Hahaha, I can totally believe it. I could almost hear you and Julian straining not to laugh. And Troy was relentless with it too, he said it fives times AT LEAST.
I’m down to two podcasts. Bombcast and Extreme tech. I dropped PC gamer Uk. I like it but I can’t hear it because the production values are so poor. PC gamer podcast was dropped since the staff changes have made it really boring. ALWW got dropped just because I couldn’t get into it. I dropped all my non gaming podcasts because either they haven’t updated in 6 months or they have been repeating themselves.
No, it’s not. I’m keeping a list of the Soulless Husks and when the Time comes, there will be A Reaping.
We’re Quotation Marshalls, thank you. :(
Just listened to the first BitMob podcast (http://www.bitmob.com/index.php/podcast) among others they have an interesting discussion about gaming podcast, with mark Macdonnell requesting more diversity in the format of the podcast, that’s something I would agree with.
also the format of the podcast seams interesting 4 to 5 themes to be discussed in each edition proposed by the different participants. although this could be a bit ambitious for a weekly podcast.
Loved the “Why we game” podcast. It made me think about why I game. I think it is a little bit of everything that was discussed.
I am pretty sure it is mostly a control issue. When you think about your life and what you do in a game, it is easy to see how gaming can be a lot of fun.
In a game, you have control over all of the outcomes. Suprises may come, but they are always within the defined rule-set. So, if something comes along unexpectedly, you don’t feel cheated because it was by the rules. It was fair. Everything is defined and you have certain expectations of what can and will happen in a game. It is so unlike our lives where we have very little control outside of our small influence.
I also think a part of it is just being able to take part in a fantasy experience. I can never be a knight and swordsmen in Medieval France. I can do that in a book, a movie, or in a game. I love how interactive games are vs books and movies, so they are my favorite.
Great podcast.
I would like also chime in that Rebel fm has been getting better every week. I think they are starting to get into a good groove since the last shake-up.
Right on, Jon.
Really digging their Game Club, too, actually. It’s nice to get a detailed evaluation of one game.
I’d like Game Club better if they did games I gave a crap about. Like newer games. When it started on 1Up FM I get the sense that they just sort of cribbed off of the Squadron of Shame and decided to play older stuff, which is fine, I guess, but I don’t even have enough time to play all the new releases I want to, so the chances of me going and digging Gun out of a Gamestop somewhere are pretty damn slim. I like to think that a Game Club series on something like Fallout 3 where there are a lot of different ways to experience the content would be pretty interesting, but they haven’t quite gotten there yet.
I’m mostly done with last week’s ListenUp. Shane was back and blurted forth a prime example of how he was the podcast equivalent of a forum troll. The guys were just getting into a discussion of Tiger Woods 10 on Wii, which is one of the first games to utilize Wii Motion Plus. Before anyone could say anything of substance about the game Shane interjected, “How are the graphics?” with no sense of irony or sarcasm. If that’s not the perfect Shane-in-a-Nutshell sketch, I don’t know what is.
I somehow keep forgetting to download the latest ALWW. Dammit!
Yeah, I listened to the new ListenUp and was pretty unimpressed. Having Shane back didn’t make up for just how miserable that show is without John.
John is great, but he sometimes speaks on matters he doesn’t know about. In the last episode he said one could get Deadly Creatures (Wii) for $10 and an 8GB microSD card for $10. If any of you guys can hook me up with these deals, let me know.
Please. Tons of podcasts talked about Fallout 3 for months. It’s more fun to go back to games people missed, or retro games. But yes, Gun is a poor choice.
Hey, I’m liking the discussion of Gun, and Bully before that. Gun is one of those rare games I actually finished, and enjoyed the hell out of.
At least they’re not talking about cutesy handheld games or shudder JRPGs.
I started listening to the latest Bombcast last night on my way home. It is the first time that I can recall skipping through a portion of a podcast for reasons not related to spoiler avoidance. The podcast starts up and introduces some PR slap from Treyarch as a “guest host”. I think, “Cool. It’ll be nice to get a developer side take on the week’s games and news.” NOPE. The guy was there apparently to record a 20 minute long ad for the new World at War map pack. I’m sure there are plenty of people out there than love them some World at War maps, but listening to a guy going into explicit detail about what each new map looks like is the very definition of boring to me. Even worse, the GiantBomb guys could only muster questions like, “Your game is so awesome. How awesome is it?” Well…to be fair, that’s the character of the questions I heard them ask. Like I said, I skipped through most of the “interview” when I realized it was a gauze-thinly veiled advertisement. Absolutely awful.
I finally checked out Three Moves Ahead this weekend. I chose the podcast with Brad Wardell as a guest and I loved how the guys grilled Brad. I felt a little bad for him when Bruce’s deadpan delivered jokes were flying right over his head though.
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I was skeptical about this segment from reading the podcast description ahead of time, and my fears were confirmed when I started listening. I had to fast forward the first 20 minutes due to its awfulness. After that, I wasn’t that interested in listening to the rest of the podcast and turned on some music instead.
I don’t mind when a developer/shill is on for a whole podcast, participating in the rest of it, with a short pimpage segment (like 1up Yours has done). This format, on the other hand, really annoyed me.
I just hope they got some money for it because there was no trade off between interesting tidbits vs. reading the PR sheet. It was all PR/advertising with nothing interesting at all. Usually if someone is coming on a show to pimp something, there is a give and take where the host(s) ask questions that are legitimately interesting followed by a short segment where the person can openly shill whatever he’s got. This segment was more like an infomercial, where the participants pretend it’s a legitimate interview, but where it’s just a carefully scripted advertisement. It was not only boring, but somewhat distasteful.
This seems to be an editing error. In the past their “we’re totally rockin’ out with a developer” things have been separate podcasts in the feed. Not sure why they felt the need to graft this one to the main podcast, but it’s not their usual course.
Yeah, now that you say that, I recall listening to one they did with some of the Ghostbusters devs. That also had a very infomercial-ish feel to it, but at least it was something I was interested in (hence going out of my way to download it). The WaW “discussion” is truly awful not only because it was the first 20 minutes of the podcast, but because the entirety of its discussion was a MAP PACK. Not a game that’s coming up. A map pack.
I didn’t think it was that bad. It was interesting to listen to and it didn’t seem that infomercial-y to me.
I’m with ya, Steve. It turned me off the rest of the podcast, too.
