Comments on: The RPS Electronic Wireless Show Episode 3

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:52:44 +0000

First issue out in early December. Not too late to pre-order!

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:35:39 +0000

I guess sequels probably are just shameless cash-ins, yeah.

In other news, how’s Phonogram 2 coming along?

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:04:08 +0000

I think the sound quality is pretty much… fine? You only need to hear their voices.

Then again, I don’t “get” the need for stereo. ¬_¬

By: Masked Dave

Masked Dave — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:32:22 +0000

That sound quality is terrible. Come on guys, it’s not hard to find a better way to do this, you all have at least one PC. And since you all game online I’m going to guess you have headsets and/or microphones. Which is really all you need.

It’s actually painful to listen to at the minute.

If it’s just laziness preventing you then fair enough, however if you do want to improve and just don’t know where to start, I can give you some pointers from what I’ve picked up in producing my show.

You don’t need to be studio quality, but it does need to sound like I’m not listening through your nearest toilet’s u-bend.

By: Nallen

Nallen — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:06:39 +0000

Oh for God’s sake, sort the sound out, it’s worse than TS!

/me lobs the toys

still my favorite podcast though… ;)

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:18:30 +0000

And I’m a Midlander.

By: Pags

Pags — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:16:30 +0000

Oh and Kieron, it’s pronounced proost, not prowst. He’s French, remember.

By: Pags

Pags — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:13:11 +0000

Possible game versions of The Wire:

Real Time Bubble’em-Up: scrounging the streets for enough scrap metal to buy junk and avoiding being beaten up by the Barksdale/Prop Joe/Stanfield crews.

Turn Based McNulty: Attempting to conquer every bedroom in West Baltimore, one turn at a time. It’d probably end up playing a bit like that Boneland game, with booze equating to balls.

By: nabeel

nabeel — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:01:34 +0000

Good to hear that Tom Francis won that award, I voted for him ^____^
Nice ep, though you guys reeeaaally need to get all of you together just once at least!

nabeel

By: Radiant

Radiant — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:55:54 +0000

well worthy bruv.

By: Radiant

Radiant — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:55:03 +0000

Well from a publisher/pr point of view it’s the established ip, the franchise, that makes the property worth anything [and by extension of ownership indicates the publisher's worth].

With an unproven ip, short of arbitrarily assigning a price tag to it, is worthless; there’s no measure of its worth.

When it comes down to it an idea really isn’t worth anything; as sad as that is.

By: Larington

Larington — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:55:04 +0000

I just loved the fact that Kieron saying “Skaven” whilst mid-sentence would instantly cause him to lose track of what he was saying.

And yes, a cursory glance at certain articles/websites at one point definately seemed to be ‘all about the IP’ as far as certain managers were concerned. But these people always miss the point, its the creation of IP thats compelling thats far more important than the continuation of said IP.
Publishers definately suffer from I-Pee-Itus at the moment, which is a problem, because it means players assume the gameplay is going to be exactly the same even though theres almost certainly going to be a few changes to the design during development of the sequel.