Tony_M
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I just can’t get into the new Joystiq podcast. In the new format they are competing with TV and well produced radio shows. I think Podcasts are better to stick to their strength, which is the closeness of the medium. A good podcast (like the old Joystiq podcast) feels like sitting in the room listening to friends chat.
There are a few exceptions, like “This American Life”. But that show is so good it would stand out in any medium, so its not relying on the closeness of the podcast medium.
I guess you could congratulate Joystiq for attempting something more ambitious, but I just can’t warm to it. I’'ll hunt down the other shows the regular Joystiq guys do, maybe one of them will be a replacement.
Tony
Retronauts Live at the IGN offices now has a phone that beeps like every two seconds with a call waiting. And the callers are even worse and less interesting as the show goes on. Now that 1up’s absorbed into a larger staff with a lot of editors, I hope they go back to their previous format, which would be a lot more fun.
mtkafka
4223
Yeh Joystiq has kinda sucked for a year now, Justin seemed to be out of it, and Chris seemd bothered to be on. But Ludwig always seemed to be enthusiastic (which is one of the reasons I listened to Joystiq).
Right now I don’t even listen to the ‘big’ gaming podcasts anymore because they all seem so disinterested… which I don’t blame them for, could anybody really talk games every week and not get burnout? Especially if its your job…
You can still find alot of good gaming podcasts if you search for them. Most of the ones I listen to are just friends podcasting for the hell of it.
He does this now, with Griffin and his other brother Travis. Between that and his day job, I’m not surprised he hasn’t been showing up as much on the podcast, though I should say that I’m still glad that he got me to start downloading the feed, because I’m quite enjoying the new format.
I don’t hate Brad at all, but woe to you if he’s the only one from the GB crew that was at an event or preview of a game. In that event, inevitably the podcast conversation goes something like this:
Ryan: “So Brad, you went to see Stupendous Game Sequel X?”
Brad: “Yep.”
Ryan: “So what did you think?”
Brad: “Well…what do you want to know?”
The segment then becomes the rest of the crew trying to extract information from Brad in a question and answer format. It’s maddening. He can never just talk about what he saw. And, as others have pointed out, he never seems very engaged in the show. He even plays off of it by pretending (I think he’s pretending) to have been asleep every time Ryan asks him to talk.
LMN8R
4226
Only one episode has been at the IGN offices. There were 10 previous episodes done before the IGN merger that had the same call waiting beep every 2 seconds
No no. As bad as it was in the old office, the beeps are much worse now.
I just found out that Giantbomb recently began doing a podcast with their interns. It’s called Internal Affairs. Link and scroll down. They’re up to 3 episodes so far.
I’ve only listened to the 1st ep and it’s short and they only talk a little bit about their experiences as interns however, you definitely get a sense of their humour. Unknown if it’s for everybody, but I definitely had a good laugh and will be listening to more.
Thanks for the heads up Sander. I’ll definitely check this out, though I’m not a big Matt Kessler fan. He’s been on some Quick Looks in the past and his bowing and scraping mixed with his terrible sense of humor has been grating.
For me its the Jumping the Shark podcast from Bill Abner and the Gameshark/No High Scores crew. Usually fun yet informed discussion, with a good amount on PC gaming.
Good gaming stuff that’s less broey than Bombcast? Joystiq podcast is doing a pretty good job of doing a show that’s actually formatted as a show. Jumping the Shark is pretty good for a different perspective on a bunch of stuff, and Bill reminds me of Gordon Mah Ung. Idle Thumbs still does one or two shows a year when they meet up at cons, and they’re pretty excellent.
I’ll also just drop this link here for anybody listening to the Bombcast this week who ends up overwhelmed with the desire for the Nabisco flavor classics that no longer exist in the United States, but do exist in Canada, because, seriously, fuck Nabisco. At some point somebody will have to explain ketchup flavored potato chips to me in a way that makes me not want to eat them too, because I’m dangerously close to adding them to my cart.
Why would you not want to eat ketchup potato chips? They’re delicious.
This weeks bombcast made me hungry. so so hungry.
The tomato and basil Lay’s chips you CAN get is the US are really good.
Pickle flavored chips are the best.
Sometimes when I download the Bombcast it gets cut off and I don’t get the entire thing. But this week, it seemed intentional as Jeff was about to go into his wii ware update. Was it?
Since we were talking about people who annoy us on podcasts earlier, I want to vent my frustration with the way Adam Fitch has been shitting up the Geekbox lately. He dominates the conversation by forcefully interrupting to interject nonsense about things he doesn’t actually know. Karen Chu seems to be the only one there willing to tell him to shut up and things really go off the deep end when they do an episode without her.
I’ll put this on my sadly short list of podcasts to visit. Blast Jeff Green and the others for not securing venture capital/robbing places with items of value in order to reboot CGW.
I’ll step in to plug the July 22 edition of Games Dammit (the podcast currently filling the 1UpYours feed), because these are the stories I want to hear. I thought that I was alone in believing that Tomonobu Itagaki is a dick.
