Spoit
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Is it really cRPG focused? The couple random ones I listened to seemed to be mostly about jRPGs
It depends on the week and the games coming out. Kat and Parish do love them some JRPGs, though.
I’m not exactly surprised that a podcast called Active Time Babble tends to focus on JRPGs.
I think triggercut was just playing fast and loose with his terms. Like when people say Avril Lavigne is punk.
I tend to only listen when they talk about stuff like Mass Effect 2 or Dragon Age or Alpha Protocol.
Kat Bailey’s monotone doesn’t bother me. It’s her constant snuffling that I find irritating. “Well Jeremey, CHK!, I must say that enjoyed CHK! Dragon Age quite a CHK! bit.” It sounds more like a nervous habit that any kind of allergy. Slightly gross, but it certainly doesn’t ruin the podcast which I always enjoy.
Larsen
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Although she might have settled into podcasting now, in the first episode she reminded me of Andrew Fitch in her Japanophilia.
Which was enough to turn me off completely.
Kat Bailey definitely has a love for Japanese stuff, but she was a big fan of Dragon Age and Mass Effect too. Western RPGs don’t get short shrift on ATB. ATB reminds me a little of Three Moves Ahead or the Qt3 Games podcast. A lot of times the game(s) covered don’t interest me much, but I enjoy hearing people who are knowledgeable, enthusiastic and appropriately critical talk about them anyway.
Larsen
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I really like Jeremy Parish on podcasts for exactly those reasons so I may as well give ATB another go.
Hearing Jeff Green on the Bombcast really makes me hope that Whiskey Media offers him some sweet deal to come work there. Probably just a crazy dream of course, but he fit in perfect with the rest of the crew.
That would be so, so good. Imagine having him along on all those endurance vids and crazy features. Love you Jeff!
Unfortunately he’s only been on it sporadically recently. Which is a shame because it seems like they flounder a little without him, especially when it comes to covering news.
Jeff was great. Fun times on the Bombcast. Unfortunately, the people hoping Whiskey Media hire him are living in a fantasy world. I doubt someone who’d demand as much as Jeff would is really in their budget. Despite his jokes, there’s no way he’d sign on to be a junior member of their staff and they probably have all the senior members they want.
That said, I was a little disappointed with Jeff on one point. He kept talking about how great the Irrational team was and how Ken hasn’t disappointed yet. I’m a little surprised that he didn’t say something like “anyway, there’s a guy at Irrational named Shawn somethingsomething who I’m sure is helping to keep this project on the rails”.
I’m not really surprised he didn’t mention Shawn in that way, as it could have easily seemed like a defensive gesture because of them being friends and former coworkers. Also, I’m guessing Shawn himself would probably prefer it as such, judging by his past comments about “e-fame” and the like.
The part that did surprise me was when Black Dragon didn’t pursue questioning Jeff Gerstmann on his critique of Kane and Lynch 2 on being too short, since game length and the strange ways that people associate validation to it was an oft-discussed topic on the Brodeo. Maybe it was just the aspect of being a guest on their show instead of his usual position as host…
You are not the lord of the rings.
I think it’s great they had Jeff review Kane and Lynch 2, but I have to wonder if that whole topic was a little weird for everyone discussing it.
I don’t see how it would have been defensive at all. He wasn’t defending anything. He was just sharing his thoughts.
That would certainly explain why we haven’t heard anything from Shawn since he got his new job. Not even a peep. Keeping his name out of the spotlight, his head down and his nose to the grindstone as he works tirelessly and anonymously on Irrational’s latest project.
Despite the ease with which the jokes could be made, it’s kind of conspicuous that no one on the Bombcast made any references to the results of Jeff’s review of Kane and Lynch 1 except for Jeff to say he didn’t much care for it. I get the feeling that even a couple of years later, Jeff doesn’t find the situation that funny.
Also, them bagging on The Outfit made me sad. I kind of liked The Outfit. It had an okay single player and a really fun multiplayer.
LMN8R
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This was actually the first Giant Bombcast I’ve ever listened to…entertaining stuff. But the sound quality was hard on my ears…not sure why, but I don’t think I’ll be listening to this one week-to-week.
Dean
3557
During one of the post E3 Bombcasts they mentioned Jeff’s past with the franchise, and Jeff said something to the effect that he couldn’t legally talk about it. So I’m sure there was some sort of gag order that he signed in return for a severance package.
Yeah, no, it wasn’t “defensive” that I didn’t mention Shawn. I just thought that it would have been more beside-the-point to what we were talking about, which was the game and franchise itself. I didn’t want to derail with an “OMG I KNOW THAT GUY!” sort of remark. And, frankly, I have no idea what Shawn is doing on that project. It just seemed like it would have been gratuitous to mention.
And I actually was trying to break in on the Kane and Lynch talk with a point about game length…but the conversation veered away. I think if you go back and listen, you can hear me ask something like, “Was it a GOOD 5 hours?” …which was my attempt at opening that talk up. So, yeah, I think that was the “I’m a guest here” thing at work, as it should be.
JZigish
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Also, why keep bringing it up? I had actually forgotten about gerstmanngate until now, just because I love giantbomb as a solo entity, irrelevant to any past connections. Bringing that old history up doesn’t serve any purpose.
Amen brother! He would be fantastic
