[quote name='Tybee']I find it fascinating that so many are calling Chris "boring," when I thought his presence helped make this one of the better shows yet. I wasn't so interested in the constant discussion of the rivalry with Kotaku, but most of that seemed to be prompted by reader questions and Cheapy, rather than Chris, who seemed to be above it. I always love the show, but this one felt a little more...I dunno...professional.
The Angry Wombat segment is fun and I agree that game journalists MUST do follow-ups if at all possible. However, I think he overestimates how much pull most game journalists actually have. Most developers have no desire to explain themselves and there's no law that says they have to. Thus, if they talk to you at all about a perceived problem with one of their games, they'll usually feed you some PR BS about how they developed the best product they could and it's impossible to please all of the people all of the time blah blah blah.
Case in point: When I was writing about games way back when, one of the publishers that consistently delivered crap was Crave Entertainment. We would skewer them in reviews and had the chance to talk to them by phone and in person on multiple occasions and they'd never give a satisfactory answer for why their products were invariably flawed. They're still around and still cranking out garbage.
Cheapy: It sounds like the game you're describing is
Trade Wars.[/quote]
I think you summed up the problem in one word "professional". What I like about the podcast is that Cheapy and Wombat don't take themselves too seriously.
I thought this show was trying to be something that the CagCast is not.
I really hope that the Cagcast doesnt continue in this direction. I like listenign to two regular guys talk about games.
Cheapy-How bout weekly "Man in Japan" segments.
that. Bring it back!
