Anybody gonna miss Luke Smith (1upYours podcast dude)?

[Anthony1]

I just got done watching the most recent 1upShow video podcast, and at the very end Luke Smith announced that he's leaving at the end of the month. Obviously this could just be some kind of stunt or April Fools type situation, but if dude is really leaving, that's too bad. I have no interest in anything 1up related, but Luke was pretty damn entertaining on that 1upYours podcast. Yeah, it's just a corporate backed gaming podcast, but I think it was the best video game podcast available, bar none. Mainly because the way that the 4 guys on the show all counterbalanced each other. Luke was one of the few gaming journalists that I've seen that is willing to ask any question, and didn't think anything was taboo, from a standpoint of interviewing developers or corporate types. I saw one video of him interviewing Sony's Phil Harrison, and he definitely didn't pull any punches. He flat out asked the guy the questions that everybody wanted answered. It's kinda refreshing to see that, cause normally all these sites are so worried that if they say the wrong thing, or ask the wrong question, then whichever company will just refuse to deal with them anymore, so it always seems like in interviews, most people throw nothing but softballs. Luke wasn't like that at all.


Hopefully, wherever he does end up, he'll still do a weekly podcast.

[Auxilla]

Yeah just as I miss Jane Pinkard and Che, Luke leaving is the nail in the coffin.1up wont be the same with out him.

[BydoEmpire]

I'm not going to miss him, to be honest. He was definitely funny from time to time - and more of a "personality" than the other folks. But his nonstop complaining about everything got to me. I don't have time to listen to hours of "the Wii is a piece of shit" or "the ps3 sucks" or "if it's not Halo it's crap." I kept wanting 1up Yours to be a more mature show, which is probably asking a lot considering the title =), but week after week Luke brought it back to Junior High. Still, he has said some laugh-out-loud funny things, and I wish him luck in whatever he's going to do. But if gaming journalism is ever going to get out of the gutter, there needs to be less Jerry Spring and more Jim Lehrer.