Joystiq Podcast 040 - Over the Hill edition

I'll match your WOW and raise you a FULL OF WIN

I have a pretty easy time laughing at the fact you just said "YALLS".

TURTLE POWER!!11111!!

I had pretty fun laughing at your face. D:

I had a pretty fun time laughing at your grammar.

I knew this was a Nintendco-centric site.

y'all is in the dictionary. it is a word. y'all get used to it now, yaheah?

He obviously inhaled someone with opposable thumbs

More importantly, stuff generally doesn't fall out of Kirby's mouth, so much as it goes into his mouth. Contradiction!

Look around you... There are many things to see... That some would say...

Could never be.

I loved David the Gnome. I still remember when he gave the gold nugget to the man and he ended up in jail.

Me too! Woo!

Well, friend, I'm glad you asked.

Usually, I roll with:

Torterra
Honchkrow
Lucario
Golduck
Lucario
Raichu

to cover all of my bases, type-wise. Once I nab the national dex, I'll probably get into breeding and EV training, and switch up my team. I'd like to get rid of Raichu, and eventually, Golduck, for two other dual-types. I'd also like a strong Psychic type in there.

However, I recently became deeply entrenched in the magical world of Professor Layton, so my Pokeballs may be gathering dust for a while.

Also, don't judge me.

I have no brother.

...Well, except Travis.

I think it should be brought to everyone's attention that, for quite some time, Justin's DS played home to a cavalcade of pokemans. He would come to me, shaking, eyes bleary from a long night full of shed tears, asking for tips on how to beat the Steel Gym leader.

There, on the doorstep, I told him.

"Ground type," I would say, comfortingly, "or fighting."

You can pretend that your doorstep confession never occurred, Justin McElroy, but the Mine Badge in your backpack will never forget.

And how very foolish of me! One of those Lucarios should be a Dialgia. The last thing I need is for all of Joystiq to think I'm some sort of Lucario fanboy, one of the more insipid groups among pokeconnoisseurs.

Kids, c'mon. Stop bickering. Let's all just agree that the pokemans blow.

*runs from incoming fanboys*

I'm laughing at the shown pokemans.

Oooh, you were almost in for some trouble for a minute there, but as it wasn't aimed at either of the McElroys, that's OK. I'll let the CGDF take care of you.
I do think you're wrong thinking that the poyad-cayast isn't great though. If it can make me cry with laughter, it must be pretty damn good. The yo-yo bit cracked me up.
But hey, dif'rent strokes.

Its gameplay is lacking, environments are good but often too bland, the intersting idea of crime scene investigation and detection is squandered and the combat is the same as elder scrolls, and DMMM. Thank you for the SPOILER, and so much more.

Chris Grant defense force GO.

I like how you started off by saying you were going to make a laundry list of rebuttals to everything that was bad about the game, and it then consisted of "only a few enemies have guns", "you just suck", and my personal favorite, "you're just biased and shouldn't be talking about games". I mean Chris talks about games for a living, so you're right, he is pretty biased.

And while yes it is true that few enemies have guns, that doesn't matter. There could be one enemy with a gun, and you will literally have no idea where he is when you are being shot, and since it takes somewhere between zero and 1 bullets to kill you, it really doesn't matter where he is, you will die if you haven't either:

1. Known about his position prior to playing the level,
2. Turned the brightness on your TV all the way up, or
3. Put the difficulty on easy.

Because you can't actually see him until he fires, and since the AI is so atrocious, when he fires, he WILL hit you, and for some reason, his gun shoots a hundred bullets, a hundred times faster than yours. I had one bum get 3 rounds off of his shotgun *in rapid succession*, and killed me because I was dumb and thought that after his first shot, he'd have to pump the shotgun, just like I do when I pick up his damn gun.

Plenty of logic - GOTY 2007. Worth $50? Absolutely. Maybe not to you, but certainly to a lot of people.