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Midlife Gamer Podcast

Episode 22 – INXS of 2008!

Midlife Gamer Podcast

MidLifeGamer.net

Leisure, Video Games, Games

4.9618 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2008

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Christmas gaming with Metal Gear Solid 4, Fallout 3, Rock Band, Castle Crashers, Peggle, Street Fighter 2 and some old school NES action with Zelda and N64 action with Golden Eye.

News discussion – Free Xbox Arcade game available, more country songs coming to Rock Band, Halo original download price cut, Zavvi going into administration and who’s going to pick up the slack, Hideo Kojima directing 2 new titles, PS3 costing less to manufacture, voice chat mostly back in Home and Steam cutting prices.

Our top games of 2008 and honorable mentions.

The retail round-up – Fifa being the final number one of the year and some extra Rock Band DLC.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, you ain't no gamer that I know.

0:01.7

You're not hardcore.

0:02.5

You're not hardcore.

0:03.4

No.

0:04.6

Stop blowing your gyro on boozing fangs, yeah?

0:07.5

Put a 10 or 15 quid aside.

0:10.8

Put 10 or 15 quid aside. In 12 months the 27th of December. This is our last show of the year. We've got loads of stuff lined up for you. I've got with me in the office. As always, Mr. Matthew Moore. How are you, Matt? I'm festive. I'm loving my time off work, my friend. Fantastic. And we also have a very special guest with us today. Driven all up from barkshire we have gurney katoo aka wayne shaler Wayne how are you very well thank you okay it's really nice to have Wayne join us he managed to get yourself a little bit of time off and come up and do some do some gaming with us a bit of an MLG collective totally man I must say the third share as well is the rickety chair.

1:12.0

Got the, got the dud seat.

1:13.2

Yeah, I've got the dud seat.

1:15.5

It's all right, though. It's all good, man. So, welcome to the show, my friend. Thank you very much. Don't be nervous. We'll be gentle with you. Well, maybe not me. So let's give you a breakdown of what we're going to be talking about.

1:10.2

As always, we're going to talk about what we've been doing and what we've been playing,

1:13.0

and I'm sure we'll be talking about our Christmas preys.

1:15.7

Yep. So let's give you a breakdown of what we're going to be talking about. As always, we're going to talk about what we've been doing and what we've been playing,

1:26.7

and I'm sure we'll be talking about our Christmas preys. Yep. We're going to be covering off some news. There's still news going on out there, believe it or not. It's not all good news. It's never always good news at the moment, but that's a state of play with life at the moment. and we'll be discussing our five favourite games of the year.

1:45.3

Yes, I'm looking forward to finding out if there's any crossover i'm sure

1:50.0

that will look at you to now and i'm trying to analyze what's going to be in there it's a and it's a

1:54.3

shame that udo wasn't released this year really isn't it or peggle because there'd be number

1:59.4

ones on both of ours for them fucking right baby right okay so let's get straight into it. Matthew, what have you been playing since last week? Well, do you remember me telling you that Fall Out hadn't really got me by the Bulls yet? Yeah, that's right. But I think it might have done. So I think I've done about 12 hours into fallout so far. And here, tell you what, this is a really good accolade for a game.

2:01.4

I've been 12 hours So I think I've done about 12 hours into fallout so far. And tell you what, this is a really good accolade for a game. I've been 12 hours into it. And I think I've amassed less than 100 gamers score from it. And that is a good, that's a test of a good game. Because I mean, I know I'm not all about getting achievement points. But it's a nice little reminder that you're doing the right thing and you're progressing somewhere in a game.

2:35.1

And although I'm not going through the main story, I'm just all about side quests.

2:39.0

Yeah.

2:39.3

I'm all about exploring this awesome world and just getting into fights with these random enemies.

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