Tonight we have a treat for you: Our Longest Podcast Ever! That's right, we go for the record. We hope that you can stand us long enough to listen to the podcast. Partially we have quite a bit to say about the Doctor Strange versus Captain Marvel fight.
We start out with our emails. We have two tonight, one from Chance and one from Vaughn, one vote for Captain Marvel and one for Doctor Strange. Yet another reason that we go the distance. Chance fills us in on the Xbone price drop wiht the addition of Titanfall, Sony's VR headset, and the Harvard Business Professor's opinion that game developers should develop preexisting IPs rather than develop new ones.
Rhett brings us tonight's news dump. We talk about Bioshock Infinite again. Ken Levine wants people to stop making porn of Elizabeth. He's forgotten internet rule 34. Netflicks is paying Comcast to be able to stream videos, which we've talked about before. However, Comcast is also talking about billing Cogent as well. Cogent is the company that handles the streaming for Netflicks. Expect your bill to go up if you use Netflicks. This runs smack against Net Neutrality and highlights why we should have it. Listen to the podcast for the rest.
We finish the console section with the final three: WII U, Playstation 4, and Xbox One. WII U is the console to get if you like party games, playing without the television, and unique games. If you don't want an expensive, under powered, system, that is bulky and drains the battery skip it. The Playstation 4 has the best hardware of the bunch, it is cheaper than the Xbox One, they improved the controller, you can stream to your TV with the PS Vita. However, there really isn't a huge draw to move away from your current system, at least not yet. In a plus/minus kind of situation there's a huge library of games available with the instant collection, but you have to pay for Playstation Plus. Xbox One on the other hand has Titanfall, it is an all-in-one media system, and it has HDMI passthrough. However, it has the inferior hardware and is more expensive, again not much reason to move away from current gen yet, it requires that you have the Kinect, and to do anything more that just basic system operations you have to pay for a Gold membership. Call us crazy, but we feel that we are already paying for the games, the system, and the internet connection, why are you making us pay again?
Then we get into Rhett's true feelings about coop games. Shocker, he doesn't like them for some very specific reasons. They tend to be competitive and unbalanced. He points to Borderlands 2 as an example. As much fun as we had playing the game, it really isn't structured well for coop. Experience is not shared and loot drops can be stolen. The game is structured to inject a false competitive element into what should be a cooperative experience.
Tonight in this round of the Battle Royale we have determined that this is the end. One contestant will succeed. We will not let this situation continue. We have an exhaustive discussion of the merits of Captain Marvel and Doctor Strange. Jason perhaps simplifying his position too much and relying on a couple of Doctor Strange's more powerful abilities rather and jumping straight to the conclusion rather than putting together a more coherent argument. Rhett arguing that the powers of Captain Marvel making him the equal of the gods whose powers he uses and therefore the winner of the this round. In the end we discover some interesting information about the two characters and finally declare a winner. Next week on the podcast we have Ironman versus Wonder Woman.
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