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The Geekbox

The Geekbox: Episode 50

by Jon Cole in Games, TV841 days ago

Patrick Joynt joins the Geekbox crew this week and clearly wants to talk some Avatar.  Unfortunately, there’s not much new to hear from the regulars, with Patrick and Karen mustering a small defense for the visual effects and characterization. For those of you who are weary of Burn Notice spoilers, have no fear!  Patrick and Karen didn’t get a chance to check out the latest episode, so both Ryans and Fitch try to talk around the plot.  In other television news, Lost premiers next week, so Ryan Scott tosses out some major questions that he’d...

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The Geekbox: Episode 49

by Jon Cole in Games, TV845 days ago

This week’s Geekbox gets to the meat right off the bat, pumping up the games conversation more than usual.  Higgins hunted down a nearby Del Taco for a Star Trek Online shuttle craft code and also threw $240 at a lifetime subscription, so you’re sure to hear more about the game in the coming weeks.  Karen got a chance to check out the game, expressing a little bit of frustration with the space combat, which could be attributed to her inability to drive. Karen has also been “playing” Wii Sports Active, which scratches her...

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The Geekbox: Episode 48

by Jon Cole in Games, Movies, TV854 days ago

After a little bit of light talk about television, Ryan Higgins talks about his recent experiences with Demon’s Souls.  He’s been encountering the odd game design choices that people often complain about and it’s particularly interesting to hear a take on the game from someone who doesn’t play a wide variety of games.  Ultimately, he’s been enjoying the game, despite the lack of instruction of basic game mechanics. Fitch has been playing Bayonetta and makes a fairly original comparison to God Hand, which had a similar over-the-top style...

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The Geekbox: Episode 47

by Jon Cole in Games, Movies, TV860 days ago

With Justin Haywald joining a slightly thinned Geekbox crew, Zelda: Spirit Tracks kicks off the episode.  Justin vents some of his frustration with the navigation of the game, namely riding the trains, which he determines is somehow worse than sailing in Phantom Hourglass.  He also says that the game is pretty difficult, ranking among the Oracle pair on the Game Boy Color. After some discussion of the upcoming A-Team movie, Justin brings up the recent Kick-Ass trailer, which is a cardinal sin among the Ryans.  Mark Millar has clearly done and...

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The Geekbox: Episode 45

by Jon Cole in Games874 days ago

The Geekbox starts it off on a fairly “light” note this week, following up on the discussion of racism in Disney movies brought up last week.  Luckily, they move away from this touchy subject to talk about the new Games on Demand service offered by Games for Windows Live on PC.  Ryan Scott asks why someone would use the service with respect to the vastly superior Steam platform, but Karen rebuts with the somewhat obvious note that GFWL offers achievements and Microsoft is likely building the pipes for a later, expanded delivery system that’s...

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The Geekbox: Episode 44

by Jon Cole in Games, Movies, TV882 days ago

The Geekbox is all over the map this week, with very little talk about video games in particular.  Karen gets into it the most with her discussion of Umloud 2009, which was a charity event for Child’s Play that took place in the past week.  Later on in the show, Mega Man 10 is briefly touched upon with a fair amount of cynicism due to Mega Man 9’s difficulty and the contrived artwork that continues in its sequel. Doctor Who and the Venture Bros. are mainstay television topics of the show and are discussed at length.  Fitch got a chance to...

The Geekbox: Episode 43

by Ross Adams in Games, TV889 days ago

Guests Jade Kraus and Justin Haywald start off the show this week with a spirited discussion about Silent Hill: Shattered Memories for Wii. Despite having played through it multiple times, both Justin and Jade are thoroughly disappointed with the game. The graphics and presentation are some of the best on Wii but they cite bad design choices as their biggest complaint. There are a lot of tangents in the second part of the show ranging from Ryan Higgins’ experience with the Bayonetta demo, Ryan Scott’s struggle with Assassins Creed 2...

The Geekbox: Episode 42

by Jon Cole in Games, TV897 days ago

Tryptophan talk opens up this week’s podcast, quickly (and gratefully) transitioning to some discussion of the Blu-Ray versions of Star Trek and Pixar’s UP.  Mike commits a grave offense by considering a standard Blu-Ray player over a PS3, but Higgins seems to empathize. Dragon Age: Origins seems to have captured Karen’s attention, despite the seemingly generic premise.  Mike is clearly continuing to have fun with the game, after the great start he mentioned on the last episode of CastMedium’s podcast.  Ryan Scott had...

The Geekbox: Episode 41

by Jon Cole in Games, Movies902 days ago

The Geekbox crew is down to three this week, but doesn’t disappoint with a good bit of focused games discussion.  Fitch starts off by asking if The Ballad of Gay Tony and Grand Theft Auto 4 in general are relevant to the current games space with Assassin’s Creed 2 and Uncharted 2 quickly becoming the high watermarks for 3rd person action games. Ryan Scott continues the conversation from The Gamespy Debriefings about Star Trek Online, because there have been a lot of negative responses to his preview.  Ryan Higgins has participated in the beta...

The Geekbox: Episode 40

by Jon Cole in Games, Movies, TV910 days ago

The Geekbox treads familiar ground this week starting off with New Super Mario Bros. Wii.  Karen and Patrick have been playing the game co-op and have a couple stories to tell about Coin Battle mode.  Patrick has been playing Modern Warfare 2 and is a big fan of Infinity Ward.  Where Call of Duty 4 might have been described as a rollercoaster, Patrick describes the sequel as a theme park where there are concurrent rollercoasters with a shoestring narrative. Ryan Scott got a chance to check out Boondock Saints 2 and he enjoyed it about as much...

The Geekbox: Episode 39

by Jon Cole in Games, Misc, TV918 days ago

The EA acquisition of Playfish and the proliferation of casual games starts off The Geekbox after a brief callback to strip club discussion from last week.  They also talk about the EA layoffs, specifically at Mythic Entertainment which which were likely in response to the poor performance of Warhammer Online. Television continues to be a staple on The Geekbox, with a continuation of the Venture Bros talk from last week.  Venture Bros and Space Ghost are compared for their validity as “stoner” shows, with the bulk of the crew saying the latter...

The Geekbox: Episode 38

by Jon Cole in Games, Misc, Movies924 days ago

Halloween dominates the first part of this week’s episode of The Geekbox, which is ironic because none of the guys seem to really be interested in celebrating the holiday.  Brock Sager joins the podcast yet again in Mike Cruz’s absence and talks a bit about how high school students still use Halloween as a way to get free candy.  Ryan Scott discusses the Saw film franchise and dares to suggest that Christopher Nolan’s Riddler might be similar to the Jigsaw killer, fitting in that much darker Batman universe. Arkham Horror leads...

The Geekbox: Episode 37

by Jon Cole in Games, Misc, TV931 days ago

This week’s episode of The Geekbox comes in a little late and fortunately makes up for it with Brock, the stripper-guardian/podcast roadie extraordinaire.  Fitch reports in on his previous week of every-day-of-the-week dates, with plenty of the pseudo-modesty that you might come to expect from the “playa”. Tropico 3 gets discussed yet again, with Karen coming away from it dissatisfied with the fact that you have to actually build up an economy before you can torture innocent citizens.  Ryan Higgins has picked up Tales of Vesperia after a...

The Geekbox: Episode 36

by Jonathan Downin in Games, Misc, TV939 days ago

Anthony Gallegos is on this week, and so continues the constant cross-pollination of fellow Hammersuit personalities. Ryan Higgins begins with his experience at Star Wars: In Concert. After a bit of movie talk, the group moves onto Borderlands where Anthony reveals that he will probably be giving it a 4/5 star review on GameSpy. This leads into a more general MMO discussion and Anthony sharing some EverQuest memories. TV talk starts with the lamenting of the death of wrestler and Mario TV show star, Lou Albano. Venture Borthers gets some love and...

The Geekbox: Episode 35

by Jonathan Downin in Games, Misc946 days ago

Karen is back on this week and she is following up last week’s discussion about Orson Scott Card with her own personal decision to boycott the Dragon Quest games after Fitch related that the original creator is a Japanese Nationalist. Ideologies of Japanese Nationalism include justification of Japan’s WWII actions and denial surrounding the Korean and Chinese occupations. Comics talk takes up a chunk of time before group the covers the topic of outlets receiving huge swag, and if that influences coverage. This is spawned out of the fact...

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