The Fancy Pants Episode

[fishbang]

New IGC now available for download (http://ingamechat.net/audio/IGC20090326.mp3).

The Game Developers Conference was still much in the news during this session, and even now the last filaments of related forum threads are being tweezed. We’re flush with the excitement of expected and surprise announcements alike, and are suitably frustrated by the ludicrous amount of time we have to wait to play the things with which we’ve been teased - ludicrous referring to any amount of time greater than “right now”, of course.

This episode’s out-of-game epilogue is devoted to a fairly acidic and cathartic release of the Battlestar Galactica energy that’s been collecting in our systems over the course of the last 5 years. There are really no universal pronouncements to be made, and the series finale has at the very least done the job of being thoughtful and provocative. We’re glad to have seen it, but are even happier now to be shed of the burden of caring.

[TrackZero]

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[Ravenlock]

I assume, James, that you were talking about loving dying in Mirror's Edge, not Mass Effect. (I agree with you by the way, dying in Mirror's Edge was usually quite a rush, as long as it wasn't one of those "18th time the group of guys shoots you before you manage to figure out how to take them down" deaths.)

Thanks for the hardware impressions of the DSi, but also screw you for making me kinda want one even though my Lite is still perfectly good. You DS-totin' guys should totally pick up Chinatown Wars, by the way, it's very awesome, a tremendous amount of content for the money, and does a lot of things, IMO, better than GTAIV did them. The "you got your Burnout in my GTA!" cop evasion method is excellent and deserves to make it into the larger titles.

[Mike Kelehan]

The front page item says that you talk about the series wrap-up of BSG. To that, I ask you, "What wrap up?"

[TrackZero]

The front page item says that you talk about the series wrap-up of BSG. To that, I ask you, "What wrap up?"

It's in the episode. After the BSG music/FUDcast ad/BSG music.

[divinechaos]

The final boss in RE5 was frustrating? I played with my brother on Veteran and it only took 2 tries. Where you doing it in single player?

[Mike Kelehan]

It's in the episode. After the BSG music/FUDcast ad/BSG music.

No, no, I meant that BSG didn't wrap everything up.

[divinechaos]

The final boss in RE5 was frustrating? I played with my brother on Veteran and it only took 2 tries. Where you doing it in single player?

*yeah this is divinechaos' brother. HI! anyway yeah i had to fight the final boss alone with my cheap guns and sheva's uselessness. Figuring out how to kill the guy was a very frustrating experience for both of the final guys' form but felt very satisfying to see him die.

Second run through with my brother (actual divinechaos) took 2 tries because i had unlimited stuff and valuable wisdom. -I hope i did this thing right-

[Spigot]

The front page item says that you talk about the series wrap-up of BSG. To that, I ask you, "What wrap up?"Don't worry. At least one person gets it ;)

I haven't listened to this episode yet, but I eagerly await hearing the BSG discussion. I agree that not everything really resolved but I think that's as good as we'd ever get from BSG. At least they gave us the closure they did. A lot of things could have been left hanging and never resolved.

I will admit that part of me would have been happy with the series ending at the mid-point of Season 4 but, aside from feeling like they stretched the last few episodes before the finale out over one too many episodes, I liked what happened during the final 10 eps.

And please, please stop talking positively about the DSi. I don't need one and I don't want to want one, at least not yet. I'm already possibly going to be looking for a new PC shortly. I don't want to theoretically add another DS into the mix!

[Ravenlock]

And please, please stop talking positively about the DSi. I don't need one and I don't want to want one, at least not yet. I'm already possibly going to be looking for a new PC shortly. I don't want to theoretically add another DS into the mix!

It's not really "another" DS if it's actually just a replacement for the Lite, you know. If, for example, the Lite were to have some sort of horrible accident, there would be no shame in replacing it with a DSi - why go get the old model when the new one is available, right?

DS Lites fall down stairs all the time, is all I'm saying.

[Spigot]

It's not really "another" DS if it's actually just a replacement for the Lite, you know. If, for example, the Lite were to have some sort of horrible accident, there would be no shame in replacing it with a DSi - why go get the old model when the new one is available, right?

DS Lites fall down stairs all the time, is all I'm saying.Part of me is waiting for my Lite to get a in a little rougher shape so I can give it to my son (his birthday is coming up in June). The thing is, I still do play the odd GBA game and really like how bright the screen on the DS is for playing them as opposed to the SP. I know that if I did give my son my old Lite, I'd have to get another one and probably a DSi. If the price drops a bit more on the Lite once the DSi hits, I could justify stocking up :)

[Pale Ale]

*yeah this is divinechaos' brother. HI! anyway yeah i had to fight the final boss alone with my cheap guns and sheva's uselessness. Figuring out how to kill the guy was a very frustrating experience for both of the final guys' form but felt very satisfying to see him die.

I wouldn't sweat it, that fights buggy as hell.

[Psykoboy2]

The final boss in RE5 was frustrating? I played with my brother on Veteran and it only took 2 tries. Where you doing it in single player?

So I read this and then I read your brother's post and a significantly more amount of light is shed on the situation.

1. You knew what you had to do.

We didn't.

2. He'd already played through once and unlocked infinite ammo on some things.

We didn't.

So yeah, for our first run through (and probably our only run), it was a frustrating ordeal. The second form being 10 times worse than the first form.

[Ink Asylum]

Ok. I don't want to turn this thread into another BSG debate thread, but I just wanted to touch on one of the topics you brought up: the Kara/Lee flashbacks.

I just finished re-watching Season 1 and there's really nothing to support the idea that Kara had her shit together and only became a boozing, frakking mess after Zak's death. The only Kara flashbacks during Season 1 involved her reassuring Zak that he really passed his test and her meeting Adama for the first time after Zak's death. Aside from that the only details we get about Kara pre-show come from Leoben during his interrogation:

Leoben - I have a soul. I see patterns. I know you, you're damaged. You were born to a woman who believes that suffering was good for the soul, so you suffered. Life is a testament to pain, injuries, accidents. Some inflicted upon others, some inflicted upon yourself. Surrounds you like a bubble but it's not... real it's just-- that's just something she put into your head. It's something that you wanna believe 'cause it means that you're the problem, not the world that you live in. You wanna believe it because... it means that you're bad luck. Like a cancer that needs to be removed. Because you hear her voice every day and you want her to be right.

Kara was frakked up well before Zak's death, well before she ever met Zak or Lee. She's been self-destructive since her mother began breaking her fingers in a door. Almost sleeping with Lee fits perfectly into that pattern.

Zak's death, and her hand in it, was just one more self-inflicted trauma she could beat herself up over, but it is hardly the first in her life or the one that started her down her dark path. Its significance is that it drove a wedge between Adama, Lee, and Kara and had to be pried out during Season 1.