Things We Learned This Week

Aeropodcast #54

Here's my preview highlights from the podcast we recorded on Saturday and will likely hit Aeropause early this week.

• I out Sam and Max Season One for Wii as being a crappy, glitchy port.
• Should MGS4 come to the 360, I suggest replacing the in-game Macs, PS3s and PSPs with Dells, 360s and Zunes.
• Joe Haygood makes a South Park joke and again it takes me a second to realize what he's talking about.
• Mike Koss and I bond over an old Magic card.
• I talk about reading game manuals on the potty.
• I confess that I lied to Capcom.

Our work week without Tony.

To be fair, this week would have sucked even if Tony still worked for us, but with him gone, it seemed all the worse. Tony and Josh have already mutually fellated each other on their weblogs, and Tony said some nice stuff about me as well, so check that if you're into reading that sort of thing.

For over five years the three of us have shared an office, so it's definitely a change. At least we'll all buy Animal Crossing: City Folk and have that, right? RIGHT?

"What happened?"

Occasionally, Clark and I will catch some Monty Python on BBC America. This morning we watched the one with the Unexploded Scotsman Brigade. Clark's most common question during any given episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus is "What happened?"

Also, dig this crazy sub-branding for BBC America: "The Birthplace of American Television"! Now that's comfortingly ballsy! They're using it to promote a block of British shows that the States has appropriated (and cheapened), like Life on Mars, Little Britain, and anything with Gordon Ramsay.

PS3 screenshotting for shit.

I was so excited about this, and then Sony ruined it. Although PS3 OS 2.5 has added the ability to snap screenshots of games, it turns out that the feature has to be activated by the game... IE, it's not a system-wide ability. So no games support it and it will likely be some time before games start shipping with it or patching it in.

In better news, 2.5 adds Flash 9 support to the PS3 browser, so Adult Swim.com videos now play wonderfully. I watched Superjail.

Hey 360, where's your web browser?

Takes a while to touch a witch.

I know that Doki Doki Majo Shinpan 2 Duo isn't exactly a gaming high point, but an hour-and-a-half of clicking across a map and speeding through dialogue is a little steep to get to the five minutes of witch touching. Seriously.

The LittleBigPlanet delay has fucked me up.

I have two days off planned this week, during which I will not be playing LittleBigPlanet as expected. The game was delayed a week so they could pull a song off the soundtrack that contained some Arabic quotes from the Qu'ran! This is like the THIRD TIME some stupid game has had to be yanked because of including Qu'ran lines. When will thickheaded English-speaking devs realize that foreign languages mean stuff.

Also, I tried to scam GameStop for the LittleBigPlanet God of War preorder bonus pack (some exclusive God of War costumes and more) by preordering the game with the intention of cancelling it because I already have a preorder in with Best Buy for their Heavenly Sword preorder bonus. Unfortunately I'm too late to pull this off... whereas two months ago I would have preordered and walked out with the code sheet, now the code comes along with the game.