Episode 02 is Here

Modern Gamers View Podcast Notes - Episode 2

Intro Plays:

Welcome once again to the bi-weekly podcast of the Modern Gamers View. I’m TheMuffin and I’ll be holding the reigns for this episode.

Along with me today is the ever venerable

TiberWolf. Gamertag TiberWolf3rd.

Also joining us are two folks you’ve all yet to meet.

Richard Munch?

As with last week, I’d just like to state the goal of the podcast. To give you, the listener an unabashed viewpoint on the games we play from a gamers point of view. No bought off review site politics, no ‘holier than thou’ downtalking. We speak about the games on your level because we’re on your level. So with that, lets bust into the first part of podcast #2.


[Segment 1]


As will become customary to every show, we start off with an update on what everybody has been playing in the prior two weeks. Since the last show left us with “homework” to play The Darkness and Dark Sector, we’ll cover those two first.

Tiber... Played Star War Force Unleashed, Street Fighter IV, a little COD 4, and the home work games.

Munch…

Muffin… Uhh, I didn’t get to cover The Darkness because my system not only red ringed, but after fixing that, it also stopped reading discs for a night or two. So only covering Dark Sector this week. Also going over Street Fighter IV.

[Segment 2 (After little break music)]

With segment three I’ll be passing control over to Tiber as this is his pet subject. That being the difference between a good story, and a good narrative. Also bringing up the idea that a game can have one or the other, both, or neither including examples.

Tiber?....

“So let me define what i think narration means. A narration is the process of which a story is told. The actions, words, and emotion that happens during the telling of a story.

And that means that a story can be defined by the over all events, actions, emotions, and thoughts that are shown through the narration. A story is what surrounds the narrative and gives the action scope.

So with that in mind, can you have a good story with bad narration? Can a bad story be over looked if the narration of the story is done well? Let me give some examples of each to start.

broken and imcomplete. With Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare being the closest the series has ever gotten to telling a fulfilling story that seems to work. “

“another contrite discussion on the subject with all parties involved”

[Segment 4 after a break (play break Music)]

So with that, we come to our final topic. Homework. Last week, as stated earlier, we covered a “Dark” theme with The Darkness and Dark Sector. This week, we’re going to keep to a more money conscious mindset and keep things simple. The homework is very straight forward. Go through your collection, find a game you haven’t finished, and complete it. Not to 100% unless you want to, but at the very least, finish the main story line. Even if it’s a game you haven’t had time to trade in because it was horrible beyond belief, it’s your duty to put time into it for the next two weeks.

In closing, If there are any games you would like us to try out or if you are looking for some people to play online with, send us an email at moderngamersview@gmail.com. Also be sure to visit the site at www.moderngamersview.com to get a condensed transcript of this episode or to leave us a comment.

So until next time have a great day from the MGV crew and make sure you “*Tune” in to hear what we’ve got on our minds a couple weeks from now!

[Outro plays…]

*lol, bad pun alert.