Powetcast Episode 17: Cobra Commander’s Moustache

by Sean "TheOrange" Corse, filed in Games, Movies, Powet.TV Presents, Powetcast, Toys, TV on Aug.24, 2009

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More and more, the games Powet plays are $10-$15 add-ons and episodic content. Is this trend wide-spread? Is the era of expensive, disc-based gaming over?

Also, news of the video game world at GamesCom and BlizzCon, reviews of Ponyo, District 9, the new Professor Layton (out today), and more! Also introducing special guest Shaun Hatton of Toronto Thumbs and the 4 Color Rebellion network!

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(Do you still buy games on discs? Love Steam and downloadable content? Leave a comment below!)

Show notes after the jump!

Panel
*“The Original” Sean Corse
*Crazy “wants to date Felicia Day’s avatar” Jaco
*“The Essential” Sindra
*aDam “Not a Shawn” Gardner
*Shaun “The Prawn” Hatton (AKA Megashaun, “Shatton”)

News

*Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles to return?
**Or maybe not: Halcyon sues fincancier Pacificor (08/18)
**Halycon subsidary files for bankruptcy (08/19)
**”I think Kurt Benjamin (the Pacificor employee accused of fraud) is a Terminator fan from the future
that went back to ensure that T5 would never be made by Halycon and McG”

*Bryan Singer set to direct BSG movie
**(“with all those reboots, you’d think the Cylons were running Windows ’95”)

*Blizzcon 2009 says “No Diablo III for 2010”. But yay new Monk Class!

*Fable III Announced by Lionhead at GamesCom. Video

*Transformers 2 DLC announced

*PS3 Slim to be released early September, but does anyone care? Image

Roundtable

*Is the era of expensive disc-based gaming over?
**XBLA/WiiWare titles (along with PSN and Steam) increasingly taking over Cool Beans segment
**iPhone gaming on the rise
**Sustainability of availability versus “brick and mortar” stores – with no need to clear shelf space, does this mean fewer price drops?
**Collectors sets and special controllers become more and more common, physical media gaming becomes MORE expensive

*Is Episodic gaming onto something? In the future, will we consume our games in small bites like television shows, with entire “seasons” of games released later as compilations with special features?
**Fable II going Episodic

Cool Beans

Movies
*Ponyo on the Cliff
*District 9

Games
*Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box

Comics
*Gargoyles and Gargoyles Bad Guys trades (finally) released
**Previous Powet.TV reviews

Toys
*RotF Scalpel

Pimpin’
*Keep Playing: Rewind – Fatal Labyrinth (last week)
*Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li (this week)
*Powet Toys: Leader Class Optimus Prime (next week)
*Powet Alphabet (I, J)
*Toronto Thumbcast Episode 9

Tags: Movie, People, PS3, Sony, Terminator, Transformers, Wii

http://powet.tv/ Zac Shipley

Little Big Planet is being re-released with all the downloadable content on disc. Halo 3 ODST will ship with all the Halo 3 Multiplayer maps on a disc. Popcap releases volumes of their Xbox Live Arcade offerings on a disc. Marvel VS Capcom 2 on PSN is released to Gamestop as a $20 set with extras along with the download code for the $15 game.

No, the era of expensive games is not behind us. The era of downloadble games is not upon us either.
http://powet.tv Zac Shipley

Little Big Planet is being re-released with all the downloadable content on disc. Halo 3 ODST will ship with all the Halo 3 Multiplayer maps on a disc. Popcap releases volumes of their Xbox Live Arcade offerings on a disc. Marvel VS Capcom 2 on PSN is released to Gamestop as a $20 set with extras along with the download code for the $15 game.

No, the era of expensive games is not behind us. The era of downloadble games is not upon us either.
BumblebeeZ3

I prefer having a disc/ hard copy of a game, but that being said I have enjoyed Megaman 9 and Plants Vs. Zombies(actually, I’d love toys for this game).
Have yet to actually play Bionic Commando which I downloaded, but then I have several unopened games that I’ve picked up cheap on sale or clearance.
There is something to be said for buying a game at full retail/ only slightly on sale that makes you go, “I’m going to get my money’s worth dagnabbit” But then it could also be the fact that such games are few and far between, and if I’m buying it in the first few weeks that means it was a game I was impatient enough to want to play it *now* rather than at some random point in the future.
Dreading/anticipating the Chun Li review.

@ about -21 minutes for the jump in point after the District 9 discussion, for anyone else listening trying to avoid spoilers.
BumblebeeZ3

I prefer having a disc/ hard copy of a game, but that being said I have enjoyed Megaman 9 and Plants Vs. Zombies(actually, I’d love toys for this game).
Have yet to actually play Bionic Commando which I downloaded, but then I have several unopened games that I’ve picked up cheap on sale or clearance.
There is something to be said for buying a game at full retail/ only slightly on sale that makes you go, “I’m going to get my money’s worth dagnabbit” But then it could also be the fact that such games are few and far between, and if I’m buying it in the first few weeks that means it was a game I was impatient enough to want to play it *now* rather than at some random point in the future.
Dreading/anticipating the Chun Li review.

@ about -21 minutes for the jump in point after the District 9 discussion, for anyone else listening trying to avoid spoilers.
http://mmeow.net/ Tony

I buy a heck of a lot more downloadable “cheap” games honestly. Sometimes it’s nice because often they’re throwbacks for me. Shadow Complex is amazing, but could it float as a $50 retail game now like something like Super Metroid could 15 years ago? I doubt it…

Which is sad in some ways, but I guess just a sign of the times. Even at $15 you have people complaining it’s “only” 8 hours long haha.

I used to be all big on boxes, but lately I just don’t care. I lose the ability to resell games, which is the only real drawback for me. Lately I’ve just put all of my discs in a folder and packed away my boxes and I’m much happier for it. Less crap around my TV!
http://mmeow.net Tony

I buy a heck of a lot more downloadable “cheap” games honestly. Sometimes it’s nice because often they’re throwbacks for me. Shadow Complex is amazing, but could it float as a $50 retail game now like something like Super Metroid could 15 years ago? I doubt it…

Which is sad in some ways, but I guess just a sign of the times. Even at $15 you have people complaining it’s “only” 8 hours long haha.

I used to be all big on boxes, but lately I just don’t care. I lose the ability to resell games, which is the only real drawback for me. Lately I’ve just put all of my discs in a folder and packed away my boxes and I’m much happier for it. Less crap around my TV!

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