I just have a hard thinking that it will be. Suppose I can give it a bit of a listen and decide for myself, though.
I pitched this podcast myself to EA. Now, obviously, I work for them now and am not a “journalist” anymore, but if the goal was simply “marketing” then I never would have pitched it.
What I’m hoping to be able to do is use my access to be able to talk to a lot of folks in the company about what they do, but ALSO, hopefully, have a funny and entertaining show. Clearly I can’t do what I did on GFW Radio, or on Out of the Game now, but I do plan on doing everything I can to make this show more than just a shillapalooza.
This first one that’s up is more a “test run” than anything I would consider “real”–we didn’t even know who was gonna be on it until pretty much right before we started recording–and I know it’s going to take a bit to gel and for me to get the tone right. But anyone who knows me (and many of you on Qt3 do) know that my bullshit tolerance is extremely low, and I simply won’t be able to do it, or deal with it, if I can’t, to a large extent, be “me.” That was pretty much right in my pitch. :) So, we’ll see. I will be an extremely harsh critic of myself (at this point, I can’t even get myself to listen to it), and will of course be totally open to comments and suggestions.
In short, I just want it to be an intelligent, funny, and entertaining show–in and of itself–even if at the end of the day it is, of course, a promotional vehicle for EA. That doesn’t mean we can’t have fun with it and provide something listeners might dig.
(But give me a few weeks to figure it all out…)
So the official name won’t be MySims Agents Presents: The EA Podcast with MySims Agents’ Jeff Green, featuring MySims Agents?
I was totally prepared to listen to that and readily absorb your message!
That was pretty good. There was some “So how awesome is Dead Space Extraction?” “So awesome!” but overall it sounded like actual people talking about games rather than marketing copy.
How about getting in touch with the people who made the old EA classics - you know, back when games were good.
Lake
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Listen to this podcast, yo yo.
You mean Caveman Ugh-lympics? Hell yes!
Oh, cool. I hadn’t heard anything about Jeff doing an EA Podcast, but I’m downloading it now :)
Also just linked it to a bunch of Gamers with Jobs folks who seemed intrigued when I mentioned a new Jeff Green podcast. Yay :)
Exactly. Kind of like a mix between Retronauts and Edge articles
Speaking of corporate shilling, how are the Bungie and Insomniac podcasts? I heard Luke Smith and Bryan Intihar do each one, respectively. Anyone listen to those?
I found the Bungie podcast to be pretty dull. Lukey’s sweet dulcet tones couldn’t save what was, for the most part, people sitting there and talking about a game I don’t care about. I can’t see the Insomniac podcast being much better. At least The Jeff GrEAn Show can have him talking about a whole bunch of different games. I mean, I’ll probably care about at least one of 'em!
I completely agree with the Bungie-cast review. I found it boring and rote. I did enjoy the Insomniac podcast for a while. It’s much more structured (they do interviews and separate segments) but it eventually fell behind podcasts like 1up, GamersWithJobs, and now Bitmob. I just ran out of time for it.
Nawid_A
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So how is Out of the Game as someone who loved when GFW went off-topic?
I like it a lot. Sometimes it’s pretty gaming-related (last week’s had a lot about reaction to E3 from a developer’s perspective). A few weeks ago they talked a fair bit about the book How We Decide, which I highly enjoyed having picked that book up independently.
It actually hasn’t been that rude so far, that group of people leads to the discussions being slightly higher brow than GFW on average.
The discussion on Out of the Game is usually pretty good. They just need to work on the audio issues. A lot. :(
Or with the really weird Sierra adventure game from the late 80’s:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-st/manhunter-new-york
“Slightly?” Heh. I think it’s caused by a combination of factors: N’Gai, Luke’s silence, and the fact that they’re not all in the same room anymore, so they don’t play off each other at all as well. I miss the irreverence.
The best episodes have all five of them on, though. Having five people who may or may not want to talk prevents it from turning into the One Man Band Show. Shawn Elliot is a smart, funny guy, but he can get on a ramble now and again. And I respect N’gai a lot, I really like what he’s done and I always find his work to be very readable. But if you gave me a nickel for every ‘you know’ in the latest episode, I would be a very happy man.
The show has no editing, so I think having the full group makes for some self-editing done on the parts of the participants.
Really? I’ll have to go back and get that one, since I loved that book. I listened to the first couple of podcasts and then quit because of the audio issues. Not only is it too hard for me to hear, it’s too hard for THEM to hear, so they end up talking over each other or halting their comments because they’re afraid of talking over each other. It’s awkward.
