As usual, last year’s entry in this long-running baseball series was a disappointment, especially when compared to the PS3-exclusive The Show. With their exclusivity deal ending this year, can Take Two finally give people a compelling game?
March 2012
I use the Internet, but I don’t have all day to be surfin’ around looking for news and things on different websites. Reddit serves as a great aggregator for everything related to my interests. I just tell it I like things like ‘board games’ and it will give me all the Internets about board games.
So naturally, most of my feed is dominated by video game posts as I subscribe to several gaming-related subreddits like /r/Games, /r/RetroGameSwap and /r/GameCollecting. But by virtue of the sheer bulk of information posted to Reddit, patterns will emerge. Eventually you start to see the same old crap again and again and again. Here are a few I’m particularly tired of. READ MORE
Attempting to breathe new life into shoot-‘em-ups, Sine Mora, co-developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and Digital Reality, blends old-school gameplay with some mechanics never before seen in the genre. Although it might not be enough to entice those unfamiliar with the genre, Sine Mora has plenty to offer those who already have plenty of experience. READ MORE
Metro3D’s Armada, for the Dreamcast, hit on a formula that many others were attempting: a four-player co-op experience that was as fun as Gauntlet but didn’t play like Gauntlet. Taking those cooperative same-screen elements and throwing them into an Asteroids-style space shooter was a lot of fun. The game suffered from the kinds of things a first-of-its-kind title does, though, and a sequel was the team’s chance to make a good game great. Oh, and take its game online. READ MORE
We get back to business as usual in the new episode, talking Journey, Street Fighter X Tekken, MLB 2k12 and MLB 12: The Show and more! We also discuss our favorite game endings, as well as some that make us mad. Plus: you could win a million dollars! We’re not giving that away or anything, but listening to this episode doesn’t make you ineligible for that kind of thing as far as we know.
Check out the show here or use the RSS feed in your favorite podcast aggregator. Let us know what you think!
Hosts: Jeff DeSolla, Gerry Pagan, Andrew Passafiume, Grant Potter, Graham Russell, Shawn Vermette.
Music: Podcast theme by Tom Casper.
