Comments | sonictail: Drama on the Interwebs

sonictail

Drama on the Interwebs - Good Game

Oct 29, 2009 15:31

Well, Here's the damage,

Junglist, one of the founding members of Good Game was sent off without even a mention, replaced with new host Hex last monday. Ignoring the Comic Sans, when you're doing a handoff you tend to, you know, HAND OFF ( Read more... )

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angriest October 29 2009, 08:21:38 UTC

Gotta tell you, if someone was going to push a rival gaming show on another network, now would be the time to do it.

sonictail October 29 2009, 08:32:43 UTC

Well SBS would be the only station I could see doing it. Ten has CyberShak and 9 and 7 wouldn't have a clue.

angriest October 29 2009, 08:34:13 UTC

Yeah SBS would be my pick too.

Particularly since they just lost Top Gear, and what the genre needs is a videogames review show somewhere between David and Margaret and Top Gear.

sonictail October 29 2009, 08:45:51 UTC

SBS should start a new show which is just Margaret driving fast cars with David navigating. The Movie Show - Rally Edition! That would be epic and win.

But yes, SBS would be ripe for a well produced entertaining video games show. Combine it with some anime afterwards and you have yourself a night!

You don't need massive multi episode seasons, just short runs done multiple times a year. Bugger it, put it in a video game store, get a crowd and do sections in live set (ripping TG off) and be very careful about your presenters.

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thelordmortis October 29 2009, 08:23:19 UTC

what about teh learning curve? :) http://www.tehlearningcurve.com/

sonictail October 29 2009, 08:34:27 UTC

They're all about the couch ;) I didn't mind them and they're definitely the kind of thing I watch, but better production values and regularity would be required.

melpemone October 29 2009, 08:38:47 UTC

Found this post via Twitter - thanks for the coverage, I wasn't keen to brave the forum again.

This whole thing is genuinely sad. I've been a big fan of the show since it started, and I'm not sure I can be bothered making the effort to put all this aside and just enjoy the show again. Bullshit politics have ruined more than one good thing, and it's tiring.

sonictail October 29 2009, 08:51:03 UTC

Hey no probs, I did this cause I didn't just want to chuck people at that pit they call a forum. Spread it around, it's the internet after alls ;)

I watched it quite a lot to begin with and I remember the movement to remove that silly monkey puppet. They were doing ok and while I didn't agree with what they did and how they did it, they did work hard and produce easily the best Australian video gaming show. And instead of worrying about politics, just spend the half hour playing some vidjya games instead.

And if you're looking for a alternative go watch some Co-Op http://area5.tv/

Gamedamage? anonymous October 29 2009, 09:11:54 UTC

Hasn't anyone heard of GameDamage? http://www.gamedamage.net/ It's a tv show that's already been picked up by a network and Yug (one of the hosts and creators) is a friend of junglist's... I suspect Jung may just find his way there

Re: Gamedamage? sonictail October 29 2009, 13:30:07 UTC

TL:DR

Re: Gamedamage? angriest October 29 2009, 14:55:27 UTC

TLDR? It was one sentence!

Re: Gamedamage? sonictail October 29 2009, 15:35:33 UTC

Gamedamage was mentioned, more specifically the idea from the forums, hence TLDR as he didn't read the post!

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sonictail October 29 2009, 13:31:07 UTC

Summary: ABC Board decided they needed to change the demographic and I'm guessing budget, they kept the casual, pulled the girl from their ABC3 effort and fired Jung to make payroll.

angriest October 29 2009, 14:56:03 UTC

Having flirted the edge of working for The Good Game in the past, I can assure you they didn't really have a production budget to start with.

sonictail October 29 2009, 15:35:58 UTC

So you're saying that they have been doing this show for five years for free?

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