e046: The Torchlight Interview

[modeps]

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This week, Jim and Adam sit down with Runic Games folks to talk about the hit ARPG Torchlight. Max Schaefer (CEO), Jason Beck (Art Director), John Dunbar (Zombie Pyrotechnician), and Wonder Russell (Minister of Culture) start off the interview and answer all of your burning questions. Most importantly, we find out that Torchlight, the MMO will indeed support dedicated servers. We’ve got the winners to last week’s contest, and the Runic Games folks were kind enough to give us three copies of Torchlight to give away.

Games Discussed: Torchlight, Borderlands, Demon's Souls, Inferno Pool, Modern Warfare 2

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[pwnophobia]

My microphone is the first issue I've had with Windows 7. I think its time to build an XP box for future podcasts.

[Kragg]

We should have called this one "the sickcast"

[modeps]

Yeah, I would have talked more, but it would make me cough more.

[saulob]

My microphone is the first issue I've had with Windows 7. I think its time to build an XP box for future podcasts.

Windows 7 error on the microphone? Really? What's happening? Let's fix this.

[pwnophobia]

Windows 7 error on the microphone? Really? What's happening? Let's fix this.

I've played with EVERY setting I could think of but the only thing I haven't done is gone to the manufacturers website and updated the drivers.

If you've listened to this weeks podcast you'll notice my microphone sounds like ass but during the interview it sounds crisp and clear. I made no changes to my computer between that time and it only seems to happen when I connect to modeps via Skype. Pre-Win 7 my microphone worked fine with no hiccups, but XP saw the microphone port as the "CD-In" port.

Perhaps I should manually install my sound card drivers. I'll try that today.

Thanks for letting me talk it out! :p

[Kragg]

Hmmm, sucks because my mic still works fine under 7.

Also, Pwn, WAR has much better PVP than WoW. :)

[Kragg]

Hmmm, sucks because my mic still works fine under 7.

Also, Pwn, WAR has much better PVP than WoW. :)

And also Guild Wars... :) :)

[SnakeMGS135]

whos that sexy bastard that called yall... u kno tht snake guy, he needs a guest spot on the show

[WpnX]

Use two of my questions but not mention me?

Where's the love, man? Where's the love?

Good show though.

[pwnophobia]

Hmmm, sucks because my mic still works fine under 7.

Also, Pwn, WAR has much better PVP than WoW. :)

I was on the spot and the first PVP that came to my head was WoW because I was really into WoW PVP, I was around when the honor system first got introduced and followed it (PVP) all the way through Burning Crusade. I was really curious about how the system would work or if it'd be an after thought but I don't think I portrayed that question very well. Oh well...maybe next time.

whos that sexy bastard that called yall... u kno tht snake guy, he needs a guest spot on the show

I'll put your name in the hat for when we finally fire Kragg.

Use two of my questions but not mention me?

Where's the love, man? Where's the love?

Good show though.

Thanks for the compliment WpnX and thanks for the questions! We don't claim to have thought of the questions. Well.......unless they were really awesome and got a really sweet answer then they were ours first ;)

[corwiniii]

Great podcast. i thought the mics were fine BTW.

[modeps]

Great podcast. i thought the mics were fine BTW.

I ran it through a leveling tool to make it sound better, but its still a bit worse than normal. Thanks for listening :)