More thoughts on EA GameShow
October 27, 2007 by pastapadre
Night number two of GameShow and once again I got locked into it for over four hours. Thought I would add some more observations. Again if anyone has feedback or suggestions I can have that passed along to the team at EA. I made a couple notes on things I’d like to see below as well.
-I’ve added a tag page for GameShow. So any postings related to it can be found there in one place. Just click gameshow in the tags section of the sidebar. Right now it includes the initial news that GameShow had launched with some of the details on it, my full impressions from the first night, and now this one.
-GameShow has a myspace page which can be found here.
-You can text the show at 85186. At different points the hosts may ask for feedback or comments via text.
-I was joined in the room for part of the evening by rdogg1026 and marinerman. I think there was one or two others but I’m forgetting the names. Pretty neat to see some of the guys who visit here get in on it.
-I mentioned in my opening impressions that GameShow can always be fresh because they keep the topics up-to-date and bring in ones that are relevant to that day or week. A few examples would be the “NFL Week 8 injury list” which is one I cleaned up on, and there was also one called “Big Game: USC/OU” which centered on this weekend’s top college matchup. Some of the other categories were “Cavaliers spotlight”, “Smallish NBA players”, “Back from retirement”, State schools without a state name”, “AFC West”, and “NBA point guards” which was a lighting round. Earlier in the day there was some pop culture rounds which is a nice change of pace, but I came on late and only got to go through one session of that.
-Of the power-ups the 6x chicken is the strongest. They’ll probably have to make adjustments to balance things out more. I only messed it up once, the first time I used it, by waiting a fraction of a second too late. That stung. After that I had it down so I was getting between 5300-5700 with them.
-I won the overall three times and the West region around eight times.
-The hosts mentioned that coming up in the near future there will be IPods up for raffle.
-On the topic of avatars, it was also stated that there will be items in the store that are available only on specific days/occasions.
-I’d like to see them add something along the lines of a friends list. So you could scope out any that are online and invite them to a room or easily view their stats.
-It might be cool to have a chat room type area while playing or in between where people could interact with others as well as the hosts.
-I can’t find a way to change the system time for the game. It is an hour behind and no where in the options is there a place to set your time zone or current time.
-Here are my stats at the moment: 73% correctly answered with an average of 21,694 points which leaves me sitting in 5th place overall. I’ve leveled up in NFL, MLB, and NBA and currently my top category is MLB.
I’ll be on again during the live session tonight (Saturday). It’s likely that I’ll be on for most if not all of the entire thing. So if you want to hop into the Washington room I should be there, or I could set up a private room if we are able to coordinate it.
I’m down, I would also like to view which categories will be played throughout the day. The guide never works for me.
F5 pulls that up. But I’ve noticed that it just shows the current topic once you’ve started playing. It shows the full schedule if you pull it up before you go in a room. At least I think thats what happens. I’ve seen the full schedule before, but most of the time dont.
Yeah ill try it later, I’ll see you at 6pm EST, I wish they started it earlier.
For those of you wondering the categories for today, here are most of them:
ALL TIMES IN EST
5PM: Who’s Missing? - Quarterbacks
5:15PM Full Circle: Steve Young
5:30PM Bad Calls
5:45PM Athletes who Transcend Sports
6PM: Pro Hockey Potpourri
6:30PM Spotlight: Washington Wizards
6:45PM Lightning: ACC Basketball Greats
7PM Our Favorite Day- October 27th
7:15PM Ohio State and Penn State College Football
7:30PM On the Map: Denver
7:45PM Baseball Season 07 - How We Got Here
8PM Lightning: Match WR To His Team
8:45PM Sporting Events Outside the United States
9PM Spotlight: Phoenix Suns
9:15PM Lightning: Big 10 To Pro Hoops
9:30PM Military Coaches and Players
9:45PM British Sports
10PM Take the 4 or 7 Train
10:15PM Live College Mascots
10:45PM Lightning: College Mascots
This thing is pretty fun. I won the Central Region once last night, not close to winning Overall. I’ll probably be on late tonight because of the Breeder’s Cup, but I’m hooked now.
GUESS YOU NEED WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM I HAVE A MACBOOOK WHAT A BUMMER!
EA SPORTS GameShow has the following requirements:
Windows XP (SP2) or Windows Vista
DirectX 9.0c or later
512MB of RAM (1GB for Windows Vista)
A processor speed of at least 1.4GHz*
Video card with 128MB VRAM (ATI or NVIDIA recommended)
Broadband Internet connection (Cable, DSL, etc.)
500 MB of hard drive space
Pasta! I am coming for you!
That was addicting. Wish it would get some more advertising or at least vetter raffles so the few people that play it can win some stuff. I beat FlordiaPerson in the lightning 1990’s WR my score was something like 41395. anywho this is a great little thing they had and it was fun to play, allthough very addicting.
Glad to see some more guys on, ups the competition. Rdogg, CAE, marinerman, and a few others I saw over the course of the day.
They said the raffles will be picking up, I think I heard that there will be something new up every day or at least more frequently than now.
And yeah we need new ads, I’m so sick of the EA ones lol
Was good fun, I liked the movie trivia too, it was cool to have that in there.
Thanks for the shoutout rdogg!
In the closed bets they had other ads running. An annoying Halo Dew ad, the Snickers Feast ads(which I had never seen before), and I think a gum commercial. So other adverts are probably on the way.
Pretty sure thee’s a Super Bowl XLI backpack coming up in the raffles and the brothers Thompson mentioned iPods last evening.
This game is overly addicting… We should definitely set up a private room, but It’s looking like everyone that’s commented on here is higher up on the list, so it’d be some tough competition. Just a disclaimer, Dakotawiz is short for the Dakota Wizards (D-League Champs), not yellow snow, as I heard about 4 times tonight.