Gamer Podcasts

I must say that I didn't find last year's Incident very funny. Just having one person being wrong, all the time, got old.

Since the last time I posted a couple of months ago, I've dropped DGR and added JTS. Great podcast.

For some reason or another I was reminded of this again.
Those guys were just the best.

I've fallen off of Jumping the Shark. It's not that I don't like the show, but my podcast time seems to have decreased, and something had to go. That said, I did listen to the most recent one to get Todd's discussion of The Witcher 2.

Podunk wrote:
snorlax789 wrote:

I'm trying to figure out if I'm dreading or excited about Leigh Alexander: The Drunkening Returneth in this year's Giant Bomb E3 podcasts.

Dreading. Definitely dreading.

This

kyrieee wrote:

For some reason or another I was reminded of this again.
Those guys were just the best.

Someday I'm going to learn how to use p2p (I'm dumb) just so I can download all of the old GFW shows. I need to listen to them again.

demonbox wrote:

Someday I'm going to learn how to use p2p (I'm dumb) just so I can download all of the old GFW shows. I need to listen to them again.

The GFW shows are still up on 1UP. I listened to the ones where Jeff talked about The Witcher recently.

Here's a collection of Heroes of the Web segments.

Podunk wrote:
snorlax789 wrote:

I'm trying to figure out if I'm dreading or excited about Leigh Alexander: The Drunkening Returneth in this year's Giant Bomb E3 podcasts.

Dreading. Definitely dreading.

Granted, those were particularly egregious showings on her behalf, but most of the time when she's not drunk she's actually quite coherent and interesting. I don't really get all the hate.

kilanash wrote:
Podunk wrote:
snorlax789 wrote:

I'm trying to figure out if I'm dreading or excited about Leigh Alexander: The Drunkening Returneth in this year's Giant Bomb E3 podcasts.

Dreading. Definitely dreading.

Granted, those were particularly egregious showings on her behalf, but most of the time when she's not drunk she's actually quite coherent and interesting. I don't really get all the hate.

I like her; she's a really good writer and has an interesting outlook on the hobby. But she does have a history of trainwrecking Giant Bombcast's E3 shows.

So no hate from me, I just hope she keeps it together this year if she's on.

Oh, Leigh is always entertaining, even if it's sometimes in a trainwreck sort of way =)

I have very fond memories of a podcast interview that was just her and Kieron Gillen (of rock paper shotgun, marvel comics, and that nice leggy red head from 'doctor who' fame). I don't know who was interviewing whom but they were both pretty drunk and it was a good listen.

Yeah, I really like Giant Bomb's podcasts and how they approach E3 coverage but if they have drunken, obnoxious Leigh on again I'll just switch it off. After two years of pages of comments on their site hating those episodes, I hope they've learned. But then again, they just did a whole podcast with Pachter...

TheCounselor wrote:

I've fallen off of Jumping the Shark. It's not that I don't like the show, but my podcast time seems to have decreased, and something had to go.

Unacceptable. I'm sending Brandon out to find and deal with you.

TheCounselor wrote:

That said, I did listen to the most recent one to get Todd's discussion of The Witcher 2.

Nevermind. You are forgiven.

JTS has eyes everywhere!

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

Yeah, I really like Giant Bomb's podcasts and how they approach E3 coverage but if they have drunken, obnoxious Leigh on again I'll just switch it off. After two years of pages of comments on their site hating those episodes, I hope they've learned. But then again, they just did a whole podcast with Pachter...

I've found Pachter's podcast appearances on anything to be very interesting. His perspective is one of a kind, as he's not just another journalist.

If you go to Giant Bomb now and aren't a member, there's a link at the top to sign up. One of the messages now is "The Staples Center isn't going to rent itself." Nothing like a laugh at Leigh's expense that she'll probably never see.

Blind_Evil wrote:
Parallax Abstraction wrote:

Yeah, I really like Giant Bomb's podcasts and how they approach E3 coverage but if they have drunken, obnoxious Leigh on again I'll just switch it off. After two years of pages of comments on their site hating those episodes, I hope they've learned. But then again, they just did a whole podcast with Pachter...

I've found Pachter's podcast appearances on anything to be very interesting. His perspective is one of a kind, as he's not just another journalist.

If you go to Giant Bomb now and aren't a member, there's a link at the top to sign up. One of the messages now is "The Staples Center isn't going to rent itself." Nothing like a laugh at Leigh's expense that she'll probably never see.

Yeah, I agree about Pachter. He knows what he's talking about, and catches flack because he is talking to people that don't know or care about the details of the games industry so some of his quotes sound silly out of context.

Nightmare wrote:
kilanash wrote:
Podunk wrote:
snorlax789 wrote:

I'm trying to figure out if I'm dreading or excited about Leigh Alexander: The Drunkening Returneth in this year's Giant Bomb E3 podcasts.

Dreading. Definitely dreading.

Granted, those were particularly egregious showings on her behalf, but most of the time when she's not drunk she's actually quite coherent and interesting. I don't really get all the hate.

I like her; she's a really good writer and has an interesting outlook on the hobby. But she does have a history of trainwrecking Giant Bombcast's E3 shows.

I think I'll learn my lesson this year even if the GB staff doesn't. I gave her a chance last year, but her behavior was the same except for her tone and volume being more retrained. As soon as she gets on, I'll fast-foward 10 minutes...but that likely won't be enough.

Blind_Evil wrote:
Parallax Abstraction wrote:

Yeah, I really like Giant Bomb's podcasts and how they approach E3 coverage but if they have drunken, obnoxious Leigh on again I'll just switch it off. After two years of pages of comments on their site hating those episodes, I hope they've learned. But then again, they just did a whole podcast with Pachter...

I've found Pachter's podcast appearances on anything to be very interesting. His perspective is one of a kind, as he's not just another journalist.

I usually agree, and very much enjoy his POV even if I don't agree. But, last week he was an annoying rambler, whatyaknow, like Leigh Alexander. I wouldn't be surprised if he took up 70% of that show. He was constantly interrupting Ryan and Jeff, and after he'd half-ass explain one stretch of logic, he'd move onto the next which had nothing do with the question he was given or the topic at hand. I'm glad they finally got him on, just not with the end product. Guest or not, they really should've reigned him in.

I liked the Pachter podcast. He see's games from a very different perspective and some of the inside baseball stuff was great. But unlike some other analyst I also got the vibe that he actually enjoys games.

Nietzsche wrote:

I liked the Pachter podcast. He see's games from a very different perspective and some of the inside baseball stuff was great. But unlike some other analyst I also got the vibe that he actually enjoys games.

What I don't like about him is not just that most of what he predicts is wrong or that the press never calls him on it, it's that I think he makes some of his really off-base predictions on purpose to get coverage and that he doesn't really believe some of what he puts out. Saying Nintendo should go the Sega route of being just a software publisher after the Wii and DS printed money for so many years? There's no way I can believe he didn't say that just to get a rise out of people. If that's his schtick then that's cool if he wants to do that but the press should stop fawning over him as some oracle of inside industry information in that case.

I agree with PA. I love the Bombcast to death, but I never even considered listening to the Pachtercast.

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

Saying Nintendo should go the Sega route of being just a software publisher after the Wii and DS printed money for so many years? There's no way I can believe he didn't say that just to get a rise out of people.

You have to admit they'd make a killing. Their characters are way more beloved than Sega's, and as a longtime Nintendo loyalist I'm usually not in for their hardware, but their software. I think that's what he was getting at, that the expanded audience of being a third party publisher might be worth not having the responsibilities of platform ownership.

snorlax789 wrote:

I'm trying to figure out if I'm dreading or excited about Leigh Alexander: The Drunkening Returneth in this year's Giant Bomb E3 podcasts.

I don't remember which podcast it was on, but I'm thinking maybe it was one of the old 1up ones, some totally drunk developer(?) with a Scottish accent came on as a guest during some conference or other. Was totally hilarious and I've always wondered who that dude was, anyone remember that?

Blind_Evil wrote:
Parallax Abstraction wrote:

Saying Nintendo should go the Sega route of being just a software publisher after the Wii and DS printed money for so many years? There's no way I can believe he didn't say that just to get a rise out of people.

You have to admit they'd make a killing. Their characters are way more beloved than Sega's, and as a longtime Nintendo loyalist I'm usually not in for their hardware, but their software. I think that's what he was getting at, that the expanded audience of being a third party publisher might be worth not having the responsibilities of platform ownership.

They make way more money off of selling buckets of hardware that makes a profit from day one and the games which have lower budgets because they only have to be made for one system. If Nintendo could make more money in software alone, you can be sure they would be. But unless that have another Gamecube (and by another I mean two or three in a row), I don't see them leaving hardware any time soon. It took Sega a string of failures before they chose to get out of it. No one in the industry but Pachter made such a prediction and I'm sure he knew exactly what he was doing when he made it.

I do remember that, but I have no idea who it was.

juv3nal wrote:

I don't remember which podcast it was on, but I'm thinking maybe it was one of the old 1up ones, some totally drunk developer(?) with a Scottish accent came on as a guest during some conference or other. Was totally hilarious and I've always wondered who that dude was, anyone remember that?

And some googling turns up that it's Matthew Kumar. [1][2]

GiantBomb is putting out E3 podcasts, and I just wanted to mention that the second one (for 6/8) is pretty amazing so far. It's 4.5 hours long, with David Jaffe, a guy from DoubleFine, and a guy from Naughty Dog talking about game development. Great stuff.

CptGlanton wrote:

GiantBomb is putting out E3 podcasts, and I just wanted to mention that the second one (for 6/8) is pretty amazing so far. It's 4.5 hours long, with David Jaffe, a guy from DoubleFine, and a guy from Naughty Dog talking about game development. Great stuff.

You'll like tonight's (that's going on live now). Justin McElroy is going crazy about Molyneux.

I'm only halfway through the first of the Giant Bomb E3 podcasts. I'm going to have some serious catch up to do. I need to play a game that I can have the sound off for, I guess.

I usually complain about how short podcasts are, but I will be listening to the GB E3 stuff for quite a while. Man, there's a lot. The Day 0 episode was 3+ hours and Day 1 is 4+. I'm only about halfway through the Day 0 one. Good stuff, if a little cringe-worthy and buzzwordy at times. I wonder if those MS guys know how out of touch they sounded? Or how much like a bad Office parody?