Molehill Mountain Podcast

How could anyone have seen this coming?

12:25 - Google doesn't think gamers want a subscription service so Stadia will charge a subscription AND per game! ...what?

32:44 - Lazy Valve made obvious boo-boos with its Steam Summer Sale. Because it's lazy, you see.

44:42 - Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft stand arm-in-arm against tariffs

53-16 - DMCA-happy Nintendo gets DMCA-happy with IP-infringing indie game

If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube. Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes. Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night 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:

6:51 PME. Zachary Knight​Hello Everyone

6:58 PMaddictedtochaos​Hello

6:59 PMIcyLady58- Gamer Extraordinare!​Hey Andrew!

6:59 PMAndrew Eisen​Hi!

7:00 PMIcyLady58- Gamer Extraordinare!​I reacted to the first video I saw by you,which was The bugs and glitches of The Lego Movie videogame!

7:01 PMpsychadelic snake​look I'm here for once

7:01 PMIcyLady58- Gamer Extraordinare!​Oh geez,I know that feeling...Sitting on grass in the middle of a packed venue full of sweaty music lovers.

7:02 PMSusanne Christ​steel!!!

7:02 PMSusanne Christ​lol actually its pronounced steel xD

7:02 PMIcyLady58- Gamer Extraordinare!​I figure the Stadias gonna flop.

7:03 PMAndrew Eisen​Oh, we're going to talk Stadia.

7:03 PMaddictedtochaos​My handwriting used to be very neat. Not anymore.

7:04 PMIcyLady58- Gamer Extraordinare!​I mean...It sounds very VERY similar to those old school systems that were trying WAY too hard to be the next big thing...Kinda like the 3DO or the Pippin computer-console-thingamajigger.

7:06 PMaddictedtochaos​At least you last name doesn’t have 11 letters.

7:06 PMSusanne Christ​at least they think urs is real xD

7:08 PMIcyLady58- Gamer Extraordinare!​I mean,if you look at the ads for the Stadia,it sounds VERY similar to the Jaguar or the 3DO or even the Pippin computer thingamabobble-that similarity does NOT bode well for the Stadia.

7:09 PMSusanne Christ​christ-mas lol

7:10 PMد. عبد العزيز​stadia will be a fail because 2/3 in world are suffering the weakness if internet

7:12 PMIcyLady58- Gamer Extraordinare!​I've seen the ad campaign for the Google Stadia...and I think it's gonna flop,just being honest.It looks like the Genesis,the ads promote it to be the next NEO-GEO,yadayadayada-this Stadia's a mess.

7:13 PMIcyLady58- Gamer Extraordinare!​Anyone else agree with me?

7:14 PMIcyLady58- Gamer Extraordinare!​I can't even get a Steam account because I'm on mobile...Gee,thanks Steam-leave out your mobile users why don'tcha?!

7:14 PMIcyLady58- Gamer Extraordinare!​Yeaah.

7:17 PMaddictedtochaos​Games with gold

7:17 PMIcyLady58- Gamer Extraordinare!​I didn't ven know that the Stadia was a subscription only platform.

7:17 PMmatthew wilson​games pass

7:17 PMmatthew wilson​which btw, atlest on pc is a shockingly goods deal

7:18 PMpsychadelic snake​yeah let me just pay a monthly subscription AND also pay full price for video games

7:22 PMWarren Lewis​hey guys!

7:23 PMaddictedtochaos​It is absolutely a choice, we can choose not to get Stadia at all.

7:26 PMpsychadelic snake​people still play those games Because of mods

How could anyone have seen this coming? 12:25 – Google doesn’t think gamers want a subscription service so Stadia will charge a subscription AND per game! …what? 32:44 – Lazy Valve made obvious boo-boos with its Steam Summer Sale. Because it’s lazy, you see. 44:42 – Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft stand arm-in-arm against tariffs 53-16 ... Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 151 – Steam Sale Shenanigans’ »

I saw the new Child's Play. I have opinions.

0:43 - Hey, did you hear what EA said about loot boxes?

15:27 - YouTube's algorithm is... not very good.

25:47 - Time to talk Child's Play.

47:52 - I don't want to watch season 2 of Iron Fist... but I must!

If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube. Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes. Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night 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:

6:58 PMaddictedtochaos​Hello

7:00 PMotritzu​Evenin' Andrew.

7:01 PMotritzu​Not yet. I don't like EA at the best of times so I tend to ignore them.

7:02 PMaddictedtochaos​I’m so done with EA.

7:04 PMWarren Lewis​Hey everyone.

7:04 PMmatthew wilson​EA............... f EA

7:05 PMotritzu​EA killed one of my favorite MMOs back when I was in high school. Earth and Beyond was so much fun, I wish EA had never gotten their hands on it.

7:05 PMmatthew wilson​no its gambling

7:05 PMWarren Lewis​I can't remember the last time I bought and played an EA game. New, or used.

7:07 PMWarren Lewis​Bullcrap. :p

7:08 PMScottyJayMan​Hi Andrew. You’re currently using “Hangouts on Air” right? Did you read this? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/...

7:10 PMaddictedtochaos​Kinder eggs are available in the US

7:12 PMotritzu​Same with M:TG Arena, it's free to play but there's a shop in the program where you can put real money into it to get cards, either specific ones or packs of 'em.

7:13 PMaddictedtochaos​But but but publishers need to make all the money, rather than be more responsible with their budgets.

7:14 PMotritzu​You always get five commons three uncommons and one rare.

7:14 PMotritzu​You can use up to four of any card and extras you get over that are recycled into free boosters.

7:15 PMotritzu​Or free wildcards.

7:15 PMotritzu​Yeah, EA is totally shameless...Bleh.

7:17 PMaddictedtochaos​I wonder if their algorithms just went nuts or if someone who has a problem with you went through and reported them.

7:18 PM1Up John​The prickly pear was nude. That counts. 

7:21 PM1Up John​The demonization of videos are completely automated. It's a robot doing it.

7:22 PMmatthew wilson​they do white list, but its a very tine number of channals

7:23 PMmatthew wilson​tiny

7:27 PMaddictedtochaos​I was barely allowed to watch anything as a kid.

7:28 PM1Up John​You have a good mom. 

7:28 PMaddictedtochaos​Mormon household

7:32 PMaddictedtochaos​Is this the one voiced by Mark Hamill?

7:49 PMaddictedtochaos​Iron Fist season 2 is a lot better than the first.

7:51 PMaddictedtochaos​Just watch an episode a day.

7:54 PMaddictedtochaos​Nothing wrong with a Staycation

7:58 PMD G.​Happy Kwanzaa

7:58 PMD G.​I dunno, I just felt like saying it

7:59 PMaddictedtochaos​ALL THE TIME

7:59 PMD G.​Play Magic Knight Rayearth for the sega Saturn

7:59 PM1Up John​Goodnight!

I saw the new Child’s Play. I have opinions. 0:43 – Hey, did you hear what EA said about loot boxes? 15:27 – YouTube’s algorithm is… not very good. 25:47 – Time to talk Child’s Play. 47:52 – I don’t want to watch season 2 of Iron Fist… but I must! If you missed Saturday’s ... Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 150 – Chucky vs Buddi’ »

E3 2019 is over!  Let's excitedly prattle on about all the games we want to buy!

1:04 - Microsoft

55:19 - Bethesda

1:11:09 - Devolver Digital

1:19:54 - PC Gaming

1:48:34 - Ubisoft

2:02:40 - Square Enix

2:23:26 - Nintendo

3:19:00 - E3 winners, final thoughts, and miscellaneous games

If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube. Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes. Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night 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:

5:52 PME. Zachary Knight​Hello Everyone!

5:58 PMotritzu​Evenin' Guys.

5:58 PMmatthew wilson​my game of show is cyberpunk, same as last year

5:59 PMotritzu​I only watched Nintendo's conference.

6:00 PMaddictedtochaos​Hello everyone.

6:00 PMotritzu​And some of the Treehouse stuff.

6:00 PMmatthew wilson​yup

6:00 PMaddictedtochaos​I only saw Nintendo, was at work for everything else.

6:04 PMmatthew wilson​noment of ms press confrence was the cyberpunk stuff

6:04 PMmatthew wilson​outer world is fallout new vagas

6:04 PMmatthew wilson​but in space

6:05 PMjordan thompson​hey long time no see, I like how I cant tell andrews thumbnail is slightly shocked or slightly concerned

6:07 PMjordan thompson​just imagine kids today trying to get through the original doom

6:07 PMmatthew wilson​its comming out feb 2020

6:08 PMjordan thompson​call of duty : modern warfare, wait didnt that already come out???

6:08 PMaddictedtochaos​Ori looks great.

6:08 PMotritzu​DQBuilders 2 comes out early July this year. Yeah, March is going to be expensive.

6:08 PMNightmare Ninja​Animal Crossing being one

6:09 PMmatthew wilson​yup kid freindly deablo

6:09 PMjordan thompson​minecraft : dungeons, not the Diablo we deserve but the diablo we got

6:10 PMNightmare Ninja​Mario Maker 2 creator said you can play with friends online

6:10 PMNightmare Ninja​on the treehouse

6:10 PMAndrew Eisen​Yep. Don't worry, we'll get to that.

6:10 PMaddictedtochaos​Speaking of playing with friends, Nintendo did state that playing with friends in Mario Maker 2 will come in an update.

6:10 PMmatthew wilson​in a patch after launch

6:10 PMNightmare Ninja​yea

6:11 PMNightmare Ninja​Alright

6:12 PMmatthew wilson​I thought it was another alan wake game

6:12 PMjordan thompson​I'm kinda done with the human species let me know when I can play video games with my dog

6:13 PMjordan thompson​I thought it was finally gonna be a new fatal frame

6:13 PMmatthew wilson​cyberpunk (my game of show) he gets moment a show

6:14 PMmatthew wilson​he is a big deal, he is all thought the game

6:14 PMaddictedtochaos​I don’t doubt Cyberpunk will be good, but I haven’t seen anything from it that says I have to have it.

6:14 PMmatthew wilson​aparently the only one with more voice lines is the player

6:14 PMaddictedtochaos​They stated he has the 2nd most lines in the game.

6:14 PMaddictedtochaos​Breathtaking

6:14 PMNightmare Ninja​Your breathtaking

6:15 PMjordan thompson​but imagine if hes the villian ..... what a twist

6:15 PMmatthew wilson​April

E3 2019 is over!  Let’s excitedly prattle on about all the games we want to buy! 1:04 – Microsoft 55:19 – Bethesda 1:11:09 – Devolver Digital 1:19:54 – PC Gaming 1:48:34 – Ubisoft 2:02:40 – Square Enix 2:23:26 – Nintendo 3:19:00 – E3 winners, final thoughts, and miscellaneous games If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast ... Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 149 – The Great E3 Recap Show!’ »

Here's last week's podcast.  (What can I say?  I've been busy.)  This week's podcast will be posted in the next couple of days.

3:50 - EA's new Star Wars game didn't present very well

24:14 - Bandai Namco game director/producer releases statement on all three of the company's E3 games leaking

26:16 - Google Stadia pricing revealed. We don't have a lot of faith in this project

36:48 - Pokemon Direct leaves non fans underwhelmed. Fans dig it though!

54:34 - We saw the new Godzilla movie

If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube. Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes. Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night 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:

6:48 PMmatthew wilson​the trailer looks "fine" though game informer claims its a large matriodvania style world

6:53 PMAndrew Eisen​Star Wars?

6:56 PMmatthew wilson​yup

6:59 PMaddictedtochaos​I was thoroughly unimpressed by what I saw of Star Wars.

7:00 PMronin504​It's barely a step up from Force Unleashed.

7:01 PMmatthew wilson​the combat reminds of sekiro/From games

7:01 PMaddictedtochaos​Force unleashed looked better

7:02 PME. Zachary Knight​There was a time when multiple Star Wars games were released each year. Then EA grabbed the exclusive license and they dropped to 1 game every few years.

7:06 PMtravelers light​What is the reason for this title 

7:07 PMmatthew wilson​he was a padawan at the time

7:08 PMmatthew wilson​but yes generic white dude is booring

7:09 PMmatthew wilson​arent driod always the most intreasting ones in star wars lol

7:10 PMronin504​I'm waiting for the first time I can play as a Wookie jedi.

7:11 PMmatthew wilson​wait and see mode, they claim a metriodvania style world, but we will see

7:24 PMmatthew wilson​manny moons ago

7:24 PMmatthew wilson​give it to obisian for kotor 3

7:25 PMmatthew wilson​aparently the current ea leadership doesnt even want it

7:25 PMmatthew wilson​its a deal from a prior leadership

7:27 PMmatthew wilson​incompatent web team over at bandi

7:27 PMmatthew wilson​namco

7:28 PMaddictedtochaos​Hate the leaks would rather be surprised.

7:28 PMAndrew Eisen​Yeah, that's why I didn't mention what they were.

7:32 PMmatthew wilson​I know pokemon isnt your thing, but what did you think of the direct

7:33 PMAndrew Eisen​We'll get to that.

7:33 PMAndrew Eisen​It's the next topic.

7:34 PMmatthew wilson​ah ok

7:34 PMaddictedtochaos​Reports indicate that streaming 4K games will burn through 1TB in about 65 hours.

7:40 PMmatthew wilson​this game brought back the old catching system, thank god, I detest motion control

7:41 PMmatthew wilson​I would assume you can play with your freinds, gamefreak, unlike nintendo has had compatent online since the ds

7:43 PMmatthew wilson​its not difrent games, its the same game minus like 6 to 8 pokemon

7:43 PMmatthew wilson​thats it

7:45 PMmatthew wilson​yes they did

7:46 PMmatthew wilson​wooholo seems to be peoples new favrite

7:47 PMmatthew wilson​I saw it on twitter, but the sword one should be a mermsid with a sword

7:48 PMmatthew wilson​qbone skull is its dead mother

Here’s last week’s podcast.  (What can I say?  I’ve been busy.)  This week’s podcast will be posted in the next couple of days. 3:50 – EA’s new Star Wars game didn’t present very well 24:14 – Bandai Namco game director/producer releases statement on all three of the company’s E3 games leaking 26:16 – Google Stadia ... Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 148 – Pooping In the Punch Bowl’ »

Nintendo fears perfection.  That's my theory for why it inexplicably saddles its otherwise genius games with at least one unnecessary and objectively bad design decision.

13:03 - Nintendo restricts online play in Super Mario Maker 2 to random players

22:52 - Gaming Disorder is now a recognized illness

38:18 - Anti-loot box and microtransaction bill proposed

If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube. Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes. Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night 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:

6:53 PME. Zachary Knight​Hello Everyone

6:58 PMaddictedtochaos​Hi all

6:58 PMaddictedtochaos​Just for the record downloading stuff on Xbox One takes forever.

6:58 PMmatthew wilson​so you want to play everything backwords than lol

7:00 PMaddictedtochaos​Unopened that is probably worth quite a bit.

7:00 PMmatthew wilson​majara's mask, the black sheep of zelda games

7:01 PMaddictedtochaos​With it being pennied out buying it would be a fireable offense.

7:01 PMaddictedtochaos​One of them was a Kmart promotional item.

7:01 PMotritzu​'Cause it's the one not led by Miyamoto.

7:02 PMmatthew wilson​agreed it is, but very very difrent than oot

7:02 PMmatthew wilson​yup

7:02 PMotritzu​Termina

7:02 PMmatthew wilson​its also very imersive sim-y

7:03 PMotritzu​Skittles I can see, but M&M's don't really have multiple flavors.

7:05 PMotritzu​I own something like eight hundred sixty games across my platforms. I've played roughly three hundred forty of them.

7:05 PMaddictedtochaos​I’ve pushed past 2,000 games.

7:06 PMotritzu​I've got 501 games on Steam and well over a hundred Switch games and a dresser drawer full of 3DS games plus another two or three dozen downloaded games.

7:07 PMotritzu​And that's just current gen.

7:07 PMmatthew wilson​wtf is with all those wii games lol

7:08 PMaddictedtochaos​You can buy replacement cases for PSP games to make them playable

7:09 PMaddictedtochaos​I have over 100 for Wii. Lots of great games on that system, just have to sort through the shovelware.

7:12 PMmatthew wilson​just came across something fumy, yet genius, idea on twitter a Godzilla mockumentary I would legit go see that

7:12 PMmatthew wilson​in the style of planet earth

7:14 PM100% Jimmy​Hey do you play fortnite

7:15 PM100% Jimmy​Oh ok

7:15 PMlugiae​Hoy. Long time, no see.

7:18 PMotritzu​Of course there are. You need the online subscription thing and there's no way to play with friends directly that way.

7:18 PMotritzu​They ran out of 'space' for the online lobby thing.

7:19 PMaddictedtochaos​Theoretically you could get paired with a friend randomly.

7:20 PMmatthew wilson​it bugs me so much b/c they have the best devs bar none, but managment............

7:20 PMotritzu​Honestly the friends stuff should be done in local networking mode in Nintendo's minds.

7:23 PMotritzu​It is one I've already gotten. Does look like a lot of fun.

7:24 PMaddictedtochaos​Well you could still play levels by people watching just need the level code.

7:25 PMotritzu​Nintendo's having trouble getting stuff through customs into the US and Canada,

Nintendo fears perfection.  That’s my theory for why it inexplicably saddles its otherwise genius games with at least one unnecessary and objectively bad design decision. 13:03 – Nintendo restricts online play in Super Mario Maker 2 to random players 22:52 – Gaming Disorder is now a recognized illness 38:18 – Anti-loot box and microtransaction bill ... Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 147 – Nintendo Fears Perfection’ »