Just when you thought it was safe to listen to podcasts… Topics this month include:
- Microsoft Surface Devices and Phones
- What is going to become of Windows Phone?
- What the Surface line is doing right.
- The Incoming Flood of Videogame Movies
- Have any ever been good?
- Why do they keep trying when they always fail?
- (off-topic) Why did Kylo Ren wear a mask in Force Awakens?
- What videogames we’d like to see made into movies.
- Why Tomb Raider should be an easy film to do right… but hasn’t been yet.
- First-Person Shooters
- Call of Duty heading to space, Battlefield heading back to WW1.
- What we’re tired of seeing in modern FPS games.
- Genre getting very samey and long in the tooth – what can be done?
- Bad guys we’re sick of fighting.
- The new DOOM game and why it’s so great!
Enjoy!
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We’re back! Topics this month include:
- PS4.5K
- What the hell is this thing?
- Why are they making it seeing as PS4 is already the fastest selling console in history already?
- Will PS4 Neo be sold alongside the older PS4?
- Trojan horse to try and sell the new 4K Blu-Rays?
- Why 4K is a gimmick
- Netflix Shows & Shared Universes
- Daredevil Season 2
- House of Cards season 4
- How many movies & shared universes can theaters and moviegoers possibly support?
- Jones defends Batman v Superman, and discusses the problems it had with marketing.
- Why Nintendo should copy 1980’s Disney
- Like Disney in 1984, only selling stuff to kids, and not doing very well
- Nintendo needs its own “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”
- Our ideas on how to make “dark, gritty adult reboots” of Nintendo franchises
Enjoy!
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We’re back again! Topic today include:
- VR
- We discuss the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR.
- What kind of games will work best on these formats?
- Ben’s idea for a 1980’s-style nightmarish animated kid’s movie
- Is the cost too high?
- (Then we get completely sidetracked on our Charlize Theron “Road House Remake” Kickstarter idea)
- Nintendo News
- Why they need to cater to 3rd party, not just 1st party.
- Difference between ARM, PowerPC and x86 game systems.
- What we think the Nintendo NX will be.
- The fear and loathing of a Digital Download Only future.
- Screening Room opening weekend movie rentals
- New service to watch new releases on opening weekend?
- Why it could work, why it might not work.
- How difficult it is to watch movies in theaters.
Enjoy!
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We’re back again! Topic today include:
- The price of videogames and DLC, Season Passes and add-on content
- We use a calculator to see how inflation might somehow be involved – shocking!
- Cost of games has barely risen while development costs have skyrocketed.
- Historical comparison of game prices.
- How inflation is “hidden” in games, compared to how it’s hidden in food and other items.
- Deadpool’s success and the sure-to-come New Wave of R-Rated Films
- What will Hollywood’s knee-jerk reaction be?
- Why theaters should charge people for bringing babies to movies
- How airlines should arrange passengers on an airplane
- PG-13 strip clubs scenes in movies
- Anyone old enough to care about Die Hard, Terminator, etc IS OLD ENOUGH TO SEE AN R-RATED MOVIE!
- What if Pixar made an R-rated movie? (for some reason)
- Current state of the Battlefield franchise and what should change
- How to use tanks in Battlefield.
- Our hatred of snipers in videogames!
- Titanfall’s mech balance vs Battlefield’s armor
- Getting very tired of fake “modern warfare” scenarios that no longer make any sense.
- Would WW1 make a fun game?
Enjoy!
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Yes, we are really trying to get back to doing one of these per month! Topics include:
- Marvel movie fatigue:
- Are they all becoming too similar?
- Will characters ever die?
- Are the TV / Netflix series actually better?
- Fire-proof bras
- English addresses & Paul Bettany.
- Shared universes – every movie is getting one! But why?
- What shared universe series are coming?
- Which ones might work.
- What Actually Sucks About Going To The Movies.
- Attendance keeps going down year after year.
- Why are people not going to movies anymore?
- Home video streaming offering a better service than even Blu-Rays – why?
Enjoy!
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A new episode already? That’s right, it’s the Star Wars Holiday Special where we discuss:
- How accurate our predictions for The Force Awakens were (what we got right and wrong)
- Discussion about the film – what we liked best and least.
- Things it did better than A New Hope, and things it did worse than The Phantom Menace (oh yeah we go there!)
- How Jar Jar Binks could have been redeemed and why he should come back.
- Much argument over what Robin Wright Penn’s current name is.
- How the new Planet of the Apes movies do right what the recent Terminator movies have done wrong
Enjoy!
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Remember us? We’re back with a new double-length Holiday Special episode!
Topics include:
- Games we’ve been playing since the last podcast (a year and a half ago!)
- Fallout 4 extensive discussion.
- The length of movies these days, and how to get them approved for China.
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and what kind of conversations the Emperor would have with his Death Star Insurance Agent.
- Why people embrace in-continuity sequels (Star Wars, Creed, Jurassic World, Fury Road) but reject remakes / reboots. Plus discussion on the controversial Ghostbusters remake.
- How the movie industry may be heading for a crash.
- The current state of Nintendo, what we think the upcoming NX console will be, and what we’d rather they make instead.
Enjoy!
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