Because that’s a far better name than “Pocket Camp.”
9:41 – EA and demands for high Metacritic scores
28:54 – Xbox One’s backwards compatibility would have arrived sooner if Microsoft didn’t have to spend a bunch of time and resources removing its ill-advised always-on DRM
39:46- Nintendo details Animal Crossing for mobile devices
If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube or to your left. Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes or download them from our good friends at KNGI.
Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night right here on RandomTower!
Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by E. Zachary Knight and Andrew Eisen. The show is edited by Andrew Eisen. Music in the show includes “Albino” by Brian Boyko. It is in the public domain and free to use. Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.
Chat Transcript:
6:30 PMCan you say “hey man.” in the first five minutes?
6:31 PMSure.
6:48 PMHello Everyone.
6:59 PMhello!
7:00 PMHello all!
7:03 PMwhat a manly name
7:03 PMhey man, looking forward to next Saturday
7:04 PMHeya!
7:05 PMMessage automatically held for review, hidden by Andrew Eisen.View deleted message
7:06 PMLooks like we’ll be playing Odyssey
7:06 PMdid you lock it away somewhere and threw away the key?
7:06 PMexactly, it’s about a 12 hour game to go through
7:07 PMNahh I’m playing u seem cool I’m going to subscribe
7:07 PMthen the end game stuff is a lot more collecting stuff for many more hours
7:07 PMI am here. I don’t have an invite on Hangouts or in my email.
7:08 PMInvite me
7:08 PMMessage automatically held for review, hidden by Andrew Eisen.View deleted message
7:08 PMThat is my gmail.
7:08 PMwhat always works for me is Direct Message via Twitter
7:08 PMever thought of doing a public hangout? might get a little too crowded though..
7:09 PMI remember back in October 2001, I picked up Grand Theft Auto III for the PS2. I didn’t have a PS2, and wouldn’t have one until my birthday. Jan 17, 2002.
7:09 PMCan you say “Hey man”?
7:09 PMThat wait was killer!
7:10 PMMessage deleted by Andrew Eisen.View deleted message
7:11 PMNaughty Dog words
7:11 PMbe nice lol
7:12 PMI’ll be there. Some. Depends on work schedule.
7:13 PMis it extralife[dot]org?
7:14 PMextra-life.org/participant/andreweisen
7:14 PMshoot, I need my laptop charger!!!! eeek
7:15 PMshould be fun
7:15 PMWill your sister be serving beer? lol 😉
7:15 PMsuper fun!
7:15 PMwhat be your poison SMD??
7:15 PMbest bet you kill them all
7:16 PMl don’t drink much honestly, I’m just kidding lol
7:16 PMsnacks are cool
7:16 PMI am a hostess with the mostess. worry not
7:17 PMcoo
7:18 PMouch
7:18 PMwhich is harder? 30 burpees or 30 burps?
7:18 PMburpees for sure lol
7:19 PMI do the Insanity Max 30 workouts 5 days a week, it takes months of practice to get your endurance up
7:19 PMdid you see the kataku article on the EA stuff. the game fell in to dev hell
7:20 PMI used to do Insanity, the full length ones
7:20 PMkiller.
7:20 PMwow, yeah it’s hard work
7:20 PMI don’t have time for 45-50 minutes a day
7:20 PM30 works for me
7:21 PMI agree whole heartedly. I hated the length. I need to get back into the DVD thing.
7:21 PMneed to clean the basement and make room first, tho
7:22 PMamy hanning
7:23 PMthe studio was in a bad shape, and bleeding talent
7:24 PMfrostbite is good for battlefeald/battlefront bad for everything else
7:24 PMbioware has been having the same truble
7:24 PMtrouble
7:25 PMf medicritic
7:25 PMf review scores
7:25 PMeveryone watching, give Andrew a like button hit
7:26 PMEA should let studios that want to to use UE4
7:27 PMThe problem with Metacritic is that they now allow for Fanboy websites to take part. Nintendo Life is one of them, they have been guilty of giving all Nintendo games over blown scores etc
7:27 PMsometimes I hate accountants. yes using your own engine in theory saves you 1 million, but in real world added way more time/cost
7:31 PMDavid Prowse?
7:31 PMThat was the guy in the Darth Vader suit.
7:32 PMme1,2,3, da1,2 were all built in ue3
7:32 PMDavid Prowse was also the guy fighting Luke Skywalkter, not James Earl Jones
7:32 PM*walker
7:33 PMwhy in the world would you ever put a game dev studio in sf you deserve to fail for that
7:33 PMYep. Jones = voice. Prowse = suit. Shaw = face.
7:34 PMChristensen = fail
7:34 PMrice a roni is the san francisco treat
7:34 PM“talent” is there, but they would move if offered a job
7:35 PMlol
7:35 PMI still say its dumb that ea is forcing frostbite down peoples throat
7:35 PMwhen will ea learn its a bad engine for none fps
7:36 PMjust use uber
7:36 PMah before uber ok
7:40 PMhi guys
7:40 PMremember that guy with shades presenting it in e3?
7:40 PMI played Kinect
7:40 PMhow you all doing
7:40 PMThe dancing games
7:40 PMlol, you waggled your body instead of a Wii remote for Just Dance
7:41 PMI never liked Kinect personally
7:41 PMI think I did dance central
7:41 PMah ok
7:41 PMRemerber when Micosoft say “The Xbox is the kinect” it was pre launch of the X1
7:41 PMI did not do the ones of the glowing people
7:41 PMdid you try Kinect Sports?
7:42 PMNope. I do my sports on wifi
7:42 PMWifi!?
7:42 PMWii
7:42 PMhuh?
7:42 PMoh ok
7:42 PMMilo?
7:42 PMProject Milo
7:43 PMMilo was the 360 kinect tech demo
7:43 PMCheck out Fru
7:43 PMlol
7:43 PM“FRU is a puzzle platformer that features an innovative use of Kinect, in which your silhouette becomes a “portal” between two worlds.”
7:43 PMit’s weird
7:43 PMKinect Stalker 2.0
7:43 PMMessage deleted by Andrew Eisen.View deleted message
7:44 PM500, the ps3 was 600
7:44 PMAnyone remerber when the Kinect was Project Natal?
7:44 PMyou can quickly see what it is about, on frugame[dot]com.. there is a handful of weird gifs
7:44 PMBackwards Compatibility
7:44 PMand it’s actually amazing
7:45 PMI’m jealous
7:45 PMWell to be honest sharing games on PC is overcomplicated as hell
7:45 PMCoffee EZK. have some
7:46 PMWithout caffeine I don’t remember my own name
7:47 PMMicrosoft announced 12 games for OG Xbox BC, and what makes me a tad jealous is that it has Dead to Rights, Prince of Persia Sands of Time, Red Faction 2 and BloodRayne 2, which were also on Gamecube
7:47 PMwhich means that Xbox One has Gamecube BC before Switch does
7:47 PMlol
7:47 PMDid you hear some people got Sonic Forces early and now there are leaks everyware some people posted even major plot poins
7:47 PMBloodrayne 2 wasn’t on Gamecube. I remember because I liked the first one and was bummed it didn’t get the sequel.
7:48 PMCodeName – No, but I heard the demo stops after a minute.
7:48 PMah
7:48 PMthe first game was
7:48 PMI see
7:48 PMwell you have a min to beat a stage in the demo
7:48 PMok so three games from Gamecube
7:49 PMlets be far, most modern games requires you to be online now anyways lol
7:49 PMand all of this was because of the Wii
7:51 PMPocket Camp will be owning my life soon.
7:51 PMIt’s been fun having friends, but goodbye social life
7:51 PMPocket Camp sounds like a teen wanna to be funny
7:51 PMI pre registrare for Pocket Camp
7:52 PMFrom what it looks like, it will be micro-transactions to speed up certain things in Animal Crossing, but you can still play the game for free completely
7:52 PMIf you have the e reader + gba + special gamw cards you can get exlusive items in games
7:53 PMYes, always a way to spend real money. Meanie-heads
7:53 PMI like spending fake money better
7:53 PMlol
7:53 PMI will play enough tho that I’ll never have to spend my own monies
7:53 PMYes, fake money, agreed
7:54 PMyup lol
7:54 PMWhy people hate Tom Nook?
7:55 PMI will gladly erase Pokemon for Animal Crossing. And that is saying something
7:55 PMI got Dont Starve its $5 on the Wii U eshop, its hard as hell but cannot stop playing
7:57 PMSo you are saying that Pokemon can Go?
7:57 PM😝😝😝
7:57 PMHilarious
7:57 PM😉
7:58 PMPokemon Go can go screw itself while jumping in a pit full of sharks with lasers on they head
7:58 PMYou’re so poetic, Z
8:00 PMI call dips on Kitty than
8:00 PMI love KK.
8:00 PMEvery girl pines for musicians
8:01 PMHe is taken, he is married with music
8:02 PMIn New Leafs there is dream mode, what basiclly you can visit everyones town but you cannot change anything, you cannot even visit the shops
8:03 PMNew Leaf*
8:04 PMIts on mobile 90% of people I know have they phone always online
8:05 PMI need a new phone anyway, my battery doesn’t make it thru the day anymore. Pocket camp can be my impetus
8:05 PMI just got the Samsung Note 8 a couple weeks ago
8:05 PMmost amazing phone I’ve ever had
8:06 PMI’ll have to take a look
8:06 PMyeah you should, it’s awesome
8:06 PMjust a tad expensive, but if you have a plan it’s about $35 a month or so
8:07 PMBoom. I need good battery for my gaming. And sports
8:07 PMSometimes you oponnent wont move sometimes it will. Its kinda random
8:09 PMAdvance War?
8:10 PMI think Kirby would fit on mobile casuals love Kirby
8:12 PMkirby canvas curse and the Wii U game was touch screen only
8:13 PMMental tricks, the game is “Free” but hey you can spend as much as you want to go faster…..
8:15 PMThat is what I dont like with mobile gamers. They spend $250 to get an used Samsung phone but they are cheap to spend $10 to get a game
8:15 PMit was recently on sale for $5
8:16 PM3mins for a new try? It is usually 30mins
8:18 PMdid any wii u games have microtransactions?
8:18 PMI don’t believe so, no.
8:18 PMSome paid DLC though.
8:18 PMThat free to play Namco Bandai game on Wii U have it
8:18 PMI forgot the name
8:19 PMIt was a 4 player coop game
8:19 PMI think at some point it’s ine itable to start seeing microtransactions on consoles
8:19 PMinevitable*
8:20 PMIt have microtrasaction
8:20 PMif it makes devs more money
8:21 PMPeople on mobile also get bored of games faster so they like to have the option to delete and instaling new games whenever they want
8:23 PMDiana likes to shows off
8:24 PMgood show guys
8:24 PMglad I stayed around
8:24 PMYay dress!!!!
8:25 PMthanks for the show
8:25 PMSo Andwer you are a good magictian you make the Mario manual disapear
8:25 PMAndrew*
8:26 PMWith or without a bra?
8:27 PMdo a number from mary poppins too
8:27 PMgreat
8:27 PMAndrew is a naughty one
8:27 PMI’ll be streaming live with a man wearing a bra
8:27 PMlol
8:28 PMI mean dress lol
8:28 PM9pm CET (central european time) i guess
