Blue Plz : A World of Warcraft Podcast
By John Bain
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Podcast Description
Blue Plz! is the most popular solo hosted show about World of Warcraft on the internet. Since 2005, The Cynical Brit aka TotalBiscuit, has taken an opinionated and thoroughly withering look at the World of Warcraft through the eyes of the hardcore raider. If you are looking for a news show, you are in the wrong place, Blue Plz! is punditry through and through. Expect soapboxes, ranting, and cynical comedy with the original World of Warcraft shock-jock.
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Blue Plz! – Season 5 : Episode 11 | In this week’s episode of Blue Plz, TB is pleased to announce that Cynical Brit and Nordrassil Radio are teaming up to broadcast live from DreamHack Summer 2011 in Sweden. The highlight for our community will no doubt be the livecasting of a raid by the world’s top ranked guild, Paragon. Check out Nordrassil Radio’s Youtube Channel, the Cynical Brit YouTube Channel, our social networks, and our website to stay up to date on our scheduled meetup, live shows and more. Note : It has come to our attention that Nordrassil Radio require additional funds to ensure their ability to attend. We very much want to guarantee their presence at DreamHack and are asking for your help. If you have the ability to contribute to Nordrassil Radio’s DreamHack fund, please paypal donations to morfar@live.se or follow this link : Donate | 6/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 5 : Episode 10 | On this episode of Blue Plz, Totalbiscuit crashes every website known to mankind. Topics include haters and their ability to provide quality content on the internet, journalistic integrity and all the content we are no longer playing because we have found other games to play instead. | 5/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 5 : Episode 9 | On this episode of Blue Plz, the PTR is broken and TB talks about what a huge surprise that is. Also this : VoD of the videocast of the Elemental Bonds questline | 5/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 5 : Episode 8 | In this episode of Blue Plz, TB interviews the guys from The Daily Blink and discusses the upcoming WoW content. | 5/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 5 : Episode 7 | In this episode of Blue Plz, TB talks about the conquest points change in patch 4.1, the upcoming patch 4.2 with its story-driven epic content and preview for the Mount Hyjal restoration, Firelands and legendary content. Will there be more lackluster raid content going forward? TB also examines the idea of single tier raiding and ponders whether heroic content is a substitute for having a small number of encounters. | 4/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 5 : Episode 6 | In this episode of Blue Plz, TB ponders Blizzard’s continuing efforts for perfecting WoW, multiple difficulty levels and how catering to a different demographic now vs. classic WoW may be resulting in some of the recent changes we’ve been seeing within the development. | 4/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 5 : Episode 5 | In this episode of Blue Plz, TB premiers his new show intro, breaks his GG Buttahn, and discusses Ghostcrawler starting his own blog. | 3/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 5 : Episode 4 | Preshow Playlist Edguy – King of Fools (Power metal) Edguy – Rocket Ride (Power metal) Primal Fear – Rollercoaster (Power metal) Primal Fear – Revolution (Power metal) Stratovarius – Freedom (Power metal) Manowar – The Gods Made Heavy Metal (Heavy metal) Iced Earth – Declaration Day (Power metal) Iron Maiden – Children of the Damned (Heavy metal) In Flames – Jester Script Transfigured (Melodic deathmetal) Insomnium – Under The Plaintive Sky (Melodic deathmetal) Soilwork – The Akuma Afterglow (Melodic deathmetal) Soilwork – The Analyst (Melodic deathmetal) Music breaks Kamelot – Descent of the Archangel (Power/progressive metal) Nightrage – Among Wolves (Melodic deathmetal) Sonata Arctica – The Cage (Power metal) Dark Tranquility – Lost to Apathy (Melodic deathmetal) Scar Symmetry – Mind Machine (Melodic deathmetal) This week on Blue Plz! How is being a WoW clone a bad thing exactly? Rift discussion and silly drama. Plus where the hell is Carmen Firelandiago? In patch 4.2 apparently. Is patch 4.1 the worst .1 patch ever? (spoiler, yes). Also Zul Gurub is back, but is it any good? All this, the mailbox and illusion of choice on this week’s Blue Plz! | 3/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 5 : Episode 3 | Preshow Playlist Ozzy Osbourne – Bark at the Moon (Heavy Metal) Metallica – Of Wolf and Man (Heavy Metal) Slayer – Alter of Sacrifice (Thrash Metal) Machine Head – Block (Post-thrash/groove Metal) The Haunted – Urban Predator (Post-thrash/melodic death) God Forbid – Antihero (Metalcore) Gardenian – Scissorfight (Melodic deathmetal) Nevermore – Enemies of Reality (Progressive/Groove) Fear Factory – Edgecrusher (Groove/Industrial metal) Equilibrium – Snuffel (Folk metal) Korpiklaani – Huppiaan Aarre (Folk metal) Finntroll – Skog (Folk/Polka metal) Music Breaks Firefly OST – Big Bar Fight Machinae Supremacy – A view from the End of the World (SID metal) In Flames – Zombie Inc. (Melodic deathmetal) Eluveitie – Calling the Rain (Folk/Celtic metal) This week on Blue Plz! Blue Plz! tackles the issues of the Amani Warbear you don’t have and why you cannot in fact, have it. Or can you? Blizzard takes pity on those who didn’t do the work the first time and nerfs it down to their level. How classy, can I also have a free Level 85 because I simply cannot be bothered to do the levelling? Plus choice is getting nerfed, your ability to remove people you don’t want from your dungeon finder groups is going down the toilet in the interest of ‘fairness’. Affirmitive Action in World of Warcraft? Pretty much! Also, why I don’t care about Rift, or any other hot-key MMO anymore. | 2/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 5 : Episode 2 | This week on Blue Plz! Blue Plz! returns after a month long haitus with the current state of Cataclysm. Is the game past it’s best? Why is Luck of the Draw such a bad thing and what are the listeners experiences with the game so far? | 2/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 5 : Episode 1 | This week on Blue Plz! Cataclysm has finally arrived and for the most part, it’s great. Will the scrublets pull it down to the level of Wrath or can Blizzard hold it’s nerve? Raids are being knocked down fairly quickly, but does that mean Cataclysm is just as bad as Wrath? All this and more on this week’s Blue Plz!. | 12/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 40 | This week on Blue Plz! (playlist to come later, don’t have time right now) This week, we say goodbye to Wrath and hello to Cataclysm as you share your thoughts on the nightmares of Wrath. Your worst experiences shared on the air. Plus the new Blizzard product slate, supposedly leaked. Just how legitimate is it? See you in Cataclysm folks! | 12/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 39 | This episode of Blue Plz! is brought to you in part by http://www.win-sauce.com/ Preshow Playlist In Flames – Reroute to Remain (Melodic deathmetal) In Flames – Only for the Weak (Melodic deathmetal) Soilwork – Strangler (Melodic deathmetal) Machinae Supremacy – Force Feedback (SID metal) Machinae Supremacy – A View from the End of the World (SID metal) Mors Principium Est – Two Steps Away (Melodic deathmetal) Dark Tranquillity – Terminus (Melodic deathmetal) Black Sabbath – N.I.B. (Heavy metal) Dio – Holy Diver (Heavy metal) Iron Maiden – Powerslave (Heavy metal) Edguy – Navigator (Power metal) Music breaks Machinae Supremacy – Nova Prospekt (SID metal) Ensiferum – Sword Chart – (Folk metal) Nocturnal Rites – Fools Never Die (Power metal) Terasbetoni – Maailma tarvitsee sankareita (Power metal) This week on Blue Plz! Driven entirely by your emails, prepare for the nonsense of Open Plz! OH GOD, FLIGHTPOINTS ARE RUINING EVERYTHING, SO CASUAL. The WoW playerbase is entirely incapable of rationality. Plus what you need to know, not to suck at Cataclysm! | 11/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 38 | This week on Blue Plz! This episode of Blue Plz! was brought to you in part by the US Horde Guild The Nothing, Join us for Cataclysm as we do what hardcore guilds do in half the time, find us at www.whatisthenothing.org and enjoy our live streams and videos; join the awesomeness! Preshow Playlist Moonspell – From Lowering Skies (Gothic metal) Evergrey – As I Lie Here Bleeding (Progressive metal) Soilwork – A Predator’s Portrait (Melodic deathmetal) Scar Symmetry – Slaves to the Subliminal (Melodic deathmetal) Sonata Arctica – Victoria’s Secret (Power metal) Nocturnal Rites – Something Undefined (Power metal) Music breaks Kurt Hugo Schenider ft Huskystarcraft – Banelings (basically awesome) Grave Digger – Hammer of the Scots (Power metal) Kamelot – Hunter’s Season (Symphonic power metal) Machinae Supremacy – Machinae Prime (SID metal) Edguy – Rocket Ride (Power metal) This week it’s all about this… abomination. The Best Buy devchat, possibly the worst thing to ever happen to anything ever. Oh lord. Plus beta post-mortem and future plans. | 11/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 37 | This week on Blue Plz! TotalBiscuit saves you from making a horrible cinema mistake. Plus heroic raiding open for testing, will there actually be anything left to play in this expansion by the time it launches? Plus rated BGs, how do they work? I’ll add the playlists for the preshow etc when I get the time. Also this review is funny as well | 11/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 36 | Preshow Playlist Strapping Young Lad – All Hail the New Flesh (Facecrushing metal) Amon Amarth – Where is your god? (Viking Metal) Nightrage – Shed the Blood (Melodic deathmetal) Deadlock – Loser’s Ballet (Melodic deathmetal/metalcore) Soilwork – Light the Torch (Melodic deathmetal) Disarmonia Mundi – The Shape of Things to Come (Melodic deathmetal) Swashbuckle – Rounds of Rum (Pirate thrash metal) Frank Klepacki – Hellmarch (Rocktronic) Machinae Supremacy – Sid Icarus (SID metal) Machinae Supremacy – March of the Undead pt.2 (SID metal) Andy Gillion – Streets of Rage Tribute Music Breaks Kamelot – Karma – (Power/Symphonic metal) Kalmah – Heroes to Us (Metalodic deathmetal) In Flames – Pinball Map (Melodic deathmetal) Sepultura – Propaganda (Thrash metal) Brewguy – The Troll Dance (Disco I guess) This week on Blue Plz! Blizzcon round-up! Open Q+A sessions are full of useless garbage, plus abilities listed in game for bosses and the raid Q+A session covered. | 10/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 35 | This week on Blue Plz! Preshow Playlist Opeth – Baying of the Hounds (extreme progressive metal) Norther – Death Unlimited (Melodic deathmetal) Children of Bodom – Downfall (Melodic deathmetal) The Haunted – Urban Predator (Melodic deathmetal/post thrash) Fourwaykill – Dusted (Thrash metal) Pantera – Regular People (Thrash metal) Sodom – Blasphemer (Thrash metal) Slayer – Criminally insane (Thrash metal) Megadeth – Peace Sells (Heavy metal) Iron Maiden – 22 Acacia Avenue (Heavy metal) Metallica – Battery (live version) (Heavy metal) Music breaks Richard Cheese – Insane in the Membrane (Cyprus Hill lounge jazz cover) Masterplan – Headbangers Ballroom (Power metal) Machine Head – Block (Post thrash/groove) Machine Head – Old (Post thrash/groove) Black Sabbath – The Wizard (Heavy metal) Ensiferum – LAI LAI HEI (Folk metal) So Blizzcon was basically a wash-out, who else saw that coming aye? Unable to summon the courage to care about anything that was said there, we talk about the well deserved death of PUGs plus the excellent design and ideas behind the new Bastion of Twilight raid encounters. | 10/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 34 | This week on Blue Plz! Preshow Playlist Edguy – Navigator (Power metal) Epica – The Imperial March (Symphonic metal) Nightwish – Planet Hell (Symphonic metal) Dimmu Borgir – Progenies of the Great Apocalypse (Symphonic/Black metal) Mors Principium Est – Blood of Heroes (Cover of a Megadeth track) Megadeth – Ways to Die (Heavy metal) Motorhead – No Class (Heavy metal) Anthrax – Got the time (Thrash metal) Sabaton – The Art of War (Power metal) Primal Fear – Demons and Angels (Power metal) Nocturnal Rites – One by One (Power metal) Nevermore – Medicated Nation (Progressive metal) Dark Tranquillity – Terminus (Melodic deathmetal) Music breaks Sonata Arctica – Caleb (Power metal) Luca Turilli – Black Dragon (Power metal) Disarmonia Mundi – Peridition Haze (Melodic deathmetal) Machinae Supremacy – Edge and Pearl (SID metal) Machinae Supremacy – Attack Music – (SID metal) This week on Blue Plz! A total lack of content! The calm before the Blizzcon storm. Questions, user-submitted topics, a discussion on the Cataclysm cinematic and a field trip to the forums to find something particularly stupid to riff on. It wasn’t too hard to find. | 10/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 33 | Preshow Playlist Deadlock – We Shall all Bleed (Melodic deathmetal) Disarmonia Mundi – Ties that Bind (Melodic deathmetal) Fear Factory – Archetype (Industrial metal) Scar Symmetry – The Iconoclast (Melodic deathmetal) In Flames – Episode 666 (Melodic deathmetal) Soilwork – A Predators Portrait (Melodic deathmetal) Nevermore – Bittersweet Feast (Progressive metal) Amon Amarth – An Ancient Sign of Coming Storm (Viking metal) Ensiferum – Token of time (Folk metal) Equilibrium – Wurzelbert (Folk metal) Equilbrium – Blut Im Auge (Folk metal) Korpiklaani – Bring us Pints of Beer (Folk metal) Finntroll – Fiskarens Fiene (Folk metal)] Music breaks Kamelot – Moonlight (Power metal) Slayer – War Ensemble (Thrash metal) Devin Townsend – Bad Devil (Nobody really knows) Machine Head – Davidian (Post-thrash/groove metal) Strapping Young Lad – Relentless (REALLY DAMN HEAVY METAL) This week on Blue Plz! The winners of the Cynicalbrit poster contest are as follows! Runners Up (receive a GoG game of their choice) Platfus123 Myandra Jingy Soulpiercer TombstoneX Myrddon Crimssonclovers 3rd place (receives $60 worth of Steam games of their choice and a Grunty pet) CruelCat 2nd place (receives $60 worth of Steam games of their choice, a Grunty pet and a timecard for their region) Lucius_North 1st place (receives a $100 prize of their choosing and a Grunty Pet) Minori Special prize for the guy who made me laugh the most (receives a timecard for their region) Angrod On this week’s show we discuss the concept of quitting for greener pastures and what the responsibility of Blizzard is to ensure that we have entertaining content. Plus what exactly is a ‘good’ player, Cataclysm Q+A, Mailtime and a few thoughts on the concept of the 1000 player guild limit. | 10/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 32 | This episode of Blue Plz! is brought to you in part by Cheshire Cat of Kul’Tiras EU server who would like to give a shoutout to his guild Minions of Mithril, the highest ranked 3-day raiding guild in the world, currently recruiting exceptional players for Cataclysm. Visit their website for more info. Do you wish to advertise on the #1 WoW podcast? Check out the advertise link in the top bar for info. Preshow Playlist Iron Fire – Reborn in Darkness (Power metal) Sabaton – The Art of War (Power Metal) Sonata Arctica – Wildfire (Power metal) Grave Digger – Days of Revenge and Paid in Blood (Power metal) Manowar – Warriors of the World United (Ermm… Manowar) Kamelot – March of Mephisto (Power/symphonic metal) Machinae Supremacy – Overworld (SID metal) Machinae Supremacy – Ghost (SID metal) Sonic Syndicate – Black and Blue (Melodic death/metalcore) Disarmonia Mundi – Cypher Drone (Melodic deathmetal) Mors Principium Est – The Harmony Remains (Melodic deathmetal) Equilibrium – Der Wassermann (Folk metal) Music breaks Disarmonia Mundi – Building an Empire of Dust (Melodic deathmetal) Sonata Arctica – Deathaura (Power metal) Soilwork – Late for the Kill, Early for the Slaughter (Melodic deathmetal) Strapping Young Lad – Detox (Melodic deathmetal) Scar Symmetry – Nonhuman Era (Melodic deathmetal) This week on Blue Plz! A listener calls me elitist and questions my ideas! Will he prevail? (no) Blizzard implements the Flexible Raid Lock System, what does this mean for the legitimacy of 10-man guilds and the design philosophy that dictates the difficulty of normal modes? Heroic Blackrock Caverns is one of the best heroic dungeons ever devised. What does it take to make a good heroic? Cataclysm Q+A and some rather sad news about the fate of Trollfest cap off the show. | 9/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 31 | Preshow Playlist Strapping Young Lad – All Hail the New Flesh (FACEMELTING metal) Fear Factory – Shock (Post-thrash/industrial metal) In Flames – Suburban Me (Melodic deathmetal) Pantera – I’m Broken (Thrash/groove metal) One Minute Silence – I Wear my Skin (Rap metal) One Minute Silent – 1845 (Rap metal) Norther – Death Unlimited (Melodic deathmetal) Gardenian – If Tomorrow’s Gone (Melodic deathmetal) Scar Symmetry – The Iconoclast (Melodic deathmetal) Scar Symmetry – Slaves to the Subliminal (Melodic deathmetal) Dark Tranquillity – Focus Shift (Melodic deathmetal) Amon Amarth – Death in Fire (Viking metal) Finntroll – Ur Djupet (Folk metal) Music breaks Sonata Arctica – Broken (Power metal) Children of Bodom – Hatecrew Deathroll (Melodic deathmetal) Soilwork – The Thrill (Melodic deathmetal) Gamma Ray – New World Order (Power metal) Avantasia – Avantasia (Power metal) Masterplan – Black to the Burn (Power metal) This week on Blue Plz! A listener questions my opinion on Archaeology. Is it really all it’s cracked up to be? One-sided debate ensues! Vortex Pinnacle Heroic is awful and needs fixing! Feedback and discussion on what heroic really means. ‘Manditory wipes in 5-man content are utterly unacceptable’, says an idiot. Difficulty and the concept of easy content for people who ‘have jobs’ and apparently leave their brains at the door when they come in from work. Plus a listener asks, how ‘hard is hard’ and which was the best Wrath heroic? The show concludes with Cataclysm Q+A as always. | 9/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 30 | This episode of Blue Plz! was brought to you in part by Bhoz, who wants to give congratulations to the Edge of Insanity guild (Bloodhoof-US) for five years of rambunctious raiding and fun fellowship. You folks are the best! See you at the 24-hour Raid-a-thon tonight. Do you want to advertise on the #1 WoW podcast on iTunes? Click the Advertise link in the top navigation bar to learn more. Preshow Playlist Iron Maiden – El Dorado (Heavy metal) Bad Religion – I want to Conquer the World (Punk) Raised Fist – Between the Demons (Hardcore) Swashbuckle – Back to the Noose (Pirate thrash metal) Swashbuckle – Cruise Ship Terror (Pirate thrash metal) Sodom – Blasphemer (Thrash metal) Exodus – Piranha (Thrash metal) Kreator – Coma of Souls (Thrash metal) Kamelot – If Tomorrow Came (Symphonic power/prog metal) Sonata Arctica – Victoria’s Secret (Power metal) Machinae Supremacy – Violator (SID metal) Machinae Supremacy – Edge and Pearl (SID metal) Sonic Syndicate – Turn it up (Metalcore) Raunchy – I get what I See (Melodic deathmetal) Soilwork – Enter Dog of Pavlov (Melodic deathmetal) Finntroll – Trolhammaren (Folk metal) Music breaks In Flames – Pinball Map (Melodic deathmetal) Sonata Arctica – San Sebastian (Revisited) (Power metal) Scar Symmetry – Mind Machine (Melodic deathmetal) Frank Klepacki – Mechanical Man (Rocktronic) Captain Dan and the Scurvy Crew – Mutiny (Pirate hip hop) This week on Blue Plz! A listener asks about the calibre of the WoW playerbase. Oh dear… Experience for gathering is implemented and players whine for no reason. An analysis of the dumb counter-argument to this perfectly reasonable change. Update : As of the latest beta build, Blizzard has implemented experience for Archaeology. Booya. Guild experience, how does it work? Blizzard announces that Top10/20 contributors will not feature in Cataclysm. Is the era of the zerg-guild upon us? Archaeology, the future of professions? Just why does WoW suck when it comes to crafting anyway? The show caps off with the Cataclysm Q+A. Live rendition of the Show me how to Raid song was cut due to technical problems during the broadcast. | 9/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 29 | This episode of Blue Plz! was brought to you in part by Anand Daswani who wishes to let his sister Prithi, who has just started her own accounting firm in the US called Centurion Accounting, that she is an inspiration to him, his friends and his family. He wishes her all the best, as does Cynicalbrit.com Preshow Playlist Sonata Arctica – The Cage (Power metal) Axxis – Tales of glory Island (Power metal) Kamelot – Soul Society (Symphonic/Power metal) Machinae Supremacy – Ghost (SID metal) Machinae Supremacy – March of the Undead Part 2 (SID metal) Raunchy – Summer of Overload (Melodic deathmetal/metalcore) Raised Fist – Dedication (Hardcore punk) Shadows Fall – What Drives the Weak (Thrash/metalcore) Scar Symmetry – Dark Matter Dimensions (Melodic deathmetal) Dark Tranquillity – Senses Tied (Melodic deathmetal) Equilibrium – Vebrannte Erde (Folk metal) Korpiklaani – Sulasilma (Folk metal) Finntroll – Slagbroder (Folk metal) Music breaks Sonata Arctica – Flag in the Ground (Power metal) Nightwish – Amaranth (Symphonic metal) Pantera – Cowboys from Hell (Thrash/groove metal) In Flames – Goliaths disarm their Davids (Melodic deathmetal) Soilwork – Two Lives Worth of Reckoning (Melodic deathmetal) Superjoint Ritual – Stupid, Stupid man (Thrash/sludge metal) Edguy – King of Fools (Power metal) This week on Blue Plz! Where’d that missing raid dungeon go, asks a listener? Does anyone even know how many bosses are going to be available on launch anymore? Guild Rewards and achievements are now available, what is their purpose, are guild achievements anymore worthwhile than regular ones? Grim Batol is a return to the old-style of dungeons in which you had to be awake in order to beat them. Why Grim Batol is the best thing to happen to 5-mans in a long time and why nerfing it would be a disaster. Criticism != Testing according to random retard on the WoW forums. Why criticism and critical thinking are extremely important and why most people are too dumb to know how and when to use them. The show rounds off with the Cataclysm Q+A and features Cataclysm music. Those listening live may have notice the music was low-fi, apparently SAM broadcaster hates the bitrate for some reason, so I re-encoded the files for the podcast and they should sound less tinny. Oh yeah, and a link to the picture of the car and guitar. | 9/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 28 | This episode of Blue Plz! was brought to you in part by the Nepentheum late-night raiding guild. They raid 12-4am PST and are looking for mature hardcore raiding types to join their ranks. Do you want to advertise on the #1 WoW show on iTunes? Click the Advertise link below for information on individual show sponsorship, or for full-length, regular ads, use the contact form on the site to get in touch. I featured some cuts from the new Soilwork album – The Panic Broadcast on the live show. I would strongly STRONGLY suggest picking up that album since it’s by far the best thing they’ve ever put out. Yes, it is better than Natural Born Chaos. You can also check it out on Spotify if you have access to that. Spotify playlist Preshow Playlist Iron Maiden – 2 Minutes to Midnight (Heavy Metal) Children of Bodom – Downfall (Melodic deathmetal) Soilwork – Two Lives Worth of Reckoning (Melodic deathmetal) Scar Symmetry – The Iconoclast (Melodic deathmetal) Deadlock – Code of Honor (Melodic deathmetal) Lacuna Coil – Heaven’s a Lie (Gothic metal) Arch Enemy – Enemy Within (Melodic deathmetal) Dark Tranquillity- Hours Passed in Exile (Melodic deathmetal) Equilibrium – Blut Im Auge (Acoustic Version) (Folk) Equilibrium – Der Ewige Sieg (Folk metal) Finntroll – Ur Djupet (Folk Metal) Sonata Arctica – Flag in the Ground (Power metal) Music breaks Soilwork – The Thrill (Melodic deathmetal) Scar Symmetry – Noumenon and Phenomenon (Melodic deathmetal) Axenstar – Blind Leading the Blind (Power metal) Soilwork – The Akuma Afterglow (Melodic deathmetal) Disarmonia Mundi – Celestial Furnace (Melodic deathmetal) This week on Blue Plz! Zul Gurub is gone in Cataclysm, replaced by a questing area! Is that a good thing? Plus badges, are they really so bad? Gearscore gets it’s grubby hands on the LFG tool in Cataclysm, why it’s a terrible idea and needs to be dealt with at once. So will Cataclysm actually make a 2010 release? With the latest build, TotalBiscuit thinks maybe it will and analyses just how much further needs to go. As always we cap off the show with a Cataclysm Q+A. | 9/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 27 | This week’s featured artist is once again, 19ninetynine, check out their site by clicking the banner link below. If you play in a band and want the chance to be featured on Blue Plz! Drop me a line via johnbain[at]cynicalbrit.com. I generally prefer rock and metal bands, anything heavy. This week on Blue Plz! Preshow Playlist Amon Amarth – An Ancient Sign of Coming Storm (Death/Viking metal) At the Gates – Slaughter of the Soul (Old school melodic deathmetal) The Haunted – Abysmal (Melodic death/post-thrash metal) Fear Factory – Demanufacture (Industrial metal) Fear Factory – Edgecrusher (Industrial metal) Machinehead – The Blood, The Sweat, The Tears (Post-thrash/groove metal) Nevermore – Riverdragon (Progressive metal) Opeth – The Drapery Falls (Extreme progressive metal) Iron Maiden – El Dorado (Heavy metal) Pantera – By Demons be Driven (Thrash metal) Cannibal Corpse – Hammer Smashed Face (Death/gore metal) Music breaks 19ninetynine – Terrornation (left in the podcast with permission) (industrial/EBM) Children of Bodom – Bodom Beach Terror (Melodic deathmetal) Luca Turilli – Black Dragon (Power metal) Deep Purple – Highway Star (Hard rock) David Arkenstone – Welcome to Orgrimmar Russell Brower – The Shattering Apologies for the audio issues in this show. My sound settings reset during the preshow and I was unable to do a proper check. As such, some of the audio in this podcast is clipped. I do try to make sure my audio is as high quality as possible so again, I’m very sorry for that. This week we’re talking about Tom Chilton’s presentation at Gamescom. You can read the liveblog which I based my discussion on here. Thanks Digitalspy. I also discuss Tol Barad as well as the meaning of respect in one of my life lessons. Cataclysm Q+A and Mailbag are also featured. | 8/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 26 | This week’s special guest is Bigredkitty, the most prominent hunter expert in the WoW community. You can check out his website by clicking the banner below. This week’s show is brought to you in part by Multiplay Game Servers and the i40 LAN event, which I will be at, casting the Starcraft 2 tournament. i40 is the biggest LAN in the UK and is a great, Bring-your-own-Computer event. There are some seats still available so if you want to come down, it’s on the 27-30th August and you can click the banner below to learn more. Preshow Playlist Kiss – Rock and Roll All Nite (Glam rock) Kenny Loggins – Danger Zone (Hard rock) Edguy – Rocket Ride (Power metal) Edguy – FWF (Hair Force One) (Power metal) Metallica – Fuel (Heavy metal) Andy Gillion – Streets of Rage Tribute (Heavy metal videogame cover) Daniel Tidwell – Ken’s Heavy Hadouken (Heavy metal videogame cover) Sabaton – Ghost Division (Power metal) Sabaton – 40:1 (Power Metal) Finntroll – Maken Spira (Folk metal) Equilibrium – In Heiligen Hallen (Folk/Epic metal) Turisas – Battle Metal (Battle metal, of course) Music breaks Frank Klepacki – Hellmarch (Rocktronic) Dio – Holy Diver (Heavy metal) Staun Bush – The Touch (Borderline unacceptable cheese rock) Rhapsody of Fire – Epicus Furor/Emerald Sword (Power/symphonic metal) This week on Blue Plz! Listener mail a-plenty. A listener asks about Guild talents and another suggestions that Blizzard ‘borrow’ an idea from Lord of the Rings Online, regarding Legacy weapons. Our special guest this week is Big Red Kitty who tells us about the state of Hunters in the beta. Reforging is something that has barely been mentioned in the run up to Cataclysm, yet is an extremely cool feature. TotalBiscuit is pleased with the additional complexity being added into the game. You can watch the video of Reforging in action here How can boring quests be spiced up? TotalBiscuit explains the nature of quest fatigue and how a boring ‘Kill 10 X’ assignment can be changed into an exciting, unique encounter with little effort required. Also this is the best dungeon set ever made, confirmed, inside sources. Cataclysm Q+A caps off the show as always. Thank you very much for listening. | 8/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 25 | This week’s show was brought to you in part by Hordereview.com a WoW fansite featuring Resume system, armory integration, social networking, forums and more. Go check it out. Preshow Playlist Brainstorm – Mr Know-it-all (Power metal) Iron Maiden – Can I Play with Madness? (Heavy metal) Motorhead – Smiling like a Killer (Hard rock) Pantera – Cemetary Gates (Thrash metal) Evergrey – End of your Days (Progressive metal) Threshold – Paradox (Progressive metal) Manowar – Secret of Steel (EPIC metal) Kamelot – Karma (Progressive/symphonic metal) Devin Townsend – Hypergeek (Progressive rock) Devin Townsend – Vampire (Progressive rock) Strapping Young Lad – Aaa (Melodic Death metal) Archenemy – Ravenous (Melodic Death metal) Music breaks Candlemass – Black Dwarf (Epic/Doom metal) Equilibrium – In Heiligen Hallen (Folk metal) Tad Morose – Anubis (Power metal) Sonata Arctica – Wildfire (Melodic Power metal) Finntroll – Slaget Vid Blodalv (Folk metal) This week on Blue Plz! We talk to ‘teh best’, the one and only Turpster himself on a wide variety of different, important and serious issues! Go check out his website, Turpstervision. Cynicalbrit PR manager Frank “Bunkerface” Dokter also joins us on the show this week. We discuss talents once more and the concept of zone aesthetic and how it can contribute to the enjoyment of the area. The show caps off with a Cataclysm Q+A. We’d like to remind folks that sponsoring an episode of Blue Plz! is an incredibly cost-effective of getting your message out to over 50,000 podcast listeners on iTunes #1 videogame podcast. Check out the advertise with us link below to find out more. | 7/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 24 | This week’s show features music from my younger brother’s band 19ninetynine, specifically a cover of New Model Army track “Vagabonds”. This is part of the podcast and you can check out their material over on their Reverbnation page. If you have Spotify, you can listen to the music from this preshow with this Spotify playlist, thanks to BadCriticism for maintaining that. Preshow Playlist Amon Amarth – Where Death Seems to Dwell (Viking metal) Kreator – Coma of Souls (Thrash metal) Ministry – N.W.O. (Industrial metal) Pantera – A New Level (Groove metal) Fear Factory – Linchpin (Industrial metal) Eldritch – Reverse (Industrial metal) Norther – Death Unlimited (Melodic deathmetal) Children of Bodom – Children of Decadence (Melodic deathmetal) Soilwork – Chainheart Machine (Old-style gothenburg melodic deathmetal) In Flames – The Jester Race (Old-style gothenburg melodic deathmetal) Disarmonia Mundi – Celestial Furance (Melodic deathmetal) Raunchy – Join the Scene (Metalcore/Melodic deathmetal) Music breaks 19ninetynine – Vagabonds (Industrial/EBM) Dragonforce – Starfire (Power metal) Sabaton – Coat of Arms (Power metal) Dark Tranquillity – Hours passed in Exile (Melodic deathmetal) This week on Blue Plz! We asked which of you WoW players hasn’t played another Blizzard titles. Vote here! We welcome Lissanna from Restokin.com as part of a new series on Cataclysm talent analysis. First up is… well, as you might have guessed, Druids. A different expert will be brought on each week to talk shop about their class of choice and what you can expect in Cataclysm, plus what needs to be done in terms of talent changes before release. BUT THAT’S NOT ALL! Guild perk information has been released, TotalBiscuit goes through them with a fine toothcomb and also deals with the crying over perceived ‘required’ guild-play. Also THE QUEST FROM HELL and starting zone balance as well as the usual Cataclysm Q+A at the end of the show. | 7/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 23 | Preshow Playlist Nightwish – 10th Man Down (Operatic/Symphonic Powermetal) Epica – The Last Crusade (Symphonic Metal) Kamelot – The Fourth Legacy (Melodic Powermetal) Nocturnal Rites – Never Trust (Powermetal) Edguy – Ministry of Saints (Powermetal) Amon Amarth – An Ancient Sign of Coming Storm (Viking/Death metal) Insomnium – The Day it all came down (Melodic deathmetal) Equilibrium – Blut Im Auge (Epic folk metal) Finntroll – Fiskarens Fiende (Folk metal) Finntroll – En Maktig Har (Folk metal) Music breaks Equilibrium – In Heiligen Hallen (Epic folk metal) Frank Klepacki – No Mercy Remix (Rocktronic) Frank Klepacki – Industrial (Rocktronic) One Minute Silence – A Spoonful of Sugar (Rap metal) Machinae Supremacy – Return to Snake Mountain (SID metal) Disarmonia Mundi – Celestial Furnace (Melodic deathmetal) This week on Blue Plz! A listener asks, are Blizzard attempting to train newer players for raiding challenges by introducing raid-style mechanics into dungeons? TotalBiscuit hopes so! There is some disagreement as to just how intense a tutorial should really be. Should Blizzard be hand-holding new players the entire time, or should there be some room for personal exploration? How do the new starting zones shape up in this regard? The new talents are here! But are they any good? Analysis from TotalBiscuit and the listeners as to whether or not Blizzard are on the right lines and what work has to be done to ensure the talents are genuinely better than they are right now. The show caps off with Cataclysm Q+A. | 7/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 22 | Blue Plz! is the Number 1 videogame podcast on iTunes. Do you want to advertise on WoW’s original shock-jock show and join the ranks of our esteemed sponsors? Use the contact page to submit an enquiry. Preshow Playlist I won’t provide the Amazon links anymore, since I can’t provide them for all regions and most people just listen via Spotify anyway so there’s little point. One of our listeners does the Spotify lists for each show so thanks to BadCriticism for his work. What I will do however, is to provide genre information for those of you who are trying to learn more about metal and the various styles and sub-genres available to you. Spotify Playlist Arch Enemy – We Will Rise (Melodic Deathmetal) Soilwork – Song of the Damned (Newer Gothenburg style Melodic Deathmetal) Mors Principium Est – Pure (Newer Gothenburg style Melodic Deathmetal) Norther – Of Darkness and Light (Melodic Deathmetal) Dark Tranquillity – Lost to Apathy – (Newer Gothenburg style Melodic Deathmetal) Caliban – Fire of Night (Metalcore) Machine Head – Clenching the Fists of Dissent (Thrash/Groove) Dream Evil – Heavy Metal Jesus (Heavy/Power) Rhapsody – Dawn of Victory (Power/Symphonic) Finntroll – Slaget Vid Blodalv (Folk) Music Breaks Equilibrium – Snuffel (Folk/Viking) Axxis – Tales of Glory Island (Power) Kamelot – March of Mephisto (Melodic Power/Symphonic) KMFDM – Stars and Stripes (Industrial Rock) Judas Priest – You’ve got another thing coming (Heavy/Speed) This week on Blue Plz! This special Tuesday episode was put out to replace Vendorstrike, which (fortunately) did not happen on Friday. In the mailbag, a listener asks about the history of Activision-Blizzard. Correlation does not equal causation and TotalBiscuit believes that we should stop treating Activision and Blizzard as heel/face. How not to design a starting zone! The Dwarf starting area in it’s current state is a disaster and huge changes have to be made to bring it up to par. What makes a good starting zone? Talents are receiving a massive revamp in Cataclysm. How will it affect you and is this yet more dumbing down? RealID is dead and Bashiok is buried under a pile of pizzas and black fax machine transmissions. Was Blizzard really trying to implement this and what did they hope to achieve? We round off the show with another Cataclysm Q+A | 7/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 21 | Preshow Playlist Ozzy Osbourne – Bark At The Moon Iron Maiden – 2 Minutes To Midnight (1998 Digital Remaster) Pantera – 5 Minutes Alone Sepultura – Refuse/Resist (Explicit Album Version) Soulfly – Jumpdaf**kup (Explicit) Sabaton – Ghost Division Sonata Arctica – Abandoned, Pleased, Brainwashed, Exploited Edguy – Rocket Ride Rhapsody – Dargor, Shadowlord Of The Black Mountain Manowar – Warriors of the World United (live) This week on Blue Plz! It’s a special celebration episode as Blue Plz! hits #1 across the world on the iTunes Games and Hobbies charts. In the mailbag, a listener asks if one can expect to see more single-player ‘vehicle’ bosses in Cataclysm. Music break – Captain Dan – Sea Monsters So let’s talk about this whole RealID thing. Is it a big deal? Leave a comment below to express your opinion. Music break – Frank Klepacki – Hellmarch According to very important people on Youtube, being in a guild is elitist! What caused this ridiculous attitude and what steps is Blizzard taking to correct the problem in Cataclysm? Music break – The Prodigy – Voodoo People It’s a Cataclysm Q+A, which will be common-place on this show for the next few weeks I think. You can send your questions in via the email address stated on the show for next week’s broadcast. Music Finale – Korpiklaani – Vodka Music Finale – Queen – We Are The Champions | 7/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 20 | I WAS IN THE ALPHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Feels good to get that out of my system. This is the kick off of Blue Plz! Cataclysm beta coverage. You’ve seen the videos and I have plenty more on the way, but what do I really think? In the mailbag, a listener asks if he’s some kind of monster for guildhopping. The moral implications of dumping your guild in favour of a better one are discussed. Music break – Dark Tranquillity – Dream Oblivion The Blackrock Caverns are the topic of discussion. You can watch my full run right here. What does a starting instance like this mean for the quality of Cataclysm’s dungeon content? Music break – Primal Fear – Armageddon What makes a good starting zone and should vehement raiders and end-game content lovers really care about what level 5 quests are in the game? Blizzard’s strategy is explained in regards to alts and new player retention. Music break – Soilwork – Like The Average Stalker It’s a Cataclysm Q+A! TotalBiscuit answers questions via email, twitter and the live chatroom on various aspects of the beta in it’s current form. Music break – Pantera – Domination To cap off the show, The Murloc returns to answer Cataclysm questions, but rather rapidly decides to insult the denizens of the videochat! I’m sorry, I can’t control this maniac, I was fortunate to escape with my life. Music Finale – In Flames – Trigger followed by System (not available on Amazon for some god forsaken reason) | 7/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 19 | Preshow Playlist Zakk Wyldes Black Label Society – Come Together (not available on Amazon) Zakk Wyldes Black Label Society – The Wizard (not available on Amazon) Ministry – Jesus Built My Hotrod Guns ‘n’ Roses – Rocket Queen [Explicit] Helloween – Open Your Life Edguy – Fallen Angels Sonata Arctica – FullMoon Strapping Young Lad – Aftermath [Explicit] This week on Blue Plz! In the mailbag, a listener asks, how do you make money with tailoring and enchanting? Answer? You don’t, get a gathering profession. Also should other games follow the same route as LOTRO and DDO, by turning to a F2P business model? Music break – Pendulum – Self Vs Self (Feat. In Flames) Blizzard believes that Rated battlegrounds require such a degree of organisation, that only pre-made teams should be allowed in. TotalBiscuit asks why this can’t be applied to raiding and why their vaunted ‘bring the player, not the class’ philosophy seems to go out the window when PvP is involved. Music break – Evergrey – The great deceiver TotalBiscuit takes some time to answer some of the criticism levelled at the last show, going in-depth on the reasoning behind his condemnation of last week’s removal of Path of the Titans and Guild Talent system. Music break – Eluvetie – Calling The Rain Puzzle Quest 2 creator says adding complexity makes their game easier to balance. Could the same philosophy be applied to World of Warcraft? Prepare for terrible analogies and visual gimmicks! Music break – Sabaton – 40:1 (not available on Amazon) In the Illusion of Choice, a listener asks for an opinion on the current state of beta products, another whines about Gearscore and finally one more believes that Wrath of the Lich King gets far more stick than it really deserves. M-M-M-M-Multillusionofchoice! Music finale – Europe – The Final Countdown Music finale – Stan Bush – The Touch | 6/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 18 | Preshow Playlist Lacuna Coil – Senzafine [Explicit] Nightwish – 10th Man Down Rhapsody – Dargor, Shadowlord Of The Black Mountain Avantasia – The Tower Dragonforce – Disciples of Babylon (not available on Amazon) Winnie the Pooh – Heffalumps And Woozles (Album Version) Nile – Chapter for Transforming Into a Snake Type O Negative – Life Is Killing Me (Album Version) Jet Set Radio OST – Rock it On (not available on Amazon) Tool – Parabola (not available on Amazon) Monster Magnet – Spacelord (not available on Amazon) Korpiklaani – Vodka Finntroll – Ursvamp This week on Blue Plz! In the mailbag, TotalBiscuit answers a listener’s question on the subject of ‘lame WoW advertising’, plus should Blizzard steal a great idea from Lord of the Rings Online? Of course they should! Blizzard cuts critical content from Cataclysm, tries to rationalise it away! TotalBiscuit is having none of it, in two 15 minute rants, the reasons for cutting Path of the Titans and Guild talents are mercilessly analysed. In the Illusion of Choice, a listener asks, what does the colour purple really mean and would it be ok to give out welfare items if they were blue? TotalBiscuit goes back into the mists of time, the glory days, to talk about the meaning of purple. Now, those of you who missed the live stream, this show contained a live video feed of Dungeons and Dragons Online. This video has been re-recorded in 720p and is now avaialble for your viewing. Those who watched the livestream, this version of the video has additional content and higher quality video and audio, you may want to have another look. You can sign-up for DDO here, it’s free and the guild gets bonus Turbine points which we can use for Guest passes and other useful material, when anyone who signs up with this link subscribes or buys Turbine points. The Cynical Brit guild is on Argonnessen US. Whisper TotalBiscuit, Alris, Krezra or Gellen for an invite. Show music breaks Porcupine Tree – Halo Dream Evil – The Book Of Heavy Metal (march Of Metallians) [Explicit] Edguy – Ministry Of Saints | 6/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 17 | Many apologies for the delays to Blue Plz! this week. This was due to the site hack as well as technical difficulties encountered in the last section of the show. This section has been re-recorded and added to the end of the podcast. Preshow Playlist Sonata Arctica – Land Of The Free Axxis – Dance With The Dead Arjen Anthony Lucassen’s Star One – Set Your Controls Threshold – Ground Control Dream Theatre – Honor Thy Father (Album Version) Dream Evil – Made Of Metal [Explicit] Edguy – Ministry Of Saints Primal Fear – Carniwar Pantera – I’m Broken Fear Factory – Edgecrusher – Album Version Strapping Young Lad – All Hail The New Flesh [Explicit] This week on Blue Plz! a listener asks whether or not it’s unreasonable to expect a random who asks for heroic modes in ICC, to actually have the achievement for it? TotalBiscuit suspects a breakdown in communication! Also a player with several terrible names asks how to revitalise ones interest in World of Warcraft. TotalBiscuit replies, why? A laundry list of problems, TotalBiscuit spends 30 minutes breaking down just some of the reasons why WoW is not enthusing anymore and what would be required to fix that. What is there for the jaded veteran these days who has seen it all? In a special feature, TotalBiscuit attempts to leave WoW for another game, trying the starting area of Everquest 2. Hear his impressions at the end of the show. | 6/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 16 | So for a while now, folks have been asking me to provide my pre-show playlist. So I had an idea as to how best to achieve that. I play these guys on my preshow so that I can help grow their fanbase. I’ve been doing metal shows online for 11 years now as well as 4 years with my University radio station. Everytime the goal is the same, play good, sometimes unappreciated metal bands, get people into them, show people how great a genre metal is. So here’s what I’m going to do. You will find the playlist for each preshow in the show notes from here on in. I will provide Amazon links to each track, so you can buy the individual mp3. Amazon is generally the cheapest place to get them and the tracks are high quality, DRM free mp3s. If you buy a track from the preshow list, the site gets a small cut of the profit. The bands win, the site wins, you save money and get the music you want, it’s great for everybody. The affiliate links are for the UK version of the store, so you may have to find the tracks yourself if you’re outside of that region. You can preview each track via these links as well, so you can get an idea of whether or not you want to purchase it. If you usually listen via podcast, you may not know that each live show is preceded by an hour’s worth of music, consisting primarily of various types of metal. This is what you’ve been missing. Preshow Playlist Amon Amarth – Guardians Of Asgaard Darkane – Rusted Angel (not available on Amazon) Strapping Young Lad – Underneath The Waves [Explicit] Evergrey – The Masterplan Symphony X – Church Of The Machine Ensiferum – Token Of Time Ensiferum – Sword Chant Turisas – One More Turisas – To Holmgard And Beyond Rhapsody – Emerald Sword Rhapsody – Rain Of A Thousand Flames Show break music Disarmonia Mundi – Celestial Furnace (not available on Amazon) Saboton – Coat Of Arms Saxon – Denim And Leather (2009 Digital Remaster) Running Wild – Under Jolly Roger (not available on Amazon) Captain Dan and the Scurvy Crew – We Be Sailin’ Captain Dan and the Scurvy Crew – Sea Monsters Show Notes This week on Blue Plz! A listener asks at what point do add-ons become too much and does the banning of the AVR mod mean a change in Blizzard’s stance? Plus would giving players gear above their station be ok as long as it took them a long time to get it asks another fan? TotalBiscuit says hell no. Blizzard has delayed the deployment of the Ruby Sanctum. TotalBiscuit explains why this is a positive move and another sign by Blizzard that they are taking the progression race far more seriously. As a consumer, when is it right to protest and what is the best way to do it? Well, TotalBiscuit tells you how NOT to do it. In the Illusion of Choice, a listener asks for TotalBiscuits opinion on the new Battleground, Twin Peaks. Can Blizzard really pull off asymmetrical like they did in the old days? | 6/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 15 | A listener asks if Facebook integration is really going a step ‘too far’ in terms of mixing one’s real life with their online persona. No says TotalBiscuit, but for god’s sake don’t give them ideas about Twitter. The Remote Auction House is up and yet Blizzard has decided to add a fee to your monthly subscription if you choose to use it! How the RAH is an unbalancing element and Blizzard is introducing a stealth tax for those who want to use the AH successfully in future. Blizzcon 2010 has been announced, for the outrageous price of $150. Yes it’s still a 2 day event, yes it’s still just Blizzard games, TotalBiscuit shares his experiences from 2005 and asks has Blizzcon really advanced to the point where they can charge more than every other geeky convention on the planet? A grab bag of email questions follows and we cap off the show with the Illusion of Choice, shredding a terrible post wherein an imbecile on MMO Champion unsuccessfully tries to argue that Wrath was the best expansion. Rage ensues. | 5/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 13 | TotalBiscuit is out of content and opens up the mailbag for completely unscripted and unprepared show on a wide variety of listener-chosen topics. To cap off the show, an analysis of this excellent blog post by the leader of one of the Top 3 10-man guild’s in the world. | 5/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 12 | In the mailbag, a listener expresses concern over a renewed emphasis on crowd control. Will it cause some specs to be left out in the cold? Plus is there really a difference between PvP and PvE realms and will Blizzard ever be able to come up with an original boss mechanic ever again? Cataclysm raid changes abound ladies and gentlemen! Controversy arises over the decision to make 10 and 25 man modes share a lockout. Plus identical difficulty levels? In comparison, a distinct non-change in the form of Cataclysm badges. TotalBiscuit conjures up a few ways to assist players late to the game, in experiencing the content and following the progression path properly. In the Illusion of Choice, a listener asks, when do mods go too far? | 4/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 11 | This week on Blue Plz! Be sure to check out the latest episode of The Grind on Warcraftmovies. In the mailbag, a listener points out that PUGs don’t even know the meaning of ‘mana break’ anymore. Plus what should the badge system be for Cataclysm? We speculate. Dark were the Skies is being forced to make a choice! Why the hell is Blizzard arbitrarily changing PvP servers to PvE instead of merging the realms? Breaking their promise, Blizzard is planning to introduce a hearth-stone style item in the TCG, for the first time (unless you count the Ethereal Trader’s lesser invisibility detection potions, and who the hell needed them anyway?) adding in-game utility for cash. Plus I’m bored, deal with it. Why WoW is not as good value for money as people claimed. In the Illusion of Choice, a selection of micro-topics from the chatroom! | 4/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 10 | This week on Blue Plz! It’s a special edition of Blue Plz! covering the devchat. Got have a look at it here. There’s not a lot to say in these show notes to be honest, it’s a Twitter dev chat, what more do you want? Well, I guess you can have an impromptu Q+A as well. | 4/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 9 | This week on Blue Horse! Do you own a Celestial Steed? Are you easily offended? This may not be the podcast for you! In the mailbag, a tank asks why it’s not ok for him to ‘take things slow’ in 5-mans, the value of flasks is questioned and That Retarded Horse may or may not be mentioned (it is mentioned). Opening topic for the show needless to say concerned the Celestial Steed mount (hereby referred to as that retarded horse). TotalBiscuit successfully trolls the entire World of Warcraft, but how did Blizzard pull this off? How did they convince so many people to pay so much money for a mount that is now common as muck? Their marketing tricks are revealed. New Cataclysm zones are previewed. Check out Vashj’ir, the incredible underwater zone. How will these mechanics work? Nobody knows but Blizzard, that doesn’t mean we can’t speculate however. Will extensive use of phasing in Hyjal provide the storytelling experience we’ve been looking for? We also look back at Wrath it’s successes and failures, as Blizzard publishes it’s woefully thin-on-the-ground Battleplan. What needs carrying forward and what needs throwing in front of a bus before Cataclysm comes out? In the Illusion of Choice, a listener suggests a Choose your own Adventure style system for raiding. Could that work? We investigate. | 4/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 8 | This week on Blue Plz! Welcome to this week’s Blue Plz! In the mailbag, a listener asks a variety of questions. The claims that I am an agony aunt have been greatly exaggerated by the way. Plus another listener thinks Gearscore should be banned! Why that’s a bad idea, even if the system itself sucks. Cataclysm changes abound ladies and gentlemen! A lot of class info has come out and all I care about is the Mage. Well, not really, various issues have cropped up. Can homogenisation ever be a good thing? Do I really want Bloodlust? What’s the deal with airline food? All this and more. The X-53 touring rocket is almost here. Here’s the reasons why you can’t have it and why you’re not entitled to it just because you took part in some offer a year ago that was completely different to what’s there now. The entitlement is overwhelming! Also Imbecile of the Week returns. Why do you want me to hurry up and not spend an hour in this horrible instance asks a dumb-ass on the EU forums? The evisceration commences. In the Illusion of Choice, a listener asks whether or not it’s justified for Blizzard to charge for optional services and totals up how much you have spent so far on World of Warcraft. The results may scare you. | 4/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 7 | This week on Blue Plz! A shorter show that usual, simply because I have very little to say. I know, shocking isn’t it! WoW’s been sitting in a state of stagnation lately and it’s really starting to take it’s toll. However, the show must go on! A plethora of questions for the mailbag are followed up by an exposition of raid lockout extension. Why should you do it, what hurdles would you have to cross to get there and at the end of the day, who’s fault is it that guilds are getting so bored of ICC, they are desperately trying to get to hard-modes as fast as possible, willingly sacrificing badges and gear in order to do it? Paragon gets world first kill of Lich King 25 heroic. Congratulations to them, but why exactly did Blizzard put the 5% buff into hard-modes as well? Does Blizzard know what it’s doing or where it wants to take the hard-mode idea, is it betraying the original purpose? And why exactly did Ensidia have to endure a month of awful server conditions with Blizzard lifting barely a finger to do anything about it? In the Illusion of Choice, a listener asks why there isn’t more investment in roleplaying. | 4/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 6 | This week on Blue Plz! TotalBiscuit returns with another dose of vitriol and intrigue. Opening up the mailbag a listener asks, is it ok to blow off friends for a raid? (not like that…) TotalBiscuit has to wonder how he became an Agony Aunt all of a sudden. Our first topic is the concept of the lethal boss mechanic. Where did it go outside of the occassional hard-mode fight? How has the raid-game suffered as a result of it’s absence and why exactly does TotalBiscuit suck so much at Sindrigosa? All will be revealed! The WoW TCG has been picked up by another company and will continue, good news, but why should people care? There are certainly reasons for that and what’s the difference between good merchandise and flagrant cash-cows? No, you don’t get to be in my group? Wanna know why? Blame the Entitled Spider. We’re also happy to showcase a new track from composing legend Alexander Brandon, the man behind such soundtracks as Deus Ex (which you hear in Blue Plz!’s music bed) and Unreal Tournament. It’s called Severn City, the opening track from his new album Earthscape, go check it out! | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 5 | This week on Blue Plz! TotalBiscuit delves into the mailbag to answer questions on the subject of Gearscore. The answer? Get Elitist Group you ninnies! Newsflash ladies and gentleman, you are not a unique and beautiful snowflake. An argument from someone who should know better claims viability for the Frost spec in raiding, against all rationale, rhyme and reason (oh and of course, peer-reviewed theorycraft). Why would you pick sub-optimally? Well it’s because you ‘like it’ of course, and you want to shove your misinformed, selfish choice down the throats of everyone else that raids with you. Nerfs make you stupid, it’s as simple as that. An anecdotal segment presents the argument that nerfing content proportionally dumbs down raiders. We call it, Suckmosis. Find out about it’s effects as Dark were the Skies puts on their dunces caps and wipes on previous farm-status content, while using the 5% damage/healing/stam buff so ‘kindly’ provided by Blizzard to help morons beat ICC content. The Crimson Hall is cleared by Dark were the Skies, but is it any good? A mix of old school mechanics and new ideas creates a challenging, yet not mind-blowing set of bosses. In the Illusion of Choice, a listener asks are some race/class combination obsolete and what can be done about it? | 3/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 4 | This week on Blue Plz! The winner of the Starcraft 2 beta contest is announced, you’ll have to listen to find out if it was you! In the mailbag, the question is asked, when is it right to bail on your guild for real life responsibilities? The answer? ALL THE TIME YOU SPERGLORDS, GOOD GOD, REAL LIFE > WOW. I’m sorry, I don’t know what came over me. Eyonix spills the beans on big stat changes in Cataclysm. Good? Bad? A little of both? It is a mystery that only listening to the show will unravel! It’s Twitter 3 : Revenge of the Tweets. Blizzard’s latest Twitter dev-chat once again dodges a live Blue Plz! by a mere few hours. Coincidence? We think not! Well, I suppose we’ll just have to make do with being the final word on the matter, won’t we? In the Illusion of Choice a listener asks, are players building unreasonable expectations for Cataclysm? | 3/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 3 | This week on Blue Plz! Your chance to win a Starcraft 2 beta key! Here’s how you do it, in 5 easy steps. Go to iTunes (download it if you haven’t already got it), login to your account (create one if you don’t have one already) and search for Blue Plz! on the iTunes store. Now write a listener review for Blue Plz! on iTunes in an honest and intelligent manner (sycophancy won’t win you any points) (THIS IS A LOT OF BRACKETS) Take a screenshot using print-screen, of your review. Submit your review to iTunes Paste your screenshot (ctrl+v) into MSPaint and save it as a JPG Email the screenshot to themurloc@gmail.com Easy isn’t it? The winner will be announced on next week’s show and of course, we’ll try and get hold of more keys for future give-aways. Obvious duplicates and tomfoolery will be disqualified. This week, the mailbag vomits forth some listener questions, including asking why there isn’t a proper appeals process for player bans and whether or not Exodus will be forever tainted by their illegitimate kill of Yogg Saron. In our first discussion topic, a tale of redemption and drama, wherein a terrible rogue is taught the error of his ways and becomes l33t. It’s a heart-warming tale and you can read all about it in the thread on the Cynical Brit forums. This week we have a live interview with Kevin Michael Johnson, a film-maker who’s upcoming project The Raid is an intriguing look into the life and times of raiding guilds and the social value of large-scale group activity. TotalBiscuit lays down the gauntlet, stating that if Blue Plz! listeners can raise the remaining $3,000 required to fund the movie by next show, he will sing a Britney Spear’s parody live on the air. So get to it! Dark were the Skies, The Cynical Brit’s 10-man raiding guild got itself back in gear last week and flattened the plague wing of Icecrown Citadel. Is Putricide really as good as everyone claims? Find out in this week’s raiding analysis. Capping off the show, the illusion of choice asks two questions. Firstly, just how hypocritical are WoW Insider and secondly, does TotalBiscuit miss the days of farming for consumables? | 2/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 2 | This week on Blue Plz! In another bumper edition of the show, The Cynical Brit covers a wide range of topics and announces the winners of the Grunty contest. Today we are featuring music from legendary composer Frank Klepacki, who is perhaps best known for his iconic Hell March theme from Command and Conquer : Red Alert. His latest concept album Viratia is now available and today’s Blue Plz! contains 2 tracks from it. We are all huge fans of Frank’s work over here at CynicalBrit and suggest that you go buy his album. Winners of the Grunty Contest Omedius Anubiros TotalBiscuit kicks off as always with the mailbag. Does the Spirit of Competition mean that Blizzard really favours Asian players? No you imbecile! Also has ICC been cleared too fast? The first live interview of Season 4 has also been announced. Next week, we’ll be talking with Kevin Michael Johnson, a film-maker who is producing The Raid, a documentary showing the social side of raiding. Hot off the presses, Ruby Sanctum, another raid dungeon for Wrath has been announced. Should we be surprised that Blizzard is putting in another raid dungeon before cataclysm launch? What will it consist of? Speculation abound! In a forum discussion, Blizzard addresses the issue of 40 man raids. TotalBiscuit ponders on the legitimacy of such a thing and whether or not it’s simply had it’s day and should be left to rest. Battlegrounds are up for big changes but are they for the best? A closer look reveals a gaping flaw in Blizzard’s design that clearly requires attention. It’s official folks, VoA is the worst raid dungeon ever made. TotalBiscuit had the misfortune of killing the new ‘boss’ this week and has a few choice words to say about it. In the Illusion of Choice, a listener asks why would a new player enjoy WoW? It’s an intriguing point and it’s covered at length for the last segment of the show, capped off as usual by shoutout requests from the live listeners. The special Starcraft 2 live ‘deflowering’, Zerg Plz! will be a separate podcast entirely and will be uploaded later on. | 2/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 4 : Episode 1 | This week on Blue Plz! It’s the second, more successful attempt at Episode 1 of Season 4, after last week’s myriad of audio problems. Still a few minor teething problems (if anyone knows how to fix a digital ground loop, let me know) but it won’t make your ears bleed this time around. TotalBiscuit opens the mailbag in search of interesting treats. Unfortunately, he finds only listener mail. Oh well, we’ll make do I suppose. Collectors editions, just how far should a company go to give those who purchase them an in-game advantage? Plus are LFD groups getting better or worse? Survey says, neither, population is as stupid as it always was. In our main feature of the day, TotalBiscuit gives the final word on the Ensidia debacle, with three 15 minute discussion segments dedicated to it. Covering all aspects of the argument including listener opinions and Ensidia blogs, this is the definitive debate on the matter. The auction house is coming to iPhone and the web! Does this constitute paying premium for an in-game advantage? The matter is discussed in great detail. In the illusion of choice, are cutscenes of value in World of Warcraft a listener asks? | 2/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 59 | The show brings the end of an era as WoW Radio closes it’s doors, capping off Season 3 of Blue Plz! and introducing Season 4, beginning next week. It’s a time for memories both good and bad and the promise of a great number of fantastic productions in the future. In the mailbag, TotalBiscuit is quizzed on the issue of tanking in random heroics and the behaviour of some players towards tanks who they perceive as having ‘too little health’. Advice is also given out on how best to cope with random heroics as a newer player. This evening’s first topic concerns an anonymous applicant to a ‘casual’ guild, who proceeds to get horribly defensive when called out on his poor quality application. The idea that casual guilds are extremely lax in their recruitment standards and that they, in fact, should be ‘nice and forgiving to everyone’ is a myth, as this not-so-plucky applicant soon discovers. In our second segment, TotalBiscuit shares some memories of the past 5 years, recounting elements of WoW Radio history both familiar and obscure, inviting emails from the listenerbase. To cap off the show, more of the listener’s favourite memories and an ear-bleeding live performance of TotalBiscuit’s parody track, Tribute Run. | 1/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 58 | In the mailbag, a moral dilemma explored, some info about The Cynical Brit and are the new armoury additions an invasion of privacy? I’ve tried my best to skip class-specific questions. In the illusion of choice, we bring back an old favourite in the form of Imbecile of the Week. | 1/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 57 | This is a test post to ensure that everything is fine and dandy for the February 1st launch of cynicalbrit.com – This is how you will see episodes on the site from here on in. Those using iTunes will notice no difference, things will work the same as they always did once the site launches. Because the CMS (content management system) of cynicalbrit.com is better than that of WoW Radio’s, I can provide far more detailed show notes and commentary on each episode. Thanks to the new comment system, you can also leave your comments and feedback on a per-episode basis. There will also be a tip-jar button on the page for future episodes, if you want to throw a couple of dollars my way to show appreciation for the free content. I view this as performance-related pay and a barometer of how well I’m doing. Added bonus is it helps pay for the site and new features. | 1/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 56 | WoW Radio prepares it’s final goodbyes, but this is not the end! Find out about my brand new projects and all sorts of exciting news. Plus WoW Insider lies through it’s teeth, Blue Plz! drops a truth bomb on their latest sensationalist article. And Putricide needs a nerf? Not according to Blizzard it doesn’t. | 1/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 55 | Players on a raiding IV! Do you like being drip-fed your content? Plus looking for group, should it be more strict? We take your emails on awful PUG experiences. Featuring Nubcake News and Ask the Murloc! | 12/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 54 | 3.3 hits! Just how good is that new Mage Armour icon? Plus the first wing of the ICC raid examined, is it up to snuff? Are you looking for a group? Then we’ve got the tool for you! And are ICC 5-mans the greatest of all time? We investigate. | 12/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 53 | This week on Blue Plz! – Well I would tell you, you see, but you’ll need to use our microtransaction service. The Blizzard Pet Store, the worst thing ever? An objective analysis. Plus how to fix the entire badge problems using heirlooms, yet more suggestions from the WoW Radio Think Tank. | 11/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 52 | This week on Blue Plz! Are you a social outcast? Can’t get into a group for love nor money? Then don’t worry, the new cross-realm LFG system is here to help! Plus Race Change, the biggest cash-grab ever? We investigate. Also what better way to cap off a halloween show by talking about a SCARY GHOOOOOST. Shade of Aran, best fight, or bestest fight? | 10/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 51 | This week on Blue Plz! Blizzard decides the best way to deal with it’s community is to answer everything in very short, easy to understand sentences and what better medium to do so than on Twitter. TotalBiscuit dissects their first Twitter Dev Chat mercilessly. Plus Nubcake News takes on Arthas’ corporate advances and The Murloc escapes for 6 minutes of live, unscripted mayhem. | 10/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 50 | This week, TotalBiscuit is on holiday, but in his infinite benevolence, gives you a show anyway, which you people will no doubt not appreciate at all. HEATHENS. Bunkerface, the token Dutch guy joins us for a run through of your topics, including the Top 10 worst mistake Blizzard has ever made in WoW and much more besides. | 10/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 49 | We didn’t want your fansite program anyway. Plus why rubber-banding is not suitable for an RPG and the damage the flattening of the progression curve could cause. Also TotalBiscuit’s 10 man guild project, is it possible to salvage enjoyment from the ruins of Wrath raiding? Nubcake News and Ask the Murloc are both featured and we read your emails on what you would put into Room 101. | 10/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 48 | The stupidity is palpable and thick, you could cut it with a knife. I choose a butcher’s cleaver. Plus Arthas a 5-man boss? Why this could be a blessing in disguise, let’s see if Blizzard is smart enough to realise it. Also Blizzard not smart enough to realise that their badge system is stupid, don’t worry folks, it’s about to descend to a new level of utter awful in patch 3.3. And Onyxia, you suck and you make other people suck, but Yogg-Saron on the other hand, what an amazing fight. | 10/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 47 | This week on Blue Plz! It’s the 100th episode, prepare yourself for the most intense and crazed World of Warcraft live experience you’ve ever heard. Nubcake News, Ask the Murloc and Rappin’ the Forums (live) all featured, a bit of a history lesson for all of you newer listeners. But would it be Blue Plz! without content? Heck no. Blizzard, MAKE YOUR HEROICS NOT SUCK, boredom in a box, Wrath’s heroics torn apart. Plus Onyxia returns, is it a big deal? | 9/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 46 | The live broadcast returns, in more ways than one! Ghostcrawler claims raiding is harder than it’s ever been! I claim Ghostcrawler is crazier than he’s ever been. Plus EU doesn’t have developers posting on the forum, should they? And Goblin/Worgen racials, overpowered? Good! Nubcake News and a live Ask the Murloc with improv is featured, along with music by Frank Klepacki (http://www.frankklepacki.com) | 9/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 45 | This week on this podcast-only version of Blue Plz, TotalBiscuit laments that his ISP is too terrible to allow live streaming today. Oh yes… content, there’s that too! We talk about why Rated Battlegrounds are the way forward, but the devil is in the details. Plus 3.2 hardmodes smashed into tiny pieces after only 1 day, we have statements from Ensidia and STARs on the matter. Also stats are getting changed in Cataclysm?! We let you hear about it in Blizzard’s own words, from our Blizzcon footage and then discuss the pros and cons. Ask the Murloc and Nubcake News are featured, as is some great music by composing legend Frank Klepacki. | 9/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 44 | Show tipjar – totalbiscuit@gmail.com via Paypal. This week on Blue Plz! World of Warcraft : Cataclysm is announced and it looks awesome. An entire show on why, covering levelling, rehashing content, raiding and the Path of the Titans. Also the overdue return of two features, Ask the Murloc and Nubcake News! | 8/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 43 | This week on Blue Plz! Our revised plans for Blizzcon and how it’s going to be even better than everyone else. Plus Cataclysm leaks? Quite possibly, we debate the rumours. And Onyxia, those million deaths were merely a setback in the mountains! | 8/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 42 | This week on Blue Plz! Exodus to pay $1,250 for a title?! The Aspergers Clinic would like a word with you. Plus Blizzard 180s in World of Warcraft, a history of forgetting exactly why you did something in the first place. Also Ulduar apparently has no difficulty curve! According to some genius on the forums. Finally your emails on patch 3.2 experiences. | 8/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 41 | This week on Blue Plz! We interview the guild Premonition, US first killers of Yogg-Saron +0 about their strategies, their views on raiding and more. Plus Blizzard releases a new Q+A, just in time for the show! We don’t think they’ll be making that mistake again after TotalBiscuit is through with them. | 7/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 40 | This week on Blue Plz! Everyone is ignorant! Don’t worry, we have a solution. Plus 2 races or 1 class? Why the hell is this even a discussion? Slap anyone who thinks this is a real debate. Why races are not real content and serve no practical purpose, yet suck up dev time like a blackhole of awful. Plus DDO is back and pretty good at that, what WoW could learn from the MMO-version of the Grand-daddy Dungeoncrawler. | 7/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 39 | This week on Blue Plz! Drama on the forums, as some random poster aptly puts it ‘this will be remembered as the thread where TotalBiscuit pwned like 50 guys’. Why you should care about bad players and by care I mean humiliate. Plus Ghostcrawler says choice is scary! We take a look at talents. And not one, but four sets of Tier gear… one for each armour class? Why people are up in arms and why they sort of have a right to be. | 7/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 38 | This week on Blue Plz in the mountains! Does TotalBiscuit hate America? Is that why he’s hiding away in the mountains? Plus impossible encounter? Evidently not as STARS take down Yogg+0 world first and are classy about it. Also has Blizzard’s dumbing down of raiding totally failed? We look at the numbers and conclude, yeah, basically, people suck and you can’t fix that. And when is a game, not a game? When it’s a job. All this and much more, in the mountains. | 7/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 37 | This week on Blue Plz! Exodus are a bunch of cheating scumbags! We analyse their ‘official statement’ and conclude they’re an even bigger PR disaster than I am! Plus faction-changes are coming, should we care? Not really. Also a full set of T9 from Utgarde Keep! I wish I was joking, why everyone is going to be special and as such, nobody is. | 7/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 36 | This week on Blue Plz! We make the distinction between new, undergeared and bad raiders and provide a better solution to the badge problem. Plus, The Scourge Vent Recordings! Our newest radio play. Also, the new 3.2 raid, is it a slapdash job and do we care more about bosses than we do about having a dungeon to explore? | 6/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 35 | This week, we dispense with the pleasantries and deal with the stupidest change to ever hit WoW, the addition of Emblems of Conquest to every single instance from heroic 5-mans upwards. Do you want Tier 8.5 for running Utgarde Keep? Then look no further. On a more positive notice, PvP will now yield experience, why this is great but also should be expanded into other activities. And the new raid content of 3.2, we learn more about the trials and tribulations of the tribute system. | 6/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 34 | This week on Blue Plz! Hot off the presses news about the new battleground. Plus mount changes and why you’re all babies. Also do PUGs really exist anymore? How Wrath is killing the traditional PUG, and why that’s not a bad thing. | 6/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 33 | This week on Blue Plz! TotalBiscuit admits he’s sick of raiding. We look into why that would be. Also levelling is really dull, can we fix it? Of course! Plus we talk PvE/PvP, how can those concepts be expanded from what we’ve got now and is raiding simply doomed to repeat itself until players get sick of it? In addition, we’ve got an update on the DBM situation and news about our Blizzcon 2009 plans and what we’ll be providing. | 6/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 32 | This week on Blue Plz! We speak to Popcap’s T Carl Kwoh about the Peggle mod, add-on policy and the nature of casual gaming. Plus how does Ulduar stack up against previous raid dungeons on various criteria? | 5/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 31 | UPDATE : The news broken on this show that Emperor had won the US Shoutcasting Contest but had the video attributed to someone else, has had a development. Apparently yes, Emperor did win the US Shoutcasting Contest, but the page that announced it was a leak and not supposed to be up yet. The name next to his video was a fake place-holder and we expect to hear an official announcement in the next few days. Until then, you heard it hear first, and congratulations to Emperor for his big win. This week on Blue Plz! we talk trashy little robot pets and why you guys can’t see the wood for the trees. Plus are you feeling the burn? We talk about raid burnout and how to take a break. Also new patchnotes, they’re all incredibly freaking dull! This show features music from Internal Conflict – http://www.myspace.com/internalconflict | 5/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 30 | This week on Blue Plz! Does your guild have an identity crisis? You’re not alone, we talk about hard-modes vs progress, which should your guild choose? Plus XT002 is now a joke, we analyse the difference between a proper boss fight and a faceroll. And Blizzcon speculation, will we see another expansion announcement? All signs point to ‘possibly’. | 5/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 29 | This week on Blue Plz! We expose Pegglegate and the scandal of Blizzard’s addon policy double-standards as well as the Curse/WoWMatrix debacle. Also we interview top guild The Legacy about their experiences in Ulduar, as part of our series of ‘Evenings with Uberguilds’. Plus, Blizzard ruining their own raid content and the ever-growing gap between Normal and Hardmodes for the average majority guild. | 4/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 28 | This week on Blue Plz! Entitled casuals cry about Ulduar! Is anyone surprised? Plus Algalol the Raid Destroyer, he has a schedule to keep! Also find out about the nerfs and buffs to Ulduar difficulty and the clear gap being created between normal and hardmode content and VOA isn’t so puggable anymore, why that’s hardly a bad thing. We also announce the winners to our Rewrite the lore contest. | 4/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 27 | This week on Blue Plz! Ulduar has finally arrived, we dissect it in great detail. Hear why Flame Leviathan is what vehicles fights should be. Plus how difficult is Ulduar? Difficult enough, and I bet you’re all rusty as hell. And Ensidia kills everything… or did they? | 4/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 26 | This week on Blue Plz! we interview Ben, the developer of Questhelper and ask for his views on Blizzard’s new add-on policy. Plus, your guild at each other’s throats? You’re not alone, how the lack of a challenging goal causes guilds to fracture and turn on each other. Also, the end bosses of Ulduar will not be tested on the PTR! An important nod to the raiding community. | 4/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 25 | This week on Blue Plz! Are we getting what we pay for? We take a look at the relative value of an MMO subscription, and the difference between playgrounds and themeparks. Plus P1mp my mount, an April Fools joke that accidently highlights just how cookie-cutter everyone is? And arenas as an e-sport, how to make it viable. | 4/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 24 | This week on Blue Plz! The ethics of gold-buying, and the effects on the economy. Plus we interview Pixelsmith who has been documenting his tour across Europe to meet his guild mates. We talk about the media perception of WoW as anti-social, and his experiences in far-off lands. Also random loot is random? How random should the loot system be? | 3/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 23 | This week on Blue Plz!, add-on developers hamstrung? Where does Blizzard get off trying to punish the people who work to improve the game? Also Ghostcrawler promised me a pony, where’s my pony? Plus a Molten Core retrospective, why this instance should be rightly consigned to the scrap-heap and not viewed with rose-tinted glasses. | 3/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 22 | This week on Blue Plz! Kill the boss while standing on your head, it’s the only way for a true world first! Why hard-modes and achievements are basically the same thing, and make little sense from a gameplay or immersion perspective. Also 95% of WoW is dead content, should it be resurrected in some form? And why not dcing from WoW is SKILL GAIS! | 3/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 21 | This week on Blue Plz! Live play-by-play arena! Plus casuals don’t exist, should Blizzard add more badge loot and what is it’s role in Wrath of the Lich King? Also WoW addiction rear’s it’s ugly head, and promptly has it chopped off. | 3/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 20 | This week on Blue Plz! Where is Blizzard going with 10/25 man? Without a clear mandate and purpose, can the dual-raiding system ever properly function? Also AQ20 restrospective, it’s surprising just how many modern mechanics can be found in this instance. Also why do tiny changes like Hearthstone cooldown cause such a storm? Is there a difference between happy and unhappy money? | 2/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 19 | This week on Blue Plz! Ulduar is here, and it looks great. It bloody well better be. Also do you really have to do Sarth 3D before you can say Wrath content is too easy? Plus, a new world event announced, more please and the WoW Adventure Board-game, worth playing? | 2/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 18 | This week we see the one-off return of an unexpected co-host! | 2/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 17 | This week, the rage is far from diluted. We talk about the EvE drama, and why it’s perhaps for the best that WoW is a carebear game. Also, VoA, everything that’s wrong with the Wrath raid philosophy, and why exactly did I have to leave my guild? | 1/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 16 | This week on Blue Plz, we delve back into the mists of time and talk about TBC, the lessons learned, and the way forward into the future. | 1/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 15 | This week on Blue Plz! We delve into the mailbag, as well as discovering why Molten Core HC is a really stupid idea that should never and will never happen. Also the rationale behind the revolving doors of WoW and why are their gold ads on the forum? | 1/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 14 | This week on Blue Plz! TotalBiscuit is not the happiest person alive right now and wants you to know about it. | 1/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 13 | This week on Blue Plz! Arcanist belt! The new classic raiding project. Is raiding for achievements a substitute for actual difficulty? Plus is WoW getting too violent and dark? | 1/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 12 | This week on Blue Plz! Guilty loot, is VoA turning raiding into a joke? Plus news about Ulduar and the concept of scalable raid content. Also, how to make money via enchanting, and any other profession, and a review of the WoW minatures game. | 1/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 11 | This week on Blue Plz! The trials and tribulations of a crafter, why enchanting is the worst thing to ever happen to anyone ever. Also, what are these slippery slopes, and where are they exactly? | 12/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 10 | This week on Blue Plz! THEY ARE GIVING EPIX FOR ACHIEVEMENTS! That’s ok by me. Plus the levelling tax, and why I won’t pay it. We also play a bit of name and shame in Imbecile of the Millenium and talk about the impact of vehicles on WoW. | 11/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 9 | This week on Blue Plz, we talk about Wrathgate, spoilers to be found within. Also, Nihilum clears everything, why this should worry you, and GM inconsistency? Plus Nubcake News and the usual banter. | 11/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 8 | Blue Plz! returns, with all the Wrath coverage you could possibly need. Ok, maybe that’s a lie, but it’s good anyway! | 11/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 7 | This week in Blue Plz! TotalBiscuit vs the overly-defensive machinima commentator! Plus non-linear dynamic raid content, arenas for BG gear?! and much much more. | 9/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 6 | This week on Blue Plz! Less music, more talking! We cover the introduction of vehicles in WOTLK and the possibilities therein, heirloom items and WoW’s new game-mode as well as the eternal balancing problem. Plus Nubcake News and new Captain Dan! | 9/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 5 | This week on Blue Plz! We cast a critical eye over PVE vs PvP transfers and discuss the possibility that times may have changed. Plus WAR vs WoW, the definitive guide for WoW players, Nubcake News, the Illusion of Choice and much more. | 9/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 4 | This week on Blue Plz! We give a full broadside to blog commentators and Blizzard on the issue of feats of strength. Plus, an in-depth report on how Recruit-a-friend works in practical play. Also we announce the winner of the Design-a-Contest Contest. | 9/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 3 | This week on Blue Plz! We look into Blizzard’s recruit-a-friend program and discover their hidden agenda! Also, Wintergrasp, will it shake up the PvP world as we know it, and is ‘Zone-PvP’ the new ‘World-PvP?’. Plus Nubcake News and much more! | 8/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 2 | This week on Blue Plz! We dive into the mailbag for some ‘choice’ moments from the listeners, and Blizzard gets stuck in a ticket debacle! Plus we talk to Gamespy’s Fargo about his Flintlocke comic series and announce the winners of our big contest. | 8/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 3 : Episode 1 | The season 3 premiere of Blue Plz! featuring the reasons why Deathknights aren’t hero classes, why Wrath is the same as TBC, and why that’s a good thing. Plus Nubcake News and much more! | 8/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 2 : Episode 22 | This is it, the final Blue Plz! Titan is coming folks, thanks for the support. | 7/29/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 2 : Episode 21 | This week on Blue Plz! Support trees, a myth? Have Blizzard got things about right with talent balance and making raid instances casual friendly without nerfing content? We talk lockout timers. Plus why you can’t have nice things + usual features. | 7/22/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 2 : Episode 20 | This week on Blue Plz! Second Wind takes on Crafting. A swing and a miss? is it simply too complex an issue to fix in one go? Plus we take a look at enchanting gone bad and jewelcrafting gone mad. Plus, crossing the ocean? | 7/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 2 : Episode 19 | Blue Plz! returns after a week’s absence. We sincerely apologise for Turpster’s abomination the week previously.. | 7/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 2 : Episode 18 | TB has left to the greatest darn country in the whole world, that’s right, he’s gone to America! It was down to the brave and noble Turpster to come to the rescue and remind the fans of Blue Plz what Win (and Rapping) was really made of. ~Turps | 6/24/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 2 : Episode 17 | This week on Blue Plz! A huge announcement! Second wind takes on ‘What comes after Black Temple’?. Indepth itemisation discussion. PvP gear replacing PvE gear in raids? What about the time and effort taken to acquire gear in general? | 6/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 2 : Episode 16 | This week on Blue Plz! we take your opinions on attunements with surprising results. Plus Tigole speaks on raid pacing, our analysis and speculation. And why do we care about world firsts? Here’s why, a justification. What’s next? You tell US. | 6/10/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 2 : Episode 15 | This week on Broke Plz! Everything breaks! TB’s computer dies a horrible death but nothing can stop the live radio behemoth, as all features are performed for the first time, completely live with a copious dose of Ad-Lib. Plus attunements. | 6/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 2 : Episode 14 | This week on Blue Plz! OMG STARCRAFT 2! No… just.. no… We hear words from the mouth of an MVP, a unique perspective on the forum community. Plus, raid progression, nerfed a little too far? Casuals found swimming in their own tears! | 5/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 2 : Episode 13 | This week on Blue Plz! PTR next to useless? Your views! And the main event for this evening. An exclusive interview with the guild Method, discussing the controversy surrounding their World Second/World First Legit Vashj kill, covering all the drama. | 5/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 2 : Episode 12 | This week on a bumper Blue Plz! (why do they call it bumper anyway?). Class/Race racials, the why’s and wherefores and would they ever work outside of the priest class? Plus Vashj World Second, or was it? A full statement from Method. | 5/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 2 : Episode 11 | This week on Blue Plz! The true impact of the new races, the community answers. The forums, and the community as a whole. MvPs nothing more than pandering fanbois? Plus Heroics, the rights and wrongs and priest racials. | 4/29/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 2 : Episode 10 | This week on Blue Plz! Why Jack Thompson needs pushing down a well filled with angry mice. Plus Design-a-Boss, just how hard can Black Temple be anyway? Also, why WoW is the best you’re gonna get in this particular genre. | 4/22/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 2 : Episode 9 | This week on Blue Plz! So just how sustainable is Blizzard’s end-game model? Plus we discuss the ‘Silithus Equation’ and it’s relation to the new ‘mini’ endgame zones. Plus, nerf the bloody legacy zones to stop gold-farmers. | 4/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 2 : Episode 8 | Welcome to Gold Plz! IGE’s latest gold-farming show! Ok yeah, April fool and such. In this week’s show, I really hate gold-farmers, no really I do. Also, the trials and tribulations of rep-grinds, a neccessary evil? | 4/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 2 : Episode 7 | This week on Blue Plz! Building a better mouse-trap, how to beat WoW in the MMORPG genre. Keying up, attunements, useful roadmarkers or a way to hide unfinished content? Plus hybrid classes, how it was done right. | 3/25/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 2 : Episode 6 | This week on Blue Plz! We investigate Hello Kitty Adventure Island! Ok maybe not… but still! Crafting, the ins and outs, and are Endgame guilds being used as beta-testing monkeys? Plus EvE vs WoW, a comparison and conclusion. | 3/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 2 : Episode 5 | This week on Blue Plz! We round up our topic of the difficulty of TBC raid content in “Second Wind”. Plus the abandonment of legacy raid content, the impact that is having on bridging the difficulty gap and a solution of recycling content. | 3/11/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 2 : Episode 4 | This week in Blue Plz! we interview Spiritwolf, Australian WoW comic legend and also a very special announcement about a future interview! Also, Second Wind concludes on the subject of whether or not we’ve now reached PVE Endgame Mk2. | 3/4/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 2 : Episode 3 | This week on Blue Plz! we interview Oxhorn, celebrated machinima artist. We announce the winners of the [EPIC] giveaway and discuss the Black Temple, can it possibly be as ‘non-linear’ as Blizzard claim or is it more of the same? Plus, class nerfs. | 2/25/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 2: Episode 2 | This week on Blue Plz! How do you kill that which has no life? Just how much of a meta-game is PvP and will it ever be as relevant or epic as endgame raid content? What’s the deal with the arenas and is Blizzard indeed attempting to reinvent PvP. | 2/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 2 : Episode 1 | The dramatic return of Blue Plz! sees a record breaking show! Blizzard EU vs WoW Radio! Did the stealth reset really happen? Gear discussion and instance design. Plus the return of the features! Rawr! | 2/11/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 30 | Open Plz! returns with more of your user-submitted topics including Casual vs Hardcore, Guild Wars vs WoW and character progression, plus all the usual features. | 1/22/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 29 | TB talks about gold ads, selling characters and more along with all of the usual features. | 1/15/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 28 | TB talks about the “buggiest patch ever” and the AQ War Effort. | 1/8/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 27 | The Yule Plz! christmas spectacular, with an EPIC giveaway, a brand new intro, a drunken murloc and much intoxicated drivel. RAWR! | 12/25/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 26 | TB talks about his experience joining a new guild and adventures in Zul’Gurub. | 12/18/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 25 | TB talks about the segregation of America and EU players. | 12/11/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 24 | This week, Patch 1.9, Mages are fine and Paladins whine? Plus all the usual features. | 11/26/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 23 | Controversy abound as the issues of WoW-related addiction and deaths are tackled head-on. Plus Tier 2 armour sets. | 11/19/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 22 | This week, Blizzcon and the expansion are the subjects of discussion. Increased level cap, new areas, what the players want and Blood Elves are all on the agenda in an uncompromising look at Blizzard and its latest effort. | 11/5/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 21 | On this weeks show, Level caps, new races and rumours abound. Fear the motorcycles of doom. | 10/22/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 20 | In this weeks show, just how good is Silithus? Game immersion questioned, Nefarion down, what the hell next? Plus all the usual features and shock-horror, TB singing. | 10/15/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 19 | This week, topics include the fake expansion details, more Arathi Basin cowardice, the future of instancing plus all the usual features. | 10/8/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 18 | A Mini Plz! due to a sore throat (blame Dragonforce). Discussing 1.8 patch notes, instant-attack changes and 4 big stompy dragons. | 10/1/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 17 | Patch goodness with in-depth Zul Gurub and Arathi Basin discussion, including the future of instancing, plus all the usual features including Ask the Murloc and Nubcake News. | 9/17/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 16 | This week, WoW Radio comes under attack by the RP community. We discuss roleplaying’s place in World of Warcraft and whether or not WoW works against it. Also dynamic event content and more battlegrounds discussion, plus all the usual features. | 9/10/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 15 | The show moves to a more sensible time for Europeans, thus beginning the 7pm GMT timeslot that eventually became standard for Blue Plz! | 9/3/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 14 | The last Blue Plz! at an “American” time. Discussion of yet more idiocy, who knows best for WoW, how could casters evolve through items, plus all the usual features. | 8/28/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 13 | Covered in this show, Blizzcon stupidity, Arathi Basin, Adapt or Perish and WoW/WC3 Hybrid speculation. Plus all the usual features and an epic rap battle between TB and The Murloc. | 8/21/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 12 | Leto and Lad fill in for TB again… I cannot for the life of me remember what was going on at that time. Possibly finals. | 8/14/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 11 | In the 11th Episode of Blue Plz: Totalbiscuit continues his bizarre trend of discussing World of Warcraft related news on Wow-Radio. Working as intended – for people who think – makes a welcome return where he asks “How do we solve a problem like dishonour?” Along with regular features Ask the Murloc, Nubcake news and Rapping the Forums. Areas of discussion center around the interesting question – are video gamers (Wow players in particular) intrinsically evil? And why people think so. Do they tend to be illiterate, have they gone soft, or are they just plain silly? We are taken on a trip back in time to the days of MUDs to help find out. Also! The implementation of content such as Arathi Basin while older content still has issues; are these additions outright replacements or needed variety? Totalbiscuit reminds us that fashion in war is hardly a concern (though the lack of top hats is a travesty, what) and that Blizzard is not stealing our financial details, or indeed our hamsters! With a tumult of complete ranting bollocks (his own words) our host reminds us that if you are looking for insightful or generally informative comment you are in the wrong place, and demands that we all be a little bit more stupid. | 8/11/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 10 | Leto and Lad filled in for TB again, the horror. | 8/7/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 9 | This weeks show contains an interview with Daryl “The Ganker” Brewer, winner of WoW Idol 2005 and a special Blue Plz! exclusive version of “The Ganker” song. | 7/31/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 8 | Discussed this week, Hero Classes (again), Hardcore content, Fanbois vs Trolls, The Test Server and Dishonour, plus all the usual features. | 7/17/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 7 | Ex-WoW Radio staffers Lad and Leto subbed for TB…. the result is as bad as you’d expect. | 7/10/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 6 | Issues discussed this week include RP/PVP servers, drops vs crafted items, how to improve spirit and how not to be an arsehole on the internet. Plus all the usual features with Ask the Murloc, Rappin the Forums, Imbecile of the Week and Nubcake News. | 7/3/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 5 | TB finally gets over his cold! Big topic for this episode is leaked patch notes but also includes Rapping the Forums, new feature called Bug Watch, Nubcake News and Ask the Murloc. 1.6 Leaked Patch Notes: New lv 60 content – Blackwing Lair will be released Warrior and Warlock getting talents reset cause of new skills Warlock – Gets Master Demonology Warrior – Shield Slam(Prot Tree), Bloodthrist(Fury Tree) Fire mage talent Ignite can now be dispelled Darkmoon Fair! Battleground Queuing from major cities Nerf on Undead Racial Will of the Forsaken | 6/19/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 4 | Totalbiscuit gets high on Haribos, gives his thoughts on the recently released PvP battlegrounds and responds to conspiracy theories about the loot system. Features include a cynical murloc that drinks your tears, Rapping the Forums, Imbecile of the Week and Nubcake News. | 6/12/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 3 | This week: Totalbiscuit is poorly, but the Show must go on so… Time for drama! A hot topic in the Blizzard Forums – known bugs not being fixed. A renowed hunter is banned for tracking the issue. But isn’t that what hunters do? Have customer service reps gone too far? Find out along with clues on how to be a successful tyrant from the Cynical Brit. Rogue fixes are on the table, and, mages could be granted invisibility. The possibilities for AoE pain are endless, and on a related note, how do you prevent people from suiciding in PvP? Debate covers Casual gamers versus Hardcore gamers (sounds like an uneven contest.) Low level content is abundant, while casual content is being added with new raids like Zul Gurub. Live discussion even stems from the Radio chat room concerning ganking of grey level players. Is it a good idea when they have high level friends in support, much like kicking a kitten only for it to bring a tiger in for revenge? The Murloc returns to answer more questions… and even starts telling us stories; such as a charming yet conversely chilling (for those who know the pain of pet farming) tale about a troll and his whelping. Nubcake news reports casual terrorists running riot, Biscuit be illin’ in Rapping the forums, and Imbecile of the week discovers Blizzard is cruel! Everyone is not a retard… a mantra our host probably repeatedly chants to keep his sanity. But then he don’t need reason, don’t need right – there is nothing that he’d rather do – broadcasting radio, rocking out, so please will you enjoy the show – or risk being kicked in the face! | 6/6/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz! – Season 1 : Episode 2 | TB thanks his audience for voting his show to stay on the air. | 5/29/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Blue Plz – Season 1 : Episode 1 | Totalbiscuit launches himself onto the scene, introducing his new show Blue Plz. With threats of violence and murder even to adorable kittens from the start, the soothing background music from World of Warcraft belies the true ranting nature of the programme. Listen carefully and you can even hear the fabled subtle Geordie accent. Topics include the introduction of battlegrounds and the concern of ganking, followed by interaction with the audience as listener’s queries are answered, exploring a wide range of aspects concerning the game. Should mounts be obtainable at level 20? Which class whines the most? Will a state of perfect balance ever be achieved? And why do Goblin rocket boots explode so often. The Cynical Brit instigates his hopeful crusade against the moronic attitude of the Blizzard playerbase particularly through the forums, which were just as bad 6 years ago as they are today, with features including the popular “Blizzard forum rap” and “Imbecile of the week” in addition to “Nubcake news,” a satirical look at hot topics surrounding World of Warcraft where an ounce of highly elusive common sense can be glimpsed! Find out where Totalbiscuit’s name and indeed the name of the show originated (yes, the answer was right in front of you all along) and meet the snobbish Murloc, known as … Murloc, ready to dish out sagely advice for those in need. Prepare yourselves ladies and gentlemen and do not be alarmed; a Cynical Brit has been allowed on the air with a microphone. | 5/23/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 162 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Bravo!
Fantastic podcast! The host is well-informed(not always the case with wow podcasts) and entertaining to listen to. His insight into various aspects of the game is interesting and often thought provocative. I've listened to several other wow podcasts, but none match this show in terms of quality of content. Simply put, I learn more about wow from this show the any others I have downloaded. Cheers, and keep up the fine work
Good Show
good to listen to on those long grinds.
A+
Theres not alot to say, it is easily the best WoW Podcast out there. The host is informed, takes listener input, and presents the weekly topic in a witty and engaging manner. In the end it all adds together to be a enjoyable listen and well worth the time, I reccomend that everyone who plays WoW at least give this Podcast and the rest of WoWRadio a try.
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