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Some Other Castle, Episode 32: IRPS

Leah — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:27:44 +0000

Welcome to our internet radio podcast show! We’ve been waiting for you. Have a cookie! Oh, and you should probably be prepared for some video game chat; this week it’s discussion on upsizing handheld systems, Netflix on the PS3, and the wrath of PC shooter aficionados.

Link? Link! LIIIIIIIIINK!

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune

Batman: Arkham Asylum

iPhone has fastest hardware growth in consumer tech history according to Morgan Stanley analyst; beats out Wii, DS, and PSP

Uncharted 2 DLC to be released by end of year

PS3 getting Netflix

Excite Bike World Rally coming to WiiWare 11/9

Modern Warfare 2 featuring 3rd person mode for certain playlists

Brutal Legend DLC 11/3 will be free on PS3 for the first two weeks, paid on XBox Live from the beginning

DSi LL coming to Japan 11/21, US and Europe Q1 2010; features 4 inch screen and larger stylus, retailing for the equivalent of $221 US; also, is dumb as hell

Fairytale Fights has free DLC if you purchase game in first 90 days

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Some Other Podcast, Episode 26: How We Roll

Leah — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:13:07 +0000

This month marks six months, or one half of one year, that we have been podcasting for your amusement. Have people really been listening to us for that long? Yes! And we love you! Anyway, we both have kind of boring gaming habits this week and we are exhausted, but we make up for it by getting all rambly on lots of listener mail. There’s also some chat about mergers with ridiculous numbers attached, the Septembermas that stole our wallets, and system colors we wish had happened sooner. Or, you know, at all.

Linkmas!

Dissidia Final Fantasy

Halo 3

World of Warcraft

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box

PS3 slim (120 gig)

Disney buys Marvel for four billion dollars; yes, billion, with a B

GTA “Hot Coffee” class-action lawsuit settles for 20 million dollars

Special Edition SFIV Fightstick at PAX; Elaine’s wallet cries out in pain

360 price drop causes a 43% sales increase in the UK

Pink and white DSi models releasing in the US on 9/13; Leah curses being an early adopter

Nintendo releasing black remote/motion plus combo for the holidays; black system is Japan-only

Shadow Complex breaks XBLA sales records by selling 200,000 copies

Lego Rock Band possibly to be exportable

Katamari Forever receives date of 9/22, now known as Some Other Castle Goes Broke Day

God of War Collection for PS3 scheduled for the holiday season

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Some Other Podcast, Episode 22: Unperfect Ninja

Elaine — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:00:33 +0000

Their Personas and Pokemanz, they will show you them. This week the ladies return to discuss their ever increasing addictions which apparently now include both Persona and Pokemon. Elaine also discussing embarking on the epic journey that is the Earthbound Funktastic Gameplay 2009. In addition the girls get uppity about ads in Wipeout HD, ponder the future of the current PS3 hardware, and contemplate posting inappropriate pictures to Facebook using a DSi!

Zombies need Liiiinnnnkkkkksss!

Assassin’s Creed 2 Special Edition

Left 4 Dead Content (yes for the original)

Batman Arkham Asylum Demo

Braid to PSN

Fat Princess is busted and getting a patch

Wipeout HD makes you watch ads

PS3 Slim a real thing?

PS3 manufacturing costs down 70%

Id responds to concerns about RAGE on Twitter

WET releasing on September 12

DSi 1.4 update including Facebook now available in North America

Turtles in Time Reshelled now $10 instead of $15. Yay!

Want to send Leah and Elaine email? You can send them to podcast@someothercastle.com. We read them all (even the spam sometimes).

Confessions of a Backlogged Gamer, Week 11: Just When You Thought It Was Over….

Leah — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:28:27 +0000

Yeah, I was kind of under the impression that when I defeated the final boss of Star Ocean, around hour 59, that the game would be over. Not so! During the movie-length cutscenes that followed the battle, I idly flipped the page of the strategy guide which had become pretty much permanently glued to my lap to find…. two more dungeons. So really, I tried, but I’m not done yet. I am in hour 64, though.

I have mixed feelings about the inclusion of extra content after the end credits to a game have rolled. On one hand, extra content is always good, particularly if I was enjoying the game to begin with. More is better, right? On the other hand, though, why not simply include that content within the game itself? That’s what side quests are for, in my opinion: to give you something to do outside the main storyline that serves as an acceptable alternative to running around in circles grinding levels. It’s a minor complaint, I guess, but I did find myself a little irked at the way TLH set things up. That said, these dungeons, or at least the one that I’m currently dealing with, are full of some pretty serious motherfuckers. They are not kidding when they tell you that the difficulty curve here is more like a difficulty cliff-edge. I smacked around the final boss of the actual storyline with little trouble; in fact, throughout the game, I never lost a boss fight. Not once, actually. Just as a for-instance, the boss that I most recently fought in the current dungeon (called the Cave of the Seven Stars) slaughtered my entire party multiple times… I never actually lost, due to swapping folks out and resurrecting them, but at the end, Mr. Edge Maverick was the only one still standing. I’m glad he was, too, because I would have lost about an hour and a half of play if he’d dropped.

I didn’t purchase any new games this week, but I did purchase a new system… sort of. That’s right, I caved and picked up a DSi (it’s black). What this practically means for my gaming queue is that I ditched all but two of my GBA games (Final Fantasy V, which I have played many times before, and Tales of Phantasia, which I have not). I obviously don’t actually have a system to play them on at this point, but I figure I’ll probably just snag a used SP when they price-drop a little more, as they are sure to do due to the current influx. I’m told that Henry Hatsworth looks quite snazzy on the bigger screens, but I have yet to play since I picked up the system, so I suppose that remains to be seen.

Recap:

Current backlog total: 112

Now playing: Star Ocean: The Last Hope (360); Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure (DS)

New games added: none

Games completed: none (balance!)

Some Other Podcast, Episode 5: She Got Cupcaked

Leah — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:14:55 +0000

We’re just a bit late this week due to zombie plague and various scheduling unpleasantness, but fear not! Your intrepid hosts are back for week 5. Speaking of zombie plague, Elaine tries very hard to hack up a lung during this episode, but don’t worry, she’s still alive…. mostly. I didn’t even have to pull out the shotgun! I’d say that counts as a victory. Tune in for discussion on the end of a Puzzling era, Elaine’s complete 180 on the DSi, and whether virtual baby seals need love too.

Here comes the link train! Choo choo!

Puzzle Quest: Galactrix (for the last time, I swear!)

Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure

Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

Pokemon Platinum

Nintendo DSi

Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition

Wil Wheaton’s blog (To order a copy of Just A Geek if you’d like to read along with us, go through the Amazon link on our front page. Thanks!)

Leah’s thesis

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

PS3 outsells Wii in Japan

Lego Rock Band?

2.5 billion achievements on Live

PS3 Tales of Vesperia

PETA protests baby seal clubbing in WoW

Break music is “Cake Or Death” from the Henry Hatsworth OST.

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