Jett Landicho
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Happy holidays from the Bosscast! We use our last episode of the year to reflect on the best, most underrated, and worst games we played in 2012. Jett also enlightens Mat and Jason on Boong-Ga Boong-Ga – an arcade game all about poking people in the bum. Though we didn’t get to go behind the Pacific Mall curtains to play this butt-poking simulator, we do talk about our experiences playing Street Fighter X Megaman, The Walking Dead, Pop’n Music and more!
[See the full post at: http://splitkick.com/the-recurring-bosscast-005-bill-clinton-in-my-bedroom-with-handcuffs/]
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Aaron Phokal
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I missed a chance to talk about it much on the podcast b/c we ran over, but I just beat 999 (Zero Escape 1, to Virtue’s Last Reward Ep2).
Now I just need to get myself a Vita.
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Aaron Phokal
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For your Walking Dead ep 2 moment, you can get more of those if you play Spec Ops – The Line 
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Jett Landicho
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Aaron Phokal:
For your Walking Dead ep 2 moment, you can get more of those if you play Spec Ops – The Line
I tried the demo and did not like the feel of the combat. In particular, the guns didn’t feel like they had any weight to them. I couldn’t even find it in me to finish the demo.
With that said, I’ve heard a lot of praise for its story, and maybe it’s something I go back to at some point. But from what I played of the demo, it did not sell me on it.
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Jim Hunter
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Jett Landicho: I tried the demo and did not like the feel of the combat. In particular, the guns didn’t feel like they had any weight to them. I couldn’t even find it in me to finish the demo.
With that said, I’ve heard a lot of praise for its story, and maybe it’s something I go back to at some point. But from what I played of the demo, it did not sell me on it.
I’m sure someone is going to say “oh just play it on easy!” and to that I say those people are drippy boxes.
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Jett Landicho
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Jim Hunter: I’m sure someone is going to say “oh just play it on easy!” and to that I say those people are drippy boxes.
I wasn’t even mad about the difficulty. I was getting through it just fine. Regardless of difficulty, it wouldn’t have fixed my lack of enjoyment for taking cover and shooting dudes.
As for the “set it to easy” great debate, I generally start games on normal. In rare instances, I will set the game to easy only if I suck at it and still want to play, or if I simply want to get through for other reasons.
With that said, I did resort to this on two games I played recently:
Red Faction: Guerilla
Picked it up for dirt cheap a few months back. Primarily played it for academic purposes at this point. Enjoyed breaking stuff, but found the volume of enemies showing up was more detrimental to the experience. Turned it down to alleviate that stress so that I could just push forward. It didn’t end up grabbing me even after that, so I dropped it.
Splinter Cell: Conviction
Also picked up for dirt cheap and played for academic purposes. I hate stealth games but heard this one had a more action focus to it. Then after jumping in, I realized there’s still a lot more stealth than I’m willing to deal with. Turned it down to easy, got a bit further, and still got stuck because I suck at it. Dropped that game from my rotation too, despite how much I liked everything else it did.
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Aaron Phokal
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Hmmm, and relevant links pop up, just like that:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/6677-Top-5-of-2012
I’m not crazy, dammit!
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Jett Landicho
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No one is calling you crazy. At least I’m not 
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Daniel Tolin
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Jett Landicho:
Splinter Cell: Conviction
Also picked up for dirt cheap and played for academic purposes. I hate stealth games but heard this one had a more action focus to it. Then after jumping in, I realized there’s still a lot more stealth than I’m willing to deal with. Turned it down to easy, got a bit further, and still got stuck because I suck at it. Dropped that game from my rotation too, despite how much I liked everything else it did.
You had to play Conviction on easy? That game was one of the easiest stealth games I have ever played and I’m pretty sure I played it on hard. The single player of that game is awful though. Typical Tom Clancy rubbish that I couldn’t stand playing anymore of after the carnival stage. The co-op however is outstanding and well worth playing if you can find somebody to run through it with you.
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Jett Landicho
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Daniel Tolin: You had to play Conviction on easy?
I’ll stress again the fact that I am TERRIBLE at stealth games. I don’t have the execution/patience for them. Outside of Mark of the Ninja, I have not played a stealth game that I like and/or haven’t totally sucked at.
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Aaron Phokal
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Damn was Mark of the Ninja so totally excellent.
“Don’t like stealth games? Like Ninjas? You’re set.” -Mark of the Ninja
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David Hughes
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No idea how Spec Ops plays with a gamepad but mouse and keyboard controlled really tightly. One of the first 3rd person shooters I’ve played that didn’t feel like I was controlling a semi truck (Gears, Mass Defect).
I don’t get why people so readily dismiss it for the gameplay. I also think people have gone WAAAAY overboard with the story. It’s interesting in an “oh shit TWIST” kind of way, but the further I get from playing it, the less I’m impressed by it.
Mark of the Ninja is cool, what I’ve played at it. I’m more horrible at it than I normally am at stealth games (my experience with stealth is usually more in the vein of first-person immersive sims).
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Aaron Phokal
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David Hughes:
I don’t get why people so readily dismiss it for the gameplay. I also think people have gone WAAAAY overboard with the story. It’s interesting in an “oh shit TWIST” kind of way, but the further I get from playing it, the less I’m impressed by it.
Without trying to give too much away, Spec Ops has both a fantastic story and also a great delivery, using a variety of interesting subtle and not subtle techniques, covered here:
(Major Spoilers. Don’t watch if haven’t played.)
http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/spec-ops-the-line-part-2
(Major Spoilers)
There’s more to it than that video is able to cover, but in 5 minutes it does a pretty bang up job.
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