11/06/06 - Episode 02
Player One Podcast
Chris Johnston
4.5 • 498 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2006
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
- Blatantly thieve the "what'cha been playin'" segment popular in many podcasts and use it to talk about Final Fantasy XII, Sam & Max, Phantasy Star Universe, Elite Beat Agents, DDR and Strawberry Shortcake(!).
- Talk about preorders. Gears of War, the various Halo 3 editions, and Gamestop's ability to sell you slips of paper that say you have a game on reserve a year before it's due out.
- Talk about microtransactions (again). EA being a repeat offender with Need For Speed Carbon. We also take some time to talk about the pricing of Nintendo/Sega/TG-16 virtual console stuff. Somewhere in there we also stray into talking about the failures of Xbox Live Arcade.
- ...and in the last segment we reminisce a little bit with stories of system launches / launch windows past from the perspective of working at a video game magazine.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode two of the Player One podcast. I'm Chris Johnston. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm Greg Stewart. |
| 0:24.2 | And you know what it means to get to episode two, Greg? |
| 0:27.6 | No. |
| 0:28.9 | It means we're no longer a flash in the pan. |
| 0:32.1 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:33.5 | At least for one more week. |
| 0:35.7 | Now we just need the trendy heroin habit, and we can start the infighting and break up and then, you know, bring out a greatest hits album and reunion tour. |
| 0:46.4 | Sounds good. |
| 0:47.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.7 | Let's start planning that reunion tour now. |
| 0:50.2 | I think it's best to get right on that. |
| 0:53.3 | Yeah, let's just skip all the crap and, yeah, okay. Yeah, uh-huh, yeah. Freak. We're going to start out this week with talking about what we've been playing, because, you know, everybody else does that as their opening segment, and we thought, hey, why the hell not, right? We don't want to get left out. No, no. We do what everybody else does. Yes. |
| 1:13.7 | Yeah, so, so Greg, what have you been playing? I've started Final Fantasy 12, and I was really |
| 1:20.7 | excited about this game, because I think Final Fantasy 11, well, I hated it, because I don't like |
| 1:27.0 | the MMO RPG crap. So, you know I hated it, because I don't like the MMO RPG crap. |
| 1:30.2 | So, you know, I was excited because I really like Final Fantasy 10 and blah, blah, blah. |
| 1:33.5 | Anyway, I've only got about two hours logged in it yet, and it hasn't grabbed me. |
| 1:39.6 | And I went into it sort of preconceived notion that I wasn't really going to dig the whole new battle system. |
| 1:47.3 | And so far, it's true. |
| 1:49.5 | I don't like it, but I don't have a plan yet. |
| 1:52.4 | So I haven't done the whole, you know. |
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