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8-4 Play: Sweet 17 05-03-12

17-Bit’s Jake Kazdal joins us to talk Phantasy Star Online 2, Shinji Mikami’s return to survival horror, Dragon’s Dogma, Dragon’s Crown, Dragon’s Dragon, Tokyo Jungle, Soul Sacrifice, yay or nay on CoD: Black Ops 2, and what it’s like to start and run your own indie game studio.

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.

May. 3 2012

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Rah Rah Rah Ah Ah Ahh. Dragon Holograms... calling it.

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AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Whoa Persona 4 was right about these holidays...

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Jake was a really great special guest.

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2,5h? That's new.

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This is a Bombcast sized podcast.

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I'm glad for the positive Dragon's Dogma discussion. Max Payne 3, Dishonored and Dragon's Dogma are probably the only AAA games I'm looking forward to this year.

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I just discovered you guys and I am thrilled!

Thanks for the podcast and I hope you feel welcomed!

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They have their own Kool Aid man?! Him and Johnny V. must fight!

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Yay! More Playcast.... I know it's not the name but... whatever.

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@mnzy said:

2,5h? That's new.

No it's not. Majority of their recent podcasts have been over 2 hours. Their last one was weird at being so short.

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Well yeah the enemy design in Elder Scrolls games gets better after each game. Half of the creatures are just real animals now...

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And it begins. Hopefully the Dragon's Dogma talk is more than just the demo.

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It maybe be Podcast/2 but it's #1 in our hearts!

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I can't believe I was trying to click that triangle between 8 and 4

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@PandaShake said:

I can't believe I was trying to click that triangle between 8 and 4

Hahaha same.

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Did somebody say Dragon Dragon?

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Love me some long gaming podcasts

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Yeay-YAY!

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I hope Jake drops some hints about a Skulls of the Shogun release date. I am chomping at the bit for that game.

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I now expect 2 hour plus podcasts every week!

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Wow, barely 2 hours and half long? You guys are very, very lazy.

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No one man should have all that dragon.

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Time to podcast!

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Man, if there was a "System Update" fighter in that PlayStation game, I would so fucking buy it.

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Nearly flipped a chair when I saw "NEW" on the Podcasts tab.

Give it a shot!

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Man, I thought this was a new bombcast or something... Oh well. Silly new tab.

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BECAUSE OVERDRIVEN AUDIO

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Heh, it really does sound like he's saying "pornstar" at the end.

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the PSO2 free2play part is partially true I think?

that scratch/lottery thing doesn't give you costume only, in fact it gives me bunch of random boost items instead of costume in my case. that includes stuffs like rare drop boost, XP boost, mesta boost. and among them are some mag food to feed your mags and stuffs to enhance weapon merging.

I didn't notice those mag food until I finish a quest that grant me a "mag license" in lv10, then I realize they are pretty pay2win:

normally you can only feed your mag 2~3 items for like 15~25 minutes and, depend on which item you gave them, add/drop their attribute. Just like how it work back in PSO.

But those mag food gives you a HUGE boost on specific attribute with none of the limitation above.

take mine for example, my mag instantly gone level 93 and turned into a miniature railgun from the 20~30 mag foods I got from the scratches D:

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You guys just earned yourself a new fan   
 
oh how i love developer talk 

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Alright guys, it's official: this podcast is great!

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You should play PSO again. That's EXACTLY how the tutorial in the original went. Lots of talking to characters you don't care about (that Soul Eater was pretty sweet though).

Edit: Also, the cheesy singing from Universe? That too is a PSO feature.

I just downloaded the Dragon's Dogma demo thanks to you guys (on the 360). Wow, what a piece of shit. Regardless of the game's quality, the choppy FPS and screentearing make it pretty much impossible for me to enjoy the game. Please tell me the PS3 version is actually playable.

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I have to say I really enjoyed the Dragons Dogma demo, so I'll see what you guys have to say about it.

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Previous 3 podcasts length: 1h19 ; 1h51 ; 1h25. Moves to Giant Bomb, length: 2h36

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Cool!

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I think Jake should write a book about the process. The talk about him starting up the game company was interesting. I would like to hear more about that process.

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Loving the podcast.

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Dragon Best and Tera have action type combat and it works

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Great job this week, I'm on board.

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Just wanted to say I enjoyed the podcast. Keep it up lads.

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I'm pretty excited for Dragon's Dogma after playing the demo.

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/2

Interesting podcast guys, I'll keep listening.

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Enjoying this one so far...

Anyone wanting to check out the back catalog should find the last episode with Kazdal. I remember it being really interesting too.

Plus he turned me on to Wanpaku Ouji

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hi

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Good episode, really enjoyed the discussion with Jake about the difficulties he's had with Skulls of the Shogun.

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Great stuff guys! Some cool games coming out that I'll need to find a way to afford it sounds like.

@Winternet said:

Previous 3 podcasts length: 1h19 ; 1h51 ; 1h25. Moves to Giant Bomb, length: 2h36

It's infectious, and I'm okay with that.

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This podcast will keep me sane when playing Trials Evo.

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Cool podcast! you guys have yourselves a new fan! :)

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Another great show.