Molehill Mountain Podcast

EZK has weighty topics to discuss but I just want to talk about cartoons.

0:12 - All of the Operation Rainfall games are good!

33:13 - Should publishers announce paid DLC before the game is out?

44:33 - Andrew is disappointed that the third sequel to slasher flick "Hatchet" is very bad

53:39 - Netflix for games. Good idea or bad idea?

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​dont know if its a topic in the show, but what do you 2 tink of china stopping aprovals of new games?

6:49 PMAndrew Eisen​Haven't heard anything about it.

6:51 PMmatthew wilson​sent you the link on twitter

6:51 PMmatthew wilson​its a weird intercetion of geopolitics and games

6:53 PMmatthew wilson​its the biggest story of the week, dispite its loittle covrage. for the near future 1/3rd of the globel games market it out of play

6:54 PMmatthew wilson​little

6:55 PMAndrew Eisen​Sounds completely unnecessary but I haven't read anything about it so I don't really know enough to form an opinion.

6:58 PME. Zachary Knight​Hello Everyone

6:58 PMmatthew wilson​short version over the last year, china's leader has toughened his grip on power, and with the re orginizing of the sensoership board, has stopped aproving games for the time being

6:59 PMAndrew Eisen​Yeah, sounds like something that would happen given current events.

6:59 PMmatthew wilson​kinda suprised ezk hasnt hearded about the story

7:00 PMmatthew wilson​I sent you a link on twitter, share it with ezk worth talking about

7:00 PMmatthew wilson​its from bloomberg

7:01 PMmatthew wilson​bloomberg com/news/articles/2018-08-15/china-is-said-to-freeze-game-approvals-amid-agency-shakeup

7:02 PMmatthew wilson​I am a proud adblock user f the way sites do adds

7:02 PMmatthew wilson​ads

7:03 PMmatthew wilson​honestly not using adblock is just stupid. the biggest attack surface is ads

7:04 PMmatthew wilson​as a basic computer security 101 thing, everyone should instal a adblock

7:07 PMmatthew wilson​I know ceertain big trusted channels are white listed from it, but only a few

7:10 PMmatthew wilson​ofcorse they dont have you not seen the brewha after youtube/facebook banned alex jones

7:11 PMmatthew wilson​it took them years to remove him

7:13 PMaddictedtochaos​Hey everyone

7:18 PMaddictedtochaos​It wasn’t Nintendo Japan, it was NOA. They were already announced for Europe.

7:22 PMaddictedtochaos​Nintendo actually only brought over Xenoblade. The Last Story and Pandora’s Tower were brought over by Xseed.

7:23 PMaddictedtochaos​Last Story ended up being Xseed’s best selling game.

7:23 PMAndrew Eisen​Of the two or of all their titles?

7:24 PMaddictedtochaos​Overall, at the time at least.

7:24 PMA Leaf​Any switch games you're thinking of picking up for the rest of 2018 Andrew? I'll be getting Dark Souls, Mario Party, and Smash.

7:25 PMA Leaf​oh, yeah I wonder if Rainfall was directly responsible for Majora's Mask 3D getting made?

7:25 PMA Leaf​wait...

Every week, former GamePolitics writer Andrew Eisen discusses all the super important happenings in video games, movies, comics, politics and everything else under the sun. Molehill Mountain—where every topic is of the utmost importance!

Activision, EA, Steam and a Senran Kagura pinball game.

9:58 - Peach Ball is gross

31:06 - The physical release of the Spyro trilogy only includes the first game

47:07 - EA DMCAs an opensource city building sim that uses SimCity 2000 assets

55:30 - Steam game caught installing crypto currency miners on users' PCs

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:

6:41 PMaddictedtochaos​Hello

6:45 PMmatthew wilson​hi

6:52 PMAndrew Eisen​Hello everyone.

6:54 PMAndrew Eisen​You'd think something as popular as Attack On Titan would have enough of a budget to at least stay on model. Yikes.

6:56 PMmatthew wilson​nope games that are based on major anime tend to be bad. with notable exception of fighterz, even all the dbz games are awful

6:56 PMAndrew Eisen​I was referring to Season 3 of the cartoon.

6:56 PMmatthew wilson​ah ok

6:57 PMAndrew Eisen​It's not terrible or even bad but there are a surprising number of instances in the first episode where a character will briefly go off model.

6:57 PME. Zachary Knight​Hello Everyone

6:58 PMmatthew wilson​question for you and ezk. what niche or weird game do you think more people should play? me since I am playing it now on pc yakuza 0

6:59 PMaddictedtochaos​Disgaea

6:59 PMjordan thompson​dead or alive beach volleyball

7:00 PMjordan thompson​remember naughty bear

7:01 PMmatthew wilson​yakuza 0 got the highest ccu, excuding relic's stuff, on steam of any sega game on release

7:01 PMmatthew wilson​so it seems to be doing well

7:01 PMAndrew Eisen​What's "ccu"?

7:02 PMmatthew wilson​concurrent users

7:02 PMjordan thompson​something looked different about you last week zach but I cant put my finger on it :)

7:05 PMjordan thompson​a friend's trying to convince me on the armored core series but I'm having trouble finding copies for the xbox 360

7:07 PMaddictedtochaos​Impossible to find

7:07 PMaddictedtochaos​Zack and wiki I mean

7:08 PMjordan thompson​Andrew what was that girly zombie wii game you played

7:09 PMmatthew wilson​I will say this, I will be playing yakuza kiwami when it comes out on pc later this year

7:09 PMNightmare Ninja​what did I miss?

7:10 PMaddictedtochaos​PS4 One is on

7:11 PMmatthew wilson​did you see the noclip doc on GoG? they go in to the process of getting the rights of old games, and lets just say its a mess

7:11 PMmatthew wilson​the rights of old games are so messed up lol

7:12 PMmatthew wilson​vc4 comming out sept 25th

7:13 PMjordan thompson​Message automatically held for review, hidden by Andrew Eisen.View deleted message

7:15 PMaddictedtochaos​So absurd I must own it

7:15 PMmatthew wilson​this game just sounds dumb

7:16 PMNightmare Ninja​I played that Senran Kagura game with Asuka

7:16 PMNightmare Ninja​It's coming to West so I look forward to play that game again

7:18 PMaddictedtochaos​Juliet

7:19 PMNightmare Ninja​I didn't know there was a pinball game for Senran Kagura
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Every week, former GamePolitics writer Andrew Eisen discusses all the super important happenings in video games, movies, comics, politics and everything else under the sun. Molehill Mountain—where every topic is of the utmost importance!

Russ Pitts stops by to discuss the revival of The Escapist.

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:

7:02 PMMichael McNaught​hello :)

7:02 PMWarren Lewis​hello, hello!

7:03 PMWarren Lewis​did it go somewhere?

7:04 PMjordan thompson​I was thinking escape rooms and Andrew went stright to porn, well now we know Andrews train of thought

7:05 PMmatthew wilson​that reaction though was deserved you cant remove politics from games. games are art, art is by nature political. only way to aviod it, is by doing tech stuff like DF does

7:07 PMMorello 456​Hello

7:13 PMMichael McNaught​nuke the forums from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

7:15 PMjordan thompson​but you don't realize the industry value of this complex were talking millions of dollars put into this property - Burke

7:17 PMmatthew wilson​they are, just on twitter

7:18 PMmatthew wilson​more industry, than low teir

7:30 PMSuper Deformed Gamescast​Anyone who knows you knows your stance on things, Russ.

7:40 PMMichael McNaught​there are ideological cliques on the forums who try to police others. its not a friendly place.

7:49 PMAndrew Eisen​Any questions for Russ?

7:52 PMSuper Deformed Gamescast​On reviews, does Russ plan on using scored reviews? I feel too many sites use arbitrary numbers.

7:53 PMSuper Deformed Gamescast​Thanks.

7:56 PMSuper Deformed Gamescast​Thanks Russ! Agree completely.

7:58 PMRobert Marks​The original Escapist didn't do reviews.

Every week, former GamePolitics writer Andrew Eisen discusses all the super important happenings in video games, movies, comics, politics and everything else under the sun. Molehill Mountain—where every topic is of the utmost importance!

Maybe DC will start making good superhero movies!

No timestamps this week. EZK and I just spend the entire show geeking out about all the nifty news out of Comic-Con!

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:

6:52 PME. Zachary Knight​Hello Everyone.

6:59 PMaddictedtochaos​Hi

7:00 PMmatthew wilson​if you have free time andrew, you should check out the new anime Cells at work its a anime take on osmosis jones, though way better

7:01 PMaddictedtochaos​Have you seen the Shazam and Aquaman trailers?

7:01 PMmatthew wilson​cells aty work is the name

7:01 PMmatthew wilson​its monster of the week kind of show

7:03 PMmatthew wilson​CHIO'S SCHOOL ROAD is also funy too

7:05 PMmatthew wilson​the first epasode she goes assin creed style running on buildings

7:07 PMmatthew wilson​comic con, e3, whats the difference at this point /s

7:08 PMBornDistracted​are you guys happy Clone Wars is coming back?...

7:09 PMBornDistracted​lol

7:12 PMmatthew wilson​it might be MEGALOBOX, that was one of the biggest surprises of spring anime wise.

7:13 PMmatthew wilson​nothing I care about happened at comic con, so meh

7:13 PMmatthew wilson​I am still pissed at warner bros for screwing up the killing joke

7:15 PMaddictedtochaos​Titans looks better then I thought it would but still looks bad.

7:22 PMBornDistracted​maybe Rian Johnson directed that episode?...

7:23 PMBornDistracted​lol

7:25 PMaddictedtochaos​I was never excited ( Titans are my favorite) but I knew they would screw it up.

7:25 PMBornDistracted​im sure you guys realize cartoons usually dont translate well into live action...

7:26 PMBornDistracted​the first Ninja Turtles was good...

7:28 PMaddictedtochaos​They renamed her Ivy Pepper I think it was.

7:31 PMaddictedtochaos​Intergang

7:34 PMaddictedtochaos​The story is Godzilla smash

7:41 PMaddictedtochaos​Aquaman surprisingly looks good.

7:44 PMaddictedtochaos​Shazam looks great. Just hope they introduce Mary Batson at some point.

7:46 PMaddictedtochaos​Dr. Sivana

Every week, former GamePolitics writer Andrew Eisen discusses all the super important happenings in video games, movies, comics, politics and everything else under the sun. Molehill Mountain—where every topic is of the utmost importance!

Video games are having a negative affect on my children!

What? No, I don't pay attention to what they're playing, why do you ask?

32:13 - Wacky survey shows parents don't pay attention to kids' gaming, notice bad behavior, don't think it has anything to do with games, took games away anyway, gave them back because kids threw a fit, and fear their kids may be gaming addicts!

57:09 - Nintendo wants 20 - 30 new indie games on Switch every week!

1:03:11 - We laugh at the poorly written character descriptions from the purported new Mortal Kombat 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:

6:42 PME. Zachary Knight​Hello Everyone

6:57 PMmatthew wilson​know its not for you, but warframe is being ported to the switch. grats on panic butten getting that work

6:57 PMmatthew wilson​button

7:00 PMaddictedtochaos​Hello

7:03 PMmatthew wilson​what are movies?! /s for real I go to the movies maybe once a year if that

7:03 PMaddictedtochaos​Haven’t seen anything since Deadpool 2

7:04 PMmatthew wilson​yes I am part of the reason movie theaters are dying in the US, and proud of it.

7:06 PMaddictedtochaos​Should give Arrow a chance but stop after season 2.

7:07 PMaddictedtochaos​First 2 were incredible and it was all downhill from there.

7:09 PMaddictedtochaos​Parappa is very unforgiving in its difficulty.

7:12 PMmatthew wilson​just rebind them, the ps4 supports rebinding at the os lvl

7:12 PMaddictedtochaos​There was a RockBand arcade game that was that way as well.

7:13 PMaddictedtochaos​On PSN and XBLA

7:13 PMmatthew wilson​lol

7:14 PMmatthew wilson​you do hate vocaloids dont you

7:14 PMmatthew wilson​I get it, doesnt appeal to everyone

7:23 PMO-Contexsial​"Eisen". It actually sounds kinda German. ol

7:25 PMO-Contexsial​I actually got Meme'd here from one of your very old videos. What's this about? I wanna be involved in some way shape or form!

7:26 PMAndrew Eisen​This is just a podcast where we talk about super important things like, uh... you know, video games and stuff.

7:26 PMScottyJayMan​Need to get back into Zelda

7:27 PMAndrew Eisen​Me or you?

7:27 PMScottyJayMan​Both of us

7:27 PMmatthew wilson​I tend to be prity anti moble

7:27 PMAndrew Eisen​I have a plan! (I'll talk about it later.)

7:27 PMmatthew wilson​games

7:27 PMScottyJayMan​I need to get the motorbike

7:27 PMO-Contexsial​Oh, I see! You guys talking about Pokemon right now? Last generation I played was like the Heartgold Soulsilver ones. Can I insert myself in some way?

7:28 PMAndrew Eisen​You're participating in the chat. That's a good way to participate in the conversations!

7:28 PMmatthew wilson​zelda botw is open world imersive sim, I totaly understand why he doesnt like it

7:28 PMAndrew Eisen​I don't like it because I was super offended by Link's prominent vagina bones!

7:29 PMmatthew wilson​lol

7:29 PMO-Contexsial​One thing I already like about this Stream is that it's only like 5 seconds delayed.

Every week, former GamePolitics writer Andrew Eisen discusses all the super important happenings in video games, movies, comics, politics and everything else under the sun. Molehill Mountain—where every topic is of the utmost importance!