Handheld Heroes – Episode 47

We’re back! After a disastrous attempt at recording episode 47 last week (and being struck down by god…or faulty internets), we bring you a staggering three hour episode of Handheld Heroes!

Hosted by: Andyb0y | Ribo | Newfie

Special Guests: C4 & Lord Drachenblut

Today we discuss:

• Heroes of Newerth
• World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Rumors?
• Final Fantasy XIV – Battle System Discussed
• PS3 PRICE DROP?!
• PurePwnage TV series announced
• At the movies – GI Joe: Rise of Cobra | District 9
• Military Madness Remake for PSN, Wii
• Everyone Loves Christina Lee and the PSN
• Unpaid plug for the Sansa Fuze
• Madness…

Outro: Mega Man 2 – Dr. Wily Symphonic from OCRemix.org

As always, if you enjoy this podcast please check out C4 & Kobar @ GameRadio and Lord Drachenblut @ tenbuckreview

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Skype failures mean one hell of a time of editing the show. We discuss Battlefield: Bad Company, Star Wars: Republic Commando, Heroes of Newerth, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Empire at War, Princess Maker 2.

In the second half, Andyb0y still has issues with the gaming industry and podcast formats, movie discussions and a review of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

Music at the break – Life Is Grand by Supercommuter

Closing music – Genie in a bottle/No scrubs/Slave 4 U melody by The Dan Band

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We have special guest Mario Wynands from Sidhe to talk about their new game Shatter on PSN.

We talk about Kotor (PC), Star Wars Republic Commando (PC), Broken Sword (DS), Worms (iPhone), SF4 (360), BlazBlue (360). EVO 2009 tournament talks and how they make us look bad when playing fighting games.

C4 from GAMERadio (HWHQ.com) and our ever busy co-host Newfie drop in at the end to talk news and random video game topics.

Music at break is Rebellion from the BlazBlue Limited Edition Soundtrack

Closing music is Staff Roll from the Street Fighter 4 Soundtrack

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The game plays like your standard Worms game. Each teams members gets a turn to attack in a turn based style gameplay. Should be simple enough and fun right? Well sort of. There are some lag issues with the game on my 3G. I am not sure if the 3GS does not have the lag issues so I cannot confirm it this is a problem across all generations of the iPhone. The lag is not bad to the point of not being able to play it. Another issue is the screen being too zoomed out. Now you can zoom in and out with some finger gestures…..if the damn controls worked! I know this may come of as harsh but for a game like Worms to work, you need some sort of precison and you do not get it with this game. When I have to spend the whole entire time i have to make my turn aiming the crosshairs, something is wrong. Also zooming in and out as well as moving the screen to see where the enemy is lags to the point of frustration.

I hope real soon that Team 17 releases some sort of patch to fix the broken controls and the lag. It would be a shame for a good game as this to be represented so poorly on the iPhone.

$.99 out of $4.99

Opening and Closing music is from Rush Hour 2. R.I.P. MJ

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|Intro – Sham Wow Madness (The Germans ALWAYS make good stuff)|

andyb0y & ribo.

Special Guest: Lord Drachenblut

(tenbuckreview.thedigitaldragonslair.net)

No Newfie this week (get well soon buddy). Bad Movies (Pieces, Breathing Fire,

Brainscan, Surf Ninjas!). A little bit about tenbuckreview (go check it out!).

Good deals (once again www.cheapassgamer.com).

ribo plays games!

Super Robo Taisen OG Saga (DS): Endless Frontier (aka Super Robo Titties) – Gundam 2.0. Android Boobies. Silly story. Krazy Kombo Kombat (Turn based + 50 hit fighter style combos for massive damage). Breasts. Over the top weapons. Zero Touch controls (!). Melons. Breast specials. Endless jiggle fest. Cameos from other Japanese Namco games (including Xenosaga’s KOS-MOS).

Ribo gives it $15/$40 (if you want to see endless breasts and/or you’re hard up for an rpg $20/$40).

Hannah Montana The Movie (DS): Wow. Just Wow. Hannah Montana might be the worst show this side of Superman. Lord Drachenblut loves Superman’s Bulge. Hannah Montana the movie the game: 3D style adventure game. Terrible “puzzles” and tasks. Occasional concert sections give way to a pseudo rhythm game (!). Why didn’t they just copy Elite Beat Agents or Guitar Hero? Sloppy! Plus side, several full (fairly decent sounding) songs from the movie (if you’re into that sort of thing). ribo weeps for the entertainment of young girls.

Ribo gives it a $5/30

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (DS): Great graphics! (Fully 3D, however there is a fixed isometric viewpoint) A mix of GTA 1 & 2 and the later games. Cool mini-games (touched based, hot-wiring cars is awesome). Typical GTA storyline (low level thug eventually gets to the top after many double and triple crosses). Good combat + Asian = I know Kung Fu. Very Nice music (instrumental radio stations, Jazz/Funk is the best!). Occasional voice (none in cut-scenes). HUGE city + GTA4′s random encounters = long game (even after 15 hour main story). Driving controls decent though they take getting used to. Dopewars (dealing drug mini-game (really?!)). Rating is a HARD M (tons of that salty sailor language your mother wouldn’t approve of).

Ribo gives it a $30/40

Warioware Touched (DS): Micro games! VERY twitch heavy game (ADD folks rejoice!). TONS of micro games (about 120?). Good variety in game styles (creative use of touch controls and microphone). Great “pick up and play” gameplay. Might be a tad rare?

Ribo gives it $15/20 (used is $26! Good lord!)

andyb0y plays games!

Drop 7 (iphone): Tetris meets Sudoku. Simple yet addicting. Only 4 bucks and worth every penny! ($4/4)

Flight Control (iphone): Match helicopters and planes to landing pads. Very punishing (if a plane crashes once, its game over). Nathan Fillion fanboy love. andyb0y cannot beat Malcom Reynolds. Leaderboards?

andb0y forgets the price of the game and gives it $3.5/5 (it’s only 0.99 cents! so .7/.99? who cares! .99 cents go buy it!).

Godfather II review

Punch Out! (Wii): Finally! The game the Wii was made for! Andb0y is sore from playing the game. Very similar to previous punch out games. Disco Kid is the gayest character of all time. Integrates Wii Balance board to dodge punches. Cool fighter intros (but missing that 8bit flavor in terms of music). The game is MADE for the Wii controls. Game is actually decent length.

andyb0y gives it a perfect $40/40.

Stay away from NES clones!

Lord Drachenblut plays games!

Chrono Trigger: DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME WITHOUT HEADPHONES! Amazing audio. Spectacular FMVs. Only play in DS mode.

The Battle for Wesnoth: Open source RTS game. (Might be turned based) Available for Linux, Mac and Windows. playdeb.net Nice freeware gaming for Ubuntu.

Lord Drachenblut hates instantaction.com (freeware gaming site) for having the BALLS to not support Linux (how DARE they!).

I Want to be the Guy: Freeware platform game and an exercise in 8bit Masochism. Good stuff. Play it if you dare!

Doom ported to Flash? Huh.

Again with the Suikoden! (Suikoden Tierkreis) andyb0y is still hooked. (20 hours in!) Chrono Cross STILL sucks.

Game to Avoid:

Velvet Assassin (Xbox 360, Windows): How much stealth is too stealth? Have to be in stealth ALL the time or you die. More of a puzzle game, have to figure out how to not get caught. andyb0y only lasted a half hour! It’s no Metal Gear.

Everyone is excited about MW2 (Call of Duty 4.5?). andyb0y wants to swim!

Remembering Painkiller.

News:

Metroid Prime Trilogy: SUCK IT Japan, we get the special pack!

Metal Gear Countdown: Kojima you magnificent bastard! (is Kojima god?)

Square Prints Money: Yep. (The sad terrible fate of a DS Game.)

ribo plays games! (again!) (kind of…)

Jagged Alliance DS: Decent port of an old DOS strategy game. Good graphics, wonky controls mired by stylus interface.

PSP Slim holds candy and pennies! (It’s built like it should anyway…)

Thanks to everyone involved in helping with the site!

Movie Talk:

Anastasia, Don Bluth. Bad Disney movies (The Little Mermaid is soft core porn). The Rescuers.

USB 3.0! Is the future flash?

Ipod touch discussions: privacy issues. (it’s dead).

Blazing Saddles is awesome (and very politically incorrect).

STOP MAKING BAD PARODY MOVIES! Lord Drachenblut paid $20 to see Meet the Spartans. (pray for him).

A Deadpool Movie?

Blade Trilogy – 1. Great 2. Meh 3. Sucks

Godfather – trying to explain the godfather to someone who hasn’t seen the godfather.

Blu Ray movies that shouldn’t be. A Christmas Story is classic. (some people have no soul)

Lord Drachenblut wants simpler TV Boxsets. (Less Discs)

Battlestar Galactica ’80 sucked.

ribo refuses to be saved from the coming Linux revolution

Internet fetishes.

Donkey Shows

Slyplayer?

Good people over at thespeedgamers.com

Check out their marathons.

Closing Music – Jay-Z – No Hook (Meeting The Owl) off the album The Ocarina of Rhyme by Team Teamwork

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Closing Music – Lonely Island Feat. Justin Timberlake – Mother Lover

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Closing Music – Supercommuter – 10th Generation

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Closing Music – Mega Man 2 – Wily And The Deep Forest from OCRemix.org

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Closing music – Donkey Kong – Flying with the funk from OCRemix.org

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