"Extra Credits" moves to Penny Arcade TV

[Caiyuo]

http://penny-arcade.com/patv/show/extra-credits

This is weeks-old news but I hadn't seen any mention of it and was curious to see if anyone else watches this as it's one of my favorite shows. As for what it's about, in their own words, "every week as we take a deeper look at games; how they are made, what they mean and how we can make them better."

A majority of the library was at their youtube channel and the escapist, but it looks like almost everything has been moved to PATV now and can be found under the different season tabs. I'd embed some samples but I don't think I can from either PATV or BG's end.

[Kiarax]

From the few I've seen I really fucking despise this show, but it was so long ago I can neither remember which episodes it was or why I hated it. I just remember him coming off as super fucking pretentious and disagreeing with 90% of the shit he said (and he likes to play off his opinions as fact). However I read a little of the drama that went on between them and Escapist and it sounded like they got screwed over hard, so despite that I'm kind of glad Penny Arcade have picked them up.

[Correction]

I love this series and everyone should watch it; Even if you end up disagreeing with their conclusions you'll find in their videos a refreshing way of presenting opinions and analysis about video games and the industry around it that transcends the usual garbage published to the internet.

[Rokku]

I love this series and everyone should watch it; Even if you end up disagreeing with their conclusions you'll find in their videos a refreshing way of presenting opinions and analysis about video games and the industry around it that transcends the usual garbage published to the internet.

Very much this. I can't say I always agree with them either fully or slightly, but they do present it in a way that's at least worth watching/listening to.

[vrumpt]

This is probably one of my favorite shows. Watch it every week, everything is so thought out and like others have said, presented in an enjoyable way. Can't say there was a topic that i didn't find to be enjoyable, though i haven't seen every episode, earlier ones specifically. Anyway yeah, i love the extra insight it gives on the video game industry.

[Caiyuo]

From the few I've seen I really fucking despise this show, but it was so long ago I can neither remember which episodes it was or why I hated it. I just remember him coming off as super fucking pretentious and disagreeing with 90% of the shit he said (and he likes to play off his opinions as fact). However I read a little of the drama that went on between them and Escapist and it sounded like they got screwed over hard, so despite that I'm kind of glad Penny Arcade have picked them up.

I can't speak for the old episodes since I only started watching a few months ago -- for all I know the show was actually awful then -- but I'd definitely give it another shot just to see. As for them coming off pretentiously, I can only guess that it's a result of James, the guy who writes the episodes, actually being in the business and speaking from experience. Without that background it would definitely seem like they're a couple of jerks that just make a lot of assumptions about game development.

I love this series and everyone should watch it; Even if you end up disagreeing with their conclusions you'll find in their videos a refreshing way of presenting opinions and analysis about video games and the industry around it that transcends the usual garbage published to the internet.

^

[Kiarax]

I know better than to take someone seriously because they're "in the business" when you have clowns like Michael Pachter running his mouth. I'll check out some more recent episodes later though.

[Correction]

Pachter's a numbers guy and anything he has to say about video games generally reflects this. He's a terrible judge of game quality but that's him mugging for his podcast/public persona. The EC gang actually make video games, play video games and care about video games beyond what they mean for the growth of market caps.

[Vandole]

the one he did on professional gaming is really uninformed.. he's completely ignoring the followings/drama of gamers streams and crosscountertv. i finished the video and it was well done, but it was done as if he did 10 minutes of research and made it.

[Lonely]

This should be moved to Bentertainment Geek or something.