Shoe and Aaron host returning guests Jeff Reitman and Adam McLaughlin. Despite their comedian background, Shoe starts by asking them a question with distinct Ebertian undertones — would they prefer a great movie or a great game? This turns into a discussion of Star Wars and Indiana Jones and the merits of the different media.
Adam has the group pitching advergames and Jeff asks which game adverts misrepresented their products the most. Publishers don’t help buyers when their trailers are full of pre-rendered footage. As Shoe points out, they can also mis-represent the tone of the game — as in Gears of War’s dramatic trailers.
Next, they talk about 3D and motion control, and how it’s leading us towards the holodeck. Kinect, PlayStation Move, and the 3DS have applications we’re only just seeing the beginning of.
Finally, in response to a Hollywood.com article, they talk about game worlds they’d like to live in. That site made some dangerous choices so they ask what the safer universes are.
Covered topics: Games vs. films, advergames, misleading trailers, 3D and motion control, hospitable game worlds.
Nerd-humor comedians Jeff Reitman and Adam McLaughlin from CrossPlatfromComedy.com join Bitmob’s Aaron Thomas and Dan Hsu to discuss great trailers that led to not-so-great games, titles based on consumer products, the possibilities of marrying stereoscopic 3D and motion controls, which fictional worlds they’d like to live in, and whether or not they’d prefer a great movie-licensed game over a great movie from that franchise.
Runtime – 1:03:02
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I'm totally with Shoe on the idea that the Mass Effect universe would be a damn fun one to live in. That is one sweet game where space makes nearly everything cooler.
Apart from the coming robot apocalypse, Dickensian poverty on the Citadel, legitimised slavery on Illium, racial tension…. Yeah, it's great. I'm a massive nerd.