Joystiq Podcast 026 - Space fondling edition

3 Gigabytes of Intel cores ftw

It really seems that Assasin's Creed is a love it or hate it game.

Thank the heavens I haven't dedicated myself to finding the flags in Assassin's Creed yet. Knowing now that you get the satisfaction of having pointless flags, I'm not even going to bother getting them unless I happen to just walk into one. Also, the parallel story is stupid. The only reason it could even be considered a spoiler is because Ubisoft clearly never hinted at it knowing that it was a stupid idea and nobody wants to play that.

However, I love the game.

FidliousWong is sheppy? I don't think so...

AND CHRIS IS WRONG ABOUT THE PARALLEL PLOT

Ha ha ha ha ha, "Up with people"

Also, (sorry for the double-posting) ... does Mass Effect come with an instruction manual? Everyone complains that the game doesn't explain how to do anything, but... isn't that what the instruction manual used to be for?

Wow, I've got to agree with Justin, that was an awesome show! I managed to laugh out loud more times than I can count on one hand, and that's definitely worth something.

Thanks for answering my question about the video 'cast, and I'll be looking forward to the next time you're all together!

Do you know how wrong about Assassin's Creed you are Chris? SO WRONG!

Better and better guys, better and better.

I almost choked on chicken bones twice from laughing.

"This was a triumph...
I'm making a note here; HUGE SUCCESS"

Yet another quality PodCast. Thanks, guys (and Justine).

Also lovin' the Brush With Fame. Maybe one of these days I'll be brushed.

Oh no! The Ninjas have stolen our soles!!!

Classic!

I had a super mega lawl with that 30Rock quote.

It was a great podcast, as they said. I'm sad that there were no "gigglebyte" uses.

Great show, I just started listening to the podcast recently , however I do have 1 gripe..

..and that is just to be a bit more careful with spoilers, there was quite a few times where your so excited about the new stuff in the games that you let one or two slip out, not biggies, but enough for me to keep my hand on the volume control.

I'm looking forward to these new games, I'd be dissapointed if I don't get the same experiance going through the games becuase a spoiler accidently got dropped.

"Rubbing one out to space lesbians" you dont hear that on major nelson!
and if ludwig learned english from lucas arts adventures no wonder he talks in puns!
BRING BACK LUCAS ARTS ADVENTURES!

personally, i like the spoilers

Airbus Reconstruction... man, your friend sucks. He can't even come up with a name on his OWN! The Portishead "Glory Times" comp had a remix of Sour Times, iirc, called Airbus Reconstruction. Because it was reconstructed by a dude named Airbus.

As childish as it is, my (roommates and myself) band is called Tea Baggage. Boston was obviously the only choice for a city.

I haven't been playing Assassin's Creed, but I've watched my roommate play a fair share of it. I wouldn't classify the second plotline as terrible, but rather unnecessary. However, I agree with Chris that collecting flags for nothing than an achievement/personal satisfaction is a bit silly.

You're enjoying Soldier of Fortune, as well, Justin? Or as I like to call it Minority Murder Simulator 3000?

I've enjoyed your podcast from the very beginning. In fact, it's the first video game podcast I've listened to and has been a gateway drug to even more downloadable vg news mp3s.

I have a question/request. Is there a reason why your RSS feed only goes back to episode 10? I recently had a hardrive crash and I lost the early episodes, however, I cannot download them again through iTunes because your feed only goes back to episode 10. Obviously, I could just download them again as mp3s and load them into iTunes, but then they do not load into the "Podcasts" tab and it would be a much less elegant solution.

And yes, I have gone back to listen to earlier episodes, I especially enjoyed the second episode where Steven talked about DICE and Chris and Ludwig complained about bandana gansters, if I'm not mistaken.

Hey awesome podcast. I wanted to say that your passionate discussion about assassin's creed made me really want to play the game. That, and I also wanted to add that if English is your second language, it may be a bit more difficult to understand when something is really off phonetically, or if some voice acting is terrible. No offense to Ludwig, but while I haven't played it yet, I think that may explain the disconnect between you two. Case in point, I have friends from Russia, and one of them has this shirt that says "save the drama for your mama", and under any other circumstances, I would have thought that shirt to be really lame, but because English is his second language, I find it hilarious, because he does.

That also may explain why Ludwig is so fond of terrible puns ;)

That and, I agree with everything Justin said about Mass Effect, and I wanted to say that the whole walking thing? That wouldn't have been a problem for me if I hadn't listened to this podcast and heard Justin's opinion on it. Thanks jerk, now the game feels like 10 times slower for me.

After hearing Ludwig speak about Assassin's Creed and being that he loves Ninja Gaiden as much as I do, I plan on picking this game up after I get my Mass Effect kick out the way. Also, thanks to Justin, I will be picking up Kain and Lynch one sweet day, probably when it drops in price. I wanted to play it but it really wasn't on my radar. Soon enough kiddies...soon enough.

Also, I feel your complaints about Mass Effect Justin but I'm glad to hear you enjoy it. The driving in the game is insanely broken. Half of the time I attempt to flip the vehicle just to see if I can. Sadly, I have not achieved this yet. Although I did drive off a bridge once, that was kind of fun.

Hey, if any of you guys have had any complaints/problems with Rock Band, could you mention those? I'm curious if anyone has done any of the DIY mods to the drums (to make them more quiet) or drum sticks or basically has anything rigged up that would give us listeners some ideas to improve our experience.