--typed as I listened to podcast--

XBox 360 is such a strange name.

I always figured Nintendo was like a gray or gray blue/purple style. Nintendo was gray, Gameboy was Gray, Super Nintendo was gray (purple switches), Nintendo 64 was black, the Gamecube was purple (with gray switches). Blah blah.
Whatever.

I went to Ourcolony.net and ended up at this weird page that seemed to give me a riddle about truth or some crap. I didn't get it. Oh well.

Microsoft seems very confident that everyone wants a new XBox. It seems to me that the average casual gamer really doesn't know from bits or bytes. If they have a working machine with Live and Halo and crap, why would they have any reason to buy a new machine?
This news at MTV should damn well better show us a good reason. Processing speed and graphical capability can kiss my ass. I'm not a developer so I don't much give a damn.
Will the developers be making games I would want for it? Do these games necessarily need to be on a new machine, and if so, are they going to be more than two hour graphic shows?
I'm going to sit back and watch these extravagant fools before I decide. That's what I did with XBox, and I'm satisfied with Samurai Warriors and Mercenaries. Those are the only games I have for it, which is another reason I don't care for the new machine. There were only a handful of games on it that I'd even consider reading the back of box.

I hope there aren't any expansions. I hate paying for some crappy little add-ons I don't care about.
Official Star Wars creature pack? Sssshhhh! You'll give them ideas!
But even though these packs have such things, I wouldn't get them. I'm sure some others would, but I'm really into making my own thing. -Maybe- I'd get an enterprise ship uploaded so I could blow it up with my ship that looks like a brick.
Yeah, that's right. I'm going to make a solid orange rectangle as my UFO. To hell with normality.
Ahr.

The only reason I don't like gamespot is because their site is blasted with too much crap. Also, they crap up their video quality for free users.
Jade Empire doesn't look very interesting. It looks like it's all about fancy fighting and flashy spells. It looks a little dark and foggy.
I didn't like Halo. I find both of them boring, pretty much in the same degree.

Metal Gear Acid... eh.
I like strategy games, but I absolutely haaaaate card-based combat games. The only thing I like with cards is blackjack.
This game sounds very standard.
So, this game was like that Ghost Babel game then, huh? I heard at the end of that game, it said, "Congratulations, Jack." This suggests Ghost Babel was just a VR simulation.
Maybe Acid is another one of those weird VR simulations. It seems every time something very strange happens, it's a VR mission.
That control thing sounds annoying.
I heard Square was sticky. Is that true?
Talking psychotic dolls. Hah. I didn't mind The Cobra unit very much, but that just sounds insanely retarded.
By the way, Hideo didn't direct Metal Gear Acid. From these credits I'm reading here, he had very little to do with it. It's an old news forum though.

As for Name that Game...
Warcraft III? Aw.
I never played that. Well, I did for about five minutes. Upkeep bugged the crap out of me so I quit. It looked fun though.
I loved Warcraft II.

*listens to new one*
What... the hell?
No idea. I have nowhere to even start. I thought Katamari Damacy but that's nothing I've ever heard from that game, even though that game has some pretty weird sounds.
Man, I can't wait until next week. I'm so curious now.

You know, people used to bug me, back in the days of middle school, "Hey, you ever play Half Life?" they'd ask me. One of them even had a shirt with the symbol. I asked them about it once and then they went off on this huge talk about how interesting and fun it is.
I've never played. Maybe I should go find a copy.

Anticipation is pretty nice in its own way. If the game falls below expectation, then it really breaks you. If the game rises incredibly higher than expectation, then you're just blown away.
They've been working on that damn Star Wars III movie for SO LONG. I'm definitely going to go see it. I hope it's good.

Well...
Nice podcast. Keep it up, man.

Excellent Podcast,

Since Episode 3 is becoming closer and closer as the days fly by, could you do a review on StarWars Galaxies: An Empire Divided? THere is also 2 expansions, Jump to Light speed (Space based) and Rage Of Wookies (Directed to Episode 3 to tie the knot) Once again, excellent podcast!

Great show, the first one I've listened to. I totally agree with you about the Marathon/Halo thing. It feels like a bungie game. Screw Episode 3, I looking forward to The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy way more! 1 Week!

Hey Steve, I havent listened to you're podcast yet (its downloading) but I just want to let you know how much I appreciate you talking so much about Spore. Most gaming sites just wrote an article on Will's presentation; but I really love how your still talking about it, giving us rumors and news, and, well, just plain talking about it in your podcasts. I just want to tell you to keep up the great work, and how much I love your talk on Spore, and how detailed you are about it. I now come to your website for Spore info, and I know I will in the future. Please keep it up with Spore, and I look foreward to your podcast about Spore when E3 comes in a few weeks.