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Best Story ^ I doubt we've played enough games for that to be credible.

It probably won't get much support from the community, we're just fans of the medium rather than professionals so we probably haven't played every game worth playing and while we've probably got a pretty good grasp on the GOTY games, since they tend to be pretty popular on the forum, we get into some shaky territory when we start getting niche. Perhaps a SW vote on these topics and some write ups from people interested to accompany the winners. I'm game for whatever.

E3?

Pretty sure we were waiting for you to say something.

Do want.

Well what did you want to do, LP and Alphonse? The point I was trying to get at earlier was that we should let people do what they want, if our front page becomes a vessel for people to give off some creativity and have fun doing it then the content will likely come. That's not a free ticket for anarchy but I mean if you were interested in that comic idea LP, I think it would be a beneficial feature for the site and if you enjoy it you'll likely continue it and put effort into it, it won't be a job without a wage. Personally I want to give the video capture side of things a shot and perhaps s

Then what are we doing here. Because that post was directed at this forum as a whole and not the lofty expectations without the substance or planning of your post, amirite? Douchebaggery aside, how do you expect to overcome the problems with content delivery considering SW has a history of people saying they'll do something and then it never happens? I mean we had a substantially larger content team last attempt at a front page and to my knowledge not much came out of that.

Fuck yes, goals without substance or planning!

Those threads can generally get pretty big, especially if it was made pre-release and they're likely to contain mostly useless posts and heavily biased opinions leading to even more useless posts since it'll just start a chain of personal insults. I think the roundtable type discussion has the benefit of removing all the junk and focusing on the the discussion that is actually worth reading from those threads. I'm not sure of the value of hearing a bunch of no name amateurs having a round table about a game that's probably been on the market for a few weeks already. Especially when there bi

Those threads can generally get pretty big, especially if it was made pre-release and they're likely to contain mostly useless posts and heavily biased opinions leading to even more useless posts since it'll just start a chain of personal insults. I think the roundtable type discussion has the benefit of removing all the junk and focusing on the the discussion that is actually worth reading from those threads.

That works in audio/video. Reading that is a mess. The old saying "A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link" describes our situation here. We have to work with the fact that everyone will be doing this for free, during their free time. It's fine to have noble aspirations, but we need to be realistic with what content we can supply. I like Dekz idea, the biggest problem we're going to face with the website is that we likely don't have the resources to make legitimate reviews work at anything more than "once in awhile." I think we'll have the same problem with the intentionally biased

I put him up to that btw, I figured the laughing at the end gave it away lol

I haven't talked to him about it and I don't think we need any direction for the first time.

Let's just do that idea Dekz had about just talking and seeing how that goes.

We're pretty much at the end of the month, pick a day.

Let's do it. Weekdays after 3PM EST work for me with the exception of this coming Monday.

Let's just get on Skype sometime this week (or next, Thanksgiving weekend for Canadians) and see how well we get along. This thread is full of good ideas, bad ideas, and ideas that work situationally but ultimately we all agree that the success of this podcast is going to be based on us, and whoever is listening, having fun.

The problem is that the point when decent discussion turns into 'fanboy bullshit' is going to be a moving target as a result of it being highly subjective. I liked the exclusion 'score wars' as a objective way to reduce the 'fanboy bullshit' because that's a really good idea, a forum where the scores don't matter and discussion is based solely around personal experience is probably enough of a roadblock to keep the majority of the fanboys out because having somebody else's opinion to validate a post that isn't well communicated, ignorant or just irrelevant, is a crutch that people won't be ab

So basically what Serious Business was designed to be before it ended up becoming a cesspool of religion bashing?

There's a pretty big difference between structure and a script, I think you're underestimating how much structure there is in the podcasts for major gaming websites. You're also acting like structure and the free-flow discussion are mutually exclusive when I know you were a fan of the 1up podcasts which was able to hit both so well which made it enjoyable. If this podcast does happen I'll be sure to have notes, it doesn't mean I have to list them like bullet points but if somebody wants to know what motivation for completing the career events in Dirt 2 is I can have that information with me i

I write a lot of stuff down but never really get around to finishing it, I started writing up some structure ideas I had for the SW podcast but it got me interested in playing Dirt 2 again so I didn't finish it and haven't gone back. SystemWars.com Podcast Segment 1: Introduction Segment 2: Whatcha been playin'? - Self-explainatory; avoid topics listed in other segments (Me) Dirt 2 - So much fun - Presentation is great (very westernized) - Lots of difficulty levels, made getting into the game and progressing as a driver easy - Hitting a corner with the right

Something like that, was really hoping to get feedback from Diplomat and perhaps get some back and forth discussion with him about it for ideas. Right now it's pretty much throwing ideas up on the blackboard and seeing what sticks but I haven't gotten a place to bounce the ideas off of anybody until you came along.

Co-op angle entirely, I was also hoping to stay away from "reviewing" and simply discuss how well the co-op works for the game and perhaps shed some light on co-op games in general since stuff like Ultimate Alliance 2 flies under the radar despite being a lot of fun to fuck around in with 3 other people.

We were actually planning on pitching the idea to do co-op reviews for the main site, I sent my idea to Diplomat but he never got back to me so I dunno what's gonna happen. I really like the co-op angle though and I think there's a lot of room to make it work rather than the typical review format while still being something people would read without immediately dismissing it because an exclusive game didn't score like they had hoped.

Yeah I'm down. I'm also gonna try to talk Fatty into do a co-op centered podcast if anybody with a decent audio recording setup wants in. :roflmao: