12/18/06 - Episode 08
Player One Podcast
Chris Johnston
4.5 • 498 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2006
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
This week we return to a topic brought up in the last 'cast: our greatest gaming shames. In the final segment of the podcast we share some things we're not proud of. And joining in the fun is this episode's special guest, freelance writer Dan Dormer, who shares an inexplicable shame -- playing a bad/painful game not only to the end, but over and over again to see its multiple endings, sinking at least 100 hours into it. Why?
Also this week, we continue our retrospective on the last generation of consoles by talking about the Xbox, Microsoft's first entry into the console gaming biz. From the launch to Xbox Live to the purchase of Rare and everything in between. Have our memories of the Bear Claw/Duke controller been washed away by the sands of time? Hells no. We'll miss you, Xbox, even though you live on in limited backward compatibility.
But we begin the podcast the way we always do, by discussing what we've been playing: Viva Pinata (360), Wii Sports (Wii), Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii), Phantasy Star Universe (360), Bionicle Heroes (360), Tomb Raider Legend (DS) and Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (DS). And because we're topical, we devote a segment to the Square Enix announcement of Dragon Quest IX for Nintendo DS.
Thanks for listening! Drop a comment or send us an audio comment and we'll read some/play some on next week's show. Send us feedback to playeronepodcast@gmail.com or leave a comment on the blog page.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 8 of the Player One podcast from Monday, December 18th. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm your host, Chris Johnston, |
| 0:21.3 | recording from an unseasonably balmy Houston, Texas. With me, as always, is a man who, |
| 0:26.5 | up until last week, thought that a bionical hero was this Superman-type character that wore |
| 0:30.8 | a monocle in each eye, Greg Seward. |
| 0:34.3 | Hi. And also joining us this week is a guy I can't make fun of yet since I don't really know him that well, but he's a freelancer for such places as OneUp.com and the escapist, Dan Dormer. Welcome, Dan. Hey, how's going, guys? Thanks for having me. So since we're recording kind of late this week and I hope we won't go as long as we usually do. |
| 0:57.0 | We're just going to launch right into the first segment, What You've Been Playing. |
| 1:00.9 | And since Dan is our special guest this week, we'll have him start. |
| 1:02.1 | So, Dan, what you've been playing? |
| 1:11.2 | I've been playing a fair amount of Viva Pignata recently, and, yeah, that a game's very, very addictive. |
| 1:18.0 | Probably should come with some type of warning that you play for about eight hours in a stretch and not leave your seat. |
| 1:21.0 | Did you pick it up when it launched? |
| 1:22.6 | No, actually. You've been playing it for a month straight, or is this a new purchase for you? |
| 1:25.6 | It's a new purchase. |
| 1:26.7 | I got it about two weeks ago, |
| 1:29.3 | but I'm actually still in school still |
| 1:31.3 | and I had exams. |
| 1:34.0 | So I've just gotten a chance |
| 1:35.5 | now to kind of really, you know, get into it. |
| 1:37.5 | And it's really a fantastic |
| 1:39.3 | game. It's very |
| 1:41.3 | interesting. |
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