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Giant Bomb Presents: Kent Hudson Wants You to Care About the Kaplans

The former designer on games like Deus Ex and BioShock 2 is getting up close and personal for his debut independent effort, The Novelist.

Giant Bomb Presents is giantbomb.com's home for interviews, previews, and more.

Jul. 18 2013

Posted by: Patrick

In This Episode:

The Novelist

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Cool.

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...not sure I can handle how Drewish this dude sounds.

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Patrick obv. interviewed Drew about his top secret new video game

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Oh my god he sounds just like Drew

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Oh hey drew

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DREW?!

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Yeah that's Drew's voice comming out of that dude.

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Deux Scanlon

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SHHHH.

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I really thought it was Kate Hudson for a while there.

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SHHHH.

So basically the secret goal of that game is to invade North Korea right?

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@aelric: So did I when I clicked the link. Now I have to listen because who wouldn't want a chance to hear Patrick pretend to interview a famous person by just interviewing Drew...

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@megasoum said:

@patrickklepek said:

SHHHH.

So basically the secret goal of that game is to invade North Korea right?

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I read this as Kate Hudson.

Kent was probably the better interview.

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i'm reading all these comments, and i totally agree. Listened to the interview and for like the first 10 minutes i swear it was patrick pretending to interview drew.

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Oh hey Drew!

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The Novelist seems like a game that will really mess with people's emotions, which is really cool if it works well.

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Sup Drew!

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Oh hi drew!

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I drew a picture of what I imagined this person looked like :)

I also drew a deep breath when I first heard this person's voice :)

I wonder if this person drew on experience when making this game :)

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...not sure I can handle how Drewish this dude sounds.

Haha first thing I thought

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@aelric said:

I really thought it was Kate Hudson for a while there.

Me too.

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Jeff and who Kaplan now?

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I thought people were just messing around saying the guy sounds like Drew, but wow. Right off the bat its Drew all the way.

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Everybody's saying he sounds like Drew, and I definitely hear it in there, but he's also somewhat reminding me of Tim Schafer. It's like if you combined Drew & Tim Schafer's voices together.

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This interview was amazing and i hope you continue making other episodes like this one.

The insight on the game developers decision was pretty thought provoking for me , trying to look at it from his perspective when he was making the decisions on the game.

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@spacedesperado said:

You bring up that he worked on deus ex and thief like he was vital in developing those games, which in turn is supposed to make us care and be intrigued about his interview.

He only helped port the butchered playstation version of the original deus ex and did 'additional' design work on thief. I didn't even bother look up what he did for invisible war/bioshock 2 for obvious reasons.

I assumed this website was better than that.

At no point did anything to do with this interview's pre-text quantify what his role was with Deus Ex or Bioshock 2, with exception that his role was as a designer - which in many cases, can be as a committee on a large scale in various capacities. The title of "game designer" doesn't always note some grandeur of capacity.

Assumption of context or not, sounding like a self-deserving pretentious asshole isn't really cool either.

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I thought it said Kate Hudson at first and was Very confused o_O

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Oh wow, he totally sounds and talks like Drew.

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Great interview, now hyped for this game to come out on Dec 10th. I'm glad he went with a family than 8 not as personally related characters.