Pre-E3 2011 Special

Ron, Alex, Xzyliac and special guests Apathy, Monodi and Daxelman discuss Project Cafe, PlayStation Vita, controller mock-ups, Battlefield 3, Mass Effect 3, DMC, Final Fantasy, and so, so much more in this all-E3 2011 special!

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Episode 14: Iwata’s Mother’s Cookies

Jeepers Creepers strikes again, this time claiming the life of Xzyliac! Now two women down, Ron and Alex enlist the help of internet person Dan McKenney to fulfill the most important task in the universe: talk about videogames on the internet a bit. This week, the cast is also joined by the President of the Nintendo Corporation, Satoru Iwata who speaks to the crew all the way from Japan, talking about his exciting weekend, his mother’s baking and his underdeveloped social skills. Want to know what the crew talked about this week? Well holy shit-in-a-bucket do I have the bullet-pointed list for you! It goes as thus:

• Some more talk about Portal.
• Wii 2 details are confirmed! Apathy abound!
• PSN is down. Oh well.
• The ending of Red Dead Redemption is ruined…again.
• Xzyliac does return in the final 10 minutes, and completely ruins the awesome Jeepers Creepers running joke we had. NICE WORK, DOUCHEBAG.

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(The music in this episode is “Pork and Beans” by Weezer, “Control” by Kid Sister, and “Still Alive” by Jonathan Coulton form his live album, “Best. Concert. Ever.”)

Doctor Who Special: The Impossible Podcast

WE TALKED ABOUT DOCTOR WHO AND BISCUITS AND TELLTALE AND THEN WE GOT FUCKING SICK OF OUR LIVES AND OVERDOSED ON IBUPROFEN

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(Happy Easter from everybody at SST <3)

Episode 13: Fuckin’ Portals, Man

Now that Jeepers Creepers has claimed Molly for good (we assume) the crew welcomed the lovely Jen Shaffer from +10 Charisma, a rival podcast which shall be the first to perish when our thousand year Reich is finally realised and we sweep the internet with a force so great it could knock the kidneys out of a herd of buffalo. After abandoning the search for Molly’s body, the crew got down to serious videogame related (kinda) business and discussed such riveting subjects as:

• Jen tries to spoil Portal 2 for everyone, giving Xzyliac and Alex no reason to live.
• Batman Batman Batman Batman Batman Batman
• The Wii 2 will be useless and bad.
• The NGP will be useless and bad.
• Sonic Generations: a harbinger of regression for the franchise?
• Where DO babies come from?

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(The music featured in this episode is “Troublemaker” by Weezer, “As Far As I Can See” by Phantogram, and “Can’t Catch A Break” composed by Masashi Hamauzu for Final Fantasy XIII)

Episode 12: Hydra’s Dogma

Molly was not present this week, because she had to go talk to people in real life like some kind of person-talk-to-er. In the mean time, Ron, Alex and Xzyliac got together to do something far more important for the safety and wellbeing of the human race: talking about videogames for a couple of hours on the internet. We know where our priorities lie, Carroll.

Whilst recovering from their betrayal, the men got down to goddamn business and discussed such very very very very very important things as:

• Dragon’s Dogma breaks the boundaries of what it means to be a videogame.
• Hydras really need to be in more games.
• Dead Rising 2 is dragged out again like a tired prostitute for our collective groping.
• Resident Evil? More like Resident UNIMPRESSIVE HANDS ON DEMO! HEY-OOO!
• Mass Effect 3: Ron and Xzyliac speculate whilst Alex has a hissy fit like a child.
• Games we defend even though they’re bad.

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(The music used in this week’s episode is “How You Like Me Now?” by The Heavy, the galaxy map theme from Mass Effect, “New Worlds” composed by Jack Wall for Mass Effect 2 and Fanfarlo’s “Atlas”.)

Episode 11: Welcome to Rape Country

Bored? Alone? On the internet? Why watch pornography when you can bathe in the dulcet tones and rich verbal textures of the internet’s bestest videogames podcast ever made ever by any person, organisation or sea creature ever? Listen to this week’s orgasmic episode of Start > Select > Talk – it lasts longer and a happy ending is guaranteed!*

Still not convinced? Starting to get annoyed with the constant questions? Are you? ARE YOU? Then let me tell you about the exciting topics the crew discuss in this edition! They include, but are by no means limited to:

• Molly hates Secrets of Mana and thus all videogames forever
• The bullshit of Fallout: New Vegas’ ending
• Gamers Heart Japan and the fact that you should watch it
• ANGRY TEENAGERS ON THE INTERNET HATE SONY RAH RAH RAH
• What superheroes should get their own games?
• Siblings and videogames: What are? How do? Why?

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(*Only applicable to those who enjoy being told to fuck off by a depressed Brit)

(The music used in this episode consists of Cold War Kids’ “Rubidoux”, the “Mission Complete” theme from Final Fantasy X-2, and Coldplay’s “Speed of Sound”.)

Episode 10: The Best Podcast of All Time

You know, ten is a fascinating number. You have ten fingers on your hands. You have ten toes on your feet. There are ten serial killers hiding under your bed right now. Ten is all around us and now, it’s in your audio-procuring technological devices with the tenth episode of everybody’s favourite podcast tangentially linked to videogames, Start > Select > Talk!

As the show enters double-digits, the team welcomes fan-favourite Xzyliac onto the show in his first episode as a permanent fourth chair with all the fanfare of a Brazilian street parade as seen through the eyes of a coked-up schizophrenic! Doubly exciting is the plethora of news and topics discussed by the crew which includes but is by no means limited to:

·         Kanye West is shit.

·         Something to do with videogames, presumably.

·         Kanye West is really really shit.

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(The music used for this week’s episode is “Sue Promise” composed by Tosihiko Sahasi for The Big O, Coldplay’s “Chinese Sleep Chant” and Kanye West’ “Gold Digger”.)

 

Episode 9: Awesome, Texas

You know, there’s this obscure podcast called Start > Select > Talk that I’m really into right now. You’ve definitely never heard of it, but it’s a pretty big deal. I would recommend you listen to this week’s latest episode – featuring Xzyliac as guest host – but you probably wouldn’t get it. In it, they discuss such deep themes as:

·         Level 5 announcing 20 new games: bets are made on how many will be for iPhone (Hint: All of them)

·         The crew spunk over Chain World like a bunch of hipster nerds on a videogames podcast

·         David Cage likes himself a lot. A LOT.

·         Bioware’s narrative structure: will it be detrimental to the Mass Effect 3 experience?

·         Randy Pitchford is retarded, and further discussion on controversy in videogames.

·         Alex is more attractive than Ron.

You can download the show here or get it through the iTunes store. Though to be honest, I’d rather they released it on vinyl.

Also, these show notes aren’t short, they’re minimalist. You wouldn’t understand, you didn’t go to art college.

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(This episodes music is “I’ll Give You Something Hot!” composed by Noriko Matsueda and Takahito Eguchi for Final Fantasy X-2, and “Brother Sport” by Animal Collective. Also, we know the show is late, but releasing a podcast on time is just too mainstream.)

Episode 8: Hipster Crossing

They say you need news to make a good podcast. They say you need attractive, knowledgeable hosts who express deep, intellectual thoughts with a verbose diction that rivals the great speakers of the past century. They say you need wit, talent, technical prowess and passion.

They were wrong.

Breaking the boundaries of what it means to talk about videogames forever, Ron, Molly and Alex literally explode with general discontent on the latest enthralling episode of everybody’s favourite videogames podcast. It’s like taking a shower in clever words, but without having to be naked for it (unless you really feel most comfortable like that). Topics subject extraordinary interrogation techniques this week include:

·         Videogames know where Molly lives.

·         There is no exciting news because of FUCKING PAX.

·         Online multiplayer – an evolution of social interaction, or a soulless copy of it?

·         A story about Starbursts and oral sex.

·         Three shitty listener questions.

·         ADDENDUM: A special post-recording discussion between Ron and Alex: Which was the better game between Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario 64?

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Episode 7: My Genius Shall Be Recognized

When writing this week’s show notes, I was reminded of a famous quote from former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who said “Start > Select > Talk is really good and you should listen to it because I’m WINSTON BLOODY CHURCHILL.” Moving words, and at least tangentially related to the news that with the new week comes a new episode of Start > Select > Talk!

 

Whilst mourning Molly’s temporary absence like a pair of old Italian widows at a mafia funeral, Ron and Alex are joined this week by the Editor-in-Chief of Stereotoid and writer for new site Video Games Writers, Xzyliac! Once Alex has gotten over the shock that for once the African Americans represent the ethnic majority, they get down to talking about such serious business as:

·         Pokemon Black – how good is it compared to the other generations?

·         Alice: Madness Returns. Are YOU hype?

·         The next 10 months in releases and the predictions of the cast.

·         A story about turds and weird sexual fetishes.

·         How to turn SEGA around.

And remember, you can follow to us on Twitter (@StartSelectTalk) to get the latest updates first, and you can subscribe to the iTunes feed as well, somehow. I dunno, you’re all clever young people. You bloody figure it out. We’re also hopefully going to be on the iTunes store soon, so watch this space for news of that!

LISTEN TO EPISODE 7 HERE!

This week’s music includes The Nocturnals’, “Medicine” and Nobuo Ueamtsu’s “Decisive Battle” from Final Fantasy X.

(Note: There’s a bit of an audio rupture at about 25:50. It only lasts a second, but it’s a little loud, so be weary of that. Pretty sure it was caused by an Avast alert I got during the recording. Sorry about that. -Ron)