I've been meaning to pick up 999 since it came out. But listening to Patrick talk about it has finally made me order it from Amazon. But I'll probably grab VLR for the Vita just to avoid that bug.
I'm finally going to give Corpse Party a shot as well. I've heard Patrick mention wanting to try it a few times, and Phil Kollar seems to dig the game as well.
TalkRadar. The core crew of Chris, Brett, Mikel, and Charlie were amazing. I didn't mind Hank as much as some. Tyler hit his stride when he stopped trying so hard. I stopped listening shortly after Hollander Cooper came on board. He was just...awful. I listened to their new podcast Laser Time for a while but it never felt the same. The high point of TDAR was Chris' story of some random dog shitting on it's own balls story and their 100th episode.
I always liked the story Chris gave in the episode where they revisited the superman getting an atom bomb in the ass topic. Chris talked about getting into a fight with his dad and how he could never get hit him. "Come on and hit me! I fuck your mother!" That shit was the best! I didn't mind Cooper all that much but I thought Henry was just such a dick sometimes. Like when I said my game of the year was inFamous 2 Cooper was the only one that agreed that it was a fantastic game. Henry said I was full of shit. I figured someone like him would be able to appreciate a superhero game, but he always seemed to dislike the PS3. The best thing about TalkRadar was that they always had the community in their mind, and they never forgot about why they were recording a podcast in the first place. They always included fan art in their posts and they encouraged community activity. Hell, a third (usually more) of each podcast was dedicated to the community. The biggest reason I stopped listening to the bombcast and watching quick looks is because the staff here doesn't seem to give the first shit about us. They will occasionally rush through some emails and other then that will almost always just mention people on this site as being assholes on the internet who write shitty things because they are assholes on the internet. The community here is 100 times more vibrant and active then it ever was on gamesradar and yet the staff never seems to appreciate it.
The guys are always mentioning the awesome stuff people do on twitter. At one point all of them changed their avatar to the Mega Man art someone did of them. Why do you think they get Dave, Vinny, and Drew together for every flight sim game? Why do you think they had a QL of Farming Sim 2012? Or how about Vinny and Jeff suddenly becoming the "sports guys?"
I guess I spoke to broadly. I mean they don't give a shit about non-subscribers. I don't follow them on Twitter so I don't know what happens there but here we regulars don't get any love. The community action that is TNT is subscriber only. The Flight Club is subscriber only. Jeff answers question that are asked to him by subscribers, for subscribers in Jar Time. Why is there shit even behind a pay wall anymore? The original reason they gave was because they wanted to remain independent, and it was helping keep five sites a float. What reason is there now for them to not just open up the content to everyone like a normal website?
TNT is not subscriber only. Anyone can watch it live and anyone can watch it on Justin.TV. And I didn't say Flight Club. There have been two Flight Club games, Lunar Flight and one for a beta. The rest are all hour-long Quick Looks. Maybe you should actually look this stuff up instead of assuming.
As for the subscription service, since nobody knows what the business side of things looks like, I don't know.
I would also add, that not one thing that was ever free is now behind a pay wall. For a a short while when the subscription option came out, Ryan talked about making the Bombcast a subscriber feature but couldn't logistically figure out how to implement it and decided against it. If anything, there seems to be the chain of thought that subscribers need more content exclusive to them.
No, Ryan was against that. it was Whiskeymedia that wanted to do that.
I'm going to need Dave, Drew, and Alex quotes in the near future. Those are a bit harder to find. SUGGESTIONS GO!
Can't wait for these!
And I know he's not really part of GB in any way, but I would love you forever if you made Rich Gallup. Preferably in Robot/Wizard form. He watched the P4 Endurance Run from episode 50-ish, after all. ;D
"Was that a clock-wipe?"
"Free awesome powers of personalised-guidance? Sign me up!"
"Holy-crap, I'm flying!"
"Checker-board, please!"
"Redundant. Total download is now complete."
He could be GB's version of Mysterious Fox or Funky Student.
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