[Neuromancer]

CAGcast #290: Dyad, Ouya and More 4 Letter Words

The crew talks Ouya and Penny-Arcade Kickstarters, Dyad, Spec-Ops: The Line, Steam Summer Sale, Silver-Age Batman, and more!

Looking forward to the Spec Ops spoiler bit at the end of the show.

[Neuromancer]

Last week's

CAGcast #291: Patch This!

The gang talks Tony Hawk HD, Xbox Live advertising, Fez patching, political correctness in games, pimpmobiles, and much more!

This week's

CAGcast #292: An Incredible, Exceptional Podcast

Are you ready for some Foosball? Cheapy talks Foosball 2012, Shipwreck attends Best Buy's Exclusive Shopping Event, and Wombat is excited for the 3DS XL.

Hey Cheapy are you going to go on the 8-4 Play podcast again any time soon?

[Neuromancer]

CAGcast #293: Wombat’s Summer Job

CheapyD is out-of-touch with popular chicken restaurants, Shipwreck doesn't love Deadlight, and Wombat recalls his favorite summer job.

I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone

[Fox318]

Good episode this week.

I hope Cheapy records some while he is away but I would understand if he doesn't.

[Persona7]

I need to catch up!

[Wario64]

New episode should be hitting soon, been a while

[Neuromancer]

Sweet!

CAGcast #296: Mark, The Ninja

The crew returns and talks The Walking Dead, Mark of the Ninja, NBA Baller Beats, Darksiders II, Rock Band Blitz, Wii U predictions and so much more! Stay tuned after the show for the live CAGcast from PAX.

[firehawk12]

I think this is more important!
http://audioboo.fm/boos/953777-cheap...f-jiro-s-sushi

God, I still want to go sometime. I need to make plan a trip around it.

[Neuromancer]

Wombat's Bane impression was awful. He needs to take acting lessons from Phil on Player One Podcast.

Also Wombat refusing to admit he made a big show of publically boycotting CBS, even when confronted with his own words, was somewhat infuriating. Im guessing he was just trolling to get a rise out of Cheapy.

[firehawk12]

Wombat's Bane impression was awful. He needs to take acting lessons from Phil on Player One Podcast. Also Wombat refusing to admit he made a big show of publically boycotting CBS, even when confronted with his own words, was somewhat infuriating. Im guessing he was just trolling to get a rise out of Cheapy.

Welcome to Wombat. :p

[Curufinwe]

His complains about TDKR just make me glad that no one of his ilk forced it to be more like the comics.

[Neuromancer]

CAGcast #297: Shipwreck Dreams of Borderlands

Cheapy attends Tokyo Game Show 2012, everyone loves Borderlands 2, nobody loves the Wii U, and Wombat dislikes moving his finger twice.

Highlight: CheapyD saying EDF 2017 was too janky.

[Maklershed]

Great show as always. Although I worry Wombat's heart isn't in it anymore. Maybe he's just tired / pre-occupied with the kids. Or maybe I'm just imagining things, which is the more likely scenario.

[Curufinwe]

I think he was sick, and also they couldnt hear him for part of the show.

[Maklershed]

I'm listening to it a second time and now that I know about the audio problem from Wombat it does make sense. He did start out kind of happy and enthusiastic and by 13 minutes in he's sounding annoyed/dejected that Ship and Cheapy seem to be ignoring him. He even says, "I'm here too."

[tw1164]

Has the love run dry? This week's episode was pretty entertaining. I enjoyed the stories about shitty jobs, and shipwreck's life of privilege.

[Neuromancer]

Sorry I've been a bit out of it lately. Here's the new one:

CAGcast #301: Don't Be a Dick

The crew talks XCOM, Hotline Miami, gaming journalism controversies and much more!

Haven't listened to it yet but I love when they talk about gaming controversies/drama. Should be a good show!

[Maklershed]

Sorry I've been a bit out of it lately. Here's the new one: CAGcast #301: Don't Be a Dick Haven't listened to it yet but I love when they talk about gaming controversies/drama. Should be a good show!

There was even some GAF controversy in there .. apparently Tony from Amazon posts deals here in the gaming area and even takes requests for deals and stuff but did something that was against the ToS and got banned. So now I guess he only posts at CAG. Sounds like a case of cutting off the nose to spite the face but to be honest I couldn't tell from what Cheapy was saying he did to violate the rules and how bad of an offense it was.

[Fjordson]

This was the thread that got Tony banned - http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=497097

I loved getting deals info from Tony, and the permaban is really harsh, but at the end of the day I'm not totally shocked by it. That thread seemed like a really, really bad idea.

Also, I didn't even realize there was a CAGcast thread on here. This is honestly one of my favourite podcasts, it's always been a little surprising to me that it isn't mentioned much on GAF.

Cheapy's choice of intro music this week was pretty damned funny given all the controversy over that Geoff Keighley video. And I liked his anticlimactic Wombat intro :lol

[Wario64]

Did they talk about GAF/Tony on the Cagcast? I havent finished it yet

[firehawk12]

He was being a shill, but in the most benign way possible (by actually asking for permission/gauging interest).

Given how some of the OTs look, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a lot of shenanigans going on behind the scenes anyway. Someone dropped the MGS4 OT as an example, but I still haven't seen the full story to that one.

[Maklershed]

Did they talk about GAF/Tony on the Cagcast? I havent finished it yet

Yes indeed. Just saw you got a shout out from Cheapy on twitter. You run the @videogamedeals account from time to time?

[guest1321]

Did they talk about GAF/Tony on the Cagcast? I havent finished it yet

Briefly, yes

[Keavy_Rain]

Two things about this episode:

1. I thought they went too easy on Lauren Wainwright. I'm not saying the CAGCast should have demanded her head, but her actions aren't as innocent or "Misguided" as they made them seem.

2. Tony's ban seemed, to me, to be his own fault. I recall he expressed some doubt as to whether or not the mods would be OK with the thread that got him banned. I just think he should have PM'd a mod and reviewed the forum rules before posting.

Also, I highly doubt NeoGAF enjoys banning high-profile people. Part of the appeal of this forum is the whole "OMG Game developers, bloggers, and journalists post here" and banning them just to make waves seems silly.

Having the mods treat the high-profile people the same way they'd treat a nobody like me shows me the mods are doing their jobs.

[Maklershed]

Also, I highly doubt NeoGAF enjoys banning high-profile people. Part of the appeal of this forum is the whole "OMG Game developers, bloggers, and journalists post here" and banning them just to make waves seems silly.

I think Cheapy might've been referencing the Dennis Dyack situation there.

[entrement]

Two things about this episode: 1. I thought they went too easy on Lauren Wainwright. I'm not saying the CAGCast should have demanded her head, but her actions aren't as innocent or "Misguided" as they made them seem. 2. Tony's ban seemed, to me, to be his own fault. I recall he expressed some doubt as to whether or not the mods would be OK with the thread that got him banned. I just think he should have PM'd a mod and reviewed the forum rules before posting. Also, I highly doubt NeoGAF enjoys banning high-profile people. Part of the appeal of this forum is the whole "OMG Game developers, bloggers, and journalists post here" and banning them just to make waves seems silly. Having the mods treat the high-profile people the same way they'd treat a nobody like me shows me the mods are doing their jobs.

Hey was labeled as an Amazon employee. I think the permaban was harsh, but I'm just guest here, I don't make the rules.

[firehawk12]

Two things about this episode: 1. I thought they went too easy on Lauren Wainwright. I'm not saying the CAGCast should have demanded her head, but her actions aren't as innocent or "Misguided" as they made them seem. 2. Tony's ban seemed, to me, to be his own fault. I recall he expressed some doubt as to whether or not the mods would be OK with the thread that got him banned. I just think he should have PM'd a mod and reviewed the forum rules before posting. Also, I highly doubt NeoGAF enjoys banning high-profile people. Part of the appeal of this forum is the whole "OMG Game developers, bloggers, and journalists post here" and banning them just to make waves seems silly. Having the mods treat the high-profile people the same way they'd treat a nobody like me shows me the mods are doing their jobs.

I haven't listened to the podcast yet, but given that for everyone - including CheapyD to some extent - video game reviews are a hobby that exists in lieu of their "real jobs", I can see why they'd side with someone on the enthusiast side of the profession.

[sixghost]

The talk about the Eurogamer controversy was really disappointing. Not because I disagreed, but because none of them seemed to really have read up on it. That's understandable since the thread here was long as hell, but all their arguments seemed to be based on either a lack of information or flawed information. Then they ended by basically saying, "who cares, none of this is really matters."

I always look forward to them, especially Wombat, talking about stuff like this because they usually have a interesting perspective that isn't skewed by being too deeply involved in either the press or enthusiast side. It would be nice if they discussed it again next week in a more informed manner.

[Neuromancer]

I agree, but to be honest I didn't really expect much from them. They're good entertainers but having reasoned and thoughtful discussion based on a good grasp of the issues isn't really the CAGcast's forte.

Shipwreck came the closest to having a respectable position on the whole thing, but he caved in to Cheapy and Wombat's indifference in the end.

[firehawk12]

Heh, that whole thing was pretty stupid. But I mean, as I said before I heard it, none of them are journalists so it doesn't matter to any of them if they get free shit and if they become close friends with PR people (in order to get more free shit).

At least Wombat has stopped with the whole "I want free shit" thing whenever Shipwreck talks about the games he gets and he seemed to have calmed down this year at E3 iirc.

It's funny that they talk about Wainwright being young though, mostly because she tweets about using her course on "media and the law" or whatever but I guess "journalistic ethics" isn't a class you have to take at her university.

But you listen to CAGCast because you want to hear more stories of CheapyD pooping himself because he threw out his back or for some consumer rights thing that happened, not for the discussion on the big issues.

I did find CheapyD's reaction to Tony being banned hilarious though. He was pretty happy that Tony will spend more time at CAG. lol

I don't browse CAG outside of the Canada sub-forum, but I assume that they'd love to have OTs that are PR-fests like the shitty ones that we get here. :p

(I still want to hear the story about the MGS4 OT :( )

[sixghost]

I agree, but to be honest I didn't really expect much from them. They're good entertainers but having reasoned and thoughtful discussion based on a good grasp of the issues isn't really the CAGcast's forte. Shipwreck came the closest to having a respectable position on the whole thing, but he caved in to Cheapy and Wombat's indifference in the end.

I think that's unfair to them. There have been quite a few controversies like this where I thought they made the some of the most well reasoned arguments, and weren't just repeating the same thing everyone had been saying on twitter.

[Fjordson]

Honestly, I think Cheapy and co. are all for free shit. They don't give a damn, bring it on. I remember Wombat (or was it Cheapy?) wishing they were in the Microsoft presser a few years ago for a free slim.

But what's funny is I don't think it affects them that much, if at all. They talk plenty of shit about all the companies, including Microsoft (always love Wombat calling Major Nelson the Ronald McDonald of Xbox :lol) and do stuff like that big discussion about the Xbox Live spotlight gamer. Where they played all those awful clips and messages showing how that spotlight is actually a shitty thing to get chosen for, something that apparently pissed off Microsoft.

[Wario64]

Yes indeed. Just saw you got a shout out from Cheapy on twitter. You run the @videogamedeals account from time to time?

If you see a tweet during regular waking hours (USA Time) during the day, it's most likely me

[firehawk12]

Honestly, I think Cheapy and co. are all for free shit. They don't give a damn, bring it on. I remember Wombat (or was it Cheapy?) wishing they were in the Microsoft presser a few years ago for a free slim. But what's funny is I don't think it affects them that much, if at all. They talk plenty of shit about all the companies, including Microsoft (always love Wombat calling Major Nelson the Ronald McDonald of Xbox :lol) and do stuff like that big discussion about the Xbox Live spotlight gamer. Where they played all those awful clips and messages showing how that spotlight is actually a shitty thing to get chosen for, something that apparently pissed off Microsoft.

Yeah, I think that's fair. Honestly, I think the fact that this isn't their job helps a lot. And really, even CheapyD's living comes from convincing people to buy video games, so he's probably on the side of PR (not to mention that he's mentioned owning stocks in various game companies and retailers), so I don't hold any of them to the same standard as I would someone who is a journalist by trade.

I just think it's a bit weird to assume it's okay for everyone else to operate the same way. Even Wombat made the "it's just games" argument. And at that point, why bother have reviewers at all? Why not just let Ubisoft review AC3 for all the outlets? They would save on reviewer salaries and every game would get 100% on Metacritic. Win-win.

[Fjordson]

Yeah, I get what you mean. A few things they said were sort of copout arguments I think. Like the whole "c'mon guys, she's young!".

[firehawk12]

Yeah, I get what you mean. A few things they said were sort of copout arguments I think. Like the whole "c'mon guys, she's young!".

It just felt like they weren't taking it seriously and, at that point, it probably wasn't worth mentioning at all beyond in passing. CheapyD and Wombat don't care, and Shipwreck sort of cares but not really, so it's okay to just move on to something else.

I will say, I agree with Shipwreck on the OTs. The overly flashy OTs are the reason why I don't read the first page of any OT thread anymore. I don't want a billion screenshots and PR facts about games. At best, I want a release date, price, and maybe some significant information (like ZoE HD being horrible on PS3). Unless it's a joke OT (like Dragon Age or that SaGa OT), the only picture I really need is some flashy banner made by an artist on GAF and maybe the box art.
At least we don't get anything that spans like 10 posts and is takes forever to load anymore, but it still gets silly sometimes.

[Neuromancer]

CAGcast #302: That Gurgle

Cheapy and Shipwreck talk Need for Speed: Most Wanted and Forza Horizon, Medal of Honor, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, Primal Carnage, and more!

I'm interested to hear what Cheapy thinks of Forza.

[not_so_special]

i love cheapy because its a funny and honest dude,shipwreck because he is a smart and very down to earth guy and wombat because...its wombat
but man every time they talk about portable gaming,it hurts

[Curufinwe]

Cheapy and Tai are streaming a Brown Thursday show right now.

http://www.twitch.tv/cheapassgamer

[Neuromancer]

Tai's a cute little kid.

Why are they playing a Marble Madness video on YouTube, though? Haha

[Wario64]

I hope the show is archived

[Maklershed]

CAGcast #305: The Shipwreck Shopping Hotline is up

"Join the gang for a Black Friday wrap up, talk of the new Family Guy and Hitman games and oh so much more!"

[Neuromancer]

Cool, thanks

[Neuromancer]

CAGcast #306: Joe Han

Cheapy loves Far Cry 3, Shipwreck reminisces over Crossfire, and Wombat has a MacBook.

Come on, Shipwreck. "Joe-han"?

[Maklershed]

He reminsces about the game Crossfire? Remember the commercials for that? Two dudes in a post apocalyptics scenario with smoke all around them intensely battling with those little flippers or guns or whatever was in that game? It was ridiculous. 80s and early 90s toy commercials in general were overly intense.

[Neuromancer]

I don't think I remember that one... Crossbows and Catapults though, that was my jam!

[Petrie]

He reminsces about the game Crossfire? Remember the commercials for that? Two dudes in a post apocalyptics scenario with smoke all around them intensely battling with those little flippers or guns or whatever was in that game? It was ridiculous. 80s and early 90s toy commercials in general were overly intense.

No need to remember:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn1NTK-50

Youtube has you covered.

[Celegus]

He reminsces about the game Crossfire? Remember the commercials for that? Two dudes in a post apocalyptics scenario with smoke all around them intensely battling with those little flippers or guns or whatever was in that game? It was ridiculous. 80s and early 90s toy commercials in general were overly intense.

That game was awesome! Pew pew pew marbles all day long!

[Maklershed]

No need to remember: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn1NTK-50 Youtube has you covered.

Haha yes! This is the one. Ah memories.

[Jake Tower]

I don't think I remember that one... Crossbows and Catapults though, that was my jam!

The greatest game ever made!

Did you know: you could wind a rubberband multiple times around the crossbow or catapult and make it shoot with deadly velocity?