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1Up LAN Party Podcast 12/3/08 (featuring Chuff Love's Gamestop Girl)
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latinal3o0
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CowJoMonkey_927 said:
Wahjah
firehawk12
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Sanjay said:
Gamers With Jobs is the closest thing I've found to the old Brodeo, with the Giant Bombcast a close second.
After reading this thread, I have a feeling that I'll hate this episode. I hope that's not the case, but it seems like anything left of the Brodeo is completely gone.
Haeleos
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Well, if someone isn't contributing anything to the conversation, even if it's about gaming or not, other than "tee hee, Ryan do your funny voice..." then I'd rather not waste my time. There are a shitload of other podcasts out there that can have intelligent conversations but which still have a lot of fucking hilarious tangents.
I'm all for them going off topic on these podcasts, but at the very least there was intelligence to back it up before... feels like a pyjama party now.
I can see Tina has jumped in to the conversation (unless I'm mistaken), and it's most likely going to be a topic on next week's podcast yet again where she feels she needs to defend herself against perceived sexism here, while she simultaneously reads more love letters from her sexless fans. But most of the complaints she's getting aren't sexist at all... she just isn't a good addition to the podcast because she doesn't bring an interesting perspective to anything. On more than one occasion she has interrupted something interesting with "uhh..." "hehe" "oh nm" "it's nothing..."
The best example for feedback I can give is... a few shows back, they did a Dawn of War 2 podcast. Robert Ashley knew fuck all about Warhammer or the game in question, but he at least brought the funny and asked some interesting questions from the perspective of someone who isn't familiar with the subject matter. I can only imagine how quickly that podcast would have derailed if Tina was in that seat.
I'm all for them going off topic on these podcasts, but at the very least there was intelligence to back it up before... feels like a pyjama party now.
I can see Tina has jumped in to the conversation (unless I'm mistaken), and it's most likely going to be a topic on next week's podcast yet again where she feels she needs to defend herself against perceived sexism here, while she simultaneously reads more love letters from her sexless fans. But most of the complaints she's getting aren't sexist at all... she just isn't a good addition to the podcast because she doesn't bring an interesting perspective to anything. On more than one occasion she has interrupted something interesting with "uhh..." "hehe" "oh nm" "it's nothing..."
The best example for feedback I can give is... a few shows back, they did a Dawn of War 2 podcast. Robert Ashley knew fuck all about Warhammer or the game in question, but he at least brought the funny and asked some interesting questions from the perspective of someone who isn't familiar with the subject matter. I can only imagine how quickly that podcast would have derailed if Tina was in that seat.
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To be fair this podcast was never meant to be the Brodeo.
fallengorn
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Don't forget to listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df2SCoW31IYNMan said:
while looking at the site.
LegendOfGood
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Haeleos said:
...or a LAN PARTY!
DubloSeven
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Holy Zeus.NMan said:
I think Jane was always good with the guys on podcasts, because for whatever reason they weren't worried about impressing her or offending her (perhaps because she has covered a lot of salacious material already, and doesn't shy away from naughty-talk). Her warmth, intelligence, and straightforward nature tends to remove any sort of sexual tension that would prevent people from either posturing or trying to "shield" her from off-color commentary.Danne-Danger said:
careful said:
SapientWolf said:
Well it's one of those situations where the major editors tend to like certain genres, but nobody else in the group likes them. Ryan plays adventure games, but doesn't have anyone to discuss them with. Anthony will play RTS titles, but nobody else really does (the ladies' interest in Starcraft doesn't really count them in for discussion of non-Blizzard stuff). They really need to have Bobito around to facilitate a dialogue about this stuff.
The funny thing is that I don't really care about the "hardcore" PC gaming talk that concerns RTS titles or sim games or off-the-beaten-path FPS games. I never really paid much attention to it on GFW Radio, but without it it feels like the podcast is lacking something. If the show is nothing but chatter about CoD, L4D, and WoW, then it will just get a little old.
Mr.City said:
I believe she is a salaried staff member, on the production/technical side. She isn't producing editorial content beyond a review here and there.
Halvie said:
It's on her 1Up profile page (linked earlier). When I say she's pretty in an unconventional way, I mean that in the most complimentary sense though. I much prefer her style to that of your average normal chick.
LegendOfGood
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Halvie said:
firehawk12 said:
I don't really understand the hate this episode is getting. As a casual listener to this podcast I found that this weeks show was well paced, and pretty funny in spots. I'm always amazed at how picky some people are when it comes to what group of dudes that are talking about games, they chose to listen to. Jeff Green and Shawn Elliot are gone, they are not coming back, perhaps it's time to stop waxing poetic about how awesome the brodeo used to be. Remember how lame it was when people kept talking about how much 1 Up Yours sucked without Luke Smith? This is a free podcast, no ones forcing you to listen to it, if you don't like it, move on to something else.
Oh, and you can send me the check whenever you want 1 Up.
firehawk12
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Haeleos said:
Just listening to some old podcasts, there was a point when Shawn and Robert wanted to do their own show... maybe Robert can figure out something on his own, but I get the feeling that isn't going to happen any time soon.
I personally have nothing against Tina, but she seems to play a very specific genre of game (the online multiplayer death match shooter) and when other things come up, there just isn't much that she can say.
Foxtastical
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dasupremeone
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i just unsubscribed the podcast, it has become the 1up Variety Podcast.
firehawk12
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jacobs34 said:
I haven't listened to it yet, so I'll reserve judgment. It's just that the last few episodes have really been lacking. But like I said, I've found a replacement so I don't mind all too much.
Haeleos said:
I've grown to enjoy Giant Bombcast and Gamers With Jobs in the absence of GFW, as well as the Joystiq podcast. (It took a while for me to get into - An obvious lack of complete professionalism and production value shrouds for me what is a legitimately great podcast with hilarious hosts, great chemistry, and some legitimately insightful analysis, whatever your view of those types of sites is.)
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He's not really looking at her breasts...Aselith said:
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Why?Aselith said:
He's totally not looking down her shirt, it's just a screengrab.
SapientWolf
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He had to have at least glanced. Unless he's gay or something. I mean it's okay to look, as long as you don't stare, right?Jtwo said:
LegendOfGood
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SapientWolf said:
Zombie James
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LegendOfGood said:
Chuff has good taste. I mean it.
No Means Nomad
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This specific episode is getting the built up backlash. Most people were willing to be pretty forgiving on the podcast initially but as time goes on the problems continue to go unaddressed.jacobs34 said:
I don't think very many people care about who is on the podcast as much as they care about what those people say. I'm going to guess a lot of people on GAF listen to a number of different podcasts that they still manage to enjoy that don't have Jeff Green and Shawn Elliott.jacobs34 said:
The real problem with the podcast is that it's just "pretty funny in spots". That is the entire podcast right now. I know that being harsh in this thread means this post just blends in with a bunch of posts that amount to whining with no constructive criticism, but I'm just going to be straight here.
You need to bring more to the table than general dickery on a podcast. A fun atmosphere is a really constructive environment for discussion but this podcast never does anything with it. You have to analyze some games by really delving into them or the podcast will continue to lack any real substance.
Let me put it this way. The only game the podcast talks about this week is Left4Dead. No big deal, if that's the only thing you played just make it count. But even that was the most vapid ventrillo speak I've ever heard. "I was like, txting you three times to get your mic working!" Hey, fine, leave that in if you want but the discussion never went past setting up games and anecdotal stories.
Don't you guys review games and shit? I heard that's what you get paid to do. Can you really not think of a single critical thought on L4D Ryan Scott? Is it that painful?
The reason people are disappointed with this podcast is that the dicking around never ends. At least with GFW/CGW Radio that fun stuff culminated in something vaguely reminiscent of an actual dissertation on the game. If you actually bothered to say anything intellectual about video games your podcasts might not fizzle out at an hour every single week.
I'm sorry if this seems harsh but there has been an ample amount of time to do something with this podcast. There are no excuses for the quality of these podcasts at this point, and hopefully the 1UP Staff is actually willing to take a little criticism to heart. You dish out more than enough to take some every now and again, right?
Just because a product has no monetary value doesn't mean it's worthwhile. You find a half-empty McFlurry on the sidewalk covered in ants you going to drink it? Time is possibly more limited than money for a lot of people, and there isn't exactly a shortage of other "free" podcasts out there. It still has expectations to meet. Telling people if they don't like you to move on to something else is just...counterproductive? Telling old fans to get lost because you can't maintain a similar level of quality is a good way to keep the business going I guess.jacobs34 said:
firehawk12
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I'm just listening now and I can see why people are annoyed.
Out of the 1up people that I'm familiar with, this is a crew I'd probably enjoy on a PC podcast: Phil, Ryan O., David, Matt, Anthony and Alice. Pretty much the 1up FM Backlog crew, now that I think about it. Maybe Ryan Scott as well, but I imagine he'd probably be more comfortable on the WoW podcast anyway.
Out of the 1up people that I'm familiar with, this is a crew I'd probably enjoy on a PC podcast: Phil, Ryan O., David, Matt, Anthony and Alice. Pretty much the 1up FM Backlog crew, now that I think about it. Maybe Ryan Scott as well, but I imagine he'd probably be more comfortable on the WoW podcast anyway.
meh, x'd out at 50 mins.
kinda a shame that a platform with as much potential for exposition as pc is reduced to the same played out flavour of the week conversations of big box AAA releases (or is that release?) as consoles.
i get the feeling that anthony is pretty alienated as far as exploration of the platform goes. he seems pretty conscious of coming across as the spocky nerdlinger whenever he has to articulate the kinds of finer details that pc threads around here are totally awash with.
i've played maybe a dozen different pc games in the last week or so. not all of them new, not all of them heard of, not all of them even available to buy. from fucking around with ventrilo buddies in weird, mostly broken revolutionary war source mods to testing out balance changes of best RTS of the last 10 years. any one of which i could talk at length about. in my experience, this makes me a pretty atypical pc gamer.
as a general interest podcast, with the regular lineup and bobito trailblazing a path into shit shooting irreverence, i'll still c+p the link into wmp. but as a pc podcast it just feels forced, shallow and uninformed. which is a damn shame. having all your nerdy little idiosyncratic gaming experiences reflected back at you by a group of dudes shooting the shit is one of the biggest radisms of specialist podcasting, and nowhere is the potential for this greater than pc gaming.
GFW somehow managed to perfectly synergize both of these. but until the likes of ea, 2k boston and blizzard go bankrupt, i wont be hoping for this from the 1up staff any time soon. it'd be awesome if i was proved wrong.
p.s 'half life: source' was pretty much identical to the original, save for a few shaders and redone physics. 'black mesa' is the total reworking of the original, and every new screenshot triggers a bunch of nerd-ons from the community. whether it will ever see the light of day is still unclear.
kinda a shame that a platform with as much potential for exposition as pc is reduced to the same played out flavour of the week conversations of big box AAA releases (or is that release?) as consoles.
i get the feeling that anthony is pretty alienated as far as exploration of the platform goes. he seems pretty conscious of coming across as the spocky nerdlinger whenever he has to articulate the kinds of finer details that pc threads around here are totally awash with.
i've played maybe a dozen different pc games in the last week or so. not all of them new, not all of them heard of, not all of them even available to buy. from fucking around with ventrilo buddies in weird, mostly broken revolutionary war source mods to testing out balance changes of best RTS of the last 10 years. any one of which i could talk at length about. in my experience, this makes me a pretty atypical pc gamer.
as a general interest podcast, with the regular lineup and bobito trailblazing a path into shit shooting irreverence, i'll still c+p the link into wmp. but as a pc podcast it just feels forced, shallow and uninformed. which is a damn shame. having all your nerdy little idiosyncratic gaming experiences reflected back at you by a group of dudes shooting the shit is one of the biggest radisms of specialist podcasting, and nowhere is the potential for this greater than pc gaming.
GFW somehow managed to perfectly synergize both of these. but until the likes of ea, 2k boston and blizzard go bankrupt, i wont be hoping for this from the 1up staff any time soon. it'd be awesome if i was proved wrong.
p.s 'half life: source' was pretty much identical to the original, save for a few shaders and redone physics. 'black mesa' is the total reworking of the original, and every new screenshot triggers a bunch of nerd-ons from the community. whether it will ever see the light of day is still unclear.
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Random, but I wonder what Sean Molloy is up to at Blizzard these days. I miss that guy.
LegendOfGood
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Sunglasses and all.
Rabbit Lord
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One time I was with some chicks and they spent about an hour talking about 'the hills'.
This thread is alot like that.
This thread is alot like that.
No Means Nomad
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http://shawnaholic.blogspot.com/Truant said: