Xbox 360 Fancast 061 -- The Height of Idiocy
by Richard Mitchell 
{ Mar 24th 2008 at 6:00PM }
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Music: Intro/Outro: "Electromooq" by Uma Floresta. Bridge: "Ran Away to Tell the World" by OURS
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Hosts: Richard Mitchell (SenseiRAM), Dustin Burg (SuperDunners), Alexander Sliwinski (Sli Xander), Xav de Matos (Snypz)
Produced by Richard Mitchell
News:
Castle Crashers dev blog is live, lots of characters, weapons
CoD4 GOTY in April
Legendary Map Pack: Avalanche and maybe Lockout remake
Heroic Pack is free on March 25th (Damn it, Xav!)
Fable 2 gets three XBLA games
Battlefield: Bad Company beta is go
Rockstar patches problematic Bully
Rock Band patch released, new Music Store too
Sonic Unleashed ... looks good?
Break
Fanmail: Vanilla achievements (again), do achievements steal the fun? Helping Alexander learn to read.
Fantalk: The Tale of Rich's Rock Band Guitar
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ZEBRA NINER @ Mar 24th 2008 6:07PM
It's early again! w00t! Thanks. :)
callum henderson @ Mar 24th 2008 6:37PM
Ive gotta say right now, I look forward to this all week - sad huh?!
Richard Mitchell @ Mar 24th 2008 6:44PM
"Ive gotta say right now, I look forward to this all week - sad huh?!"
And how!
:)
Lewis @ Mar 24th 2008 7:27PM
I'm about to give it a good listen as I play some rocket race, since I usually win by myself without a driver.... I'll comment back with impressions, questions and such goodness.
DaMan09 @ Mar 24th 2008 7:58PM
I had hoped that more sonic talk would ensue. O well, BTW, will the Album Art for the Zune ever get fixed?
Darkharmony @ Mar 24th 2008 8:20PM
I'm with you guys 100% with gamerpic organization. I don't know about you but I sometimes come across gamer pics and I don't know where they came from. I'd love to see it organized by game title.
My arcade load time definetly does take a while though.
Oh guys I don't think I have seen anything about this but under video watching I can change source and it says "Orb: " and my computer info. When I use that theirs internet tv, live tv, webcams and online video. With online video I see youtube, aol video, google video etc. And I honestly don't know where any of this came from.
Graham @ Mar 24th 2008 8:24PM
Dustin getting PWNed at dodgeball?!?!? What a shock,lol. Good show guys.
Halwende @ Mar 24th 2008 8:34PM
To the chap asking "play vs achievements" with Mass Effect, I would recommend just playing it - use the same two squad members the whole time and try and do all the side-quests you find, that way you'll get a fair share of GS points and you'll enjoy the game at the same time
There are points for playing a 2nd time through and on higher difficulties (which you unlock by finishing the game), not to mention future DLC (play it again in a year with all the DLC!) - so assuming you like it you'll need to play it multiple times anyway to get the most of it (imo)
PS. it's awesome, don't rush through it! :)
Arnie @ Mar 24th 2008 10:51PM
Some strong emotions in this fancast but a really hilarious one esp the Rock Band guitar and the bloopers reel. Keep up the good work guys and Dustin more swearing will be good for you mentally!!
Kasey Johnson @ Mar 24th 2008 11:19PM
I agree about the zune art DaMan09, I know we are in the minority, but it would be nice to be fixed.
ZEBRA NINER @ Mar 25th 2008 12:22AM
This was a good one. Ch33v0 heavy.
The Rockband story was hilarious. Where I work, we use UPS for shipping from time to time. When you print a shipping label and return label at the same time they come out together. If the person that takes them off the thermal printer separates them, and the person applying them isn't paying attention it can happen very easily. I bet they had a new guy and he was just slapping stickers on everything in sight.
Xav de Matos @ Mar 25th 2008 1:44AM
I was joking again with Alexander earlier that it doesn't matter what we do, we end up yelling at each other.
This week's barely-SFW bloopers is my favorite, since the episode where we couldn't stop laughing.
My audio was all over the map in the beginning. Stupid Canadian internets!
Lewis @ Mar 25th 2008 3:00AM
*Stabs canadian intarwebz*
Fun show, very mixed. The rock Band story was probably the highlight of the fancast for me.
I, For one, Am looking forward to Avatar 2. MoRe Ch33VoS.
The next spring update should let you use voice and video chat with Windows Live Messenger users. Maybe that's asking for too much. So how bout Ikaruga, like next week :) I'll settle for that.
emirabal @ Mar 25th 2008 3:21PM
Damn you guys, i bought the limited edition of Creed, whats wrong wit dat, lol.
Homer 918 @ Mar 25th 2008 9:33PM
Hey Dustin it is actually against the TOS to contact people to try and make deals outside of Ebay auctions and a lot of get burned that way.
Track @ Mar 26th 2008 2:13PM
awesome show :)
Small comment though about the mp3 itself, the ID3v2 Title is "Xbox 360 Fancast 062 -- The Height of Idiocy".
Also, could you be more consistent with the album name? My MP3 player reads the tags and sorts them according to the info in there (and not for example the physical location of the file on my player). The last 2 fancasts have had "X3F Chronicles" as the album name.
Will you be sticking to that album name in the future? I personally like the "Vitamin X3F" better :D
I also love the suggestion for queueing free stuff from xbox.com and having it auto-download when I next boot up my xbox.
Richard Mitchell @ Mar 26th 2008 2:18PM
I tend to change the album names every 10 episodes. I could make it more ordered I guess (Fancast Volume 10, etc). I like coming up with new names every 10 shows, but if it's annoying I could change it.
Track @ Mar 26th 2008 2:27PM
It wasn't annoying, I just couldn't find a "system" to it, seemed a bit random to me, I only been tuning in since episode 57 and it looked like it changed every (or every other) fancast.
Now that I know it changes every 10 eps I know what to expect :D
bigmantonyd @ Mar 28th 2008 2:36PM
I really disagree with your stance on the special editions of new IPs. I got the special edition of Assassin's Creed because I was really lookin forward to it and the extra DVD of content definately enhanced my experience. $10 really isn't much for us income-earning adults and if it adds to a great game, then I'm more than willing to pay the premium.