Gamerscore Blog : Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Friday, March 28, 2008 9:27 AM by CPaladino

Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

This week Nelson, Sara, Chris, Tony, and John talk about:

Intro/Outro Music - Phylum Sinter
Question of the Week - What is your least favorite video game cliche?
Upcoming Games - Dark Sector (360), Universe at War (360), Viking – Battle for Asgard (360), TiQal (XBLA)
Giving away MS Points
Gamerscore Challenge – Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Listener question - Xbox Gamer - Did the GSB team exist at launch?
Listener question - Xbox Gamer - Can we have a McGruff the crime dog to tackle tough issues?
How to contact us
Sara and Chris STILL want funny stories, pictures, and audio (keep it clean)
Email us Questions/Comments

AUDIO podcasts - available via the RSS feed, or the iTunes feed
VIDEO podcasts - available via the RSS feed

Filed Under: Xbox 360, John Porcaro, Tony Hynes, Sara Nicholson, Chris Paladino, Blogcast : Official Xbox 360 and Games for Windows Community Podcast, Nelson Rodriguez

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# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Friday, March 28, 2008 12:54 PM by dirtyone

I can't play the file using wmp11

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Friday, March 28, 2008 1:07 PM by dirtyone

never mind, I got it to work just got to work had to restart vista and download the file .
games that don't allow me to jump are awful games in my opinion. it just ruins the whole experience

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Friday, March 28, 2008 1:41 PM by quezcotl

You want me to send "clean" pictures to someone named "dirtydiva" oh the irony.

ps!
I should get a cookie for every post I make.

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Friday, March 28, 2008 1:58 PM by DirtyDiva

:: throws an old, stale cookie at Quez ::

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Friday, March 28, 2008 2:03 PM by Master Devwi

Okay I promise not to enter the code for 30 days! (No, seriously).

Also, great job on the pronunciation. Most people don't get it right. :)

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Friday, March 28, 2008 4:27 PM by AriesDog

"I should get a cookie for every post I make"

You do. It's in your internet browser folder. Ba-da-dum. Comp sci humor!

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Friday, March 28, 2008 5:00 PM by CPaladino

@AriesDog - I chuckled.

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Friday, March 28, 2008 6:08 PM by Karen

http://gizmodo.com/373489/microsofts-xbox-360-parental-viral-videos-areuh

PR Guys, you should really watch this and pull the ads. Thats terrible.

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Friday, March 28, 2008 7:40 PM by aceattorney

lol @ First Blood Colon...good catch Sara!

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Friday, March 28, 2008 7:46 PM by CPaladino

@Karen - I have seen the Street Cred ads.

You will notice I just posted about ads I didn't hate.

You will also notice that the Street Cred ads were not mentioned.

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Friday, March 28, 2008 7:54 PM by quezcatol

"You do. It's in your internet browser folder. Ba-da-dum. Comp sci humor!"

Dont cross my path again or feel my wrath.

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Saturday, March 29, 2008 12:28 AM by Goon360

As far as least favorite gaming cliches go, I would say the exploding barrels need to go! Seriously, its the most overused cliche in every shooter ever made. Why not be able to just shoot the car they're standing next to and blow that up to kill them instead, or shoot the catwalk hanging over their heads to crush them?
I think it's just silly to use them is some games to. Does NYC really have exploding red barrels on every street corner?? * Looks at Max Payne*
Granted it does make for some seriously fun gameplay and destruction, but I think developers could be a little more original when designing interactive environments to dispose of your foes.

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Saturday, March 29, 2008 5:44 PM by DevsterC

It's true, you're right - we canadians now make as many jokes about the weakness of the american dollar as we used to about the weakness of american beer...

That was a good question though, about whether this group existed at launch. Kinda neat.

Yay for pacman outfit references, but while I believe Sara is not a robot, I am not sure about Tony...

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Saturday, March 29, 2008 6:27 PM by Tyrone Hawk

Great show, guys. Precise and to ther point. My two cents on the topis discussed:

1) Please put on the list: a cheaper external hard drive, organizing friends in groups (a la messenger), add my own comments to my friends (agreed to play again? contact her for renting a game, whatever), strategy games that can use the messenger keyboard, keep Inside Xbox videos as downloadable content on Marketplace.

2) Diva: you want to hear about the grandaddy of stupid bystanders? An old 80 game for the Atari computers put you as an Indiana Jones explorer with your brainless brother following you everywhere (reading the map or the latest starwars novel at the time). The point was, your action button was used to whistle him, so he could follow you or change direction. That was all!! That means that the poor guy will surely get killed everyonce in a while as he would climb the damaged stairs, climb out of boats or serve as a living lighting pole whenever rain came. Talk about totally frustration!!

Take care you all.

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Saturday, March 29, 2008 11:23 PM by Ollie

I just started listening to the show last week and I did notice you guys occasionally saying a random string of letters and numbers, but i never imagined it'd be a 5x5, i just thought it was something that was going over my head cause it was the first show i had listened too.

I like that you guys think about talking to the individual as aposed to the group too, makes me feel special ^^

keep up the good work :D

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Sunday, March 30, 2008 2:49 AM by CPaladino

Welcome aboard Ollie, hope you stick with the podcast, and like what we're going for with the site!

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Sunday, March 30, 2008 9:50 PM by Xbox Gamer

Thank you for addressing my comments.

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Monday, March 31, 2008 8:12 AM by DJHepcat

OK, I've been listening for a month or two now, and maybe I missed something but what are these random codes you all throw out there randomly?

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Monday, March 31, 2008 11:54 AM by CPaladino

@DJHepcat - it's all explained in this episode.

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Monday, March 31, 2008 1:10 PM by DJHepcat

thx Chris....I'll take another listen

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Monday, March 31, 2008 1:21 PM by DJHepcat

ahhhh....that's what I get for listening at work. I'll never get it since I listen days delayed, but regardless that is a great idea to reward the listeners. Nice to see Xbox giving back. Thanks!!!

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Monday, March 31, 2008 2:10 PM by Bucko Dessie

Hey there, great show as always, keep it up, I'm from England my self I listen to the show mainly cause there's no British Pod Casts like this, I listen to Major's as well.

I'm just kinda wondering why there is no UK/Europe pod cast, I know your mainly a American Based company but it would be nice to see AceyBongo do a pod cast or something a bit like how you do it as a team or something.

Also I'm wondering why there is no UK TV shows yet on Video Market Place, I'm sure it's coming but I collect movies on HD[ead]-DVD format cause there well cheap. I have Elite so I wanna put tons of TV shows on it I'd buy loads of them, Family Guy, South Park etc.

Cheers.

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Tuesday, April 01, 2008 3:28 PM by Kaphy

Where is the post by "Xbox gamer" that is discussed in this podcast, I cant find it? Thanks

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Tuesday, April 01, 2008 4:07 PM by Xbox Gamer

@Kaphy

Here it is

http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/archive/2008/03/24/558229.aspx#comments

I posted another comment in this thread but I guess it didn't make it past the site filter. I have no idea why not, I guess that is what I get when I try to be nice.

Of course I am not logged in when as I post this or the post that the GSB talked about in the podcast.

Maybe my posts are only flagged for rejection when I am signed in..

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 055 - Gamerscore Resets and McGruff the Xbox Crime Dog

Tuesday, April 01, 2008 4:25 PM by Kaphy

Thanks Xbox gamer

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