Well, one of my most-played games of all time was Morrowind. After I played through it once un-modded, I began to explore the massive community sites out there. With mods like better bodies, better heads, and numerous others, modders would take the construction set, and turn out content that was superior to the original release, and thus, the game is granted extra playability that the downloadable content some console games offer could only dream of.

My most played multi-player game is Dystopia, a mod using the source engine, featuring competitive, team based gaming, with dual-layered maps (use of an in-game cyberspace to affect the meatspace world). Shameless promo. http://www.dystopia-game.com.

The ability for gamers to have that much of an impact over the games that they play is one of the major draws of PC gaming.

Why dont you talk about the uprising of modding and modders for PCs and consoles, this was going to be a topic for my first podcast but, everything is going wrong so it had to be put off (For a while).

Great podcast anyway and the food topic sounds great.

I was wonder about the SNES vs. Genesis thing, though. I wonder if Sega’s dominance was regional. I live in the southeastern US, and I remember more of my friends around the early nineties having the SNES than the Genesis.

However, there are a couple of other things that may have made a difference. I was still in elementary school at the time, so Nintendo’s “Seal of Quality” may have been a factor in which games parents allowed their young children to play. Also, I went to a private, Christian school at the time. This could factor in with the “Seal of Quality” issue.

Next podcast discuss what you’ve been eating since the last podcast and how many times you’ve thought about Bruce Campbell. Please rant on how Coca-cola pisses all over pepsi. You could segway this into you’re podcast as there is a game for the Atari 2600 called Coke Wins. I’m sure you can track it down. It’s a poor Space Invaders rip off made by Coke at the time. You have three minutes to shoot the pepsi and after the time is up “Coke Wins” appears on the screen. Quite funny really.

A suggestion for the podcast: Have a short segment about what games you both have spent time playing since the last podcast. I think it’s akin to asking a musician, “What’s in your CD player?”

An Oblivion intro for the next podcast is a must.

Oh no! Sorry we ruined that for you. :( I tried to be stealthy about it by just saying a body fell out at one point, but of course the discussion got more detailed unfortunately.

Flaming cats rule though! :)

There’s something to be said for a game that not only allows you to set a dead cat aflame, but then lets you lob said flaming feline at your assailants… with your mind. We’ve got a winner.