PCGP Episode 89: XP Compatible
AMA decides decides not to classify video games addiction (yet); Vista games hacked to run in XP; Age of Conan to be cross platform; Soldier of Fortune 3 in the works… developed by Activision’s “value” division; the value of Collector’s Editions; World of Warcraft fan site WowHead sells for $1Mil; Q&A and playlists!
June 28th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
awsome
June 28th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
WaY!! pcgp!!
June 28th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
Hell, it’s about time!
June 29th, 2007 at 2:30 am
And Jeremy, is it possible to post a link to that video of Gary on TV?
June 29th, 2007 at 4:10 am
That Windows Advisor IMO is not very good. I recently came across a site that has a pretty good estimator for system requirements for games: http://www.yougamers.com
Its still in beta, but seems to work fairly well so far.
And if you’re looking for someone to play ET:QW with…
June 29th, 2007 at 5:44 am
Best collectors edition of a game i know off is the auto assault mmo one
* An in-game ‘Pet’ exclusive to the Collector’s Edition - a mini RC car!
* Headset with microphone for in-game voice chat
* Road Style Map - folds out to show the full glory of the Central Wastelands - 61cm x 45.7cm
* Soundtrack CD with 19 tracks by Richard Dekkard
* Explosive poster for your wall - 36cm x 60cm in size
* Engraved metal key ring
* Collectable Mutant, Human and Biomek postcards
* Exclusive bumper sticker
I use the headset alot its pretty good
June 29th, 2007 at 6:51 am
Ok Gary, now i hate Jack Thompson and people like him as much as the next guy but im gonna have to let you know that your statement about nintendo is False. I am a soildier in the US Army and when I went to basic training in 2002 we used a Super Nintendo to train for marksmenship. Although I believe that the “game” was not licenced by nintendo because when you turned it on you didnt get any of the normal nintendo flash screens it just went straight to the “game” portion. The controller was a rubber M-16 with a light gun built into it and it was used to evaluate a soldiers ability to control breathing and trigger squeeze while firing at point on the screen. A simulated firing range basicly.
June 29th, 2007 at 11:56 am
Great podcast. The only thing I dont get is why Blizzard bought the fan site.
June 29th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
blizzard didn’t buy the fan site. it was a media company. sorry if there was any confusion.
June 29th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
According to http://www.mmogchart.com Final Fantasy XI has 500,000 users, with a peak userbase in June ‘05 of 600,000 users. The game has been more successful than Everquest or Ultima Online and it’s only currently surpassed by WoW, Lineage, Lineage II and Runescape.
June 29th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Hi this is Thomas, the original sender about the Lt. Col Grossman book. To Turley714, I think the argument Grossman was trying to make is that the military uses video games to train soldiers to bypass every humans innate resistance to kill. Even though you used games in Boot Camp, I dont think the Army’s intention was to desensitize you to violence. I too am in the military, and in my experience with violence desensitization, the military uses pictures and video of real life violence instead of video games. BTW, the Army didnt make the “America’s Army” video game to desensitize future soldiers to violence, they made it to advertise, and nothing more.
June 29th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
I have always been a big fan of the Guild Wars Collector Editions.
Take Nightfall, for example, you get a collector’s mini-pet, a special dance, game sound track, art book, making of DVD, exclusive in game music, 2 collector skill pins, Varesh cardboard standup, 16×24 map, and a poster.
Is any of it necessary to the game or a ‘must’ have? No, but it is a pretty good dose of goodies for an extra $10. Why not?
June 29th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Whoops my bad Norm.
June 29th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Jeremy, if you haven’t corrected the podcast already, Gahz was able to slip the words “b-llsh-t” and “bl-w j-b” early on the first half of the podcast. I don’t have the exact time stamps on them, I figure somebody else with the time will post em eventually. I never knew Gahz was such a vulgar dude — then again he IS British (zing!).
And shame on those of you who didn’t post this sooner. Won’t somebody pleeeze think of the children??
June 29th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
bamboo-stick:Because we aren’t babies like you.
“Oh noes he said blow job”
June 29th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Daffygremlin: Honestly, I couldn’t care less if the podcast had expletives bleeped or not. But it’s important that PCG keeps the same quality in editing as it always has up to this point. Jeremy has always done an excellent job keeping it clean, and if something gets by him, I think it should be pointed out to him right away. This podcast has always been appropriate to all listeners, not just us mature folk. And in case you couldn’t figure it out by my joke at the end, I was being sarcastic.
Edit: Thank you Vagabond
June 29th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
I like uncensored podcasts.
06:43 for BS
Not sure about BJ.
Don’t listen to daffy. He’s still trying to grow up.
June 29th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
27:11 for BJ
June 29th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
I agree with you nebelwerfer the game we used to train with wasn’t violent at all, we were just shooting at a range target. I was just arguing the point to Gary that the Army did in fact use a nintendo product to train its soldiers. Thanks.
June 29th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Hey Jeremy, when did you guys record this podcast? I sent a question on Sunday night, and it didn’t get aired? I put the title as PCGP Question, so I dunno if your gmail filtered me out.
What gives?
June 30th, 2007 at 2:39 am
Bamboo: Does it really matter if the worlds arent bleeped out. Blow job and bull shit aren’t that bad and I personally like it better unedited.
June 30th, 2007 at 11:32 am
RE 5.1 headsets:
Try the Medusa 5.1. It comes highly recommended from people who have it.
http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=13328&category_id=239&manufacturer_id=0&tid=sl-8793#
June 30th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
I can’t imagine why anyone would be excited about a new Soldier of Fortune, the original games weren’t that good anyway - mediocre at best. Besides, the SoF games seem like typical artifacts of their time to me, that kind of gameplay is really outdated by now.
July 1st, 2007 at 12:41 am
I never played the original but the new one sounds like its going to suck.
July 1st, 2007 at 2:28 am
I picked up Sof II in a bargain bin not too long ago. Wasn’t bad, not great but still good fun.
July 1st, 2007 at 8:27 am
new fallout3 screenshots at
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/fallout3/images.html?tag=tabs;images
July 1st, 2007 at 11:36 am
Thanx War Snake
July 5th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
I wanted to comment on how I don’t think that a utility would be totally useful to some people for knowing if they would like how a game runs on their system. The reason why I say this is because what some people would accept as far as that goes is actually pretty subjective. This goes for performance, looks, etc.
July 7th, 2007 at 5:59 am
about people talking about things they don’t know about. Do know about the saying “it’s not a truck.. it’s a series of tubes”?
July 14th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Jeremy could you post Gary’s interview with Dave Grossman like fifpro suggested? I love to see it too. Tried searching but it doesn’t seem to available anywhere on the web.