My apologies to all those still working at 1up. I reacted to quickly in declaring 1up dead it was an emotional reaction in the spur of the moment. No it's not the same but talented people still work there and I'm sure that you guys won't let their fallen commrades down. Tina, Garnett, Ray, Scooter I know you guys can rebuild 1up.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Mega Mania
Okay because of my age(14) I obviously missed out on allot of great games that helped to define the industry. It also means that I've seen some series only as the poor lame mutated creatures they've become instead of the proud mighty beasts that they once were, sonic for instance or Mega Man, ya lets go with mega man (don't worry hog fans I'll get to the blue blur eventually).
The first Mega Man game I played was a Battle network game on the GBA it wasn't really bad on the contrary it was a very solid grid based rpg I had fun with it but it didn't stick my mind as anything special. When I got a bit older and discovered the magic of podcasts I often heard people talk about Mega Man as a super hard super awesome platformer, my interest was perked. So when I heard that a new 8-bit mega man was being released on the Wii I decided to give it a shot, it looked and sounded worse than some actual NES games, was hard as hell and bare bones in an extreme. I loved it.
I immediately set about finding out what the best games in the Mega Man series were. I quickly came to the conclusion that the general opinion was that the series went to shit after three with two being the best in the series. Well since I had already planned on having a retro gaming segment on the podcast I decided to make January Mega Man 1-3 as to give myself a reason to purchase them and to give myself a time to play them(take a look at my currently playing list and you'll see I play allot of games for various podcast segments and really don't have time to play two retro gaming series at once).
So far I have Dr. Willy left on Mega Man 1, Heat Man and Willy on Mega Man 2 and I really had time to touch 3 yet. I'm currently trying to find at least two of the other guys on the podcast to play them with me but I'm not sure how that will work out. But here's were you come into play(pun only slightly intended) if you're a fan of the blue bomber or even if you've never played Mega Man in your life pick these games up (cheap $5 each on the virtual console) and play along with the Average Player Crew. When you're done write to us at averageplayermailbag@gmail.com and tell us what you thought of the games, if they're still fun or if they've grown stale over the years, your opinion of where the series has gone or even where you want it go. Then in January I'll read your responses on the Retro Active segment of the Average Player podcast.
This is Zac signing out
p.s.(p) hi everyone out there in Internet land I have recently come into possession of a large amount of psp games problem, I don't have a psp but now that I have the games I want to play them. So from now until I get the system I will be detailing the quest to obtain one in this little section at the end of my blog posts.
Amount Left: $180
The first Mega Man game I played was a Battle network game on the GBA it wasn't really bad on the contrary it was a very solid grid based rpg I had fun with it but it didn't stick my mind as anything special. When I got a bit older and discovered the magic of podcasts I often heard people talk about Mega Man as a super hard super awesome platformer, my interest was perked. So when I heard that a new 8-bit mega man was being released on the Wii I decided to give it a shot, it looked and sounded worse than some actual NES games, was hard as hell and bare bones in an extreme. I loved it.
I immediately set about finding out what the best games in the Mega Man series were. I quickly came to the conclusion that the general opinion was that the series went to shit after three with two being the best in the series. Well since I had already planned on having a retro gaming segment on the podcast I decided to make January Mega Man 1-3 as to give myself a reason to purchase them and to give myself a time to play them(take a look at my currently playing list and you'll see I play allot of games for various podcast segments and really don't have time to play two retro gaming series at once).
So far I have Dr. Willy left on Mega Man 1, Heat Man and Willy on Mega Man 2 and I really had time to touch 3 yet. I'm currently trying to find at least two of the other guys on the podcast to play them with me but I'm not sure how that will work out. But here's were you come into play(pun only slightly intended) if you're a fan of the blue bomber or even if you've never played Mega Man in your life pick these games up (cheap $5 each on the virtual console) and play along with the Average Player Crew. When you're done write to us at averageplayermailbag@gmail.com and tell us what you thought of the games, if they're still fun or if they've grown stale over the years, your opinion of where the series has gone or even where you want it go. Then in January I'll read your responses on the Retro Active segment of the Average Player podcast.
This is Zac signing out
p.s.(p) hi everyone out there in Internet land I have recently come into possession of a large amount of psp games problem, I don't have a psp but now that I have the games I want to play them. So from now until I get the system I will be detailing the quest to obtain one in this little section at the end of my blog posts.
Amount Left: $180
Friday, January 2, 2009
Creating A podcast
is not as easy as you might think. As of yet the Average player podcast does not yet exist so I doubt that anyone is reading this. If you are reading this then obviously the podcast was successful and all the following obstacles that I overcame to make it happen were worth it.
Okay so a while ago I was listening to one of my favorite podcast(the now defunct EGM Live*) and thought to myself that it would be great if I could make one myself. Unfortunately this is not as easy as I thought that it would be. Me and my varying cast have made three attempts to start up the podcast and they went as followed
1. Impromptu recording on a Hello Pikachu microphone with only me and our now tech producer. It was while we were recording that I found out that my tech producer has a horrible public speaking fear even if that public is sitting behind their own monitors miles away days after you've already to spoke. So attempt one boiled down to boring spur of the moment segments, bad sound quality, and a stammering tech producer with me encouraging him in the background.
STRIKE 1
2. Somewhat preplanned with full staff of 3 and a tech producer. Nice and long with interesting segments and just a general sense of fun and excitement. All this recorded on a nice high quality video camera supplied by my new co-host. Unfortunately when I received the recording from our tech producer I found out that the recording might have been a little to good as it had picked all the sound with perfect quality, unfortunately this included the whispered background chatter so while my co-host was talking with our guest about the best Xbox live multiplayer games it was quite clear that me and my tech producer were talking about how much we hated our English teacher. Needless to say this might have been just a little bit distracting.
STRIKE 2
3. Impromptu recording in a public park with me, my co-host and tech producer who were both more interested in playing with my DS and ipod Touch respectively than they were with making any thing even resembling a podcast. Worst attempt yet.
STRIKE 3
That's it three strikes and your out... right? NO! We're young we're teenagers we like to rebel to go against the rules so we're just going to keep going at it until we get it right. But this time this will be a little bit more organized this time I'm getting all the shit together first. Which brings me back to my main topic, it isn't as easy as I thought, planned segments, an organized cast, microphones, audio editing software, RSS feed hosting, web site hosting, blog hosting(found that one) these are all things that you need to make a successful podcast. But I'm getting there and hopefully this will turn out right this time. Well guess we're all going to have to wait until January to find out.
Until then this is Zac signing out.
Okay so a while ago I was listening to one of my favorite podcast(the now defunct EGM Live*) and thought to myself that it would be great if I could make one myself. Unfortunately this is not as easy as I thought that it would be. Me and my varying cast have made three attempts to start up the podcast and they went as followed
1. Impromptu recording on a Hello Pikachu microphone with only me and our now tech producer. It was while we were recording that I found out that my tech producer has a horrible public speaking fear even if that public is sitting behind their own monitors miles away days after you've already to spoke. So attempt one boiled down to boring spur of the moment segments, bad sound quality, and a stammering tech producer with me encouraging him in the background.
STRIKE 1
2. Somewhat preplanned with full staff of 3 and a tech producer. Nice and long with interesting segments and just a general sense of fun and excitement. All this recorded on a nice high quality video camera supplied by my new co-host. Unfortunately when I received the recording from our tech producer I found out that the recording might have been a little to good as it had picked all the sound with perfect quality, unfortunately this included the whispered background chatter so while my co-host was talking with our guest about the best Xbox live multiplayer games it was quite clear that me and my tech producer were talking about how much we hated our English teacher. Needless to say this might have been just a little bit distracting.
STRIKE 2
3. Impromptu recording in a public park with me, my co-host and tech producer who were both more interested in playing with my DS and ipod Touch respectively than they were with making any thing even resembling a podcast. Worst attempt yet.
STRIKE 3
That's it three strikes and your out... right? NO! We're young we're teenagers we like to rebel to go against the rules so we're just going to keep going at it until we get it right. But this time this will be a little bit more organized this time I'm getting all the shit together first. Which brings me back to my main topic, it isn't as easy as I thought, planned segments, an organized cast, microphones, audio editing software, RSS feed hosting, web site hosting, blog hosting(found that one) these are all things that you need to make a successful podcast. But I'm getting there and hopefully this will turn out right this time. Well guess we're all going to have to wait until January to find out.
Until then this is Zac signing out.
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