As always, thanks for listening and for the feedback.

Mike’s Top 5:

5) Uncharted 3
4) Batman: Arkham City
3) Portal 2
2) The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
1) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

AJ’s Top 5:

5) Dead Space 2 (Dark Horse)
4) Batman: Arkham City
3) The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
2) Portal 2
1) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

5) Uncharted 3
4) Batman: Arkham City
3) Portal 2
2) The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
1) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (This one was easy)

AJ’s Top 5:

5) Dead Space 2 (Dark Horse)
4) Batman: Arkham City
3) The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
2) Portal 2
1) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (This one was easy)

5) Portal 2
4) Batman: Arkham City
3) The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
2) Uncharted 3
1) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

AJ’s Top 5:

5) Uncharted 3
4) The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
3) Portal 2
2) Batman: Arkham City
1) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

And like A.J. said, most games online presence drop precipitously, so what’s the point in picking up an online pass by the time you get it used anyways? It’s just another casualty you can expect from getting something second-hand, like a missing manual or a stickered box.

http://boingboing.net/2011/09/28/who-killed-videogames-beautifully-written-account-of-behavioral-economics-and-social-games.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=36761

[excerpt - don't read this over the air]
“Math is funny, especially when you’re looking at numbers that represent people. People tend to be pretty different from one another. Crazy-different people are what statistics call “outliers”. Outliers skew the averages. In the case of social games, we’re dealing with a couple mammoth outliers and an abundance of zeroes. This creates, in the $1.70 user, the fluffiest of math ghosts.

“Should we let the user play for free?” the smaller man rhetorically asked the older men.

“Of course we should,” the larger man said with an amicable face, standing up, rotating slowly, shining the spotlights of his cheeks over all gathered faces, showing his palms diagonally to the ceiling.

“The question is, how much should we let them play?” the smaller man asked, pointing a pen at the ceiling so nonchalantly no one looked up. He tapped the pen on the table. He clicked his Macbook Pro’s trackpad. The slide changed with a little sideways wipe effect: this is the part in the presentation where he had decided to get fancy.

One of the older guys stopped chewing gum for an instant. It’s only when he stopped chewing the gum that the weight of my annoyance with a man who would chew gum at a business meeting comes fully crashing down on my shoulders: “He’s going to start chewing that gum again.”

If this were a film, this is where the gum-chewing man would ask, “What am I looking at?” I can see that look in his face now, clear as day: It’s true that he probably doesn’t know what he’s looking at. Maybe he gets the basic idea: he’s looking at four large, capital letters.

“We’re living in the FTP age,” the smaller man said.

“That’s free-to-play,” the larger man said, swinging his cufflinks up, then down.”

If you don’t talk about this on the next show, you lose.

Also:
a) Mike is wrong. Jade Empire was great, kung-fu RPG needs a sequel. Stop playing LOL and go read Bridge of Birds.
b) DARK SOULS goddammit!! 2nd most anticipated game of 2011. You two are going to make me cry. Don’t make me come on the show and educate you!

In practice if the battery light comes on with my DS I’m more prone to plugging it in and going to do something else. It also really sucks when you are somewhere you cant plug in (car/plane/outside ).

Its also especially vexing as those battery life estimates probably are on the lowest brightness settings and with wifi/3g turned off. Real world usage may lead to a battery life of around 2 hours.

Dave Halverson, who reviewed the game, didn’t learn his lesson though. He later said it was between Sonic and Gears of War for his Game of the Year vote, then went on to give Golden Axe: Beast Rider a glowing review and attack all the people who gave it poor ones.

You should try The Room: Silent Hill 4 or Silent Hill 3.

Wow, Ajguy. You really know how to sell the show.

1.great podcast

2.i was wondering if you guys have seen the final ending videos and
if you have what are your thoughts on them?