With the exception of the Duke Nukum forever bit, the skits weren't really any good. If Yahtzee invested half as much time in this as he did in Zero Punctuation, then it would obviously be something very special. There were some good bits. The casual chit-chat was an awful lot like the Australian Gamer podcasts, which are brilliant. They all obviously need to loosen up on camera.
They need to stop making this look so much like a typical generic tv show. Television sucks. Thats why I'm on the Internet. I have seen uncountable gaming tv shows that look just like this, wither and die after one or two seasons. And they had much more writers and much higher production values than Game Damage.
There is frankly no chance of this surviving on a mainstream television network. Maybe they could secure the 2am slot on channel five, but that would be the height of their success. The most important thing that Yahtzee needs to learn is that his target audience does not watch television. Every moderatley hardcore gamer I know spends at most 20 minutes every day watching television. The rest of the time is spent either browsing the internet or playing games. The people who habitually watch televison are generally bored, overweight, middle aged men who come home from work at 6pm and have nothing better to do than slump in front of the television. That and pre-pubescent school kids. Name one gaming related show thats been around for the last 2 years. Case and point. If Pure Pwnage, Zero Punctuation or any of the other internet classics were released on television, they would flop miserabley.
Cut out the lame skits, the toned down conversations, the oh-so-generic blue screen couch combination, relax, and most importantly; stop trying to emulate crappy tv shows. Release it on the internet, after all that's where your audience is. This boils down to a choice between a decent Internet show that I imagine would garner as much attention as Pure Pwnage, or a shitty late night TV show that will die after the Zero Puntuation fanboys stop pretending to like it. Harsh but true.
They need to stop making this look so much like a typical generic tv show. Television sucks. Thats why I'm on the Internet. I have seen uncountable gaming tv shows that look just like this, wither and die after one or two seasons. And they had much more writers and much higher production values than Game Damage.
There is frankly no chance of this surviving on a mainstream television network. Maybe they could secure the 2am slot on channel five, but that would be the height of their success. The most important thing that Yahtzee needs to learn is that his target audience does not watch television. Every moderatley hardcore gamer I know spends at most 20 minutes every day watching television. The rest of the time is spent either browsing the internet or playing games. The people who habitually watch televison are generally bored, overweight, middle aged men who come home from work at 6pm and have nothing better to do than slump in front of the television. That and pre-pubescent school kids. Name one gaming related show thats been around for the last 2 years. Case and point. If Pure Pwnage, Zero Punctuation or any of the other internet classics were released on television, they would flop miserabley.
Cut out the lame skits, the toned down conversations, the oh-so-generic blue screen couch combination, relax, and most importantly; stop trying to emulate crappy tv shows. Release it on the internet, after all that's where your audience is. This boils down to a choice between a decent Internet show that I imagine would garner as much attention as Pure Pwnage, or a shitty late night TV show that will die after the Zero Puntuation fanboys stop pretending to like it. Harsh but true.
