GWJ Conference Call Episode 670

Age of Wonders: Planetfall, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Oxygen Not Included, Wolfenstein: Youngblood GWJ Donation Drive 2019 update, and your emails!

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This week Shawn, Amanda and Michael Zenke catch up on your emails!

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00:01:56 GWJ Donation Drive
00:09:59 Fire Emblem: Three Houses
00:12:12 Age of Wonders: Planetfall
00:17:22 Wolfenstein: Youngblood
00:20:30 Oxygen Not Included
00:25:37 Overwatch
00:29:41 Your Emails

Thank you all for the thread shout out. I am blown away by what people have already shared and I really appreciate the CC crew pointing people towards the thread. You all rock, thank you <3

As excited as I am about the next StoryRoost series playing 5E, I'm more excited about Zenke's planning sessions!

I'm only partway through the episode, but I had to pop in and mention that I had never known of the PS4's folder organization system until just now. That will be life-changing.

Seconding Amanda's zombie take, I think it's a tired, uninteresting, boring trope. Villains and enemies are best when you have a connection with them (just look at the villains in FarCry and how Pagan Min is a an interesting, charismatic character). Zombies are like ants, I can't empathize or connect (positively or negatively) with an ant. The robots in Horizon: Zero Dawn are all riffs off our animals in our worlds so we implicitly feel a connection to them.

Regarding Certis' comment about "too many Sheawns" If Elysium doesn't open the podcast the week after Certis leaves with a highlander reference, then I have greatly underestimated this site.

McChuck wrote:

As excited as I am about the next StoryRoost series playing 5E, I'm more excited about Zenke's planning sessions!

He tends to cackle like a fiend when his little plans and machinations come to fruition at the table.

Punch Club! I can't believe I actually finished it. Wasn't worth it at all.

Would cloud saves kind of be the modern equivalent of the memory cards?