Comments on: Drunken Gamers Radio: 02.06.2010

By: John

John — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:29:18 +0000

Yep, we’ve covered that. He’s been thoroughly mocked and ridiculed.

By: Rusty Shackleford

Rusty Shackleford — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:30:07 +0000

*in Hilden’s nerd voice* I hope Hilden has been kicked off the show for mixing up Factor 5 with Level 5 on the last show he was on. Factor 5 makes the Star Wars games and Level 5 makes RPGs like Dark Cloud and Rogue Galaxy.

By: BenFromOhio

BenFromOhio — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:39:29 +0000

Ok John, gotcha, sex rehab with Tiger. Give him my best.

By: John

John — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:18:47 +0000

Nothing happened to Hilden. His wife’s been really busy lately and Hilden’s had other commitments on the weekend. When you have two kids, sometimes it’s hard to schedule time to do a podcast.

By: BenFromOhio

BenFromOhio — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:34:26 +0000

What happened to Hilden? Did he have a mental break? Did the Yukon Jack I sent in take him down a bottomless spiral of alcoholism? Is he in sex rehab with Tiger??

Moe did a good job, but I missed Hilden yelling dirty stuff.

By: Hennet

Hennet — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:10:19 +0000

I Deiced to enter in the contest I made a little doodle at work and made up a little story about him.

By: awesomo316

awesomo316 — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:42:13 +0000

The A-team back again two weeks in a row – looking forward to hearing your thoughts on Bioshock 2 – I’ve been playing it myself but haven’t checked out the multiplayer yet

By: John

John — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:37:24 +0000

I’m glad you enjoyed it, because it looks like it’s going to be just Moe and I again this weekend.

By: awesomo316

awesomo316 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:40:34 +0000

Big props to Moe for his work as host this week – fine work mate.

By: ilduce620

ilduce620 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:04:11 +0000

So, I have only played the MAG beta and don’t own the retail game, but from what I understand listening to other podcasts, Zipper is trying to maintain some kind of faction balance in requiring you to stick with one character for a long period of time. Mostly, this is for their long-term “meta game” that MAG is supposed to be doing, where after a period of time (a month? I dunno how long…), whichever faction has the most wins under their belt, everyone on that team gets an XP bonus. Therefore, if you were to have multiple characters, you could potentially figure out which faction is doing the best and only play on their side in order to get the XP bonus, leaving very few other people in the other factions. I’m under the impression the bonus is a relatively substantial one.

At least, I think that’s their reasoning, or what I’ve heard about it. I agree, though, that being locked into one character for 60 levels seems a bit excessive, but it appears Zipper did it on purpose. I’m not sure what else they could have done to maintain the same effect, except perhaps allowing you to create another character at level 30 or something.

Am I wrong on this? Did anyone else hear that, or did I just pull that out of my ass?