Idle Thumbs 2 - The Fanboy's Lament

Tokyo Game Show and BlizzCon may be over, but they live on in our hearts, and our podcast. Stay awhile and listen for hands-on reports, commentary, and the heart-rending ballad of a once-proud console warrior. This episode probably not sponsored by Gamer Grub.

Originally aired October 15, 2008.

1:16 — Theme
1:47 — Intro - Richard Garriott is in space
1:59 — Scene It? Box Office Smash - Better than a game based on DVD menus
4:21 — XBox Avatars - Jake is a goth chick
5:05 — J Allard - Is at a BMX event
7:01 — Xbox Avatars - J Allard is the Hitler Mii of Avatars
8:08 — Bizzcon - More exciting than TGS
9:37 — Diablo III - Skill Runes and ideal builds
11:44 — Diablo III - The Wizard
13:52 — StarCraft II - Split single-player campaigns
16:28 — Blizzcon - Unwelcome announcements
17:42 — Allocating dev resources - A gamer's perspective
19:00 — Fallout 3 - Bethesda doesn't think their fans are horrible
20:00 — Blizzcon - Unwelcome announcements
21:08 — StarCraft II - Dialog trees and everything
21:56 — Diablo III - The Wizard is wizard
23:03 — No More Heros 2 - Grasshopper's design guys are the secret bosses of games
24:17 — Infinite Space - Based on WWII naval vessels, just like their porn games
25:30 — Bungie - Newly independent! And still making Halo
26:38 — Bungie Every new game might be Marathon
27:53 — The Halo movie - Did not end up happening
28:37 — Zack Snyder and slow motion - Also the Max Payne movie sucks
30:02 — Blizzcon - The Bilzzard museum
31:02 — Appreciating Older Games - Warcraft doesn't have drag select
32:30 — Tekken 6 - Non-exclusivity scandal
34:32 — The Fanboy's Lament - (song)
38:47 — Console Exclusives - Only on N!
40:11 — Spider-Man 2 (PC) - Spider-Man Math!
40:33 — Crossplatform multiplayer - Chris is a hypocrite
42:44 — LittleBigPlanet - Designing levels
45:10 — LittleBigPlanet - Enforced aesthetics in user-generated content
45:48 — LittleBigPlanet - Jumping and movement
46:34 — LittleBigPlanet - Sharing user-created content
49:56 — Community-Based Games - Maintaining involvement
54:02 — Fable II - My sister was caught on a column 40 feet away
59:01 — Fable II - Blacksmith II
1:00:60 — Fallout 2 - The "unreleased" game
1:01:19 — Reader Mail - World of Goo - It's Awesome
1:01:45 — Reader Mail - Gears of War 2 - Multiplayer modes
1:03:27 — Reader Mail - Oblivion - The 220 hour guy
1:04:14 — Gaming Paralysis - Jake's life
1:04:50 — Hinterlands - Featuring shameless name dropping
1:05:46 — Reader Mail - Shogo - Half of Darth Vader's head on the box
1:06:30 — Reader Mail - Donks are Unacceptable - Except when Jake does them
1:06:56 — Ultra Boost - A trillion bottles of balls on the walls

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Idle Thumbs
• Chris Remo
• Nick Breckon
• Jake Rodkin
• video games
• Scene It?
• Xbox Avatars
• J Allard
• Blizzcon
• Diablo III
• StarCraft II
• Fallout 3
• No More Heros 2
• Infinite Space
• Bungie
• Halo
• Zack Snyder
• Tekken 6
• The Fanboy's Lament
• Spider-Man 2
• LittleBigPlanet
• Fable II
• World of Goo
• Gears of War 2
• Shogo
• Ultra Boost
• The Wizard

[BradRapstars]

If you're doing this to stop me from bitching about needing a new podcast, well....

It's working.

[discontent]

What's this? Are you going to do all the episodes?

[spotpilgrim]

@RumelGnipeal Dude, that's not what strategy chocolate means

[RumelGnipeal]

Fullscreen, cup of hot (strategy) chocolate, youtube snowflake filter. The Life.

[Henroidt]

Babboo, the wizard, a grenade rolled down the hill.

This video existing pleases me.