Title Centric Podcasts
For the longest time I didn’t listen to many podcasts (read none). The reality lately though is that I may or may not be in an internet streaming friendly location. In fact the odds are high that I find myself at a client location that will monitor internet traffic since I’m a consultant. So what has happened is that I’ve run into a few decent podcasts that I can pull down from the net over night and then I can listen to them during the day.
Here is a short list of some of the decent ones that I’ve run into lately:
Casual Stroll To Mordor
LOTROCast
Galactic Watercooler
For The Lore
While that is not the full list of podcasts I’m following it is the short list of my favorites currently. And as you might be able to figure out I’m currently into LOTRO.
So what do I mean by ‘Title Centric’ .. well I have been known on occasion to play most of the new titles as they come around. For instance I just got done with Aion. If you look around you are bound to find at least one or two podcasters out there talking about new titles as they come up. While I was playing Aion I was listening to about three or four of them. Now in Aion’s case two of the main podcasters I was listening to decided to shut down. One just seemed to go dark and the other was nice enough to close out the podcast with a “We’re shutting down“ episode.
But I digress.. The main point is that a lot of serious gamers like to digest as much information as they can about their current ‘addiction’. I’ve come to learn that they often have as much information about a given title that I do but they do come up with some good information that I don’t. A prime example of this is I prefer to play healers but will often select a highly solo-friendly class to play due to time constraints as well as a desire to get to a higher level so I can cover the costs for the preferred class. Beyond that I might not know much about the remaining class mechanics except for what I see when I group with them.
Podcasts are a great source of information in this respect since they expose you to other players that perhaps play a tank or mage that I might not have otherwise considered. Given that I’m glad to have access to these additional perspectives.
