Just Jon and Nathan (JoNathan) this week as Sean takes to the skies to visit his homeland.
Jon talks some Bravely Default and his favoritest game of yesteryear, Payday 2. Nathan tries to compare the adventure games of the east versus those of the west, centering on Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward and the latest episode of Telltale's Walking Dead, "A House Divided".
Over in news, Batman is back (already?), Jack "Not as tough as Reggie" Tretton steps down from CEO of SCEA, we know exactly when Watch_Dogs is coming out and Amy Hennig of Uncharted fame leaves Naughty Dog rather abruptly. And, of course, we talk at length about Shaquille O'Neal's latest venture in the world of video-games over at Indigogo.
All that and your questions on this, the latest episode of Top Down Perspective. Review us on iTunes. If you'd like. You don't have to. But it would be cool.
This week Jon plugs in an Xbox One and continues to work through Bravely Default (along with Sean). We also discuss Beat Blasters 3 and Nathan plays through the latest Last of Us DLC.
News is real interesting with the announcement of a Sega vs. Nintendo movie/book in the works, the Xbox One is finally getting Twitch integration in a few weeks and Waluigi is only going to be an assist trophy.
Feb 22nd, 2014 by topdownperspective
Sean returns with tales of the time travel lab he failed to escape from. He also checked out the Titanfall Beta this week and continues to work through Bravely Default with Jon too. Nathan is getting a little down on VLR and is still way into Threes (who isn't?).
The big event for everyone is Twitch Plays Pokemon, let's be honest - it's really great. However we have to talk about more so we discuss the end of Irrational Games, Humble Bundle 11 and Nintendo Girls Club.
Feb 15th, 2014 by topdownperspective
We have reached our 200th episode! Congrats everyone!
Sean and Jon get way deep into Bravely Default. Nathan starts up VLR, continues with some Flappy Bird and is very much enjoying Threes (so is Sean).
News has us discussing the hot topic of Flappy Bird, Nintendo's latest, and real good, Nintendo Direct, and Steam announces "tags".
It's a new week and games are really starting to roll now. Sean has started up Bravely Default (to Jon's jealousy), finished The Room 2 and played through episode 2 of The Wolf Among Us (as well as Nathan). Nathan also finishes 999 and jumps right into VLR and is real deep into OlliOlli and Lumines. Jon revisits Earthbound Zero and continues with Pokemon Y.
Nintendo comments on their recent announcement, Flappy Bird is a weird thing, music is coming to Steam and Watch Dogs loses its trademark momentarily.
Sean starts us off with a depressing story from SF. He's also been playing a lot of Risk of Rain with Nathan and starting up Broken Age and The Room Two. Nathan finished Broken Age and is continuing through 999 and Darksiders while Jon is slowly playing more Pokemon Y and revisiting a bunch of old stuff.
We got a bunch of news from all corners of the console market. Nintendo announces some of it's new ideas. Microsoft buys Gears of War from Epic. Sony announces a Sly Cooper movie.
Jan 24th, 2014 by topdownperspective
We're joined by a special guest this week: Vernon Shaw - the creator of Hot Pepper Gaming. He tells us about his time with Borderlands 2 and grinding on hamburger patties. Sean has been addicted to Risk of Rain all week. Nathan is playing a whole bunch of stuff in search of his next obsession and Jon is warming up to Pokemon Y.
News sees Nintendo and not doing so well sales-wise and the "Nintendo Force" magazine is already looking to Kickstarter for help. Canadian retailers raise the price of video games while Steam introduces more currencies into its marketplace. Finally, Sony is having a pretty great sale on a range of titles from recent years.
Jan 17th, 2014 by topdownperspective
This week Jon takes the plunge into Pokemon Y, he also shows Sean and Nathan how to play Payday 2. Nathan gets real interested with Tomb Raider and 999 while Sean plays To The Moon and Nidhogg.
For news we discuss the new update for Sim City, The Wolf Among Us gets a tentative release window and Michael Myers will be in CoD Ghosts.
Jan 11th, 2014 by topdownperspective
Jon returns from his trip to MAGfest as well as a new addition to his family! Congrats to them. Sean enters the US and is now an ambassador. Nathan sits at home playing Cook, Serve, Delicious!
We discuss the new Humble Bundle, PlayStation Now and the final chapter for Silicon Knights.
It's a new year and Jon is on his way to MAGFest while Sean and Nathan hold down the podcast fort. Nathan is way into Cook, Serve, Delicious as well as iOS game Paint it Back. Sean continues to play NFS Rivals, starts working through Papers, Please and plays the new Walking Dead episode.
News is pretty barren due to the time of the year. The Nintendo eShop was down this holiday which also caused a delayed release for Pokemon Bank and Deadpool has vanished from all digital download services for some unknown reason.
