Joystiq Podcast 104 - PG edition

by Justin McElroy on Aug 7th 2009 3:14PM

Well, it's not live, but this new episode of the Joystiq Podcast is definitely worth your time. We've got discussion of Batman: Arkham Asylum and the Scribblenauts debacle, a special guest, a code for a free copy of Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 and the greatest email in the history of emails, so you won't want to miss that. Also, now that girls play games, we have one of those too.

So, what are you waiting for? Go feed your ear holes. Oh, and thanks to Alan Black for the totally illegal photochopping.

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Hosts: Christopher Grant, Justin McElroy and Ludwig Kietzmann

Music: "Gravity (Don't Let Me Go)" by Jon Black, "Red Eye" by Ben Kweller

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See all of this week's links (and what games we played) after the jump.
What are you playing:

Chris:
Splosion Man, Monkey Island, Mirrors Edge, TiT

Ludwig:
TiT, Tales of Vesperia, Wipeout HD Fury

Justin:
GI Joe, Tales of Monkey Island, Fallout 3, Batman

News:
Scribblenauts challenge
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Wii coming Nov. 10 [update]
Pachter on delays: Game industry not 'particularly well-coordinated'
Sony wipes out interfering ad from WipEout HD

The Big Deal: OMG Lilac PSP! Sony says 'Girlz Play Too'

Chris wants you to vote for his picture!

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Reader Comments (53)

Feeding earholes now.

Cool, my photoshop got chosen again. Listening right now.

Look at Chris and Ludwig playing with their TiTs.

I played with mine the other day. It was a good time, though I only played for a half hour and had played them out.

I havent started yet but your opinions of Arkham Asylum better be nothing but glowing praise!

I hope to express my glowing praise for your game when I get home and download it today!

OH! Fun fact:

The vents in the first area can be removed, and you can get one of The Riddler's clues from inside it!

you dont think i know that?! You dont think i played it through 5 times?!

Batman doesn't NEED to search to find the Riddler's clues. He's dealt with Nigma's shit for so long that he instinctively knows right where to find them.

He walked into the first area and said "Riddler left a clue in that vent, that god damn fucker."

He is SUCH a good multi-tasker!

I mean, I would've been focusing on the Joker and the goons trying to kill me, but Batman is always thinking of all the villains he's ever encountered ALL the time...

Got up early this morning for the live show. Well, not really early, it was almost 10, and I kinda had to get up this morning anyway. Still, going to listen to it now.

Awww, that sucks! But, at least you had breakfast?

CANDY FOR BREAKFAST?!?!?!

Not Candy! Its Reese's, for breakfast!

I just beat Tales of Vesperia and it is the first JRPG I have played this generation. Last podcast Ludwig says it is one of the few good JRPGs this generation. What are some others Ludwig? (I'm writing this before listening to the new podcast so sorry if you answer this in the podcast.)

oh and I forgot to say, I LOVED the game.

Valkyria Chronicles is awesome!

Are you looking for HD iterations? If not, Persona 4 is an awesome JRPG and it's only eight months old.

OH! Also, Eternal Sonata and The World Ends With You are two other JRPG gems!

I don't really understand this talk of 'only a handful of good JRPGs this generation.'
Couldn't the same be said for a lot of genres? How many good shooters are there compared to bad ones? How many good fighters? Geeze.

13 minutes in and it's one of the funniest podcasts yet. NOICE

Wait till you hear the ending, it's so worth it.

Dead Space Girl... reflection....

Such a shame we couldn't distract you guys from the chatroom this time.

OMG i just played the Batman demo. Fing awesome. Do want!

scrolling through the page i saw Rosie O'donell there in the corner

Chris i just played Mass Effect over again last week and i just browsed through the achievements, and i cannot recall a part where you have to disarm anyone without shooting other than using the thorian gas grenade on Feros, but there's no achievement for anything like that. What are you talking about?

oh wait you were talking about Mirror's Edge, i heard absolutely no transition for those, really confused

yeah i just listened to it again and you said "that game" after saying Mass Effect but started talking about Mirror's Edge? I think?

haha, I was totally confused by this as well. Who does the editing for goodness sake! ;-)
It was Chris, I think, who mentioned Mass Effect and then started to talk about the disarming achievement. And then Ludwig mentioned the turnstile part of the game and I was straining my brain to try to remember that part. Ugh! I finally caught on when someone mentioned the developer Dice. I had to rewind about 5 minutes to hear it again. Funny.

That last email has to be fake. It's too wonderful to be real.

OK I've been trying to enter this code for the last 10-15 minutes and I'm stumped. Either somebody already redeemed it and didn't let us know, or I'm a complete bloke who doesn't understand a British accent. Either way, would somebody post the code after they figure it out so I can see where I went wrong?

Love the podcast, it always starts my weekend off right!

Yep, I agree, please do post the code as I haven't been able to get it entered either, have tried multiple variations.

Apparently you guys missed the news that the Fallout 3 Game of the Year edition has already been announced. They announced it when they announced the DLC would be coming for the PS3. Coming in Rocktober.
http://fallout.bethsoft.com/eng/home/pr-051909.php

Still a great show! :) Keep it up.

That was my first Stiq podcast. Great show. Thanks.

The ending just about had me in tears. I'm not sure that it's real, but still outrageously funny.

Oh yeah, was a little disappointed not to hear the Tip of the Week sound that I sent in, but it is different than any other sounder people have made. And perhaps Justin doesn't want to have to listen to that on a regular basis. I had started on it back with the "Is it real or fake" Nintendo game and had the thought that his laugh had to be useful for something.

I think someone already used the code...
If it's been used it says invalid as well...
I came up with:
F8MRQ-DX9VS-R9FKX-9FDYB-328MQ

But oh well, have fun everyone.

Oh, And awesome podcast guys.

OK, I'm glad someone came up with the same thing I had

I tried every possible combination for the last half hour... so yeah..
if the code was already used and I got it right at some try, it would've said "code already used"
wonderfull....

No I've had free code giveaways before, and if i'm late to the party, and try to type them in they always say "please enter a valid code"

Thanks for another one guys! Appreciate it!

@Justin: Early in the show you mentioned that you were not going to waste anyone's time by continuing to talk about the new Batman game that no one else has had a chance to play yet. This was shortly after the 4th week of yet another 30 minute plus discussion on a 20 year old game.

Ok, maybe you didn't talk about Monkey Island THAT long this week, but I think you're picking up what I'm putting down. You're in a unique position to get this review games, and I'd much rather hear you talk about the hot new stuff instead of the same thing week after week. I think George Washington said it best when he said, "Remember Petey, with great power comes great responsibitity."

it's pointless to talk about new stuff if it all sucks...

That tip you closed the show on was classic. You guys had me rolling...

I liked it so much I cut it out and tossed it on youtube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDOFcWQ7n6Q

...Hope that's cool! Fantastic episode.

incredible episode. listened while I played CoD and SFIV. i was really surprised to hear two of my voicemails this week! thanks guys and keep up the good work.

I will not defend Star Ocean's story, but everything Ludwig said about Tales's combat I think could apply to Star Ocean. The combat is pretty fun in Star Ocean, and it is real time.

Hey guys, regarding that last email, I found this using google

http://boards.ign.com/wii_sports/b10567/183354734/p1/

apparently Joystiq isn't the first who got this.

I am ashamed in you Joystiq. I thought it was fairly obvious that it was a joke.
Still, great podcast, and the fact that it was a joke didn't make it any less funny.

Ohhhhh man... This podcast is awesome. Thanks again for another great week. :D

Did anyone use the code at the end of the show?

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