I Love Mondays - 07/02/2012

Jeff: "This is the dead week?"

He clearly hasn't looked at the schedule for the rest of the month, namely:

Next Week: 'Jeff talks smack about Rhythm Thief, and the rest of the crew takes naps. Alex probably runs through NCAA Football in NYC.'

The Next Week: 'Everybody reminisces about Tony Hawk, and Brad looks at Heroes of Ruin.'

The Next Week: 'Literally all Wreckateer, all the time, for the entire week.'

We are about to find out how low the NPDs can go with these July results, with only NCAA Football to save them.

@GValo said:

Did I see a Jurassic Park Gameboy game on @patrickklepek's desk?

Yes! There's also some kind of SNES manual for Jurassic Park next to it. Tricky doing secret research or just completing his personal JP shrine? :)

THIS WEEK WOULD BE A GREAT WEEK TO START AN ENDURANCE RUN! just sayin.

Any word on what they're doing with the Pokemon/Nobunaga's Ambition game? That looked interesting.

Endless Space is absolutely fantastic. I say without exaggeration that it's one of the best 4X games in the last decade, and probably the best one since Civ 4.

I hope someone at GB does decide to look at it.

Will there be a Pokemon Conquest Quick Look?

J'adore Mondays

Do PSO 2. Spelunky is okay, but it's no Binding of Isaac or any other good rogue-like(-like).

I think a quick-look/TNT of PSO2 would be great.

Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember

@LiquidSwords said:

Dead week = Threads about GB going down the drain because of no content.

Just give us more DwarfFortress!

I demand dave on the endless space quick look, wanna know how he feels about that slick UI.

@l3illyl3ob: I love the last two Civ games. Might check this one out. I really enjoy Sins of the Solar Empire (although it is a RT4X) but would love a turn based space Civ like game. And for 29.99 on Steam, how can I pass that up?

Anarchy Reigns would have totally been out this week...

...if it wasn't pushed by SEGA to early 2013 to be buried under all the heavy hitters coming out in that time frame.

But fuck it! I imported it anyway from all the money I saved for a month and a half. Expect to hear what I find and maybe a review? We'll see how that pans out.

@Tom_Shaw: End of the cycle time! Remake, Rehash, Rehash 4: Rehashing, and Rehash 2012.

Thank god the indie scene doesn't care about the cycle, good spattering of small games this year.

@Bassman2112 said:

This is completely random and kind of off-topic, but I love how every one of these in-office camera videos always ends with the camera being pointed at the ceiling

I approve of this message.

I'm from outside the US and I am offended that you said I will like Bellator.

@ArjanN: Ys III is technically a re-release I guess (the pc version is the original version, but the psp version came over first). However, Ys Origin hasn't been released in the US before now. Although I agree; I'd love to see some Ys on the site

Oh man this week has the potential to be fucking awesome.

Endless Space Flight Club GOOOOOOOOO!

Drew, learn how to play that game now.

Oh man the Jefferson Starship episode is INCREDIBLE. http://www.jeffersonstarshipsf.com/

@Sarumarine said:

Anarchy Reigns would have totally been out this week...

...if it wasn't pushed by SEGA to early 2013 to be buried under all the heavy hitters coming out in that time frame.

But fuck it! I imported it anyway from all the money I saved for a month and a half. Expect to hear what I find and maybe a review? We'll see how that pans out.

Great SEGA is sending another potentially cool game into the wolves so they can say "screw you, you didn't bought it we're not making another one"

Endless Space isn't that hard, the most difficult thing to a new player would be choosing what to research on the tech tree.

It looks amazing, though, and the UI is a feast for the eyes

Go for the PSO2 TNT!

Drewbert! :D

We never got a Civ 5 Gods and Kings QL... You know.... Just sayin'...

What happened to Pokémon Conquest? Would love a QL of that.

@DeF: My GOD, it just came to my mind: Magicka would be FANTASTIC (-ally destructive) for a Lanter Run-type of thing. It's just so random and imbalanced and full of stuff.

@Brad please?

I'm definitely curious about The Secret World. Marketing for that game has been pretty terrible; unless you're in the beta right now, you probably don't even have much of a sense as to what that game is.

@Paul_Is_Drunk: I second that, since I was thinking of getting it but i'm not 100% sure atm

People that don't live in the U.S= Socialist!!!!

i love the secret world ,playing it at the moment,it is a bit ruff around the edges but there is a great game there ,which like all mmos will come in time.

@Tsuchikage said:

I'm definitely curious about The Secret World. Marketing for that game has been pretty terrible; unless you're in the beta right now, you probably don't even have much of a sense as to what that game is.

Taking 'Secret' a bit too far perhaps?

@BaconGames said:

We never got a Civ 5 Gods and Kings QL... You know.... Just sayin'...

@Paul_Is_Drunk said:

What happened to Pokémon Conquest? Would love a QL of that.

What happened to Pokemon Conquest?

Whatever happened to that Risen 2 Quick Look? I swear they said they were going to look at that at some point.

I like that we get look at Brad looking up what's out this week on the site. This is why we all need to fill in the wiki and help them do their jobs! :P

@wolf_blitzer85 said:

Oh man this week has the potential to be fucking awesome.

Endless Space Flight Club GOOOOOOOOO!

Drew, learn how to play that game now.

4X doesn't mean what you think it means (you probably didn't even notice that I suppose). It's a game in the vein of Master of Orion, so it's more of a Dave or maybe Ryan joint.

Jefferson Airship was an awesome West Coast Rock band, also I have a Jefferson Starship record in my room.

Split TNT this week, 1/2 spelunky 1/2 half 2012 Olympics. The Olympics game is pretty fun. If anything a scrub league with the Olympics game at some point before or during the Olympics should happen.

@jozzy said:

@LiquidSwords said:

Dead week = Threads about GB going down the drain because of no content.

Just give us more DwarfFortress!

Pssssh, that was so boring. Basement dweller level of a game.

@clumsyninja1 said:

People that don't live in the U.S= Socialist!!!!

People that live in the U.S. = soon to be Chinese...

Can't wait to see the Endless Space quicklook. And Spelunky for TNT sounds amazing if the multi-player is anything like Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, as Patrick suggested.

Wouldn't it make more sense if they had the window behind them when they record these videos, so that we don't get the light setting auto adjusting?

Secret World is alright. Not for everybody, but it has its charms.

Looking forward to all the Endless Space coverage!

I was like wtf is on wednesday? Then I was like oh yea Will Smith kills aliens on 4th of july, then I thought it's kind of weird to celebrate that, but it's U.S.A. they like shooting stuff.

P.S. trolololololol.

Jefferson Airplane was a very good band. My fav. album is AfterBathing at Baxters. Later I used to do clubbing and the bassist Jack Cassidy with his band (Kind of new wave, say Television influenced) was featured often. I never did see Hot Tuna. Very good times, both periods.

@bybeachsaid:

Jefferson Airplane was a very good band. My fav. album is AfterBathing at Baxters. Later I used to do clubbing and the bassist Jack Cassidy with his band (Kind of new wave, say Television influenced) was featured often. I never did see Hot Tuna. Very good times, both periods.

Yup there were great, I like Surrealistic Pillow and Volunteers the most myself.

Monday, the next best day after Monday.

endless space is pretty easy to get into.