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Comment by Mr. Bubbles on April 5, 2012 at 11:14am

It's probably been mentioned by now (no time to read 12 pages of comments), but Pandaren were in Warcraft long before Kung-Fu Panda was written. To be fair, I'm sure Blizzard is taking a lot of ideas from that movie in fleshing out the race's lore.

Comment by G-man on April 4, 2012 at 4:59am

I have to post this because this is a fantastic article on the whole argument of gamer "entitlement" with regards to this ME3 ordeal:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/03/13/mass-effect-3-and-t...

I agree with all of the points made in this article and I highly recommend to give it a read.

Comment by Drews One on April 3, 2012 at 2:01pm

Jet Set Radio Future on the original Xbox had a great soundtrack made by the Latch Brothers(Who I think are really the Beastie Boys)

Comment by illlojik on April 3, 2012 at 11:37am

Awesome show guys. One thing though, regarding guy gamers having to get used to females. I know Korey wasn't exactly defending them, but "having to get used to women in the gaming industry" is a piss por excuse for that behavior. It's 20freakin12. I don't care what surrounding, industry, etc you're in. If you don't know by now how to act around a woman, then you a 5 fingered slap usually reserved for King Joffrey when he talks that shit to his mom or uncle. Seriously though, it is disgusting, but now you know why gamers have that mouth breathing, can't get laid reputation. 

Comment by obscurefan on April 3, 2012 at 3:23am

Guys it is so great to see this show in a double dose. Probably the best surprise I've had on the net in weeks. Keep up the great work, these Email shows are one of the best things on the site.

Although I do have one question for you. Korey, you use Audacity? How do you get so many podcast up? I use it and that sucker crashes two out of three times and only lets me record for 28 minutes before cutting off.

Comment by krodsmash on April 3, 2012 at 3:19am

By far my all-time favorite. This whole series is littered with moody magic. 

Comment by PaleHorseWC2 on April 3, 2012 at 2:25am

Kevin you have the smoothest, most relaxed voice of the bunch, combined with your brevity, and obvious thought put into every one of the things you say, makes you cool. Real cool.

Comment by Brutuxan on April 3, 2012 at 1:57am

Though of course no hard feelings guy's (including you Jeff), the show was awesome! And I think bringing in Mandy Savage definitely ramped up the episode for me ;)

Comment by Brutuxan on April 3, 2012 at 1:54am

I have several issues with what Jeff was saying in regards to, sigh........yes Mass Effect 3. That mainly (probably) have nothing to do with the ending (Yay!).

1. "EA is listening to fans/feedback/etc.." This is not true considering that from what I read, EA never issued a statement saying that they were listening to the fans (nor do they even care at this point). The game sold over 3.5 million copies, and will probably continue to sell more as the year progresses. Main point is as I said, they’re happy and don’t care about fan feedback because they made their profit. Bioware on the other hand have said repeatedly that they are listening to feedback (even though digging through the text, they seem genuinely disappointed with overall fan reactions).

2. “Bioware has lost their touch….” This is a hasty statement considering that they haven’t made an abundance of products with EA for that long. For them to lose their touch, they need to really try hard to put something out there that doesn’t merit that sixty dollar price tag (terrible gameplay, dull storyline, crazy amount of bugs, etc.). And before someone brings up Dragon Age 2, let me explain…..

3. “Well what about Dragon Age 2?” The game was barely announced a few months after Awakening, and a year after the original (Dragon Age Origins: November 3rd 2009, Dragon Age Origins: Awakening: March16th 2010, announcement for Dragon Age 2: July 8th 2010, Dragon Age 2: March 8th 2011). The game was probably in production during the time period in which the team at Montreal was putting out DLC for Origins (this is also explains the immensely poor quality with those DLC packs). Plus the fact that they were making drastic changes to the core gameplay and did not have the same experience working on something like KOTOR or Mass Effect, this was bound to be a disaster. Sure EA is composed of greedy business men/women, but even they don’t want a bad product on their hand. The blame was obviously placed on the team in Montreal for rushing out a game like this.

4. “EA and Bioware have become intertwined, soulless money-grabbing monsters!” I’m not going to lie, this part seriously bugged me. Keep in mind, I have no problem with people making fun of EA and pointing out how poor their customer service is. Hell, I loathe them for starting this whole “$10 online pass” thing that other publishers like Ubisoft and Capcom seem to adopt for their own titles. But to put Bioware in the same camp as EA so you can say, “screw them”? That’s a bit excessive considering that could also be said for the guy’s who work on Dead Space, or the people who work on Assassins Creed (remember when I brought up the $10 online pass thing? Well they sure aren’t stopping now with that series). Yeah they’re making money, so what? The people who were put on those teams have worked their ass off from day 1 to put out something that obviously a lot of people/fans have cared about.

5. “Has Bioware truly changed?” Yes and no. Yes in the sense that some of the writers are leaving to pursue their own careers (Drew Karpyshynn), and to construct their own indie game(s) (The Banner Saga). And no in the sense that they seem to still put a lot of sincerity in their projects. I can’t predict their future, but from what I gathered there are some very bright and talented people working over there.

I don’t mind someone coming in and correcting me on some of this stuff, and I don’t mind if people disagree with my opinion either. This was just something I had to get off my chest.

Comment by Acebandg on April 3, 2012 at 1:40am

my pleasure Vega, Chris Vrenna's a great musician. Grats on your mail getting read too! Video game soundtracks are too often overlooked, so here's another hidden gem from Planescape Torment:

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