POP Ep.28: Don't be an a**hole, don't be a fanboy (Voicemail line 713-893-8069)
Player One Podcast
Chris Johnston
4.5 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2007
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Two other big topics this week -- First, David Jaffe's blog blow-up against game reviewers and gaming blogs (Joystiq in particular). We discuss reviewers taking the price/distribution model of a game in mind, developers versus journalists, fixing bugs after reviews have been printed, and the importance of playing a game so reliant on the quality of the online community "in the wild." Then we switch gears a little and discuss Microsoft's new territory controls built around the Xbox Live Marketplace.
One more thing, if you've seen Spider-Man 3 or don't mind hearing spoilers, stick around after the ending theme music for 10 minutes or so of talk about the movie.
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This week's links:
Guest Patrick Klepek's blog and 1UP blog
Lord of the Rings Online
Pokemon Diamond and Pearl
The Red Star
Raiden III
Odin Sphere
Spider-Man 3
Catan
Centipede/Millipede
Super Rub-a-Dub
Castlevania
Boom Boom Rocket
David Jaffe's blog: Comments on first Calling All Cars reviews
Joystiq on Calling All Cars delay
David Jaffe's blog: That's it for now...see you soon
Andrew Pfister's 1UP.com blog: Reviewing Reviewers of Reviews
Gamerscore blog: Xbox 360 Marketplace Territory Controls Strengthened
Gamerscore blog: More on Xbox LIVE Marketplace Content
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 28 of the Player One podcast from Monday, May 7, 2007. |
| 0:20.8 | Undercoast Chris Johnston and with me as always is Laura Croft's biggest Canadian fan, Greg Seward. That's me. Yes, and joining us from California is a guy who's soon to have his name legally changed to Cyther Phil Theobald. Suffer like Z-Dood? Hust the Dead 3. Thank you. Which one? Two. Sorry. That was Hes the Dead 2. Nice. Typing of the Dead. Yeah, I was quoting Typing of the Dead. That's even better, yeah. Ger, Carl. And with us all the way from Florida is a guy that can't wait to start earning game time using the World of Warcraft Visa card, Dan Dormer. |
| 0:55.8 | Zero APR, hey, who wouldn't love it? |
| 0:58.8 | That'll get you to level 70 real fast. |
| 1:02.2 | No problem. |
| 1:03.7 | Take those blood else out to eat. |
| 1:05.7 | That's right. |
| 1:06.3 | And we have a special guest this week, phoning in from Illinois and taking a break from his career as an aggressive bush jumper, Patrick Klepping. |
| 1:14.6 | Como is das? |
| 1:17.2 | Just so everyone knows, you're also one-ups associate news editor. |
| 1:21.0 | Yes. |
| 1:21.7 | And also, three of us at least, remember when, remember knowing you when you. |
| 1:26.8 | Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right. Yes. Yeah knowing you when I have too long of a history with all of these people |
| 1:33.1 | way too long way too long we don't we we don't even do we even |
| 1:37.6 | get out of that do we do we I guess that's part of the we're going to get into that |
| 1:40.6 | later yeah that'll be oh we're going to put you in your place before you get your your big ego so we're going to get into that later. Yeah. That'll be. Ooh. We're going to put you in your place before you get your big ego. So we're going to head off the past. I already have big hair. We'll get into that stuff later, but let's start off the way we always do, talking about what we've been playing in the past week. And why don't we have Dan go first? What have you been playing? |
| 2:01.2 | So this week I decided to take a break from World of Warcraft and play Lord of the Rings |
| 2:06.5 | online, which is a lot like... |
| 2:10.6 | Basically the same game, but in the Lord of the Rings universe. |
| 2:14.6 | Exactly. You know, there's no kind of, you know, straightforward PVP action in it. |
| 2:22.9 | You start off. |
| 2:24.1 | And it has a really cool introduction because you start off and you're like defending the |
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