1UP.com Wrote:Listening, I get the sense that what Noseworthy is cursing at more than anything else is the overlooked obviousness of it all. How does a developer address the poor sense of persistence, inadequate reward systems, and resulting shortage of attachment and accomplishment endemic to eye-in-the-sky strategy? Look -- like Call of Duty 4 and Battlefield 2142 and the forthcoming BattleForge -- to addictive role-playing games. Convince gamers that their time translates to material gain, however immaterial an unlockable cannon actually is.

And so Dawn of War II abandons base-building along with the need to assemble a new army from the ground up over and over again before each battle. You command the same five squads along with assorted Dreadnoughts and other tactical units -- each with a leader that Noseworthy claims "has a name and face." In turn, campaigning from planet to planet opens up War Gear perks -- chainswords, flamethrowers, warhammers, and personalized and hardened power armor. "It's 300 in space," Noseworthy says, referring to the movie and graphic novel in which 300 Spartans stop Xerxes' million-man army, and then pauses for the punchline. "We're calling it 30." Is it, though?

Roan Wrote:Just so you know, most users here don't listen to podcasts so posting them here is kind of fruitless.

incondite Wrote:

Roan Wrote:Just so you know, most users here don't listen to podcasts so posting them here is kind of fruitless.

I just posted it along with everything else.

It's only half an hour long. A lot more in depth than the preview.

And don't you listen to 1UP Yours?

Artie Wrote:ADMIT YOU ARE SAM

and yeah, not all of us are big podcasters....i don't like them