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Japanator AM episode 42: extra awkward edition


10:00 PM on 03.22.2011
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Guess what happens this week?!

Not a whole lot, actually. Bob Muir, Crystal White, and Tim Sheehy join me on an adventure into the unknown... and old re-releases coming back to haunt us. And we argue about Valve, graphics, and Final Fantasy XIII. You don't want to miss this edge-of-your-seat excitement, that's for sure! Bob also gives us a nice little recap of PAX East.

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And yes, before you ask, I did add the Morning Rescue clip to the soundboard.

[Header pic by TheMinttu]

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OP: Tokyo 1984 / Daze
ED: maximum the hormone / Maximum the HORMONE 

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This podcast art requires more jarate.
tim either needs to get some sleep or get laid...
I waited the entire podcast just for the morning rescue.


That's all I have to say to that.
Tim you rock, SCREW VALVE!
I'm glad someone else thinks so as well. Valve makes fun games, but they don't look very good.
Keep up the good work Tim.
I agree, Valve graphics sucks but their games are good. Anyway they need to make Source 2 engine...
yo, someone NEEDS to make the "Morning Rescue" commercial sooundbits into some sort of ringtone or somthin'. couldn't you just imagine hearing that shit everytime your phone rang??

the commercial itself is so bad and annoying that its awesome!!
Final fantasy XIII is a very fun game, its probably has the best interactive fight gameplay.
I wish this podcast was recorded on physical media so it could be thrown into the sun. To hear whateverhisnameis call all Valve games terrible looking and HARPING ON IT OVER AND OVER AND OVER was beyond silly. I have not played Left 4 Dead, but Portal and the other Valve games look good to me. I don't see the complaint.

Also, saying that popular things must always be good (sarcastically) is FAILURE because good things can be as incredibly popular as terrible things can. I'll leave it up to you as to what is terrible and what's not.

I'm going to go forget this podcast ever happened.
While Tim might've been a bit harsh and unrelenting with the jokes, he does have a point. Graphics are really not the strong point of recent Valve games. While the shortcoming may be understandable (Portal was not made to be a stand alone game, L4D needs to have tons of zombies moving at a very fast pace, TF2 takes a different visual style, etc), it's a valid criticism nonetheless.

But of course, that doesn't necessarily mean the games are bad, nor do i think that's what Tim was trying to say... He was just kinda bad at expressing his point.
I don't think he was trying to make a point as much as he was trying to be an annoying toddler. To me, the way a game looks is helpful to my enjoyment, but it isn't the most important factor. I'm looking at gameplay above that, and for all of the Valve games I have played, they have a good tract record of being awesome.

To harp on the graphics is someone desperately trying to find an angle of attack, and he's failing pretty pitifully. I don't disagree that his constant jabs weren't funny, though.
The following video is entitled "TIm Sheehy: Enemy of Fun"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8mjky2QE9DA
This was a very interesting conversation, regardless if it wasn't really Japan-related

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