I know that tolerable podcasts exist. You have podcasts where people talk comprehensibly on topics they know well, or share live recordings or little-known music, using the medium to its strengths. Then you have podcasts where a boatload of people mumble, interrupt each other, make false starts, spend intervals laughing and generally act like they're chatting randomly over a beer and the idea of someone listening in ranks about 34th place in their minds, leaving you to wonder why this deserves an hour of anyone's time when you could receive the same information in five minutes glossing over a written article or series of relevant quotes from the people involved.
But maybe it's just me. PC Gamer makes podcasts and you can guess which kind it is. Between 25:00 and 30:00 they discuss Fallout 3 and the number of endings. A very cleaned-up exchange:<blockquote>"Todd Howard recently said in an interview that the game at this point has about 200 different endings, at least 200 endings."
"Ooh, yes."
"That is amazing, I'm really fascinated to see how they'll do that. I wonder if it's gonna be the same thing they did in Fallout 2, where there are different endings for the different places you visited and what happened to all of those, so what they could be talking about is there could be 200 different combinations."
"No, that is too..."
"No, I think that is what he was saying, it's like iterations of endings."
"Has to be, there's no way there are 200 distinct endings."
"Yeah, not unique ones."
"It says here there are at least 9-12 original endings, then those get [extrapolated?] to 200 depending on how you play the game."
"I feel I should know more about this because this was on OXM podcast which I also produced. I really wasn't paying much attention to what he was saying at the time, so..."
(general laughter)</blockquote>Arrrgh, podcasts. This is followed by an excerpt from the OXM podcast and more information taken directly from there. And even after that, they talk about "getting each and every one of those 200 endings". One of them suggests that the biggest difference between Fallout 3 and Oblivion will be that in Fallout 3 you can't play on after the endgame.
Oh, and 360 Magazine has an "explosive exclusive" on Fallout 3 in their latest issue (34), but their site doesn't give away any information whatsoever so you may just have to shell out £3 if you're curious. "From the makers of Oblivion... the greatest RPG ever made!"
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Link: PC Gamer Podcast #126
Link: Order 360 Magazine
Thanks to Fallout 3: A Post Nuclear Blog
But maybe it's just me. PC Gamer makes podcasts and you can guess which kind it is. Between 25:00 and 30:00 they discuss Fallout 3 and the number of endings. A very cleaned-up exchange:<blockquote>"Todd Howard recently said in an interview that the game at this point has about 200 different endings, at least 200 endings."
"Ooh, yes."
"That is amazing, I'm really fascinated to see how they'll do that. I wonder if it's gonna be the same thing they did in Fallout 2, where there are different endings for the different places you visited and what happened to all of those, so what they could be talking about is there could be 200 different combinations."
"No, that is too..."
"No, I think that is what he was saying, it's like iterations of endings."
"Has to be, there's no way there are 200 distinct endings."
"Yeah, not unique ones."
"It says here there are at least 9-12 original endings, then those get [extrapolated?] to 200 depending on how you play the game."
"I feel I should know more about this because this was on OXM podcast which I also produced. I really wasn't paying much attention to what he was saying at the time, so..."
(general laughter)</blockquote>Arrrgh, podcasts. This is followed by an excerpt from the OXM podcast and more information taken directly from there. And even after that, they talk about "getting each and every one of those 200 endings". One of them suggests that the biggest difference between Fallout 3 and Oblivion will be that in Fallout 3 you can't play on after the endgame.
Oh, and 360 Magazine has an "explosive exclusive" on Fallout 3 in their latest issue (34), but their site doesn't give away any information whatsoever so you may just have to shell out £3 if you're curious. "From the makers of Oblivion... the greatest RPG ever made!"
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Link: PC Gamer Podcast #126
Link: Order 360 Magazine
Thanks to Fallout 3: A Post Nuclear Blog
I've always liked the idea of podcasts, and I've listened to quite a few in my day (or tried to at any rate). And I don't think I've ever heard one that actually feels professional. So yeah, it's either a solo dude with a really grating voice and lots of "uuum and uuuuhs" and smacking of lips, or it's a bunch of people just acting like idiots.
