The Geekbox: Episode 31
Posted by Ryan Scott in Podcasts, The Geekbox on Sep 16, 2009 @ 11:40 PM | 17 commentsAnd we’re back to our regularly scheduled podcast, after last week’s GFW reunion. This episode guest stars British game journalist Olly Quinn, who also filmed some brief behind-the-scenes video clips (which I just might post up here if I can figure out a good way to do so). This episode’s a bit more scattershot than usual, but I hope you enjoy it!
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The Geekbox — Episode 31 (2009-09-16)
Wherein we discuss Penny Arcade Expo 2009, swine flu, jumping from press to game development, your average QA department, British TV shows, web vs. print, and Star Wars in Concert (don’t miss our awesome Star Wars trivia question!). Starring Ryan Scott, Karen Chu, Andrew Fitch, Ryan Higgins, and Olly Quinn.
Running Time: 1h 3m 13s
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Ryan is wrong, there are only 15
1 Luke
2 Leia
3 Han
4 Chewie
5 C3P0
6 R2D2
7 Obi Wan
8 Darth Vader
9 Boba Fett
10 Yoda
11 Lando
12 Wedge
13 Dengar
14 Admiral Piett
15 The Emperor
Unless you count Bossk, which is far from definitive since he is barely visible and could have been some other Trandoshan in RotJ. 2-1b (the medical droid) also appears in RotJ, but there is no indication that this is the same droid that appears in ESB.
I wish people who do gaming blogs or podcasts would stopped referring to themselves as ‘journalists’. They are, for the most part, simply game enthusiasts or at best, video game critics.
Geoff Keighley, Morgan Webb & Adam Sessler aren’t journalists either: they are TV hosts.
If you want an example of a – REAL – video game journalist, go and check out “A life well wasted” by Robert Ashley.
But come on… putting a podcast where you talk about games or read press releases doesn’t make you into a journalist.
I’ve never claimed I was a writer.
Oh Shit – you’re an ass
I’m missing one (possibly two). Help!
1. Luke
2. Leia
3. Han
4. Chewie
5. Obi-wan
6. Yoda
7. Lando
8. Vader
9. Palpatine
10. Wedge
11. Boba Fett
12. R2D2
13. C-3PO
14. Piett
15. Medical Droid (?)
16. ???
Mark Hamill did the voice for Detective Mosely in the original Gabriel Knight.
@sdf “Games journalism has lots of problems. The GFW editorial was by no means the damn Beatles of games journalism. Also, just because you use the same coffee room as actual game developers – doesn’t make you a game developer”
So, what band would you equate them to? Totally agree with you on point two: using a sex toy previously used by a porn star does not make you an adult film star; it makes you contagious. Or just because you can comment on a blog doesn’t make you a writer.
…oh shit.
if I had to guess, my picks would be:
1. Luke
2. Leia
3. Han
4. Chewbacca
5. C3PO
6. R2-D2
7. Vader
8. Emperor
9. Obi-Wan
10. Yoda
11. Bobba Fett
12. Admiral Piett
13. Dengar
14. Wedge
15. Lando
16. Jabba (CGI in ep 4)
17. Storm Trooper
(since they are clones, who can tell one from another) 🙂
I want to know the answer to the star wars trivia question. Ryan has said it on a podcast before and i can only ever work out 14:
Luke, Han, Leia, Chewbacca, Obi Wan, Yoda, Vader, Lando, Wedge, R2, C3P0, Boba Fett, The Emperor, Piett…
Games journalism has lots of problems. The GFW editorial was by no means the damn Beatles of games journalism.
Also, just because you use the same coffee room as actual game developers – doesn’t make you a game developer.
I think it’s funny that this podcasts highlights what seems to be a problem to good journalism. If the people we are looking to to provide good objective coverage are just waiting to find jobs in the industry they are covering how can we rely on people being objective and hard-hitting on games that deserve it?
I rarely notice eating on the podcast. I’m only annoyed when they waste time talking about that topic because some scrubber complains about it.
For those interested in Consolevania
http://www.consolevania.com/
Very good series, but beware, things get REALLY weird during the later series (inbetween series 3 and 4).
Who does Mark Hammil (sp?) voice in Gabriel Knight?
uhh… how many podcast do we have to complin about befor people STOP EATING when recording… saliva smacking between every word… just distracting! but a good show, otherwise…
Fanboys wasn’t a terrible movie – but I can’t see any cut of that movie being some kind of mythic masterpiece. And yeah, Harvey Weinstein has proven to be such a failure at running a studio.
Olly was mostly on base about Fanboys, though there’s actually a really deep story to tell about the production of Fanboys and the editing butcher that Harvey Weinstein really is. There’s actually a really great (after dark, casual) episode of the /Filmcast where the writer/director Kyle Newman talks to the /Film guys about the whole process… it’s really quite informative and revealing: http://slashfilm.com/filmcast/?p=167
yay more brits needed on podcasts…
lol as a pom abroad i kinda miss the mother tongue.
It kind of got lost in the beginning of the show, Olly mentions the movie “Withnail & I”. It’s not geeky at all, but it’s a must watch for any Americans who are interested in British culture.
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