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GameSpot GamePlay Episode 40: Happy Happyism

Thomas Was Alone creator Mike Bithell talks platformers, paint, and pornographic images with Kevin and crew on this week's podcast.

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The GameSpot team dons their creepy hoods and paints the town blue, along with developer Mike Bithell, who created the wonderful platformer Thomas Was Alone. This week's topics: the spiritual successor to Eternal Darkness, the future of Star Wars games, and the comfort of the Lifestream. All this, as Kevin VanOrd, Tom Mc Shea, Andy Bauman, and Peter Brown describe Kratos' favorite threeway and try to differentiate one game's blood splatter from another.

You can access all previous episodes on GameSpot here.

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GameSpot GamePlay Episode 37: Mascara Galaxy

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GameSpot GamePlay Episode 36: Nosebleed Seats

GameSpot GamePlay Episode 35: Drink, Hamburger, and Afro Pick

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Kind of late on this but in the "Thomas was Alone" renaming game, Final Fantasy VII should have been "This Guy are Sick"

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DK really did take the cake that year.

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This podcast made me... well... happy. : )

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This is absolutely going to flag me as a shill, but I play blu-rays on my Mac just fine now. (Yes, no Apple player has the Blu-Ray codecs.) External portable Samsung drive, and Macgo's player I got DIRT cheap in a bundle. :3 Before I picked up an OSX native app I just Bootcamped the filthy Windows app that came with the drive.

macblurayplayer.com/how-to-play-a-bluray-disc-on-mac.htm

Loooooooookk! imgur.com/PLBNSsw

Considering the replacement PS3 I got recently seems to refuse to mount movies 4 times out of 5, it's needed! What sucks is a portable drive eats 2 USB ports, which is the kind of handicap Mac owners always have on their golf card.


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@vaejas I have an internal blu-ray drive from ASUS, works perfectly, just needed to install a third party driver. There are also several software solutions for playing back Blu-Ray on OSX, I use Mac Blu-Ray Player. http://www.macblurayplayer.com/ It came in a special Mac software bundle I purchased recently and works flawlessly. The guys are correct though that Apple themselves does not ship Blu-Ray drives in any of their Macs.

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Btw Kevin, you should include some music from the mass effect 3 OST in you podcast at some point. That game has some really good compositions, and I don't mean the opening or closing credits - those have been overplayed to shit on youtube.

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I think you should be able to repeat games for the soundtrack sometimes. Some games deserve to be on the podcast more times. Knowing that the amazing soundtrack from Super Mario Galaxy (the best videogame soundtrack ever made, imo) will never be featuerd here again makes me sad.

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@AndCarlsen Oh it might! But I want to let lots of time pass. I have to keep these jokers on their toes.

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eternal darkness is the ONLY good silicon knights game. their games are terrible.

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@FreedomPrime I always liked the Legacy of Kain series

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@FreedomPrime Silicon Knights did the Metroid Prime games, those were good. People talk about Eternal Darkness like it's the end all be all....I saw it in action, not too impressed though I had a PS2 last gen so I never really played many GC games just Metroid Prime and Soul Calibur II.....and a little of Rogue Leader....

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@MJ12-Conspiracy @FreedomPrime Retro Studios made Metroid Prime.

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@AndCarlsen Yeah, I messed up there.....

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@MJ12-Conspiracy @FreedomPrime Silicon Knights didn't make the Metroid Prime games.

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@Kevin-V @MJ12-Conspiracy @FreedomPrime yeah dude, retro studios. and the orginal metroid games were made by nintendo R&D1. so yeah.... nice argument.

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Just started using Linux as my sole platform. :) It's good to hear some actual games coming to Linux.

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*Sole operating system, I should say

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