Gamerscore Blog : Gamerscore Blogcast - 048

Wednesday, February 06, 2008 3:25 PM by CPaladino

Gamerscore Blogcast - 048 - A Visitor from the UK

Graeme "Acey Bongos" Boyd was in town for some Community Meetings. We thought he had a pretty cool accent, so we invited him onto the podcast. We think he did a decent job for his very first time on a podcast - what do you think?

MP3 File: 11.3 MB, 33 minutes

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This week Tony, Nelson, Sara, Chris, and Graeme talk about:

Intro/Outro Music - Phylum Sinter
Question of the Week - What game best represents "the other guy's" culture?
Upcoming Games
Community Interviews - Itagaki-San
Who is this Acey Bongos guy?
XCN - What is it?
Listener Comment - Jake - The podcast market is flooded.
Listener Question - Shamrock - Rewards program for achievement points?
360Voice Gamerscore Challenges, Podcast Awards
Listener Comment - Quezcotl - Last week was a horrible show.
Email us Questions/Comments

Filed Under: Xbox 360, Tony Hynes, Xbox Live Arcade, Sara Nicholson, Chris Paladino, Blogcast : Official Xbox 360 and Games for Windows Community Podcast, Nelson Rodriguez

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# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 048 - A Visitor from the UK

Wednesday, February 06, 2008 7:33 PM by NIN 013

HAHAHA, by the looks of it, this one's gonna be a classic :D Can't wait to listen to it.

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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 8:25 PM by quezcotl

Yes gonna listen now.

Had a horrible weekend- need a good podcast now :)

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 048 - A Visitor from the UK

Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:01 PM by quezcotl

This show was allright,however next time please talk more about games like "devil may cry4" would be fun to hear from each one of you,I mean from a perspective from someone good or bad,and someone new or already introduced to the franchise.

really want this game,probably get it in 2 weeks if the boat to Germany doesnt sink :P

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 048 - A Visitor from the UK

Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:22 PM by JVB

The greatest podcast is coming out this Friday? Thats funny, because thats when The Post Game Report is available for download....Yes, thats a cheap plug.:-P

Thanks for the great episode, guys/gal.

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 048 - A Visitor from the UK

Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:55 PM by BackScatter

I noticed Mass Effect unlock a gamerpic along with certain achievements - Though they are already available to you if you have the Limited Edition. I like this trend and would like to see it catch on with other retail releases as well.

Great show! Enjoyed the guest appearance. :-)

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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 11:24 PM by John Porcaro

SURE. Quetz calls the show with me in it last week a complete waste of 30 minutes, and Acey takes the mic from me this week and it's the greatest show of all time.

I'm gunna start working on my accent... ;)

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 048 - A Visitor from the UK

Thursday, February 07, 2008 1:15 AM by Godfree

Just finished listening to this episode. Great job guys (and gal)! I heard the comment about "The podcast market is flooded" thats like saying "The gaming blog/websites market is flooded" too.

I think people should just work on releasing more good quality shows instead of bad ones. Now to find good quality podcasts you should do the following:

1) Don't find podcasts on Itunes based on reviews. Just search and download a few shows until you find a podcast that you like the most.

2) Check out http://podcastalley.com

3)Find out what other community members are listening to. Make a thread post on your blog about it.

4) John Porcaro posted a nice list of different shows at this link:
http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/articles/533419.aspx

Hope that helps out :)

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 048 - A Visitor from the UK

Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:33 AM by borandi

Good one AceyB! =D

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 048 - A Visitor from the UK

Thursday, February 07, 2008 7:35 AM by quezcotl

John Porcaro aaahhhh thats why!!

Whenever I play pc games at night,its always nice putting on a podcast,I turn the music/game sound down and listen to diffrent gaming podcast.
Thats the best time.

Games I recommend skipping the sound for...

Medival total war 2
And any other game that doesnt start with the letter Q.

Btw I do have a question for next week,were is Don Mattrick?!
Every company has a profile except MS atm,and if he is such a gamer as you guys claim,why hasnt he been on any gaming show or talking to any gamingsite or magazine at all?

If you find him one day hiding somewhere(I dont know where) then drag him into the podcast.

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 048 - A Visitor from the UK

Thursday, February 07, 2008 8:21 AM by exprohound

good to hear aceybongos on the podcast.

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Thursday, February 07, 2008 1:00 PM by CharmedPower

Very awesome to hear Acey on your blogcast guys!

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Thursday, February 07, 2008 1:55 PM by Rick1987

Quez you say the last show was bad, but if you'd listened to it all they answered that exact question before! :o

Great to see Acey on here! will listen to this during my run!

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 048 - A Visitor from the UK

Thursday, February 07, 2008 2:51 PM by CPaladino

@Quezcotl - We answered that very question last show (#47).

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 048 - A Visitor from the UK

Thursday, February 07, 2008 2:51 PM by Shamrock

Thanks for answering my question guys. I like the idea of a reward program for gamerpics and the like, but it would be nice to have some nice rewards to like games or accessories, maybe they can be given away every month as a random raffle type deal for people who sign up for this rewards program.

Also as you said in the podcast you guys don't mind the hard questions so I got one for next week.

It seems to me that MS tried to push game for windows Live really hard about the time Shadowrun, Halo 2, and Gears came out for PC. However since that time Valve has really come out and matched every feature of your paid service and offered it for free. This on top of the fact they have announced 15 million registered users.

I don't hear about Live on PC to much anymore. Did Valve basically destroy your subscription based model since you can't really offer any features valve doesn't offer for free?

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 048 - A Visitor from the UK

Thursday, February 07, 2008 4:51 PM by @ GSB

I could listen to Graeme all day long!

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 048 - A Visitor from the UK

Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:01 PM by quezcotl

I also like the idea of rewarding Gamerpictures.

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 048 - A Visitor from the UK

Thursday, February 07, 2008 7:59 PM by NIN 013

Last weeks show sucked. So did this weeks show.

Where is Don Mattrick?

And when are you gonna have someone from the UK on the show? Like, I dunno...Acey Bongos??

;)

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 048 - A Visitor from the UK

Thursday, February 07, 2008 9:04 PM by Zeouterlimits

Great to have Acey on, a little representation for Europe.

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 048 - A Visitor from the UK

Friday, February 08, 2008 10:18 AM by quezcotl

Don Mattrick doesnt exist.

I never seen or heard him.
I bet you one "ms paint" autograph my myself,if he shows up at E3,I doubt it.

And I dont believe at all that he is a huge wow player,but if he is,isnt its funny that the only game he plays is a PC game... tt

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 048 - A Visitor from the UK

Friday, February 08, 2008 2:58 PM by Shamrock

Holy Cow, MS broke Shane Kim out of the woodwork this week. I just read a few interviews from him @ D.I.C.E.

Whats funny is even the guy who interviewed him from Wire asked him where the heck Don Mattrick is.

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 048 - A Visitor from the UK

Friday, February 08, 2008 4:58 PM by MarkoUK

I don't mind AceyBongos but to be honest, he doesn't have the same impact on the UK that Major Nelson has on the US. He has NEVER done a podcast??? Poor stuff. And the Inside Xbox content for the UK is absolute rubbish. Major Nelson talks on his podcast/blogcast about putting videos up and some different pictures and varied content. AceyBongos basically lifts what's new on Xbox Live and spreads it across so many pages under the Inside Xbox banner. I could go through each part of Xbox Live and look at what's new myself.....nothing "inside" about that. I wish I could access the US stuff. Much better than the UK content by far. A new community dude for the UK please Microsoft!

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 048 - A Visitor from the UK

Friday, February 08, 2008 5:11 PM by Vicious696

with regards to the question about too many podcasts, I tend to agree and being a podcaster myself I live by one rule...........everytime I get on the mic I do it for me and not for how many people are listening. Yes I have an ego and yes I want to get as big an audience as possible but once you let that become your driving force podcasting is no longer fun.

My advice is to always have fun first and if you have compelling content people will find you as the cream always rises to the top

# re: Gamerscore Blogcast - 048 - A Visitor from the UK

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 2:09 AM by Aaron

As a shareholder of MSFT I was disappointed that y'all do not know what is going on in your own division. You talked about the Zoo Tycoon IP being used on the DS and you *thought* this might be ture for other IP. Rare has done DS games with their IP post acquision, which they even promote on their website, and will be doing so again Viva Pinata. Ensemble's IP was used for AOE: Age of Kings on the DS.

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