2008-02-24 Arrow Pointing Down Podcast



The second edition of the Arrow Pointing Down Podcast, and the first to be recorded in a single room (in this case, Jeff's living room). Ryan and Alex Navarro join Jeff as they talk about their experiences at the Game Developer's Conference 2008. There was also a "special guest" in the room that was never revealed.

Arrow Pointing Down ep.2 -- 2.24.2008

Arrow Pointing Down Podcast

 * 0:00:00 --  Intro music.
 * 0:00:20 --  Introduction of cast.
 * 0:00:50 --  Description of Jeff's living room.
 * 0:02:45 --  Taste Test: Snickers Nut 'N Butter Crunch, with discussion of 7-Eleven's Slurpeeccino, Snickers Energy, keeping Petaluma egg-centric, and other candy bars.
 * 0:10:02 --  Taste Test: Six Hour Energy Mini Thin Rush Dietary Supplement, with discussion of Gatorade Tiger.
 * 0:18:30 --  Game Developer's Conference: Suite Night.
 * 0:23:13 --  Game Developer's Conference: Sessions, with discussion of GDC coverage.
 * 0:28:58 --  Game Developer's Conference: Microsoft Keynote (Gears of War 2, XNA games).
 * 0:33:48 --  Game Developer's Conference: Street Fighter IV and Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
 * 0:35:16 --  McDonald's bites Jeff's style.

So, Whatcha Been Playing?

 * 0:39:47 --  No More Heroes 2, echochrome, Jumper: Griffin's Story, Bionic Commando, The Club

New Releases

 * 0:53:30 --  Patapon, Lost: Via Domus, Puzzle Guzzle, N+. Upcoming: Army of Two, Bully: Scholarship Edition, God of War: Chains of Olympus.

E-MAILS!

 * 1:02:54 --  Jacob Broderson: Favorite controller.
 * 1:05:06 --  idontwearpanties@emailaccount.com: Call of Duty settings.
 * 1:08:09 --  JC: International cuisine.


 * 1:10:39 --  Wrap it up!
 * 1:12:25 --  Closing music.

Games

 * Prototype (28:29)
 * APB (28:35)
 * Gears of War II (29:02)
 * Halo - series (29:36)
 * XNA games (30:00)
 * Dishwasher (31:13)
 * No More Heroes (31:56, 39:50)
 * Devil May Cry - series (32:00)
 * Jelly Car (32:25)
 * Street Fighter IV (33:57)
 * Super Smash Brothers Brawl (34:18)
 * Killer 7 (40:18)
 * Echochrome (45:19)
 * Jumper (46:37)
 * Bionic Commando (46:47)
 * Mark of Kri (47:45)
 * The Club (50:34)
 * Project Gotham Racing - series (52:37)
 * Patapon (54:24)
 * Puzzle Guzzle (55:49)
 * Professor Leyton (56:01)
 * N+ (56:39
 * Army of Two (59:24)
 * Bully: Scholarship Editon (1:00:14)
 * Stroker (1:01:13)
 * God of War: Chains of Olympus (1:01:23)
 * Burnout: Paradise (1:04:50)
 * Call of Duty 3 (1:06:07)
 * Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (1:06:38)

People

 * Sam Kennedy (19:57)
 * John Carlo (20:12)
 * Gabe Newell (20:26)
 * Will Wright (20:33)
 * Ken Levine (23:04)
 * Kim Smith (24:00)
 * Sid Meier (24:53)
 * Louis Castle (27:04)
 * Steven Spielburg (27:17)
 * Major Nelson (33:23)
 * Travis Touchdown (41:32, 44:54)

Quotes

 * 0:05:03
 * Jeff: "When we're all eating pills and living on the moon base, this is what all our food will taste like."
 * 0:05:34
 * Ryan: "Back to the Future 3 is very hot right now."
 * 0:09:47
 * Jeff: "Would you step to the punk with a Big Hunk?"
 * 0:12:01
 * Jeff: "My love of Gatorade is not for sale, sir!"
 * 0:17:49
 * Alex: "For the early few hours at least you will be a bit manic."
 * 0:22:19
 * Alex: "There were midgets and fire... he saw people fucking on a couch."
 * 0:26:35
 * Jeff: "You've got, like, Hillary Clinton ankles over there."
 * 0:28:52
 * Ryan: "I think Jeff was having a different conversation from you just now."
 * 0:31:48
 * Ryan: "You do big fat nasty finishing moves on dudes and cut 'em in half."
 * 0:35:30
 * Ryan: "There is a empty McDonald's bag sitting in the middle of the living room floor... Do you wanna talk about this at all, Jeff?"
 * 0:37:49
 * Jeff: "If we're gonna swing for the fences, I want lifetime McRibs."
 * 0:42:56
 * Alex: "I think that's kinda the point, though...the open world stuff is meant to purposely suck."
 * 0:44:15
 * Jeff: "Coconuts are worth more than human life!"
 * 0:57:38
 * Jeff: "That game is about the epic quest of ninjas versus gold."
 * 0:57:53
 * Alex: "If there is anything video games have taught me, it's that Nazis have technology well beyond our means."
 * 0:59:02
 * Alex: "If it doesn't butter my hide, I don't give it anything higher than like a 6... out of 7.5."
 * 1:01:39
 * Jeff: "Great, Handheld sex minigames."
 * Ryan: "Yeah, bet you're real familiar with those, aren't you, Jeff? Hahaha, BURNT!"

Things They Say an Awful Lot

 * 0:00:27 - Ryan introduces Jeff as "TV's Own Jeff Gerstmann".
 * 0:01:03 - Ryan says he wants to "paint a word picture."
 * 0:09:19 - Jeff says that the Snickers Nut 'N Butter Crunch "fails to differentiate itself".
 * 0:09:50 - Ryan: "I don't know what that means." (Alex also says this at 0:26:39.)
 * 0:10:05 - Ryan references his segue. He does it again at 0:32:07.
 * 0:25:41 - Jeff says that GDC sells cassingles of their talks.
 * 0:36:05 - Jeff: "Perhaps, on the Internet, under a photo of me, where it said, 'You can't beat a hundred percent.'"
 * 0:41:56 - Ryan intentionally mispronounces "sword".
 * 1:08:13 - Jeff: "Perfect! Thanks for writing!"
 * 1:10:16 - Jeff: "Yeah, I bet you do."