I agree about the unprofessional parts. BAsically it’s all ad lib, so there is no preparation anyway. I don’t want the review to be selective in what mods it presents. Unless I call it “The best of the month” or something simialr, but then there probably won’t be enough mods to talk about.

In fact this is possibly the last video review because it’s a ton of work and it only watched 250 times whcih I don’t think is enough return for the effort involved.

The RSS Feed was a strange one. Nothing to do with you but I am 100% it was my host’s fault.

Some parts of it seemed unprofessional, like you hadn’t really prepared what to say, or when you had to wait for the page to load. That should of course be cut out, to make the video a little more ‘smooth’?

If the Video Review is a lot of work, you could cut out the caller, badder mods that people don’t really care about (esspecially these with no videos), although it’s nice to see videos of them. I don’t play mods that often, more busy making them, or doing other useless stuff, so I don’t get to play them as much as I’d like, so I like seeing videos of those mods I decided not to play.

I’m glad you keep making these video reviews, while they easily take 20 minutes out of my day, or how long it was, it’s well used. I look forward to the April one.

(I’m also having some problems with my RSS feed, so it suddenly just picked up 20 new entries on PlanetPhillip for the past few weeks. Weird. I hope it’s over now, probably my fault.)

I don’t disagree with you BlackDog, I just feel that it’s too much work. In fact it’s probably only needed for 10 percent of the mods listed on the site but it’s still too much work, since this is a hobby.

I didn’t mean for PlanetPhillip to host the walkthroughs,I was thinking along the lines of “youtube” or something like it. As far as “different playing styles” sometimes a written walkthrough is either not clearly defined or just to difficult to comprehend. Here’s where a visual input helps. Just tossing a few ideals at you cause you know, you da man!

Am not hard of hearing, and have volume maxxed!

Possibly you need to speak more clearly to your microphone.

I like that you sum up the comments on the poll questions now, as well as the results, since the discussion that results from the polls often takes interesting turns.

On videos for every mod: Maybe we could just add videos to the hall of famers? If you want to do that in the future, I’m willing to help out.

paddyL said: “What about a teaser section on upcoming mods on PP?”
In theory that sounds great but in reality there are no upcoming mods on PP. When I find a mod or map I normally post it immediately. I don’t have a schedule of posts or anything.

BlackDog said: “The March 2009 Video Review was awesome! Nice work Phillip! Loved it.”
Great, I am glad you liked it.

“It would be nice if every mod had a video Walkthrough. It would answer a lot of questions from P.P. Readers.”
That’s a LOT of work, files and bandwidth! Also, since players have different playing styles I am not sure it would be interesting to everybody. I will be, time permitting, adding the individual videos Matthew made to each mod, so that there is a gameplay teaser available.

“I also like modsite better than filefront, at least you don’t have to leave PlanetPhillip.”
Yes, it’s nice not have to click twice, but in some places FileFront might be faster, I’m not sure. Anyway, the more mirrors, the better.

In fact for smaller files I will be adding a PP Direct Download as well, to see how that works out. Ideally, I would just like to have that option but it’s not realistic for the larger files.

What’s happening to your idea of a weekly podcast Phillip? Guess you have had your hands full with problems of late.