Posted on Monday, 1st March 2010 by Chris

Happy Monday, folks!

To help you start your week off right, we bring you Episode 9 of The Multiverse and, in my opinion, our best episode yet. We were joined by Syp, from Bio Break (Sypiest. Episode. Ever!) and had a good time talking all things MMORPG.

Join us this week for a interview with Syp, as well as our short-term and long-term predictions for the future of MMORPGs. Of course, we also talk about the week’s news (*cough* Allod’s *cough*) and have some fun discussing games and movies past.

We also change things up a little bit and turn Ferrel’s Guild Tip of the Week into Uncle Ferrel’s Story Hour. By request! See, you can’t say we don’t listen.

Here are the notes for today’s show:

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Show Notes – 2/26/10 – “Guest Starring: Syp”

• Intro

  • Welcome, intro Syp, what’s been up this past week?

  • What have we been playing?

• News

  • Rumor: Final Fantasy 11 Closing – Has since been debunked.

  • LotRO Volume I Update

  • Allod’s Online – The Cash Shop is a Lie

• Round Table

  • Topic I: Syp: The Interview

  • Topic II: The Future of MMOs: Our Predictions

• Host Segments

  • Uncle Ferrel’s Story Hour

  • Riknas’s Rant: Expansions

  • Chris’s Blog of the Week: The Greenskin/Snaffy’s Place – Good luck, Snaffy!

• Close

  • Shout Outs/Plugs

    • Check out Syp’s blog at: biobreak.wordpress.com!

  • Contact us at: multiversepodcast@gmail.com

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Posted on Sunday, 28th February 2010 by admin

This week:
I’m too busy to find and write down each of the time-stamps. But we mostly talked about Heavy Rain (don’t worry, we were spoiler free) and all the sweet Nintendo news from this week. It’s a good time.

G’Ovah!!
Javi. Mark.
Dont forget to write in a question for next week!
gameoverpodcast@yahoo.com

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Posted on Saturday, 27th February 2010 by admin

This week we actually had a bit of news to talk about. Don’t get me wrong, the news portion is such a small portion that you’d still be confused about what the purpose of our show is, and so are we. However, it’s still a good listen. We are always looking for questions regardless of the subject matter so send it in to mattsblackcouch@gmail.com

Here’s a quick and rough timeline:

1:45-News (Consists pretty much entirely of some of the information that Nintendo put out at their media summit.)

20:25-What We’ve Been Playing

30:38-Cat Lady

40:20-What’s Cookin’, Big D?

1:26:55-The Dark Knight Spoof

Music Used: Just Impolite-Plushgun

I also want to give an advance apology out there to anybody who is offended by the sheer awfulness of my Joker. I can usually do a bit better than what I did here, but I also don’t have the right vocals to do it in the first place. Hey, if you want me to stop, send a cease and desist email. Also, I’m aware a few dead air moments especially around the Cat Lady segment, but I chose not to fix it because I’d already been through several processes of trying to fix the audio to begin with which still wasn’t that great when it was all said and done which is it a bit disappointing.

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Posted on Friday, 26th February 2010 by admin

I’m trying to get the show on a more regular schedule and I view this Episode as the new beginning towards that. In this episode we (myself, Reid and special guest Tommy_Arashikage) talk about the latest “big” Sony release, Heavy Rain. We discuss what we like and dislike about the game remaining relatively spoiler free and we also touch on the implications that the success or failure this game may or may not have across the industry.

Music in this episode:

Rain – The Cult
Rainmaker – Iron Maiden

E-mail comments (or questions) to pefectlysaneshow@gmail.com or friend us on the IGN Blogs.

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Posted on Friday, 26th February 2010 by Noob

Finally after a weeks break, the n00bs are back with this stunning (yeah right) return to the aural canals of our listeners. Like promised from the last episode, Napoleon1066 is a guest on this podcast (he does a great job of keeping the Foz insults flowing), and of course we have all our usual segments such as reader mail, recent news and blog of the week. Don’t forget to tune in next week as we’ll be back on our regular recording schedule.

And make sure to check out all the other great stuff on Vagary.tv as well!

William Milby, Brittany Brombacher and Cyrus Fayazi.

Song Credits

Hired Guns: Title Song

Ed the Duck: Song 2

Chrono Trigger (OCRemix): The Incredible Singing Robot by Start Salzman

Wonderboy in Monsterland: Unknown

Final Fantasy VII (OCRemix): Son of Chaos

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Posted on Tuesday, 23rd February 2010 by admin

I know it’s not quite retro, but hey it’s Final Fantasy. To get everyone pumped for Final Fantasy XII, I selected random tracks from the official OST. Also in the show was an explanation on why we haven’t done a show. Thank you all for your support in our “vacation”. All the emails I got really means alot. Thanks again and enjoy!!!

Prelude to Final Fantasy XIII

Final Fantasy XIII – The Promise

Defiers of Fate

Saber’s Edge

The Hanging Edge

Those for the Purge

The Warpath Home

Snow’s Theme

The Vestige

Lake Bresha

Eidolons

Blinded by Light

Lightnings Theme

March of the Dreadnoughts

Chocobos of Cocoon

Fighting Fate

Ending Credits

Final Fantasy Classic with Lyrics by Brentalfloss

Final Fantasy VI with Beerics by Brentalfloss

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Posted on Monday, 22nd February 2010 by admin

Welcome back to The Black Couch.  This week is very light on video games, both news to discuss and impressions.  However, this may just be our best episode so far.   By having a very loose schedule for the podcast, it allowed us to just go off and talk about whatever came to mind.  If you have any reader questions, send them to mattsblackcouch@gmail.com.

Timeline:

2:50-Matt’s Loan

4:50-What Matt’s Been Playing

13:30-Scrubs

18:10-Alice in Wonderland

28:17-Avatar: The Last Airbender

37:00-”Special” Water Balloons (hint: It’s not water)

39:25-Big baby

Prince of Persia

43:15-Mad Lib of the Week

44:45-What’s Cookin’

Gay Cows

Toy Story 3

UP 2

Song Used:

Save Room-John Legend

Podcast Crew Note: We have tried to edit out potentially offensive racial comments.  You should be able to find them.

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Posted on Monday, 22nd February 2010 by Chris

Welcome to weekly!

It seems too quick to be presenting Episode 8 but here we are! Episode 8 is a little different from The Multiverse you’re used to, though, so here’s what you can expect.

Episode 8 is the “Little Show.” To change things up between releases, we’ll be alternating between our regular format and the more conversational, stripped down, format you’ll hear here. Pretty much, the little shows will be slightly shorter and focus in on a main topic or two, while we keep the host segments for the main show.  We’re still going to be hitting the news and feature everything else you’ve told us you enjoy.

We also have some other big news to accompany this release. Starting this Friday, we’ll be broadcasting our shows LIVE courtesy of Livestream. You can check out our feed over on our Vagary page by clicking on “listen live.” Tune in at 7PM EST, every Friday, to hear us record and join in the chat room.

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Here’s what we talked about on Episode 8:
-  Reader mail!

* Is MMO pricing cyclical? – Thanks Max!
* What’s our most memorable MMO moment? – Thanks Jeremy!

-  Sentinel’s Fate launched – how’d it go?
-  Allod’s Online’s cash shop blunder
-  Dante’s Inferno – better than God of War?
-  Email us: multiversepodcast@gmail.com

Let us know what you think!

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Posted on Sunday, 21st February 2010 by Derrick

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to actually beat a game this week so instead I decided to make list of the top 10 games in my collection.  It was tough narrowing it down from the over 200 games I own, but I think the list is an excellent sample of the type of games I enjoy.

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Posted on Friday, 19th February 2010 by admin

Hey everybody, welcome to The Black Couch!  This is officially our fourth episode, but the first time being featured on the site.  Don’t worry about the first three, you’ll realize what this is all about very quickly.  I’d like to describe this podcast as a free-form discussion with a loose structure in order to keep it from getting too out of hand, but then you might get the wrong idea about so let’s jump right in.

Another achievement was unlocked this week when we stayed mostly on the topic for almost an hour!  Below is a list of what was covered and a rough timeline to go along with it.

Intro
13 G NES 3:40
Lost Planet 2 Cameos 11:50
Halo: Reach 14:00
NPD for Dec. and Jan. 18:02
Fable 3 27:00
Rock Band Deal 29:00
Battlefield Sale 31:00
What We’ve Been Playing: Dante’s Inferno, and WoW 34:50
Returning Series? 46:05
LA Noire 52:40
Hey Big D, What’s Cooking? 56:00

Send any questions you might have to mattsblackcouch@gmail.com and we’ll take a look at it, or not, depends how we feel when the recording day comes around.

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