Episode 19: Upping the Majesty

Official description
Special guest Steve Gaynor joins us as we sail over grassy dewswept mountains resplendent with gaming's bounty, then crash-land into an F-bomb laden cutscene. Plus: Watch your cursor drift towards the "buy" button as Nick fills us in on the Dawn of War II single-player.

Games Discussed
Flower, House of the Dead: Overkill, Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, Burnout Paradise

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YouTube Timestamps

 * 00:43 — Intro - Sponsored by Math Bastard


 * 01:39 — OneChanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers - Question mark?


 * 03:14 — OneChanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers - Controls?


 * 04:11 — OneChanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers - Blood colors from default to "gold"


 * 04:54 — House of the Dead: Overkill - The self-aware grindhouse of the dead


 * 06:16 — House of the Dead: Overkill - Soundtrack


 * 07:08 — House of the Dead: Overkill - Light gun games can be better than other light gun games


 * 09:36 — House of the Dead: Overkill - Its crazy, exploitative story


 * 12:15 — House of the Dead: Overkill - Playing the Wii against type


 * 13:33 — House of the Dead: Overkill - When Britishness peeks out


 * 14:31 — House of the Dead: Overkill - Carpet F-bombing


 * 15:42 — Burnout Paradise - Actually buying a physical copy


 * 17:19 — Burnout Paradise - Upping the majesty with classical music


 * 21:36 — Grant Theft Auto IV - Motorcycles, testicles, and paper routes


 * 24:14 — Bully  - A nice, end of the console cycle game


 * 24:43 — Dante's Inferno - Dante has more muscles than exist on real dudes


 * 25:48 — God of War - The process for designing Kratos


 * 26:41 — Dante's Inferno - A game that deserves ridicule


 * 27:54 — The Net - It inspired PSN and Flower by ordering pizza online


 * 28:54 — Eternal Sonata - The generic anime RPG that takes place in Frédéric Chopin's mind


 * 30:02 — Dante's Inferno - The plot of the game is not super faithful


 * 30:56 — Flower  - An effective use of the SIXAXIS


 * 32:59 — Flower  - It would be nice if it weren't such an anomaly in games


 * 36:01 — Keita Takahashi - And his GDC talk


 * 38:49 — Flower - Length and price, since it totally looks like a $5 game guys


 * 39:41 — Game Pricing - Games might cost too much


 * 42:55 — Flower  - It has nice sunsets, just like Far Cry 2!


 * 44:44 — Flower  - Nick's cool mom and speed variance


 * 46:39 — Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Nick really likes the single player campaign (and Jake)


 * 49:20 — Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Not really an RTS


 * 51:56 — Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Leveling


 * 58:23 — Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Co-op and units


 * 59:56 — Laptops  - They can overheat


 * 1:00:21 — Reader Mail - Guilty Pleasures - W4K lore makes space marines kind of interesting


 * 1:02:36 — Reader Mail - Multiplayer - Of the split-screen variety


 * 1:08:22 — Reader Mail - Quake Live - Getting destroyed by nice guys


 * 1:10:35 — Reader Mail - Quake Live - Rebuttals to the idea that reducing the graphics to cubes is dumb


 * 1:16:06 — Reader Mail - Story - Linear vs. trusting players to make something on their own


 * 1:21:11 — Grand Theft Auto IV - Winners will actually receive their prizes


 * 1:25:15 — Flower  - Winners will actually receive their prizes


 * 1:27:36 — Reactive Stories - Having Lieutenant Carruthers show up in the story again


 * 1:30:46— Outro - Send Jake love letters to questions@idlethumbs.net