Being a listener of various podcasts including sports, movies and video games there is only a few that I would apply to "must listen to next weeks" status. The Video Game Warzone is one of them.
Presented by Torrence Davis & Gerrard Williams (HipHopGamer) as part of The Bitbag.com, Warzone is a weekly podcast regarding the weeks issues in the world of video games and heated debates can endure if the topic is strong enough to support it. One of the key positives to Warzone is the length, if the episode is good you will be grateful for three plus hour worth of discussion with many other video game podcasts focusing on a one hour set.
Another element is that the show is live, with a certain number of regular contributors with a audience behind the scenes, sometimes allowed on air to ask a question or make a point. The template of the show is promising but not without its frustrations. One example is when the show is good, it's really good, the downside is that when it seems bad it feels more like frustration than awfulness. Let me elaborate:
The show has a habit of not officially starting until around ten - fifteen minutes into it, inane discussion about when the programme is starting or discussing something going on at work or with friends. Just let the intended audience hear the actual show please.
When a discussion or debate is allowed to breathe the show is very entertaining, points are made and counter points and makes interesting listening. Sadly, especially of late, interesting topics are suddenly cut short by something irrelevant or irritating, there is one particular co-host who's name escapes me at the moment (forgive me) that cannot help himself in regards to interrupting with sarcastic comments, always stopping the host moving the show along with either jokes under his breath or a sarcastic remark, after a while it becomes frustrating that the shows flow is becoming stagnant.
Another flaw is at times debates are just cut short by something an audience member has stated either via private message or the shows chat lobby that is usually off topic, for whatever reason a debate is forgotten about and the shows hosts/co-hosts fail to get the show back on track for a long period of time.
The Video Game Warzone is more about potential at the moment, it has interesting hosts and co-hosts, the potential is worth a listen no question, when it's cooking it really does provide some quality entertainment although the constant frustrations, my main ones stated above harper the podcast from being a true classic although it should be said these guys are not a ign or g4 and do this in their spare time without the cash to go with it so massive respect should be handed out for enthusiasm alone. If the current problems are ironed out I'm sure Video Game Warzone can go on to be a massive hit and give these guys a chance to progress in a industry they care a lot about.
The friendly folks over at Razer recently sent us their full size Kishi Ultra mobile gaming controller, and this thing didn't disappoint.
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."
Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.
Still a good game though.
3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them
2.
Dmc.
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God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best
Order changes depending on your focus. I tend to focus on gameplay/fun factor, so...
5, 3, 1, 4, 2.
I really didn't like 4 but commend Dante's weapon diversity. The retreading of old ground was pretty unacceptable to me.
But even then... Still more enjoyable than 2 for me
TSA go hands on with the beta for Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road, but how is the game transitioning to the post-stylus era?
Nice write up man! I respect the constructive criticism.
Peace!
T
Is it just me or does this whole blog post smell like advertisement to get more people to listen to the podcast?