#vghd

As the title says.

I listen to quite a lot of podcasts, but there couple a few things which really make VGHD stand out to me; which makes it different to the rest.

I don’t listen to particularly many video games podcasts nowadays, but back when I listened to more VGHD was unusual in that all of the others were hosted by games media people (in their various forms) whilst VGHD was (and indeed, still is) hosted by devs. The immediate impact of this is the different perspective it provides on things, seeing the other side of the figurative curtain. But it also changes the way that games are spoken about.

The very vocabulary used to talk about games was different as a result of the hosts being devs, and the way that they experienced many things was different too. 

The other thing which makes VGHD stand out to me is the way that jokes work on it. Most funny podcasts have the style of improv or of stand-up, but VGHD is different. Two of the hosts are explicitly comedy writers, and the other two are adjacent. This means that the way that jokes are formed, presented, and bounce around is different; the jokes are built and worked on in a way I don’t see in any of the other podcasts I listen to.