Friends Per Second Ep 1: Introducing the Friends Per Second Podcast ft. Jake Baldino, Lucy James, The Completionist and Skill Up!
Hands-On Trumps Trailer Volume
- Lucy says PlayDays felt like a smaller, more meaningful E3 where hands-on time and developer conversations mattered.
- She argues showcases with many short trailers risk leaving games without the attention they deserve.
Evolving Impressions Of Sonic Frontiers
- Jake and others describe multiple hands-on sessions with Sonic Frontiers and how familiarity changed their experience.
- Jake found the demo rough initially but enjoyed it more after unlocking moves and playing repeatedly.
Previews Can Make Or Break Perception
- Early demos and presentation slices can cripple perception if they show rough sections of a game.
- Jake warns that Sonic Frontiers felt unready and that poor preview choices can damage expectations.
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Welcome to Episode 1 of the Friends Per Second Podcast! We've been working on this for the better part of 6 months so we're pretty pumped to finally get this out there. You can expect to see an episode every two weeks both here and on every podcast platform you can think of.
Let's meet our hosts:
- Jake Baldino (aka the Before You Buy Guy) is pretty much the most watched reviewer on YouTube across both Gameranx and his personal channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/JakeBaldino). If you're obsessed with Delorians, The Mummy and Pizza you can discuss that stuff with him directly over on Twitter: @JakeBaldino
- Lucy James is a Senior Producer at Gamespot and a Creative Producer at Giant Bomb. She's actually, like, experienced and credentialed and has real life skills and stuff, while the rest of the gang would be funemployed if the YT algorithm didn't kiss them for random, inexplicable reasons. Oh, and she streams, too: https://www.twitch.tv/lucyjamesgames
- Jirard (aka The Completionist: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThatOneVide...) has been doing YouTube since before Noah wore short pants. Over the course of more than a decade, Jirard has completed HUNDREDS of games to bring you the quality of review that almost no other reviewer dare bring you, getting the 100% completion trophy for every title before putting pen to paper. Jirard has a let's play channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/superbeardbros). He's a host on the newly re-launched X-Play (https://www.youtube.com/c/xplay) and in his spare time he fires off the occasional hot-take over on Twitter: @TheCompletionist
- Skill Up used to work at McDonalds but he got fired for skimming too many chicken nuggets. He says he regrets it since he's never had a better job since then.
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