Joystiq Podcast 032 - Mock my smock edition

by Justin McElroy on Jan 4th 2008 2:45PM

You're not going to find any links after the jump this week, know why? Because we're not talking about news, silly goose. This week, it's all our Game of the Year awards that went up earlier this week. Why did some games make it while others were nowhere to be seen? Which choices did the J-Pod hosts agree with and which made their skin crawl? You'll have to listen to find out.

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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.

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Reader Comments (46)

As long as you had the B-B-B-BRUSH WITH FAME~, it's awwwwright

I fucking love your podcast.

its great to work out to

I want a smock that says "Don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock."

In fact, i just like to say smock.

smock smock smock smock smock

I loved Calvin and Hobbes

y'all have a great podcast. keep up the good work.

Haven't listened to this yet, but I have a question about the show that's been bugging me for ages. Who is the girl at the end of every podcast and what does she say? (I can make out "...and fire Justion McElroy)

Listen to this podcast, they explain it.

"More hilarious antics at Joystiq dot com.

And fire Justin McElroy."

hey, i love that rockband is high on the list. i personally love the rockband guitar but maybe thats cause i like that it makes no sounds when i hit the strummer.

Justin & Chris,

Mario Galaxy does in fact have something wrong with it--its not that your 360s are actually more tempting (or maybe they are I wouldn't know)--but Wii is the only next-gen console I own and I find myself more drawn to playing Puzzle Quest or Fire Emblem more intensely than I did SMG... I have 119 stars and I don't remember once really needing to get my fix, I sorta just played through it..It just wasn't one of those crack fiend games you cant wait to get back to.

I freaking hate purple coins now, especially when Luigi has them. Thanks a lot, SMG.

I almost didn't get 120 stars because of this.

I am finding that I am literally forcing myself through it. I mean, I know it's great and all. I just.. I just.. I just can't LIKE it. It's just another great game that I don't feel like playing. Maybe I'm too old for Mario now.

Jerk Face, that perfectly describes my first impressions with Super Mario Galaxy. I know it's amazing and great, but I still don't like it.

I'm hoping the feeling will pass.

I agree with all this... it's really good, but I find myself playing more GH3... I feel bad for it...

Oh I beat Cult of Personality on expert yesterday :D... I'm a freak...

I love the show, but isn't it about time that Ben Kweller was doused in Game Fuel and set on fire?

Nice pun.

dear guys, does one of you have their iphone too close to their computer?
i think that's what that intermittant annoying sound is.

I thought it was my speakers until Chris said something. It's not just iPhones that can do it, but any cell phones.

I used my speakers as a boss alarm, because they would make that irritating buzzing noise every time he walked by, because he always had that Crackberry of his glued to his ear.

Yeah, someone said it was GSM noise or something ... I use a CDMA phone myself. Does that mean that someone's GSM phone is in proximity to their computer and is causing those annoying ticking sound things?

Possibly. I know my personal CDMA phone doesn't affect my old speakers, but several of the company phones do. No idea if they're GSM.

I put a stop to it by replacing the speakers. The old ones were a pair of cheap, USB-powered pieces of crap. The new ones are cheap, wall-powered and not so crappy. They aren't affected by any phones or anything else around here.

I THINK I've solved that problem, at least. This podcast scared me into thinking I hadn't.

Would have to be Ludwig. Most of the comments I've heard about at&t/T-Mobile coverage in West Virginia invoke various synonyms for feces.

And since GSM is an international standard...

Tell you what, Joystiq hosts, just say the word and I'll tool around with a couple T-shirt concepts in case you want to get in kahoots with Jinx or a service like that.

While waiting for my next computer, I have some downtime where I can dink with some designs.

You should do a design with all the profile pictures of the long time readers.

Probably infringes on some copyright laws though...

I had about half a dozen designs already in me noggins already. I know they would like to get some shirts available for sale and right now, I can't work on my game. So it's certain options for me...

A. Draw, draw, draw, and more drawing, no focus or purpose, just drawing.

B. Go back to gaming more than 10-15 hours a week.

C. Build a 1:1 scale replica of the Pyramids then charge people to see it just to see if Egypt will sue me.

D. Continue my lifelong ambition to breed a clown with a yeti. I'm hoping I get something similar to Ludo.

E. Take on dink little projects to give me focus and also add experience in Illustrator.

If you go for option "C" let me know. I want a tomb in there!

Yeeeeeeehawww. They read my mail!

I still want a shirt... but I have no beanies...

And they pronounced my name wrong again:D (see episode 14)

Also, I live on an oil tanker nowhere near any kind of gaming convention D:

I'd like to take this moment to thank you guys for podcasting during this lean time of the year.

Those fuckers at 1up have totally buggered off, as have the guys at Game Theory. Thankfully Angry hyphen Gamer put up a podcast this week.

We are thirsting in the desert and you have provided us with sweet, sweet nectar. That will probably give us hyperglycemic fits, but such is life.

I just noticed this new Joystiq podcast at the same time as a new GFW Radio podcast, and for the first time ever I had to give serious thought as to which to listen to first. Well done Joystiq, you keep getting better.

Dude, they're the two best on the whole interwebs aren't they? I still vote Joystiq above GFW but it's often close. Good time to be a gamer, these days. Who needs bullshit corporate "gamer" TV networks for a little entertainment focusing on our favorite hobby?

Sorry Chris, but your reasons for including COD4, God Of War 2, Bioshock and Halo 3 and *not* including Uncharted Drake's Fortune are

a) Assinine
b) Hypocritical
c) Unjustifiable

Since all of those games ranked higher on MetaCritic than Uncharted, it's obviously not only Joystiq's opinion. Even if it was, when you read their GoTY list, it's to see what THEIR opinion is, and nothing else. It's their opinion, and that's all it needs to justify the whole thing.

I wish i knew how to do a dick in symbols and letters on the keyboard for you.

8========D

Best I can do.

@Slaziman: What you're referring to is irrelevant. Chris can't seriously say Uncharted is derivative and then say Bioshock is just like System Shock 2, yet Bioshock deserves to be on the list and Uncharted doesn't. That's hypocrisy.

Thanks for the brush guys and thanks Justin for playing that terrible freaking Burnout Demo.

I hate to say this but I love listening to the podcast while cleaning my house.

Longer episodes lead to a cleaner house so thanks!

I just got an iPod recently so I've been catching up on all the previous Podcasts.

Great work guys! :D They make for great listening in empty stretches of time, especially all the talk about my new all-time favourite Portal!

Yeah that Bowie track broke my mind but I finally put it down. Smooth sailing after that except for green grass and flirting with disaster. UP THE IRONS!!!

I like how nobody caught Ludwig's "it's bad ass, bad assassin" remark. Does that count as a double pun? It should.

This just might have been the best yet of all Joystiq podcasts. I don't think I've ever lolled listening to something, but there were many snickers during my listen. I actually regret putting this off until the workweek.

You guys have come such a long way from the first few podcasts, which mostly consisted of contrived, self-referential segues and segue attempts. I'm so proud of you.

I find that the longer a podcast (any, not just yours) goes, the less I pay attention to it in the long run.

**Note to self: Increase attention span.

i agree with Justin. i think Bioshock is better than Portal and should've been #1. i found Bioshock wholly more satisfying and the experience much more intense than Portal which had its moments of brilliance too.

I think I may finally have to buy a Wii. Up until now it's the wife that's stopped me, but perhaps if I buy this it will prove to both provide a way to play SMG AND, at the same time, actually get my wife to play video games with me!

2008... the year of portalshock.... bioshock with a steampowered portal gun :P

Great podcast guys, from a carpenter/gamer in Philly.

Joystiq Podcast 032 - Mock my smock edition

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