The Eurogamer TV Show - Episode 10

Shadowrun
I can understand what the guy is saying that you should make the type of game the team is good at but why couldn't you give the IP to another developer? At least give the game a sub heading

a few things to say.

firstly hour of...erm whatever it was called, looked generic and terrible, cross platform gaming does have a future, but the reason why the controller was dominating the mouse and keyboard would have been because of the computer aided aiming, i seriously cannot see controllers standing up to keyboard and mouse, shadowrun looks ace but it's not worth getting vista for.

football manager marriages? eurogamer better be waiting at the reception office for an interview...

Shadowrun's out 1st June, if my xbox.com email I got today was composed recently. That's next month! ("Sometime this summer" lol)
I really like the art style used, and the vert action should help keep games exciting, I agree. I hope the special powers are inuitive to use on the pad.

Unlike examples such as Unreal Championship 2. Why do I have to, on a twitch shooter, memorise a key sequence, when I should be concentrating entirely on the action onscreen?
Hopefully in Shadowrun, you just hold one of the bumpers or triggers, and use the right stick to select your genre-defying trickery of preference.

I couldn't be any the less interested in FM 2007. Despite not liking football much, I do like good home renditions though, so SWOS XBLA is where my cash will be headed. Not continually churning through the proverbial mangle represented in this show.

Nice show, EG. I thought the HoV pistol had a lot in common with the one from Goldeneye.

FM online does look very good. Playing against human players is interesting, although I'd like to see more on how they will sort out the competitions, just having a standing table would be boring. Got to have promotion, relegation and cup games.

Hooray, four more games I now know to ignore. God I hate the games industry.

I've no interest in this crap. EGTV should be scrapped cos it's dull and never features many interesting games.

Here we are 10 episodes later and I still haven't watched any episodes all the way through to the end. It's one big yawnfest!

Scrap this show for some video reviews, then I might be happier.

note to self - take the piss out of Minkleys man-boobs when I see him next!

oh and wow - doesn't the hour of victory developer suck at selling his own product!?!

That Games For Windows guy looked really uncomfortable. Like a used car salesman trying to come across as friendly.

Johnny Minkley makes me think forbidden thoughts.

it's great to see what's going on in the industry and such but come on... you can't be that desperate enough to actually go up to a castle and feature a generic wwii shooter as an exclusive.

and how many times is it now that we've seen guitar hero content on the show? you have precious 30 mins in hand to actually give the readers something different from the daily news and you fill it up with more daily news.

there is a huge history of gaming at your disposal, classics and stuff.. even a proper documentary style content is better than the next fps. or you can go more journalistic and raise some issues to the industry people, like how the game developing methods changed or how the new generation gamer profile dictates the market.

it is certainly better than filming a guy dressed in a wwii army outfit, busting his chops to actually make doing another pointless wwii fps sound less pathetic.

"erm.. you know.. the market.. there is demand and all.. and please buy it or else i'm gonna get b*tchslapped when i go back to the office"

great episode!

I disagree about the negative vibes surrounding Hour of Victory - I personally absolutely love Where Eagles Dare, and that alone is what will make me want to play the game. I mean, if any film setting should be translated into a game, its that. Throughout the whole film my mates and I kept talking about how it would make an awesome game. I'm actually looking forward to a WW2 game for once, lol. Havent felt this way since Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

I cant believe that fat yank who was bigging up 'Hour of Boredom' had the cheek to wear the SAS beret and wings...you have to earn those things in the real world not just bung them on to promote your generic-looking WWII shooter.

The fact that they were showcasing the castle level just made me think of Return to Castle Wolfenstein and how good that was. WWII games have been done to death now and need to have an interesting twist like RtCW with the whole supernatural thing if they're going to draw my attention away...or maybe, just maybe DONT CONSTANTLY HAVE AMERICANS AS THE STARS OF THE SHOW. A WWII game without any yanks in it would make me sit up and take notice.

WW2 shooter, blah blah, guitar hero, blah blah, football, blah blah, shadow run, blah blah.

nothing interesting in that episode i'm afraid

Hour of Victory... there was nothing he could of said to convince me that its going to be anything but super-uber-mega generic. Seems like he knew that cos he made no effort what-so-ever to sell the product. "Not Saving Private Ryan but Where Eagles Dare?" I played that years ago. It was called Medal of Honor. Its shit like this that makes me hope that such developers go bankrupt. Anyone who buys it should be shot.

Shadowrun... boring. Besides that why would I want to play with Xboxers? The beauty of being a PC gamer is that I can limit - tho not erase - the screaming 12 year olds I have to play against. Ohh... and just release a mouse for the consoles.

FML... I hang around Eurogamer. Can I have a beta? Will there be a Mac version?

White stripes distorted
Tight cloth on soft man bosom
Avert your eyes, children

Oh yeah, and that Hour of Victory thing looked really stale, too. (The fact it reminds me a lot of an N64 game speaks volumes.) Maybe the show could be made available in segments? I would then not have wasted the time on that footie bit. There's no point advertising that to me. You'll just raise my ire, not my interest; if publishers are part of the reason that the programme isn't available as a pick 'n' mix offering.

Perhaps that would intice more people to watch? I mean, what's featured on each show is shown prominently before you even access the viewer, so you can see whether there's anything for you on show. (which was why I skipped the last one.)
I like what's here, but sitting through a chunk of what you don't like to get to the good stuff. Why, you'd think this was terrestrial telly! :)

Was I the only one shouting "Get behind cover, you tool!" throughout the Hour of Victory videos? I kept thinking it was called Our Victory too.

Hour of Victory - Duller than a dull thing.

Why does EGTV seem to turn into a documentary whenever they go to an 'interesting' location? Did we really need a history lesson about that castle?

Minkley, when will you tell us whats up with your arm!?
Great episode, though i'd like it if they went through a few more games and topics next time.
...And, hour of victory looks like shite.

Regarding the negative comments(notedly one person) you sound like a spoiled kid!
EGTV is spot on at speaking the truth, has great writing and production quality for something you're getting for free.

These shots on location are interesting and seperate EGTV from everything else out there. Okay, some of these events are set up to butter up journalists as they tell us about their upcoming game, but Eurogamer take a a lighthearted aproach and tell it like it is.

In a nutshell I think EGTV show is fine as it is. Okay there are bits in an episode I'm less interested in than others but in the end I usually end up learning something or having a laugh at some of the jokes.

I'm not trolling or looking for flame wars but I can't have people saying 'scrap EGTV..', -childish. If I was part of the production team comments like that would make me a bit sad to be honest! Keep it up!

^^ Indeed!
There are lots of sitet out there that features video reviews and such.
EGTV on the other hand offers something that is pretty much unique in online gaming related videos. For my part i love the historical extra inforamtion and Minkelys witty comments.
I just wish they could release an episode abit more oftan, and cover a few more games and topics.
But as far as scrapping the show, ...dont!

Damn those lapsed Football Manager fans who've gone out and got themselves wives.

Is it just me or did Shadowrun look like it had just nicked Unreal Championship 2's mechanics and gameplay and then just added a dolop of Oblivion on top? Don't get me wrong, it looks fantastic, but there's no need to act like it took such monumental effort to come up with it.

I can't watch this video :(

+1 marz.

These people that complain about everything.. Even free, quality stuff make me ashamed to be human at times.

Stupid people should be shot at birth...

That is all.

All I gotta say is all Midway games are shoddy, they have no refinement at all... so Im not expecting any fireworks here (Area 51 etc...)