That was some tasteful editing of my original email Certis, but if you had read the whole thing a lot more people would be listening through the archives of GWJ Radio . That episode was so funny I almost got fired for laughing out loud.

Great show all! Look forward to the big 1...5...0 next week

You know that Bill Harris has given it the seal of approval a.k.a. "best american football game ever".

Yay, You pronounced my last name right. Maybe I should have referenced my username.

Thanks for the response on my "keeping the podcast fresh" email. Its always nice to hear a little on the planning on the podcast itself.

I have to admit that my strength is wavering. I need to hold strong! Almost a week w/out Madden -- I can DO this!

oh great. Just came here to see where to get that friend you up song and it is in the first post. You guys don't disappoint. Keep up the good work.

Glad to hear Fallout 3 is belatedly working it's magic. I remember Giant Bomb's first and second reactions to F3.

First reaction: "I've been playing Fallout 3 and I have to say... a little bit boring."
Second reaction (a week or two later): "I've played 40 hours so far..."

On the subject of playing games twice; I often enjoy my second play through of a game more than the first. I'm generally pesamistic about my own gaming abilities and I tend not to learn games properly. On the first play through I spend half my time wondering if I'll make it to the end of the game and the other half feeling that I'm not using all the spells/weapons/ninja powers properly. On the second play through I know I can beat the game and I've generally learned all the wrinkles so I can relax and have fun.

That said, I think it has to be a particular type of game. I have to love playing the game. The fights have to be unpredictable and dynamic i.e. they don't play out the same way every time.

No, nothing at all really. Unless you didn't know District 9 was about aliens.

If anyone is interested in any of the music that we run on the show you can follow the links the artists provide in the show credits and if the song isn't there you can usually find an e-mail for the artist on their site. You can request a copy directly from them. We don't give out copies of the music we use on the show because they don't belong to us. The artists are just nice enough to let use them.

To clarify the voicemail, last week's show they were talking about Wipeout HD Fury, even if they used the incorrect name, there was an expansion pack released for Wipeout HD called Fury. And it's rad.

Good show guys.

A comment about having to play games through twice to see the content.

Some games work well with this. One being fallout 3, you can play through on good, and the game is much different if going the other way. However if you play somewhere in the middle you don't really get the best of either. I played through on Good the first time and then played again as evil and robbed just about everyone and broke into everything I could find, which I thought was very fun.

A game that doesn't do this well that I've played recently is inFamous. I played through as good and started a 2nd play through as evil and it got boring really fast and I just couldn't bear to do it all again just to see a few different abilities.

Mindcloud

No problems. You weren't the only one to ask.

I probably would have too if I didn't already have it.

I am throwing myself whole-heartedly at IL-2, but I was horrified that the analog sticks were doing the opposite of what I expect--exactly as Rabbit described. My brother informed me that it's the European layout for R/C controllers. I haven't verified this, but it would make sense, since it's a European company.

This doesn't mean they shouldn't include the option to switch between them. Already the game's official forums are swarming with this complaint--so here's hoping they fix this oversight in time for the release of the full version. Of course you could do like I did, and shell out for an xbox-compatible flightstick. I grabbed a Saitek Aviator because it a) would work and b) wasn't crazy-expensive. I've been playing the demo with it and it works great.

Maybe so, maybe no. But I think the main defect here is not that one control or another is in an unexpected place, but rather that the layout is not configurable. I'd love to see a legitimate excuse for that for any game. It can't cost that much extra in development. And don't even think of dragging out the Resident Evil 5 rationalization of "increased tension".

Hans

I'm a week late on this call out, so probably nobody but the 2 people left posting in here will read this, but I noticed this today: