AWESOME! 3 hours!!!
Love GameJunk! Feels like dessert after a FilmJunk meal.

Sorry to hear that none of you enjoyed Fallout 3. I found it to be the best game that I played this generation, and it is my 3rd favorite game of all time. I understand that it is a little clumsy in the beginning, when there are a lot of menus to get through in the pip-boy, a lot of gameplay mechanics to understand, and the intimidating nature of getting out of the vault and not really knowing what to do in this massive world next. But if you power through that, get to know the game a little better, figure out how to do some of the things the game expects you to do, then you will find a game-world like no other out there. What I liked most about this game is the amount of choices that you have, so that you can explore and wander around the way that suits you play-style best through the realistic, dark, dangerous, and surprising world that is the Capital Wasteland. I guess to me this game represents some of the best 120 hours of videogames I’ve ever played. But I know many people who put in 200+ hours. I hope you guys give it another chance, because it would be a real shame to pass it up. Sorry for the Fallout 3 rant.
Anyway, as far as the Move sales numbers go; apparently there was a translation error from the Japanese press release and as it turns out the 4.1 million Move units were shipped to retailers and not actually sold to consumers. Also it seems that only bundles and starter kits are being counted as part of the 4.1 mill, and not the stand-alone wands or PS-eyes.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/sony-confirms-shipping-not-selling-4-1-million-move-units/

@Sean – Tron Evolution is promoted as being a prequel to the Tron Legacy movie. It’s supposed to fill in the gaps of what transpired between Legacy and the original Tron movie from 28 years ago.

Just thought I would mention, my understanding is that the playstation move numbers are units shipped not sold. That is what they are saying on the IGN podcasts because they were pissed that Sony was throwing that number at them because no one gives a shit about units shipped.

On the music front, I’m pretty much done with those types of games. Guitar Hero II is still my favorite but I’ve played it to death and sold all that shit months ago to get it out of my house. I played Rock Band 1 a few times with friends and it was fun for a while but nothing I’m going to play over and over again.

The drums were too small and for me (a real drummer), it was extremely frustrating to be buckled down to only playing when they say. It was kind of boring and actually difficult. I wanted to do cool shit and double bass kicks and whatever and I would get penalized for making it cooler.

Good party game, but how many can there possibly be. I think these games are on the down trend.

I hope you guys give the Fallout games a little more love down the road as they’re pretty exceptional from a gameplay and story perspective. The sheer size and amount of options are where they shine and New Vegas kicks all of that up quite a bit.

The key to enjoying the Fallout games is taking your time and trying your best to immerse yourself in the world and the game’s systems. Roaming around the wasteland and looking for trouble is a far superior experience to just barreling through the main story. New Vegas has a fairly decent main story quest that can be finished in about 5-8 hours but there’s 75 story quests as well as countless ‘mini quests’ as well. Probably be worth it to wait until there’s nothing else on your plates!

I’d recommend skipping Fallout 3 altogether and just going for that game as the writing, voice acting, gameplay variation and characters are leagues more interesting than 3 and this is coming from someone who played Fallout 3 four times and clocked in 250 hours on 360 AND PC! New Vegas carries the spirit of the original 2 games in it’s versatility. Highly recommend it.

FRANK:

I’d like an update on whether or not you finish Super Meat Boy as you seem to be the hardest of the core on the podcast. I finished all of the main story levels but haven’t gotten much further than the 4th world in terms of the ‘dark world’ levels. After you finish the main game there’s a world of bandage girl levels that are BRUTAL as well as the ‘internets’ levels unlocked after you get 20 bandages! Crazy shit!

Also, let us know if you finish Halo Reach on Legendary Solo. Consider that a challenge.

I know there are some Handball games released in Germany.

I wanted to ask you guys if you ever tried the Sinclair Spectrum back in the day. This was by far the most popular game “console” of my generation when I was a kid, at least in Europe since it’s a UK product. It was then followed by Amstrad and the Commadore which were then followed by the Atari and Amiga PC computers.
I played the Sinclair endlessly as a kid and when I’ve tried to play some of the games today on emulators I find it amazing how I managed to waste time playing some of these fucking things. I guess my eye-hand coordination was better back then.

Great episode boys.. had me in stitches throughout.

Frank, you are my boy. I’m going to live vicariously through you, as you have the time to play games that I only dream of.

Keep it up!

GAME COMPLETION…

At first it makes sense that to get “everything a game has to offer”, completing a game totally makes sense. But then I realized that’s not true at all. Not always anyway.

It totally depends on the game. I am about 4/5 of the way through INFAMOUS. Am I going to finish it? Yeah probably. But if I quit now I seriously doubt I’ll be really missing out on any big surprise or that the game will deliver something I haven’t already seen. As it is things are getting pretty repetitive. Once a game gets repetitive there’s little need to keep going if you don’t want to. If what is happening is fun or you’re interested in the story arc, then fine. But to say I can’t give an accurate review of Infamous (which I really like by the way) because I haven’t finished it is not accurate in my opinion.