[PATV] Monday, September 10, 2012 - CheckPoint Season 2, Ep. 19: Games for Windows or Not

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[PATV] Monday, September 10, 2012 - CheckPoint Season 2, Ep. 19: Games for Windows or Not

There's too many different services that share the same names. Get it together, Microsoft.

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Shadowen

the end of this episode hurt my poor headmeats

WolvenSpectre

Three... three... I have reported more Half life 3 games than that... oooooooh you were making a funny on Half Life "3" ha... ha... haha...hmmmmm.

dreamshade

Sir, at 0:34, I specifically heard you call the new FF game "Lightning's Return," when the logo behind you CLEARLY says, "Lightning Returns!" WHAT A BUNCH OF SLOPPY JOURNALISM

Gathorall

Adding to dreamshade's comment shouldn't be rhere are in the notes.

Ori Klein

We wanted Dark Souls on the PC. We got it. But they insisted to put GFWL in it.

I had to sigh heavily and NOT buy it.
DarkSiders 2 is great, though!
Bought it through Impulse, play it through Steam.

Alcaste

As long as this Xbox games on windows thing lets me play Dust, I'm happy with the venture. Otherwise... seems kinda meh.

Tleilaxu

Microsoft doesn't need better marketing, they need to allow different divisions to talk to one another. The XBox <--?--> Games for Windows situation you described is basically a model of how they run things in Redmond in general.

AdmiralMemo

I loved this episode, and consider it one of the best so far.

ElderCat

Is this game on Xbox live arcade? Games for Windows live? Xbox games on windows? WTF?

moosemaimer

XLiveWinBoxGameForS? Christ, did they hire somebody away from Sega? Maybe next they'll come out with an addon for the 360 that lets you play certain PC games, but only the ones they release, and there will be less than 10.

ATF_Griff

Brilliant!

Don Reba

I think Microsoft would just do well to not hire Kathleen for marketing. No offence intended.

Saint Justice

Wow. As dumb as that whole x-windows-box-live-???-profit! thing is, I'm grateful that it set up one of the funniest moments of the season. Keep up the good work, LRR!

ABCDiablo

"Best thing to come out of Ice Cube's movie career."
What? Video game nerds don't know about Friday or Boyz n the Hood?

Falx

Don Reba wrote: »

I think Microsoft would just do well to not hire Kathleen for marketing. No offence intended.

Ah yes the magic words that somehow remove intended offense.

Framling

Saint Justice wrote: »

Wow. As dumb as that whole x-windows-box-live-???-profit! thing is, I'm grateful that it set up one of the funniest moments of the season. Keep up the good work, LRR!

The bit with the DLC for whatever Medal of Valor it was that was putting out a map, three monkeys, and a mango, was that last season? That may be my all-time favorite bit.

Kathleen_LRR

@don Reba "I think Microsoft would just do well to not hire Kathleen for marketing. No offence intended."

I would not want to work in their marketing department. I would however like them to hire someone who is not me to say "that makes NO SENSE" when they announce things like this.

Don Reba

@Kathleen_LRR
Seems perfectly clear — MS ported a few XBLA arcade games to Windows 8. They had XBox Live on Windows Phone 7, as well. Your explanation is much more entertaining, though. And thanks for replying!

Gamescook

I think Square-Enix (read: Motomu Toriyama) emphasizing that there will be a happy ending says two things:

1. That Square genuinely (and as tone-deaf as possible) believes that people are invested enough in the god-awful story to care.

2. That Square is saying outright what the ending will be shows that they never knew how to actually handle the story in the first place.