The hosts of this weeks GRcade Twitchcast are Pedz and The Doom Spoon.
This week the guys talk about the latest PlayStation State of Play. The games they’ve shown, whether it was engaging enough – did anything pique anyone’s interest?
After that, the chat turns to the Inside XBox presentation and again similar things are discussed; which was more interesting?
Lastly, it’s been 2 weeks since Robocop Versus Terminator was picked as a game that both will replay to see if it still holds up and whether nostalgia is a big part of that. Both have played the game, but, how does it fare today? Pedz also played the NES prototype game and that’s rather different. During the podcast, there is footage from the game shown. Check it out on YouTube if you are interested in seeing some of the points made.
This week your hosts are Doom and Pedz and joining is newcomer Lord Aten.
After a couple of weeks of being unable to do the GRcade Twitchcast, Doom and Pedz get together with Lord Aten and get Episode 9 underway.
The team talk about The Xbox One that’s coming out fairly soon which will not have a disc drive. It will be an all-digital home console, we ponder how successful it will be and whether they release the NeXtbox with 2 SKU’s one with and one without a disc drive, ould we buy it.
The second topic of discussion is about the Halo Master Chief Collection coming to PC, the fact it’s coming to PC is what a lot asked for, and we kind of expected it, but the surprising thing is it’s coming to Steam, a rival PC store.
Lastly, the topic turns to the reception that ‘Anthem’ has gotten and how ‘The Division 2’ is getting a better one, and the chat does get a little heated as Doom and Pedz are in a little disagreement about responsibility behind a game’s failure.
Don’t forget that the Twitchcast is a Podcast that is live stream to Twitch.
Narrowly missing out on the top 10 were Beyond Good and Evil, Doom 3, Grand Theft Auto III, Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell.
Top spot was shared by two titles.
1= Halo: Combat Evolved (Bungie, Microsoft Game Studios – 2001) Personally, I’ve never really got on with the Halo series. It’s so generic, and the weapons are so puny. But I know I’m in the minority when it comes to this.
1= Jet Set Radio Future (Smilebit, Sega – 2002) The sequel to the Dreamcast’s Jet Set Radio.
3= Ninja Gaiden / Ninja Gaiden Black (Team Ninja, Tecmo – 2004) At the time this was considered to be one of the hardest Xbox games released.
3= Project Gotham Racing 2 (Bizarre Creations, Microsoft Game Studios – 2003) Not only a fantastic racing game, but you get the excellent Geometry Wars included as a minigame.
5= Fable (Big Blue Box Studios, Microsoft Game Studios – 2004) Adventure RPG from the mind of Peter Molyneux that spawned two sequels.
5= OutRun 2 (Sumo Digital, Microsoft Game Studios – 2004) Worth it’s place in the top 10 on the strength of its tune Magical Sound Shower alone.
7. Halo 2 (Bungie, Microsoft Game Studios – 2004) The most overrated game of all-time. That’s right, you heard me.
8=Burnout 3: Takedown (Criterion Games, Electronic Arts – 2004) The changes to gameplay this introduced from Burnout 2: Point of Impact were controversial at the time (diluting the purity of originals was the claim). But it’s quality endures – as one GRcader recently put it: “Has Burnout 3 ever been bettered for simple thrills in racing?”
8= Jade Empire (BioWare, Microsoft Game Studios – 2005) BioWare’s next RPG project after two fantastic Star Wars titles.
8= Otogi: Myth of Demons (FromSoftware, Sega – 2003) Hack and slash title from the developer of Dark Souls.
8= Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (BioWare, LucasArts – 2003) Catapulted BioWare into the top tier of developers, and proved western RPGs could be just as good as their Japanese counterparts.
8= The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (Starbreeze Studios /Tigo Studios, Vivendi Universal Games – 2004)
Licensed games are always terrible, right? Not this one, a superb-looking and super-smart FPS.
The hosts of this weeks GRcade Twitchcast are Pedz and The Doom Spoon.