Podcast 4-5, 4-6: A Powered-Up Podcastaganza

Clearly, the podcast gods much be enraged. What else could explain the endless succession of broken microphones, corrupted files, hellish traffic, conflicting schedules, and bouts of grumpiness which have prohibited the Tech-Gaming crew from releasing a show during the last two weeks? Yet, despite being engulfed in adversity we deliver.

This week’s podcast is laborious amalgam of episodes 4-5 and 4-6, a two-hour podcastaganza where TideGear, DesertEagle, and SeanNOLA offer ClaDan: This is an RPG, H.A.W.X. 2, Metroid: Other M and Valkyria Chronicles 2 impressions along with a double portion of our beloved trivia. We also invite Aksys Game’s Cherie and Gail to the show, to discuss portable titles Gladiator Begins and 999: 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors!  Hopefully, our painstaking efforts have paid off and you’ll enjoy our double-dose of gaming goodness.

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About Robert Allen

Since being a toddler, Robert Allen has been immersed in video games, anime, and tokusatsu. Currently, his days are spent teaching at two southern California colleges. But his evenings and weekends are filled with STGs, RPGs, and action titles and well at writing for Tech-Gaming since 2007.

63 comments

  1. Its about freakin’ time, ninjas!

  2. Are you guys trying to outdo the Giant Bombcast?

  3. Totally epic. I’m tired, so I’ll listen on my way to work tomorrow.

  4. The podcasting gods are cursing Sean for saying bad things about NIS!

  5. U can’t touch this, bitches! Hell yes!

  6. I hope things get better for you guys!

  7. my question better be answered this week.

    Hey, is the show upon itunes, yet?

  8. 53.8MB from you and 83.2MB from Giant Bomb has just crippled my internet connection.

  9. Ho sheet. this. is. epic.

    What kind of mics do you guys use?

  10. well, they’re still free.

  11. Your servers are lagging. It’s taking me 30+ minutes to d/l the show.

  12. Question for next week: Do you guys have any phobias? What are you scared of?

  13. I got a question for y’all:

    How has the recession effected your gaming and in your opinion the industry? Has gaming really been hurt or has just seem soso developers been weeded out?

  14. downloading now. Would you guys ever have the stones to do a live show???

  15. why aren’t you guys at TGS? Did you go to PAX at least?

  16. that took 20 minutes to download. I hope it’s worth it.

  17. Wow, longest show ever?

  18. I’ll give a listen tomorrow.

  19. I’ll be listening over the next week or so.

  20. It’s like War and freaking Peace. I don’t know if I’ll ever finish it.

  21. I wish the yearbook was integrated more in VC2, too. It seems like it was just slapped in there.

  22. I liked your discussion on obvious game mechanics (M:OM) and specially how deagle says film gets an out.

  23. Where’s Adams, Other M review? Did I miss it?

  24. I’m famous! thanks for answering my question.

  25. SeanNOLA’s misguided comment of the week

    “Vanquish will be a sleeper hit”

    It will be SEGA’s hit this year. Guaranteed!

  26. Jonas Falcon long 😉

  27. Deagle likes the gamez with the ‘kidz’ in them. LOL!

  28. 4-5 kind of ends on a down note. Wow, SeanNOLA seemed bitter. Thank god for the Moonwalker jam 😉

  29. Aksys interview was very cool, but sound quality was pretty bad. Still, they sound like very cool, people.

  30. I need to play Zero mission. It’s one of the Metroid games, Ive missed.

  31. Whats happened to Sean in 4-6. He talks about Castle Crashers, then disappears.

  32. Where’s the Ruse and Metroid review, guys?

  33. I know you’re playing Etrian Odyssey, Desert. Give up the details.

  34. My microphone broke right before we recorded 4-6. I recorded the Castle Crashers bit with DEagle the following day, and just edited it in.
    We also recorded an NISA interview, but the mics those guys used weren’t up to snuff, so we had to scrap it. We’ll try to have those guys on again at some point.

  35. Or was it DEagle just kissing their prinny butts for 20 minutes straight?

  36. No, believe it or not, we had an interesting discussion about their localization process – you just couldn’t hear anything they were saying.

  37. epic show this week.

  38. Hmmm…this article doesn’t quite jive. I mean, I like what they are saying, but they don’t cite any of their sources, or even say that they have any for that matter. They just say “Apparently, Sony is doin’ stuff,” but it isn’t really apparent if this is the first time we’re hearing about it.

  39. Mark my words: Vanquish sales will be underwhelming at launch, but won’t stop selling over time. We will see a sequel in 2012, and it will have multiplayer.

  40. I still think it will have a good launch. Sequel in 2013, tho.

  41. Sounds like the Aksys people are underwater at some points. 999 is a must get for me.

  42. Yeah, seems like hopeful speculation.

  43. so they said, “…” ?

    🙂

  44. I wouldn’t have noticed until you said so!

  45. The shows cool and all, but I wouldn’t pay for it.

    No offense, but I wouldn’t pay to hear the Giant Bombcast show early either.

  46. Decent episode.

  47. Kind of a crazy show this week. But thanks fir trying guys.

  48. Some good music this week. That’s for sure!

  49. Damn super long episode this week!

  50. “bouts of grumpiness”?

    Who NOLA or Deagle, which of those divas is guilty?

  51. I guarantee its worth every penny you paid for it 😉

  52. I’m not a diva, I just play games with divas in them.

    Warning: I might be a little grumpy on the podcast we’re recording tonight. A few anticipated games feel like a bit antiquated.

  53. I’m guessing Reach.

  54. It hasn’t been posted yet.

  55. LOL when Desert talking about “confronting our own mortality” He went all emo for a sec, there.

  56. Im not going to lie, I probably wont listen to the weekend.

  57. double experience earned. Level up!!!!

  58. Yeah, the girl sound very cool. Get her back on the podcast!

  59. did I miss the XtothaZ/Sonic mashup somewheres?

  60. Ezio Auditore da Firenze

    The time of the actual show doesn’t match the time shown on the site.

  61. all over the place in content and sound quality but a good show overall.

  62. Deagle, you finish HAWX 2 yet? How about some tips, wonderboy. The last level is killing me.