What do you think about a "SpoilerCast"?

I think it would be neat if the guys did a short spoiler podcast once in awhile featuring a specific game.

It could be along the lines of a quicklook, just two, or maybe 3 guys talking about a game they had all beat and being able to talk directly about plots and twists.

They don't seem to have an outlet for that info on the site and it would be neat to hear them talk in specifics rather than vaguely describing things

What do you think?

They have done a few in the past, but I would like it to happen more frequently.

This has been done before but I hope they do it again with The Walking Dead.

As long as the game deserves it. We don't need another Spore-cast.

Spoilercasts are great, I hope they could make more of them.

@adam1808 said:

As long as the game deserves it. We don't need another Spore-cast.

Good or mediocre, it's still fun hearing about a game in a more in-depth way. I know it didn't com close to living up to expectations, but I still personally loved Spore.

They should do one for The Walking Dead after Jeff has finished it.

The gameof the year stuff is very much a spoiler cast.

They did talk about The Walking Dead spoilercast in one of the bombcasts, so I think they will do it. Just wait couple of weeks.

I love listening to their thoughts on major story points. I'd take more, but I can't imagine they would do one around GOTY podcasts. Too much time in one small room.

Mass Effect 3 video spoiler cast

They used to be the best things, the MGS4 Spoilercast is still one of my favourites to go back to.

They need to do one for The Walking Dead. I really want to hear their opinions of the ending.

They really need to do one for the walking dead if they're going to keep talking about it. I've not played it myself but its kind of annoying when all they can say is "that bit where that thing happens".

@Icemo: I'm pretty sure they said that part of their GotY discussions are going to essentially end up being the Walking Dead spoilercast.

GOTY serves as a general spoiler cast. TWD bound to be discussed and spoilt within this years.

As long as everyone on the cast has played the game in question I would love for them to talk about spoilers much more frequently. I feel if they waited to discuss it because the game was new and they didn't want to spoil it for the audience listening to it, I would have qualms with that.

I generally don't think "spoilercasts" are necessary for a show like Bombcast. If they want to discuss it with spoilers during an episode they should do it right then instead of breaking it out into another recording.

I generally don't think "spoilercasts" are necessary for a show like Bombcast. If they want to discuss it with spoilers during an episode they should do it right then instead of breaking it out into another recording.

But I don't believe they should feel compelled to restrict what they say either. If you are talking about more "structured" podcast then doing a separate podcast makes sense but the way Bombcast works is very much "guys shooting the breeze about what they play". If they want to talk about a spoiler aspect of the game then they should or that part of the segment becomes stilted.

This also means that they are free to talk about it in spoiler free terms too. If they had a separate "spoilercast" then discussion might be entirely muted and saved for that which I am not sure is good for the Bombcast.

@alternate said:

GOTY serves as a general spoiler cast. TWD bound to be discussed and spoilt within this years.

Not really though. They tend to dance around things, then only get specific when pressed. I would enjoy a more flat-out "there be spoilers here" type advance notice, so they can just relax and get down to discussing how they feel about a game. For such a personality-driven site, i'm surprised they've let this feature die.

If they do them as seperate podcasts they are easy to skip or to come back to as well, which is useful. I have even listened to a few of the in-depth spoiler/specific-casts for games i haven't even played in the past and enjoyed them. Sometimes if you know you have no interest in a game you actually welcome an in-depth discussion of it.

@cthomer5000 said:

@alternate said:

GOTY serves as a general spoiler cast. TWD bound to be discussed and spoilt within this years.

Not really though. They tend to dance around things, then only get specific when pressed. I would enjoy a more flat-out "there be spoilers here" type advance notice, so they can just relax and get down to discussing how they feel about a game. For such a personality-driven site, i'm surprised they've let this feature die.

If they do them as seperate podcasts they are easy to skip or to come back to as well, which is useful. I have even listened to a few of the in-depth spoiler/specific-casts for games i haven't even played in the past and enjoyed them. Sometimes if you know you have no interest in a game you actually welcome an in-depth discussion of it.

Not to mention it's only once a year. A Mass Effect 3 spoilercast would've been awesome a month or two after it was out, but now it's been so long that I don't really care.

Spoilercasts are cool. I wouldn't mind more candid discussions of game stories on the regular cast though.

I find that games with stories I care about, I buy them week one and blow through them, so I'm rarely in danger of getting spoiled. And with games I know I'll never play, I'd like to hear about purely for entertainment value. For instance, I will never play Spec Ops: The Line, and I'd love to hear Jeff break down exactly how nutso that game gets.

It's just rarer and rarer these days for them to have time to have all of them play a game and then do a special podcast about the game when it is new and fresh.

I would love more spoiler casts. But the reason why there aren't that many is due to the fact that it is rare for them to all play a game to completion at the same time. It would only work if 3+ of the bombcast played it and finished it within the same time for it to be relevant.

I think we're all way too scared of spoilers, to the industry's detriment. It's rarely that big of a deal and it prevents mature, interesting discussions about story-driven games from happening. I agree, more spoilercasts, even if one of the participants is in fact getting spoiled himself, or just more "spoiler warning" gaps in regular bombcasts would be great. 999, Mass Effect 3, TWD, Assassin's Creed 3, Far Cry 3, Black Ops 2... a bunch of games they discussed this year and last year would have benefited from this.

I'd love to hear more spoilercasts

@NoelVeiga said:

I think we're all way too scared of spoilers

QFT

@NoelVeiga said:

I think we're all way too scared of spoilers, to the industry's detriment. It's rarely that big of a deal and it prevents mature, interesting discussions about story-driven games from happening. I agree, more spoilercasts, even if one of the participants is in fact getting spoiled himself, or just more "spoiler warning" gaps in regular bombcasts would be great. 999, Mass Effect 3, TWD, Assassin's Creed 3, Far Cry 3, Black Ops 2... a bunch of games they discussed this year and last year would have benefited from this.

@Oscar__Explosion said:

They have done a few in the past, but I would like it to happen more frequently.

These two things are probably true. That said, I'm furious at Ubisoft for showing the two best scenes of Far Cry 3 at two separate E3 press conferences when nothing in the game was even close to as good.

@Little_Socrates: I think there's a difference between putting too much into the marketing of a game that isn't out yet and being afraid to talk about a game that is out for the sake of the people who haven't played it (or finished it) yet.