Not sure if this made it to other threads but this podcast has been making the news
The first podcast of unknown site www.sevendaycooldown.com managed to score a extensive interview with Gabe Newel, apparently the guy just emailed Gabe and he said OK.
Lot’s of info that made int o the news came from here, Tim Cook was not at Valve, DOTA 2 and CS:Go info and some insight on the “Ricochet 2” delay’s.
Jambe
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I’m using foobar2000 and the foo_podcatcher plugin. The links sinnick provided don’t work with this setup (I haven’t tried with iTunes because blech, and the games podcast feed isn’t even up to date there anyway).
foo_podcatcher will subscribe to this feed, but it won’t create a folder for the podcast and will try to download each new episode as “Quarter to Three” with no .mp3 extension. If I manually create a “Quarter to Three” folder and assign it to download there, the application no longer detects the most recent show (just like iTunes is currently showing the last show from the 18th).
I suspect a formatting issue is to blame, because when I subscribe to the podcast, the message I’m presented reads:
Would you like to subscribe to 'Quarter to Three
Compare that to the message from an apparently properly-formatted podcast (in this case the Tech Report podcast):
Would you like to subscribe to 'The Tech Report Podcast - Enhanced Feed'?
The apostrophe and question mark are missing from the QT3 podcast, indicating that the title is improperly formatted (or something, I dunno). I’m just manually downloading each games podcast right now…
Quaro
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Those ever lucked the F out on the first guest. Holy cow. Not only Gabe, but Gabe dropping tidpits that drew entire articles on other sites.
Personally I found the show kindof impersonal and cold because much of it was just reading questions from the reddit, without much of the back and forth and followup that makes for great conversation. It’s cool to use those questions as starting points but don’t stick to them like a script.
I would love to be able to help you with this, Jambe, but I’m so far out of my element, it’s not funny. :(
The iTunes feed should be up to date. I just added today’s podcast, and it’s showing up on iTunes. We use a WordPress plug-in (Blubrry) that automates everything, but if there’s anything I can look into to make it easier for you, let me know what I can do. I hate that I’m not more tech savvy about this stuff.
-Tom
Tom was nice enough to appear as a guest on my own podcast, which I’ve avoided plugging here until now, but it’s turned out so good that I just had to. Also, I’ve been scared of your guy’s comments.
At any rate, if you’d like to hear us going on about Dead Rising, Resident Evil, and a host of other zombie topics, check it out: http://late-to-the-party.com/2012/05/25/episode-6-dead-rising-2-off-the-record-vs-resident-evil/
If you feel this plug is too self-serving, please feel free to read me the riot act.
I’m listening to your Dark Souls podcast right now. I didn’t know about the relation to King’s Field. That’s pretty cool.
Re: Zombies hordes
If you have enough Sunflowers in your backyard you can neutralize most zombie attacks.
What, without any peashooter defenses? GOOD DAY, SIR.
Who knew?! Tom Chick has Ph.D in ZOM-B
Can’t wait for the listen, downloading now.
Thanks for the heads-up!
I was quite surprised Tom didn’t bring up Atom Zombie Smasher when the subject of games representing “turning” came up, not least because he doesn’t usually need much of an excuse to talk about AZS. It’s certainly the best representation I can think of in games, other than Rebuild’s more abstract approach of constantly increasing the size of the horde outside your walls.
Also, on the Limbo/Prince of Persia podcast, I was slightly frustrated that nobody quite made the argument in Limbo’s favour that the point of the game isn’t the puzzles, it’s the dying. It was touched upon, in the “trial and death” formulation, but it wasn’t really explored fully. While I can understand considering it bad game design, in my opinion it’s actually quite brilliant at times. Limbo messes with the player in hilarious ways. It kills you, and in the process trains you to do something. Then it kills you for doing the thing it just trained you to do, just for kicks. And the deaths are all so beautifully/hilariously animated. And, just occasionally, it rewards the player by letting them use the same evil tricks to defeat enemies.
Active Time Babble is back on 1UP with Kat Baley returning as host. This week Dragon Dogma that has been pretty absent from discussions on other podcasts and Diablo 3 that is the opposite.
The 1UP staff is pretty small theses days but Kat can recruit guests from Gamespy and IGN.
Thanks for the heads up on that, pyjama. I always liked listening to Kat Bailey snuffle her way through RPG discussions.
Thanks for listening. Tom did bring it up, but Matt and I hadn’t played it, so we didn’t really spend time on it. This happened about ten different times, to my chagrin.
Matt had mentioned something about how the deaths are fun and interesting, but, while the developers may have gotten a kick out of killing me by subverting their own rules, I didn’t enjoy it very much. Were those guys Kojima fans or something? He like to do that kind of stuff.
Tom did bring it up, but Matt and I hadn’t played it, so we didn’t really spend time on it.
Yeah, it came up at the end, but just in a general way, not in the section about zombies turning people in games, where Raccoon City was the main game mentioned. Also, you should play AZS.
Glad she and the podcast are back, but was that the EIC at 1UP actually suggesting that you couldn’t play Diablo III on a wifi network because if you got dropped for just a second you would lose your game?
Kat was too kind to explain to him that it was no longer 2003, but I would have.
E3 generates a lot of podcast time, I’ve running GianbBomb 4h marathons in the background most of it is blur now but would recommend the third day, especially after 1h35m. The second day also had some good moments that generated Hawktaku.
A shame Jumping the Shark lost the last episode was enjoying the previous ones.
Any E3 podcast anyone recommends?
Well, I’ve had one friend drop enough that I would definitely say people shouldn’t be playing on wifi too much anyway.
I’m so glad ATB is back. PC World hosted a couple episodes of RolePlayers’ Realm, but didn’t seem behind it at all, for example, by not putting it on the feed.
Yeah we were rather miffed and confused as to why/how that happened. Was a good ep too as I finally got to talk about Eador. Ah well.
Dude. Go get your MRI and take care of yourself, huh?
