Joystiq Podcast 124 - Origami bazooka edition

by Justin McElroy on Jan 22nd 2010 3:00PM

We've got a packed show this week with some details on our PAX East plans, some very non-embargo breaking impressions of Mass Effect 2, a Tip of the Week, and a brand new feature called "Spoiled Rotten," where we'll have a secret chat about a game exclusively for people that have solved that particular tape. First up? Dark Void.

Thanks to the incredible Bill Mudron for the podcast art which, we're told, is comprised almost entirely of Omnigel.

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Hosts: Christopher Grant (@chrisgrant), Justin McElroy (@justinmcelroy) and Ludwig Kietzmann (@LudwigK)

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.
News:
Crispy Gamer editorial staff laid off, CEO resigns in protest
App store, and games, coming to ... Kindle
PlayStation Motion Controller's release date moves to fall 2010 (rumored to be called Arc)
NPD: DJ Hero best-selling new IP of '09, by revenue only
Mass Effect 2 Cerberus stuff: Thing 1, Thing 2

Spoiled Rotten: Dark Void

Tags: dark-void, joystiq-podcast, mass-effect-2, podcasts

Reader Comments (45)

I love that art!

"YEAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" me too.

Best artwork in awhile. I hope I see the UPS line in some game down the road.

Definitely the best art so far, the headswaps are starting to get ho-hum.

4 more days until ME2... I can't wait until it comes out so I can go back and read/listen to all the press I've been avoiding like the plague for the past 4 months!

I thought Justin usually had to go because of the Fedex guy? Or maybe I'm remembering wrong.

Goddamn I love that art. Must spend more time on the JPAG.

Words can't express.......

Should've sent for......a poet.....

That's my favorite podcast art thus far.

Well done, Internet.

Choice #4 for me.

Nice art, but from what I understood there are no 'male' asari.

Why not use Garrus for the 3rd dude? Or a Salarian?

no male asari? well then I guess their species is just as in danger as the humans'

Asari are mono-gendered. But they all have feminine characteristics, from what we've seen.

...and we've seen a lot.

"Nice art, but from what I understood there are no 'male' asari."

That's why Chris is the Asari.

Don't go to the Mass Effect Bioware forums' Asari gender topics. Scientific discussions are the norm over there, but they still can't seem to agree on anything.

alright im just going to apologize to everyone for this now but, doesn't the guy with the starfish on his head look like the guy from spongebob square pants Mermaid man.

Fuck me he does!

You can't fuck Batman, Batman fucks you.

I like your avatar pants. ENCHANTMENT!

*claps* ENCHANTMENT!

Good to see that if the whole Joystiq thing doesn't work out for him, Justin makes a pretty decent Krogan

Amazing Art on this Podcast...Never fails to impress!

Ludwig looks so good in that art...if only I were gay, I'd be all over that isht!

Natal sucks ass.

Damn Shag can I borrow that time machine?

Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, why is Bill Mudron not on staff yet as the official podcast artist? Get on it!

I hate when games count time paused in their records, too. You're not doing anything, so why even count it?

On the PS3, you can hit the PS button and go to XMB to bypass the in-game clock counting pause time in-game.

Ludwig brings up a good point about Dark Void's gameplay. They could've mixed it up like utilizing gravity the way Super Mario Galaxy does rather than tacking on shooting elements to a potentially good platformer portion of a game.

Sad to hear about ME2, I wish it would've stayed to its same formula more.

Yeah I liked how ME was a nice RPG with some action, to hear that ME2 is basically an action game is a bit disheartening.

Looks like GT is streaming the first hour of ME2 on their site on Tuesday:

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/debut-teaser-hourone/61134

Maybe we can see just how different it is before making any decisions on that.

Human eyes were not meant to look upon such magnificence. I can't believe I'm an hour late, every friday I update the main page constantly, but now I forgot : ( I am so ashamed

Motion controllers don't add another dimension to gameplay they simply distract and detract from the interraction on the screen. Putting yourself in the game and suspending disbelief is a mental experience not a physical one. I talked about this in a post before where I mentioned that the concept of using your body to control games is more a desire of people who are looking for simulations not games. And while games may contain simulation elements or vice versa overall motion controls will only distract from the gaming experience, as a simlated experience however motion controls will help.

I think it's the nature of games that the less deliberate motion in a game, the less i can be immersed in the world. Even thinking about conventional controls, button time events in God of War were a huge part of the turn off. The sex minigame motion, or every Zanghief move ever, the full circle analogue stick movement calms my boner for the solid action GoW provides.

I think gamers need to go in the opposite direction from motion control. I want my brain painfully hardwired to interface with games, controlling the action of a game with little more than electrochemical synapses.

Holy spaceballs that art is killing me.

I must say, that as soon as I saw Dark Void, and some McElroys were squealing, I had a deja vu moment. I remember a Kietzmann being similarly high pitched when previewing Iron Man the game. We all want a GOOD Rocketeer game, but maybe it won't happen until Rocksteady makes it, so be suspect of knockoffs.

The tophat zombie in Darksiders is named Wicked K and you can find him in secret spots in Twlight Cathedral, Drowned Pass, The Choking Grounds and Anvil's Ford. I can't offer any explanation for what he is and why he's there, other than he wears a top hat and jumps into one to teleport away, and the icon for the achievement "BFA" for unlocking everything is also a tophat, so it's probably not any deeper than they thought it was funny

Also i agree with ludwig, setting my TV volume on 7 for darksiders was equal to 13 for most games

Yeah I've found that guy 3 times while going around looking for all the extra stuff I've missed. I was wondering what the hell purpose he serves, other than being mildly amusing.

Like i said, considering how he seems related to the unlock all achievement, i'd wager it's just an in joke or something

Will answering that help you in some small way? Because if it will, I won't do it.

Great art this week. Loading up the show now.

Chris is the Asari? Why do I feel a strange urge to do him now?

Have you guys changed anything about the feed? Cos all of a sudden, my Android podcast app, DoggCatcher, reports a 404 response when trying to update the feed. It's worked fine till this new episode was added.

Enjoy the podcast. I think it is especially cool you have a guy who sounds almost EXACTLY like Stewey from from Family Guy!!!!!!!!!!!

God DAMN that's a hot piece of art.

Also, is Justin laughing like a lunatic after the David Cage voicemail?

ah, so sad, I can't listen because DoggCatcher and Joystiq Podcast can't just get along.

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Joystiq Podcast 124 - Origami bazooka edition

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