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General Chat #04: Too Many Video Games
🕑 Added 2021-09-27 11:02:00 +0000 UTCDeathloop! Splitgate! Halo! Resident Evil! Horizon Zero Dawn! Ender Lilies! Nier Replicant!
We've been playing games, and figured we might as well talk about them. The first portion of this podcast is an insightful 25-minute discussion on Deathloop... but the rest is us riffing on a bunch of different games.
Plus, we get into an important topic often overlooked: the true experience of a game. Basically, Matt goes off on Japanese indies and the Nier series for a while.
Again, this one is a little lighter on the edit - but sometimes a raw, unfiltered chat just hits the spot.
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Also I played Horizon after it came out in the Complete edition on PS4Pro. I did not experienced the early game. Now I'm on second playthrough on PS5 - 13 hours in, level 18, quest-wise in same lvl, or bit below.
This was fun. The Horizon part mostly. I knew that would be complicated one. I sometimes feel like people too much generalized. If 90% like it, you must too. Don't dare to be different! One of my coworker tend to ask me about games and movies. He is always like - "Did you see this movie? My friend told me, that they really liked it." And I always try to tailor my answer to a person, if I know them. So I be like - "Yeah I enjoyed that movie, but it doesn't require much brain activity, more of that popcorn movie side of spectrum. So I don't think you enjoy it that much." Also I will probably never look at games your way. Because you work more or less in the industry. My brain never going to go like - oh this is bad/good design/game mechanic. I'm much more simplistic - me enjoy, me dislike. Oh this too easy - rise difficulty, this too hard - lower difficulty. I always been "visual" person. Horizon as an example - I remember first time seeing gameplay without context what the game is about. So there is girl with bow, cool designed armor and there are some robo-animals. What the heck is this? Fantasy or different planet? Please tell me more. I would throw it into same bin as Uncharted and Tomb Raider games, but in contrast with those two series - Horizon for me is more enjoyable in story. rebooted Tomb Raiders don't do it for me as a fan of classic ones and Uncharted is on neutral spectrum for me. I actually enjoying the robo-animals fight and I would say this game taught me to be better with controller (PS4Pro was my first console, only console I had before was SEGA :D).
