Yeah, around the last month you can have a social link with Aigis. Sadly, since it was so close to the end for me I didn't really get the change to finish her social link.
I've thought about this for a long time, it's been an issue I've personally had to work with. A community podcast works, there are examples of good community podcasts out there, go to Bitmob.com and check out the Pixel Revolt podcast.
One complaint that bothers the all living fuck out of me is the people who go out and say, "Why do I want to listen to some random douchebag's opinion? I'd rather listen to Garnett Lee!" or something to that degree. A lot of these journalists we listen to today were once just dudes on a forum or irc writing amateur reviews and blogs. Hell Andrew Pfister was some guy in an irc channel who made friends with the right people. When it comes to an amateur podcast I try to be open minded to things, even if you don't work for any professional outlet you might have something interesting to say. Again, I point you to Bitmob.com, they have many unknown bloggers/podcasters who have some really interesting opinions.
One thing I've learned from my experience trying to produce a community podcasts: Holy sweet god it is fucking hard. Apart from just trying to deal with audio quality mishaps, it's difficult to actually "Make a podcast about the community", because when you boil it down it's still just 4 dudes talking about stuff, not having much community involvement. I tried my hardest to figure this out with Bomb Should Have a Face back in the day when I was "Schedule Producer", if you grab interesting community blogs from the site to talk about then people get pissed off because then it becomes a bunch of guys talking about the economy or whatever, but then if you go into more community happenings it begins to sound dry, that is if you cast of people lack some level of chemistry. There's a fine line that could be easily crossed when it comes to these type of podcasts.
Also I don't think you need to be known in the industry to be interesting , you could be completely unknown and still grab an audience if you do the rights things with a podcast. Most people will gravitate to a group of people with strong chemistry, a lot of times it doesn't even really matter what people talk about as long as the cast works together really well. Look at GFW for example. I think the community podcast things works just fine, it just takes a lot of polish. You could talk about the same old bullshit as everyone else as long as you're having fun doing it, that kind of thing resonates to people.
tl;dr: It just takes a lot of work, and have fun with it, people will come.
We seem to agree on many points sweep, and we make similar points...our blog names are similar as well. Well shit...I think were wearing the same out fits as well. Damn.
" Play it again anyway, and then join me in my vivid dreams of Bully 2 on Rockstar's current technology "
To be honest I think Rockstar's current technology could have adapted the hand-to-hand mechanic of Bully. It is differently superior to GTA4's. Also I believe the aiming in Bully was better... of cause since it's been a while since I played it, I may just remember things better. It was better that San Andreas' "gun-play", though.
@DrFidget said:
" Yes, though I typicaly wind up doing it with more recent releases. The latest of wich was BlazBlue and before that Ninja Gaiden 2 for $10. I usually end up giving them as gifts. "
I'm surprised BlazBlue is already that cheap. It's not even out in europe yet (to my knowledge).
@tokyochicken said:
" I do that shit all the time, I was at EB (Its still EB here in Canada) and I saw a copy of P3 FES and it was really cheap, since P3 FES seems to be hard to find up here I almost bought it even though I had a copy. Its weird, its like a treasure hunt for me, I look in the bargain bin and find games I was tangentially interested in and pick it up for cheap. I guess its part of that collector's mentality or something. But yeah play Bully again, I just recently beat it for the first time last weekend, was a fantastic playthrough. "
I have PES2009 for the xbox360 and haven't even touched it. It came with the used 360 I bought, but it's not really my type of game.However I don't imagine soccer games being that rare at all here in europe, since pretty much every country's favorite sport to follow.Not sure about Canada but if it's anything like USA, then other sports are more popular. I figure NHL is pretty popular. I also almost bought Saints Row 2 for 360 (I already have it for PS3) because I saw it for what amounts to 9,5$. I thought about just giving it of to a friend because I've been raving on to him about, how he should get that game if he was considering getting a GTA-like game... But I finally decided not to do this. He's not likely to play it anyway, since he's not that committed a gamer :-) "
Sorry, I should've been more clear about the P3 FES, it actually stands for Persona 3 FES, sorry about that haha
Yeah, I dunno that's rough, there's probably plenty of reasons why its taking so long, but if it helps like the people have said, import on ps3. Sadly, that's all that can be done really.
I do that shit all the time, I was at EB (Its still EB here in Canada) and I saw a copy of P3 FES and it was really cheap, since P3 FES seems to be hard to find up here I almost bought it even though I had a copy. Its weird, its like a treasure hunt for me, I look in the bargain bin and find games I was tangentially interested in and pick it up for cheap. I guess its part of that collector's mentality or something.
But yeah play Bully again, I just recently beat it for the first time last weekend, was a fantastic playthrough.
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