The first episode of the rebranded, relaunched, retooled, and rebooted GameCritics media effort. Richard Naik (@richardnaik) and Tim Spaeth (@TimSpaethV2) discuss the reasons behind the switch, and also discuss the Nintendo Switch and the art of segue. For the second half of the show (starting around the one hour mark) Dan Weissenberger (@gc_danny) and our good friend Steven Brown (Capitalistpig21) run down the Playstation VR launch effort and attempt to not look silly in VR gear.
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Enjoying the newer format, also looking forward to see what you guys have in store for us next.
Disagree about Daredevil and Jessica Jone being unmissable. They are good shows but nowhere near the level of Breaking Bad or The Wire. Looking forward to the 9 AHAS!
Breaking Bad is probably my favorite TV show, were I forced to choose. But the first seasons of DD and JJ are pretty high up there. DD is really hurt by S2 being terrible though.
This topic is probably too subjective anyway to warrant a debate but I would say off the top of my head Black Mirror is way better than JJ and DD (even than their first season), and at least on par with BB. And Richard, I have a feeling this show might suit you specifically.
Thanks all for the feedback. I don’t like change either, but sometimes change is all we have to work with. Two notes:
1) To those lamenting the loss of the old-school format, we are recording the 9th Annual Holiday Awards spectacular on December 17th. It will be a classic six-person affair with all the categories you know and love.
2) Minutes after we finished recording this show, Richard gifted me a copy of Dark Souls 2 on Steam, and I want to publicly thank him for his boundless generosity.
@2: Seek adversity. As befits you, seeker of fire, coveter of the throne.
Nice to see Tim speaking up for the oft-neglected business traveller demographic. It’s been a long time coming. You should look at getting some Holiday Inn Express sponsorship. 😉
I’m in that group, and I’ve never considered hand held gaming. I have recently thought about bringing the PS4 with me as our madden league hots up but thankfully keep forgetting to check whether the hotel TVs have hdmi ports 🙂
The shoehorning in of not one but two dark souls sections was a bit deflating but I liked the pod overall. Very funny.
I agree, 2 people, is just, mweeh! I understand it though, since Trump’ s election you people are in big need of digging Nuclear Vaults and so on, so there goes all your free time. That, and storing up dried noodles and powerbanks for your 3Ds’s right? Nobody loves changes. But 2 people, IS too few, 3 at least, otherwise it’s just a bit boring tbh and imo. Perhaps another/better idea would be to have a quarterly show, say, 4 shows a year or something? The big strong point of the podcasts is not so much the content (sorry guys)… Read more »
Hi Jeroen, I agree that the group dynamic was the strength of the show all those years, and it still is when we can get everyone together. However, I want to accentuate just how difficult it is for us to get everyone together these days. Many of the regular crew will only have one or two nights of availability a month, and even then for only a few hours. I myself have a rapidly changing life situation that limits my game time. Under these conditions, doing the show (for both the hosts and the guests) becomes work rather than fun,… Read more »
I’m hearing Sticking with ‘regular’ cast members would limit it to a lot of 2 people for semi-regular shows, but it doesn’t have to be the case. Does it ? Is someone willing to be an occasional third host ? Or a willing 3rd editor to share the publishing workload ? And there’s a lot of people writing for game critics which could provides a bigger pool of guests. Suskie does a decent job articulating on the podcast and seems keen to podcast. And Steve Brown I thought did pretty well on the PS4 VR show. Brown was very comfortable… Read more »
Hey Richard. Thanks for your comment. Okay, I’ll give the 2 men shows a shot. I do wonder what a “rapidly changing life situation” is btw. You’re gonna be a dad perhaps? Anyhow, it is still better this way than quitting the show entirely. I guess you also have different time zones to cope with when scheduling? I will stay tuned and I will comment later on. I guess I’ll just miss you guys. We are from the same generation. That also is something special. My first console was an Atari 2600, then Sega Mega Drive and so on. I… Read more »
This post gets my thumbs up for this month 🙂
I forgot about Felipe…he’d better keep his head down for a while
Hey Jeroen, your comment means more to me than you will ever know. We did the show first for each other, but second, it was for you the listeners. Everything that you and others have expressed about the show encapsulated everything we were thinking and its because we weren’t able to deliver the show that lived up to everyone’s expectations and rather than stress out trying to fix what can’t be fixed, we decided it was time to put it on hiatus. That being said, I’m glad we didn’t do a farewell episode because its not the end and hopefully… Read more »
Woke up this morning, and the feed was full of podcasts; All bright and shiny like they’d just arrived from mars. And as I stumbled through last night’s drunken debris, Tim and Richard screamed out the headlines in the street. Another console, and now the pound is looking weak. And tell me, have you read about the latest freak? Hello, hello, turn your gamecritics radio on; Is there anybody out there? Help me chose my games. La, la, la, podcasts are a strange thing. Just when you think you learned how to use them, they’re gone. I welcome gc radio,… Read more »
The old GC podcast team of Speath, Bracken, Brad and Chi was one of the best gaming podcasts out there. Constantly good for years on end. Sad to see it’s official end. Bracken was my fav. Which leads me to ask if this new format would lend itself more easily to more Bracken ? I’m pretty sure it wouuuuuuld. Fingers crossed. Not hearing that famous intro game music hit right home that this transition is for realz. I’ll take any GC podcasts I can get, but I just feel the if you guys could possibly manage a regular 3 person… Read more »
Unfortunately the logistics of doing a regular show with the entire crew make it all but impossible now. We’re still going to round everyone up for the big stuff (there *will* be a GOTY show this year) but smaller things like this just make it easier for everyone involved.
Not a Regular show that was 4 , but at least 3 members, if possible.
2 people only makes podcasts feel like an interview. The host still has their duties.
Where as with least with three members it feels more like a discussion or round table. The dynamics are more enjoyable to listen too.
Like I said if not possible that’s cool.
Sic transit gloria mundi…
The GameCritics podcast is dead, long live the GameCritics podcast!