Live Q & As are almost always painful. I also hate radio call in shows for this reason.
Thank you, Tom Chick, for turning the same critical eye that utterly destroyed Starcraft 2 towards the Jumping the Shark theme song. It is truly a baffling piece of music.
Was there a new Jumping the Shark this week? When I go to the gameshark website the last podcast is from February 7th.
There was a new one, and definitely new stuff since the 7th of February. I don’t download directly from the website, however - I use the RSS feed, which appears to be up to date.
Hey, I love the intro music! If it gets replaced I’ll go outside and burn the first building I see.
ubrakto
4006
People either seem to love that song or hate it; very little middle ground.
sinfony
4007
It does have the virtue of being brief.
I hate Retronauts Live. I hate the way the call-in beeps interrupt conversation all the time. I hate the way the fans think they are funny or interesting when they are not. I hate the way the coverage of topics is generally much lighter.
I want a retro Retronauts.
I just found the Mobcast on bitmob.com, and it’s quite excellent. This is the site where Dan Hsu and Ryan Scott ended up. The last three Mobcast episodes featured Jeff Green, Kathleen Sanders, Cliffy B., Shane Bettenhausen, and a bunch of indie developers, among others.
Ryan Scott works for IGN at GameSpy and 'casts the Geekbox, which I’ll listen to if I’m short on content for a week, and is generally made fun of on the GameSpy Debriefings, which has nothing to do with games most weeks. Crispin Boyer was originally involved in some way with Bitmob, but I’m not sure what his actual degree of investment is, since I think he’s, like, a full time surfer or something now. That’s the impression I get, anyway.
Mobcast is reasonable. I just wish that it were a little bit looser, and I’ve never once heard a community anything segment on any podcast that I have ever enjoyed at all. I also got a little tired of hearing from Shoe’s then-girlfriend Raychul Moore, whom I would link the images search of if she wasn’t full-on nude in one of the ones down the page (albeit with her arm draped tastefully over her tits) because that’s sort of the person I hear every time she talks about anything. I think she started showing up less often after they broke up or whatever.
Ryan Scott isn’t on Gamespy anymore? He wasn’t this week but I assumed that was him on vacation or something? What happened?
He’s still there as of 3 days ago.
Huh… I guess all that must have happened in the first episodes. The last three episodes that I listened to were nothing like that. Community segments are really brief (just a few comments from listeners) and nothing about Shoe’s girlfriend at all.
Sorry, that was badly worded – Ryan Scott works for other sites, too.
Ah, gotcha. No worries, I was just curious. Thanks for clearing it up!
Well this line-up of guests actually sounds interesting, I may have to check them out. My problem with the Mobcast has always been that it is really boring and there is no “chemistry” between the usual hosts. I know this is a personal preference thing, but I listen to games podcasts for entertainment not serious discussion of video-game topics or even for news. Podcasts aren’t great for in-depth discussion because being informed and getting your point across in a concise and interesting manner is hard (At least on, say, a forum, I can yell at people when they don’t know what they’re talking about). As for video-game news, that’s what Twitter is for.
LMN8R
4017
I stopped listening to the Mobcast months ago. I got sick of hearing Dan Hsu talk about Splinter Cell’s multiplayer every fucking episode, and tons of guests simply not being interesting or worthy listening to.
I did get two recent episodes though with CliffyB and Jeff Green, those were hugely enjoyable since the regulars basically shut up the majority of time. Then I tried another episode without any big-name guests and turned it off after about 10 minutes.
JDSIDD
4018
Mobcast is really hit or miss. I stopped listening to it months ago but when I did the quality was all over the place. Sometimes they have great guests with great topics and sometimes they have bland guests who show up with a “desert island” question. Personally I think no journalist or interviewer should ever be allowed to ask a “desert island” question. Its the laziest and blandest of all interview routes. That aside, sometimes mobcast manages to be great and sometimes it fails completely.
So I haven’t listened to any gaming podcasts for about three months, since I took a break to ‘read’ some audiobooks instead. Now that I’ve got a dozen back episodes of most of my favorites to listen to, I’m trying to be realistic about it while also clearing up some space on my phone. As such, a dozen Geekboxes, deleted. Have any episodes of Giant Bombcast over the last couple of months been so hilarious I’d be a fool to miss them? Have any awesome guests (such as Jeff Green or Jeff Green) been on any episodes? At 2+ hours each, this is literally a day of podcasts I could easily get rid of. I may ditch the GDC podcasts anyway. If I want to listen to GDC stuff, there’s always the conf grenades.
Giant Bomb got way more random industry dudes for their podcasts and they’re a lot rowdier and freer with the liquor on account of they’re recording the podcast at a functional bar in their studio. That would be where all of the guests of note show up. There was some guy I didn’t recognize on the latest, but I don’t know if he’s anybody or not. Also, basically the entire Idle Thumbs crew winds through the Giant Bombcast between the two nights.
Outside of those, nothing is leaping to mind off the top of my head as being particularly exceptional, but I can barely remember, like, three days ago, so maybe somebody who isn’t a dessicated old piece of leather has some better recall as to which might be better to listen to.
