Oh man, Pirates are back. I think I just teared up a little. Look away!

Edit: Time travel! I will refrain from renaming the title...

That's some scary listener mail.

I am now at the 85 hour mark in DQVIII, but you're right. I likely won't be playing through it again any time soon. My next goal with my shiny new PS2 is to catch up on the FF games. I haven't played one since VII, since that game pissed me off so much.

I have NEVER seen the Newsbot reply to a post. IT'S ALIIIEEEEVEAAHHHHHHhhhhhhgurrrr

I just wanted to say... Kid Icarus is one of the only three virtual console games I've bought, and I will join Stan and Pale to stand in the cheery glow of its 8-bit brilliance. Karl, you just don't know because you weren't born yet. I'm sorry that you're not older, and you should be too.

Plus, it's one of the most mature adventures of the 8-bit era, right after Thomas and his never-ending battle against confetti balls and other fearsome kung fu warriors in, um, Kung Fu. Where else could you find such adult-oriented game play as this scenario:

"Fear not, noble warriors. I will save you all with my magic "WEE-WA" mallet, petrified Centurions, only to have you utterly destroyed three by three in glorious battle against the boss of the temple where you were imprisoned. I mourn the fact that your steely helmet and ability to fly (albeit in a predictable "wave" pattern) couldn't overcome your puny, slow arrows or lack of a healthbar. I will bear your charred carcases back to your homeland after this fight is done, but for now, I have a giant, one-eyed, screen-filling boss to shoot in the eye over and over and over again."

P.S. – You guys scared me when you suddenly yelled out "BE THERE" in unison. I nearly fell out of my chair at the coffeeshop.

EXCITE TRUCK!

Great feature, "How long is too long?" One thing I like about the game I am playing through now, Splinter Cell Double Agent, is the fact that I can save anywhere at anytime just like a PC game. It's 2007 developers, most games should have this ability.

I'm kind of curious, guys - do you prefer the more straight-laced and professional Radio Free Nintendo, or the relaxed and more tangent-filled Nintendo Pirate Radio? Stan and I were talking about it after recording this episode. We were going to request emails about it, but I think we forgot to.

I enjoy the smooth silky voice of Mr. Jonathan Metts.

Depends on whose is doing the podcast. Obi, Karl, and Stan are good at off the cuff. I think Jonny and Windy and TYP are better when it's more formal. Bloodworth can do both because he is the greatest mod ever

BTW guys you were wrong about the Wii Opera Browser, it is going to be a free download for the first 3 months of it's release and yes that is free as in you download it and can use it forever after you do. Maybe you guys could mention this as a correction in your next Podcast real quick.

After that 3 month period if people want to Download it it will be $5, but come on people you have 3 months to get it if you already have a Wii so just do it, I know I am.

-WPack911

I'm finally listening this week and i just wanted to say "Huzzah!" to Stan for liking Kid Icarus too. I still stand by my Recommended for Everyone statement!

"Recommended for Everyone Who's Not Jonathan Metts"

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If you want to save in the middle of dungeon in Twilight Princess, just warp out. I do agree though, that, in general, that the fact that you can't save anywhere in most console games is a problem.

I disagree that there's such a thing as an ideal length for games. If a developer wants to give me 50 or 100 hours of great gameplay, I'll gladly take it.

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If gameplay is really great, then I don't mind length. I don't even notice it. However, after twenty-thirty hours, a game can get...old, so I don't usually like them to be that long, because I put them down, and tend not to finish the game.

I think the ideal length is just that it ends before it wears itself out. If a game does that, and is more than a couple hours long, I'm happy. If a game is a couple hours long, it better have a lot of replay value or be very cheap. That's just me, though.