Top Down Perspective

On this episode Sean talks all about The Wolf Among Us and his short time playing Saints Row 4 while Nathan finishes up Beyond: Two Souls, slows down on GTAV and tries out Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon and Soundodger. Jon has been streaming a bunch.News is pretty scarce but we bring up the surprising delay of Watch_Dogs, the new Kingdom Hearts 3 trailer and some more indie games being ported to the PS4.

We announce that part 2 of our Japanese Sega Saturn live stream will be October 12th at 6 PM MT. We hope you can tune in and watch some weird games get played!Apart from that, we all discuss the newly released Beyond: Two Souls, we also talk a bit more about GTA5 and FTL, Escape Vector and Saints Row 4 get mentioned too.

Jon and Nathan went to this year's Pincade and Jon left with something very interesting! Nathan has been playing some GTAV Online, Sleeping Dogs and L.A. Noire. Sean finishes up Wind Waker HD and starts GTAV and FTL.Nintendo had a lackluster Nintendo Direct, Steam announces their controller plans and Sega has THE BEST preorder incentive EVER!

Jon is away, stuck in traffic, so Nathan and Sean create the BEST episode ever! Nathan talks more about GTAV and then his evil (better?) twin shows up and tells us how much he's enjoying Sleeping Dogs. Sean explains why The Wonderful 101 is a very odd game and starts playing Wind Waker HD.
 
Valve has basically taken over the news front this week with two of the three living room announcements already having been made. We also discuss the $10 upgrade program for split-gen games and plans for the Vita TV coming out in Western countries.

GTAV is out this week and we spend a good deal of time talking about Nathan's enjoyment with it. Sean plays some PlayStation All-Stars and The Wonderful 101 while Jon packs up his things and continues with Mario & Luigi Dream Team.There's a ton of news this week including the death of Hiroshi Yamauchi, a new Nintendo Direct, Atlus being bought by Sega and Criterion Games splitting up.

We're all back for the entire length of this episode. Jon and Sean have been playing Disney Infinity. Sean also plays through Gunpoint and Botanicula while Nathan plays some more Far Cry 2 and Scurvy  Scallywags. Jon also plays some of The Wonderful 101.News is mainly Sony related with the recent Japanese press conference. We also discuss Steam's family mode and the new Humble Bundle.

Jon and Nathan return from Seattle to talk all about this year's PAX Prime. Sean quickly mentions his time with Rayman Legends and The Room Epilogue and we bring up some brief news. After than we jump right into the PAX talk, Sean's internet dies and everyone has a great time!

It's the week before PAX! Sean talks about his time with Pikmin 3, Mario & Luigi: Dream Team and a little Plants vs. Zombies 2. Jon reviews the new Flashback as well as checks out Rayman Legends. Nathan revisits Runner 2 and Mirror's Edge.In the news section we talk about the just announced Nintendo 2DS, no more Microsoft points and a possible Xbox One release date.

Sean is away on vacation so Nathan and Jon talk about the games they played for an EXCEEDINGLY long time. New record, its gotta be. So, hear exhaustive breakdowns of the best desert island game around, Miasmata, the critical darling Gone Home, the fourth in a long-running series of quirky RPGs, Mario and Luigi Dream Team, the stylish follow-up to The Dishwasher, Charlie Murder, the perhaps unfortunate remake of Flashback, Brad Shoemaker's favorite game,Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Dave Lang's Divekick, Wayforward's Mighty Switch Force 2 and, finally, 7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat, Nathan's Game of Show from E3 2013. After all of that, we still find a bit of time for some news. Steve Ballmer is planning to leave Microsoft about a year from now, right after shutting down Games for Windows Live. Launch lineups for the Xbox One and the Playstation 4 have been revealed, so we run down those along with some tid-bits from Sony's conference at Gamescom this past week. We talk about Notch's cancelled sci-fi game, the PS3 exclusive Dark Souls II beta, and an exciting opportunity for indie developers over at GOG.comAll that and a few dalliances here and there on the Top Down Perspective!

Jon is away being sick this week so Nathan and Sean kick things off by talking about Kick-Ass 2. Sean then shares his thoughts on finishing the first Phoenix Wright as well as starting out with Pikmin 3. Nathan discusses more Papers, Please, Bully and how he can't wait for Gone Home.News has us talking about more policy changes with the Xbox One, a new slate of Humble Bundles to get REALLY excited about and some GTA5 multiplayer info released.

Sean returns to talk about ibb & obb, Phoenix Wright and Hundreds. Jon talks about his upcoming video reviews and Nathan brings up Red Dead Redemption and Papers, Please!As for news, there was a new Nintendo Direct last week, Gone Home gets a release date and Saints Row 4 gets the most ridiculous special edition ever.

It's a knee-slapper this week...that'll make sense a minute or two in. Sorry. Just Nathan and Jon this week, as they talk open-world games such as Saint's Row the Third and Red Dead Redemption, the final hours of the Cloudberry Kingdom Infinity Cup, The Swapper, The Walking Dead 400 Days and more! Then we discuss the recent Phil Fish twitter drama surrounding Fez II, some recent upcoming game announcements and the hottest Pinball and Arcade show in the city of Calgary, Pincade 2013! Enjoy, and happy 11th Anniversary of Signs coming out in theaters. NOTE: This episode was originally posted with only Jon's audio. Hopefully that has been fixed. Apologies for the inconvenience. Thanks for listening.

The Steam sale is over and we wrap up our experiences with it. Jon continues to play Deadpool and Project X Zone as well as checking out Picross e2. Nathan is playing a ton of games including Tomb Raider, Uncharted 3 and ZombiU. Sean finishes up Trine and plays through Cherry Tree High Comedy Club.In the news section we discuss how Atlus is being sold off, Microsoft announcing that the Xbox One will be very indie developer friendly and how the 3DS is selling well for Nintendo.

It's the Summer Steam Sale and we're talking about the games we've bought and the cards we've collected! Jon also brings up Deadpool and the new Streetpass games/update. Nathan goes through a whole bunch including The Witcher 2, Blood Dragon and the new Call of Juarez. Sean revists Trine and tries out Antichamber.As for the news, we discuss Sony's PLAY line-up of games this summer as well as their weird new trophy-bidding thing and Deadly Premonition is now on Greenlight.

We start off by expressing our thoughts on Ryan Davis's passing. He meant a lot to us.Jon has been playing Deadpool, Project X Zone and Epic Mickey on the 3DS. Nathan plays through Alan Wake's The Signal and Gunpoint. Sean reviews The Walking Dead 400 Days and checks out Badland.As for news we have some odd EVO related decisions from Nintendo, China might start allowing game consoles again and the summer Steam sale has begun.

This week Jon is talking all about Picross E and Super Luigi U with Sean. Sean also brings up more of The Last of Us and gushes over Game & Wario. Nathan talks The Last Man and Demon Souls.The news section brings up the recent decision from Microsoft to stop charging for patches, DoubleFine asking for more money for Broken Age and Klei Entertainment announces a new game.

Jon's back from his trip to talk about Disneyland and some game convention before his internet dies on us and leaves. Nathan has been playing a lot of games starting with the letter 'A' and Sean talks about The Last of Us some more.News is short but we discuss the latest Layton game that appeared on iOS, a couple games getting banned in Australia and some MGS1 remake confusion.

Our schedules didn't work together this week so you're getting two back to back solocasts in this episode. Jon is still away on his vacation so Nathan is up first with what he's been playing. He talks about Animal Crossing New Leaf and last year's XCOM. Sean comes in next to talk about The Last of Us, Thomas Was Alone and, also, Animal Crossing New Leaf.

This is the longest episode I think we've ever recorded. Clocking in at nearly 3 hours, you get to listen to all our thoughts about E3 2013. We run through the four press conferences and Nintendo Direct that happened on the opening days. Nathan and Jon then go into great detail about the games they played while down in LA.

The three of us are all together and here to share our thoughts on how our Japanese Sega Saturn live stream went. Sean talks about finishing up 999 and playing some Ouendan and Proteus. Nathan talks about a few Mario games and a bunch of NES stuff and Jon brings up a few games from an earlier live stream of his.
News is real packed this week with a few announcements dealing with the Xbox One. We also talk about Konami's pre-E3 show, a re-release of Tales of Symphonia and Respawn Entertainment's new game gets leaked early.