G+_George Kozi Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 The gaming thing I keep hearing Leo Laporte saying that they tried a show about games and it didn't work. Fine Leo, but things change. If you once tried something and you failed, that shouldn't doom it for eternity. Leo, you always say that what the kids do is important... well, kids play games. Kids of every age play games, and there's nothing on the most important Tech podcasting site for them. We have the internet. How expensive would it be for TWIT to provide a few people with some consoles, pc's, and some games and make them play live for an hour every couple of days? Play in their home, but broadcast it on TWIT. Live. I keep watching gaming on TWITCH, I want to watch it on TWIT. I want to hear Brian get angry and Justin say something bleepable, I want to see Tom play a Hello Kitty game, or Paul Thurrott busy on his xbox...or even a new gamer I know nothing about, playing a game I never seen before You have endless reruns... an hour of live gaming per day, or even once a week to start with, would be great. This is a field too important to ignore. And even if there won't be advertizing for something like this, there would be something else: a new, young, passionate audience on TWIT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Christopher Mylant Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Game show on twit is needed!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted December 5, 2013 Author Share Posted December 5, 2013 and it shouldn't be about reviewing. It should simply be about watching people playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marc Telesha Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 We'll it didn't work and they had great host to bring people in. Gaming is covered very well by unpaid podcast era there really isn't room for a for profit podcast at twit. My two cents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Carl Lundgren Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Isn't there already thousands of hours of people playing video games on YouTube? All instantly searchable? To me that's the biggest reason a gaming show would not get enough viewers to justify its cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Mumma Bear Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Twit hosts a mine craft show... there's already far to many gaming podcasts... see YouTube! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Andrew Desics Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 I felt the problem with Game On (or whatever it was called) was that it was too 'produced' and too scripted so it ended up being really cheesy. TWiT is at its best when it feels unscripted, like you're just hanging out and talking about stuff. So yeah, I'd like to see that approach in a game show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Carl Lundgren Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Perhaps the other problem (not being a gamer myself) is that a large number of serious gamers are quite young, and maybe don't want a couple of 30-something's talking games. I turn to TWiT podcasts for expert views and comment, but I'm in my 40's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted December 5, 2013 Author Share Posted December 5, 2013 There are gamers who are over 30 ... these are the people that grew up, and now have cash to spend. A gamer is a gamer is a gamer. And, Leo could find a couple of 20 something people, who wouldn't say no to TWIT providing them with stuff in exchange for them streaming their gameplay on TWIT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Andrea OBrien Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Leo said Game On was expensive to produce. Did you fill out the survey he posted last week? This will allow him to find out who his viewers are and what they want to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted December 5, 2013 Author Share Posted December 5, 2013 Game on was probably expensive because of the format it was produced in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted December 5, 2013 Author Share Posted December 5, 2013 and besides... who wouldn't want to watch El Padre fist bless, and the lightsaber a Sith Lord to peaces? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marc Telesha Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Carl Lundgren Most serious gamers are over 30 years old. It is just not the case that gaming is a young person's past time. If you look at the successful gaming podcast they have to average over 35 easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 G4TV had a podcast called Feedback hosted by the great Adam Sessler and a lot of their feature writers from the website. They sat in studio and had really intelligent conversations about video games. The format was news, some industry insights, a game of the week and then a question of the week from the audience. I loved it When I heard Game on was coming to Twit I got excited but was disappointed as they went for the overproduction and the overly geeky gamer (max troll bot, Brian having to dance with that other guy, etc) I also got fed up of Brian sounding like an Old gamer with all his talk of PC being the best gaming to hell with consoles (he did that a lot) Veronica was great and her interviews were the best, to this day her interview of Tim Schafer is one of the best i've seen. With that said I think an intelligent program about games could work but now that the Sess is at Revision 3 and producing some great content I don't think Twit can enter and be successful with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Jim Jam Game on was cancelled a while ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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