Our weekly November episodes continue! We keep on following Follow (this time in Modern Warfare 3), we hear about this game Gerry’s played called Kirby: Canvas Cruise and we ride horses down waterfalls in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Because we can.
November’s so packed with releases that we’re going weekly! Matt gushes about his new favorite game, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, Andrew explains how he spent the Battlefield 3 campaign following his buddy Follow, Graham has mixed feelings about Cave Story 3D and Shawn reminds us that a new 3DS Zelda is on the way.
In this super-sized episode, the crew talks about favorite games to play on Halloween, discusses the now-dated Vita launch and groans when someone says they haven’t played a game they like. And also Batman.
In the new podcast, the crew helps pitch in to help out an under-the-weather Graham with hosting duties. Topics include the upcoming games that are keeping their wallets empty (like Uncharted 3, Skyrim, Kirby’s Return to Dream Land and Halo Anniversary), the effects Steve Jobs had on the game world, the new PS2 Classics on PSN and more. They also name the Second Bravest Publisher in America and discuss shady GamePorium policies.
Okay, publishers. You have fans. (Congratulations on that, by the way!) You’re in the game business, and that’s because you like games. You also genuinely want to make your fans happy. But you’re a business, and sometimes it’s just not feasible to localize games for the West. Your fans want them anyway, and they’ll keep pestering you until the end of time about them. You know the ones. Sega, you have Valkyria Chronicles 3, among others. Namco Bandai, you have a smattering of Tales titles. Nintendo, you… well, you have a pile of ’em: Xenoblade, The Last Story, Pandora’s Tower and, of course, Mother 3. Every publisher has a game like this that the most rabid followers just won’t shut up about.
We get it, though: you’ve done the math, and you just don’t think it would be profitable. The system’s declining. Previous games didn’t sell so well. Whatever the reasoning, you’ve figured it out. You’re never going to get past it with that answer, though. So give fans a shot to prove you wrong. READ MORE