Guest

"Guest said:

"It's really simple, actually.  People listened to The Hotspot, which Jeff hosted.  Now the GiantBombCast is basically what The Hotspot was back then.  It's because he's entertaining and people listened to the show every week.  People like their entertainers.  I think that the show was about gaming was somewhat incidental.  Sure, an interest in gaming is why people give it a listen in the first place, but let's just say that I've heard some rather dull gaming podcasts.  Just because someone is on a show covering a niche topic for a niche group doesn't make them any less interesting than the people on television.  Hell, let's face it:  A lot of the people that have their own television shows are complete idiots.  I was irritated myself when Rich Gallup left, and had it been the case that he was fired under equally questionable circumstances, as opposed to him deciding it was time to move on to a different job, I'm sure there would have been a similar uproar.  If it was just some editor who people only knew from text reviews and news stories or whatever, they might not have even known the name and probably wouldn't have cared nearly as much.

While all of the controversy was about the Kane and Lynch review, I really don't think that Gerstmann's "cult of personality," as you put it, had much of anything to do with his reviews.  At any rate, I have to say that The HotSpot kind of sucks now.  Tor was doing okay as host; he was no Gerstmann or Gallup, but he held it together pretty well, especially considering the other people on the show struck me as being subtly hostile towards him for some reason.  Now they kicked him off as host and it just kind of feels like nobody on there really gives a crap at all, which is probably accurate."

Actually that is not the impression I got after Jeff had been let go.  Up till last fall '07 Gamespot was a solid group of friends that had to be devided because of circumstances.  No one on the original Gamespot crew wanted it to happen this way.  I still feel family and friends have become devided unwillingly, and if it wasn't for the politics or loyalties this whole drama would have been fairly moot.  People need their fucking jobs... and they like doing what they do.  It was a major risk Ryan, Vinny, and Brad took."

It's really simple, actually.  People listened to The Hotspot, which Jeff hosted.  Now the GiantBombCast is basically what The Hotspot was back then.  It's because he's entertaining and people listened to the show every week.  People like their entertainers.  I think that the show was about gaming was somewhat incidental.  Sure, an interest in gaming is why people give it a listen in the first place, but let's just say that I've heard some rather dull gaming podcasts.  Just because somoene is on a show covering a niche topic for a niche group doesn't make them any less interesting than the people on television.  Hell, let's face it:  A lot of the people that have their own television shows are complete idiots.  I was irritated myself when Rich Gallup left, and had it been the case that he was fired under equally questionable circumstances, as opposed to him deciding it was time to move on to a different job, I'm sure there would have been a similar uproar.  If it was just some editor who people only knew from text reviews and news stories or whatever, they might not have even known the name and probably wouldn't have cared nearly as much.

While all of the controversy was about the Kane and Lynch review, I really don't think that Gerstmann's "cult of personality," as you put it, had much of anything to do with his reviews.  At any rate, I have to say that The Hotspot kind of sucks now.  Tor was doing okay as host; he was no Gerstmann or Gallup, but he held it together pretty well, especially considering the other people on the show struck me as being subtly hostile towards him for some reason.  Now they kicked him off as host and it just kind of feels like nobody on there really gives a crap at all, which is probably accurate.

Okay, I actually want a PS3 now.

So, there is a free trial of the Burning Crusade for people who had previously played World of Warcraft.  What happens if you sign up for it, get items that are only in the expansion, decide you don't want the expansion but go back to paying for the base game?  Are you unable to play without the expansion once you sign up for the trial or what exactly happens?

"atejas said:

"serbsta said:

"This is just a rip of the Sorceress, i would have expected some more originality from Blizz."

SPOILERS: It's impossible to come up with original fantasy-esque characters.
Name me an idea for an original class. Name me one."

ELVIS

(see six posts back.)
"

That not at all surprising.  Of course they were going to have the mage-like dude.  I still want to know how the skill trees are going to work in this game.  I just hope it makes more sense than the old, "You can invest more than one point into low level skills....but don't."  I'm pretty sure it will, but I'm curious as to what it's going to be.

So, when AoC came out, a lot of people said it was great but then when you got to a certain point it was evident that the game was kind of unfinished.  Did they ever fix it or is it still lacking in high level content?

Is this video free?

I can say this:  The iPhone sucks down batteries like nobody's business when it runs even remotely complex games.

Video game commercials have adequately demonstrated to me that a video game commercial can make almost any game look good.