HPAW Game Podcast

Welcome to another (on schedule!) HPAW episode. This week we feature a “co-op” Mario game for the Wii. Co-op really is a relative term but the fun is there no matter what.

Unfortunately Biske was unable to join us this week but we were once again able to get both WorldGone Awry and Nw Striker in studio for this new crazy co-op Mario game. A few announcements were made at the end of the episode so make sure you watch the whole thing (or take advantage of our players seeking ability and skip there). As a reminder this is a Wii title so there will be no HD version of the episode.

You heard the possibility of a Tekken 6 episode and it’s true Biske was able to get a copy of the game for us to play. Once again we have a full cast along with WorldGone Awry and Nw Striker.

Also note that you can now seek to any place in the video in our player. But remember that the HD version just looks so nice.

Well we heard your disappointment in the lack of Firefight in our ODST marathon and originally we had planned to include it in our marathon. However technical issues resulted in the marathon ending much later than planned and the removal of the Firefight section.

To make up for this we present a Firefight featured episode with special guests WorldGone Awry and Nw Striker along with a full cast.

UPDATE: Extra Part has been released. HD download only!

Did anyone mention HPAW Retro? No I don’t mean old games, I mean old cast. That’s right we have Nw Striker AND WorldGone Awry in the studio for this special expansion. I say special expansion because a lot of what I saw during the marathon wasn’t traditional Halo 3. What I saw was a mix of Halo, Metroid Prime and Star Wars Republic Commando.

What about details? Well we have a 6 person cast consisting of Mempf, Teclis, Kaisuke, Biske, Nw Striker and WorldGone Awry. This is a start to finish marathon however there were some technical issues that screwed up the order a little, more on this later. We played two person Co-op on two different Xbox’s (no split-screen) with Nw Striker playing on the recording screen.

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Well we have less than one week to go before we start our Halo 3: ODST Marathon but before that we have a regularly scheduled episode. We initially had some trouble trying to decide what game we should do for this episode but when we started to discuss it in detail the answer became clear we had to do another episode of FEAR 2.

Recently a $10 expansion/DLC was released for FEAR 2 called Reborn. it is an expansion on the single player experience that I feel is much truer to the original FEAR than ever before. Kaisuke was missing for this episode however we are no longer bound by YouTube’s hour-long sometimes you don’t get your episode encoded limit so enjoy this extra long episode. I also like to remind people to help out on the HPAW Wiki, it’s not going to update itself you know.

I would also like to announce that the Mario Party 8 episode which includes a fantastic montage at the beginning has been recoded for the new player. This episode can be found on the sidebar under HPAW Videos or by clicking the read more link on this post.

UPDATE: Marathon now completed, all parts uploaded.

As many of you have been wondering if we were going to do Crysis: Warhead the standalone expansion to Crysis. The answer is yes, we have another start to finish marathon on Crysis: Warhead. This marathon features a full cast consisting of Mempf, Teclis, Biske and Kaisuke.

Both HD and SD versions will be available with the SD version in our new player and both HD and SD downloadable. To find the SD downloads please click on the More link below.

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Welcome to the long awaited (by us) Crysis Marathon. Crysis is a game which I have wanted to feature on HPAW since it came out, however, my PC never had the power until now. It wasn’t that my computer couldn’t handle Crysis at max settings, it’s that it couldn’t handle recording Crysis at the same time. The framerate was just to low to even play.

Now a new video card and quad core cpu later, the problem with recording is not “gone” but now the game remains playable. Turning down the settings was always an option but I don’t think anything but max settings really show off the true beauty and excellent design that Crysis has to offer. To compliment this I am using better encoding settings than normal, including a raised bitrate and a slower, higher quality encoding method.

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The marathon features Mempf, Teclis and Kaisuke and runs from the start of the game until the end. Parts will be split up in 40-45min sections due to a potential YouTube HD bug we are working around. As usual parts will be uploaded one by one over the course of the coming weeks.

Hello and once again welcome to another HPAW episode. This week we take a look at one of the few good Star Wars shooters, Republic Commando. In this game you play as the squad leader of an elite Delta squad team tasked with tipping the war in the Republics favor. We have a full cast this week and a new encoder for maximum quality.

A couple of side notes:
1. Game was played on the Xbox 360 in 720P, the game is not truly HD and is in fact upscaled to HD.
2. YouTube has been giving us grief for the past couple of weeks and is showing no signs of stopping. Expect YouTube versions delays.

Hello and welcome to another 2009 episode of HPAW. (We are keeping a decent schedule, yay!) This week HPAW takes a look at Mirror’s Edge, not a new game anymore but one that had slipped my mind for many months. Mirror’s Edge is a game about free running and is made by the same developer as the Battlefield series. We have a full cast for this episode, so join us as we take to the rooftops of Mirror’s Edge.

UPDATE: Version 2 of HD version has been released. Quality is MUCH improved and the file size is DOWN! Goes to show that opensource programs once again beat commercial programs

There were some serious technical difficulties with the live version of this episode. Hopefully next time will turn out better.

We also invite you to check out and help build HPAW’s New Wiki! as I don’t have the time to work on it much myself we will really need our community to help us out here. First and foremost we need a logo for the top corner of the wiki. Any artwork submissions can be submitted on the HPAW Forums.

Welcome to another episode of HPAW. This week we had a plan but that plan changed when WorldGone Awry showed up. So join Alex Mercer and a great cast of Mempf, Teclis, Kaisuke, Dark Elf and WorldGone Awry for a mission of vengeance.

This episode was not filmed live so don’t worry people you didn’t miss out. But this episode does have a few surprises.