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ShackCast 16: Crysis, Manhunt 2, Hellgate, BioWare and Blizzard MMOs, Remo Songs
by Chris Remo, Nov 02, 2007 1:39pm PDTThe rather lengthy ShackCast Episode 16 features Chris Remo, Steve Gibson, Chris Faylor, and Nick Breckon with discussion of the recently-released Crysis demo, Manhunt 2's ongoing controversy, the launch of Hellgate: London, the Thai Orange Box debacle, BioWare's not-actually-confirmed Star Wars MMO and Blizzard's might-be-Diablo 3 MMO, Will Wright's comments on the Wii and its version of Spore. Listeners weight in with comments and questions on Soldier of Fortune Payback, Rock Band, why Gordon Freeman has no feet (and sometimes no hands), exclusive sports franchises, the moon, and more.
Finally, we've got two of Chris Remo's recordings of Shacker-written songs submitted to our Jam Sessions contest: Public Servers by KalLanta, and Gordon's Crowbar Blues by quadeh.
Don't forget to send in your questions and comments about video games, the Shack, or the ShackCast to shackcast@shacknews.com!
Play or download the podcast now, or browse the episodes through iTunes, RSS, or Digg--or continue on for the full breakdown.
000:00: It's a song! And other stuff! 001:21: Crysis demo is out! It is rad! (Demo, interview, preview) 012:53: It's Hot Coffee 2: Manhunt 2's Revenge. (Story)
019:30: Hellgate-gate 07! Hellgate: London is out, and a bit unstable. (Story, review) 027:51: Valve haxed your Thai copy of The Orange Box. (Story 037:02: EA CEO John Riccitiello wants to change game pricing. (Story) 047:43: Blizzard is making a next-gen MMO! DIABLO 3?!?!?!?!/1 (Story) 048:12: Dave Perry's Top Secret explained here. 055:22: BioWare is pretty much making a Star Wars MMO. (Story) 060:00: Will Wright: Wii only next-gen console, Spore on Wii. (Story 069:01: Games we've been playing: Halo 3, Picross DS, Full Throttle, Guitar Hero 3 076:50: Reader mail: Soldier of Fortune Payback payback, Rock Band, Freeman's feet 098:11: Goodbye! Two Jam Sessions Contest winner songs coming up! (Contest) 099:37: Public Servers; written by KalLanta, composed by Chris Remo 103:16: Gordon's Crowbar Blues; written by quadeh, composed by Chris Remo
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I listen every week and I am from Spain, BTW.
Phase one of my plan is complete. >:)
So I stopped wasting time on that one and now I'm hooked on the ShackCast podcast and I've added it to the above list. You guys have been really good at balancing coverage between PC stuff and Console stuff, without slanting any one way or the other, and that's mucho appreciated.
Keep up the cool podcasts and thank you for taking the time to do them.
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I can't speak of the original because I can barely remember it but if anything, the first two games are a good indicator the third will suck. The fact that you haven't played them is a good thing, you can form an unbiased opinion on the 3rd one.
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And the console team as far as I know, is gone, split up among the other internal PC teams.
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Anyways. Entertaining Shackcast as always.
M. Pendergrass
a.k.a. Mike P.
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These Shackcasts, fucking rock guys, thank you so much for taking the time to do this. I only started listening a few weeks ago, but I've gone back and listened to pretty much every episode, great content, great conversation, just awesome in general, like highlander.
Specific to this week...speaking to the crysis demo. I agree with your comments on the settings. I'm an avid gamer, so I know what they all mean, and I even had to sit there for a while and tweak them to get it to run well and look good on my machine. However, for someone who doesn't know what those settings mean, they could load up crysis and then uninstall it right away thinking it doesn't run well on their computer, not knowing all they'd have to do is turn a few things down to medium, and all is well.
I personally tweaked my demo to not use DX10, look well, but enable full physics, and I like it.
Thanks again guys, great stuff, and I hope my comments were not too winded.
For Doom 3, I started out in 800 x 600 on a 9800 Pro; then 1024 x 768 in a 6800 GT, then 1152 x 864 on a 7800 GT. Now it runs at 1600 x 1200 on an 8800 GTS.
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http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=news&cid=12920
I believe it was fixed in the last 5 or so hours
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Good Times!
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Any chance you could post the chords? I'm too lazy to figure them out myself.
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Here in America their thinking was probably, yeah we can put it out for free here, but the game is going to be popular so why not just sell for $50 and collect $50 for every subscriber we are going to have anyway.
You guys are totally spoiling us.
I realize that sometimes things get a little silly, but maybe people don't know how much information is in each Podcast for people like me who are so detached from the gaming industry. I learn lots, with every episode. Not just about the games, but the people who make them.
So, thanks!
D/Ling now.
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