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Welcome to Destructoid.
I'm Tara Long.
And I'm Max Scoville. Here we are again.
Happy Friday.
It is a happy Friday.
Welcome to our Friday Fun Day...
We're live.
...Show, Live Thing. That's the official name of it.
We're live. We're live right now. We're feelin' so alive.
I heard some good news broke right before this.
Some big news. Conveniently right before we were done writing the script. Just a few hours
ago, Valve made a big announcement and it looks like there's a new Counterstrike game
that's going to be available next year. It's called Counterstrike Global Offensive or CS
Go as people are all ready calling it and it's going to be a multi-platform release
as in PC and Mac via Steam as well as XPLA and PSM.
It's going to have new weapons, maps, characters as well as some updated versions of old favorites.
I think De Dust, D E Dust I don't know how to say it. You guys have weird underscores
in your names. That was an example given. It's being developed by Valve along with Hidden
Path Entertainment, the guys who worked on CS Source.
You want to hear the best part? It's going to be playable at Pax Prime and Euro Gamer.
So that sneaky Gabe Newell fellow is awfully sneaky. And we should have more on that as
it comes up, but that just came out a few hours ago so...
That's actually pretty exciting . .
That's pretty cool . . .
We use to have Counterstrike 2 tournaments at my old job after work and I consistently
kicked peoples ***. . .
I don't believe that at all, no. . .
...when they got up to go to the bathroom.
Oh, okay, there we go. So, more excitingly, this morning I got to play Saints Row the
Third. Now, let me tell you, I really wish that I could talk about it, but it's embargoed
until next week so I can't really say a whole lot.
You're such a tease.
Luckily we do have this video showing off the second mission of the game, which is recent
and fresh. A quick refresher: Saints Row the Third starts with the Saints running Stillwater.
They are celebrities. They have energy drinks named after them. and they are ballsy. The
first mission consists of you robbing a bank with your gang dressed up in Johnny Gat masks.
That's Johnny Gat, one of your buddies, so he's wearing a mask of himself, that's pretty
ballsy and they're going to airlift the vault out of the bank with a helicopter. The plan
kind of backfires because it turns out the bank is run by a giant multinational organization
called the Syndicate, and that's where things get interesting.
In this new trailer, Phillipe Loren, the head of the Syndicate, kidnaps the Saints, that's
you and Shaundi and Gat, and is holding you at gunpoint point on a plane and of course
the logical solution in this situation is to shoot your way out of the plane and beat
people up, punching them in the crotch along the way and then jumping out of the back of
plane and dodging dudes and shooting dudes and dodging burning wreckage in mid-air because
that totally makes sense.
Then of course - of course! - the plane decides to swoop around and ram you in mid-air. So
what do you do? You shoot out the windshield and you dive through the *** plane. That
is one mission. I We want to tell you more about this game, but I can't yet. So, it's
probably going to be Wednesday's show when we talk about it.
If you guys have not checked out the first two Saints Row games, I highly recommend it.
You can pick up a two-pack of them on Amazon for twenty bucks so if you're chomping at
the bit for the third, it's a couple of months so would recommend doing this.
You must have had a fun morning huh?
Oh, it was great, it was awesome.
Yeah, well I'm actually kind of glad that we reported on Saints Row the Third, first
because it's all downhill from there. Don't say that. It's literally the most exciting
thing we have to talk about today. Starting with Google+ games. They say sometime in the
next few days now we should be getting that magical games button at the top of our G+
profiles, that allow us to play games, see games updates from our friends, browse invites
that you proceed and check out our achievements.
Now, I'll admit I'm a little wary of this. I dabbled in Facebook games which don't exactly
where you get praise for being revolutionary in the industry, in fact I'm pretty sure I've
referred to them as soul-sucking time wasters on this show before but...
Uh huh...
I'm willing to give Google Google Plus games a shot. They've already got a handful of launch
titles including all the predictable ones you would expect like Angry Birds. They've
got Bejeweled Blitz, Sudoku, which is a personal favorite, Zynga Poker, they've got a bunch
of single titles and Dragon Age Legends. There is 16 right now, I'm sure that number is gonna
increase by end of the day.
In fact, Zynga's probably interviewing and hiring people, like, right this second. So
get on that. Even though a lot of the games are the same, between GPlus games and Facebook
games, GPlus games are supposed to be better because your games stream on GPlus is completely
separate from your main activity feed so you won't get bombarded with updates about so-and-so
you haven't seen in six years reaching level 50 in Mafia Wars, because oh, my God, who
cares?
Oh my God, do you wanna play Allies and Enemies? Ha ha ha. Your impression of people. I play
Zinger. If you have GooglePlus and you haven't seen the logo on the top of your screen yet,
don't worry, they're rolling it out gradually so your time will come. In the meantime, here's
a promo video that Google released for their games.
Oh, yeah.
And look at all those smiling faces. It's like a Nintendo commercial isn't it.
God, they're having a blast there.
Except nobody actually looks happy while playing social games. I should know, your eyes just
gloss over and then you go into this weird, trance like state almost like highway hypnotism
and then your hand starts to cramp up a little bit and then a feeling of hopeless washes
over you.
Oh shh, Tara.
I mean it's fun for a while you know, but it gets old is what I'm saying.
Yeah, I can understand it. We've actually got a question, a comment Dark Inner Essence,
no, that was a different one,I won't answer that.The Clip Cult said, "why is Google Plus
getting news when they aren't that good?" Because it's Google and they could..
It's video games.
They could shoot us out of this studio with their space laser if they felt like it.
Yeah, even if you don't personally like them, millions literally Millions everywhere still
play it.
Moms everywhere do, and we love moms. Digitalspoon said, "Never played Saints Row, always thought
of it as a GTA clone." I felt the same way. It's like every thing fun about GTA across
with everything that's not girlie about the Sims. So you basically make a guy who looks
like you and they you go *** out of hookers, so...go nuts.
Win win.
Yeah, right?
You want to talk about our next game for a little bit?
Let's talk about that.
I'll man the chat.
You can man the...yes, there are men in the chat. One game we have not talked about a
whole lot is "Fable: The Journey," and that's probably because it's a connect game. We should
be talking about it though, because since it's an unreleased Fable game, it will undoubtedly
be a work of sheer innovative brilliance, unlike the previous Fable games which lost
all their appeal after being released.
And don't get mad at me. I'm just paraphrasing what Peter Molyneux said in the past. So Fable
the Journey is a connect game. It's magical and whimsical. And when it was shown off at
E3, there was a lot of backlash because it looked very much like an on-rails game. Molyneux
commented on this before and said that it was not on rails, but that "the navigation
system in the E3 demo has been removed." Now it looks like...Oh, sorry, wrong voice.
Now it looks like the kinds of attack in Journey are going to be limited. Here's a quote from
Peter Molyneux. "We could have done melee weapons, but the one thing I hate about melee
weapons and guns is, well, is that the human brain is encoded to expect recoil from those
things. The thing about magic is there's nothing encoded in your mind about how it should feel.
So no guns and no swords." So basically you just cast spells by waving your arms at stuff.
Peter Molyneux himself was unavailable for comment further so we consulted with Peter
Molyneux II or Peter Molydeux on Twitter. Here's my favorite: "You play as a granddad.
You can only interact with your grandchildren by playing a saxophone, which is required
to escape a dream like castle." That's so innovative.
Oh my God, you should really follow him. Everything he says is just pure innovation.
He sounds very tender.
Yes, he's...yeah. Anyway, the Fable games are very cool. I don't mean to make fun of
them. I just find the stuff that Peter Molyneux says to be pretentious and whimsical. Can
you guys imagine Peter Molyneux saying this stuff, like, if he wasn't a game designer?
Like, imagine another job in which Peter Mollineaux could say these things and I will do a dramatic
reenactment of it in just a moment.
Wave your arms.
Before you do that, Veladouin says, "Please say skyrim. I think it is the hottest word
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Yeah, this from Target, it's not fancy. Anyway, we're all familiar with Origin, right, EA's
downloadable game service? Nobody's really been too keen on the idea of it up until now
but at least we can console ourselves by saying "You know, whatever, I just won't download
games from EA anymore, I'll just buy them." Well guess what guys, EA is making us look
the fool!
As it turns out even if you buy a retail copy of Battlefield 3 for the PC, you're going
to need the Origin service running on your computer to play the game. That news came
courtesy of the BF3Blog. com who hasn't confirmed yet whether or not you'll also need the service
if you buy the game from a different downloadable games website like Direct2Drive, they have
a whole bunch of them.
Although they suspect that is the case. And frankly, I wouldn't be all that surprised
at this point if they saw a lot fewer people buying this game on PC. And then again, if
your PC is actually good enough to run Battlefield 3, memory issues probably aren't a problem
for you anyway.
So, speaketh to us, community. I want to know, has this affected your decision on whether
or not to buy Battlefield 3 for PC? Does Origin really deserve all this hate that we seem
to give it every episode? Leave us comments in the chat.
Please, let's us know.
Do people have opinions on it yet?
People mostly just want to hear me talk about Skyrim.
Yeah.
I wish, there is no Skyrim news at the moment, I don't think. dragons are still cool. Skyram
is still awesome.
We usually try to..
If I were to have sex with a video game character, Mr. Gunner two two six asked me that. If I
would have sex with any video game character I could not choose one. I would have sex with
a bunch of them. Don't make that face at me. Okay, okay. Here, we're just I know the Batman...
I'm just a damaged control here.
I know the Batman game that everyone is excited for is Arkham City but you might also want
to pay attention to Gotham City Impostors. It's the multi-player, first person shooter
where you play as rival gangs dressed up as Batman or the Joker and it's not quite as
serious as previous Batman titles.
Of course, by not quite as serious, you have weapons such as bear traps and electrified
garden gnomes. So think like Team Fortress 2 except with Batman and rollerskates. Tara
and I got to play it at E3 and it was pretty fun. I'm absolute *** at competitive..
Hey me too.
first person shooters, but I thought it was kind of goofy and colorful like playing, you
know, Batman Nerf guns with retards or something. It's going to be a downloadable title for
XPLA sent in PC, and it's coming out like early next year. But, fortunately, there is
a closed beta starting next month.
So you can go to Gotham City Impostors.com/ Beta and sign up. Do you guys like this game?
Do you want to play the game?
Time for Peter Molynan impression!
Peter Molynan impression! which, what, what, Nobody really said anything about Thank you,
gentlemen.
You guys are terrible in our chat.
Bank teller!
Okay, go for Okay. Oh, you, you'd like to make a withdrawal, would you? Are you sure
you wouldn't like this hundred dollars in Sacagawea coins, they're much, much more old
fashioned and very magical in a sense. They look like gold coins.
Feeling a little uncomfortable right now.
Okay, I don't know.
We should move on.
What was that?
Sandwich maker!
Okay.
Would you like the pepperoncinis? You could have the pepperoncinis on your sandwich. I
know it's a ranch chicken sandwich, but try the pepperoncinis. It goes amazingly. It's
very innovative with the ranch dressing.
Pepper cheese are actually *** delicious.
No they're great I just think they're weird with ranch and it's a special day, I'm going
to temporarily revive my Show and Tell segment..
Yay!
that used to be a weekly thing, I haven't done it in couple of months now for many reasons,
primarily laziness. But this week, I got an email from Justin who is a fan of the show
saying that he works at a small two man studio in Singapore called Blank Level and they just
released an IOS game called Mr. Bistro.
He describes the game as a mixture of puzzles and time management skills. You got to help
the chef, Mr. Bistro, manage his restaurant, by passing him ingrdients and serving out
orders. You know, it's pretty simple. It uses a simple drag and drop mechanic, and there
are two game modes that were apparently built with the game center in mind, so as to encourage
competition with your friends.
The game is only 99 cents on the app store. And the proceeds go to the two developers'
college tuitions; they're both students in Singapore right now, so make yourself feel
good by doing a good deed. And, contest, speaking of, they were also nice enough give us away,
five codes that we're going to give to you guys.
We're going to do it not like we normally do, just giving them out, you know?
We're doing, we're doing trivia questions.
We're going to do trivia style, so hop on in the chat. First question. What is my favorite
food? See anybody answering?
Uhh.
The first person who gets it right wins the code.
Okay. What's the next question Tara?
Okay, next question. How many islands does Singapore have? Don't use Google even though
I know you will.
Use Google. Wow, the first winner was random. God damn everyone guesses, that was the easiest.
God, who was the first person to say pizza?
Pizza is my favorite food.
Um, Ghostie. Ghostie is that, that's the first person to say pizza.
Ghostie, okay.
Ghostie, z z Ghostie z z. Who, anybody got the number of islands in Singapore correct
yet? How many of you even knew there were islands there.
God damn this is so dumb, you asked the dumbest questions. What's my real name?
Well, I would have asked questions related to the game, but I quickly ran out.
Okay. Okay. What's my, what's my real name? Oh yeah, what's Max Scoville's real name?
Hint: it's a sissy name.
It's a girl name.
Damn you're reverse scrolling.
Okay, my real name is Blood Wolf. It's my turn to ask trivia questions. Are you ready
for the trivia questions? Question number 4, Walt Disney's last words were the name
of my favorite actor. What actor was that?
Okay, Itachi Sasukai Killer is the winner of the Singapore question.
The boring question that you asked. Question number five, the final question. What is the
name of the one Pokemon that's like a cow but has an afro?
Let's see.
I don't think we're doing trivia questions again, this is weird.
Does it count if they misspelled your name?
Sure, I don't care. I spell it wrong sometimes too.
Okay, then Narg won that won.
Narg, you are the winner.
Spelled it with an A. The answer is Julien.
It's pronounced "Julien" There are 63 islands in Singapore. I look because we hear his voice,
our producer is talking to us through these magic ear worms.
Tara's favorite food is pizza. She likes pizza. Do we have winners for the two I asked that
were actually trivia?
Who is the Walt Disney thing? People are making some interesting guesses here. We have Johnny
Depp. Fred Savage. OK.
Will Smith, really?
We might go back and look at that. Let's take some questions, actually. Do we have any questions,
because you guys are just shouting weird things.
We're going to send you guys the codes through Youtube, right?
We're going to use the internet to contact you guys.
Yeah, so, if you happen to guess something first, expect a message.
Feartheyoshi! Happy birthday, it's your birthday. We just wished you a happy birthday. What
are we looking forward to a PAX?
I am probably most excited about Borderlands 2.
I am looking forward to doing a panel in which Jim Sterling and I probably shout really stupid
stuff in British accents. Tara's not on the panel. She's going to be sitting there. We
should auction off who gets to sit next to her in the auditorium. seriously for charity
or beer money, whichever.
I will be sitting in the audience. You know what? I am signed up to do another panel but
I don't know if I'm going to do it yet.
OK.
It all depends.
Well we're going to have an awesome time. We're probably going to glue *** to Conrad
Zimmerman's face. I don't know.
Yeah. That's the wonderful thing about PAX, is that it's a community driven event. So
more than, you know, announcements. It's just hanging out with the community and going to
parties and you know we are going to have fun.
Yes, we are going to go to parties and we are going to hang out and I am going to high
five everybody who is there who I see, unless they are jerks.
Have anymore questions?
Let's see if we have any good questions with questions. Someone is just spamming us with
just swastikas. That is incredible, I didn't know you could make swatiskas with a keyboard.
Let's see. Who do we got?
JudeIJM said, Max, if you could have sex with Catwoman but you would have to be an owl for
a day would you do it? Yeah, I guess, I would.
Which Catwoman?
Probably Anne Hathaway. Oh.
I mean I feel kind of like a jerk saying that because the obvious answer is like Michelle
Pfieffer.
More over Halle Berry?
Are you drunk?
Halle Berry is, like, one of the hottest woman alive. Just saying.
I know, but as her her as Catwoman just ruins it for me.
Why?
It was such a bad *** movie.
Okay, well I'm - specifically how it looks.
Anne Hathaway. Because she was in the Princess Diaries.
Also, I love that movie and I own the second one on DVD. I tried to download the Princess
Diaries because I wanted to see what it was like because it takes place in San Francisco,
but I downloaded it dubbed in Polish.
Oh, yeah.
But it's not like, dubbed in Polish, it was just a guy, one guy translating everything
everyone is saying in Polish. It was really weird.
I'll loan you my DVD copy.
I would like that. I'm going to borrow her copy of the Princess Diaries. I think that
wraps up favorite video game characters super teen go by Herbert Homeboy.
Let's take one more question.
Go. I don't even know what that means: Favorite video game character super teen.
I don't know what that means.
Okay. I want to get Lakutu, the flying *** from Mario. Then there was the stupid-***
birds from Ninja Gaiden. Then one of the attack helicopters from Saint's Row 2. They'd be
the team of *** I hate who shoot *** at my while I'm trying to not die, because
they're jerks.
Fascinating. Anybody else? Anybody else? Give Jim Sterling a segment on the show says Gregory,
March 2011.
No.
Smileyman4 asks, "Will you or any Dtoid staffers be at Eurogamer Expo 2011?" Not that I know
of.
Check the site. Check the website.
We have a couple people in Dtoid Europe. We've got if any, Hoyle Bennett over in the U.K.
...
There's games com going on.
And a couple of people in Germany I think.
Yeah, we have many Europeans. We have a vast army of Dtoiders.
Max and I usually.
That about wraps up our show for today. Our just gangly, weird, rambling, ask questions
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Yeah, we'll be in touch with you winners soon. In the meantime, have an awesome weekend everybody.
We'll be back on Monday.