Episode 15: I'll Kill the Last Alien

I'll Kill the Last Alien
Date Posted	January 21, 2009
Cast Length	1:30:28
Hosts	Chris Remo, Jake Rodkin, Nick Breckon
Guests	None

Official description

Kaz Hirai says you'll truly appreciate the complexity of this podcast in about nine and a half years. What's that? Gonna cry? Nick Breckon says you're a baby who likes baby games. And a cheat, too, I bet.

Games Discussed

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II (Beta), StarCraft II, Mirror's Edge, Bit.Trip Beat, Crysis: Warhead, Assassin's Creed

YouTube Timestamps

• 00:45 — Intro - The old crew back together
• 01:34 — Warhammer 4000: Dawn of War II - Basically a scheme to sell copies of Soulstorm
• 03:03 — Backlogs - Potentially the inspiration for a horrible blues song
• 04:14 — Warhammer 4000: Dawn of War II - Team Noob
• 04:47 — Warhammer 4000: Dawn of War II - Robot voices and "resources"
• 06:04 — Halo 3 - Computer love
• 06:54 — Warhammer 4000: Dawn of War II - Tin-can robots throwing space marines
• 07:42 — Warhammer 4000: Dawn of War II - Expectations
• 09:12 — Warhammer 4000: Dawn of War II - Base building
• 09:54 — StarCraft - Ideal build orders and wrote strategies
• 15:19 — Warhammer 4000: Dawn of War II - Matchmaking and profiles
• 16:27 — Warhammer 4000: Dawn of War II - A gratifying experience
• 17:14 — StarCraft II - Split into three parts, really Blizzard?
• 18:13 — RTS and Other Genres - Balancing accessibility and depth
• 23:04 — Empire: Total War - Sequel to the TV series "Rome"
• 24:08 — Kazuo Hirai - The PS3 is hard to program for, so do the math
• 28:31 — Sony - Hubris and humility
• 29:14 — Sony - Developer friendliness
• 31:19 — PlayStation 3 - Graphical fidelity
• 33:38 — PlayStation 3 - Countdown to quality
• 34:37 — PlayStation 3 - The ten-year console cycle
• 36:00 — BIT.TRIP BEAT - A Pong game that is also a music game
• 37:44 — Break - Tapezilla
• 39:00 — Mirror's Edge - Graphics and art direction
• 40:08 — Chris Sounds Like an Idiot - When speaking. And only sometimes.
• 41:40 — Influences - The better developers seem to have them
• 44:51 — Crysis - YouTube barrel videos
• 45:20 — Mirror's Edge - An awesome game wrapped in a shitty game
• 46:34 — Mirror's Edge - Tactile platforming
• 48:04 — Mirror's Edge - Unavoidable combat
• 49:44 — Mirror's Edge - Minimalist DLC
• 51:20 — Mirror's Edge - Expectation of shooting in a first-person game
• 53:54 — Mirror's Edge - Parallels with Half Life 2
• 54:44 — Mirror's Edge - Cutscenes
• 55:13 — Mirror's Edge - Plot and story in video games
• 1:00:43 — Assassin's Creed - Almost at the last guy, maybe
• 1:01:51 — Crysis Warhead - Also like a comb
• 1:03:09 — Crysis Warhead - The Aliens are back
• 1:04:08 — Bill Nye - Nye? Nye!? NYYYYYYEEEEEE!!!! The Science Guy
• 1:05:27 — Crysis Warhead - Kill the last alien (who falls on your head)
• 1:08:16 — Crysis - Become the Predator
• 1:08:55 — Where's the Game!?! - It's just a tech demo!
• 1:09:47 — Cooking Mama - Presented by Ensemble Studio
• 1:10:46 — Crysis - Nick's dumb, stupid opinion
• 1:12:55 — Reader Mail - Jobs - What the crew does to make money
• 1:17:45 — Reader Mail - Stardock - Or Starforce. Or Starduck. Or Stardog.
• 1:19:16 — Reader Mail - Assassin's Creed - Reader Rebuttals
• 1:25:55 — Plain Sight - There's a beta
• 1:26:31 — Outro - Tapezilla