Joystiq Podcast 041 - Army of Three edition

It's certainly preferable to his front...

(burnnn)

"Thats what she said...."

By the way Ludwig...

When are you guys going to respon our questions from last week? =p

Right you are! Justin's been fired, the category has been added, thus enabling an otherwise blind iTunes to distribute it to you all. I embedded an audio player while I was at it, just for kicks.

Why is it, anytime a couple podcasters do not like a game, instantly a couple peoples first reponse is "you don't know how to play it."

Always happens and never renders the peoples opinions invalid. After all, when the Lair guide went out, you didn't see a bunch of sites scream "Well fuck all, we've been doing it wrong guys... BACK TO THE REVIEW ROOM!"

Best thing about a review is that it's an opinion piece. It's to gather anothers opinions. If you just wanted to read what you agree with, write your own review and copy pasta it all over the web so you can point at it "all those guys agree with me..."

Teehee....

Did you even listen to the podcast? They admitted to dying a few times then never wanting to play the game again. They then complained that easy was too hard.

Its pretty obvious they didn't play the game very much at all.

So, does EA have good benefits, or what? You got dental?

No, I kid, I kid. You guys may have a point, in fact, let's talk about them.

1. For the record, I didn't have a problem with melee killz.

2. We didn't play on easy, we played on the medium level. We switched it to easy and played for all of 30 seconds on that difficulty.

I have made no bones about the fact that I'm not very good at action games. And I probably should have played on easy from the beginning. But I was trying to be Mr. Tough Mercenary. So sue me.

3. Maybe using a silenced weapon would be better. But if neither of us thought of doing that, I'm going to go ahead and say it should have been explained better. But we probably would have pieced it together eventually.

4. Hit detection isn't good. You're wrong. Sorry.

5. I just thought it was an obnoxious use of it that made it too difficult.

I think we were pretty up front about the fact that they were quibbles. But they were quibbles that added up. When you play a lot of games, you get less tolerance for this sort of thing, which is why we don't do formal reviews, just our own gut impressions of them. I'd say combined we played for about three to four hours though, is that really not enough time for a game to grab us.

I'd also say though that I wish I had hit on a few more positive things while we talked about it. We had JUST finished up a game and were still in the middle of being frustrated. Again, this is why we don't do reviews on the podcast.

I can see how you'd enjoy the game. Especially if you were in a certain mood and had a friend to play with.

Also, I love you guys, thanks for taking the time to post your thoughts.

Co are you listening to this?

Cool someone has Sound Wave as their avatar.