Lotus wrote:To anybody who follows these guys more than I do...have they said anything about doing more with their Game Sleuth and Retrospectives shows? They've done a couple of token entries but otherwise seem to be focusing more on streaming and adding ever-more podcasts.
Go to 38.20 in the Cup of Jones from 16 April. He basically addresses this exact question.
Retrospectives take a long time to produce and they don't want to tell people about them too far in advance. They were only ever a rare production back on GT though so I wouldn't expect any different here. Like Miguel says above, a Souls Retro is coming.
Gamesleuth is the odd one. I just get the sense Damiani doesn't want to do it anymore, which given how different a place the internet is for gaming compared to when he started Pop Fiction, I can understand why. Danny O'Dwyer has been talking about it in his mystery series with noclip. Basically the atmosphere to foster these gaming myths doesn't really exist anymore with the internet having the answer to everything within 5 minutes of a games release. You'd never get something like the Masterhand being playable in Smash as such a surprisingly true myth. That said Damiani is guilty of flitting about onto different projects and just doing random stuff that's obviously easier to produce than a Gamesleuth. That Story Time thing came and went (definitely for the best), he started doing the Zelda Talk podcast and now the Nintendo podcast too. I get why, just sitting down and talking for an hour is a very simple production and potentially more fun than the research and capture that has to go into a Gamesleuth. However people are paying for Gamesleuth as a higher priority than those other things so you'd think they should be a devoting more resource to getting it out speedier. I think Damiani did about an 8 hour Nier stream the other day, which seems rather excessive. I'm not sure if anything is going to change though, Jones basically just apologised and said they would be better at communicating stuff in the future. You can see where managing all this stuff as a Patreon becomes a nightmare.
They have gone a bit overkill on the podcasts
Main Podcast
Frame Trap
EZAnime
Zelda Talk
Friend Code
Reaction Shots