Forced Feedback - Episode 12 - Education in Games

Forced Feedback Episode 12 - Education in Gaming, plus the week of games and news.

Forced Feedback is the Podcast of The Feedback Force. We are Captain Wizard, Freckled Moon and Orifister. The podcast is musings and general news from this week. It is published every Thursday and will include a guest every so often.

Forced Feedback Episode 12 – 09/07/09 – 1hr 53 mins



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Presenters - Captain Wizard, Freckled Moon and The Orifister

Guest - Threasy (Tim Graham)

Currently Playing -Halo3, Battle Field Heroes, Saints Row 2, Harry Potter 6, Wanted, Doom Iphone, Drakes Fortune, Trine

Whats New - Battlefield 1943, Lucus Arts and Novalogic back catalogue on steam, Street figther 4 for PC, 2K GOTY pack, Call of Juarez, Conduit, Harry Potter, Punisher

News - C+C 4, Protests in Germany, Rape Game Sharing in Japan, Mechwarrior comeback, Witcher DRM removal, WoW peggle, D+D Online in august.

Feature - Educational Games and Games in Education. Featuring to-be teacher Tim Graham.


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Forced Feedback - Episode 11 - Internet Pervs Special

Forced Feedback Episode 11 - Finally the Internet Pervert Feature is here!!!!

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Forced Feedback Episode 11 – 25/06/09 – 1hr 45 mins



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Presenters - Captain Wizard, Freckled Moon and The Orifister

Guest - Various Internet Perverts

Currently Playing - Red Faction, Lego Battles, Rocket Riot, Gears of War, Buzz, Mass Effect, Champoions Online, Saints Row 1, prototype

Whats New - Droplitz, Garou-MOW, Battlefield Heroes, DeltaForce Steam, Arma2 demo, Bigs2 Demo, Dynasty Warriors 6: Emipires, Overlord 2, Fight Night Round 4, Transformers 2, Ice Age 3, Superstar v6, Guitar Hero Greatest Hits, Tales of Vesparia, Spore Galactic Adventures, Anno1404, Wii Resi Evil Archives, Lego Battles, Fuel PC.

News - ZeniMax ID takeover, John Romero Spoke Out, Mythic and Bioware happy togetherm Sony Motion at Develop, 360 Fuck up, Duke Forever/Begins, Chinatown Wars for PSP, Activision PS3 stoppage, Game Disc Locking.

Feature - Internet Pervs Special - The problems, and how to aviod.

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Forced Feedback - Episode 10

Forced Feedback Episode 10 - No amy but loads of news, Plus some red faction chat.

Forced Feedback is the Podcast of The Feedback Force. We are Captain Wizard, Freckled Moon and Orifister. The podcast is musings and general news from this week. It is published every Thursday and will include a guest every so often.

Forced Feedback Episode 10 – 18/06/09 – 1hr 54 mins



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Presenters - Captain Wizard and The Orifister

Guest - Lt. Shmoopy

Currently Playing - InFamous, Red Faction: Gurillia, Magic the Gathering, TF2, Trash Panic, Prototype, Beautiful Katamri, COD 5 DLC,

Whats New - Magic the Gathering LIVE, Sam and Max, ArmA2, Ghostbusters, Hail to the Chimp, Cake Mania 2, Eldar Scrolls on Steam, Americas Army 3, Rock Band Unplugged, Lets Tap, The Munchables.

News - Halo3 Killer, Burnout/N4S mashup, Ghost Busters Region unlocked, iPhone gaming network, Call of Duty Online fees, Konami Pregnant Woman Courtcase, Realtime Worlds Hiring, Dante Inferno protests, PS3 in Prison, New 360 Rumours, Direct X 11 news, Lucas Arts rereleases.

Feature - No feature ran out of time as usual....Next week is definatly the internet purves special.


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Is that supposed to happen?!

Written By Freckled Moon


Whilst playing through games on a daily basis one thing is bound to happen. It's frequently funny, sometimes frustrating and always confusing. What am I talking about? Glitches. Now I don't really have a problem with them. In fact most of the time they have me in stitches. This might be because I don't take games too seriously. I adore playing them but I'm not a competitive person especially not against a machine.
I thought I'd share any of my glitchey moments that came along with you guys and you can feel free to submit some of your own and maybe I'll post them up here for all to see. To start with I've got a few from Saints Row 1 and 2. Not because they're glitched out games but because I've been playing number 2 a lot and so have had plenty of opportunities to find some. So without further ado here they are....

Saints Row 2 (360)


Saints Row 2 (360)


Saints Row 1 (360)


Bully Scholarship Edition (360)

So I know this is a pretty random feature but it's little things like this that amuse me. This may or may not appear again depending on whether it happens to me when I have a camera handy. If you want to send some in then email feedbackforce@googlemail.com

Review - inFamous

Review By - Captain Wizard

Developer - Sucker Punch
Publisher - Sony
Platform/s - PS3 Exclusive
Price I payed - £37
Average price at time of writing - £40
Release date - 29th April 2009


This is one of the most anticipated PS3 releases of the year. An ambitious game which will either rise in its own glory or fail in a mess of what it should have been. Sucker Punch weren't lucky in this case. They didn't make a PS3 game, they made 'THE' PS3 game. I do not have any favours over Microsoft, it just so happens that multiplatform games are usually chosen for their system in my household. When a decent PS3 exclusive comes along it always makes me smile and happy that i chose to own all of the current gen platforms, instead of choosing just the one.

In inFamous you play a chap called Cole. He starts off his normal day and then BOOM; big explosion; lots of people dead. You wake up in the epicentre of it all. How did you survive? No one knows and at this point and no one really cares. This sequence acts as your tutorial and it does it very well. This game is broken up into several days after the blast. You start at day 14. You quickly come to grips with your powers and then the fun starts. Do you blast every person in sight, or do you just zzap the bag guys. This is up to you, but you soon become aware of how an obvious looking karma system is actually working under the hood at all times. Every so often the games stops the narrative and runs you though Cole's head. You have a good and a evil choice. Which you choose is up to you. As someone who has played the game through twice (Once as a Normal Good Guy and Once as a Hard Evil Maniac) i can say that the only real difference it makes it with your powers. Obviously leaving any spoilers aside i don't want to give examples, but even though this game has a very robust narrative, it has minimal differences depending on what side you join. Maybe I was expecting to much, but as i played through as a good character i had an alternative story rolling around my head for when I decided to play as evil. But alas i was slightly disappointed. This however didn't stop me from playing it again.

Not many games entice me to start the game instantly again once i have finished them. This however did, and the experience was completely different. I decided to up the difficulty to Hard and to be as evil as i could. Watching peoples terror as i walked past or decided to suck the bio-electricity from their face was a crazy experience compared to the applauding and cheering crowds of my previous play through. The difficulty is interesting. I had to rinse and repeat two or three missions as i discovered better strategies etc but other than that it wasn't a big leap. That was until i met the final boss. He is ridiculous on hard. If i remember rightly he was also pretty ridiculous on normal as well.

The game pretty much completely open. You have three island (similar to that of crackdown) which all have three different gangs/factions to fight with. You cannot move to the second and third island however until you move through the story. The game has an interesting method of keeping you in certain sections of the map. The power has been cut off in some districts and its your job to travel too the substations and bring it back on. If you move into a blacked out area you are pretty much dead. It's a matter of time before you will be completely surrounded by crazy bad guys with huge guns. The perk of going to the substations is that you gain a new power. These range from being able to fly/hover to bringing down huge lightning storms from the sky. You can also take over smaller sub districts to rid it from the enemies. This is done by completing small side missions.

Its hard to describe every aspect of this game without giving it to many spoilers. The gameplay is similar to that of crackdown and the Spiderman games. Except in this case you also have a karma system to keep an eye on and a really well knit story to distract you. When you finish this game you will soon realise that the entire game has been prologue to something much bigger. If Sucker Punch decide on another game then it will lead onto that. If they do not then it leaves an open canvas in your mind to decide where 'your' Cole goes next.


Round Ups

Core Gameplay - 95% - Pure open world happiness, plus a karma system, plus you can fly....what else does a electric super hero need.

Multiplayer Gameplay - n/a

Graphics/Physics - 90% - Not the best looking PS3 out there, but is still amazingly beautiful. Great draw distance and perfectly put together animations. Great physics although they are very subtle.

Sound - 85% - Very well polished and high quality voice acting and sound design. Little repetition on sounds. Nothing ground breaking with the design but overall a great sounding game.

DLC - n/a

Achievements/Trophies - 90% - A great set of Trophies. Non that require you to deviate from the core gameplay. They encourage you to explore, find things and level up. Encourages you to play the game through once as good and again as evil (or evil then good)

Overall = 90% - Is now in my top 5 games of all time. Is an enjoyable and addictive adrenaline ride of goodness. An essential to any PS3 owners game collection.

Forced Feedback - Episode 9

Forced Feedback Episode 09 - Infamous, Sims3, and a fair bit of news.

Forced Feedback is the Podcast of The Feedback Force. We are Captain Wizard, Freckled Moon and Orifister. The podcast is musings and general news from this week. It is published every Thursday and will include a guest every so often.

Forced Feedback Episode 09 – 12/06/09 – 1hr 46 mins



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Presenters - Captain Wizard, Freckled Moon and The Orifister

Guest - Not this week i'm afraid

Currently Playing - inFamous, The Sims 2, Trash Panic, Hellboy

Whats New - Ice age 3 demo, Wii Motion Plus, Prototype, Wolfenstien, Sega Classics, Final Fantasy 7.

News - Slow week after E3. Some UK news about a government group and tax breaks. Valve speaking out and defending themselves. Small news and announcements.

Feature - No feature....We ran out of time!!!!

Disclaimer - everything said in this podcast are opinions, sources are mentioned when known and everything is assumed to be subjective/speculative. Its just bit of fun and arguments about gaming.

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Forced Feedback - Episode 8 - E3 Special

Forced Feedback Episode 08 - The E3 09 Special

Forced Feedback is the Podcast of The Feedback Force. We are Captain Wizard, Freckled Moon and Orifister. The podcast is musings and general news from this week. It is published every Thursday and will include a guest every so often.

Forced Feedback Episode 08 – 04/06/09 – 1hr 46 mins



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Presenters - Captain Wizard, Freckled Moon and The Orifister

Guest - Not this week i'm afraid

Currently Playing - inFamous, TF2, Damnation, Plants vs. Zombies, Bully, Saints Row 2 DLC

Whats New - Red Faction, Sims 3, Overlord Demo.

News - E3 - LISTEN TO FIND OUT THE GOSSIP

Feature - No feature....E3 is a big enough deal.


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Forced Feedback - Episode 07 - 30/04/09

Forced Feedback is the Podcast of The Feedback Force. We are Captain Wizard, Freckled Moon and Orifister. The podcast is musings and general news from this week. It is published every Thursday and will include a guest every so often.

Forced Feedback Episode 07 – 30/04/09 – 1hr 32 mins



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Presenters - Captain Wizard, Freckled Moon and The Orifister

Guest - Jack Sandwich

Currently Playing - Team Fortress 2, Zeno Clash, Stalin vs Martians, Left 4 Dead, Onechanbara, CoD5 - DS, Henry Hatsworth, DSi, Elven Legacy, GTA Chinatown Wars, Wheelman, Deadspace.

Whats New - Bionic Commando demo. Releases of Banjo Tooie, Rythmn Heaven, Cyber Troopers Virtual Oratorrio Tangram, Xmen Origins, Hannah Montana

News - 6 Days in fallujah, New CoD 5 Mappack, Marvell Vs Capcom, PSP Go, Windows 7 Relase Details, Bioshock Movie, New Imperial Guard - Warhammer 40k.

Feature - Cheating in Games


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Forced Feedback - Episode 06 - 23/04/09

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Forced Feedback Episode 06 – 23/04/09 – 1hr 40 mins



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Presenters - Captain Wizard, Freckled Moon and The Orifister

Guest - Tehburninatorz

Details to come very soon


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Forced Feedback Episode - 05 - 17/04/09

Forced Feedback is the Podcast of The Feedback Force. We are Captain Wizard, Freckled Moon and Orifister. The podcast is musings and general news from this week. It is published every Thursday and will include a guest every so often.

Forced Feedback Episode 05 – 09/04/09 – 1hr 12 mins


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Presenters – Captain Wizard, Freckled Moon and Jack Sandwich

Guests - No Guest this week (unless you class Jack as a guest)

Currently Playing - Crackdown, Halo3, Harry Potter OOTP, Left 4 Dead, Henry Hatsworth, Guildwars and Lego Indy

What’s happening – Dawn of War 2 and Final Fantasy 13 Demos. Releases of Braid(Steam), Dementium, Outrun Online Live, Rock Band Song Pack 2 and Postal(GoG)

News – Load so news this week - Sony Boss Retire, Banjo Tooie, Saints Row 2 DLC Delayed, Burnout Cops and Robbers dated, 2 Singstar Patches, Rock Band Beatles details, Conduit Multiplayer first impressions, 360 Warranty Changes and some Wiimotion Plus news.

Feature - Cliches in games - whats your favorite

This show is still dodgy audio wise....i assure you that this will be getting better and better.

Thank you to JackSandwich for filling in for Sami this week you never know he may be appearing more and more.


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Forced Feedback - Episode 04 - 09/04/09

Forced Feedback is the Podcast of The Feedback Force. We are Captain Wizard, Freckled Moon and Orifister. The podcast is musings and general news from this week. It is published every Thursday and will include a guest every so often.

Forced Feedback Episode 04 – 09/04/09 – 1hr 40 mins
(Last 5-10 mins missing see below for details)


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Presenters – Captain Wizard and Freckled Moon

Guests - Tehburninatorz (Jon) and Lt Shmoopy (Andrew)

Currently Playing -Crackdown, Brothers in Arms: Hells Highway, 50 Cent Blood on the Sand, Harry Potter: OOTP, Banjo Kazooie DLC, Prince of Persia, Left 4 dead, Fallout 3 and some older cube games .

What’s happening – No demos this week. Releases of Godfather 2, Ultimate Band, Commander in Chief, Rag Doll Kung Fu, Flock, Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor.

News – Fable DLC priced, 'Nielson Report' details, Bump Top release, Mythic Maps release, Blood Bowl Beta, Borderlands change, Will Wright left EA, Motion plus is July, Perfect Dark for XBLA.

Feature - Maps - Use of maps in games and multiplayer map discussions.

After the audio problems we had last week I decided to try to use Ableton Live (another 'Pro' audio application) to record the show and it worked. until we finished and it messed up. I managed to recover the 3 .wav files by importing them to Audicity as RAW data, so woot once again for open source software, it saved this podcast. I am afraid that the last 5-10 mins have been cut from the end when Ableton fucked with the files.

Thank you to Jon and Andrew for joining us this week, we look forward to hearing from JackSandwich once again as next week he will be a full on host with the Moon and the Wizard.


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Forced Feedback - Episode 03 - 02/04/09

Forced Feedback is the Podcast of The Feedback Force. We are Captain Wizard, Freckled Moon and Orifister. The podcast is musings and general news from this week. It is published every Thursday and will include a guest every so often.

Forced Feedback Episode 03 – 02/04/09 – 57 mins


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Presenters – Captain Wizard, Freckled Moon and Orifister.

Currently Playing -Crackdown, Saints Row 2, Golden Axe: Beast Rider, Ghost Squad, Pain, Henry Hatsworth, Burn Zombie Burn.

What’s happening – No demos this week. Releases of Wanted, Tenchu, Ninja Blade, The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai.

Guest Section – Sorry no guest this week.

News – Loads of DLC - Saints Row 2, Fable 2, Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Blots. New Jak and Daxter . GANG awards, Final Fantasy 13, L.A.W, PS2 price drop, and loads more.

Feature - No Feature this week.

This week was a bit lame. We apologise for that. We had technical problems and have had rather busy weeks. It will get better and the technical glitches will be ironed out.


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Forced Feedback Episode 02 - 26/03/09

Forced Feedback is the Podcast of The Feedback Force. We are Captain Wizard, Freckled Moon and Orifister. The podcast is musings and general news from this week. It is published every Thursday and will include a guest every so often.

Forced Feedback Episode 02 – 26/03/09 – 1hr 29mins



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Presenters – Captain Wizard, Freckled Moon and Orifister.

Currently Playing -Halo 3, Saints Row 2, Mad World, Street Fighter 4.

What’s happening – Mevo and the Groove Riders, Guitar Hero: Metallica, Coil, Uno Rush Demos. Releases of Leisure Suite Larry: Box Office Bust, Stormrise, Buzz: Brian of UK.

Guest Section – Sorry no guest this week.

News – Fallout 3 - The Pitt, Wolfenstien, mature games German ban, Microsoft gay lawsuit, Ratchet and Clank, More Old Republic details .

GDC Special News - Halo, Zelda, Wii, Infamous, Fat Princess, Cry3 Engine, Final Fantasy, OnLive.

Feature - Camping - is it a legitimate strategy?


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Forced Feedback Episode 01 - 19/03/09

Forced Feedback is the Podcast of The Feedback Force. We are Captain Wizard, Freckled Moon and Orifister. The podcast is musings and general news from this week. It is published every Thursday and will include a guest every so often.

Forced Feedback Episode 01 – 19/03/09 – 1hr 6mins

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Presenters – Captain Wizard, Freckled Moon and Orifister.

Guest – Jack Frankland AKA Jacksandwich

Currently Playing - Resident Evil 5 and not much else.

What’s happening – Patapon 2 and Resistance Retribution Demos. Releases of MadWorld, Last Remnant, Family Game Night.

Guest – JackSandwich – Our guest Nintendo star to talk to us about GTA:Chinatown Wars and Henry Hatsworth.

News – Animal Crossing Concerns, Steam Paid DLC, New Studio from Ensemble’s Ashes, Sony Robot and maybe price cuts, Bioshock 2 rant.

Feature - Borders in openworld/sandbox games.

Disclaimer - everything said in this podcast are opinions, sources are mentioned when known and everything is assumed to be subjective/speculative. Its just bit of fun and arguments about gaming.

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