PSNerds Podcast #4 – Bleep!

In an attempt to obtain a G-rating, the PSNerds bleep out as much nastiness as possible, still landing squarely in an X-rated dung heap. This week the PSNerds discuss Billy’s Fat Princess beta meanderings, two weeks without a PSN game release, add-on packs for Pixel Junk Eden and Magic Ball, Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazzard, Everyday Shooter, Rag Doll Kung Fu, The City of Metronome and Rock Band: Beatles. We also delve into the world of male models, sexual conquests, Billy’s new Mac, Pete from the block dealing games like crack, Japanese rape games and listener/pity mail.

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The Bitter Taste of Outrun

A week-and-a-half ago North American PS3 owners got the shaft. Sega’s Outrun Online Arcade was made available for Xbox 360 and European PS3 owners. The yanks still loyal to Sony need not apply. Whether it was Microsoft at the helm of this decision or Sony just not caring enough to put this arcade drifter in American hands, US PS3 owners will just have to move on.

And don’t believe the hype of creating a UK PSN account. It’s simple to download free content that way, but, in my experience, as soon as a credit card number is involved, without a linking UK address you’re out of luck. And as of now Europe doesn’t provide the option to use a PlayStation network card. Whereas in Japan or Hong Kong, you could buy their region’s network card online to purchase content from their store while in the US.

It’s one thing for Sega to not port it to the PS3, but they did. It’s a whole other animal to exclude a downloadable game as popular as Outrun from a particular region. I don’t know about you, but I’m left with a bad taste in my mouth.

Hey Yanks! Drift this.

Magic Ball: Wicked Witch Expansion Trophy Guide and List

[Wicked Witches] EE-HEE-HEE-HEE-HEE-HEE!!!
Complete ‘Wicked Witches’ Episode .   Beat all the levels.  Duh.

[Wicked Witches] 50 in a Row
Complete 50 Levels in a Row.   Start at the beginning of the pirates levels and this should be pretty easy for most veterans.

[Wicked Witches] More Points Than You’ll Ever Need
Score 2,000,000 points.    Should be easily pulled off while doing 50 in a row.

[Wicked Witches] Evening Exorcist
An evil witch performs dark rituals. Put an end to them by destroying her at nighttime.    This is on level 8 of the expansion.  Germeh says:  Don’t destroy the witch before you get the moon powerup.  If you do, restart.

[Wicked Witches] As You Wish
No one should hinder true love. Find the lovers and make those around them go away.    Germeh says:  Level 3-9, you have to kill the evil trees around the witch (there are 7).  You also have to kill the little guitars they drop.   Just make sure you don’t kill the prince or princess first.  The princess is in the balcony.

Where We Podcast: Part 1 of 3

We have recently been flooded with emails wondering about our podcasting setups. Literally thousands of you interweb people have requested pictures of our humble home studios. I asked myself, “who am I to deny the good people of the virtual fanscape their most gracious gifts. Although here and now I speak for myself, but I would imagine Rich and the Animal Mort will follow. Even if they don’t, I’ll just make their parts up.

Item One: Where am I located?

That’s right, as you see in the photo, I am located in barren wastes of the Canadian North. Here, there are few things a man of sport can occupy his time with. Seals, snow, the lights, these all lose their appeal in the first decade or so. Here, a man must use his thumbs and index fingers. Here, a man of game must accept who and what he is.

This is a pic of my local gamestore. Yes yes, those Nazis are fucking everywhere. I would imagine there are differences with these far out stores. Here, with your trade in credits, you can not only reserve a game but reserve your biannual Tang or bottle of whale oil. Canadia isn’t a bad place to game, but we only have power for 37 minutes of each hour. Things can be rough.

Item Two:  What does your desk/space look like?

Although the picture doesn’t exactly show it, my office is nesteled within the dried stomache of a deceased Woolly Mammoth. No worries, the smell has long since died, mostly due to our recent shipments of Febreeze. Wonderful shit people. I rock a fairly decent Pavillion with Tritton cups. There is an average Logitech 5.1 set and a PS3 to boot. There is also a stack of standard desk materials and a George mask that no desk would be complete without. My desk has been through 5 moves and 8 years of abuse. I think its only held together with gravity and my own sense of self satisfaction. It’s a tank, but is approaching death.

I hope this answers some of the curiosity you people hold. If not, I can only hope that my two associates can do better.

BBB

PSNerds Podcast #3 – Exacto vs Pirate

This week the PSNerds discuss Rag Doll Kung Fu, Flock, Burnout Paradise, Scary Girl, Puzzle Quest: Galatrix and Billy actually gets into the Fat Princess beta while we record. We also share wild tales of touching Rolando’s balls, Rich getting his wallet stolen at an easter egg hunt, Mort’s Craigslist adventure getting a new laptop and Billy’s awesome “Vista compatible” sound card that doesn’t work with Vista. This episode also features a naked black woman and much love for our only fan.

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Flock – Trophy Guide

FIRST FLOCK!
COMPLETED FIRST LEVEL

Duh! Easy Peasy

LUMBERJACK THE RIPPER
RIP UP 50 TREES (AGGREGATE TOTAL)

Suck a tree with your tractor beam. Some times it takes a bit to get the trees ripped up. Easy enough to get the hang of. Repeat 50 times. 

THE CONTINUOUS CARTOGRAPHER
PLAY THROUGH ONE USER-CREATED SINGLEPLAYER LEVEL AND ONE USER-CREATED MULTIPLAYER LEVEL

UNIDENTIFIED FLOCKING OBJECT
ABDUCT 20 ANIMALS (AGGREGATE TOTAL)

Total animals abducted. Does not require you to abduct them all at once.

FERTILISER
MAKE 50 PILES OF POO (AGGREGATE TOTAL)

I’m still not sure exactly what this means, might be later in the game that you learn about the dookie. Feel free to elaborate in the comments section if you have more info.

GOOD SHEPHERD
FLOCK 25 ANIMALS AT ONCE

The act of moving 25 animals at the same time gets this trophy. 

DON’T FENCE ME IN
KNOCK OVER 50 FENCES WITH A COW (AGGREGATE TOTAL) 

Lead a cow a towards a fence. They will do the rest. Repeat 50 times. 

KING OF THE SKIES
FLY AND LAND 75 CHICKENS (AGGREGATE TOTAL)

Lead chickens off a ledge and land them safely on solid ground. If any fall into the water, they do not count towards this trophy.

MAKE YOUR MARK
COMPLETE 10 CROP CIRCLES (AGGREGATE TOTAL)

Crop circles are completed when you properly carve out the required design in a field. The proper design is given when you “turn on” the stones in a level.

LOVE BUNNY
USE 3 LOVE PATCHES IN 3 MINUTES

These are spots where you can mate sheep in order to make babies. Use 3 different ones in under 3 minutes.

BOWLED OVER
KILL 10 CHICKENS WITH ONE THROW OF A BOULDER – STRIKE!

Line up a 10 or more chickens in the path of a boulder. This is easily accomplished on the very first level with boulder and chickens.

DEFENDER OF THE FLOCK
COMPLETE A LEVEL FEATURING THE NIGHT-TIME PREDATOR WITHOUT LETTING IT EAT ANY ANIMALS.

The first night-time level is the easiest way to get this done. Just move very fast and be careful not to lose any animals. Stopping makes it more likely that the predator will attack, You can always restart the level until you get a nice path set up.

MASTER FLOCKER
GET A PERFECT ABDUCTION ON ALL LEVELS, SINGLEPLAYER AND MULTIPLAYER

A perfect abduction is one where all animals are taken back to the mothership. If a single animal is lost, missed or forgotten, you will not get a perfect abduction. A perfect abduction is marked by a star on your level medal.

Worms – Trophy Guide

Barrel Buster
Shoot 100 barrels. This is a hidden trophy.

Just like it says, shoot 100 barrels total.

 

 Body Count
Send a cumulative total of 100 worms to meet their maker and win this award! This is a hidden trophy.

Kill 100 worms total.

 Bronze Damage
Deal 10,000 points cumulative damage to win this award!

In a perfect world, you would achieve this at the same time as the Body Count trophy. Most people will achieve this shortly after Body Count, because it’s unlikely that you caused every point of damage to every worm you killed. 

Challenges
Complete all twenty single player challenges.

Gold Damage
Deal 50,000 points cumulative damage to win this award!

Every point of damage you do to another team’s worms counts towards this. It’s unclear if damage you do to your own worms counts, but if you are doing enough damage to yourself to matter you have a problem.

 

Greedy Worm
Collect a cumulative total of 50 crates and this Trophy is yours! This is a hidden trophy.

Walk over 50 crates in the game. 

Hot Foot
Detonate a cumulative total of 25 mines and you’ll ‘trigger’ this award! This is a hidden trophy.

Shepherd
Kill a cumulative total of 15 worms using just the sheep for this award…baaa-gain! This is a hidden trophy.

15 kills with exploding sheep.

Silver Damage
Deal 25,000 points cumulative damage to win this award!

Every point of damage you do to another team’s worms counts towards this. It’s unclear if damage you do to your own worms counts, but if you are doing enough damage to yourself to matter you have a problem.

Three Bagger
Kill three worms with just one shot to bag this award (includes damage from oil drums and mines)! This is a hidden trophy.

Three worms must die in one turn or one shot, if you are using the shotgun. Like the trophy says, any subsequent explosions count towards the trophy.

Training
Complete all the tutorial challenges.

Complete the tutorial mode of the game.

Happy Four Play
Play a four player PlayStation®Network game.

Play a four player online game.

Get a Lob On
Win any PlayStation®Network game using just the Grenade.

Win an online game by only using grenades.

Fast, Pink and Hard Award
Win a Ranked PlayStation®Network game in under 3 minutes.

Win an online match in less than three minutes. You might want to recruit some friends to help you with this one.

Burn Zombie Burn! – Trophy Guide

Extinction 
100,000 Zombies killed.

This might take awhile to get.

Paint the Town Red
Fill the screen with the maximum amount of blood on any level.

You need to kill a lot of zombies in a short period of time to get this done.

Red Shirt
Kill the away team Zombie.

This is a special zombie that you will see from time to time. Apparently there is a sound when he appears, he will be standing still holding a gun. Kill him and you get this trophy, as well as a rampage potion. It’s more likely that you will get this trophy without even noticing what you killed.

Hot to Trot
Last 30 seconds with 50+ zombies on fire.

You cannot drop below 50 zombies on fire for 30 seconds straight. You’ll need to keep more than 50 on fire to get this done. Also avoid any zombies that explode. They make this trophy hard to achieve.

Murder on the Dance Floor
1000 Zombies sent dancing.

All 1000 need not be dancing at the same time. Use the special gun that makes zombies dance to achieve this trophy.

Brain Surgery
100 Brains sucked.

Suck 100 brains with the brain sucker gun.

Texas Style
100 Chainsaw Combos.

Combos are done by killing many zombies without switching weapons. 100 combos = Trophy

Dynami-Te-He
1000 Zombies blown up.

You blow up zombies with dynamite or by shooting exploding zombies. Zombies that explode prior to you shooting them do not count towards this trophy.

Graduation
Complete Zombie Academy.

Complete the training portion of the game.

Tourist
All Arcade levels unlocked.

You must achieve bronze medals in all but the last level of arcade mode to get this trophy.

Friend of Bruce
All levels unlocked.

Bronze medals in all levels/modes except the very last of each mode.

d6 Commends You
All bronze medals.

Bronze in every level of every mode.

d6 Respects You
All Silver medals.

Silver in every level of every mode.

d6 Admires You
All Gold medals.

Gold in every level of every mode.

Friend of d6
All Developer medals.

Developer medals in every level of every mode.

Rag Doll Kung Fu – Trophy Guide

Rag Doll Apprentice
Earn bronze on all challenges
 
Rag Doll Expert
Earn Silver on all challenges

Rag Doll Master
Earn Gold on all challenges

 Learning the Ropes
Play all four Multiplayer Game Modes

 Only one mode can be completed with AI opponents. For all others you need  at least one extra controller to complete.

 Mover and Shaker
Execute every motion sensor-based move

Lightning balls, regaining health, as well as the charging kick and punch should get you this trophy.

Combo Meal
Hit an opponent in the air with all three special attacks before the opponent lands

 Lightning Ball, charging kick and punch are the special attacks you need to get this trophy.

 Acrobat
Swing from one place to another and damage an opponent in between

Hit someone with a kick or punch while you are flying through the air. You must swing first to get this.

 Me Down!
Hit an airborne player with three consecutive Lightning Balls

Toss a guy into the air and charge/throw three lightning balls at him. This is pretty tough to accomplish

Fishy Billiards
Score a goal by shooting the fish into the basket with a Lightning Ball

A lightning ball must be thrown at a fish, propelling the fish into the basket.

 
Bully
Defeat an opponent that is grabbed by your team-mate. This is a hidden trophy.

You’ll need a partner to help you out with this. Have your partner grab an opponent that is near death. Kill that opponent while your partner holds him.

Offside!
Throw the fish to a teammate who then scores within one second. This is a hidden trophy.

Pretty self-explanitory, you just need two controllers and a friend to help you out.

 Clearer
Damage three opponents with a single attack.This is a hidden trophy.

Easiest way is with a (non-lightning ball) special attack.

PSNerds Podcast #2 – Everybody Poops (In Home)

In this weeks episode we discuss Comet Crash, Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic, Flock, and the first of a weekly series on the disaster that is Socom: Confrontation.   We declare war with a producer of Pain who talked smacked about DA NERDZ on his blog.  We also discuss what we’ve been playing, Pooping@Home and how much we’d like to have listener mail.

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