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This week, The Tech-Gaming crew welcomes SEGA’s Aaron Webber, AKA RubyEclipse to the show. Aaron discusses what improvements were made to Phantasy Star Portable 2, as well as what gamers can expect from upcoming titles Sonic 4 and Yakuza 4. Listeners can also expect Halo Reach and Atelier Rorona: Alchemist of Arland impressions, in addition to our customary dose of gaming trivia, and mailbag questions.
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that’s some lovely artwork right there!
Shorter after last week’s mega episode, huh?
Not up on itunes yet?!?! What gives?
wait no TideGear this week? Man, he has been doing a lot lately, beyond taking two weeks to review Metroid.
good artwork this week. Top notch stuff.
Who plays Halo Reach for the single player? Get online you hermit!
I noticed TideGear’s presence is slowing slipping. He rarely talks about new releases, reviews games, and just come on to talk about Rockin’ Android now. 🙁
27.1 Megabytes are downloading for me.
oh the irony of calling your site tech-gaming and recording a show in MONO.
He’s on this one right? I see his name on it.
Are you guys going to do a two person review of Phantasy Star Portable 2?
Yeah new podcast. Way to get through the weekend.
Actually, NOLA and Des are just fine by themselves. They’re more fun.
The same guy who plays almost every JRPG 😉
Where did the title come from?
Ok, you got me interested in Phantasy Star Portable 2. Happy now?
The intro sounded like an 80’s movie. A really cheesy one at that.
Backbreaker never got a review?
Who is doing the scratching during the Backbreaker? Get off the turntable!
Why has Madden ‘ruined’ football games?
prolly to save bandwidth.
Stalking Cesar Milan? WHAT?
long lead-in this week. Seemed like we were eavesdropping on the NOLA and Deagle.
I hate you say it, but I think you guys are better off without Adam. Drop him and maybe get a new third guy.
Good show this week. Thanks guys.
How come my question wasn’t answered?
Yeah, you guys should drop TideGear and have Shipwreck come on once in a while.
Why all the Tidegear hate?
Why does Nola not like sports games?
Yes. He’s cool and all, but Deagle and Nola should think about getting a replacement.
Good interview with the Sega guy.
Aaron seems pretty cool.
I heard the scratching at the beginning too. Was that Mix Master Deagle?
beacuse he ate them. ALL OF THEM.
Call me, Deagle. I’m willing to woo the listeners with my sweet talk.
Voodoo dolls and Deja Vu so close together.
Hearing NOLA pronounce try to Ar Tonelico is the best part of the show.
Thanks god someone said it about Halo Reach, it’s not the end all be all.
Some of those review scores are nuts…
Because he’s AWOL again.
I’m glad you said that about Halo Reach. It feels really dated to me, and except for a few changes in MP feels like the same game, I’ve been playing for years.
I Know MS is pushing for this to be GOTY, but they’re just crazy.
Perfect scores from Gamepro, Gamespy, 1up, D-Toid, IGN UK, Escapit, Joystiq. Need I say more???
Deagle makes some good points about Halo. Too bad NOLA doesn’t seem interested and TideGear is missing.
You guys need to have some kind of call-in show sometime.
I think I’ll pick up PSP2 today.
anyone who doesn’t like Halo shouldn’t be reviewing games. Its the most important game of the year, and all you do is crap all over it?
Its obvious your a PS fanboy because all I see is Move stuff. Halo is a real game for real gamers.
talking smack about Halo is like throwing rocks at a hornet’s nest. You should probably avoid it if you dont like the sting.
wait a cool minute here.
When did this (or any game) get to the level that you cannot criticize it? So by that logic we should just blindly give Reach a 10,A+,5 stars for being Halo? I don’t think so.
This is just like any of the other games that gets released every week. Just because Master Chief or Zelda or anyone else is in it, doesn’t mean people should not talk about any problems with it.
Halo, Shmalo. I don’t see why people get all bent out of shape over the game.
The soundtrack this week was all from After Burner II. It doesn’t get much more cheesy than that.
Madden hasn’t ruined football games, it just ruined them for ME.
I am more of the Blitz/NBA Jam kind of sports game fan – I like to pick the Saints, use Reggie Bush to run every play, even when it doesn’t make sense, and break Farve’s legs at the end of every game. I can’t get into the hard sim games, like Madden, but I don’t have fun playing as fake teams either.
Since I have to play Madden to use the Saints, I can’t have fun playing an NFL game, and since the license IS important to me, then I can’t really enjoy football games in general.
Oh, K.P.: you are my favorite.
Did you try the Madden arcade game?
No PS music? 🙁
I already used PStar music in a previous episode (actually, I used it last time we had Aaron on to talk about the PSU servers going down). I picked After Burner II because it was SEGA though, and that seemed appropriate.
you and the head Prinny lover are my favs 😉
Would that be me? LOL.
This just in: I’m married to a Prinny. More on the the next podcast.
good show this week, except for the Halo hate.
What do you have against Sonic toonage?
What, dood? That’s crazy!!!
I’m fairly sure NOLA is also afraid of clowns, clowns and cannibals
I love hearing about all these games I cant afford!
What about cannibal clowns? that’s really scary!
I’ll admit, I haven’t listened to the show in a few week. This week was good.
Nothing. The soundtrack to the Podcastravaganza was almost entirely from Sonic 3 (although there is an EWJ track in there). It was all just mixed with hiphop.
It’s true. I won’t try to deny it.
We’ll never know what TideGear is scared of. Deadlines maybe?
I remember. Good stuff. I’m surprised the hedgehog and hiphop go together so well. Too bad SEGA didn’t discover this in the 90’s otherwise we might be playing the Genesis 5 today.
So when the tech-gaming PSP2 quest going to start?!?!
I want to know what the three ugly games are.
A bit of a letdown after last week’s megacast!
is TideGear alive?