Comments on: The RPS Electronic Wireless Show 30

By: Edgar the Peaceful

Edgar the Peaceful — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:14:41 +0000

Yesh, this has a pleasingly ramshackle and hungover feel to it, but the Jim/John podcasts are much easier on the ear in terms of sound quality.

(I’m all for boardgame discussion by the way)

By: Gassalasca

Gassalasca — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:59:13 +0000

Btw, I can’t hear Quinns properly at 61:45 and 66:25. :| Which two books is he talking about?

By: Gassalasca

Gassalasca — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:49:42 +0000

Too long, not enough meat, poor sound quality. Tchah.
Still, the only podcast I listen on a regular basis.

By: parm

parm — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:31:24 +0000

Yeaaah, I hate to whinge, but the sound quality on this one was pretty awful – I think the quietness combined with the low encoding bitrate mean the signal:noise ratio was pretty low… Maybe you need to shout a bit louder or sit closer to the mic or something?

Gridrunner sounds ace, though. I do like the way Mr Minter takes conventional games concepts and runs with them until they're basically unrecognisable – Space Giraffe was a great example: looks superficially like Tempest, isn't at all actually.

By: Rei Onryou

Rei Onryou — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:56:04 +0000

Quinns sounds like the man-child of Alec Meer and John Walker. A manly, yet highly excitable voice.

By: Quinns

Quinns — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:17:32 +0000

I think I get why they cut out the fake blips, actually. I reckon it’s to do with pace.

If it were a slower game, with more bluff and second-guessing, they’d work better than they do. As it is the Terminator player is simply scrabbling down corridors against a ungodly cruel egg-timer, and with 1-3 Genestealers being as little a threat as they are the Terminator player is unlikely to base tactical decisions on a single blip. The fake blips simply don’t produce the nail-biting tension and relief that they should, and so their removal represents the designers trying to smooth the game and produce something TIGHTER.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:48:30 +0000

No fake blips.. this confuses and saddens me.

By: Στέλιος

Στέλιος — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:01:18 +0000

Same for me – mostly in one side.

By: The Dark One

The Dark One — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:09:22 +0000

Speaking of the About page, which does John prefer– Da Vinci’s Inquest or Da Vinci’s City Hall?

By: SH4RKY

SH4RKY — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:23:42 +0000

God I love you guys….

Not in a gay way.

o_O

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:56:48 +0000

I wouldn’t know, since I never saw it. The book is tops though.

By: The_B

The_B — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:33:19 +0000

I clearly meant Nightmares, but I think the misspelling adds to the horror.