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These very cretins who many of you address by name (!?) are slowly strangling the life out of this hobby.
Keep supporting them, right!?
Strangling the obscurity out of the hobby, perhaps.
These very cretins who many of you address by name (!?) are slowly strangling the life out of this hobby.
Keep supporting them, right!?
One thing I do like about Game Sack is the production value - particularly the game captures. Joe seems to be a real nut for getting the best image, which I appreciate.
I can agree that the show has become (or always was) formulaic, which is not necessarily a bad thing. I did notice a drop in quality when they went weekly. I used to be excited when a new Game Sack episode appeared, but now I don't immediately jump on it. I'll still give it a watch, and enjoy.
but it seems like they are really running out of things to say about games.
They're not saying anything about the games.
They don't know anything.
Game Sack is going on hiatus. We do have another episode coming up in two weeks but then after that we don't know when the next one will be. And no, there's no internal struggle or anything like that going on. Everyone is getting along fine and dandy and there's no conflicts. However come April the show will be 5 years old. We've been doing this pretty much nonstop regularly since April of 2011. No breaks. Even when there were obligations in real life we kept going through with Game Sack. TV shows get seasons and nobody minds. You take breaks on Youtube and people lose interest, subscribers diminish and people become angry. Don't get us wrong, we love making the show for everyone and it is constantly on our minds. The show has also been dying. It's been rapidly declining in views and I think people are perhaps getting a little too much "Sack". We think the best thing to do when we come back might be to go bi-weekly again.
We let our Patreon supporters know first about this yesterday since they actually fund part of the show. That way they could also decide if they want to change or delete their pledges.
Also we wanted to let you know that we won't be attending any conventions in 2016. This was a decision we made during the Portland Retro Gaming Expo in 2015. While we love meeting you all, it's just really hard for us to go on these trips because it's stressful and it interferes with the production of the show.
Matt Nicolaïdis If I were to give feedback, yeah, the show feels really stale. It's predictable at this point, and I feel like you guys are having to dig deeper and deeper into mediocre games just to pad out episodes. I'd love to see episodes that focus more on the hardware, the shit under the hood of the console, and more technical details on how games achieve certain graphical effects and such. That's always what made your show unique.
Current top comment on the facebook post: Matt Nicolaïdis If I were to give feedback, yeah, the show feels really stale. It's predictable at this point, and I feel like you guys are having to dig deeper and deeper into mediocre games just to pad out episodes. I'd love to see episodes that focus more on the hardware, the shit under the hood of the console, and more technical details on how games achieve certain graphical effects and such. That's always what made your show unique.
I tend to agree with this guy. I really enjoyed Game Sack, but lately it's been pretty boring.
Good every week for them wasn't the best period.The quality went really down when it was weekly,bi-weekly gives them the time they need.Looks like they've hit burnout and are taking a break. It also looks like they'll be going back to a bi-weekly format when they return. This was posted on their Facebook page.
What a bunch of babies. So let me get this straight... they're taking a break from the shows, but they are also not going to conventions this year because it interferes with the filming of their shows? Wait wut?
I guess I don't understand why they need to have a legitimate reason to take a break from the show, or to stop going to conventions. "We don't feel like it" is all the explanation we're entitled to, quite frankly.
To try and drum up fan support again would be my guess