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EpicBattleCry - Skirmish 172 - The Sound of Hamburger on Face

GREETINGS, YE AXE HEADS! Prepare to dive into December with team EBC as New SMB goes classic, the Wii Goes Mini, Dishonored goes to Dunwall, and BioShock Infinite's MP goes away. Plus, does the Wii U prove that Nintendo is out of touch when it comes to how gamers want to play? We're getting sexy while fixing the pipes on this Skirmish of gaming's most brutal video podcast! ENJOY!

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EPICBATTLECRY SKIRMISH 172 SHOW NOTES

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With Nintendo’s release of the Wii U focusing on a secondary controller with touch capabilities, team EBC begins to ponder how well the successful touch interfaces of mobile devices translate to home console experiences. Why is touch control different depending on the platform and will we see similar technology on Microsoft and Sony’s next systems? We get in touch with ourselves to explore the possibilities on this edition of EpicBattleCry.

BATTLECRIES:

TONY: How much I hate the new Playstation Store
BRENT: Sebastian Vettell wins third consecutive F1 championship
DANIEL: Super Mario World SNES

MEMBER: Fluent

In terms of AAA games going the way of the dinosaur, I don't think that's really as dire a situation as people think. The inescapable reality of all business is that if the market demands something, businesses in that market will find a way to meet it. If dev costs are really going to be that prohibitive, and as Tony I'm skeptical that's accurate, then solutions will appear. This is because gamers will inevitably want a high level of graphical fidelity, though not to the degree perhaps that PC gamers expect. That probably means console manufacturers are going to be much more responsive (Sony especially) to making systems that are easy to program for. This rumor has already been floating around, that the PS4 will have a traditional architecture to make multiplats a better experience. I also think we will really start to see the rise of middleware developers that partner with people like Epic or id to create smart timesaver tools for authoring content.

Additionally, if kickstarter proves to be an effective way to produce great games, I think we will start to see a real flood of brilliant DD games that move into the same quality sphere as traditionally published titles. That is what I'm most excited for, because devs that self-publish will take more risks and do more creatively daring work.

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Comment by Michael Bumüller on November 29, 2012 at 12:27pm

love the show. its my favorite... i always make time to watch it and hear the axe factor.

i do have 1 favour to ask, could you plz enable a "dowload link", i cant with my mac download it trough gametrailers, and it appears there isnt a itunes option

if its posible... anyway, thanks

danke

Comment by Patch on November 29, 2012 at 12:42pm

This is my favorite title for an episode in a long time :D

Comment by Beema on November 29, 2012 at 2:41pm

I couldn't be happier that Bioshock Infinite is lacking a multiplayer. Glad Levine & Co stuck to their guns and didn't cave to any sort of corporate pressure. The first Bioshock, which I think everyone can agree is the better of the two, didn't have multiplayer and was wonderful, so I don't see why Infinite needs it. The "shock" series has always been about the single player and story, so I can't see anyone being disappointed by this news.

Totally agree with Tony about the new PS3 storefront. It's awful. Takes forever to load (feels like they designed the software for a faster system), impossible to find anything. Luckily I do most of my gaming on the PC so... looks like it will be staying that way.

Also excellent battlecry from DK. SNES will always rule.

Comment by FrankeeNL on November 29, 2012 at 3:38pm

Unlike Daniel I don't think Bioshock should have multiplayer at the cost of innocent puppies and baby seals' lives. In fact, I have this silly notion multiplayer should be reserved for games that lend themselves to it.

I mean, realisticly, the multiplayer crowd will probably play COD, Batllefield, Halo and maybe Killzone on PS3. That's it. And when I see games like Bioshock and Spec Ops crowbar a half arsed multiplayer mode in there, my little gamer hart cries. It cries because no-one gives a shit, and money was spend on a meaningless multiplayer mode that no-one will play, that could be spent polishing the singleplayer experience.

My battlecry therefore goes out to the lead designer of Spec Ops: The Line, Cory Davis. For daring to rip on his own publisher 2K by saying: “The game mechanics were raped to make it happen, and it was a waste of money. No one is playing it, and I don’t even feel like it’s part of the overall package — it’s another game rammed onto the disk like a cancerous growth, threatening to destroy the best things about the experience that the team at Yager put their heart and souls into creating.”

Comment by MixMasterMike on November 29, 2012 at 3:52pm

In Germany, the Wii has already been altered in 2012 and does look the same, but cannot play any Gamecube games anymore. They stripped the Wii of those parts to save some money.

Also, in the Wii Shop a lot of virtual console games are no longer available for purchase, e.g. the famous Donkey Kong Country 1+3 for the SNES. You just cannot buy them any longer.

So when you look at it that way, you might as well grab the cheaper, even uglier Wii if it were sold in Europe

Comment by MixMasterMike on November 29, 2012 at 4:37pm

Absolutely excellent member battlecry and also excellent battlecry from DK!

Comment by THLINK on November 29, 2012 at 6:46pm

Guys,

Seriously you should have a look in the Nintendo financials before saying that Nintendo will be out of the home console business. Nintendo has 10 BILLION is cash, that's more than enough to launch several other home consoles if they want to. Besides, they Literally owned Japan, with both Monster Huner and Dragon Quest on Wii U, so Japan is covered for Japan. In Europe, Microsoft can't compete in Europe ( except Uk ), so it will be between Nintendo and Sony. In the US, it's too early to say, we haven't even seen the next gen consoles and the games. HOW ON EARTH can you say that the Nintendo will be out of the home console business. That doesn't make sense. Sony is more likely to be out of the console market with their current "junk status"... 

Beside how can you judge the Wii U after 1 WEEK FOR GOD SAKE !!! Do you think it would have been smart to judge the 360 and the PS3 just few weeks after their release ? Those console weren't that great few weeks after their launch.

Comment by Berserkaren on November 29, 2012 at 7:08pm

Yup, good member battlecry this week and the show was alright! I'm not Wii fan, had the Nintendo 8bit, Super Nintendo and the Nintendo 64, those systems were effing awesome! The Wii era did not sit well with me, no good games for that system and the games on it had lousy resolution.

Many people complain about consoles that need constant updates all the time and games needs patching and you get less and less harddrive space but no one really talks about the games we buy now a days we don't even own. Be it digital or retail you need services like, Steam, Origin or Uplay to even play the games, should either of these services end you can not play any more games for that client, this affects PC players mostly. Sould xbox live or PSN go down you most likely can play most of the games you downloaded before those services ended. I admit all that updating is taking too long, we need faster consoles and internetspeeds to make this neverending updates fast and seamless.

That is it for me, Stay Frosty!

Done Bear.

Comment by JustOneGun on November 29, 2012 at 9:13pm

Too many Wii Puns!! Sides....Bursting...Pain... Hurts. Bioshock Really doesn't need a multi player. 

Comment by twztid13 on November 29, 2012 at 9:28pm
thank you, Tony. "The new psn store sucks" is my comment on my profile from the day it launched.

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