I still can't believe he's gone. Listening to some old Bombcasts, and it feels like he's still right there in that recording studio. Just hasn't been the same without you, duder.
My guess is it will be Mordor, but there will at least be some discussion of Bayonetta 2 as a possibility. Ultimately I think Bayonetta 2 will end up in the top 3.
I would be very sad if Vinny wasn't a part of it. He's been an integral voice on the team since the beginning. I also really enjoy Drew's input.
It'll be really interesting to see how Dan's viewpoints shape the discussion. His opinions on games so often are COMPLETELY opposed to what the site has kind of always espoused. (His views on the Metal Gear series alone demonstrate this).
I played Eve for a little while a few years ago. I only ever did mining, but I actually really enjoyed it. I never got a feel for how to do anything else in the game, and by now most of the knowledge I had is gone. Still, I trained up through mining barges and actually have a fair bit of resources for a newbie.
I would really like to try getting back in, but only if I could play with some duders.
I think he is spot on. I like video games, and sometimes they tell fun stories. But the medium is inherently flawed for telling traditional narratives. That's why games like Gone Home and Papers Please succeed far greater than Bioshock. They use the medium to their advantage rather than let it drag them down. Games like Bioshock are constantly at odds with themselves: shooting hundreds of dudes followed by poignant narrative is not very effective storytelling. Cognitive dissonance is a mainstay of traditional narrative storytelling in video games. We should stop chasing that.
I am cool with it behind a pay wall but is it possible to have a podcast like that still available on apps like instacast? All my listening happens on commute and if I can avoid having to manually download it to my phone from elsewhere that would be awesome but not a deal breaker if you can't.
I hope that's true. Despite everything, I still have fond memories of Kingdom Hearts, and will happily play the (supposedly) final game in the series proper. I'll even brush up on the ridiculously complicated story that I've missed having only played 1 and 2.
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