Last weekend I met up with Chris and Lyzz over Skype and we knocked out the final episode of On Tap. After 185 episodes and seven years, it felt incredibly relieving to finally pull the plug on it. We went all out on our final show and made it a 4 hour, 18 minute epic, our longest show yet. If you have that much time on your hands, click here to download and spend an afternoon listening to it.
Our last episode was our yearly games of the year special where we go a little crazy with awards. For a couple of years we had nearly 50 awards we handed out ranging from traditional awards like 'Best Graphics' and 'Best Value' to dubious honors like 'Best/Worst Cover Art' and 'Best Achievement/Trophy.' With so many awards, these shows grew to be pretty long. Last year and this year we trimmed it down to about 30 awards, but we still ran rather long. I hope you guys love Lord of the Rings Online, because about 3/4s of Chris and Lyzz's awards went to that game.
I was lucky to be able to reach a few past recurring guest hosts and have them come on for special guest segments, which I inserted sporadically throughout our crazy long awards segment to help break it up a bit. Matt and my brother Joe came on and shared their top picks of 2012, and host of the PSNation Podcast, Glenn Percival came on so we could both rave about how far videogame pinball has come since we last talked about it on the 100th episode of On Tap. Joey was a blast to record with, he was in the middle of raving about Battlefield 3 when I asked him how he likes it compared to other military shooters he played to death online like SOCOM and Rainbow Six. He then spontaneously went on a ten minute rave/rant on the entire SOCOM franchise on PS2 and PS3. We were going pretty long already and I did not want to lose this amazing material so I cut it out of our game of the year talk and inserted it into the very end of the show, so On Tap's final seconds will be Joe talking about the highs and lows of the SOCOM series. A fitting end if I must say!
On Tap's archives will remain up until this August and they will then be gone forever. Here is an appendix of some of our favorite episodes, make sure to download them before they're gone or if you want even more, then check out all the archives over at ontappodcast.com. I feel relieved to finally be done with On Tap, I had many great moments over the years, but I ended it about a year and a half later than I would have wanted. No idea where my podcasting future will take me, might end up starting a new show down the line, but it would be ideal to do some guest hosting on other shows if they care to have me as a nice breather from having to do all that back end work like updating web pages, RSS feeds and post production editing.
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