Conference Call

GWJ Conference Call Episode 106

Dead Space, SOCOM: Free Headset, Fallout 3, Galcon, Tough Questions With Shawn, Your Emails and more!

We had a full five man recording this week just in case Elysium had to run out and deliver a baby. Shawn uses the opportunity to ask some tricky industry questions to his distinguished co-hosts and everyone gets their balls broken over something. Good times.

To contact us, email [email protected]! Send us your thoughts on the show, pressing issues you want to talk about or whatever else is on your mind. You can even send a 30 second audio question or comment (MP3 format please) if you're so inclined.

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Show credits

Music credits: 

Intro/Outro Music - Ian Dorsch, Willowtree Audioworks

"Los Pistoleros" Ian Dorsch - 0:39:54
"PodunkStump" Ian Dorsch - 1:05:16

Comments

Demiurge wrote:
docbadwrench wrote:

Aside: Since you're now in the business of answering random questions now, what should I have for breakfast tomorrow?

Bagel. Cream cheese. Try the sesame with the garden veggie schmear.

Next.

Wow, could you just make a list of like 6 breakfasts? This could make shopping far easier.

rabbit wrote:

GalCon is really much deeper than it seems. At level 7, I think, the enemy AI gets the ability to make mid-flight adjustments. You, however, do not. It's a completely game-changing development I wasn't expecting. Still relearning my strategies.

You can make mid-flight adjustments, it's just harder on the iPhone than it is on the PC.

Grand Admiral is very challenging because not only does the AI react almost instantly to anything you do, they midflight adjust like crazy. Still only beat the AI about 50% of the time on that one.

Zelos wrote:

Before the WoW addict email came up

Hey, I'm not an addict! I'm just.. huh... reeeeally impressed with what the game has to offer.

First I'd like to say you're all bastards. I've been avoiding trying WoW because I think the consequences would be pretty dire for my life, but you're making it sound soooo tempting.

Second, with Starcraft 2 I agree with rabbit. Let's wait for the game and see how it turns out, Blizzard is capable of carrying it off, or they could screw it up, but there's no way to tell. I'm inclined to think that the second and third games will sell less than the first one because more casual gamers will have their SC2 experience already.

Ummm... there was a third point, but it escapes me.

docbadwrench wrote:

You put it out there: A Levine/Jaffe ticket. Who would be the comparative competition? I'm not sure who I would put against them, but for some moustache-twirling action and in spite of him not being a developer, I'd have to include Uwe Boll. I'd say that's pretty much on par with the Republican primary write-ins for Voldemort.

Aside: Since you're now in the business of answering random questions now, what should I have for breakfast tomorrow?

I think the only people who could run against Levine/Jaffe would be Molyneux/Dyack

It would certainly make for some interesting debates.

Demiurge wrote:

Oh, Lobster. Your radness cannot be contained within the digital walls of this forum. Manly hugs!

... is that enough validation, or do you need more?

I think that's enough validation. From you guys, anyway.

...

WHY WON'T YOU LOVE ME, DAD!?

doubtingthomas396 wrote:
docbadwrench wrote:

You put it out there: A Levine/Jaffe ticket. Who would be the comparative competition? I'm not sure who I would put against them, but for some moustache-twirling action and in spite of him not being a developer, I'd have to include Uwe Boll. I'd say that's pretty much on par with the Republican primary write-ins for Voldemort.

Aside: Since you're now in the business of answering random questions now, what should I have for breakfast tomorrow?

I think the only people who could run against Levine/Jaffe would be Molyneux/Dyack

It would certainly make for some interesting debates.

Don't underestimate the maverick Will Wright / Jade Raymond ticket. It's a winner.
Also - I'm ok with talking about iPhone games, so long as the other hosts keep in the habit of mocking rabbit for having the iPhone as his primary gaming platform these days.

kilanash wrote:

Regarding the intro: I feel for you Rabbit. I thought those aussie surfing T-shirts were the coolest thing for a very long time, to my fashion detriment. I looked like someone had eaten two bags of skittles then thrown up on me for most of my teens and early twenties.

I actually want to see the shirt! I have possibly either owned one or seen them crawling all over some Gold Coast or Byron Bay beach. Pic or it never exosted.

People can complain about how Blizzard split SC2, but at the end of the day, they are going to make money hand over fist, and I'll need a cigarette afterwards from the sexual pleasure I'll get.

Note: Other methods of gaining sexual pleasure are available. See pack for details.

samfisher wrote:

People can complain about how Blizzard split SC2, but at the end of the day, they are going to make money hand over fist, and I'll need a cigarette afterwards from the sexual pleasure I'll get.

Yep. It's not that we think it's wrong for them to do so, we're just against them figuring out new ways to charge us.

Deathknights available at level 55.

Rat Boy wrote:

Nice to hear bloopers again.

I like adding bloopers when I can. Some times there just isn't anything worth adding, and I don't want to fake them.

We're not actually ever funny, so bloopers are a rarity. Most of the time, our out-takes would be "Umm... wait. OK. No (cough cough). OK. Let's try that again."

rabbit wrote:

We're not actually ever funny, so bloopers are a rarity. Most of the time, our out-takes would be "Umm... wait. OK. No (cough cough). OK. Let's try that again."

I have the perfect solution: more booze.

Rat Boy wrote:
rabbit wrote:

We're not actually ever funny, so bloopers are a rarity. Most of the time, our out-takes would be "Umm... wait. OK. No (cough cough). OK. Let's try that again."

I have the perfect solution: more booze.

Drunken Gamers with Jobs Radio!

Nightmare wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:
rabbit wrote:

We're not actually ever funny, so bloopers are a rarity. Most of the time, our out-takes would be "Umm... wait. OK. No (cough cough). OK. Let's try that again."

I have the perfect solution: more booze.

Drunken Gamers with Jobs Radio!

Certainly I am the most qualified to participate in such an endeavor.

Protoss: It's pronounced "pro toss". Unless you're Canadian. Then it's "proo toss".

And we still bag in BF 2142. All the time.

boogle wrote:
Demiurge wrote:
docbadwrench wrote:

Aside: Since you're now in the business of answering random questions now, what should I have for breakfast tomorrow?

Bagel. Cream cheese. Try the sesame with the garden veggie schmear.

Next.

Wow, could you just make a list of like 6 breakfasts? This could make shopping far easier.

  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.
  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.
  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.
  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.
  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.
  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.
wordsmythe wrote:
boogle wrote:
Demiurge wrote:
docbadwrench wrote:

Aside: Since you're now in the business of answering random questions now, what should I have for breakfast tomorrow?

Bagel. Cream cheese. Try the sesame with the garden veggie schmear.

Next.

Wow, could you just make a list of like 6 breakfasts? This could make shopping far easier.

  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.
  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.
  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.
  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.
  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.
  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.

Now, don't you think if he wanted that, he would have wrote "6 like breakfasts", and not "like 6 breakfasts"?

mrtomaytohead wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
boogle wrote:
Demiurge wrote:
docbadwrench wrote:

Aside: Since you're now in the business of answering random questions now, what should I have for breakfast tomorrow?

Bagel. Cream cheese. Try the sesame with the garden veggie schmear.

Next.

Wow, could you just make a list of like 6 breakfasts? This could make shopping far easier.

  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.
  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.
  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.
  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.
  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.
  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.

Now, don't you think if he wanted that, he would have wrote "6 like breakfasts", and not "like 6 breakfasts"?

That's my Monday breakfast, my Tuesday breakfast, my Wednesday breakfast, my Thursday breakfast, my Friday breakfast, and one breakfast on the weekend. The other weekend breakfast involves throwing things in a pan and then eating them while I play video games.

wordsmythe wrote:
mrtomaytohead wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
boogle wrote:
Demiurge wrote:
docbadwrench wrote:

Aside: Since you're now in the business of answering random questions now, what should I have for breakfast tomorrow?

Bagel. Cream cheese. Try the sesame with the garden veggie schmear.

Next.

Wow, could you just make a list of like 6 breakfasts? This could make shopping far easier.

  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.
  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.
  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.
  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.
  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.
  • Cereal with milk. Drink a glass of OJ and take a vitamin.

Now, don't you think if he wanted that, he would have wrote "6 like breakfasts", and not "like 6 breakfasts"?

That's my Monday breakfast, my Tuesday breakfast, my Wednesday breakfast, my Thursday breakfast, my Friday breakfast, and one breakfast on the weekend. The other weekend breakfast involves throwing things in a pan and then eating them while I play video games.

Given what's provided, I assume your other weekend breakfast consists of pan fried cereal in a creamy vitamin-enhanced orange sauce.

I'm sorry, that one's bad...