The Geekbox: Episode 42

[Rydog]

Happy post-Thanksgiving podcast -- the whole crew's back together for this one after last week's three-man outing. Don't forget to Digg, and review on iTunes!

[LiQuid]

Bout time, jeez.

[W0lfbl1tzers]

Bout time, jeez.

I know right?!

[darfox8]

For Master Higgins!!!

The PS3 is better than the 360... FACT

Naw just kidding but I'm glad your rethinking your Sony boycott or whatever you were on. I think the PS3 launch was alot better than the 360 launch. (Oh and the PS3 is really good for watching anime.)

[lemon-fresh]

For Master Higgins!!!

I think the PS3 launch was alot better than the 360 launch.

Sarcasm right?

[LiQuid]

LOL Of course! But it was the best kind of sarcasm, so excused!

[darfox8]

Well whatever, educate me. I think the geekbox forums has been pretty free from console-fanboy-flame battles so I'd hate to introduce the only one ever.

To me it came down to (1)Resistance 1 being better then Perfect Dark Zero and (2)the PS3 not breaking like the 360 was breaking. Obviously that is a very narrow view of things. For one, I never played PGR or Condemned which where suppose to be pretty good. And I didn't love Geometry War as much as everyone else(but I can recognize). And Gundam CrossFire was pretty god awful for the PS3. Generally I feel the PS3 launch wasn't great but people judged it far more harshly than the 360 launch. Part of that was justified and appropriate because this box was coming to market with an already healthy competitor, but alot of it felt like the 360 already used up all the "launch goggles" a year ago. So there was none left to cover up the PS3 short comings as they did the 360 a year ago.

This is really just my perspective, I'm not trying to spread this out as some undeniable truth. Also, the only reason I brought it up was because Master Higgins said that he wasn't going to get a PS3 because of what he heard of "Sony's business practices" and how they "botched the launch". I was like "WTF". Microsoft also has some fucked up business practices and the 360 launch was also fucked up.

[achickenchaser]

The Playstation 3's fucked up launch came down to one thing for me: Six hundred dollars. How delusional do you have to be to think that's gonna sale to the masses? I guess when you've had the success Sony has over the PS1 and PS2 eras, you start thinking you can do no wrong.

Having said that, I plan on finally buying a PS3 sometime next year. I don't care about console loyalty or any of this fanboy war nonsense.

[Callan]

On the subject of tryptophan, there is not enough tryptophan in turkey (or other foods such as cheese, fish, other meats) to actually have effects. Sleepiness during Thanksgiving is attributed to the fact that you stuffed your face full of food and sat around watching hand egg.

[IRL_Troll]

I'm glad someone else understands that handegg is a far more proper term for "american football." I don't have PS3 or a 360 yet because of this damned thing called money. So, I'll stick with PC gaming and Wii, their games are still $50.
If enough money magically rolls in, I'll gladly get them, but as far as exclusives, Uncharted 2, Last Guardian and LBP aren't enough to justify a PS3.

[SexyJosh]

Love the podcast! It was great to have the whole crew back on together again.

Only thing that didn't sit right with me was the blatant lie that Ryan Scott isn't in Blizzard's pocket. I mean, it's soooo obvious you hate any game whose name can't be turned into a three letter exclamation/acronym. On top of that, the proof is in this picture that was taken a while back at an undisclosed location:



Twin "super" models, Blizzard bucks and all. You should be ashamed of yourself good sir. A...shamed.

[LiQuid]

Well whatever, educate me. I think the geekbox forums has been pretty free from console-fanboy-flame battles so I'd hate to introduce the only one ever.

Jesus Fucking Christ Almighty. You weren't kidding? I don't even know what to say right now. Not only are you stupid, but you just just introduced the first ever console-fanboy-flame battle in the history of the Geekbox fora.

[GiantAsianMan]

Random thoughts from the episode:

-SecretAsianMann and I are indeed two different people. There's no secret to my Asian-ness; I look like a regular Asian, only bigger.

-I recommend watching Star Trek with the commentary. I usually don't listen to commentary tracks because most of them are boring as hell (except the commentary for The Goonies, which is director Richard Donner and the entire cast and is an absolute must watch), but I enjoyed Star Trek's.

-As a life long band dork, Mike's story about playing football against the marching band didn't surprise me one bit (well, except for the part about having their own jerseys - that's just ridiculous). Banders tend to have a complex when it comes to playing the sports they usual perform at, namely football and basketball. We want to be really good (by pickup game standards) so as to perhaps justify our presence on the sidelines/in the stands at real games playing instruments (which it doesn't do, but we talk ourselves into it). That makes us needlessly ultra-competitive in sports, which (usually) only leads to heated arguments and injuries, like broken arms, cracked ribs, and ruptured Achilles tendons. Good times!

-Staying on the topic of football, as a huge sports fans (and especially of football), I've come to hate the Madden games. The games now add so much crap that is supposed to make it feel like you're actually playing football or something like that, I just don't find that enjoyable. I think the last Madden game I owned was Madden '96 on the Super Nintendo. It was basic, simple, and fun. The replay-ability was off the charts. But once the games started shifting the focus from how the game played to how the game looked (around 1999 or 2000), they went downhill. In my dorm during my first year in college, we had the latest NFL 2K game on PlayStation (back before EA bought the NFL) and Madden '93 on Sega Genesis; I don't think we ever played NFL 2K. All old-school Madden, all the time.

-Finally, what the hell is with all of the "end of the decade" crap I see/hear everywhere? Decades end on 10, not 9. Yes, I get that "decade" refers to any 10-year span, but then this year would make the end of *A* decade, not the end of *THE* decade, which isn't all that exciting (because that makes every year "the end of a decade" since every year is 10 years from when it was 10 years prior). No, decades run from 1-10 otherwise the "first" decade in the AD calendar (where there is no "year 0") would've only had 9 years in it, and thus not making it a decade at all.

[Master Higgins]

Right, this is the whole "the 21st century stars in 2001, not 2000" argument again.

People r dumb.

[Master Higgins]

Only thing that didn't sit right with me was the blatant lie that Ryan Scott isn't in Blizzard's pocket. I mean, it's soooo obvious you hate any game whose name can't be turned into a three letter exclamation/acronym. On top of that, the proof is in this picture that was taken a while back at an undisclosed location:



Twin "super" models, Blizzard bucks and all. You should be ashamed of yourself good sir. A...shamed.

You win life. Seriously.

[darfox8]

Jesus Fucking Christ Almighty. You weren't kidding? I don't even know what to say right now. Not only are you stupid, but you just just introduced the first ever console-fanboy-flame battle in the history of the Geekbox fora.

[Mr_eX]

but as far as exclusives, Uncharted 2, Last Guardian and LBP aren't enough to justify a PS3.

PS3 only has 3 exclusives?

[SexyJosh]

You win life. Seriously.

Dude, I just want to be like Ryan Scott when I grow up. Also, don't make me dredge up photos of you!

[W0lfbl1tzers]

How about this, People have opinions and they like certain things. Some say that cucumbers taste better pickled(I do). Are they wrong for their opinion? No. You want to know why? Because its a fucking opinion and not a dispute about whether or not that is George Washington on the American one dollar bill. You are disputing whether his personal taste is factually wrong, which is completely mind boggling.

[lemon-fresh]

Who was saying someone's opinion is factually wrong again?