GWJ Conference Call Episode 580

Skyrim VR, PAX: Unplugged, Pillars of Eternity, Mario Odyssey, American Truck Simulator: New Mexico DLC, Heat Signature, Superflight, Launching Games, Your Emails and More!

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This week Shawn, Julian, Allen and Sean McKenna talk about PAX Unplugged, launching games well and more!

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00:01:51 PAX: Unplugged
00:08:37 Pillars of Eternity
00:11:38 Mario Odyssey
00:14:40 Superflight
00:18:15 Heat Signature
00:26:45 American Truck Simulator: New Mexico
00:30:16 Skyrim VR
00:42:20 Launching Games
01:02:56 Your Emails

With the SW:BF 2 debacle it's occurred to me that there are business arguments that are completely indestructible inside a company and entirely indefensible outside of a company.

Inside Microsoft you would be fighting an up hill battle to suggest that they shouldn't go ahead with always online DRM for the Xbox One and similarly, at EA, people would look at you askance if you thought adding mobile game mechanics into triple AAA games was anything other than the best idea in the world.

Edit: On Myth, I seem to remember that Bungie had to sell the Myth franchise to Take 2 for financial reasons. Not that I'm keeping track or anything.

How come no one asked Sean what it was like to drive on the opposite side of the road in American Truck Simulator?

Rat Boy wrote:

How come no one asked Sean what it was like to drive on the opposite side of the road in American Truck Simulator?

Who says he did?

Hrdina wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:

How come no one asked Sean what it was like to drive on the opposite side of the road in American Truck Simulator?

Who says he did? :evil:

As I figured I had been going a bit long in the 'what have we been playing' section, I curtailed the story of my first job driving on the other side of the road in ATS:NM. Highlights were: I knocked over a trailer before leaving the depo, backed into a police cruiser at a junction and then hit a bus full of school children. To put it mildly: Not well!

Also, I completely forgot to say at the tail end of the show, a very happy Thanksgiving to everyone celebrating this week. All the best

On what settings for games put you off I'm the opposite of Allen. I find modern military shooters and other shooters set near modern day to be incredibly appealing.

I remember one of the Easy Allies guys talking about what he found exciting, refreshing and different about Splatoon and noticing that all of the experiences he was describing were things I liked about Battlefield 4. He described one hectic match where the players were bottle necked in the middle of the map and he was basically describing a match on 'Operation Locker.'

I was also at PAX Unplugged and my experience wasn't quite as positive as Julian's. I did spend a fair amount of time in lines for the main theater panels and signing up for D&D on Friday morning. I get that lines are inevitable for a popular panel, but the D&D sign ups should have been better staffed. Other than those two quibbles, I agreed with the rest of what Julian said. Compared to PAX East, PAX Unplugged was a lot more chill.

I pretty much as a rule refuse to stand in line for anything.

Certis wrote:

I wish Greg was on...

(I’m just enough of an egomaniac that this made my day a little bit)

On an episode where you talk about Evil Genius and Rock of Ages, it’s almost like I was, though I did think Certis was talking about Odama at first.

2017 seems to be a year of fumbled launches. Agents of Mayhem and Deformers were both excellent games that just could not get out of their own ways. I keep wanting to pick up Lawbreakers, but I’m not willing to drop $30 for the chance to not find any players.