Comment by Chimera-Six on January 10, 2013 at 12:32pm

Awesome.  Going to watch this while the Mrs is distracted with Eastenders!

Comment by StarBound on January 10, 2013 at 1:30pm

The most important factor going into the next generation consoles is the horse power. Enthusiast and even mainstream PCs are leaps and bounds ahead of consoles. It is possible for games to be much more than they currently are but because of the current generation limits PC gaming and/or gaming is suffering with it.

Android and iOS tablets and smartphones might be a bigger threat to consoles that we can currently see. It is technology that gets improved annually while a console stagnates trying to give everyone access to the best possible gaming experience at the lowest cost. Going into the next generation I feel the console makers should look at the expansion possibilities that the sega saturn and N64 had with the ram extension slots. Give the developers the opportunity to improve visuals while still having a base rule set for a playable game. 

As for the interface I am still use to my playstation controller for 15 years and counting.

Comment by Berserkaren on January 10, 2013 at 3:20pm

Heyo Vikings and heathens.

Intresting show Axelords.

The new consoles.. Seems like they are going AMD and Radeon, will not get them since I have a computer. If steambox is modular like a computer then I might get that for my TV.

So much is happening. Can not bring a game to a friend anymore, have to be locked to a computer, if the thing crashes it's gone forever. Microtransactions, digital games with no Box art jpg attached to it even. DLC abuse, cleaving of parts of the game that is on the discs but sell it to make more money and imbalace games with pay to win.

I dunno, so much was simpler in the olden days. Buy it you own it and then play it. sure the internets was not implemented back then so one could not download or copy the games with ease yet but then came cds and internet and then the marshmellows hit the fryingpan.

Get DLC a working platform, do not do pay to win, make your digital games be sellable, if you need drm have a unified one that is nice to the consumers at the same time be safe and not screw things up, give HD texturepacks for PC games as a downloadable option since the olden consoles can't handle it but the PC can, damn blurry textures.. And finally make the games optimized for their platform, with controller support and keymapping and features that is supposed to be there.

AI stuff is implemented in the games and not the consoles themselves, sure better AI is always welcome and I hope the consoles can do good to the people who is interested in them.

Thanks for still making this podcast it is great and I hope all the best to yah all and keep cleaving something from something. Axeheads keep that gaming discussions comming.

Thank you! Good night!

Comment by Hokum on January 10, 2013 at 3:32pm

This was a great show. I do not even remember the gauntlet nor the main topic, the Battlecries were hysterical! I love this site.

Comment by Beema on January 10, 2013 at 4:06pm

RIP PS3!?!?!?!

Comment by Raminder Singh on January 10, 2013 at 7:40pm

slow news week much hahaha

Comment by Pyry Parkkola on January 10, 2013 at 10:25pm

Greetings from Finland! Great show, like always!

How interesting would the steambox be if it was modular, not meaning changeable parts, but so that you could link multiple boxes together. One medium power box wouldn't be anything groundbreaking: it would be quite cheap(say... 400€) and play most games with graphical settings on low.

Now link two of those boxes and you got pretty decent machine that runs most todays games on high settings. Link third one if you are enthusiastic and have multiple display setups and so on. 

The hardware would be quite limited(console-style) for greater optimising, but there could be few different versions. You could start with medium box, but decide later on that you want to go all in and link enthusiast box to that medium one. 

As a bonus hardware would stay relevant much longer, because you could just leave the older boxes linked for some additional computing power.

What do you think? Is this brilliant or am I missing something?

Comment by Devildoll on January 11, 2013 at 12:47am

i just ripped the audio out of the video version, so i had something to listen to while going to sleep yesterday.

i thought i'd share it with the rest of you guys, incase anyone else wants a straight audio version quick. ebc-176.mp3

Comment by Aaron Wells on January 11, 2013 at 6:16am

haha Hey Devildoll from GT. Thanks for the MP3 :)

Comment by Chimera-Six on January 11, 2013 at 7:39am

It's interesting DK talks about what he'd like to see from the next-gen consoles, it's pretty similar to my own views.

What got my psyched for the Xbox 360 back in 2006 was anticipating the release of Mass Effect and Bioshock.  Those two games SOLD the 360 to me.  I simply couldn't wait to play them.  The dialogue systems, character interactions, moral choices, exploration and combat all were so interesting, and got me totally hyped for those games and in turn the 360.  The question is; am I going to get as hyped for the 720 or PS4?  Doubtful.

We'll just see more of the same from the next generation consoles.  They'll just be catching up with what PCs having been doing for years i.e. 1080p.  MS are talking about Kinect 2 and the Illumi Room tech, but these are just more gimmicks, they wont change how we play.  True innovation in AI hasn't happened for a decade, yes even Half Life 1 has better AI than many modern shooters!!! Go and play the Black Mesa update and see for yourself.  And as much as I would love to see AI and character intereaction being improved massively, I don't think it will - sadly.  The market seems to just want things to shoot.  I'd love to see more games like Heavy Rain, with really interesting experiences, not the same rinse and repeat formulas.  I feel quite jaded with the scene at the moment.  I feel like I've played the game already.  This is one reason I think The Walking Dead did so well last year - it was different.

I'm most excited about Oculus Rift.  That + SteamBox could be a true game changer!

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