Top 5 043: Launch Titles

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Nick Henderson

Leisure, Video Games, Games

4.8 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2010

⏱️ 54 minutes

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New console launches are some of the most exciting events in this industry. But a console's initial success or failure is largely determined by the titles that are available for purchase at the time of its launch. We sit down to discuss our favorite launch titles and explain why we consider them to be the best representations of their system's potential.

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0:00.0	Activate.
0:17.5	Hey, guys, welcome to 4-player podcast, weekly top-five video game podcast. Today we're going to be talking about our top 5 launch titles. This means when a game console comes out, it could be any of the games that released with the console or games that released in the first few months. Okay, the launch window of a console. Have you ever seen a clock with a millisecond hand? It's pretty cool. I know, it is pretty cool. So with that said, let's start with number five.
0:39.2	How about you, David? What's your number five launch tower? Are we going this way? Does he got work? He's got working for. At four, it's two-thirty. I know. Yeah, but he wants to go take a shower before work. Oh, no. That's a man. What's up good and Jerry?
0:53.3	Oh, God.
0:54.5	What's your number five?
0:55.9	Is that really how we're starting?
0:57.4	We're just going to... I like it. It's good. Number five. The thing is, there's no, like, bullshitting in their launch titles. Sorry. These can be... The launch titles that make this list are, you know, typically the kind of ones that, you know, you want to bring up because you're like, wow, I'm glad I bought this console because I'm playing this game. We're like, this game is rad. This is defying the launch of this system. So this is, yeah, this is not exactly, we bought these games because, we just bought the system because of these games. Exactly. We bought these games because when the system came out, that's all they had.
1:28.8	No.
1:29.0	No, because it was the out of the shitty games that came out.
1:31.3	All it is is the favorite games, our favorite games, that came out during the launch of a system.
1:35.3	That's it.
1:36.2	Sounds a little bit...
1:37.2	Not a launch window, right?
1:38.4	That sounds a little bit complicated.
1:39.7	It's so simple.
1:40.6	Number five, David.
1:42.5	Huh? Number... Number... My number five, I will go with cameo... Elements of Power. Elements of Power. I hated that game. I know you hated it. I've never played that game. Do you know why I liked it? Because you were a girl? No. Hey. Wait. For the launch of the 360, I picked up three games.
2:02.6	Perfect Dark Zero.
2:03.6	Project Gotham Racing 3.
2:05.6	Right.
2:06.6	Fuck.
2:08.6	Let's start the show over.
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