Today’s Host: Jazon Bladen
Topic: 1up’s article on why the Xbox 360 is the second coming of the Dreamcast.
Here’s that link I was referring to: http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3145154&did=1
0:09 - This BladenCast was actually me trying to redo the last one, minus Coyote. We talked about this article together, but he was grabbing the microphone and wanking it off or something and it has a short in it and half of the conversation died.
03:15 - “In the other broadcast, my friend Coyote noted that the Xbox is pretty much a computer that was beaten with a Godstick until it could only play games.”
07:29 - “Viacom are a bunch of asshats and they’ve always been asshats.” I go into a rant about G4TV and how they don’t show video games anymore and how they raped TechTV.
11:10 - I’m convinced Jay Allard of Microsoft is a stoner/hippy.
12:00 - This is me ranting about XBL Silver VS XBL Gold and why I hate the way Microsoft is doing it and also why I hate it when companies do stuff like it.
13:05 - Reference to “OurColony“, the utterly useless Alternate Reality Game where the only prize was getting your clan’s name scrolled at the end of the video, oh, and you get to see a preview of the magic toaster. Er, I mean Xbox 360.
13:23 - The Dreamcast logo makes me think of Naruto, and Naruto running around with a Dreamcast.
13:40 - Bitching about HD-DVD and Blu-Ray and their evil, evil, DRM, which almost leads into an MPAA/RIAA rant. “Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are all about content management. They aren’t about advancements.”
14:55 - High-Def output prongs are ridiculous.
16:55 - Coyote and I talked about how Peter Moore supported a system that died, and now he’s supporting another system that might die.
17:33 - Xbox 360 has to emulate Xbox games because they switched from an nVIDIA card to an ATI card. I loves me some Radeon <3. (Or, I am a consumer whore.)
18:32 - “It’s like Dynasty Warriors had sex with Everquest and Guild Wars.” (99 Knights)
19:20 - Free soda with consoles would be hardcore. Take note companies! Take note!
21:49 - Developers will never be satisfied with the capacity of disks/cartridges. Developers complain. A lot. (Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers.)
23:02 - DVD was supposed to be the ultimate in anti-piracy. HD-DVD and Blu-Ray aren’t going to change anything. Also, talk about the Sony Rootkit scandal.
24:30 - Obligatory Gollum impression.
24:50 - I SHALL CALL HIM… MINI ME!
27:41 - FF11 on Xbox 360 only happened because Square wants you to buy it for every single system.
28:15 - “Electronic Arts may be the most important publisher in the United States, but they’re still asshats.” Ranting about how they monopolized the NFL license and how Madden is gay.
29:00 - Heheheh, Broadband penetration.
30:06 - Xbox 360 is backwards compatible! (mostly) IE: You have to download “leet hacks” (patches) to play any of your old games.
32:20 - Halo 3 is being blown WAY out of proportion. Halo 1 rocked, Halo 2 was pretty much only multiplayer because the single player blew ass. Oh, and the XBL Halo 2 sucked balls too. The “Halo 2 Special Edition” also sucks and is not worth it, and I feel like I wasted my cash on it. :/
36:00 - The Xbox 360 is also way overhyped.
36:40 - 1up.com is biased for the Xbox. (They had a contest on the website.)
37:06 - This is my discussion about how Software-based modifications to your consoles are completely legal, since you aren’t opening the case and tampering with the hardware inside. Really, I believe that once you buy a system, it becomes your property, but obviously, Microsoft seems to think it doesn’t work that way.
