LATEST EPISODE UP ON www.mgoradio.com
-This sucks, I THOUGHT I was free from the rank gathering...but I only have 4 left.
Back to that...
-Anyways, latest radio episode is up. We discuss Sneaking Mission. I like it, it's team deathmatch with a twist. Basically single player online.
-The homemade tourneys are cool as long as they do something different, Hikarus 3 minute DM's are pretty intense. It's nice to get people gathered in one spot.
-Europe's Tourney Fraud is pretty funny, and not just cause of the Bon appetit randomly in there. We talked about this last week, and I said (lost radio ep) that I don't think there would be enough motivation for ppl to do it, turns out, all you need is CASH MONEY.
-If you are still planning to follow the Radio stuff, BOMB is the mode for the week.
Even though I won't be hosting it.
-I also got my book which SHOULD help me get this damn thing on itunes, haha.
-LTA, still coming, I swear...
-E3 coming up, the Next countdown ends tonight, and the new one will prolly start.
'til next time folks.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
May 25: The host has ended the game (of the week)
Funny. More people are gonna be playing MGO more due to summer. Classes ending, more free time, etc. Myself on the other hand, much, much less.
There will be a two week gap with no episodes. June 29th and July 6 will not have a new episode. I will be out on vacation, and therefore, no access to my PC. I might twitter some stuff, kidding.
I've been getting bored with MGO, when MGO starts becoming a chore, it's not fun. These games of the week are nice, but I'm not going to host them anymore, actually, we don't even cover it on the show much, so it's makes sense.
Restricting yourself to one mode makes you hate that mode by the end of the week. And if you don't like that mode, well it's gonna be a long week.
And to be quite honest, I got burnt out on the "Gotta catch 'em all" mentality on the ranks.
So yeah, game over. Thanks to the people hanging around.
I might host random games, (shotty only, etc) but idk, I'd rather get back to hosting NORMAL games. Haha.
'til next time.
There will be a two week gap with no episodes. June 29th and July 6 will not have a new episode. I will be out on vacation, and therefore, no access to my PC. I might twitter some stuff, kidding.
I've been getting bored with MGO, when MGO starts becoming a chore, it's not fun. These games of the week are nice, but I'm not going to host them anymore, actually, we don't even cover it on the show much, so it's makes sense.
Restricting yourself to one mode makes you hate that mode by the end of the week. And if you don't like that mode, well it's gonna be a long week.
And to be quite honest, I got burnt out on the "Gotta catch 'em all" mentality on the ranks.
So yeah, game over. Thanks to the people hanging around.
I might host random games, (shotty only, etc) but idk, I'd rather get back to hosting NORMAL games. Haha.
'til next time.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
I am restructuring the scheduling around the radio.
These things are effective immediately.
-There will be no more episodes of the KeroShow. No one listens to MGO Radio for news, at least, I'd hope not, anything worth making fun of will be on the Kero show. Me and Spec might do another kind of show later, who knows, but KeroShow is definitely dead.
-Since there is no KeroShow, I will stop calling the monday show GakoShow. This will also help in case Konami decides to get legal with us, (Kero and Gako are trademarked)
-This weeks show is delayed due to a power outage corrupting the edit.
I have the raw data, just have to find it and re-edit.
Keep watching, ill announce more stuff soon.
These things are effective immediately.
-There will be no more episodes of the KeroShow. No one listens to MGO Radio for news, at least, I'd hope not, anything worth making fun of will be on the Kero show. Me and Spec might do another kind of show later, who knows, but KeroShow is definitely dead.
-Since there is no KeroShow, I will stop calling the monday show GakoShow. This will also help in case Konami decides to get legal with us, (Kero and Gako are trademarked)
-This weeks show is delayed due to a power outage corrupting the edit.
I have the raw data, just have to find it and re-edit.
Keep watching, ill announce more stuff soon.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Let's Talk About....
(Note, LTA isn't up yet, technical difficulties)
Since having guests on the GakoShow is underwhelming, (They are either too nervous, or out of the flow) and since some people cant be bothered to listen to a full show. (Which is annoying, I made the KeroShow just for YOU.) MGO Radio starts it's new segment today.
"Let's Talk About" is the new segment, it will be only on Myspace, so you will have to listen or download it from there. And it is a short segment about a random topic.
For our maiden voyage, my "guest" is Spec (not really a guest, I know, screw you) and the topic is Teamkilling. It's short, and hopefully, it's entertaining.
If you are interested in doing one of these, let me know at RecSpec@mgoradio.com.
And add MGO Radio on myspace, please?
Since having guests on the GakoShow is underwhelming, (They are either too nervous, or out of the flow) and since some people cant be bothered to listen to a full show. (Which is annoying, I made the KeroShow just for YOU.) MGO Radio starts it's new segment today.
"Let's Talk About" is the new segment, it will be only on Myspace, so you will have to listen or download it from there. And it is a short segment about a random topic.
For our maiden voyage, my "guest" is Spec (not really a guest, I know, screw you) and the topic is Teamkilling. It's short, and hopefully, it's entertaining.
If you are interested in doing one of these, let me know at RecSpec@mgoradio.com.
And add MGO Radio on myspace, please?
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Radio Backup
UPDATE: Site is up again, but I'll keep this here.
RSR (my blog) is the backup in case of situations like this.
If the site is down, check here.
Anyways, if you were looking for the latest episode.
Here is the download link:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/59483382abae1bf2/
Here is the stream link:
http://www.imeem.com/recspecreno/music/wQecaZgV/eric-prater-mgo-radio-keroshow-may-1/
Sorry for any inconvenience.
RSR (my blog) is the backup in case of situations like this.
If the site is down, check here.
Anyways, if you were looking for the latest episode.
Here is the download link:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/59483382abae1bf2/
Here is the stream link:
http://www.imeem.com/recspecreno/music/wQecaZgV/eric-prater-mgo-radio-keroshow-may-1/
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Radio Connectivity. With a contest!!
UPDATE: Entry continues up until 5pm Friday!
Congrats to MKG winning the first card for early entries.
Hey, what's up. Name's Eric Prater. I do that MGO Radio thingy.
I think I know why you are here today,
looking for free PSN Dollars I assume.
Okay, but first things first.
I will be updating this with news and other stuff.
Maybe MGO related, maybe not. This IS my personal blog.
But this WILL be the first place you all hear about future
MGO Radio contests.
The last one was gamefaqs exclusive. The "Fair To Middlin"
contest, congrats to Hikari who won that.
Now then, this contest is a FaceBook only one. If you saw my various
warnings, then you should be ready for this.
Easy stuff, really. I want to use this to announce contests.
But I also want to use facebook to promote the radio.
So here we go. Contest time.
Add me on Facebook first,
and just to see if you are paying attention,
in your friend request, put your MGO name, and your rank.
Ex: Koki Kariya, Tortoise
Then go ahead and join the MGO Radio group.
Everyone who does BOTH will get entered into a drawing,
there will be 3 winners of $20 PSN Gift Cards (
or an equal prize, if you live in an area where they don't accept PSN Cards)
My Name is Eric Prater, I live in Louisville KY.
So it should be easy to find me, good luck.
Deadline is 5pm Monday night. Good hunting
DOUBLE BONUS: People that apply to the MGO Radio group before 5pm Sunday get
TWO entries instead of one.
Congrats to MKG winning the first card for early entries.
Hey, what's up. Name's Eric Prater. I do that MGO Radio thingy.
I think I know why you are here today,
looking for free PSN Dollars I assume.
Okay, but first things first.
I will be updating this with news and other stuff.
Maybe MGO related, maybe not. This IS my personal blog.
But this WILL be the first place you all hear about future
MGO Radio contests.
The last one was gamefaqs exclusive. The "Fair To Middlin"
contest, congrats to Hikari who won that.
Now then, this contest is a FaceBook only one. If you saw my various
warnings, then you should be ready for this.
Easy stuff, really. I want to use this to announce contests.
But I also want to use facebook to promote the radio.
So here we go. Contest time.
Add me on Facebook first,
and just to see if you are paying attention,
in your friend request, put your MGO name, and your rank.
Ex: Koki Kariya, Tortoise
Then go ahead and join the MGO Radio group.
Everyone who does BOTH will get entered into a drawing,
there will be 3 winners of $20 PSN Gift Cards (
or an equal prize, if you live in an area where they don't accept PSN Cards)
My Name is Eric Prater, I live in Louisville KY.
So it should be easy to find me, good luck.
Deadline is 5pm Monday night. Good hunting
DOUBLE BONUS: People that apply to the MGO Radio group before 5pm Sunday get
TWO entries instead of one.
Friday, June 6, 2008
One Hour Review: NovaStrike
Reviews in the gaming industry are always faulted. This score is too high, this score is too low. They didn't play the game enough. The list goes on and on. A review should be used to basically determine if a game is worth playing/buying. Now every reviewer on the planet will be reviewing the big titles, and most will review any other big titles. So why try to emulate them, might as well forge your own path. That is why I am doing the One Hour Review. No the review isn't an hour long, jeez. I am going to describe what I can about a game after only one hour of gameplay, so install and download times do not count. Since I am only playing a small part of the game, I am not giving a number score. The review will be broken down into two parts, the intro, which I will describe what I can without playing it. And the actual review. Still with me? Lets give it a shot.
NovaStrike
NovaStrike is a shooter from Tiki Games, Inc. It can be found on the PlayStation Store for $10. The description of the game (which can be found here) promises 7 stages, that doesn't really sound too pleasing. Two more than Super Stardust HD, but three less than Everyday Shooter. Free Roaming Flight, um...yeah, par for the course nowadays. Progressive weapon acquisition and upgrade system, once again nothing spectacular. Promises a bunch of different types of enemies. Well, nothing really stands out so far. But hey, that's why we play the game right?
(One hour of play later)
The controls were the first thing that bothered me. Left stick moves you, like in most other games similar to this, but you shoot with the L2 and R2 buttons, L2 for the ground weapons, R2 for your main weapon. If you are used to SSHD and Everyday Shooter's control schemes, this will throw you off. Using the trigger has another huge disadvantage. While realistic, you can only shoot the way you are facing, which sucks in the middle of a heated firefight. Also the "one hit and you die" doesn't apply here. Your health is shown by a green thing which looks like a chicken, I think it might be the emblem of the army or your ship, not sure. You have a regenerating shield, and a afterburner used by hitting X.
There are a bunch of cool weapons, besides your default machine gun and flamethrower, you will end up picking up bombs, spread missiles, lasers, and my favorite, the electric mine. Lay one down and whoever flies near it gets zapped. Plus they do more damage than your machine gun.
The game offers a bunch of different types of missions (okay, only four so far) 1. Defend a base. 2. Defend a ship 3. Attack a base 4. Attack a ship. Sometimes you might get help from allies. The bombers are pretty decent, but the fighters suck, they usually get gunned down pretty quick. Well, unless they crash into you first.
Defending a base is simple, destroy the bombers attacking the target while avoiding the fighters. Not too bad. Defending ships is more difficult, usually because of the AI. The only mission I did had the target ships fly RIGHT OVER an enemy base. And what the anti air guns didn't take out, the rest of the enemies (and my idiot allies, go figure) finished them off. Luckily, failing a mission does not mean game over.
Attacking a base is a chore, you have to use hit and run tactics (a lesson I learned the hard way) to take out the outside turrets, then attack the inner structures. Not really as fun as you would think. Probably because your ground weapons are pathetic, on the easiest setting (which I played on, I suck at these kind of games) it takes two direct hits from your bomb (which you pick up later, you start with some flamethrower thing as your ground weapon) to wipe out a structure. It becomes tedious fast. Not to mention the enemy turrets can wipe you out fast. Turrets that can shoot pink energy blasts are very lethal, one of them can drop you fast. Very fast.
Attacking a ship also fails to entertain. Luckily both ships I encountered had the same death dealing turrets that wiped me out when I tried to bomb the base. So you had to keep your distance, swoop in, shoot it as much as you can, then fly off and let your shield recover, rinse, repeat.
Graphics, if you don't have a HD TV, it will take awhile to get used to. Out of the games 7 (according to them) stages, the first two were on the same planet. An earth look alike. Most of the time all you will see is water. The few structures are pretty dull, nothing too exciting. The regular ships are nothing special. But the bigger ships are nicely detailed, of course after staring at water for so long, ANYTHING looks awesome. The explosions are nice, especially the buildings. The ships go down quite nicely too. But, nothing spectacular.
The story, who cares. The bad guys are trying to invade the good guys' home planet, so you have to stop them. This game tries, but no one plays these for the story. The music is bland and forgetful, some might even say sleep-inducing.
There are better top-down shooters out there. If you have not bought Super Stardust or Everyday Shooter, I would definitely pick those up instead. If you are a huge fan of the genre, then you will probably like this game. This game is pretty average, nothing stands out about it. Even though there is supposedly more content to be released in the future for this game, I doubt it would be anything worth the price of admission. There are better games out there.
NovaStrike
NovaStrike is a shooter from Tiki Games, Inc. It can be found on the PlayStation Store for $10. The description of the game (which can be found here) promises 7 stages, that doesn't really sound too pleasing. Two more than Super Stardust HD, but three less than Everyday Shooter. Free Roaming Flight, um...yeah, par for the course nowadays. Progressive weapon acquisition and upgrade system, once again nothing spectacular. Promises a bunch of different types of enemies. Well, nothing really stands out so far. But hey, that's why we play the game right?
(One hour of play later)
The controls were the first thing that bothered me. Left stick moves you, like in most other games similar to this, but you shoot with the L2 and R2 buttons, L2 for the ground weapons, R2 for your main weapon. If you are used to SSHD and Everyday Shooter's control schemes, this will throw you off. Using the trigger has another huge disadvantage. While realistic, you can only shoot the way you are facing, which sucks in the middle of a heated firefight. Also the "one hit and you die" doesn't apply here. Your health is shown by a green thing which looks like a chicken, I think it might be the emblem of the army or your ship, not sure. You have a regenerating shield, and a afterburner used by hitting X.
There are a bunch of cool weapons, besides your default machine gun and flamethrower, you will end up picking up bombs, spread missiles, lasers, and my favorite, the electric mine. Lay one down and whoever flies near it gets zapped. Plus they do more damage than your machine gun.
The game offers a bunch of different types of missions (okay, only four so far) 1. Defend a base. 2. Defend a ship 3. Attack a base 4. Attack a ship. Sometimes you might get help from allies. The bombers are pretty decent, but the fighters suck, they usually get gunned down pretty quick. Well, unless they crash into you first.
Defending a base is simple, destroy the bombers attacking the target while avoiding the fighters. Not too bad. Defending ships is more difficult, usually because of the AI. The only mission I did had the target ships fly RIGHT OVER an enemy base. And what the anti air guns didn't take out, the rest of the enemies (and my idiot allies, go figure) finished them off. Luckily, failing a mission does not mean game over.
Attacking a base is a chore, you have to use hit and run tactics (a lesson I learned the hard way) to take out the outside turrets, then attack the inner structures. Not really as fun as you would think. Probably because your ground weapons are pathetic, on the easiest setting (which I played on, I suck at these kind of games) it takes two direct hits from your bomb (which you pick up later, you start with some flamethrower thing as your ground weapon) to wipe out a structure. It becomes tedious fast. Not to mention the enemy turrets can wipe you out fast. Turrets that can shoot pink energy blasts are very lethal, one of them can drop you fast. Very fast.
Attacking a ship also fails to entertain. Luckily both ships I encountered had the same death dealing turrets that wiped me out when I tried to bomb the base. So you had to keep your distance, swoop in, shoot it as much as you can, then fly off and let your shield recover, rinse, repeat.
Graphics, if you don't have a HD TV, it will take awhile to get used to. Out of the games 7 (according to them) stages, the first two were on the same planet. An earth look alike. Most of the time all you will see is water. The few structures are pretty dull, nothing too exciting. The regular ships are nothing special. But the bigger ships are nicely detailed, of course after staring at water for so long, ANYTHING looks awesome. The explosions are nice, especially the buildings. The ships go down quite nicely too. But, nothing spectacular.
The story, who cares. The bad guys are trying to invade the good guys' home planet, so you have to stop them. This game tries, but no one plays these for the story. The music is bland and forgetful, some might even say sleep-inducing.
There are better top-down shooters out there. If you have not bought Super Stardust or Everyday Shooter, I would definitely pick those up instead. If you are a huge fan of the genre, then you will probably like this game. This game is pretty average, nothing stands out about it. Even though there is supposedly more content to be released in the future for this game, I doubt it would be anything worth the price of admission. There are better games out there.
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