Giant Bombcast GDC 09 Day One

I'm glad to see so many comments on Paul Barnett's commentary. I got the feeling he may have felt a bit dated, but his insights were thought provoking. I personally felt that the message he was trying to convey was that experiences are age dependent and never change. The current gamers, developers, and reviewers are stacking their experiences and building tolerances. Their like a junkie trying to experience that first high. I felt Paul was trying to explain how the experiences are timeless and a developer can have just as big of an impact now with the same gameplay, just on younger or less experienced audiences. But there is always the hardcore, like many of you and myself, who demand new experiences. Personally, I wouldn't mind some old gameplay mechanics spiced up with some new technology. I know it's being done, but I mean on a grand scale. A big budget old school experience. Hire top-of-the-line writers, voice actors, and composers; and make the greatest 2D side-scroller, top down shooter, three-quarter view, or turn-based RPG ever created. I'd buy that.

Oh, yeah, and I was kinda looking forward to another podcast tonight, but it doesn't seem like it's going to make it. I guess tomorrow night's booked.

Great, nice discussion and insight on things. Loved listening tothis, go GB :)

i really enjoy listening to what greg had to say, thar dude is great.  paul on the other hand,  i felt that he was really disconnected from what the others were talking about. the things he said abou this "boy" didnt really make much sense and his general super optimsim with the times just seems... well, crazy. 

ffffffffffffffffffffffffffff i want a forking podcast to listen to on the way to schoool.

OH MY GOD. This has to be the most jam packed podcast I have ever listened to. The flood of information and philosophy just killed my brain. I literally had to go take some aspirin to get rid of a headache after listening to that.

Awesome as always

god damn fooking awesome bombcast!

good job gb

I'm going to make this one last comment before I, unfortunately, take my leave of the site for good:

I think Ryan needs to leave Giant Bomb. You're obviously a very intelligent person. You've got a lot going for you, but you're dragging the Giant Bomb experience down. What you need is your own radio-talk show. I can't help but believe I'm not the only one who feels this way.

Good luck to you, Ryan, and hopefully the rest of the guys of Giant Bomb will come to their senses and finally speak up. No need to be harsh -- just do what you know needs to be done.

Wow. I was totally blown away by the pure amount of information. So much insight and simply incredible depth flood - (agree with PlasmaBeam and Dryker).

Bombcast crew, please, do more developer podcasts in the future, especially with their thoughts on the industry. I feel that I understand, for example, C&C: RE3 so much better from hearing Greg's design philosophy.

Paul Barnett, thank you. That was one of the most insightful 1/3 speeches that I've heard in a long time.

@GeekyDad

Like your drama do you? I don't know what the hell you're talking about, and I don't think anyone else does either. Every member of the staff has their place on the site, and Ryan's is to lead the Bombcast and bring some sort of structure to it. He leads the discussion, so of course he talks a lot.

You make no sense.

Break music FTW!!

Wow a lot of dudes in one Hotel Room...Lol

Good stuff, guys!

loved the podcast sum new faces and sum old.... awsome crazy fun

wow their are legends in that room right now!!! greg my man MGS FTW. brad, ryan davis, and the man jeff.  still haven't finished listening to all of it but still great.  especially when ryan was like theirs 18 guys in the room with no shirts and were going to film another video later LOL.  

This podcast was absolutely unreal and embpdoes what my girlfriend and I love about Giant Bomb. WIN!

easily one of the best podcasts i have ever heard. 

This Bombcast has been thoroughly inspiring. I absolutely love hearing what all these people are thinking about the media, and how deeply many of their thoughts resonate with my own, and how they also managed to flesh out some of the things I'd been subconciously thinking to myself for me. It was cool to sit and listen to everyone talk, and know how a lot of these folks are from a generation back when gaming was a fledgling media,  and how much the thoughts and experiences I've formulated for myself (being only 17) are so very similar to their own.

Fascinating episode of the Bombcast. Thanks for doing this, looking forward to the rest of them.

This is the best podcasts you guys have done.  Paul brought up some excellent points of discussion.

Wow, 18 man podcast.. Incredible.

That was one hell of a podcast. Best one you've done. Thank you.

It's cool to have that many people in the room, but there were plenty of times that I had to mess with my volume to hear some folks.  I know you guys don't have the usual setup, though, so it's whatever works.

DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS

i'm loving the new theme song.....great bombcast

Very good podcast. Very informative.

Really fascinating podcast. It got a little hectic at times but I felt Ryan did an excellent job in keeping the whole thing (relatively) focused. Paul Barnett came up with some very interesting points, but his enthusiasm for the subjects discussed kind of lead to him dominating the conversation at points, when I would have wanted to hear some other opinions around the room.

The opening music is so much better!

"You must get yourself more kids.... because this one sure is stupid" I felt that remark was quite rude.

He was only trying to express that kids dont bother about things like "A wii game MUST have motion" etc. hence were able to enjoy games, because of the Wii, that they wouldn't have otherwise. (with being really old and for discontinued consoles)

This was an awesome podcast you guys!  I am a developer, used to be a game dev and this has me stirring up my old homebrew ideas!  Thanks for all you do and the 'bomb's networking abilities beat all others!

-Nightbird

Anyone else having trouble downloading, streaming, or even getting this particular podcast off of itunes? : (

Paul Barnett is great.

interesting talk

I LOVE greg kasavin

and u guys always drink during these big podcast things lol...

I finally finished listening to this podcast and all I have to say is wow, the quality of the content in the podcast is excellent. It was great to hear from Greg K. again! Keep up the good work guys, the quality on this site is amazing.

It has to be said, the podcast was awesome otherwise. Hearing Kasavin again was great.

That was some podcast, duders. Paul's words really resonated with me and he was one of the best guests you guys ever had, seriously. Get him on again.

I just finished listening to the podcast, and I really enjoyed most of the podcast. Pretty much everything Paul Barnett said I felt was a really good listen. That is up until he on several instances would use Playstation in a negative way. I also thought the remark that Che made basically saying that the people at Kojima Productions were the ones that did all the real work on the MGS franchise, and Hideo Kojima just gets all the credit was pretty ridiculous. I'm sure that it's all a team effort over at Kojima Productions, but to say that Hideo had no influence is just dumb.

" "You must get yourself more kids.... because this one sure is stupid" I felt that remark was quite rude. He was only trying to express that kids dont bother about things like "A wii game MUST have motion" etc. hence were able to enjoy games, because of the Wii, that they wouldn't have otherwise. (with being really old and for discontinued consoles) "

 Except for the technical issues and number of people, this is the best Bombcast ever. 
 
"Like making someone read Canterbury Tales" that's why I like you Brad.
 
@GeekyDad: You're an inept asshole.

@Anwar: They were working on some weird 80's game at some point, maybe that? I know they used some assets from that project for one of the rips (that showed the movie theatre) from the trailers.

Man! I still think this is the best Bombcast ever!

I just re-listened to this... and MAN Paul Barnett is on the ball. He pretty much saw the coming of Skylanders. I couldn't argue with any point he makes about game development. This is one great listen, even now, three years later.

@Max_Hydrogen said:

Man! I still think this is the best Bombcast ever!

Correct. So many people in one spot with so many different yet valid views/input is really rare. I love to listen to this every so often, just to relive the magic all over again.

Man, is Paul Barnett a time traveler? much of what he said came true.

Oh, how naïve Greg was... Once the only remaining bastion (heh) of creativity in this tired industry in dire need of a crash, indie games have descended into their own brand of anti-consumer generica. Remember: any good idea this industry comes up with will be irrevocably corrupted. He's right about killer7, though.

1998 was peak gaming. And honestly, man, if you don't have the context, you can't appreciate anything. Books, movies, games, action figures, food, whatever. If you don't understand its context, you can't get it.

And no, Mr. UK Bloke, physical DLC isn't a bloody close miss; it's bloody shite, mate.