NBS Review: Episode 1 Podcast (Probably about as well scripted as Lucas too)

Ξ April 24th, 2006 | → 0 Comments | ∇ |

We weigh in this time at 58 minutes and 54 second of 64kbps mono mp3 which is just 28 meg of your download bytes. The files are located for listening on http://www.nbs-review.net

Wow, after 3 weeks we finally managed to grab a couple of hours together to produce Podcast 1-beta, without our new title NBS Review; NBS for No Bull Sh… You get the picture. We figured this was the way to go since we generally talk crap about everything. This time we’ve gone all out and have music and proper topics which we try to stick to. My “hosting” skills are ever-so-slowly getting better, I think.. I hope. We’re not a review podcast in the sense we’re going to talk about the hardcore details. We’re a review in a way of what it means for the consumer, what it means for the industry, what it means to us and feel it’s useful for but with an enthusiast edge.
Topics this week:

PPUs and everything about physics processing in the future

Raytracing and why it hasn’t taken off as a way of feasible graphics processing

Modding: from underground to mainstream

Micro-payments in Gaming: The good, the bad and the future of gaming

We’ve even got music and everything. Our intro track is from MegaDriver: Bonus Stage for Shadow Dancer which is free to download, and our end track is the classic Imperial March, by the fantastic John Williams. I can’t recommend the “40 Years of Film Music by John Williams” on 4 CDs enough. I’m sure we’ll probably have to pay royalties to Lucas or Williams for using it, but it was worth it. You’ll see (listen) once you hear the end.

Podcast Comments:

Try to spot where I disappear for 5 minutes whilst Brett goes off on a rant. Seriously, you can go make a cup of tea, chat to your mum and fall right back in again without anyone noticing.

We still don’t take ourselves too seriously, especially the introduction and ending.

Whilst podcast 1-alpha had an editing time of mere minutes, this one took around 7 hours editing to get right. *phew*

There’s a lot of distortion and hiss in the recording, which draws out some words unfortunately. We also don’t really sound like robots in real life, honest. No matter what automatic algorithms I tried to make it sound better, it always sounded worse.

I don’t even consider myself to sound that British. I’m sure its a subconscious accent change.

We seem to go off on one about oil versus hydrogen at some point, then later about Hollywood movies versus Independent films. Just to extend the analogy and get the point across to our listeners we are prepared to go completely off topic.

I say, penis . It was not in a direct phallic context. I think we’re inadvertently trying to mention genitalia at least once an episode.