today I'll be updating the blog post with a whole bunch of important information detailing everything, so keep an eye out for that.

NWR_DrewMG · « **Reply #17 on:** August 21, 2009, 08:19:06 AM »

Maybe I missed it, but where's the link to the live feed?

Nick DiMola · « **Reply #18 on:** August 21, 2009, 08:57:33 AM »

Quote from: DrewMG on August 21, 2009, 08:19:06 AM

Maybe I missed it, but where's the link to the live feed?

It'll go up in this blog post right before we start later today.

NWR_DrewMG · « **Reply #19 on:** August 21, 2009, 09:03:15 AM »

Great. I'm hoping to pop in a few times this weekend.

Nick DiMola · « **Reply #20 on:** August 21, 2009, 02:54:48 PM »

Alright guys updated the original post, check out the new information there to get an overview of what we have in store for the weekend!

Halbred · « **Reply #21 on:** August 21, 2009, 03:01:44 PM »

Nick, what's the random trivia contest?

Nick DiMola · « **Reply #22 on:** August 21, 2009, 03:08:20 PM »

Haven't quite worked that out yet, but I presume we'll be doing something with live calls. Perhaps a really tough trivia question of some sort, with the first to call in with the right answer wins. I'll have the definite details ironed out later.

NWR_insanolord · « **Reply #23 on:** August 21, 2009, 04:24:38 PM »

I'll probably be up all night tonight not writing the research paper I'm supposed to be writing so I'll check in. Not too much, though, I've never played the first two and I don't want too much of them spoiled.

BeautifulShy · « **Reply #24 on:** August 21, 2009, 05:46:35 PM »

So this starts in about 15 mins. Where is the video feed?

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