Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast

I love Kinda Funny, but lately I have noticed that the subscriber edition episodes will still include ads. It’s pretty annoying. I doubt it’s intentional. More likely whomever is uploading episodes is just careless. Lately, it feels like this happens maybe 1/4 to 1/3 of the time. If you are considering subscribing, just be aware of what you are getting. I’ve grown quite tired of this issue. The only reason to pay is to get podcasts ad-free. It’s not cool. This happened as recently as the 6/5/2025 Gamescast. There was an ad for an online gambling platform right at the beginning and then Tim read an ad for X-Reel at about the 33 minute mark. Quality and consistency is important if you want people to pay for your stuff.

I get the continued feeling that this is one of the TOP podcasts to consume Quality Conversations about specific IPs & updates around specific games. I really enjoyed the Elder Scrolls Online deep dive with the Devs, and am looking forward to the remaining episodes of the limited run! Do more limited runs, they’re SO Good!

Amazing group of gamers, helps work go by super fast, very informative with the latest gaming news. will be with them as long as they create more forsure!

I’ve been listening to Kinda Funny since it was the GameOverGreggy Show, and they were still with IGN. I don’t catch every episode and fall in and out of watching/listening, but whenever I come back, I feel like I pick up right off where I left off. I can always rely on the crew to put out an enjoyable episode to watch or listen to. After 10+ years of following them, I look forward to the next 10+ years.

Early in 2024, this show changed formats from a weekly podcast to a daily one. While this new direction started strong, a lot of more recent content has suffered for it. Previously, there were many different shows with an individual focus coming from the KF crew, making the shows more memorable. Or maybe I skipped the ones that weren’t because they weren’t showing up in my podcast feed. Either way, the content created in general has become less appealing to me. Three shows within a week on one game? Kinda crazy, in my opinion. Especially when it’s exclusive to a single platform. A predictions episode for some press conference one day, a recap of the conference the next? With no breathing room, it leaves no space for one of these shows to exist except in that moment. It expires in the span of the day. Ultimately, much of the content has become forgettable. Disposable. It exists, but it’s of the moment, those moments are fleeting, and it’s on to the next thing. What is the solution? Better, more meaningful topics. Trying less to be of the moment and more forward (or maybe even backward) looking.

Update: For the love of all that is holy, stop doing .5s in your scores! What is the point of a ten-point scale if you are really on a twenty-point? What the heck is a 7.5? Good or great? It is meaningless and avoids forcing reviewers to make a hard decision that sticks to their own system. I am giving two stars as I do think there is some can be some entertainment found and certain people are worth listening to. Not bad to have on background I guess. Most of what you’ll find here is either annoying or plain bad. Greg is especially guilty of the annoying aspect with yelling and just being outright hard to repeatedly hear in this podcast. Stop yelling and be more refined in your approach. Your listeners will appreciate it. There is also a question of objective vs. subjective. This is a fuzzy line and all reviews are inherently subjective at least to some degree. What pains me here is that the reviewers seem to either avoid objective aspects entirely, or they get buried. I listened to the Pokémon Scarlet and Violet review and it took them forever to mention the performance issues and one reviewer even downplayed it by saying “eventually I just got used to it”. This is unacceptable and gives people an unrealistic impression of a game that should be much better. Honestly, I hope Game Freak is pressured to do better with the release of Palworld. Their games are stale and I’m honestly shocked that Nintendo allowed it to be released in that state. Also, Greg is especially guilty here with giving 2023 GOTY to Starfield. I’m sorry, but that game is objectively worse than other games this year by a long shot. Baldurs Gate 3, which didn’t even get a full review, unless it’s behind a paywall, was rated much lower and that game is objectively better in almost every area. Starfield was lacking quality content, polish, and quality of life pieces and felt like a game that was made in 2010. I played for about 10 hours and couldn’t bring myself to finish it. Just utterly boring and so many loading screens. And this is coming from someone who beat Fallout 3 & 4 and Skyrim with 100’s of hours of playtime. Also, Sonic Frontiers got a 4/5. I mean…just yikes! Oh, and I listened to some of their Redfall impressions and just…no. It took me awhile to put my finger on what made me decide against this podcast, but that is it. If you are looking for a review that will truly tell you if a game is worth your time, don’t look here.