Xbox 360 Fancast 093 -- Fanboys 4 Dead

by Richard Mitchell { Nov 24th 2008 at 6:45PM }

This week's episode is absolutely gimongous, folks. You can blame the extra girth (mostly) on our new feature that we're calling Spoiler Warning. Spoiler Warning takes place after the outro and the outtakes of the show and we use it to discuss parts of games that some might not have finished. This week, we talk about the story in Gears of War 2 and where it might (but hopefully won't) go from here. Of course, we also talk about the normal weekly news and whatnot. We also manage to make Dustin leave halfway through the show. Truly, we're setting records all over the place.

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Hosts: Richard Mitchell (SenseiRAM), Dustin Burg (SuperDunners), Alexander Sliwinski (Sli Xander), Xav de Matos (Snypz)

Produced by Richard Mitchell

Music: Intro/Outro: "Electromooq" by Uma Floresta, "Talk Radio" by The Dandy Warhols.

For fans: Xbox 360 Fancast Facebook group

Possible Gears 2 'Imulsion' map DLC
Lips commercial and Lips DLC
Halo 3: Recon goes open world
Sony blocks entire Netflix library from streaming to 360 (Response)
Avatar fashion to double in next few months
What do you think of the NXE?
GTAIV "Lost and Damned" DLC dated
Kim: 360's life span to be one day longer than PS3
Eidos blocks 'low' Underworld scores
Dead Rising suit dismissed

Tags: 360-fancast, 360-podcast, fancast, podcast, xbox-360-fancast, xbox-360-podcast, xbox-fancast, xbox-podcast

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Aero @ Nov 24th 2008 7:07PM

Can't wait to listen to it.
And guys, it'd be really awesome if you got the enhanced feed up for ep 100, then I'd actually download it.

RedSonRising @ Nov 24th 2008 7:29PM

finally.. gonna take a walk, get my x3fancast on..

Disco Ball @ Nov 24th 2008 7:32PM

It's the most wonderfull time of the week...
When podcasts come out and dustin screams about Gears of War...

Stupid holiday music getting to me already.

RAY @ Nov 24th 2008 9:02PM

great podcast guys
totally agree about the maria deal in gow 2

dom didnt even second thought it, and to top he of used a f***** hand cannon

he didnt have something a bit smaller lol

Momer @ Nov 24th 2008 10:11PM

You may want to be more careful about posting spoilers in the comments, there are definitely readers who haven't finished the game yet.

ryan w @ Nov 25th 2008 6:56AM

I agree with what momer said but y couldn't he use a small pistol, what about a grinder

Halwende @ Nov 24th 2008 9:10PM

Hurrah for Nathan Fillion!

Chase @ Nov 24th 2008 9:22PM

At least you were shipped a box, Richard. They only sent me a label.

*shakes fist*

Aero @ Nov 24th 2008 10:39PM

I'm in the process of listening now, but is it just me or does the Lips mascot thing kinda sound like Alexander?

aStagnantSleep (GT:StoneRevolver) @ Nov 24th 2008 11:00PM

SOOO happy it's monday and fancast is here.

I feel like shit (I got a cold) and i can just here this all night.

joeybeast @ Nov 24th 2008 11:13PM

You guys should call the new feature, SPOILRIFIC

SourNotHardcore @ Nov 25th 2008 3:16AM

Dustin, I was down twice next to you and you didn't even bother to look lol.

Dave @ Nov 25th 2008 5:05AM

Testing to see if my login works, sorry.

CABALLOTE @ Nov 25th 2008 7:31AM

I'm not even gonna bother... "The continuation of the Gears 2 nega-review", I'll pass. Gears has it's flaws, but it has also done some things I still haven't heard about from you all.

Chad @ Nov 25th 2008 9:23AM

can't wait to listen, thanks!

MightyTACO @ Nov 25th 2008 2:35PM

Feel your pain Richard ... having to send in my 5th console now. Of course it craps out here during the biggest game time of the year. So upset. It's a good thing Xbox has so many great games over the PS3, because I would be turning my back on the system at this point for most other things breaking on me 5 times.

AnthonyGalindoX @ Nov 26th 2008 12:37AM

Spoiler Warning Discussion :
I would like to share my own opinion regarding Gears 2. It seems to me like there is only two directions that they can go with concerning the sires. Either the locust are mutated humans or the government experimented with making super soldiers to fight the locust using locust DNA. I guess if it has to be either I hope it would be the latter. I'm also disappointed that they chose to put what I consider important story information inside the collectibles. Apparently Tai's suicide and Maria's death would have made sense if you found them. If that didn't happen they could have simply added a line of dialog that could have helped greatly, for example " Oh god, I hope what happened to Tai hasn't happened to Maria. I don't know what I'd do then." As for the vehicle sequences I liked the change in gameplay they brought although I think they have some problems. The Reaver sequences were a little too difficult and the tank felt like a toy, not a real vehicle. I loved the entire ending sequence and did not have a single problem with it. It was epic fun. Lastly I have to say that I would have preferred to fight Skorge again, this time resembling something closer to RAAM's fight from the first game. Sorry for the disjointed logic of the post, I'm writing as it's coming to me.

Lee Beckett @ Dec 3rd 2008 6:41PM

Thought your comments about NXE were pretty lame re: the friends list.

All the online friends appear first in the avatar village - so it hardly takes a lot of effort to find the people online. Plus, all your offline friends are there to allow you to send messages/compare achievements etc.

However, you can press the guide button and still access the Friends list in its old style. So whats the problem?