Cool, I'll give 'er a listen now while I take a break from my drawing of utter crap.

Posted by Gauphastus at December 11, 2007 10:16 PM

Gonna enjoy the next 99 minutes.

Posted by PatMan33 at December 11, 2007 10:39 PM

man, did I already tell you how happy i am that you finally got the chance to return to podcasting steve? :-)

i've listened to GS epsiodes for years and they accompanied me all over the world (germany, japan, south africa, new zealand, etc.).

so thanks a million steve! and who knows: maybe i'll even win another name-that-game contest one day :-) (oh my god, was it really in june 2005, that I won that Mario Kart stylus?)

take care,
alex s. from germany

Posted by Alex S. at December 12, 2007 3:27 AM

Great, you reviewed Culdcept! I love that game.

It's true that the computer "cheats" by coincidences in that game, though. I love it still.

Posted by Paroxysm at December 12, 2007 10:19 AM

Err, to correct myself, the computer cheats by just happening to draw a certain card that just happened to be in that deck they were playing with that, by coincidence, thwarts your current strategy.

For example, I was once going for a medal for collecting over...3,000G (maybe 2,000) in one toll. The obvious choice was to chain up green land, place a Gnome on it (increases the toll by x1.5), level the land up to the maximum level and get the highest territory toll, then use a specific enchantment to force him to land there. As the computer approached it, he just happened to roll three 1s in a row, delaying the catch as long as possible. When he was just one space away, he then chanced upon a card that removed the enchantment.

Thankfully, he landed on the Gnome anyway and I got our medal.

Posted by Paroxysm at December 12, 2007 11:57 AM

Erm, at this point in time, ITunes doesn't update the podcast.

Posted by DoggySpew at December 12, 2007 4:23 PM

Who needs iTunes? Just click the download show link and it streams it through your browser at the greatest download speed.

Posted by Paroxysm at December 12, 2007 9:41 PM

For those interested in Gaming Steve's Culdcept review, the original American PS2 game is inexpensive in the stores selling used games.

iTunes does update the Gaming Steve podcast. You may have to cancel and resubscribe. My subscription is the same as it was a year ago.

Posted by Robb at December 13, 2007 11:52 AM

iTunes wasn't updating because there was a small error with the RSS feed into iTunes. However I fixed it and it should show up no problem in iTunes now.

Posted by Gaming Steve at December 13, 2007 12:00 PM

Hi Steve,

My favourite (Australian spelling, g'day and blimey!) game of 2007 was Hotel Dusk. I just love the way game consoles are finally breaking the wall between 'serious' arts, literature and the like and the so-called frivolity of computer games. This will happen more often I think and is a good thing.

Thanks for the brilliant show.

Ben

Posted by Ben at December 14, 2007 8:23 AM

That moose incident sounds more like common sense than a WoW trained plan. Now, if he had called a bear to keep the moose busy while his sister pelted it with frost spells, I would concede that WoW helped.

And I bet all it dropped was vendor trash, anyways.

Posted by Malt at December 15, 2007 1:19 PM

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