So, any good gaming podcast to listen to?

[J_C]

Guys! I'm interested in some podcast channels, which discuss gaming, preferably the kind of gaming the Codex is into. So far I listened Epic Battle Cry and Gametrailers podcast, which are full of shit. Giantbomb looks OK. Anything interesting?

 

[taxalot]

I just bother with DOS Nostalgia.
http://www.dosnostalgia.com/

I'm sure there are bound to be some other good stuff somewhere though.

 

[Jvegi]

http://www.rageselect.com/index.php/feature/podcasts

Good ol' Spill.com remnants. Not very Codexian, but those guys are never boring, they usually have some interesting stuff to say, and are overall professional without being fucking radio-wonnabe bitches like most podcasters out there.

Watch Out for Fireballs has some really nice retrospectives of classic games, RPGs included. Not nearly as entertaining, but they have their moments, and the subject matter is obviously relevant to us.

 

[AngryEddy]

The Loadingbar was pretty entertaining, but they got shutdown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqh-WXXE-wQ&index=2&list=PL9CF0609F1913E8BF

 

[The Fish]

I listen to Gamewank but the release of podcasts is quite erratic.

http://gamewank.com/

 

[Alchemist]

Roguelike Radio is very good. It comes from a developer angle though - most on the podcast are roguelike devs talking about design, etc.

Space Game Junkie for space game news and interviews.

Sadly there really is nothing out there that caters to Codexian tastes in cRPGs.

I also listen to a bunch of tabletop RPG podcasts: everything from Wild Games Productions (Roll for Initiative, Save or Die, Thaco's Hammer, Spellburn, Dead Games Society), Happy Jacks, Fear the Boot, RPG Circus.

 

[Chateaubryan]

Well, his tone and delivery could stand some improvement, but I'm kinda fond of Al Russell : https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAllosaurusRex
He's not limiting himself to RPG, but has a special fondness for PST and Morrowind.

Youtube vids, but the visuals aren't essential.

 

[LESS T_T]

The Game Design Round Table

This is hosted by game designers, and mainly about design of strategy and tabletop games.

 

[Jarpie]

There's "new" retro gaming podcast, The Retro Hour, launched in january of 2016, they've interviewed several devs from the olden times, such as Julian Gollop, Jon Hare, and less familiar stuff, like Simon Phipps of CoreCore Design and Gremlin Graphics. The podcasts are also in youtube but they're just voice with static images.

http://www.theretrohour.com/

 

[HoboForEternity]

https://devgameclub.libsyn.com/
My current fave is dev game club. It is two old games developer playing old games and assessing them. Since they are a developer (they worked in lucasarts, 343 games, bethesda, ans some other the last 20 years) there are alot of cool technical insight that they give.

They play trough games in 4 to 5 episodes, then did an interview to the game's creator (if available) and move on to the next.

They even interviewed tim cain and boyarsky after their play trough fallout 1, and ken levine in system shock 2, alsosome other.

The downside is they dont get the interview 100% if the person is unavailable. That usually happens when they play Japanese games for obvious reason, they cant do interview. Iirc the only western game whose dev they didnt get to interview so far is legacy od kain soul reaver.

Of course, the only downside if you are looking for news and insights to more modern games, you wont get it since most of them are retrospective of a sort
https://devgameclub.libsyn.com/
https://devgameclub.libsyn.com/

 

[PulsatingBrain]

My current fave is dev game club...

This one sounds great, I'll definitely give it a look

To J_C definitely give Giant Bombcast a chance, they'll occasionally have a slow one, but there's usually some amusing shit in there, especially in the emails section at the end

Spoiler

how the fuck do you tag a member's name in a comment?

 

[Dreed]

My current fave is dev game club...

This one sounds great, I'll definitely give it a look

To J_C definitely give Giant Bombcast a chance, they'll occasionally have a slow one, but there's usually some amusing shit in there, especially in the emails section at the end

Spoiler

how the fuck do you tag a member's name in a comment?

You have to put an @ just before the user's name.

J_C

 

[HoboForEternity]

Dev game club is playing trough planescape: torment next week!

Incomimg chris avellome chat/interview if he is not too busy

 

[rezaf]

Incomimg chris avellome chat/interview if he is not too busy

Next time:
Interview with Chris Avellone

You called it. Well played sir.

 

[newtmonkey]

Second vote for DOS Nostalgia!

I also like Upper Memory Block
http://umbcast.com/

 

[Jarpie]

Necroing topic again, The Retro Hour podcast interviewed Shawn Mills from Infamous Quests about his upcoming book on Sierra On-Line, they also talk about Quest for Infamy in the end of the podcast.

https://theretrohour.com/history-of-sierra-ep167/

 

[samuraigaiden]

Apple Time Warp is a podcast about old PC games by a gentleman called Craig Johnston and John Romero (yes, the John Romero). They don't seem to do these very often. In the latest episode, from September 2020, they interviewed Stuart Smith, creator of the Adventure Construction Set, and had the CRPG Addict along too. It's pretty interesting stuff.

Check it out here https://appletimewarp.libsyn.com/

 

[Jarpie]

Been listening that Retro Hour Podcast on and off, they've had some good guests but a lot of them are from the UK, in the latest podcast they interviewed Julian Eggebrecht from Factor 5 (Turrican etc), just a shame that the podcast is very UK-centric as they rarely interview anyone from the continental europe...and that the hosts are very much normie plebs so they ask very basic questions and only scratches the surface.

 

[Jarpie]

My current fave is dev game club. It is two old games developer playing old games and assessing them. Since they are a developer (they worked in lucasarts, 343 games, bethesda, ans some other the last 20 years) there are alot of cool technical insight that they give.

They play trough games in 4 to 5 episodes, then did an interview to the game's creator (if available) and move on to the next.

They even interviewed tim cain and boyarsky after their play trough fallout 1, and ken levine in system shock 2, alsosome other.

The downside is they dont get the interview 100% if the person is unavailable. That usually happens when they play Japanese games for obvious reason, they cant do interview. Iirc the only western game whose dev they didnt get to interview so far is legacy od kain soul reaver.

Of course, the only downside if you are looking for news and insights to more modern games, you wont get it since most of them are retrospective of a sort
https://devgameclub.libsyn.com/

I listened to their latest episode, part 1 of Baldur's Gate. They don't differentiate between the changes from the original release to EE and one of those hosts called Neera "awesome", oh and they bitched about thac0. Not exactly the best start.

 

[Puukko]

This is a tabletop podcast, but it of course leans to the vidya side as well. Good incline in a sea of soycasts.

https://littlewars.home.blog/category/little-wars/podcast-episode/

 

[newtmonkey]

DOS GAME CLUB is a fun one:

https://www.dosgameclub.com/

taxalot even made a special guest appearance in one particularly Codexian episode.