Episode 11 - STUPID GAME IS CHEATING!!11
Thursday, May 20, 2010 at 1:02PM Ah...the cry of a generation. How many tears, how many broken controls have the years seen? But is it difficulty or just bad game design?
This episode the PhD and his sidekick discuss difficulty in videogames, tackling the topic from a million different angles. From the apparent unfairness of the early Sierra Adventure games to the Legendary difficulty option in your favorite first person shooters, we look at it all.
We follow it up with an in-depth discussion on the goods and evils of review scores, talking about the 7-10 scale, metacritic, where videogame critics get things right with scores, and where they need to get their act together.
And we finish it all up with some Mortal Emails and our first entry in playing through Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection.
Music this episode:
Spice Girls - Viva Forever
Benny Hill Theme
Shining Force - Circus Tent
Zelda II: The Adventures of Link - Field Battle
Darksiders - Battle With Straga
Himesh Reshammiya Jhoom Jhoom
Cave Story - Main Theme
Ristar - Game Over
What a great episode! Sometimes, when prayers turn to promises, dreams become reality (or some other such FFXIII nonsense).
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Intro music for this podcast provided with permission by Xavier Dang at www.xavierdang.com