Thread 720318529

What went so wrong?

East - West split

ryan died then jeff sold the company out

Outdated form of social media

>>720318529 (OP)
it blew up?

>>720318529 (OP)
Patrick Klepek? Was that his name?

nobody likes remote podcasts

>>720318529 (OP)
It's been what, 8 years or something? Let it go.

>>720318529 (OP)
Things went bad well before 2020, but Covid was a death knell. If things were downhill before, it was off a fucking cliff once it went entirely remote.

It was fairly watchable back in the studio with them together, it was 150% dead once Jeff and the rest of the OGs left.
These new hires suck fucking shit. Idiots, browns, faggots, boring fat dipshits. At least OG fat fucks had some gaming street cred and a bit of charisma.

ryan died

Nextlander's podcast is fine, but these FMV games videos are unbearable boring. The fuck they're doign and who keeps giving them money?

As bad as Jeff 'my daughter, my sick kids at school, my wife's hard day at work' Gerstmann is, most of his stuff, except for Shittendo ranking, is OKish.

Jeff Died in that tragic atomic explosion.

>>720318529 (OP)
what's wrong now is that all of the unfunny no-talents that were hanging onto the tail of a dead company bought the company. so now you have to watch all of the people jeff wouldn't hire on the screen at the same time.

>>720318529 (OP)
GiantBomb has a pretty good wiki section imo.

I like nu giant bomb. Grub Mike and Dan are great. Jan, Bakalar, and turbo twink shawn are fine.

>>720319427
all their content is boring as fuck, they're just boring people. jeff was the comedic glue, vinny was funnier around him, brad is a wet paper towel, alex might as well be the antichrist of funny.

>>720318578
SPBP.

>>720318529 (OP)
I like the current iteration.

>Listen to Fire Escape Cast with Vinny as a guest
Absolute kino
>Listen to Nextlander ep with Ben Hanson / Mike Mahardy / Dan Ryckert
Kino
>Listen to Nextlander with Brad and Alex
Misery.

I wish Vinny ended up starting a pod with literally anybody else. I love him but jesus fucking christ the other two are so boring to listen to.

>>720319816
podcasts are fine. But you have to be interested in the industry (news). And sometimes phase out when they're talking about political/social issues.

Besides Vinny from NY (born there, I think?), they're Californian dipshits, 110% in line with corporate support for nigger BLM, trannies etc.

>>720319427
>except for Shittendo ranking
They'd be fine if he had an editor cut out the bloat, since there's 30-45min of decent material in what are otherwise 3hr uncut streams.

>>720319929
What marriage does to a MF.

>>720319976
who's the prog rocker on the right?

People blame the death of Ryan, but the true reason is that they were ahead of the curve in terms of gaming/e-celeb media and failed to capitalize on most of it.

>Make something people like
>People ask for more
>"Yeah, we're not really feeling that anymore"
>"It's like we're just repeating ourselves"

They were some of the earliest Let's Players, refuse to serve the audience who wanted that, so that audience went elsewhere

>>720319982
they're unwatchable for me.
I was born in the 1990, and have zero interest in nintendo.
AMIGA, DOS games... maybe would be cool.

But these games, and I don't want to sound like a bitch, are hard to watch and listen to- they look like shit AND sound harsh to the ear. Even as a background noise they're unpleasant and uninteresting. I'd rather listen to game critique videos, that rnaking has no value.
I don't give a fuck about consoles, but would be OK with Jaguar or PS1.


>>720320167
idk some troons.

Bigger.

>>720320268
>AND sound harsh to the ear
You sound like a late-era DOS gamer then, since I've had more NES games that sounded far better than my earlier DOS library, prior to sampled audio becoming supported by the popular sound cards (Sound Blaster series) & games.

>>720320706
Well I was born in the 1990, so it's rather obvious.

I'm fine with more crude games, as long as I have personal experience with them, or interest in that IP, like with Duke Nukem 1-2, but I have zero interest in Marios, Zeldas, Jigglypuff Pokeymans or whatever the hell is the modern N 1st party flagship roster.

These 80s games are simply way too dated to be pleasant to listen or watch, w/o nostalgia.

Capitalism

>>720320268
whose tits are these?

Vinny seems like the only one of the nextlander crew that actually still likes and plays video games.

Their videos were uninteresting and reviews are shit.

>>720319816
What is funny is Brad actually seems better on his own. It forces him to engage.

their content today was 4 guys watching a 15 minute segment of press videos with a 20 minute preshow that showed they have no idea what they are talking about

>>720318726
This was pretty huge. I stuck with GB through Patrick and Abby but fell off immediately during COVID.Tried Nextlander and no dice either.

Last bastion for this feel is Mega64 but even their days are numbered.

>>720318529 (OP)
They were always retards with stupid opinions and get cucked. Remember they got purchased by CBS Viacom, who bought gamespot around the same time. That's why I have no sympathy for Gerstmann getting fired.

It was a group of people with journalist's knowledge of the industry, good sense of humor and good chemistry combined with the peculiar comfiness of a bunch of people being locked together for extended periods (think of a LAN party going into the night or pulling an all nighter on a project). Every last one of those properties was lost.

>>720318529 (OP)
Video games, faggot, VIDEO GAMES!

>>720320268
>AND sound harsh to the ear.
So annoying that the PC basically standardised for a long time on OPL2/3 but it was pretty much universally used only for dogshit MIDI emulation. the japs were making lesser sound chips pelt out tunes we still remix to this day but PC devs were happy using a multi-format ear rape driver to play the elevator music they commissioned. Every now and then you'd get a monkey island with an actually nice song, but still rather ruined by the choice of instrumentation they used. Unless you really liked that roland soundfont, in which case you must've been in hog heaven.
We've since had some homebrew stuff use OPL trackers to make actually pleasant music and it's amazing how good that cheap sound chip COULD have sounded back in the day. Shame that soundblaster then became the digital sample standard because it was the absolute worst. But I suppose the GUS was never going to be the standard at the price they charged.
I suppose it's good luck within bad luck that PC was such a niche platform that you can't accuse it of holding back the industry. Held back itself more like.