Show #232 The one with three interviews about four games

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InSoMnIaC 190 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

Nice , very early. I am gonna load it up now and probably play some Overlord while listening to it.

Oh and Major , did you ever get a chance to play Overlord? It is pretty fun. I think I remember you saying you had a copy of it the day or so before it released.

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Quicksilver4648 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

02:20:37. I can not wait to listen to this tomorrow. I could listen to this now, but why ruin the fun. I am also glad e is back to being a co-host. He always adds a good 30 minutes to a 'blog-cast'. Some nice interviews this week. But most important of all. I wonder what the guy across the hall is going to do next.

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BrokenSymmetry — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:10:05 GMT

Major and e, are the 360s you received at launch still working?

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Karen — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:35:36 GMT

Pretty good show over all. E is great on the show I'm glad you've added him as you co-host.

I loved the interview with the Three speach podcast guy. You were very honest and handled yourself very well. It took him long enough to apoligize to you. In the end it was a half an apology. I did not agree with his argument that what he said was blown out of proportion of just 10 minutes of the Podcast. If there's questionable content in anything it's still there even if it's just 10%. His proof of his opinon was lame also. If he wanted to go after the Microsoft for something its the failure rate of the console not for you interviewing the Shrek producers and a boat in France :P

I was glad you got out of someone what three speach was. The unofficial blog line reminded me of 1984's Double Speak too much. Finding out it's just a PR firm filtering and Sony paying the bills is a little more honest.

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SechoDB — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:33:54 GMT

Yes, I'm still under contract (w ATT no less) and although I personally think the phone looks very cool it doesn't take away the fact that the reviews I've read this week on a few magazines and national newspapers were pretty unflattering about it.

I also think that the media has gotten very much overly negatively critical of the medium. Games get dissed just because they are "different" or lack a "feature" such and such game has. It's getting pretty disappointing with the way the reviews are being worded lately. Going that way will surely halt further innovation in developent by sending the wrong message out.

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MrDevron — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:02:38 GMT

Much respect to the Major. I've been critical of the shots he's taken at Sony, but you really took the high road with the amateur over at threespeech. Granted, my blog is linked on the page and I still think given the time and energy that you've put into this thing over two years, you do deserve respect. You keep us informed.

I completely disagree that you shouldn't be interviewing people who have games that you think the core audience might not like. Hell, we may be hardcore, but you have a big ass audience and I'm sure *somebody's* playing Surf's Up?? Regardless, you present such a huge cross section of interviews that his criticism holds no water.

You really took the high road with that dude. I would have got in his ass a bit about those comments, but you totally took the professional route. Why is it that he had to get all Hugh Grant -- stumbling and apologizing. If it were me, I'd have pointed out some valid criticisms -- like the fact that you don't acknowledge nor mention anything about a certain console's failure rate. :-)

Let's face it -- Major is not Robert Scoble. (He lives near him, but they're two different guys.) I think the kind of objective reporting that we may be looking for you're not entitled to present. Why not take up a beef or two and get on Microsoft about something that makes you pissed. Or say, "hey guys -- hard drive, $179 - come on, now -- WTF??" I think because we like you so much, we look to you to represent our interests -- and not just in secret off the mike, but come strong and say what you feel on the mic.... "I don't know why our console is so f'n loud, but I think we might be changing the chipset to address it." OK, maybe you can't be that objective, but I think this is a much more valid criticism than the fact that you choose to give a little shine to a 3rd party developer -- one who we might not have had the chance to hear from otherwise. Why not give them a platform to give us more information about their release?

Oh yeah, one last thing.... the iPhone rules, I have one and anyone who talks trash about features they haven't even used is either 1) secretly wishing they had the cash to get down, 2) locked into a long contract, 3) poor or 4) just a hater. There are tons of criticisms, but honestly, this phone is the bomb and one of the best investments I've made in a few years. (PS3 included. :-) )

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SechoDB — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:12:25 GMT

Hey Major,

About the iPhone, the latest reports go as saying that the iPod part of it is great but the phone itself is NOT. Really bad voice quality and reception they say...

And in case you didn't know, HTC has released its own version of a touch screen phone, check it out at htc.com

I guess you could say this phone "war" is just beginning.

Great show as usual.

Cheers.

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Les Doodis — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:56:48 GMT

Concerning the ThreeSpeech interview:

So let me get this straight, ThreeSpeech badmouthing the Major on their podcast to get more interest isn't slimy PR?

And did they just magically forget alliwantforxmasisapsp?

Anyway, way to handle it with class, Major.

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Gemini Ace — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:09:08 GMT

Two things.

Show is kinda long. Hour and a half should be the max.

Also, why was the three speech thing at the end? Why didn't you promote it?

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Choclat Puddin — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:55:19 GMT

Grest show, I enjoyed the interviews, and it's too bad the guy across the hall is gone. :(

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URPREY — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:33:28 GMT

Did you get your HTC Cavalier yet? I got one last week and it rocks.

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AutomaticOcelot — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:47:25 GMT

Rather cracking aftershow, Major.

Hmmm, why does it only say "three" interviews? hehe

Have a good time at E3. Mucho video-casts por favor.

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Mike0707 — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:47:46 GMT

Trixie sounds hott.

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Mike0707 — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:47:46 GMT

Trixie sounds hott.

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fishblades — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 02:39:44 GMT

Good show as usual, makes my boring job scanning things tolerable. The Xbox101 goof was pretty awesome, I laughed pretty hard majors laugh is infectious. E should be permanent host also, it's nice when you have someone to banter with.

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DevsterC — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:51:16 GMT

The opening music worried me, but the rest of the show was good - looking forward now to Fallout (Didn't know 'Ducard' was in it). Darkness still sounds like a rental, but the aftershow was good stuffs.