If what I've seen so far is indicative of your attitude, then screw whatevers gauche. It's always nice to see the creators of these things get into the trenches and respond to our high and mighty commentary once and awhile. Now here's some high and mighty commentary. I can't say you've made a good first impression on me, but you've addressed that in part one and two of your response. Someone in this thread posted your video on Bulletstorm and it got my attention much better. I look forward to moreJimothy Sterling said:Is it considered gauche to respond to your own feedback here? I don't know. Ah well. Too late now.
Thank you all for the feedback thus far, even the negative stuff. It's obviously important to hear why you suck from people who will properly explain it to you. Having isolated the key criticisms, I will address them:
1) Obviousness of subject: Not every episode is going to be something hotly contested. Sometimes it's just stuff that pissed me off and hopefully people can feel cathartic in hearing it voiced by someone else. That said, future episodes will have more debatable and touchy topics to discuss, so it won't just be a fat man stating the obvious.
2) The visual presentation: One of the reasons I went with having me on the camera is the very fact that we have shows like Extra Credits and Zero Punctuation. I don't want to look like those. Future episodes will strive for more cut-away content and I will be getting better lighting up in this business as soon as I can. I'll be working hard to make it both different and interesting.
3) That line flub: Dunno how I let that slide. No, that was shit on my part.
As much as I love the insight from the extra credits crew and moviebob and the like, it's refreshing to see someone willing to take gaming off of it's pedestal once in awhile and remind us of the game part of our beloved media. I think we should treat games with respect as the view of them starts to mature, but sometimes things just get flat out silly. Kudos to you for playing the devils advocate in that aspect.
If I have only one complaint redundant though it may be, I hope your future videos have a little less penis in them. Like none. Personally I drive a school bus for a living and sometimes I watch these videos on my iPad on the bus while I load up, and while the headphones can keep my students from having their delicate ears melted from the NSFW language, I'd hate to lose my job because the kindergartener behind me told his parents about your latest ms paint masterpiece. Honestly I didn't even think that was kosher on this site (even Yahtzee blurs out his dick jokes)
All that aside... Welcome to the Escapist.