A special guest, and some very unfavorable news about Rayman, appear just in time for this week's podcast.
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For some people, this time of year is slow for gaming. Don't tell the RFN crew, because we're slammed with games and game-related things to discuss. James starts with this week's big new release, Fire Emblem Awakening, though it's preceded by his own soul-searching about whether to buy the game digitally in face of retail shortages and delays. Jon follows-up on the Hyrule Historia with a deeper look at the book's content, including some disturbing/hilarious looks at the Zelda franchise's more obscure characters and events. Jonny and his in-person guest (we'll leave it a surprise for now) team up for a marathon of Wii U multiplayer gaming that includes Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, The Cave, Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. They also played Ikachan (separately), and Jonny shares some wrap-up thoughts on Crimson Shroud, while his guest reports on Batman Arkham City: Armored Edition. A very patient Guillaume concludes our epic New Business with his ambivalence over both Puddle and Rhythm Thief.
The Rayman Legends delay was announced just hours before recording, and some quick-fingered listeners snuck in their flabbergasted emails just in time. We spend a fair bit of time looking at the situation and its larger implications for third-party support on Wii U. Other topics in Listener Mail include the best digital download values and why our usage of Miiverse has faded since launch.
The show closes with a couple of exciting announcements. We're close to opening the next RetroActive poll -- check back here and on our social network outlets for details on that soon. And more importantly, we're expecting to have friend-of-the-show Chris Kohler from Wired's GameLife blog/podcast on the PAX East panel! Until then, send in your own Listener Mail questions to hear them discussed on an upcoming episode. And as always, thanks for listening!
LORDS OF THUNDER
I can see by John Metts reaction, and the rest of the cast that you guys are in full panic mode for no reason. Nintendo is in a real bad bad position? Hardly, the Vita is in a real bad bad position. The system has been out for a full year and it still has no games on it.
Everybody, especially Johhny is looking at how things are now and painting a doom situation, when its FAR to early to panic, I can tell you never played sports, and if you did, when you got behind, you thought it was over.
I can see by John Metts reaction, and the rest of the cast that you guys are in full panic mode for no reason. Nintendo is in a real bad bad position? Hardly, the Vita is in a real bad bad position. The system has been out for a full year and it still has no games on it.
Bull****. Despite its poor sales, there are more great (exclusive) games on the thing than on the Wii U right now. Hell, Persona 4 Golden alone is probably better than most of the stuff Nintendo showed the titles of in that last Nintendo Direct. But hey, that's just my experience as a person who actually owns a Vita and knows what he's talking about.
If what the Vita has doesn't appeal to you, that's fine. But it's had more than a few quality games on it in its first year.
Also, why on earth would someone buy a Vita to play a damn PS2 game. Persona 4 no less! Ugh.
happyastoria is right in a way, Persona 4 Golden is just a enhanced port of a 5 year old PS2 game. It would be like 3DS getting a port of something like De Blob and bragging that is a great "exclusive" game.
brood, even if you like Persona 4, it was a enhanced PORT of a FOUR YEAR OLD GAME. And that is one of the few big name games the PS Vita has. Kind of pathetic when one of the biggest games the system has was a 4 year old port of a PS2 game.
Wii U has other big games though, PS Vita has very few.
Idk why you guys are spelling doom for sega. They're buying assets from thq's asset auction! not going bankrupt themselves!sega has just been being stupid for quite a while
I never would've guessed 10 years ago that sega would own my 2 favorite strategy titles. But with Rome:total war 2 and Company of heroes 2 coming out this year, They're one of my favorite publishers out there.
So go go sega!
The screenshot posts on Miiverse are universal. When in a game hit the home button, then go to create your post and you will be able to add a picture of the screen that was being displayed in game.It's not working in some games, namely Darksiders 2 and Tekken. Probably something to do with weird sub-HD resolution those games run in.
Shaymin, you seem to have missed the true lesson of my experience last summer. My digital games cannot be lost or stolen, because the receipts, licenses, and files themselves are all on Nintendo's servers and verified by two semi-independent databases (eShop and Club Nintendo). Their recovery process may be clumsy, but this feature still makes digital content much more secure than physical. If my system had been in a carrying case full of game cards (as my DS Lite used to be), I wouldn't have gotten anything back. Instead, I ended up with >$150 credit in my account to replace my games on a brand new system. I was absolutely thrilled with the resolution, if not the process.he didn't get kid icarus back sadly