Welcome to the very first bonus show! If you haven’t already listened to Episode 10, please do, it was a very fun episode and it’s a good listen. Today we talk about the official 2007 InDis Game of the Year… MASS EFFECT! We go into what side quests we did. What major choices we made and see how it effects our games. We talk about what we are doing differently on our second play through so far. And much more!

If you haven’t played the game yet and are planning on it… DON’T LISTEN yet. This is a MAJOR SPOILER SHOW! And You’re going to hear about it 2 more times if you start listening to the cast because if you listen, and we ruin something for you… don’t say we didn’t warn you… we did… 3 times!

Contents
Umm… Mass Effect… duh!

Thanks for listening!

Question of the week: Do games make the system, or does the system make the games?

Remember, the InDis email line is open 24/7.
Like the bonus episodes? Don’t know how we came up with our game of the year? Want more “eh”s from Geoff? Drop us a line at email@interactivedistractions.com.

A few notes:
First, the fact that the show was almost exactly the length of the Mass Effect soundtrack is 100% coincidence… however, it was very much a welcomed one!
Second, for those that listed to the GOTY episode and are wondering how Mass Effect won the InDis game of the year. Of the 10 games we mentioned, the three of us ranked them 1 to 10, 1 being the best! Counted up the points, and Mass Effect won, with Uncharted a close second.

 

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Happy Birthday to me! After an unexpected week off, we’re back with a little extra in the show for you. It’s a long show, but we had fun doing it. We start with this week’s distractions, as usual. Geoff touches on news from last week and a little from the week we missed. Chris gives Fox news a piece of his mind after their erroneous report on Mass Effect. Then it’s on to the predictions of 2008. We’ll revisit these next year to see who was right and wrong. Follow that up with New Releases, Email and the Amazing Question of the week, and you’ve got yourself the first double digit Interactive Distractions show!

Contents
000:00 - Content and introductions
004:10 - Jason’s Distractions
007:24 - Geoff’s Distractions
018:42 - Chris’ Distractions
034:50 - News
059:23 - Intermission
060:24 - Dear Fox News
073:40 - The Crystal Ball - 2008
119:30 - New Releases
121:36 - Emails
129:50 - Question of the week

Thanks for listening!

Question of the week: Do games make the system, or does the system make the games?

Remember, the InDis email line is open 24/7.
Wanna tell us we suck for missing a week? Miss the background music from the first 2 shows? Wanna send Geoff more hate mail? Drop us a line at email@interactivedistractions.com.

Note: We do want to say that we respect that Ms. Lawrence has apologized about the report on Mass Effect. It takes a lot of courage for someone to come out and say they were wrong. I personally would like to say that we recorded this show before that happened and my Dear X would have been a bit different if this report had come earlier.

Attention on site listeners!!

If you are playing this file directly from the server and it is speeding it up and making us sound like we’re chipmunks, it’s because of a bug in Flash. However, the latest Flash player has fixed this bug, so if you want to play it from the site, I would suggest updating your Flash player, as we are not sure why this episode is different from others and it’s not working correctly.  Also, the podcast sounds fine if you download it. We apologize for any inconvenience.

 

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The almighty Lord of the Cast has deemed us unworthy this week.  Recording was not meant to be.  Our regular Thursday night session was brought to a halt by a family emergency and postponed until Sunday evening.  Sunday came and left Geoff internetless - unable to play podcast with the other kids.

Instead of a hasty episode on Monday night, the decision was made to postpone Episode 010 until next week.  My heart breaks along with yours.  As a consolation prize, we will be releasing TWO episodes next week!  Both Episode 010 AND an InDis Super Bonus Feature - Mass Effect!

Stay tuned…

***sigh***

Apologies to anyone who has been trying to access the ‘Send Me an Odeo’ function from our site. I’m deeply saddened to say… well… it’s borked. Odeo is currently undergoing a restructuring phase… Long story short, they’re hard at work at rebuilding the service from the ground up and don’t have time to fix the current services… Namely, the ‘Send me an Odeo’ feature we’ve been pimping during our shows. As such, I’m tooling around looking for a solution. Our options are limited. Recording audio via Flash requires licensing and… whooo… it’s costly. Another embedded option may be a java applet. If nothing else, we can always set up a voicemail line. Not ideal as the sound quality isn’t the best, but… whatever… it’s an option. I’d really love to have voicemails for the show.

Stay Tuned

First things first. A couple of episodes ago, Chris mentioned a WoW spoof video called “ROFLMAO” and said he would post it… so here it is.

In this episode, this weeks distractions, lots of news that we actually break into 2 sections… News and our CES news feature. Then on to the craptacular new release list for this week, a few really good emails and of course, the question of the week.

Enjoy responsibly!

Contents
000:00 - Content and introductions
003:56 - Jason’s Distractions
007:07 - Geoff’s Distractions
016:55 - Chris’ Distractions
028:20 - News
051:55 - Intermission
053:48 - CES
101:40 - New releases
103:10 - Email
111:53 - Question of the week

Thanks for listening!

As promised, here is the “Air Guitar Rocker” video. Doesn’t it make you want to run out and buy one… ok maybe not.

Question of the week: What is your most anticipated game of the year and why?

Remember, the InDis email line is open 24/7. Hate when we put the show up late? Don’t like when we rush through on a Sunday? Think Geoff has a funny accent? Drop us a line at email@interactivedistractions.com.You can also send us an Odeo. We like having a voice behind the name. So feel free to send us a recording and we may include it in the show.

 

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