Joystiq Podcast 020 - Portal edition

Here we are again friends, with another megaton announcement in the middle of our podcast. Despite the EA/BioWare purchase, we still manage to spend the whole show talking about Portal, with some discussion of Phoenix Wright, Looney Toons: Duck Amuck and Dynasty Warriors Gundam thrown in for good measure.

Also, there is the humiliating settling of a certain musical bet, but you'll have to wait until the end of the show for that.

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Hosts: Chris Grant, Ludwig Kietzmann and Justin McElroy

Music: "Get Ready for Love" by Nick Cave, "Red Eye" by Ben Kweller

See all of this week's links after the jump.

The BioWare/Pandemic thing

PS3:
No backwards compatibility is upsetting
Sony explains why it's missing

The Orange Box:
Portal
Metareview: The Orange Box (PC, Xbox 360)

Wii stuff:
Nintendo press conference
Sonic, online co-op confirmed for Smash Bros Brawl
Smash Bros Brawl delayed

Reader Comments (35)

ugggg, stop talking about portal til i play it

I heard it... and I can't unhear it!

1. Portal is a fantastic 1.5 hour experience.

2. Riding Boners sounds like fun.

3. Besides the guys in the podcast who gives a shit about PS2 BC. Didn't you have enough time to play those games last gen?

4. The Wii is a dull console.

You guys should have just done the whole show on Portal , truely.

1.) Enjoy portal when it comes out for PS3. It's great and your just depressed you can't have it now.

2.) Yes

3.) me

4.) w/e you say

I own portal on PC (Orange Box) the superior platform.

I was just agreeing that it was a great game, not making a slight at how long it is.

In Shagittariush, "dull" means "like totally sweet."

Awesome podcast guys! keep up the good work!

Awesome singing Justin =D

I almost choked when you started singing at the end man. Please... never do that again...

I see what you did there.

I'm far from a Halo expert, but I find meleeing the head + shooting them a bit first = kill. Also, hitting them from behind.

The Duck Amuck thing made me look like an idiot at work, all laughing at my headphones. Thanks for that. Now I need this game... and to play it on the bus. When parents see a grown man on the bus laughing at Daffy Duck on a boner... oh man. I may be arrested. Do they have Internet in jail?

Ah! There's my steed!

That was classic! I'll never be able to have sex again without hearing Daffy's voice.

I care about backwards compatibility:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hackaday/1553319707/

Hey! I have the better PC version of that game.

With awesome singing like that what ever you don't ever fire Justin McElroy.

EA did make a console, kinda. They were the primary software supporter on the console developed by their founder (Trip Hawkins).

You may remember it, it was called the 3D0.

It was shit. It was overpriced. It was rejected by the market.

The guys who actually developed the hardware worked for Matsushita, and were hard at work on a successor console when they were all fired.

Mysteriously, almost all of those guys went to work for Microsoft.

They made the 360.

Talk about your lucky breaks.

Teh more J00 know!

This was a triumph

I'm making a note here:

HUGE SUCCESS!

I've been listening to that song ALL DAY. So good....

It's hard ooooverstate my
Satisfaction.

I know, I listened to it on repeat for a while. When I looked at the iTunes counter it was up to 9 and that was only yesterday.

I even beat the game a few more times just to hear the song. Possibly the best ending ever.

What I would love to see, now, is a mod that includes the portal gun in a HL2 multiplayer game.

Good now i have something to listen to on my way to Athens tonight. You may need to make these longer for my road trip enjoyment. Hope you guys sing the full song so I can "rock it" with my windows down...;)

I would've gladly traded the performance for a slice of delicious cake.

Oh, yeah, I want more pop diva covers by Justin.

One every week. This is the price you pay to stay employed.

In this episode Ludwig reveals that he has no heart. :(

Also, Karaoke Revolution Party is the one on the XBox (and GC), and it has all the songs from Karaoke Revolution 1, 2, and 3 available as DLC.

I want a brush with fame!

BEST. ENDING. TO. A. PODCAST. EVAR.

haha he actually sounded pretty good at the end

I think we have found a new show segment, Justin sings all your pop favorites.

Yes 8.99 on Tape, 9.99 on Cassette & 5.99 on LP from K-Tel! Get yours now! Awesome show guys. Justin, You got balls and my respect for not only following through but for keeping your word.

Not only does Just McElroy play a mean guitar, he also has a singing voice so pure that it turns straight men gay, makes women's faces melt off and makes me harder than a diamond.

Well done sir, well done.

That ending was fantastic, I've never heard that song before, but I'm really starting to like it.
Justin FTW ;)

1) I hope my Brush With Fame isn't painted with the same brush used for painting penises!

2) I didn't realize that Counting Crows did a cover of "Girlfriend" on VH1 Storytellers.

Awesome, podKAAST!

I almost drove off the road when Justin and the McElroy Crooners got to the mike. You need to put a warning on there. I have not experienced a range of emotions that broad in a long time. Showed real love of the material! Good sport and a gentleman.

Did some blood spill between Ludwig and Justin there at some point? That makes me very nervous and I dont like it. But if there is going to be a fight, can you do it in a VG chosen by Chris or something and in videocast.

That was great, especially the song at the end. Please Justin, for the next episode, perform a song with Ludwig.

Justin absolutely rocked that. Living up to that bet bumped this podcast up to favorite status for me.

Joystiq Podcast 020 - Portal edition

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