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8-4 Play: 04/18/2014 -- "Once, Twice, 100 Times a Podcast"

Our 100th episode gets the band back together (finally!), along with friends from 17-Bit and 2 Player Productions, to talk PAX East, Below, MGSV: Ground Zeroes, Dark Souls II, PS4 eye tracking, Steam sales numbers, Tomodachi Life, and of course, Sir Mix-a-Lot.

Every other week, tune into 8-4 Play for talk about video games, Japan, and Japanese video games, straight from the 8-4 offices in beautiful downtown Tokyo. Hosted by 1UP Japan's own Mark MacDonald, John Ricciardi, and Hiroko Minamoto.

Apr. 18 2014

Posted by: Patrick

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Happy 100th podcast !

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hollitz

100 episodes of awesome!

Congrats guys!

Regarding Mark's take on Dark Souls 2 feeling B team: I definitely feel that too. There were a few areas toward the middle that felt legitimately excellent, but I'm about to challenge the final boss and the majority of my experience has been pretty meh.

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yessss more 8-4! and congrats on 100 episodes guys!. cheers to 10000 more!

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Chicken008

Congrats on 100 episodes! One of the best podcasts on the internet!

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Congrats duders and duderette!

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I look forward to the next 100! :)

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Congrats on 100, Lady and Gentlemen!

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Congrats on the 100!

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What is it with the PAX enforcers rudeness? Aren't they are there to help and not bully? The Devs who take time out of their busy schedules pay a lot of money for booth space and travel to get to PAX and then have to put up with that crap? It seems from Jake's story and previous stories from other journos that this is a common theme.

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Edited By AMyggen

@puchiko: With something as big as PAX there will always be horror stories, but I get the impression that most people have been happy with how the enforcers have been acting, at least the last few years.

Really good episode btw!

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Happy 100th! May many more episodes come our way!

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monkeystick

I'm ashamed to say I started listening just a few months ago but I really enjoy your podcast.

Happy 100th!

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Edited By 90sVibe

Happy 100th show!!

I only started listening to show 99, but loved it.

All the best for 100 more :)

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Congratz.

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Congrats on 100 episodes guys! May your future continue to contain hour-long discussions about games that will never come out here!

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What is this upcoming European game similar to Dark Souls?

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Edited By rcath

The game mark mentions early on the the podcast is Tower of Doom. An Intellivison game and one of my favs from that system.

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$30 for Ground Zeroes is way too much. I beat the main campaign in 70 minutes without skipping cutscenes, no deaths, and taking my time. $30 is way too much money for the game/demo. This really should have been $10-15, at most. I've gotten more value from games at $5-10 than $30.

Also, listening to the tapes made me think of Kojima in a different light. While I used to think the sexist charges against Kojima were stupid I have now slightly changed my mind. Rape, forced sex with a child, shoving bombs up people's vaginas, etc; its like...really? I don't come to MG games for this crap, so I have no idea what the end game is actually for.