The Bethesda Podcast, featuring Nick Breckon

[tm_drummer]

Episode 3 is out. Good stuff.

[Roderick]

Thank you for informing me of this, because I still haven't figured out things like RSS. I'm still very "Web 1.0".

[tm_drummer]

No problem.

[Forbin]

This is corporate podcasting done right... with abandon. I love it, you guys don't seem to be constantly worried about somebody tossing you out for speaking your mind.

[Erkki]

Man, Feargus Urquhart doesn't even sound close to what I always imagined he would sound like.

[Roderick]

Love the third episode, with the familiar robot voice making a guest appearance. Thumbs influence is enormous! Nick is also totally into leading questions

[Cult of Jared]

I'm having a hard time listening to these podcasts. They are produced at the behest of ZENIMAX THE IMPLACABLE - and some reptilian part of my brain believes this makes them untrustworthy.

I'm being unfair, the three episodes provide no real cause for concern, but I wonder how good a 'podcast conceived as a promotion' can be as a podcast.

Edited October 8, 2010 by Cult of Jared

[Roderick]

I think your preconceptions are getting the better of you. Taking these podcasts at face value I find them incredibly candid and down to earth. It sounds nothing like a commercial.

[Chris]

  Cult of Jared said:

I'm having a hard time listening to these podcasts. They are produced at the behest of ZENIMAX THE IMPLACABLE - and some reptilian part of my brain believes this makes them untrustworthy.

I'm being unfair, the three episodes provide no real cause for concern, but I do wonder how good a 'podcast conceived as a promotion' can be as a podcast.

They're obviously created with the purpose of servicing the publicity needs of a big company, but that's absolutely not mutually exclusive to containing good content. Similarly, there's a team of people at every publisher deciding what games to greenlight based on what fits into a corporate strategy, and then shaping the game's publicity based on that, but that doesn't mean the games are inherently bad.

[Roderick]

Having said that, ZENIMAX THE IMPLACABLE is a fantastic name.

[Orv]

  Rodi said:

Having said that, ZENIMAX THE IMPLACABLE is a fantastic name.

New Steam name for a day or two.

[tm_drummer]

Episode 4 out today.

[Roderick]

Goddamn Nick is having a lot of fun in these podcasts

[Forbin]

  Rodi said:

Goddamn Nick is having a lot of fun in these podcasts

it's pronounced "Congrats Nick"

[Roderick]

That's what I always shout at the podcast, but they don't seem to hear me.

[elmuerte]

Now with Nick and Chris having a podcast at the company they work for. How long until we see The TellTale Podcast with Jake "video games" V.G. Rodkin and vo-host Sean "famous" Vanaman?

[tm_drummer]

Episode 5 is out....well, since November 18. (Don't mention it, Rodi. )

[mikemariano]

  tm_drummer said:

Episode 5 is out

! This is the second time in two weeks @nickbreckon got a song stuck in my head. #fucknick

[Cult of Jared]

The mobile phone stuff was interesting. His sentiments regarding Android and Iphone are the inverse of all conventional wisdom I've heard. But I suppose if you are motherfucking John Carmack, you don't have to worry about the Apple approval process.

[Roderick]

BOOM. Thanks, tm_drummer

[pabosher]

John Carmack is the geekiest geek mcgeekgeek in the world ever.

It was honestly a little humbling listening to him talk with such authority on topics I could never even hope to understand. Very cool guy.

[Salacious Snake]

"People will die." -John Carmack

That was a great interview. I could listen to him talk all day, the dude is too damn smart.

[Forbin]

This episode inspired me to buy Rage on iPhone which has inspired me to buy Rage on PC when it comes out. God damn that shotgun is satisfying.

[Roderick]

The Bethesda Podcast is quickly becoming my new favorite thing.

John Carmack is a competent, indescribable person, almost the opposite of someone like Cliff Bleszinski. A genius who doesn't play it to the media, but goes his own, elusive, wonderful way. Fantastic. I never imagined him to sound like this. Also, people will die.

[pabosher]

  Rodi said:

John Carmack is a competent, indescribable person, almost the opposite of someone like Cliff Bleszinski. A genius who doesn't play it to the media, but goes his own, elusive, wonderful way. Fantastic. I never imagined him to sound like this. Also, people will die.

I agree with this completely. He's happy being his own incredibly intelligent, relatively reclusive guy.

I also imagined him to be some huge, bulky, incredibly deep-voiced man. Probably because his surname has 'car' in it.