Joystiq Podcast 059 - King of Snacks edition

No one had the balls to don the black face?

Well isn't that cute, but it's WRONGGGGGG.

Seriously, that line reminded me of that show, good times.

Best photoshop ever

holy crap that was scary to go to

Podcast 59: May not be getting paid for edition?

The guy on the right looks just like me. It's really creepy.

Question: why is the podcast still sponsored by AOE3?

From the RSS Feed:
"SPONSORED BY: Age of Empires III - Real-Time Strategy Game Control a European power on a quest to colonize and conquer the New World. AOE3 introduces new gameplay elements, as well as new civilizations, units, and technologies. http://www.ageofempires3.com/"

"I just took the "un" out of your "undead", bitch" haha

My Lord.......

Maybe Al Lowe can buy the rights to Leisure Suite Larry back! That would be great, Magna Cum Laude was horrible, and the world needs a new Larry game.

Assuming that someone nicknamed "The King of Snacks" is fat is considered... racism? Please to be explaining please?

Justin, that's so awesome that you played The Realm Online. I played that game in beta form back in the day. My friend worked at Sierra Online and was one of the programmers on it.

What happened to the quality Photoshops? Was that just one guy who stopped doing them?

How come no one ever comments on the actual podcast? Only me and Marek Hryc which is weird because that name is nearly my name...

dude! Carlton cuse! score one for the joystiq guys.

This is why we can't have nice things.

another good podcast. did anyone ask sony about mark of kri at e3.

About episodic games and TellTale criticism...

You guys are forgetting that HotHead came out with a guaranteed seller. A game (or anything) called Penny Arcade is going to sell to people automatically. When TellTale first started making Sam & Max games, it was unexplored territory. The last time anybody heard that name was over a decade ago. It wasn't a guaranteed seller. To bring it out any way other than the way that they did (with no publisher) would have been a gamble in a world where people perceive the adventure genre and market as largely dead.

Glad we can get back to the original Brush with Fame. I would again like to draw attention to the fact that I am in fact the originator of the Blue Berry Muffin Tops Revolution. Could I consider myself a cult leader? Maybe... Is that not worth a brush. plus the fact that in my email I was scrutinized for having no name when in fact my last name is Ficken and thats how I am known. I found myself looking at the facebook page smiling at the pictures of Blue Berry Muffin Tops. I was considering making an email but thought I could broaden it here. Do you guys smile when you see your self in a photoshop? Are you flattered?

hoping for an answer and a brush
Ficken

Love joystiq and really enjoy listening to the show. I try to catch the show every week and usually agree with everyone's opinion about games. This week though all of you bash Siren:Blood Curse pretty hard. If Siren was a Pinata it's entrails would be all over the ground for little children to ingest. The game was dismissed as a clunky wanna-be survival horror game with terrible one liners from bad American actors. I very much disagree! I've played 6 of the 12 episodes and i love the game. The first few levels are dark, almost claustrophobic which works really well for the survival horror genre that it is. But as night becomes morning the level of sight opens up and the visuals are pretty impressive. You play as multiple characters that all feel different and play well. I really enjoyed playing the little girl in the hospital because it was a nice change of pace because you were forced to use stealth and hide constantly from the creatures roaming the floors. Heart pounding moments.
You said you would continue to play through the game so by the time you read this I hope your opinion of the game are more positive and you could write a little bit about what the game does well (much more eloquently than me I’m sure).
I hope the podcast didn't turn people away from Siren because it's worth checking out. And play it in the dark or the atmosphere will be ruined.
Love the show,
Keep up the good work.

Dustin Burg can bite my biscuits! Long live El Justin!

Sirs, could you please cancel my subscription to ur podcats. I know longer what to enjoy ur games. Can you please tell me while I cry myself to sleep at night??

@ludwig kietzman

In Geometry Wars 2, you don't need a restart option. I've been restarting so often that it takes about 1 second to do the entire sequence:

START (bring up menu)
UP (highlight Exit)
A (Exit, brings up confirmation)
DOWN (Highlight Yes)
A (Yes, returns to game selection menu)
A (Start most recently played game type)

That's six motions/button presses.

You'd need three actions if Restart was just below Resume, and only if there's no confirmation. It becomes five if there's a confirmation.

Start
Down (Highlight Restart)
A (Press Restart)
Down (Confirmation Yes)
A (Yes)

gimme a Brush with Fame cuz I got the Surf achievement before Ludwig :P