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Hello and Welcome to another BEAT.British Podcast!

Just Ed and Me this week.

This time we talk about Lost Odyssey it’s fantastic gameplay and story and it’s disk read errors. We pay our respects to Gary Gygax (rest in peace) creator of D&D and grandfather of the modern RPG. Consequently we talk about how D&D has effected games in the modern day. Stories vs Grinding. Crisis Core (which I mentioned on ‘The Grapevine‘, yesterday) -from this I talk about Final Fantasy VII and how awesome it is. Adventure games and how much we love them, and how they really were a big part of the early days of games.

we also had lots of random interruptions… (sorry)

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Thanks

Paris

 

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Links:

Lost Odyssey page at ‘Mistwalker’

Lost Odyssey trailer

Zero Punctuation (Ben Croshaw)

Ben Croshaw’s Adventure Games

The Shivah and other Adventure games

It’s something of a mystery, midnight launches. They do strange things to nerds and gamers (please excuse the word, I know It’s blasphemy). In any other industry (other than grand opening of ikea where three people died from being trampled ), it creates mass panic. Where is the logic? Logic. OK lets use Vulcan logic:

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So Toshiba and HD-DVD ‘Lost’ the High-Def disk format war. Toshiba bowed out last week and said that they would no longer be building for the format. What did this mean for gamers? Well firstly it ment that the PS3 wouldn’t be as useless as everyone thought, and second that Xbox360 owners who brought a HD-DVD add on, suddenly had a very expensive paperweight.

But all is not lost as on Thursday Microsoft spoke out on the subject at the ‘Mix08 Internet conference’:

“We’ve already been working on, for example, in Windows, device driver support for Blu-ray drives and the like, and I think the world moves on,” Ballmer said. “Toshiba has moved on. We’ve moved on, and we’ll support Blu-ray in ways that make sense.”

So things look promising for those Xbox360 High-Def Junkies, although no direct mention of A Xbox360 Blu-ray addon and no announcement yet. I’d say it’s a safe bet it’s going to happen.

Hey on the bright side, HD-DVDs are now really cheap…

Paris

Reasantly the intertubes have been reporting more and more on Crisis Core for the PSP.

Crisis Core is (incase you don’t know) a spin off of Final Fantasy VII for the PSP.

This has got me personally very exited as I LOVED Final Fantasy 7 (and most of it’s sequels). After reading a preview or two on this title I have discovered that the materia system is back (possibly the greatest magic system EVER devised by man), be it a little restricted.

The game will feature around a character called “Zack Fair” who works for SOLDIER, the company who owns Midgar and are sucking the life out of the planet they live on. It is only a spin off and will not be a long hawl big sprawling RPG. It’s battle system seems to be very in tandem with the latest final fantasy offering (Final Fantasy XII) a kind of real time/turn based mash up, something which I feel fixed the issue of grinding in the Final Fantasy series.

Crisis Core will feature voice acting, in engine cut scenes , a really cool FMV intro sequence (ahh the good old days…) and has no official release date other than ‘about a month’ in the US. Be assured that I will be posting a review and first impressions (not necessarily in that order) when I import it.

Paris.

What is Grapevine? It’s our news segment, when we here something on the grapevine, so will you.