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On Layton Shumway's Manual transmission: Why I still want instruction booklets

"I actually disagree with you. I think that a game should present itself in such a way that I shouldn't need a manually to figure out how to play or to figure out the story. Both of those things should be wrapped up in the game itself. While they added something to games of 20 years ago, I think they are an obsolete construct that long since should have been done away with."

Friday, March 25, 2011

On Brett Bates' Mobcast 88: Cheering at press events, lesser-known 2011 titles, video-game word association, and more

"@Brett - I must admit I'm a little disappointed by your response. You are complaining about something that is essentially a solved problem. A quick Google search returns pages of results on how to do it, even using free software. It also shouldn't be that complicated to schedule a time that works for everybody... lots of other people manage that.

I used to participate in a weekly gaming podcast (game-central.org, only so you know I'm not making it up) were we literally had people in every US timezone and the person actually recording was in that great country to the north.

By not including all of the greatness of the mob/staff on your 'casts, it feels like you are missing what I take to be the spirit of the website. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to put down what you are currently doing, it just seems that there isn't an excuse strong enough to make such a closed podcast on such a community based site."

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

On Brett Bates' Mobcast 88: Cheering at press events, lesser-known 2011 titles, video-game word association, and more

"You guys have such a stellar group of writers/editors, how come you don't have more of them on the mobcasts regularly? Is it a geographic thing? It's so unbelievably easy to get anybody on with Skype, pretty much every podcast I've ever listened to records via it: PC Gamer, TWiT, etc, etc.

Just would like to see/hear a bit more diversity."

Monday, January 17, 2011

On Layton Shumway's How a comedian identifies the importance of learning in games

"I think it's really interesting what Nintendo has been doing lately in their recent games (Mario Galaxy 2, etc), i.e. essentially playing the game for you when you get stuck. I think that's a great trade-off betwen the challenge and helping everybody to see the entire game. It's there if you want it but you aren't forced to use it."

Friday, December 17, 2010

On Demian Linn's Reminder: Bitmob Game Night: Call of Duty: Black Ops

"That sounds like fun and wish I could join in. :-(

Make sure to schedule some PC and PS3 events in the future for those of us who haven't joined the cult of Microsoft."

Thursday, December 09, 2010

On Dan "Shoe" Hsu's Bitmob Giveaway: Call of Duty: Black Ops Gunnar Shades

"I like free stuff."

Friday, November 12, 2010

On Layton Shumway's Digital Vertigo: Gaming's Highest Heights and Biggest Falls

"I'm sad you didn't mention Assassin's Creed in here. The "leaps of faith" in those games are truly epic and awe inspiring. I don't think I've ever seen anybody make one of those jumps without making a little noise and coming out of their seat a little bit. Good times."

Friday, October 01, 2010

On Dan "Shoe" Hsu's So, Uh...Bitmob 2.0.....

"I really enjoy the BitMob content, but I have absolutely no time or patience for anything I can't read in my RSS reader. One line blurbs don't make me click through to bitmob.com, it makes me read nothing.

Is there some sort of "secret" full text RSS feed? That would be great and make me actually read the content. If it's a matter of revenue, put adds in the RSS feed; plenty of other people do that and are successful. Let me know, I want to read your content, but won't until I can do it from my reader."

Friday, September 10, 2010

On Dan "Shoe" Hsu's Bitmob Giveaway: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Goodies

"Please for winning stuff. http://twitter.com/Morinar/status/20828418400"

Tuesday, August 10, 2010