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We touch on everything from WWSD (What would shane do) to how we both we crazy excited for the return of the show! This is also the first podcast in the new studio so forgive some Tech and sound issues.

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Game Of Thrones Season 4 Episode 8 “The Mountain and the Viper” Recap Discussion and Review

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We talk about the Problems with Video Game Films

What is the future of Star Trek?

And we get a little serious at the end.

Check out this weeks show The Issues Program Ep 34: Trek-The Video Game Film

We talk about Arnold being his goofy stuff.

TV/Movie Stuff

What code an idiot would use for his luggage

Smarties

The Oldest die known to man

Nuns doing it?

Poker

Some Breaking Bad news

And lots more news, rants and issues

Check out this weeks show The Issues Program Episode 31: Arnold Smashes Smarties

Gemini Rue from Wadjet Eye Games is an old schol-style point-and-click adventure game originally being released in 2011 but the graphic quality, tone and the feel is in the style of 90’s Adventure games. In 2013 a Mac version was released and that’s the one I had the opportunity to play.

Styling of the game has a very post-apocalyptic Syfi feel. A bit like the world in the Super Mario Brothers Movie. I guess I could’ve said Blade Runner thats more accurate but a bit on the nose and I never want to avoid an opportunity to mention the Classic Mario Brothers live-action movie. Anyway, the game looks great in its style and doesn’t try to be anything that it’s not. Gemini Rue really gives you a sense of nostalgia similar to games like Mega-Man 9, Double Dragon Neon, Retro City Rampage and A Link Between Two Worlds.

The gameplay adds some interesting new kinds of elements to the old formula. Like a duck and cover system, that works really well to add some action to the adventure. But the majority of the gameplay is still interacting with objects, people and solving puzzles. What you would expect. The system works perfectly and everything functions easy.

Sometimes you need to repeat situations a few times until you figure out the right course of action but this is what makes these kind of games fun. An enjoyment of the world and a love for the subtlety around you needs to be evident to truly appreciate the greatness. If you’re used to point-and-click games you can jump right into Gemini Rue like a old pair of shoes. It doesn’t quite revolutionize the genre instead excels in bringing you the best quality of the old-school type of game.

The story is what makes the game unique. It follows two plot lines. Eventually the game lets you switch back and forth between depending on which story you would like to play. One of the characters is an ex-assassin turned cop. His story line is the standard “investigating the bad guys” type story line. The other one is a little bit Total Recall like. You are a guy in a testing facility with amnesia that needs to solve the clues around him to figure out a way to break out and remember what he forgot.

Joshua Nuernberger did an excellent job creating a very interesting story that is dark, extremely multilayered and has a really fun conclusion. The game is also completely voice acted. It’s all very well done although maybe a little inconsistent in performance and quality. Even with these inconsistencies in voice acting the script is very very fun and makes you want to rush to finish the game to see what will happen.

Gemini Rue is a blast to the past. If you are fan of the Sierra or the LucasArts point-and-click adventure games this is essentially a must play. The game is nearly perfect in its design. It looks and plays exceptionally and connects to that nostalgic feeling of my childhood playing these types of games for the first time. I hope it can do the same for new gamers today.

Gemini Rue
Wadjet Eye Games
9.5 out of 10

-We Touch base about Xmas and how we spent out holiday

-We Talk about some of the best TV this year

-Also movies and shows with issues

-We are joined by both JCR and KBD to touch base at the end of the year

-Our hopes for the future of Smash

And as always a ton of rants and issues

Join us and take a listen to the last show of 2013- Episode 30 : Smash In The New Year!

Thanks to everyone for the support this year!

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-Project M

-Game of Thrones Game coming!

-Wii U stuff

-This Google/Youtube BS

-My review of the Live Sound of Music

-Crazy people

And lot more as well as many rants and Issues!

Check out this weeks show Episode 29: Frozen Poo Spills On Youtube

So here are a few of my favorite things in Super Mario 3D World:

Meow:

The catsuit is my favorite Mario power-up perhaps ever. When picking it up you get the ability to climb up walls and you get a scratch attack. This allows you to tackle each level in a completely unique way than you have before. Being able to climb around lets you approach the completing of the level uniquely. This created an appreciation on how dense each each level is in Mario World 3D.

I feel like this power-up was perhaps created to allow players to have the antigravity/climbing on walls feel of the Galaxy games without having to have a game set in space. This necessity ended up equaling a lot of fun for the player. My hope is this is not just a one-shot Mario Item for the this game it should be carried over to future games as well.

Working multiplayer:

New for the the “New” Super Mario Brothers Wii and also included in “New” Super Mario Brothers Wii U was an attempt to implement multiplayer. I say attempt because usually it was just a mess with one player leading the way while everyone else died a lot and arguing ensued.

Super Mario 3D World 3-D environment really allows multiplayer to feel more natural and everyone can feel like part of the game. The game feels fun as hell single player or multiplayer it becomes even better. Also certain aspects were added to the game with the Crown mode and other competitive options to create more of a rivalry between players. This is the first Mario game that I would highly suggest playing multiplayer.

The Characters from Super Mario Bros 2 (USA):

I have a fond memory of when Super Mario Bros 2 came out and loving the fact that I can switch between the four characters. This feature is something that has been absent from every Main Mario since. But finally in Super Mario 3D World they bring back this option back. This really opens up gameplay even know the abilities are not quite as pronounced as in Mario 2.. There are also certain areas you need to use certain characters whitch does add a great deal of replayability to each level. Also in multiplayer this is great as each each of your characters have different talents so you need to work together to get the stars quickly and finish the level the best.

Subtlety:

Super Mario 3D World is jam-packed with references to Mario history not to mention a few other references to other Nintendo Franchises. Little things as well like when you run really fast a smoke cloud comes up behind you can create some immersion. You can also jump in Koopa shells and when you’re underwater you can see your character holding their breath. All these nice little touches add more of a sense of ownership of the world. If this is what Nintendo can do when right now in their first attempts into high-definition video games I can’t wait to see what they do next.

-We talk about some important launches

-Batman

-New Star Wars Movie Casting

-Star Trek in real life

-Pokemon Popularity

-And the Return of a great show!

And as always lots of Issues and Rants.

Check out this weeks show: The Issues Program Episode 28: The Future is Now

-We talk about A fake!

-Some BS

-Nintendo

-And Why some Actors Are delusional

As always some serious issues and rants!

Check out- The Issues Program Episode 27 : Fake This!

-We talk about Pokemon
-The New smash
-A new star trek series
-Mike Bay getting attacked
-GTA 1 Remake
-Rock and Roll Hall of Fame BS
-MAtt and Trey from South park missing an episode
-And lots more!

AS always many issues and silly rants. Take a listen to The Issues Program Episode 24: Huffy Puffy

It may seem late to be reviewing a game from last year but it’s for free with Xbox Live Gold. Having purchased Gold this month to play GTA V with my friends online I decided to download Magic 2013. I was a big fan of Magic years ago playing the live card game. How does this game size up to the feel of playing the original card game.

When taking a board or card game and porting it over to a video game the first thing I need to overcome is the controls. How one maneuvers their way through the game is of the utmost importance. This was my biggest obstacle in picking up and playing Magic 2013. It isn’t that I do not know how to play Magic or I forget some of the terms (which either is easy enough to pick up with the game’s excellent tutorial system) it’s that I didn’t quite understand what buttons do what. There is a timing and pausing that goes into completing moves. The biggest issue I was having is with casting instantaneous spells to do during my opponents turn. For whatever reason took me a long time to figure out the timing. I also had difficulty learning how to properly zoom in and look at the other people’s cards and keep up with that was going on. It just took a while to think about the game of Magic as a whole rather than worrying about about my environment and moves.

But once getting over that I found the game itself a very excellent representation of what it feels like to play the game Magic. The online system works very well too. You can matchup in free-for-all’s, 2v2 team or the game has a another feature which is very unique called Planechase. Players roll a die and then draw a card that sits in the middle of the board that causes some universal effects to everybody to create chaos or help certain depending on the situation.

There’s also a campaign mode where you can play through a different a bunch of different stages and encounters which can be difficult challenges with opponents with unique abilities, or you face off against opponents who’s decks you can unlock when defeating them. Also whenever you win a battle whether it be online or against a computer opponent you will unlock a card for whatever deck you’re playing with.

My biggest problem with the game is you can’t start a deck from scratch even when all the decks are unlocked. You can just manage the cards in self-made decks but not decide how many lands. This is okay for pickup and play but for long term play and to have a feel of ownership over a deck this is not an optimal process. Part of what made Magic so wonderfully fun was having your own built deck. The game does even the playing field because in some cases in Magic play the people who paid the most have the best deck. It just would of be great if with the decks that you unlocked in game they would give the option to create custom decks. That option would make the game a great deal better. This is something I hope they add to future titles.

Magic 2013 is not a true representation of what is like to play Magic live but for people that can’t get their hands on decks, find people to play with or it has been so long since you played this might be a good title to pick up. It’s the perfect mild sedative to keep your hunger going until you finally get off your butt and get to the store to buy a deck of cards.

Magic 2013
7 of 10

-We talk about GTA V
-Cats and Dogs
-Ninja Turtles
-Jesus being a lie to get jews to pay taxes
-Racist Elmo
-Weird AL
-And how true eveil walks amongst us.
-Also say goodbye to a great man.

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We also talk about one of the best local bands around, Silver Beast and are also joined via the chatroom by Dusty (Lead Bass and Vocals for Silver Beast) who introduces us to a new musical instrument.

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We talk some Nintendo stuff and touch base about the Superman-Batman movie. We are joined by Gadi for a few and also John C Riley jumps on to cohost the 2nd half of the show. As always lots of issues and silliness. Check out The Issues Program Episode 21 : Say Hello To My Little Friend

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-We talk about what to do if you got to poo

-Some Silly News of the day

-JCR calls in for a few rounds of “Would you rather” and to promote Jacedown Show Youtube Page

-Gadi calls in to finish up some topics from the Breaking Bad Podcast

-And As always lots of Issues

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We are joined by Mr. Len Kaplan from Wrestling Talk, amongst other things, to talk about our connection to the Author of the book, the series took inspiration from, Piper Kerman. We also touch base about the changes in the medium of TV.

Gadi calls in for the 2nd half of the show to talk more about Piper, Orange Is The New Black and Len. Then we give credit where credit is due and get into a love fest for Kate Mulgrew. Well, maybe a little Voyager re-writing and hate too. (We are in recovery and trying to stop this hate but it’s really hard. Kate was horrible on Voyager!)

Take a listen to The Issues Program Episode 19: Red Rules Orange

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-We get up bright and early for some early morning issues

-Get back to 64% after last weeks crap

-A special Message from GW Bush

– And as always lots of rants and silly news

All this and More on this weeks show The Issues Program Episode 18 : The Morning Ritual

– We talk about Phil’s injury from being friendly and why he hates drugs.

– We also talk About a few of the hot button issues of the day.

But mainly this show is all over the place and brought to you by antibiotics and pain killers. Check out The Issues Program Episode 17: The Dog Bite Incident

-Gadi co-hosts the show this week

-We Talk about 4th of July and My Ear Issues

-What to do if you get invited to an event you do want to go to

-How Nintendo Haters are going to eat their words

-And lots silly news, issues and more!

Check out this weeks show: The Issues Program Episode 16: The Homemade Q-Tip

As always lots of rants and issues! Take a listen to The Issues Program Episode 15: Breakfast With The King

Gadi and I talk about:

-E3 and specifically Nintendo’s announcements
-Speculate on whether this Issues Program episode would be a 2 parter (we decided no for consistency)
-The rain and Hip Pain
-Trusting Politicians
-How to watch TV
-Johnny Carson
-Alf…yes Alf
-How we get information these days
-Of course some Trek
– And More, more , more

Also, as always lots of rants and silly news stories that keep us both giggling

Please check out this weeks show! The Issues Program Episode 14: Double Time With Gadi

– We also talk about Cusses Kickstarter

-Arrested Development’s new season

-Game of Thrones

-And a bunch of silly news, rants and issues.

Join us for this weeks show: The Issues Program Episode 13 : Live Blunders

Fear Not, inspired to talk about our collective rage, New Issues Program Co-host (someone have I’ve wanted to get on a show for a while) Sam or Opie as some of you might know him, and i turn on the crappy laptop mic and let it roll. So Sorry about the quality but this rage was too raw not to put out there! Again *Warning not the best Audio this week*

So take a listen to a low audio quality- high fun quality Issues Program this week and the last episode of this years Star Trek Month.

The Issues Program Episode 12: Star Trek Month-2 Nerds Rage and Some Drunk Anime Ranting!

ps. I also included a few clips of some recorded notes made for my news story about Anime Boston. You can hear me start to get drunk and silly and occasionally hear King Baby Duck and JCR poking in. I was not going to put this out but it makes me giggle!

Again sorry for the quality, but sometimes you just need to put the rawness out there!

Hope you enjoy this weeks show The Issues Program Episode 11: Star Trek Month-Spoiler Movie Podcast With Stephnez

We go over Gadi and Phil’s history with Trek and of course they gets taking in a lot of different directions. But we basically cover the all the Tv Shows, Films from TOS&TNG,JJ Trek and the future.

Take a listen to The Issues Program Episode 10: Star Trek Month- My Gadi and Me

We talk about the Star Trek film series

A New Funny Commercial

More Hyping the New Movie

And more speculation of the Future

All That with some silly rants and fun on The Issues Program Episode 9: Star Trek Month -The Movies

The Issues Guy talks about his history with Star Trek and how other people influenced him in the early stages. Basically, why he loves Trek so much!

Join us for this very personal Issues Program Ep 8: Star Trek Month 2013-My Love

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We discuss Some Nintendo news

What JD is doing with his Scrubs money

About why the hell he is up so early and how Phil’s mind is not quite working yet

Some texts from you guys!

A small preview of Star Trek Month!

And more rants and fun!

Take a listen to this weeks show The Issues Program Episode 7: I’m Daffy In The Mornings

The new Nickelodeon Ninja Turtles show is able to combine a sense of seriousness in story telling that was sometimes missing in the 87 Series with the humor that was lacking in the 03 Series. But what exactly makes this program so good?

Visual Style

The animation style may put some older fans off at first. It’s in a CG style and when I saw early images I almost immediately wrote the series off. But 20 minutes into the watching the Pilot this became a non issue and I think it fits this universe well. Aside from some of their mutant foes I’ve grown to enjoy the art style a great deal and has opened me up to a whole new world of animation.

But what takes the cake visually is the Shredder who is more frightening and formidable than ever. I also love the re-imagining of Splinter with more human features. It truly makes him more a mix of human and rat than ever before.

The action of each episode is broken up with comic book style stills. This enhances the feeling of the ongoing story. The eyes of the Turtles also change depending on their mood. You will see internal emotions depicted in their expressions. This is done in a very cartoon/anime way and I love it.

Story

I’m not going to spoil much about the story of Season 1. So to keep it really simple. Shredder and Splinter had a blood grudge for years and they re-encounter each other after a while to face off in a war. But juxtaposed is the return of Krang! Well, not exactly like you remembered but I love the reboot of the character and how it plays into the orgin of the Turtles and Splinter. It’s a nod to both the 03 and 87 series while being unique at the same time.

Each episode is stand alone in a way, but there is an overall story arc to the Season. So it’s better to watch episodes in chronological order if possible. At minimum, definitely start with the one hour pilot “Rise of the Turtles.” This episode is the perfect introduction into the the world.

Characters

This is where this show really shines. I find these version of the Turtles to be the most well rounded and fleshed out ever depicted on screen. This is due to the excellence of the writers and voice actors.

Leonardo, voiced by Jason Biggs, is the perfect leader. Clearly the one who studies Ninjutsu the most and definitely cocky about this to his brothers. But he’s not as perfect as Leo has been depicted in the past. He has a quirky character trait of religiously watching an in show series called Space Heroes. (Pretty much Star trek)
He quotes the show using cheesy one liners when the Ninjas are in action to the amusement and frustration of his brothers.

Raphael voiced by a Hobbit named Rudy (Sean Austin). He is as bruiting as you would expect, but not as over done as it was in the 2007 TMNT film. He also is very short tempered and in general an ass. But Raph truly loves and protects his brothers more than any of the others Turtles. He’s the toughest, but clearly he is not a leader. On a personal note, Sean Austin get out of all my favorite movies and shows!

Donatello voiced by The Great Rob Paulsen (who voices Raphael in the 87 series) is great at showing his genius and is clearly the least talented fighter. He’s not just a background token “nerdy” character this time. More than any other Turtle he has been neglected in the recent past and relegated with Mikey into the background. Here Donny is obsessed with his research and is always in his head. It’s those internalized calculations that hinders him as a Ninja. Donny also has an incredibly funny crush on April to the amusement of everyone.

Michelangelo voiced by Greg Cipes is hilarious, and also has the innocence of a child. He is not that bright but not an idiot. He also likes to name their enemies and Donny’s inventions. He doesn’t take too much serious and hits all those Mikey notes one would expect. But at times you can see a switch inside of him that he has the potential to be an even greater Ninja than any of his brothers.

The relationship between the Turtles feels real and all of the actors bring a serious energy and depth to their roles. This makes them a believable family of brothers dealing with the dangers of being mutant superheroes.

It’s all brought together by Splinter voiced by Hoon Lee, who is a true father and General. Not to mention he is more badass of a fighter and Sensei than ever before. You really feel for his story and and relate to his pain. It makes the love he has found with the his new sons all the more emotional.

Shredder is menacing without being too goofy. A real threat.

April was chosen to be depicted as a young teenager and I like that for a couple reasons. One, I understand this series is aimed at kids and to have the main human character someone their age will help relate the audience to the world.

My other reason is I hope when they introduce Casey Jones he will be like the 87 series. Basically more of an irrational animal then sexy vigilante love interest for April. Please save me from the April and Casey romance yet again.

There are also many one off characters and more reoccurring ones I did not name. There are some that I love and other not so much. I’m also not too found of decisions made with certain villains in the story, but that’s personal opinion. There’s a rich array of mutants and humans that we bump into within every episode and the good outweighs the not so good.

Love for the past

This show is a true love letter to fans of Ninja Turtle history. Some nods are wrapped inside the plot while others are just passing references. The show maintains its own universe while taking a bow to the past.

It’s not a nostalgic piece like Turtles Forever but it knows what the franchise is capable of and isn’t afraid to use all it has in its bag for full effect. The writers and producers obviously have a huge love for the source material.

In the end

A lot of people including myself were very quick to dismiss The new Nickelodeon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series as a kids show and put it the box with New Mutation that says “do not open.” I did not like the early images, trailers, and in general prefer traditional animation to CGI. I decided to watch it anyway and gave it a shot and now it’s one of my favorite shows on TV. True greatness is transcendent of medium and this series hits on so many notes.

The show is not perfect and some stand alone episodes are not quite as captivating as others. There are a few of the animations on the main adversary mutants that looks a bit silly and few story choices I may of liked to turn out differently. But those are just nitpicks. The series has already been renewed for not just a Season 2 but a Season 3 too so it’s here to stay for a while.

Older fans, If you feel strange turning on Nickelodeon borrow someones kid or get you own and watch it with them. This show is funny for TMNT fans all ages.

9.6 of 10 (For Season 1)

Watch the dam show and enjoy the ride!

On this weeks episode:

We talk about an interesting Trip to the emergency room last night

3DS news

EA Class Action Lawsuit

Retro vrs Modern

A chance for redemption for JCR?

A lot of Live Disconnections :/

Love for Fire Emblem

And lots more!

Check out this weeks episode- The Issues Program Episode 6: The Show Must Go On

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We are joined by a guest cohost: Steve THE DUDE

We talk about the question of when a spoilers stops being a spoiler

Talk some star wars stuff

Hippie activities

Some bobble head stories

And lots of silly news, star trek references and more!

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While watching, I always wanted to be on the show but as soon as I heard the Weird Al Yankovic Song “I Lost on Jeopardy” and getting destroyed by my cousins in home games fear set in, and I released it was not in my future. But that didn’t mean I couldn’t get better at these home versions of the show.

I had the Board Game, the Computer Game, NES and rented pretty much every other inclination of Jeopardy ever made. I love trivia games and party games so Jeopardy in a video game always seemed to make perfect sense. But for some reason recent games in the past generations have not quite gotten it as right as the original console and computer versions. So how does it fare on Wii-U? A system that one could argue is built for game show simulation.

Atmosphere

Right from the get go it does feel like an episode of Jeopardy. Maybe a slightly more cartoon version, but it’s the real thing. The announcer does his signature introduction. Alex comes out and does his little bit and presents the categories. Then the players are introduced and nothing is custom they just blandly call you player one, two or three.

If you are playing on easy mode the answers (or questions- you know what I mean) are multiple choice. If playing on Hard or Medium one needs to type in the answers, but it’s kind of broken with the predictive text. So once you start to type a response you can quickly guess or know your completely off if your answer is not a choice.

Between rounds if playing multi player there are mini games that go from partially fun to useless and completely convoluted. They really add nothing except frustration for the most part.

With no story, no career mode and player creation being not worth even mentioning, Jeopardy does very little other than window dressing to give the player the game show experience.

Feel

When playing with the Wii-U pad there is some touch screen functionality to pick answers or categories. Nothing special here at all. But it does work. The Wii-motes on the other hand do have some issues having to point at the screen to type out answers which can be a pain at times.

The unlockables are worthless and really don’t add to the game at all. You can unlock some concept art and different hair styles/cloths to custom the look of characters. But with the inability to name your characters after you edit them, this option was pretty much useless.
A lot of wasted potential in player creation and feel.

Addiction Rating

The truth is I did want to play this most evenings for about a week after getting receiving it. But that soon faded and not because the answers repeated. Because of a lack of anything to really do in the game except the same set up over and over. Maybe if they added Online play or some Challenge Mode it may of increased the games addiction rating, but as it stands I will forget about this game pretty soon.

Heres to hoping someone takes the next Jeopardy game more serious and creates something lasting.

Issues

Ok here we go.

If they really wanted to do Jeopardy right on Wii-U, even just for Player 1, give us the ability to write our final Jeopardy answer and wager on the pad. I know it may seem like a small gripe but this pissed me off. When I first heard about getting this game, that was the first hope that came to mind about playing on WII-U. It may be small but that alone would of made the experience worth it for me.

I also would like a real character creation and names. This is going backward from the NES game. In that game you could at least enter in your characters name!

Where was a career mode where you have to work you way up through the try outs? Then make it on the actual show. Play for a while and if you win enough be invited back for the tournament of champions. You could have a Junior Jeopardy, or College, or even a Rock and Roll round with guest host Jeff Probst.

Also how about some classic videos to unlock, instead of useless concept art. Different era Jeopardy sets would of been cool as well, so we can play on the 80s or 70s sets. Instead we get a flatline of a game.

It seems they should do this right and make a game show video game that pays homage to the history and what is truly fun about the show. Well, besides winning money. It can be done, just give it some love and if you make it, we will come!

In the end

Nothing exceptionally bad about this game. Just blah, with nothing lasting. I over hyped myself for a WII-U version and was hoping for something truly special. I was disappointed to say the least.

This version of Jeopardy isn’t broke and with 2000+ questions it will have you playing for a while if you are in to it. A very playable pre-fab house of a game.

Likes

Lots of questions

Fun multi player

Issues

Unlockables are insulting

No online matches or challenges

Not bad, just..EH
4 out of 10