Category: Episodes

“The Trust Bank” – for gamers, the amount of trust they hold for a developer’s latest project. If it’s been good before, we trust it’ll be good again. It’s brought up during our discussion of Call Of Duty: World At War. Our trust bank’s for Treyarch aren’t near to the amount of trust in the bank’s we have for Infinity Ward. Same goes for Sega in our thoughts on Sonic Unleashed.

We spend a bit of time discussing those games but in honor of Ticket To Ride’s debut on XBLA this week, we comb over our childhood in search of other classic games we’d like to see show up in digital form. While we do nail some gems in the list, nothing comes close to Hungry Hungry Hippos. Button mashing at its finest.

Also in this episode we welcome Ten19 to the program to tell us of the updates dished out during the week in the MMO world, we talk of reviewers and the interesting relationship they have with publishers, plus we take a look at Limbo Of The Lost and see just how much you can cram into a game without actually doing anything yourself.

From there we head to the depths of the studio and talk about completely random things. Seriously, it’s totally random stuff. There’s web design, health issues, Fireball Island, pigeons, and Leonard Nimoy. Like I said….random.

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You can thank danielout for the title. Well, the title comes from me, but it’s because of him I said it. In fact, I wouldn’t even thank him for it, really.

This episode of Evil Avatar Radio is a little all over the place for us. We cover the news of the week and the games we played and plan on playing. Daniel talked more about Age Of Conan and touched on the booby issue. We took your calls – thank you to both mikeohara & MrBibbz. We talked about the limitations Konami had put on those reviewing Metal Gear Solid 4, voice commands in gaming, and a few thoughts on in-game XMB. Then….well, then Strax talked about comic books. Specifically the new storyline in the Spider-Man books.

During the extra portion of the show, we talk about next week’s guest, Daniel tells us something we didn’t really care to know, we talk about Guitar Hero: “Insert Band Name Here”, and Strax and I talk superheroes.

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It was either that title or “Splendid Jetpack Dreams Of The Apatosaurus Named Brontosaurus” and you can find out why in this episode of Evil Avatar Radio. We again talk about GTA4 and where we sit in the progress of the game. Some of us having finished it and some of us having seemingly only begun. But the GTA talk only last for a bit during the beginning of the show before we’ve moved on to talk about Age Of Conan, Guitar Hero 4 and rhythm games in general, hard drive installs, and this generation of gaming. During all of that we wax nostalgic for a bit on City Of Heroes and our first times playing it so many years ago.

And that nostalgia quickly bleeds over into the after show for a bit, where we carry on the conversation of CoH, but also talk about the upcoming release of both Haze and Penny Arcade Adventures. Plus, we talk about our pending guests and contests for next week’s episode and fishbang & Zillah/Dana (Soulless Toast) look for friends in Portland.

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I think the phrase is “Better Late Than Never”, and that’s how we feel about Evil Avatar Radio. We never like to miss an episode, even if it means bringing it to you later than usual.

This episode of Evil Avatar Radio is a bit different from our normal shows. It’s like one long after show segment. But we still do our normal stuff. We cover what news there was of the week (and two days) previous and tell you about our gaming since last we spoke (I am way ass behind in GTA4). Plus we talk about the HAZE demo and watch the Mirror’s Edge trailer (again).

Some of our longer discussions focus on GTA4, obviously, game reviewing and what a 10 really means to us (you know, if you finish the game you’re reviewing in the first place), plus we talk about Iron Man, and Jeremy and Daniel have a chat about copyright laws brought about by the Muppets of all things.

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We’ve had a week to digest the feast that is GTA IV and in this episode of Evil Avatar Radio, we spit it all back out at you. Our likes, loves, dislikes, frustrations, and hate…it’s all here.

But that all takes place in the second hour of the show. The first hour is still filled with equal parts of win as we hear from BAPenguin about the sad co-op news we got last week (seriously, you’re taking it OUT of Ghostbusters?) and the good co-op news we got as well. Then we talk with Doug Parsons from Guinness World Records about their 2008 Gamer’s Edition.

Then, of course, it’s the second hour filled with GTA talk which overflows right into the show after the show. Seriously, it’s pretty much non-stop GTA discussion, with an exception at the end of the after-show. It’s there that we thank Mr. Bibbz for his generous donation in making fishbang an orange. We also remind you to check out the EvAv group at GoodReads, and the great deal going on right now for a product that could not have a better name – the Buttkicker. Plus, fishbang gives a warning to those interested in The Bourne Conspiracy game, and finally, there’s a message at the end of the show that we invite you to listen to. It isn’t normally our thing and I’m sure we won’t bring it up again for some time, but it was worth mentioning, if only once.

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I’ve been trying to considerably cut back on the amount of coffee I drink, but after last night’s GTA IV gaming session, I had to have some this morning just to wake up a bit more. And you’d think that having a show just a few hours before GTA’s release that we’d talk more about it, but, oddly enough, we don’t. Pretty sure we’re saving that for next week’s episode. What we do discuss in this episode of Evil Avatar Radio is the Metal Gear Online beta that finally got back on track last week. Also on this episode Siraris called in to tell us of his new review site, PlayItReviewIt, as well as bringing up the discussion on “exclusive reviews” and the stench that follows them. Plus we heard from BAPenguin and Mike Ohara.

In the second hour, we talk about Army Of Two – or well, Daniel talks to us about it. In a way, it was a prime example of the way Siraris’ site works. We got to hear, first hand, from someone we trust about the game and he gave his honest opinion of what he played. His account made us want to play the game…maybe not buy it, but at least play it.

Once the ‘real’ show was over, we broke out a bottle of “Military Special” and took to the after-show. As is often the case, it was here that we found our show title, courtesy of the previously mentioned whiskey mixed with the imagination of fishbang. There is talk of booze, City Of Heroes, GTA 4, a Sci-Fi MMO, fish bang’s orange-ness, and the fragtown map packs of Quake 2.

Now that we’re done with that, it’s back to more GTA4.

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We’re a week away from the release of GTA4, so what the hell do you think we’d be talking about in this episode of Evil Avatar Radio? Exactly. Metal Gear Online and the massive failure of an attempted beta. Now don’t get us wrong, we understand it’s a beta and these things happen, but not with the hoops you had to jump through with all the different ID’s, a patch, and not to mention making sure you had the correct amount of digits just to download the damn thing. We poke fun at it all in the opening and proceed to vent our frustrations immediately afterward.

It was a good show, but then again, any show is good with the inclusion of cake – baked by our very own Soulless Toast/Zillah Dana in honor of fishbang’s birthday. We then cover more of the news of the week including the Iron Man demo, trailers selling games better than demos, the release of the week, Pirates Of The Burning Sea, and the Battlefield: Bad Company weapons tasks.

After the show, we sit down to have even more cake and talk about the GTA4 DLC, MK vs. DC, and more.

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First things first – Holy shit fitbabits called in! We’re slowly working our way to having all the reds on the show at some point or another, we just gotta get the big guy himself to call in to the show sometime.

Now, normally I tell you what happened on the show in as much of a chronological order as I can remember, but we’re doing things a bit differently this time. You see, the show really took place during the after-show. It was there we discussed the recent comments made by N’Gai Croal about the trailer for Resident Evil 5. We’re joined by our producer Hawggy and it’s a good discussion. If you are at all curious of our thoughts on the matter, you need only to listen.

As for the main part of the program, we talked about Microsoft’s fear of mods, upcoming release dates, metal lunchboxes, bobble heads, Nintendo’s release strategy, and more of the week’s gaming news. We also took calls from Ravenlock who talked to us about his time spent with Assassin’s Creed on the PC, Shodan called in too, and, of course, we heard from our resident Scot – Fitbabits, who’s kitty, Winnie, we all hope gets better soon.

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We’d like to once again thank Kropotkin & Hendrix, from the SuperHappyFunTimeShow, for our opening for this episode. In fact, it led to the idea of asking you, the listeners, for your own openings to the show. Create one, record it, and then send it to us and we’ll open a future show with it.

It’s episode 101 of Evil Avatar Radio and really, after the glory that was episode 100, there’s just no way to unlock that achievement a second time, but we try. We start the show off by finding out what we all played over the week and that includes time spent with the new maps in COD4, as well as comparing it to some play time we got in with the Battlefield: Bad Company multiplayer beta. We also go into spoiler territory while speaking about our experience with Rainbow Six Vegas 2 – something every one of us that finished the game completely regrets. Of course, you can’t talk Tom Clancy anymore without bringing up H.A.W.X., and we do just that, with an equal amount of regret, actually. Plus Bap calls into the show and tells us of GTA4 swag he got last week and TrackZero tells us of his time spent playing Viking.

The title for this episode comes mere seconds after the show. And it’s followed by talk of the justification of game trilogies, what we’re going to do between now and April 29th, and it’s capped off with Strax’s frustration with his Xbox 360 and the Xbox Live service along with our monetary uphill battles and username origins – just in case you ever wondered how a guy gets a name like “fishbang”.

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Thank you. Thank you for 100 episodes of Evil Avatar Radio. And a special thanks for the past 30 or so episodes that we, the new crew, have been able to bring to you each Monday night.

This was unlike any show we’ve done before, and any show you guys have given us. The amount of callers we had was staggering. From people in the industry to members of the Evil Avatar community, we’d like to thank Mare Sheppard and Raigan Burns from Metanet, Rogue_hunter, Shodan2020, MrBibbz, Phil “Kefkataran” Koller & his fiancée Amanda, TurboKinny, H2o Ninja, TrackZero, Jazzman, Kristin Lindsay & Robert Khoo from Penny Arcade, Aggort, Shadowstorm, Jonathan Coulton, pseudopseudo, Nick “BAPenguin” Puleo, Larry “Xbox Live’s Major Nelson” Hryb, Deadend, User 11, The RoadHead, and Ghostbear.

There are just way too many moments in this episode to go through all of them here. Really, you’ve just got to hear it to believe it. If anything for the opening montage that was so well put together by our very own Jeremy.

Once we got done with the 100th show, we finally got around to talk about some news concerning the co-op removal from Prototype, more GTA4 talk, and in-game advertising. Plus, we hear again from TrackZero who has a few choice words for Kefkataran (I’ll give you one guess), and Chris Grant from Joystiq calls in as well to wish us a happy 100th.

Again, from all of us, James/fishbang, Jeremy, Kevin/Hawggy, Dennis/Samitchdoo, Dana/ZillaDana/Soulless Toast, the new guy Daniel/danielout, and myself…

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Welcome to episode 99 of Evil Avatar Radio. As of late, you probably wonder what the show sounds like when we have no interviews during the program. Well, here you go. In this episode we covered the news of a new Sonic game coming our way, the new Bad Company game and the way it deals with weapons and micro transactions, Guitar Hero for the DS, and much more.

Not only that, we got phone calls! Both of which I hang up on. First up is Dr. Finger where we begin to talk about GTA4, but end up talking about comic conventions and the weekly release of games, then Mike Ohara calls in as well to express his love for all things Command & Conquer.

While fishbang couldn’t join us for the regular show, he does pop up after the show where we talk about our weekend in Atlanta to see Jonathan Coulton, new COD4 maps, our favorite games that had excellent stories told, and we finally get to talk to nabokovfan87 and try to figure out his intense passion for the PS3.

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