Truly this is the age of quoting memes…truly.
Their quotability factor really is through the roof. My ex doesn’t even listen to podcasts at all, but since I started saying it, she’s prone to tossing out a petulant ‘I own a Wii!’ every now and again.
Listening to ListenUp now.
Good Lord, the GamePro guy is obnoxious and only gets worse.
Garnett Lee trying to compare Prototype to inFamous using a Japanese vs American RPG simile could be the dumbest thing I’ve heard today.
Wow, I finally started the ListenUp with the Gamepro guy and I believe it’s the first episode ever that I haven’t finished. He’s uniformed, repeating information that was given 30 seconds earlier, and at times taking over a minute to get a single sentance out. What an idiot. He didn’t add a single thing to the podcast other than listening to the other guys mock him toward the third hour.
Gamepro was a crap magazine last time I read it, and he didn’t make me want to check it out again any time soon.
Jazar
1746
Listening to GiantBomb’s weekend pre-E3 show.
A Zelda game set in the future would be amazing.
If this Gamepro guy is such a douche, why the heck did they invite him on? Was it to make us realize how good we have it with Davison, Ellis, and Garnett?
Honestly I didn’t think Brad was very good on that ListenUp either and I like him on the BombCast.
Cubit
1749
Brad seems a little more tightly wound, so he is definitely best with the other giantbomb guys
I didn’t think either of those guys was so bad on ListenUp …
But I was really cringing at Garnett’s suggesting that Fallout 3 wasn’t a good open world game exactly because you could circumvent story missions. He seemed to relent a little after the Bomb guy explained it pretty well, and essentially just linked it to his preference for Final Fantasy games.
Really? You’re a nice guy, zen. I’m still trying to make my way through ListenUp and, god, that GamePro guy. Highlights have to come from the Wii discussion.
Garnett: I think maybe they’ll release a new Zelda for the Wii…
Brad: Especially since the original one was just a repurposed Gamecube game.
Thirty seconds of conversation pass.
Travis: BUT TWILIGHT PRINCESS WAS A GAMECUBE GAME!
Garnett: They’ve already had a Wii Mario and it was great.
Travis: NO, THEY DID A MARIO! IT WAS MARIO GALAXY AND IT WAS AWESOME!
Travis: What does Nintendo love to announce? PERIAPHREALS! What kind of pheriperals can they announce? I SAY WEIGHTS FOR YOUR WII REMOTE!
David: Where is Wii HD?
Brad: At least a year away.
Garnett: They’re going to come out at E3 and announce something big for the Wii, and it’s going to be four new colors it comes in.
Travis: NO! NO! WII HD! DVD! 720P -AT LEAST-! E3!
David: Really? You think they’ll announce that?
Travis: (voice laden with intense sadness) I really want them to.
Haha. Perhaps part of it was due to my brain shutting down intermittently over the course of the show. It was, after all, a three hour tour. I didn’t think he was a douche - definitely spazzy. As a first timer, I’ll give him twelve more chances.
The Shane got many more than that.
I think it was one moment in particular for which I liked him, when he was playing the rational human being to Garnett’s ‘something popped into my head and I’m going to say it without giving it any thought’. But I have to admit that there were a good few times where they were discussing some game which he had never played and he insisted on interjecting questions even while the others were in the middle of answering those previous. It was clear he wasn’t even listening.
Brad’s redemption, for me, came with the countering to Garnett’s claim that Fallout’s story was bad because it allowed you to close off quests.
Strangely enough, I don’t like him on the Bomb (I find his voice to be the most identifiable, too), but on ListenUp I thought he did a good job as the hurr-durr counter.
I like Brad on Bomb, but I like 'em all. Though Vinnie is my favorite. I like Vinnie because he’s prone to making a completely off the wall, tasteless joke which is invariably followed by a half-second of utter silence, after which Jeff or Ryan starts the conversation back up. It’s deliciously awkward.
Brad can be somewhat of a wet blanket on the Giant Bombcast. He rarely comes up with anything funny himself and mostly just reacts. His commentary on games is usually fairly decent, though his insane love for MGS4 was a bit much for me. The only time Brad bugs me is when he refuses to take part in a taste test. He bitches out on that stuff all the time. Now if he’s a diabetic or something, I retract that criticism, but it seems like he’s just selective about what he’ll try, not that he’s avoiding sugar or whatever.
Vinnie is really growing on me. I thought he was sorta dumb for awhile, but his interjections are getting funnier and funnier. He doesn’t just ape whatever Gerstmann just said as much and the stuff he comes up with has gotten me laughing quite a few times.
Jazar
1755
Brad is the straight man in the madhouse that is Giantbomb. The anchor if you will.
The GamePro guy on ListenUp was completely wasted and only got more so as the show progressed. They all were, actually. How could anyone miss that? They were slurring their words really badly about an hour in. They were also shouting over each other, blurting out random thoughts, and devolving into fits of everyone talking at the same time and nobody backing down. I mean more so than usual.
At any rate, it was a complete clusterfuck of a show and the first one in a long time I didn’t listen to even half way through. I think my new rule is that I’m not going to listen to any more of them when that British guy isn’t there (John? I want to say John.) He’s easily the most level headed, thoughtful guy and the best at countering Garnet’s “I’m going to say something --ANYTHING-- for the sake of starting a debate, no matter how silly” method of podcasting.
I think my new rule is that I’m not going to listen to any more of them when that British guy isn’t there (John? I want to say John.) He’s easily the most level headed, thoughtful guy and the best at countering Garnet’s “I’m going to say something --ANYTHING-- for the sake of starting a debate, no matter how silly” method of podcasting.
John Davison, who has a podcast that is short and to the point.
PC Gamer Podcast for me. Not that UK stuff, the US version, though I seem to be swamped at the moment so I have a backlog (about 200 megs worth) of podcasts I haven’t listened to.
When I realized that the only reason I bothered to listen to the PC Gamer Podcast was to hear Logan Decker talk about squirrels, I canceled my subscription.
nabeel
1760
The two ListenUP episodes at E3 have been pretty good, quite brief - which means, though, that sometimes interesting discussions are cut off in the interest of time. It seems like they’ll be having some good guests over the coming episodes while they’re there.
