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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24035 Points : 24436 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: Meet the Admin. Team Thu 12 Dec 2019 - 9:40 | |
| I just answered the question truthfully and honestly. |
| | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26493 Points : 25325 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: Meet the Admin. Team Thu 12 Dec 2019 - 19:42 | |
| - masofdas wrote:
- I just answered the question truthfully and honestly.
- masofdas wrote:
- Pokémon Sword came out in November, bringing with it a host of new Britain-based monsters, but missing the opportunity to plunder our rich 'cultural' heritage for ideas. What real-life British person should have got an expy in the game, and what Pokémon should they have had?
I don't know who but I wanted my Dragon Eevee - Drunkalilly wrote:
- I bet Jay and Balla already said Gumshoe...
Guilty as charged, pal. |
| | | JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15896 Points : 15061 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: Meet the Admin. Team Wed 1 Jan 2020 - 23:14 | |
| Howdy all! It's time to Meet the Admin team, one last time. Yep, that's right - this will be the last installment of MtAT as you know it. Like Admintendo, which is also ending as you may have seen, it's more down to a lack of interest than anything else. It's been a full calendar year with only Drunka and Mas responding - which we appreciate! - but it's clear the rest of the gang isn't into this anymore, which sounds the bell for this to end in its current format. Drunka and Mas, we salute your responses and thank you for your answers over the years. If somebody else would like to take the reins or cycle the question master role about from time to time, I'd be happy to rename this thread as Meet the Forumites and go from there. But, for one last time, let's meet your admin team! - JayMoyles:
It's CHRIIIIIIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAS! Or rather, it was Christmas last month, of course. What's the best reaction you've had to a gift you've given someone else?
I bought my Dad a TV for his 60th a couple of years back and he was thrilled - it wasn't anything particularly sentimental, but being able to afford a big purchase like that for my dad felt great and he really appreciated it too.
Shovel Knight finally came to the end of its development cycle following a string of high quality and substantial content updates from Yacht Club Games. What game comes to mind when you think about its developer team providing ongoing support and content over the years?
Monster Hunter is usually spot on with ongoing free updates. All the bonus quests and new monsters feels like games as a service done right.
Alien Isolation, the perfect festive game, was ported to Switch (and well) this month. The titular aliens are famous for their reproductive process, but when we make extra-terrestrial contact, how would those aliens really make more aliens?
Clones. And then begin, the clone wars will.
Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker hit cinemas last month and like The Force Awakens, it's posing questions about whether Star Wars relies too much on nostalgia. Is there a media franchise you think needs to let the past die and if so, why?
Not a media franchise as such, but WWE is particularly guilty of this. They've been getting better, but the overreliance on old names like The Undertaker and Goldberg really sucks when they've got such a wealth of talent at their disposal.
It's the end of the year, and the decade! How was gaming in 2019 for you, and how did it compare to the decade's best?
It was a middling year, all told. Nothing really blew me away outside of Sekiro, but it's nowhere near the decade's worst years for games. Middle of the road!
It's the last Meet the Admin. Team too! The official story is lack of interest, but why's it really coming to a close?
If we reveal any more information about ourselves, Google will successfully manufacture Jay and Balla bots to take our places.
- Balladeer:
It's CHRIIIIIIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAS! Or rather, it was Christmas last month, of course. What's the best reaction you've had to a gift you've given someone else?There are the short-term reactions, like my sister enveloping me in a big ol' hug; and there are the slower burners, like The Lady ploughing hours into the Switch I've given her as we discuss the designs of new Pokémon. I couldn't possibly choose. Shovel Knight finally came to the end of its development cycle following a string of high quality and substantial content updates from Yacht Club Games. What game comes to mind when you think about its developer team providing ongoing support and content over the years?It's got to be Smash hasn't it? Even beyond the raft of paid DLC there's a cavalcade of balance tweaks to be put out. Poor overworked Sakurai... Alien Isolation, the perfect festive game, was ported to Switch (and well) this month. The titular aliens are famous for their reproductive process, but when we make extra-terrestrial contact, how would those aliens really make more aliens?Like amoebae but introducing mutations with every split. No mess, fuss, or passion. That's why they're more successful than us, that's why they found us before we found them, and that's why they'll take over the planet and why we should be grateful. Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker hit cinemas last month and like The Force Awakens, it's posing questions about whether Star Wars relies too much on nostalgia. Is there a media franchise you think needs to let the past die and if so, why?Pokémon should stop wallowing in its main ten or so monsters, its plot structure, and its release frequency. It needs to take a deep breath and make a fresh start without either over-channelling nostalgia for RBY or trying to gimmick everything up. That's a bastard of a balance to strike, and it's irrelevant because Game Freak won't. It's the end of the year, and the decade! How was gaming in 2019 for you, and how did it compare to the decade's best?It was good! Or, well, the latter half of the year was. It poured high-quality indies and retail games into my lap like a cuddly cat with diarrhoea. That, er, poops games. It's nowhere near the decade's best, mind: there were no truly exceptional games. 2014 had a couple, even with the dryness of the Wii U, and 2017 has already been discussed in detail. Still, a good year for Nintendo gamers. It's the last Meet the Admin. Team too! The official story is lack of interest, but why's it really coming to a close?Jay's sold the rights to a film company. The cinematic release will be called Jay and Silent Balla Strike Back.
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It's CHRIIIIIIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAS! Or rather, it was Christmas last month, of course. What's the best reaction you've had to a gift you've given someone else?
Shovel Knight finally came to the end of its development cycle following a string of high quality and substantial content updates from Yacht Club Games. What game comes to mind when you think about its developer team providing ongoing support and content over the years?
Alien Isolation, the perfect festive game, was ported to Switch (and well) this month. The titular aliens are famous for their reproductive process, but when we make extra-terrestrial contact, how would those aliens really make more aliens?
Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker hit cinemas last month and like The Force Awakens, it's posing questions about whether Star Wars relies too much on nostalgia. Is there a media franchise you think needs to let the past die and if so, why?
It's the end of the year, and the decade! How was gaming in 2019 for you, and how did it compare to the decade's best?
It's the last Meet the Admin. Team too! The official story is lack of interest, but why's it really coming to a close?
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| | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26493 Points : 25325 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: Meet the Admin. Team Thu 2 Jan 2020 - 10:18 | |
| Yep, thanks to both of you for your services - we appreciated them. Also how do you know I haven't already been replaced by a bot since the last Meet-Up? |
| | | masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24035 Points : 24436 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: Meet the Admin. Team Thu 2 Jan 2020 - 11:10 | |
| I've not read Admintendo yet but this a real shame both are ending as nice to have monthly forum thing beyond my release threads. Hopefully one of you come up with a new idea as I know it's only one person but we lost Athrun, ZeroJones last year (?) and EofGiz does pop on now again (surprised he didn't for Pokemon or NNK) it does seem we're getting to less and less people even Secret Santa shows that something to keep the core active would be great. It's CHRIIIIIIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAS! Or rather, it was Christmas last month, of course. What's the best reaction you've had to a gift you've given someone else?Can't really think of anything as normally just given people what they wanted or like I gave him a 3D Blu Ray player when he got his 3DTV which never got used that this year everyone got cash. Shovel Knight finally came to the end of its development cycle following a string of high quality and substantial content updates from Yacht Club Games. What game comes to mind when you think about its developer team providing ongoing support and content over the years?This should be an easy one to answer due to live service games but I can't think of much beyond Overwatch Alien Isolation, the perfect festive game, was ported to Switch (and well) this month. The titular aliens are famous for their reproductive process, but when we make extra-terrestrial contact, how would those aliens really make more aliens?Mass Effect Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker hit cinemas last month and like The Force Awakens, it's posing questions about whether Star Wars relies too much on nostalgia. Is there a media franchise you think needs to let the past die and if so, why?Bith of you went for my answer as WWE need to let Undertaker retire now and Pokemon should just reboot especially after dexit It's the end of the year and the decade! How was gaming in 2019 for you, and how did it compare to the decade's best?Now it had Death Stranding which is amazing and almost made my Top 10 of the decade in Jay's vote but that's the only real standout game of the year with the rest being sort 8 or 9/10 games where in some years you had few standouts but it feels like a transitional year to next-gen It's the last Meet the Admin. Team too! The official story is lack of interest, but why's it really coming to a close?Drunka and I are two awesome |
| | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26493 Points : 25325 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: Meet the Admin. Team Fri 3 Jan 2020 - 7:30 | |
| - masofdas wrote:
- Hopefully one of you come up with a new idea as I know it's only one person but we lost Athrun, ZeroJones last year (?) and EofGiz does pop on now again (surprised he didn't for Pokemon or NNK) it does seem we're getting to less and less people even Secret Santa shows that something to keep the core active would be great.
It was good to see EofGiz back! Did you give him a poke Mas? Yep it's absolutely been sad to lose people, although Athrun rarely took part in forum projects. I think that makes it all the more important that the projects we do run are ones that appeal to our current bunch of people. For example, Secret Santa and vote threads have gone down in popularity, but we've got a very healthy turnout for the fantasy league this year. I'm sure Jay and I will look at things to fill the gap! |
| | | Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15092 Points : 15270 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: Meet the Admin. Team Fri 3 Jan 2020 - 15:55 | |
| - JayMoyles wrote:
Like Admintendo, which is also ending as you may have seen, it's more down to a lack of interest than anything else. It's been a full calendar year with only Drunka and Mas responding -
Bloody hell, I'd noticed that interest was diminishing but not that we were the only two! With both this and Admintendo, I appreciated the effort but I think they were both holdovers from this being a forum accompanying NGamer. The place has evolved into something else entirely- its why I always roll my eyes a little when we talk about deliberately recruiting new forumites or when we throw words like "official" around. This is just a social space where some mates chat about shared interests. 50% of the forum experience isn't even on the forum any more - its on skype, on twitter, on facebook, in real-world meetups even! It's different, but it's not bad. You're all still my pals - even Zero is still my pal. We don't need to pretend this is NGamer for it to be something special. It's already something special: It's GNamer. - One last time:
It's CHRIIIIIIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAS! Or rather, it was Christmas last month, of course. What's the best reaction you've had to a gift you've given someone else?I was always really good at getting gifts for kids. My brother and sister, my cousins, they regularly cite my gifts as their favourites. Also, my last couple Christmases in High School I got into the habit of buying presents for my large-ish group of friends, which included arather a few ladies at that point, and it went down very well and I goot invited to some parties and I think it kinda kick-started the social life which made me who I am today and got me my first couple of girlfriends. Shovel Knight finally came to the end of its development cycle following a string of high quality and substantial content updates from Yacht Club Games. What game comes to mind when you think about its developer team providing ongoing support and content over the years?Splatoon, for sure. In both games, Nintendo kept adding maps, modes, weapons, songs, features, clothes for ages. And then we got a full new expansion as well? Top shit. Alien Isolation, the perfect festive game, was ported to Switch (and well) this month. The titular aliens are famous for their reproductive process, but when we make extra-terrestrial contact, how would those aliens really make more aliens?They bone. They for sure bone. Partner-based reproduction allows for a much more diverse gene pool and is retty essential to developing complex life, and interpersonal, face-to-face, long-term breeding mechanics is a huge part of why we are complex social beings. But maybe, after a terrible war on their own planet, all the men are gone. And they've travelled the galaxy looking for a planet with carbon-based life similar enough to themselves. And then they search that planet for the most virile, most savagely sexual male specimen. . . and the sexy alien ladies land their saucer in Bridgewater and they're all lie . . . "Oh Pengers . . . we have forgotten what it means . . . please teach us this Earth thing called love". Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker hit cinemas last month and like The Force Awakens, it's posing questions about whether Star Wars relies too much on nostalgia. Is there a media franchise you think needs to let the past die and if so, why?Fucking all this nerd shit. Bunch of straight white men defending a fucked status quo. Avengers? Bin 'em. Bond? Fuck off. Ghost busters? Boomers. It's the end of the year, and the decade! How was gaming in 2019 for you, and how did it compare to the decade's best?It followed 2018, which was a pretty tough act to follow. On the one hand, I was working full time for all of 2019, while 2018 had those 5 months where I was just travelling and that. On the other hand, in 2018 I only had a few short weeks with Shen before we were in separate continents, whereas I got to spend almost half of 2019 with her. 2017 had the best games, and it was on an upward trajectory as soon as I made the decision to leave the UK, let alone actually did it. Somewhere in those three is the best. Maybe it was 2019 . . . It's the last Meet the Admin. Team too! The official story is lack of interest, but why's it really coming to a close?Accusations. You know, those kind.
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| | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26493 Points : 25325 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: Meet the Admin. Team Fri 3 Jan 2020 - 16:46 | |
| Damn it, I grinned at that Pengers mention. This has evolved into somewhere entirely new: the result of that is that if, like me, you want all your GNamer experience in one place (and/or simply don't like Twitter much) then you're going to be disappointed. Maybe that's why I've clung to stuff like this thread. Anyway, you're not wrong about what it is now. I'll still try to make this the best place to discuss gaming though. |
| | | masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24035 Points : 24436 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: Meet the Admin. Team Fri 3 Jan 2020 - 17:00 | |
| I've not mentioned the forum to EofGiz, it's just one of those things like when I was talking to Craig at work about Assassins Creed Rogue then next day EofGiz was playing it.
Or when a few of us on here were playing Nier Automata for some reason at the same time.
I don't live in Bridgwater but Ibbsters does. |
| | | EofGizmo Layton's Apprentice
Posts : 255 Points : 257 Join date : 2015-06-02 Location : Inaba
| Subject: Re: Meet the Admin. Team Fri 3 Jan 2020 - 17:14 | |
| Honestly i was playing my switch and thought "I'll pop on the forum and see what's about" you'll mostly find me interacting on Twitter |
| | | Crumpy Andy Zeta Metroid
Posts : 4921 Points : 4933 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 32 Location : The South
| Subject: Re: Meet the Admin. Team Fri 3 Jan 2020 - 18:04 | |
| Probably time to set up a discord server and fuck this place in the bin |
| | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26493 Points : 25325 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: Meet the Admin. Team Fri 3 Jan 2020 - 18:06 | |
| Jay, did you leak our secret forum plans to Andy again? |
| | | OrangeRakoon Disciple of Greener
Posts : 1556 Points : 1560 Join date : 2015-05-06 Age : 32 Location : Reading, UK
| Subject: Re: Meet the Admin. Team Mon 6 Jan 2020 - 10:43 | |
| Just to make you feel a little better, the only reason I don't read and take part in this is because I browse the forum with javascript disabled which means that I can't expand spoiler boxes - instead I have to quote the post and copy and paste the contents into a text editor just to read them, and that's a little too annoying! Basically anything on here inside spoiler boxes is most likely unread by me |
| | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26493 Points : 25325 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: Meet the Admin. Team Fri 10 Jan 2020 - 7:18 | |
| How bizarre. At least you have an excuse, mind. Now, what's your excuse for not replying to the Admintendi? Anyway, thanks for coming - sadly this is the most action this thread's had in months. It is now unstickied to float gently downstream. |
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