Dear Internet: Please Provide Alex Navarro-Related Content Ideas

Still waiting on that segment where you ride the subway and ask dudes what they're playing on their PSPs. Or Vitas, if you see one. I have one. I probably shouldn't.

Beat up street toughs and drive a muscle car. Dave can fly out to make guest appearances.

Do a series of Mug Time videos. :P

I'll need to think on this. I do like seeing play-throughs of older content though (preferably anything that isn't current-gen).

Regardless, it's pretty fantastic to reach out to the community and ask them for ideas. I tip my hat.

Glad to see you're planning on producing even more content next year.

Honestly, while it's more work, I would love to see you on video more often. Since you don't have a couple of video guys helping you with filming and editing I understand you can't do what the guys in the office can, but you're fantastic in front of the camera. The (obvious, at least to me) suggestion of having you review or play terrible game is great (you're FANTASTIC at this) and as been suggested often already, but I would love to see you do some Jar-like stuff. Any video stuff really. It was great having your thoughts on movies & TV shows over at Screened while it lasted and obviously those are not content that go on GB really well, but maybe from time to time.

In any case, glad to have more editorial content from you.

Stand in a room full of mirrors, and play Space Team with yourself.

Better ideas to come later.

@DarthOrange: Well now it's just going to be free for everyone except you. Nice going, meanie.

@Alex While I highly doubt there's any chance in hell of this happening, I'd like to see a more structured retrospective of old games. Like Encyclopedia Bombastica, but not watching you play a game and half-remembering your childhood while you play that game. Something substantial. Like Half-Good or Defending Your Movie (Game?). I think you're at your best when doing those types of features.

Actually, I thought of this while reading a review of it: Giant Bomb plays a full game of Risk Legacy. For the uninitiated, RL is Risk with permanence, making permanent changes to the board and rules over the course of fifteen rounds. I've not heard a single negative thing about it. The game is changed by secret additions and rule changes that are triggered by certain qualifications-- x major cities, y troops per turn, etc-- and this makes it a board game with spoilers. Alex could totally play via satellite along with the five SF based duders, and it could unfold over fifteen weekly segments, maybe open to all live and archived for subscribers. I think you guys could totally pull it off and that there'd be interest in it for sure.

Somenthing related to peripheral videogame lore, stuff like movies, anime, novels or whatever related to a given videogame universe. Also more snark; becaue your snark is held to high standars, and I apreciate that.

fun stuff would be fun

I feel like whatever you do it should be cynical, that's really what you do well.

Dont mean this in a bad way, just your writing style and general views on things tend to lean towards being sarcastic and cynical. What about drudging up horrible games from the past?

I would also love to just watch you talk or play anything too, i can understand it if you get tired of playing shitty games.

I hate to jump on this bandwagon, but you reviewing terrible games is always fun. That said, I'll enjoy any Alex Navarro content.

I'd like to see you integrate your film knowledge into something. Maybe pick up the reigns on TANG?

*EDIT*

Also how about a "Defend Your Game" thing like the movie feature from Screened? When I first laid eyes on you defending Event Horizon, a favorite of mine, I knew it was a feature I'd love.

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I have something...weird...to say. I know people enjoy your "cynical" take on things, but I think you should move away from that. I swear, I'm not some unshowered hippie. I've grown up as a cynical asshole, too. I'm in my late 20's now, and I'm beginning to see just how destructive it's been for me. It's easy to want to see (and make) cynical pieces. I'm guilty of it too, although I'm just some nobody. I've just seen a lot of people say "Yeah! rip on some shitty games!" In an effort to bring all of us out of the "parent's basement" of the mind, I'd like to suggest that you stay less cynical. I'm not saying super positive, though, if it would be fake. If you tell me to go fuck myself, and that I don't know you, and who am I to tell you what to do, that's fine. I just feel that I need to distance myself from comfortable cynicism more often than not, and I'd also like to be able to view your work, so in a way this is a selfish request on my behalf.

Well I figure that you like music a lot and are pretty good at talking about music, so why not talk about great game sound tracks or something? That could be fun right?

tl;dr talk about good game music

I would like to throw my hat into the Defending Your Game idea.

Alex Navarro presents.. "so, thats like, a thing." Take a look at video game trends and whether they're good or bad. That's all the effort I want to put into this.

Yeah, the Defend Your Game thing seems like a great idea. 
But with a twist!: You're arguing with all four walls in your little office! 

Giantbomb need someone to look at the worst of the worst games. Every year tones of terrible games are released and never quick looked (see Neverdead). Kind of like the month of terrible movies but with games.

@Alex I haven't read this entire thread (who actually reads anymore right?) but I've always loved your ability to take something insane and say it/write it in a really clear and hilarious way. So I think it would be awesome for you to show off games with crazy histories, great anectdotes, or insane backstories. Basically like a Twilight Zone of absurd gaming history.

Another idea is to maybe show off some of the east coast gaming scene. We see or hear a lot about what's going on way out there in California, but what about what's happening on the streets in NY?

@kingofpeanuts said:

Giantbomb need someone to look at the worst of the worst games. Every year tones of terrible games are released and never quick looked (see Neverdead). Kind of like the month of terrible movies but with games.

I concur Masterpiece of Crap Theater sounds like an amazing idea.

Talk About Nick Cage movies.

Work on handwriting, I guess?

At some point, someone on this site needs to cover Rising Zan: The Samurai Gunman for Ps1, so if you're willing to fall on that sword then more power to you.

I think a weekly "Alex Talks About His Favorite Game Of The Week" video podcast would be an incredible boon to the site. I get that you can't be on the podcast every week, so you should have a show where you talk about what you've been playing and loving. I've known The Walking Dead would be your GOTY for weeks, but that's because I follow you on Twitter, not because the 5/5 star review told me so immediately.

Not enough love in the world of games. Shouldn't one of the world's best critics discuss the world's best games?

How about an "If We Remade..." but for video games. I'd like to hear what you would do to make notable video games better or at least more entertaining in their awfulness.

@Alex: Do a weekly check in on either Playstation HOME or Runescape, I am very interested in how those are doing, but not interested in playing them myself.

Literally anything as long as it means more Alex content.
 
I'd even be totally down for your own Jar Time equivalent.

Content that allows you to reprise the phrase

"hot blasts of poop"

as often as possible.

Please aim higher than 'Watch me deliberately get exasperated at bad games'.

Being a musician myself I really would like to read about music in video-games. Weekly lists of music in video-games would be awesome, or music related video-games.

Every week buy like 50 dollars worth of value menu fast food, and see if you can eat it all in one sitting- on camera. Also there can be a video game.

@Alex Alex Navarro's Hall of Shame.

Alex Navarro's bomb disposal. Play the worst games out there. Xbox live indie -section should have steady stream of new stuff and past is cluttered with all kinds of crap - oh and Japan...

Do a continuation of This Ain't No Game in which you review cartoons based on video games. You could give retrospective on stuff like Captain N, Saturday Supercade, and Super Mario Bros Super Show. While I would like it to be in a video format I could picture it as a miniature podcast session as well. The problem would be that you would be competing with 80's Cartoon Podcast (who are really funny). Regardless of what you do I still really like your editorials especially the ones you did on screened. Keep up the great work.

@GlenTennis said:

I'd love maybe some sort of Hall of Shame. Let's be honest, you're a magnificent when ripping things to shreds so I'd love to see some shining examples of turds in gaming picked apart by you.

I approve of this idea.

Nicolas Cage >>>>> Pauly Shore

@Stranger_Danger said:

Nicolas Cage >>>>> Pauly Shore

Well, that's a no brainer and.....oh.....I see what you did there.

Moving on

I'd love to see you write about what playing, and reviewing, hundreds of terrible games does to your perception of games in general - especially in comparison to the average player. This has been superficially discussed, but it would interesting to really go into it.

@Alex said:

Shitty games played by me are definitely on the table. Whether they'll be part of the Encyclopedia Bombastica series or their own thing is currently under debate. By me. To no one. I basically yell at the walls of my office, a lot.

I'm sad all the time.

It could be the Uncyclopedia Bombastimeh

How about recreating The Wicker Man in WWE 13?

I second playing bad games and music related games, but be the Giant Bomb's Free-to-play editor. That would be a terrible terrific job.

Play well regarded games from genres you hate and see if your opinion changes on that genre at all.

@Alex: Defending your game

What about some sort of Nicolas Cage thing where you

@Alex: Honestly man, if any of those assorted doodads let you make your own quick looks that'd be pretty neat. Not saying that I think you should be on hand for every quick look of the truly awful games that come out. But I gotta say your specific charm was not on hand and greatly missed during the Thundercats quick look.

Also someone else mentioned it but yeah I'd totally watch you sift through the terrible indie games on XBLIG. It'd be really cool to see if you could find some real diamonds in the rough there.

I know that Ryan for a while was looking at the game related movies that came out with TANG collection of videos, but since the last one, there's been other movies that came out that deserve a critical eye of Alex and possibly Ryan to investigate further. This along with other articles/audio/video from Alex (whatever he thinks up) for me would be great for the site.

This is insanely ambitious but Id live to see Alex do a trivia show about video games where he interviews professional wrestlers and asks them trivia about video games and then it always ends with Alex being put through the Spanish announce table DONT ASK ME WHY ALEX WOULD HAVE A SPANISH ANNOUCE TABLE IN HIS HOUSE AND JUST GO WITH IT.

The opposite of Encyclopedia Bombastica, where instead of giving great games their props, you tear into some old bad games.