You can dislike his politics and world views, but saying that he's "clueless about the industry" is a completely ridiculous statement. Says much more about your own bias then it does about Colin.
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Kinda Funny launches new show KF Games Daily w/ Andrea Rene and Danny O'Dwyer
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You can dislike his politics and world views, but saying that he's "clueless about the industry" is a completely ridiculous statement. Says much more about your own bias then it does about Colin.
Danny and Andrea are cool but both of them combined cannot add up to the wealth of industry knowledge as Colin. Colin gone from Kinda Funny is similar to Jeff Gertsmann disappearing from Giant Bomb.
Colin was absolutely right in his beliefs against Andrea about the mobile gaming industry.
Colin was absolutely right in his beliefs against Andrea about the mobile gaming industry.
binarymelon
Member
Clueless might be a bit hyperbolic but a lot of Colin's insight and insider information over the last couple of years is typically ripped right out of threads here on gaf.
lifetimeofnot
Member
Hey nikole is cool too! But yes andrea is the cool one.
Devilinthiscity
Member
Lol, not even close. Colin Moriarty stans really hold that dude up on the highest of pedestals.
KZXcellent
Member
I liked Colin's insight on the industry but comparing him to Jeff Gerstmann is INSANE.
What did he say? Missed that one.
What did he say? Missed that one.
Nowhere close to Jeff but he was Kinda Funny's Jeff. And its a big blow to KF to lose someone like that. No one else there fills those shoes. The numbers on Patreon reflect that.
Baron Samedi
Member
coocoocoocoocoocool... no dou no dou
The entire industry is biased towards Nintendo and rates their games higher to help them sell games, no one would have cared about Splatoon if it was a Sony system.
Also everyone is lying about liking Breath of the Wild.
I replied to that survey they posted a couple of weeks ago and asked them to bring on Jose Otero as a guest. I would love a Gamescast that is just him and Tim geeking out about Nintendo.
KZXcellent
Member
It's like you opened the door to my mind and it came rushing back. I won't miss moments like that. That's for sure.
What an absurd comment.
crunchburner
Member
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Lol what? This guy was paid to express his thoughts about gaming?
Holundrian
Unconfirmed Member
lol great insight should have provided the wikipedia source for that as well.
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Changes sound cool but as a recent returnee I was still happy with the content.
That said I'm glad people that seem to have fallen out because it has gotten stale seem to be happy with these changes. Wish them all the best.
Also I'm never going to say no to more Danny.
Goose_Se7en
Banned
As a minority myself I can get behind this. Not once did I ever think after seeing/hearing years of Beyond /GoG that "hey we need a Black or Hispanic person on the podcast" but they're are minority personalities I'd like to see on the show. Jose Otero from IGN comes to mind, Miranda Sanchez as well. More involvement from women besides Andrea Rene would also be cool.
Dangansona
Member
I wonder if shifting to more short live shows as their main source of content will allow Greg and Tim to play more games?
Nope Colin leaving the games industry is the best thing to happen in a long time. This show sounds great and I will watch it since both Andrea Rene and Danny o'dwyer are fantastic.
McMoneyman
Member
Hopefully this will breathe new life into Kinda Funny. My interest for KF have fell off a cliff for the last year or so.
NinjamicWZ
Banned
It's more just body language, long silence kinda thing. I'm good at reading people; seeing them perk up, simmer down, regress etc to/from conflict and stronger stances for civility's sake. It felt like when two non-friends hang out with their mutual friend, and haven't learned to get along with each other yet, or just don't.
That's what I meant by palpable tension. They never actually said anything out of turn to the other that doesn't belong in a podcast discussion or disagreement. Whatever anyone else ITT is talking about, that's their view on things, not mine.
SomedayTheFire
Member
What a hilariously large upgrade over the old guy lol
Lord of Ostia
Member
Every episode of the gamescast where Andrea or Danny were guests and Colin was still a part of KF, they destroyed Colin in virtually every argument they had. Both of them have more knowledge than Colin, especially in the last few years, and that was evident whenever they had a disagreement. You need to rewatch those episodes if you really think that Colin is more knowledgeable than Danny or Andrea.
Good to see they're pretty much completely overhauling KFG. I don't think they realized how much that channel hinged on Colin. XOXO and Colin Was Right were must-watch shows for me and, while the Gamecast always kinda sucked because of the format, I watched it for Colin. Without him, the whole channel was pretty much dead to me.
Bringing in Danny and Andrea is an A+ move. Not sure if they can stretch that kind of content into a daily show -- might have been better as a weekly podcast -- but I like the move nonetheless. Will watch.
Reformatting the Gamescast to be more like Beyond is the best decision they made, IMO. Will definitely give that show a second chance.
Bringing in Danny and Andrea is an A+ move. Not sure if they can stretch that kind of content into a daily show -- might have been better as a weekly podcast -- but I like the move nonetheless. Will watch.
Reformatting the Gamescast to be more like Beyond is the best decision they made, IMO. Will definitely give that show a second chance.
Oh, the numbers for his Patreon reflect something, alright, but not what you think it does.
DeaDPo0L84
Member
My biggest problem with KF is the video titles very rarely reflect the meat of the discussion within said video. For instance they had a video recently titled "Evil Within 2 at e3 2017?" with a 17 minute length. I got excited as a fan of Evil Within to hear these guys go back and forth for 17 minutes concerning Evil Within....nope. They basically just said "yea it sold well so it'll probably be there, okay moving on". That was when I decided im done with them until they can better structure actual topics into a conversation rather than a tagline.
paragonpro
Banned
I dont like what kf has become since colin left, like colin and greg were always very insightful and i enjoyed hearing them discuss games togeather. I was really exctited
For kf because i was hoping it was gonna be a small scale just a couple guys shootin the shit about games and life thing like giant bomb is, instead now they just seem really focused on becoming youtube celebreties and hanging out with rooster teeth (i cant stand them) but i get that this is subjective. i used to like beyond and kf, but now they are not for me.
For kf because i was hoping it was gonna be a small scale just a couple guys shootin the shit about games and life thing like giant bomb is, instead now they just seem really focused on becoming youtube celebreties and hanging out with rooster teeth (i cant stand them) but i get that this is subjective. i used to like beyond and kf, but now they are not for me.
TetraGenesis
Member
Hahahahaha, why are you here?
As a guy who followed them since Beyond early/middle days, this is hilarious to read. Almost as hilarious as the "we know a lot more about Playstation than everyone else" narrative, they just had the best PS centric podcast, doesn't mean they know it all, they just liked to sell this.
Oh God stfu
VanCityGamer
Member
Doesn't appeal to me at all. 5 days a week is way too much so I'll just never end up listening. Once a week for 60-90 minutes would be perfect. Like PSILY was.
Adam_Roman
Member
I don't get why Greg's seat 1 while seat 2 rotates. He's putting way too much on his plate.
I don't know much about Andrea Rene and Danny O'Dwyer, but please tell me they play games regularly. My major gripe with KF right now is that no one in the company play games except for Greg & Tim and both of them barely even play these days. Seems like they're more interested in hyping games rather than actually playing them.
and yet neither can compare to how much they hype themselves
get2sammyb
Member
*Tin foil hat time*
I honestly think he's onto something somewhat here. I don't fully agree with the Splatoon thing because it's a great game, but I could imagine something like ARMS releasing on PSN and it getting massively ignored -- even if it got very strong review scores.
I also think this works two ways: games like Puppeteer, LittleBigPlanet, and Tearaway would be much more appreciated if they had Nintendo on the box IMO. I was playing the Robot Rescue demo in The Playroom VR recently, and I couldn't help but think if it was the EXACT same experience with the character model swapped to Mario, people would be going absolutely mental over it.
I dunno, I didn't hear Colin's argument so I don't know how forcefully he put it across, but there is a nugget of truth to that line of thinking IMO -- no matter how small.
EDIT: To be clear, I don't think any of this has to do with critics actively trying to help Nintendo sell games. That part's certainly nonsense.
lifetimeofnot
Member
The world isn't blowing up about arms though. From everything I've heard the gameplay is fine but the final game lacks more content than splatoon 1 at launch. Robot rescue has gotten a ton of hype from the people who have played it but not that many people have Ps vr so it doesn't seem super hyped up. You might be right about the three exclusives you mention but I think it has more to do with knowing your audience. Playstation gamers don't love platformers the way that nintendo ones do. That's obvious. Also worth mentioning that you can put Mario in literally anything and it will get more attention.
facetheslayer92
Member
I'm kinda looking forward to it being streamed everyday, Love the interactive nature of Twitch. It's also been months since Kinda Funny has streamed a good gaming discussion on their Twitch channel. I was disappointed when they bailed on doing a GDC stream this year considering how hype their GDC show was when they first started out.
Brewster's Wallet
Member
Aye, I'm just wary it's not in the right place/with the right people. Will give it a chance but usually not a huge fan of Andrea's stuff.
I hope everyone is having a great E3!
As a reminder the first Kinda Funny Games Daily is Monday June 19th (11:45AM PT):
https://twitter.com/GameOverGreggy/status/872941497741524993
Although Danny will not be there for the first two weeks (in Europe):
https://twitter.com/dannyodwyer/status/875467875632398336
As a reminder the first Kinda Funny Games Daily is Monday June 19th (11:45AM PT):
https://twitter.com/GameOverGreggy/status/872941497741524993
Although Danny will not be there for the first two weeks (in Europe):
https://twitter.com/dannyodwyer/status/875467875632398336
It's live now with Greg and Andrea:
https://www.twitch.tv/kindafunnygames
They seems to be going blue-green for the set... perhaps to further signify this is a multi-platform show? (sorry Nintendo
https://www.twitch.tv/kindafunnygames
They seems to be going blue-green for the set... perhaps to further signify this is a multi-platform show? (sorry Nintendo
Icyflamez96
Member
I hope they used my question ._.
