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This week: Kyle, Matt, Mike, and Amer discuss: IGN sold to J2 Global, Final Fantasy Verus XIII, list of possible upcoming Steam games, Enderal mod for Skyrim, SuperBot Entertainment layoffs, Grasshopper Manufacture aquired by GungHo, Prey 2 ARG, and EYE Divine Cybermancy.
About FF12 and the main character. I heard that Basch was going to be the main character, but Japanese players didn’t respond well to having an older and more masculine looking protagonist. So then they shoehorned in Vaan.
That is exactly how it is far as I know. The way FF12 turned out it ended up a lot like FF6 where there wasn’t really a clear main protagonist. You could argue Ashe, Basch and Balthier all fit the role.
That is how it went, but it happened extremely early in development. I mean, while the characters were still just concept art. It’s not fair to say he was shoehorned into the story when he the game wasn’t even close to being finished.
These kind of changes happen all the time. Gordon Freeman was a short bearded man with a voice in the original version of Half Life. Ristar was originally a bunny that used his ears to swing around. Fonzie was never supposed to be a main character in Happy Days, but people loved him just too much.
Same thing happened to Kelso in That 70s Show. He overshadowed Eric.
If anyone is interested hearing more about EYE Divine Cybermancy, I got a pretty detailed article about it here: http://livewareblog.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/e-y-e-divine-cybermancy-a-solipsists-dreamscape/
[Spoilers galore]
Man, I need to play get Shadows of the Damned and No More Heroes. But i have so many games on my backlog that I’ll never be able to play it ;-;.
Ahhh. E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy. Ambitious game, bad UI.
I only had a little story to share: I had two teammates with me. The two was light armor user and medium armor user. We bump into a turret and the two froze because they knew they’ll be killed in a second. That is until I came and said: “DON WORRI GUIZ I GOT DIS.” I went apeshit and took a lot of bullets to my body and slice the shit out of that turret. How? I was heavy armor user that enjoys using an electric katana. I did this more than 5 times while they just drop their jaws.
Also don’t mock the Native Americans. They are the reason why the dinosaurs and the aliens are extinct.
Hey guys, I love your podcasts and enjoy all the things you discuss but is Tim going to come back in a podcast?
Van was designed to appeal to 13 year old Japanese girls.
Raiden in MGS2 was also designed to appeal to 13 year old Japanese girls.
As opposed to every other character in video games being designed to appeal to 13 year old American boys then.
Ciri is much, much more than a “female witcher”, really.
>Sex Cards as the object of the game
You are playing The Witcher, not The Bitcher. More importantly, despite the weak combat, the first does have some pretty interesting dialogue/writing. You really should play it and then the second, Kyle.
I really hope Witcher 3 would be great. Then, the Witcher series would so far be one of the recent RPG trilogies that’s got the most improved sequels.