Episode 16 – Modesty McDowell
Midlife Gamer Podcast
MidLifeGamer.net
4.9 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2008
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
A week of Gears of War 2 and all of its glory, first impressions of Fallout 3, Boom Blox, the life span of the Xbox 360 and Daren gets the New Xbox Experience AND plays with Guitar Hero World Tour.
News discussion – Xbox Live issues over the weekend, Street Fighter 4 release date and the need for the HD Street Fighter 2 along with Second Life marriage and divorce.
Misogyny joins in again to discuss her first few days of Wrath of the Lich King
The retail round-up – As expected Little Big Planet and Gears 2 at No. 1, The Last Remnant, Left4Dead, Lips, Locoroco 2, MK V’s DC and Need for Speed all coming next week.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Let me just claim my thoughts a second here. |
| 0:01.6 | Okay, right. |
| 0:05.8 | That's your clearing your thoughts, uh, music. Hello there and welcome to episode 16 of Midlife Gamer podcast. |
| 0:34.1 | My name is Darren Baldock, and with me me as always I have the delightful Matthew Moore. |
| 0:38.4 | How are you Matt? |
| 0:39.2 | And that's a bad mate. He's sounding very professional today. |
| 0:42.0 | I've got my radio voice. I'm feeling very chilled and relaxed after a very hectic week. |
| 0:48.9 | How are things? |
| 0:50.6 | Things are not bad at all actually, ma'am. |
| 0:52.9 | And while we're here to talk about we are here to talk about |
| 0:55.7 | everything gaming my friend all things gaming my friend let's have a look at what we're going to be |
| 0:59.8 | covering off we're going to talk about what we've been playing this week uh we're going to cover off |
| 1:03.9 | some news items we're going to talk about the retail roundup uh what's hitting the shelves this |
| 1:08.2 | week and uh i guess any other business really any other afterwards. So let's get straight into it. What have you been playing this week, Matthew? Okay, I've only been playing one game this week. What is it? Where do you think it could be? Gears of War II, by any chance, my friend? I've been playing Gears of War II all week and I still haven't finished the campaign at all. |
| 1:25.9 | Okay, so where you're up to in the campaign? I've just started the final act. Right. And it's been an amazing experience. It's taken me a lot longer than I thought. I was always assuming I was coming towards the end. It was like the end of speed. Yeah. It's like a million endings. It's like that and it keeps going each time more intense. |
| 1:45.4 | Or at the end of Lord of Rings trilogy, which seems to go on a speed. Yeah. Where it's like a million endings. It's like that and it keeps going each time or intense. |
| 1:49.5 | Not at the end of Lord of Rings trilogy, which seems to go on about half an hour too long. |
| 1:50.4 | It doesn't it just. |
| 1:52.0 | So gears, lovely gear. |
| 1:53.4 | We've done some online stuff and we've achieved something special, didn't it mean? |
| 1:57.6 | All right. |
| 1:58.3 | We'll save that. |
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