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Aoi
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So this is (hopefully) a bit of a different request than normal. I'm curious about whether or not there is already a gaming podcast that is more of a roundtable debate than just a quicker, couple minutes per subject kind of format that most podcasts are today.
To give an example of what I'm looking for, is anyone around here familiar with say, Cranky Geeks, or its earlier ZDTV/Tech TV incarnation Silicon Spin? A group of talkers, a moderator, and larger amount of time dedicated to a couple specific topics per show, the more the panelists opinions differ the better. One of the things I've noticed far too often in gaming podcasts is that the groups tend to agree with one another far too often, and you don't usually get much insight into why the opinions differ.
Hope I'm making sense. This thread is in order to find out if there's anything like this at the moment, but it's also seeing what kind of interest there would be in such a thing.
To give an example of what I'm looking for, is anyone around here familiar with say, Cranky Geeks, or its earlier ZDTV/Tech TV incarnation Silicon Spin? A group of talkers, a moderator, and larger amount of time dedicated to a couple specific topics per show, the more the panelists opinions differ the better. One of the things I've noticed far too often in gaming podcasts is that the groups tend to agree with one another far too often, and you don't usually get much insight into why the opinions differ.
Hope I'm making sense. This thread is in order to find out if there's anything like this at the moment, but it's also seeing what kind of interest there would be in such a thing.
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Yeah, that's the closest I've heard to what you're looking for. Although, I think they spend a BIT too much time talking about racing games each episode.
1UP Yours is also awesome. Similar to Next-Gen in style but different in topics. Next-Gen focuses more on the gaming industry while 1UP focuses on specific games. Other podcasts on the 1UP network are not as good but still interesting (like GFW--Games for Windows).
There's a lot of Warcraft talk in their episodes. Sigh.
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One of my favorite podcasts. They're actually hilarious at times.
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If you really want to listen to disagreement there are 1 or 2 Electronic Gaming Monthly podcasts within the last month, where Shane and his boss go at it over PS3 sucking, his boss sounds like he really wants to strangle/fire him at points.
There's a podcast called 360Arcadians Live! that's sort of worth checking out, too. I kinda like it. Speaking of which, I need to get back to editing this week's episode.
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Anyway, I listen to 1UP Yours all the time. Shane isn't anywhere near as bad as everyone makes him seem, though he does come up with some stupid arguments at times (his defence of Sony excluding the component cable come to mind). Garnet is the one that annoys me the most and even then it's not THAT often. I mean, the guy started insulting Sony because they make too many sequels and then gave MGS4 and DMC4 as examples! Recently he also said that the downloadable content isn't in the PS3 version of Oblivion because of RAM issues (which Bethesda has denied).
Outside of 1UP Yours, I listen to EGM Live and GFW.
As for roundtable debates your best bet as far as my experience is the gamasutra podcasts @ http://www.gdcradio.net/ they've had a few roundtables on issues such as review scores etc.
Currently listening to PC Gamer Podcast, Next-Gen Podcast, 360 Arcadians and GFW. I find a lot of the gamasutra stuff far to heavy handed most of the time tho
Personally, I'm looking right now for a podcast specializing in City of Heroes/Villains. I'd even settle for an MMO podcast that's not specifically about WoW. Does anyone know of such a thing?
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Platformers and even Arcadians is getting back into the type of podcast I was talking about above that I'm not really looking for at the moment.
Next Generation is a good one though. I've listened to it for a while and it's definitely a lot closer to what I'm looking for. Again, I like the idea of something a little less scattered around a ton of subjects and something a bit more debatelike among a few concentrated subjects.
If that isn't your kind of thing then I recommend The Instance for a WoW podcast. World of Warcraft is a game... and it's a podcast about it..that makes it a game podcast.
Both can be found at http://www.myextralife.com/
IIRC there was an EGM Live podcast recently where Jen called him out on his unflinching Sony defense. She seems to think that he's not budging just to please the forum fanboys.
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I was really surprised Jen said something, she's normally nice and quite, only interrupting shane and shoes bickering when they need to move on. This time she was going at him, and I couldnt believe it.
They have topics within the show, but each topic is discussed in a round table style. They come across as having an anti-Sony slant, but I don't think it's their fault that it's so easy to bash Sony these days. I think the show is hilarious, but as always, your mileage may vary.
If you like the GFW guys (or at least Jeff Green and Sean Malloy), then listen to the 1up WoW podcast Legendary Thread. I don't think I ever get tired of listening to the GFW guys. I even got a friend of mine in England hooked on the show, and they don't get any Ziff-Davis mags there.
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What?? A PA podcast? Can anybody possibly link an old edition? Pwease?
For some reason my iTunes doesn't like The Platformers. It will download an episode, and then I'll never get an update.
also of note is massively online gamer.
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Their shows aren't always gaming, but 110% of the time very funny. They have a very natural feel to the show...it doesn't at all sound scripted. check them out...well worth the download.
Oh and re: The Hotspot, I enjoy this one a lot as well, mostly just to hear the various editors' reactions to the news, rather than the news itself, since I usually read about most of the topics before they record the show.
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I cant believe how open the guy from FASA was, even with Steve(?) and Luke talking shit the whole time.
And I never thought I would say this, but Shane was the voice of reason during the whole shadowrun debate.