This week I talk about dogs and owning them in Korea, Pokemon Go in Korea finally, my Macross model and gathering this weekend to get crunk with Kiwis! Chur
Author: akadjblaze
Working, teaching and DJn in the ROK
In the Den with Rufio Ep2
In this weeks video I talk about Pokémon Go about to be released in Korea, plans for Chinese New Years and some of the many big movies coming out in 2017
2016 Review
The extended version
Seriously 2016 will go down in the history books as the year the world went from semi messed up to straight bat shit crazy and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it! Yes bring on those doom and gloom prophecies, that shit is fun to imagine and as long as I get my zombie apocalypse or alien invasion, I’ll be happy!
But on a more serious note personally 2016 for me was like any other year, a series of ups and downs, travel, DJn and just doing me. However even the good and bad extremes of this year were def more pronounced than previous years.
In the Den with Rufio Ep1
Welcome to my new video log project for 2017
Here is my new weekly video log, check it out and I hope you enjoy. It is still very much a work in progress but my goal is to keep doing this weekly during 2017. Each week I am to keep improving and hope to be a pro at it by the end of the year!
Podcast Ep-6 eSports and Elections
In episode 6 of our podcast it’s the Day After Tomorrow. Donald Trump is now the president of the United States, but the show must go on! Today’s episode we recap on Blizzon, get deep into GStar (The E3 of Korea) and what Korea needs to do in order to resuscitate its suffocating gaming industry.
https://soundcloud.com/gangnam-gamers/ep-6-esports-elections
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_qWZ6LoFas
Welcome Jodi to the podcast and talking about President Trump
3:30 Blizzard and Blizzcon.
6:00 eSports at Blizzcon and Sth Koreas Domination
9:00 Why Koreans are so good – breaking moves down, practicing and the support of the country
13:30 How video game and geek/nerd culture has become the new cool
17:10 Is esports a sport or something else?
18:45 Psychology will be the game changer for esports teams?
21:10 Overwatch league and Africa missing out on Esports developments
24:40 Gstar preview and Sth korea game industry in jeopardy
27:50 How can Korea turn things around now that they no longer have the technical advantage
32:00 Korea operating in an uncomfortable middle ground and what does Korea need to work on? Korea should adopt the Free to Win model (we talk about how this model works)
37:40 Western games have stories and endings etc, Korean games are missing story
42:00 Games to look out for heading into G-Star
Podcast Ep-4 More ‘Ma’ Less Snyder
In this episode we talk about different games and trailers while also talking about the differences between game cultures in the east and west.
What does Hayao Miyazaki do much better than Zack Snyder? Why does Jason, a self-proclaimed lover of all things anime, think DBZ is garbage? Join us as we discuss the Nintendo Switch, RDR2 and Logan trailer, as well how Konami may have just placed the very last stake into the heart of the Metal Gear saga.
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Topics Covered
– New games! Civilization 6, DBX Xenoverse 2 and finally Last Guardian!
– Jason’s hate for DBZ(!)& the inevitable fail for Metal Gear Survives
– The Japanese Essence of the “Ma” vs. Zack Snyder Syndrome
– Nintendo Switch/Red Dead Redemption and Logan trailer recaps
– Netmarble Suicide and the culture behind it.
https://soundcloud.com/gangnam-gamers/ep-4-more-ma-less-snyder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CAqiC9Qdak&t=10s
0:00 Intro, Jason is back and we start off talking about Civilization 6
4:30 Metal Gear Survive Trailer
6:30 EA games on a one year cycle and where are the NBA jam types games?
9:40 DBZ xenoverse 2 and Jason’s hate of DBZ
12:10 The Ma
16:30 Japanese manga vs Western comics
17:50 Last Guardian Release
21:00 Nintendo Switch Trailer
26:50 Red Dead Trailer
29:20 Logan Trailer
33:00 Dr Strange and no more Snyder
35:30 The benefits of Netflix
40:40 Netmarble suicide
49:50 Korean Presidential scandal begins
51:19 Shocking moment in Walking Dead and other shocking moments in games
Interview with DJ Angelo
Here is my interview I did with the one and only DJ Angelo! It was great hanging out and doing this interview with him. The final product came out pretty well. In hindsight thou I should have edited the video down for a more ‘general’ audience and spiced it up with extra bits and pieces but that is something I can work on for future interviews and projects. As far as a podcast type interview it came out great. Hope you enjoy! The video version is on Facebook and the Audio version is on SoundCloud. Chur!
https://soundcloud.com/gangnam-gamers/interview-with-dj-angelo
Podcast Ep-3 It’s a Wonderful Open World
Check out our 3rd podcast installment as we talk Open World games
https://soundcloud.com/gangnam-gamers/ep-3-its-a-wonderful-open-world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLCxbRTdPB4&t=13s
Podcast 3 Contents:
0:00 Jason joins us for his first podcast and we talk about the Red Dead 2 announcement
6:20 How we feel about open world games in general
8:40 Rick and Morty shout out and Open World VR and how Open World has changed popular franchises
12:00 Black Flag Shout Out
13:30 Types of things that could be turned into Open World Games
15:20 Defenders open world game would be awesome (Heroes for hire)
Also Stargate or Quantum Leap?
19:00 Is PoGo an open world game? Is AR open world?
21:00 Ramifications for your actions in open world games
22:40 Shadows of Mordor remembers you
24:00 Why is it a gimmick when it should be an obvious inclusion and organic to open world gaming
27:40 AI programmed into NPCs
28:16 Next COD due to drop Nov 2017 maybe set in Vietnam?!
32:30 Sudden Attack 2 flops… Horribly
37:30 Could the Sudden Attack Fail spell the end of Pc games from Korean companies (and how a PC Bang works)
40:30 Stories missing from Korean games
Note: Overwatch – was meant to say there isn’t a story mode for Overwatch
46:00 Samsung has a cry
49:00 Halloween is coming
53:30 Seoul Comic World Shout out
Podcast Ep-2 Grab Them by the VR
Welcome to episode 2 of the Gangnam Gamers podcast, this is our second episode, have a watch and check below the video for the contents and extra bits
https://soundcloud.com/gangnam-gamers/gangnam-gamers-podcast-ep-2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXxEhNUp5jA&t=125s
Podcast 2 Summary
0min Intro and talking about Samsung Galaxy Note – Lipo (Lithium Polymer) batteries (used in high performance devices like drones) Vs Lithium Ion batteries (in cell phones) A great article here talks about these two battery types
8min Trump pussy grabber game
9:30min Locker room privacy and private talk Vs public forum. Gaming culture and gaming smack talk
16:40min As gamers grow up and become political, could gamers smack talk and IDs be used against them? Also gaming smack talk taken out of context and the power of words vs power of intent
20:40min Should we change our ways or accept this is happening? Things in the gaming world are becoming more realistic, so the intent is becoming more real
22:15min VR is here, it is evolving, but Facebook is looking to merge with Oculus combining VR with social media. Face capture, portraying emotion in real time.
26:18min History of avatars and living within a new reality or creating a different personality set in a fictional word
27:30min Because gaming is becoming more realistic, does that make things too realistic? Empathy Vs VR?
30:30min VR is at year zero
32:30min Social interactions and what are they these days? People disengage from the real world
34:20min What is the real world? What is real? What is more real? Is reality reality?
37:00min No drugs so VR to escape and create another reality, do we want to step into a virtual world?
40:00min Dan taps out, PS VR comes out and talking about the games esp BatmanVR Arkham VR
43:00min No man sky numbers drop massively
47:00min Mafia 3 has some quality control problems and a game that comes about during the time when social issues are major problem. Also do these games cheapen violence, merge that with VR, video game morality
52:30min Gears 4 drops
54:00min Games we playing. PewDiePie Tuber simulator
Kairosoft shout out (Game Dev Story)
56:30min Naruto Blazin
Podcast Ep-1 The Beginning
Welcome to the Gangnam Gamers podcast, so as I said, things have changed up big time for me the last few months and while this has been out for awhile, I am going to share all our podcasts here as well on my DJ page. I will post a couple a week till I catch up to where the podcast is currently at and also add a few extra pieces of information, links etc that might have been missing from the episode (or that I forgot to talk about). So here is our first one! (we did do 2 or 3 before this just as testers but this is the first one we went with) Enjoy! Extra information is below.
https://soundcloud.com/gangnam-gamers/20161006-episode1-pilot-rough-edit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOhe2aeCxb0&t=54s
Podcast Contents:
0min: Introductions and talking about COD Modern Warfare remastered and Infinity Warfare.
9min: Pokémon Go and it not being in Korea yet.
14:45min: PoGo alternatives (crayon pang go go) and talking about Korean Protectionism of businesses.
22:10min: NYCC and Luke Cage.
24:50min: Fix, I was mixing this up when I was talking about it, so we do have a SAO game coming, was hoping to see footage of that game at NYCC but I want a new VR Sao type game 🙂
27:40min: Brooklyn Beat Down and Street Fighter. Also shout out to Infiltration.
28:44min: Games we are playing – Clash Royale, Wii super Mario galaxy, Ire: Bloody Memory, Dota2, Mario 64, Halo 5, One Piece Treasure Cruise, Command & Conquer. We also talk about using chat wheels in a passive/aggressive nature.
38:00min: Shout out to Ten Birds Korean game company.
39:00min: Spartan company name: The Spartiai Extraordinarii.
45:00min: C&C vs VR and micro control.
48:35min: Typhoon Chabba
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