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Weekly Ramblecast 164: Shout Outs to the Butt Squad
🕑 Added 2024-07-30 19:57:19 +0000 UTCAustin Walker jumps into the Vinny chair this week to ramble with us about all things role-playing, from running down the four types of dungeon master to advising Alex on playing multiple characters at once, plus some thoughts on his time in game development and his recent experiences diving into the hottest Final Fantasy MMO on the market.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:30) Austin's Ramblecast debut!
(00:03:26) OK, let's talk game dev
(00:08:21) Take care of your brains, everyone
(00:11:22) Game mechanics and story, a chicken-and-egg problem
(00:21:21) A taxonomy of dungeon masters
(00:30:35) Alex solicits D&D advice from an expert
(00:46:54) That's right, it's Final Fantasy XI time
(00:53:19) What separates XI and XIV
(01:02:24) That's video games, baby
(01:11:18) Bring back 2001 demo disc and installer music
(01:15:22) NorthernLion has a job to do
Comments
Nicholas Jesz
FF11 good memories. I wonder if I can get it to run on the Steam Deck
Billy Gilchrist
As someone who spent unhealthy amounts of time in ffxi 20 years ago the Bg in that ffxiwiki is most likely for Blue Gartr was the biggest messageboard/linkshell for it back then
