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Welcome to Destructoid, I'm Tara Long and I'm MaxScoville. Happy Wednesday, Max.
Happy Gamescom week.
Yeah the cool thing that just we're not at right now.
This awesome stuff that's all happening in Europe and we're not there. It sucks.
You know what is happening here though?
The mad flavoring in ya ear, I don't know.
That's also news.
News?
I wanna go first, I wanna go first.
OK you can go.
Before we get on to the bigger stuff today, there have been some interesting developments
in the Notch versus Bethesda lawsuit, Notch just posted a blog on his Tumblr this morning
with the subject line, "Hey Bethesda, let's settle this", where he proceeded to challenge
Bethesda to a Quake battle for the right to use the word Scrolls in his upcoming game,
sounds familiar anyone?Geohot, Sony, no?
Ah, yeah.
He wrote on his blog quote, "3 of our best warriors against 3 of your best warriors,
we select one level, you select the other, we randomize the order, 20 minute matches,
highest total frag count per team across both levels wins. If we win you drop the lawsuit,
if you win we'll change the name of Scrolls to something you're fine with.
Man, I really wish this would work if Bethesda wasn't run by a bunch of lawyers who have
no sense of humor, unfortunately I do not see this panning out much the same way that
Sony did not challenge Geohot back to a rap battle, that will be highlight of my day though.
If Bethesda was cool they would have done stuff with Squid Bears or like reacted to
something that I said, because I've been like SkyRim, SkyRim, OH! And they don't care.
They don't do ***.
The guy on Saints Row pay attention to me so I like them but We're going to talk about
that later.
We'll get back to that.
But lets gets on to hands down most important news of the day, Borderlands 2 just got an
official teaser trailer, it shows one of the new huskier characters, Salvador The Gunzerker,
shooting what appears to be giant robots in front of a wintrey, mountainous background,
it's pretty short you know because it's a teaser trailer but if you look closely you'll
notice that he's actually dual wielding, some type of make shift guns, one looks like it
has a machine gun, looks like a machine gun with a flash light for a scope and the other
one looks like it has a bottle strapped to it, I have no idea what that means, Gearbox
is going to be incorporating like weapons customization this time round but lets hope
so 'cuz I think that would actually add a really neat element to the game, also we just
got hold of 4 brand new screen shots this morning, another showing Salvador Kicking
some *** in the snow.
I don't know what kind of creatures those are, but there's also one that shows more
robots. Except I have absolutely no idea what's happening in this picture, like what's the
big guy in the background, who knows. They've also got one showing of a first person perspective
with some type winged creatures and a huge guy out there to the left again, don't know
what he's doing.
And last but not least, you've got the stand alone salvador, which isreally not all that
interesting, but at the very least you can laugh at him for having weirdly tiny legs.
Because seriously, he looks like a midget.
Yeah.
So, from these screenshots,we can at least get a glimpse of some of the different enemies
they're going to be offering in Borderlands 2. Is there anything that you thought was
missing from the first game? Are you a big fan?
I'm really excited to see more enemies besides the guy with the mask and then the different
color guy with the mask and then the dog.
There was scags also.
Scags. Yeah I thought it was - that's a really - that's a great teaser, it's like they video
about this months Game Informer cover.
Zing.
Yeah.
Anyway we're going to have more Borderlands 2 info this Friday and also next week at Pac,
you should click that little button right there above Max's head to the left where it
says subscribe, so you don't miss anything. Now if Borderlands aren't your thing,what
about chainsaws and lollipops, because I have a trailer showing them.
If you recall back in July, Suda 51, otherwise known as that weird I'm sorry, eclectic. Japanese
video game developer, he announced his newest mindfuck, "Lollipop Chainsaw", which is the
game about a cheerleader with a chainsaw with hearts in it, who slices zombies in half and
then, like, twirls her hair and probably says something like, "He he he.
Masher is hard." I have no idea. It's been kind of hard to get excited about this game,
I'll be honest, just because screenshots don't really do it for me. Fortunately a trailer
dropped a couple of days ago, and it's safe to say I'm interested. It basically shows
the cheerleader, Juliet Starling, is her name.
Who, by that way, you can follow on twitter @julietstarling.
Oh, great.
She mostly tweets PR stuff, it's kind of weird.
Yeah, what do you say?
But she's running around a high school that's infested with zombies. Her chainsaw, you know,
has hearts carved into the blade and when she cuts people with it, a lot of blood spatters
out, and then there's some rainbows, which adds a nice Lisa Frank element to things.
Nice. It's Suda 51. Yup.
It also has her saying some pretty corny stuff, like "I'm dead ***," and "Bring it
fat ***." That's actually what her voice sounds like, I just really realizing I'm doing a
pretty good impression of her. Anyway, it looks pretty interesting visually, but I do
wonder if, you know, just the one chainsaw weapon will make the combat get boring after
a while. What are your thoughts on that?
Well, I'm actually playing Suda 51's "No More Heroes", the HD Hero's Paradise game.
Oh yeah, you played that on Max Factor.
Yeah, I was on that last night and it's, you know you're slicing up a lot of stuff, and
I think they may keep it interesting, I'm curious to see - I'm worried that by Hollywood
being involved with James Gunn as the screen writer and having kind of a - it looks like
they Americanized the Suda 51 game.
You think it's gonna be too cliche?
Not cliche but more like a...
Too intentionally campy.
Yeah, kind of.
Okay, I see what you're saying.
It kind of looks Grindhouse crossed with SuckerPunch.
I thought it looked a lot like Killbill actually, just like the extreme blood and gore but with
the still like, you know, cute girl doing it, I don't know, I'll stop talking now.
Girls.
Anyway right now, there's a lot of news coming out of Gamescom right now, the European thing
that we're not at cause we're at California and we're undoubtedly going to be covering
more on Friday's show, but here's a roundup in the mean time of some of the cool ***
they're showing off. First, we got a trailer for DOTA 2 which really kind of reminds me
of Beginning of Aladdin, but kind of crossed with a guidance counselor.
He's just like, welcome to Agra-bah, what manner of hero would you be? I make you strong
like warrior, swift like Jackrabbit, your test results shows you scored very high for
sentinel intelligence.
That's like Mulan actually if anything.
That was like every Disney voice i've heard for, anyway, it's a cool little teaser, intro
trailer. And if you actually want game play footage of DOTA 2 they've been live streaming
the competition with commentary in four languages, so if you can't find anything of that on youtube,
there's something wrong with you and you shouldn't be near computers.
Next we got some new gameplay of Battlefield 3 showing off the Caspian Border map, we know
that Battlefield 3 looks really *** crazy good, and we known that a while, however most
of what they've showed us so far has been guys on the ground and in a desert. Which
pretty much means dudes shouting and brown stuff everywhere.
The new video has trees! which make it look really I think more exciting, more colorful.
And in addition to that there are fighter jets, and there are jeeps, and there are tanks,
and there are helicopters, and there's actually even a little tiny robot, that's kinda cute,
which is weird in a Battlefield 3 trailer.
I mean personally I don't really like military shooters because I always just get killed
immediately, but there's a shot of all these jeeps just hauling *** in the battle and tanks
driving in together. And it just looks like, it looks pretty fun and I kind of want to
play that. So that's a cool teaser.
Anyway there's also trailer for Mass Effect 3 which shows the gang running around and
shooting stuff like they do. And Commander Shepard totally stabs a dude with his Optimus
Prime lightsaber hand thing.
There 's improved mele combat. That's a big, big feature in this game. You can actually
like, you know, kick some ***. Then things get really interesting because they fight
a guy in a robot suit. He has like really strong shields and they have to break down
the shields and then throw a grenade in the cockpit with him.
Boom, that happened. I like is a robot suit and I want them in my life so I'm gonna play
that at Packs and you guys should stay tune for more info. There's also the gameplay trailer
of Soul Caliber 5 showing off some returning characters as well as some new ones. There
is that one guy with the sword and then there's the chick with the ***.
That's her given name.
Right. That one, what's curious is this game takes place like 20 years after the previous
one and Ivy is still super hot. I mean if she wasn't like, and she still dress like
she does and I mean really, if she wasn't in like such a good shape it would be kinda
inappropriate for a woman in her 50s to dress like that.
Unless she's a cougar.
She might be a cougar. Unconfirmed rumor. Other returning characters include Hildy,
***, Nightmare, Tierra and Voldo. And also, get this, when you search Soul Calibur 5,
one of the first results is the episodes of this show where I got mad at the first Soul
Calibur 5 trailer for not having enough *** in it.
I'm retarded.
And that's what people see when they watch our show.
Yeah, journalism.
Finally we got some game play from Devil May Cry 5 or DMC. You know the one where Dante
looks like an emo kid. Dumbed down.
The new game takes place in a contemporary setting, but the world is not as it seems.
The creatures in this world their truth is a lie, their city is an illusion, do not accept
their world as it seems. Yeah so watch where you're walking on the sidewalk might come
to life or try to eat you. The game looks like Devil May Cry gameplay, the fans should
probably know and love even if the main character doesn't look like the Dante they know and
love, personally I think that Dante looks like a complete *** either way, so you
guys can get mad at me for saying that, hold on, can we get a picture of me on the screen,
hello anyone?
Yeah let me fix my hair, let me fix my hair.
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So without the recent total blue about price drop and other such hootenannies, what better
time for Sony to announce a $50 price drop for the PS3, this exciting... Bulletin came
at the end of Sony's Gamescom press conference that I and Max was at yesterday where it was
broken down via Power Point presentation, this shows the new price of $249 or 249 if
you live in Europe which kinda sucks because that actually equates to about 360 U.S. dollars
or 24,980 yen if you're in Japan.
I think that's about 340 bucks?And that pricing is effective immediately, unsurprisingly the
same analyst who encourage Sony to drop the price of PS Vita just last week, has already
responded positively to the PS3 price drop industry analyst Michael Pachter who we talked
about like...
The Fudge Pachter.
... Probably once a week on the show, we're making fun of him. He told GameSpot that Sony
made a bold move by cutting the price of the PS3 before Microsoft had a chance to do the
same with the Xbox360. He also predicted that Sony may see anywhere from a 20-30% jump in
PS3 sales as a result which I thought sounded kinda extreme but hey I'm no analyst.
Attention Ye Old Xbox owners, does the $50 price drop quit your interest in the PS3?
Let us know in the comments.
Hear ye, Hear ye! remember how expensive it was when it first began.
Yeah, back in the day.
Those were the good old days.
OK Tera stop talking about things with numbers in them, it's time for me to talk about Saints
Row the 3rd which I've been biting my tongue about for the better part of a week now, and
the embargo is finally up and I can tell you guys about it. It kicks ***. Ok, the demo
I got to play was basically free rain over the south west corner of steel port, I wasn't
doing any missions, I was just *** around which is what you do in Sandbox games, so
I'm really glad that was the case and I wasn't you know going to object or anything?
Right off the bat I wanna say this game looks incredible, if you've seen screens or videos
of it you already know this but actually experience it first hand I can say that compare to Saints
Row 2, the third looks like a different generation of consoles, in terms of gameplay everything's
pretty familiar but with little tweaking, if you sprint at an opponent and press the
attack button, you would do an elaborate take down move like a leap frog suplex thing and
this is just more fun than walking punching them in the face which is still fun but regular
melee has been tweaked too, it takes a little bit more coordination compared to Saints Row
2, their on screen cues that will appear for buttons to hit while you're fighting somebody.
If you played the Fight Club activity in Saints Row 2, this will be pretty similar. Every
weapon you can equip also has a unique melee attack associated with it, and I believe all
these melee attacks are actually nut shots. Like, you know when you punch someone in the
groin because that's funny. They made up a bunch of different ones of that.
Speaking of weapons, my God they're wonderful. The ***, is really fun, as you can see.
You would.
You can *** *** up with that ***. You can break car windows.
Man, that thing has a massive head. Excuse me for saying so.
No, it really, it's very large and the physics are incredible, too. That's the ***. One
weapon lets you paint a target for an airstrike, and then take people out by dropping missiles
at them. It's like one of the cheapest weapons I've seen in a game in a very long time. I
think it's really, what's the word, fun as ***.
There's also the reaper drone, which is like a little remote controlled airplane that lets
you launch missiles from a bird's eye view. It's kind of like the whole, you know, Modern
Warfare like gritty IR vision. But you can also take control of the missile yourself
and guide it, and you can use the left and right triggers to slow down or accelerate
the missile, it's fun.but not as fun as the Professor Genki Mollusk launcher which is
a pre-order bonus, it shoots talking Japanese Octopi and if you shoot someone in the face
with an octopus, it will take over their brain and they will become your ally for a little
while and they will, you know, join you in the fight.
You can also detonate the octopus and it will explode shooting rainbows and sparkles everywhere.
I'm not making this *** up, the weapon system has been tweaked and each weapon has upgrades
now so you can change how much ammo it has, the rate of fire, add a laser sight, stuff
like that, as opposed to buy like, you know, five different shotguns.
In Saints Row 2 you had to complete activities to earn respect to play story missions. In
the third, you can do story missions whenever you want. Completing activities still earns
you respect, but that respect is use to purchase upgrades so like more HP or fire resistance
or cool outfits for your gang like ninja costumes or whatever.
The driving at Saints Row the 3rd has been tweaked pretty extensively, if you guys think
back and remember the first time you play GTA4, yeah and you tried to drive, and the
cars all handled like little tiny hovercrafts and you were just like, what the *** am I
doing? Well, Saints Row the 3rd is the opposite of this.
The cars all drive you want cars to drive, and this time if you push down on the handbrake
it doesn't actually make you stop. It just kind of makes your turns really tight, which
is a, basically is a button to make you can drive like a bad *** so that's really fun.
On top of that the stream line, the navigation system's been stream lined so if you got your
way point on the map, and you're following that there will the arrows in the game, kind
of crazy taxi style, guiding you where to go so you don't have to keep checking your
mini map.
This is good to kind of give you a sense of where things are in Steel Port. Also, if you
need you get into a car, you can do so by sprinting at it and then just jumping, karate
kicking through the window, which is really just hilarious. I drove the Gatmobile which
is Johnny Gat's big head as a car with a cigarette sticking out of it, the cigarette is a flame
thrower, there's also of course the Professor Ganguee's manapult, which drives over people
and they go shrrr, and you shoot them out of the top like a cannon.
I mean we've seen this before but I can tell you it works, it's amazing. You can also launch
yourself out and then parachute down. It holds six pedestrians at a time. And the shrrr noise
is actually really satisfying. Finally, this screenshot just surfaced which makes me really,
really happy. You see that?
That's a *** hover bike. I mean, we've seen the hover jet, but that's a hover bike.
I want a hover bike.
Holy ***. They're here. They're finally here.
Anyway, playing a sandbox game for half an hour is a little like being in a candy stop
and having your mom go, "You can pick out 2 things", I wish I could've play more, I
need to play more, I really I don't think this game is going to disappoint anyone. It's
really fun. The octopus cannon alone makes it worth pre-ordering.
Wink, wink. And if you want more you can go check out Holmes's preview over on Destructoid.com.
And be sure to check out my full interview with the game's writer, Drew Holmes, which
is up on our YouTube channel. Saints Row the 3rd comes out November 15th for 360, PS3 and
PC, it is rated D for ***.
So now that you've actually got to play it and you've like released all of your pent
up, you know, *** tension, or whatever, for this game. Do we have to talk about it
anymore until November 15th?
Oh yeah, of course. No, I've got raging blue balls, so.
How much more can they release about this game? We've seen so many trailers.
There's things that I've found out that I cannot tell you about. So, there's some top
secret stuff that's about all for our show today, actually.
Yeah.
Reminder for you guys. You should tune into the Destructoid Twitch TV channel tomorrow
night. I'm going to be guest hosting on Mash Tactics with Mister John Carnage, and he's
gonna have one of the guys from Supergiant Games Skyping in to talk about Bastion. So
that's Thursday, August 18th at 4 p.m. Pacific time.
7 P.M. Eastern on Twitch.tv/destructoid.
That's twice in one week for you... Yeah it's a busy week. And don't forget that
there's a Friday at the end of this week, go figure. Right before the weekend is between
the Thursday and the weekend and that means that we're going to have a live show and it's
our last live show before we go to Packs next week. So, tune in and get uncensored us making
jokes about our producer who gets mad at us and lots of fun contests.
Oh, yeah, we've already got a contest set up actually, it's gonna be quite exciting.
So, 3:30 p.m. tune into that. And if you have a habit of forgetting, cause hey, even I do,
sometimes,you should follow us onTwitter. I'm @TaraLongest and he's @MaxScoville and
@DToidShow because we post reminders about our Friday live shows and also sometimes gifs
of pterodactyl having sex. About...
Or for instance I found a place in my apartment where my cat has been peeing and I try to
cover up with a body spray.
I've read that this morning. Anyway, see you guys on Friday.
See you Friday. Oh my god.