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I have a hard time finding older reviews on the site. Whats up with that? Love the show and the site! -thanks

What do you guys think of the Legacy of Kain series? and do you think they'll ever get around to making a new sequel for the current generation consoles?

What do you guys think of using the Kinect as a piece of exercise equipment. I don't want to buy a treadmill, I don't want to leave my house, but I do want to lose some weight. I notice a lot of exercise stuff coming out for Kinect that doesn't look like the crap they put on the Wii. I thought it may be a fun way to exercise without buying blocky equipment.

Wombat,

I grew up on L.I. and the closest we had to pumpkin picking was a trip to King Kullen. Where do you guys go to pick pumpkins these days?

Cheapy, Ship - do you foreigners have places to go pumpkin picking?

Cheapy, you've mentioned numerous times that you never edit or delete threads that talk about a glitch or pricing mistake. But you follow up with saying you would never advertise it on the front page.

With the addition of the new Top 10 Thread links right up there on the top of the front page, what will you do if a glitch thread makes its way to the Top 10 list? Will it be nuked like the free XBLA games glitch?

1st: I really like the new mobile version of the site. While my phone worked fine with the full version I find the mobile much quicker for browsing around and reading. Nice update.

Second a Question/Site Request: is there anyway add an option to filter out certain platforms when try to do a search for games? With the inclusion of the several thousand iOS/iPhone apps the search feature seems to predominate show (sometimes only marginally related) iOS results. I have a hard time finding some games because it returns several versions of apps that have nothing to do with what I'm looking for.

Specific example: trying to add 'Club Penguin: Herbert's Revenge DS' (for my daughter, but I track everything I buy, even for the girls) to my collection ended up returning nothing but club penguin iOS stuff. At first it didn't even show the original Club Penguin for the DS (although it shows up earlier in the search, and eventually showed up each time, not sure how the DB look up works or caches).

Can we get an option 'turn off' ever seeing a return for iOS? Whatever DB you all pull from means count of 'games' for the platform out-numbers all of the games for other systems. Preferably it can just be a user setting (check which platforms to search, much like the price tracker) -- allowing people to filter out platforms they don't own.

Thanks for thoughts on the recommendation, and especially thanks for the site and podcast!

Originally Posted by Ultramontane Cheapy, Ship - do you foreigners have places to go pumpkin picking?

Shipwreck lives in Ohio. Pretty sure they have pumpkins there.

Are you guys going to do a live show at the Smodcastle when you go to E3 next year if it is in LA again? Encase you don't know it's a podcast theater owned by Kevin Smith.

http://smodcastle.com/rent.html

Last week I had a discussion with a friend about digital selling retail games on home consoles. I'm only going to talk about the 360, as I don't own a PS3 and don't want to talk out of my ass.

Basically, we discussed the recent release of Gears of War 2 for $30 on xbox live. On the occasion of its release, Microsoft lowered the price of it's DLC (the all-encompassing pack) to $5. I haven't played the game in months, but bought the pack and am now playing online for the first time in awhile.

I probably never would have bought the pack if not for the very low price (it used to be $20, then $10). If Microsoft was trying to make money off of once-successful online games wouldn't it make sense to offer Gears at a lower point ($10 for the first month?) along with the discounted DLC to encourage new and older players to pick up the game? I'm not sure of the sale figures of Games on Demand, but I can't imagine they're amazing. Steam does something similar to this, such as the recent low pricing for Left 4 dead 1 and 2 for about $10.

Do you think this practice could work, or is the current model sufficient?

I'm a big fan of the CAGcast, keep it up.

Is it worth getting Fallout: new Vegas? or should I just wait to for the Game of the year edition that comes with all the DLC's at about the same price as the stand alone does. I am starting to regret buying games when they first come out and spending the extra cash to get the DLCs...when it will be nicely packed in the game of the year edition. I already have enough games to play that will tide me over till a Game of the year edition for fallout New vegas comes out....What's your opinion?

Hey guys I think it would be awesome if you would give a big congrats and thank you to Dr. Munkee for all the work he did with the CAG team for the Extra Life Marathon. Thanks to him organizing everything us cheap asses managed to raise over $9,000 for Children's Miracle Network

Any upgrades/changes coming up for the CAG marketplace?

It's a great feature on the site and better matchmaking functions would make it even better.

Cheapy what the heck happened to the Clip show for episodes 100-200....I know its probably quite a bit of work but you did it for the first 100 episodes.

With the lack of fast enough internet to connect XBLA. What games are coming out that can provide more than a few hours of single player. Third world internet sucks.

I sometimes find it amusing how we as CheapAssGamers often pick over the price and value of certain games in very minute detail, but don't take this same attitude everywhere else. For example, I often think "I'll but that game for $20, but not $25" and on the CAGcast you often remark that some DLC is worth $5 but not $7 or $10 but not $15.

However, even though I'm waiting to buy what's probably a pretty great game to save $5, I'll go out with my wife and buy a $6 beer as part of a $50 dinner. And I think Wombat remarked that he was waiting for some DLC (for Mass Effect 2 maybe?) to go on sale, although he's doing like $10,000 in renovations to his bathroom right now.

What do you guys think about this? Should we be willing to support the industry we love a bit more for what really amounts to small potatos if we're willing to spend even more money on fleeting pleasures like food and drink? I realize it kind of goes against the whole CAG ethos, but it does seem odd the places where we exercise our "thrifitness" and the places we don't (and I fully include myself in this behavior).

Very important question for me as I have just listened to my very first podcast (#216).

What CAGcasts are the "classics"? I will hopefully be listening most nights and I want to be sure to get the highest quality episodes downloaded. So, personal favorites guys?

What do you guys think about Fallout: New Vegas getting really good review scores and almost universal praise by the game media despite many people complaining about it being a buggy piece of shit, almost to the point of unplayability? It seems like a lot of reviewers simply excused this fact and minimized it because New Vegas is a "great game". They mention it, but give New Vegas a pass because it delivers a great "experience". Or one of my favorite excuses-technical problems are a staple of the series, so who cares?

Shouldn't that be something that's taken into consideration, considering the finished product is a big mess? It seems that since New Vegas a big name title with lots of advertising, it gets away with it. Great game or not, major technical bullshit and sloppy development should not be excused and tolerated. At all. I don't care what game it is or how amazing it is. You see this kind of stuff all the time with reviews, and it's embarrassing that reviewers give certain games a pass.

It's even more ridiculous with New Vegas because some glitches, bugs, and problems from Fallout 3 still haven't been fixed. That's inexcusable. Even with a patch, a lot of people are still experiencing major problems with New Vegas.

I understand future patches could eliminate some of these problems, but still, that could be months down the line.

Should there be a gamer etiquette that if the game contains a one-time use code that is a separate sheet in the case and not on the back of the instruction manual, if you use the code and then get rid of the game (trade-in/sell,) you should throw the sheet away so that the next person who purchases/rents/etc. the game doesn't think the code in there has been unused?

CheapyD, did you hear about Tribes Universe? I know you talked about Tribes many many casts ago and was reminded about you when I heard of it.

HiRez studios just got the rights to Tribes and they're making a new game! Here are some highlights :

* Three Tribes (factions)
* Full clan (agency) support
* First person view (third person for some vehicles)
* Full vehicle support (ground and air)
* Full persistent world with territory control (no instances)
* PvP focused
* Huge outdoor maps (about 10x the area of sonoran desert)
* Large scale fights (100+ players)
* Jetpacks, skiing, lots of weapons, etc

They said Alpha testing will begin at the start of 2011. If it was 15 dollars a month and was everything you wanted Tribes to be in a "sequel", would you still do it?

Week - Cagcast = Sad Waatulakula for a week. Hope the Shipwrecks enjoyed their trip to Japan, and have a safe flight home. I look forward to hearing about it on the Cagcast this week