Maneater

GWJ Conference Call Episode 712

Minecraft Dungeons (PC), Maneater (PS4), Destiny 2 (PS4), Apex Legends (PS4), Predator: Hunting Grounds: Arnold DLC (PS4), Disco Elysium (PC), Black Book: Prologue (PC), Your Emails, and More!

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Amanda, Rich, and Glendon are Joined by guest Aaron Amendola to catch up on listener emails!

To contact us, email [email protected]! Send us your thoughts on the show, pressing issues you want to talk about or whatever else is on your mind.

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00:02:42 Minecraft Dungeons
00:11:25 Maneater
00:16:45 Destiny 2
00:20:43 Apex Legends
00:23:50 Predator: Hunting Grounds
00:26:00 Disco Elysium
00:36:16 Black Book: Prologue
00:37:59 Monster Train
00:41:19 Your Emails

Maneater is so good. I take a lot of convincing to get into a game. But hearing about the Shark-Tailoring-Upgrade-Loop sold me. I'm now an Elder Shark kitted out in Shadow Gear and I look like a badass shark in a Techno-future stealth suit.

It's a game that feels like Burnout Paradise and the Infamous series took an acid trip to the sea. I've enjoyed relaxing after long work days and just eating mans. Very satisfying.

Maneater is just Crackdown 2 underwater, and now that I realize that the entire game makes a whole lot more sense.

staygold wrote:

It's a game that feels like Burnout Paradise and the Infamous series took an acid trip to the sea.

Now my mind is racing thinking about a Burnout game where all the cars are driven by sharks.

I need to make this a reality.

Another great ep! The email roundups are a bit shaggier, in a good way, like listening to mates talk games down the pub (remember going to the pub?)

I love that Mr Lovejoy is loving Disco Elysium! I really enjoy hearing people talk about it, maybe because it's such an internal game, and I'm interested to hear how others approached it and felt about it.

The question about roleplaying it as yourself was also interesting -- I played this one against type, both against my own type and the RPG types I usually play. Many went for the socially-awkward intellectual, or the empathetic, puny cop, but I went hard down the yellow "Motorics" tree. I got a cop who was a little bit smooth, but not nearly as smooth as he thought he was. I noticed the hell out of everything but struggled to put it all together (maybe I was playing to a part of me after all!) Then I started getting Shivers and wanted to follow that trail just for the noir-y monologues it was generating.

Are there any plans to do a spoiler section on Disco Elysium? I would love to hear the panel deep-dive on it and get into specifics.

I like the idea of the topic about games that we can't enjoy, but want to. For me, its anything that has creatures jumping at my face to latch on. It has eliminated all Half-life games for me. Alien vs. Predator traumatized me as a youth and I can never go back.

One of my favorite power fantasy moments when you feel very much in control: the end of XCOM: Enemy Within.

For the last quarter of the game, you have hovering snipers that get a free shot every time they kill an alien, assault troopers with superhuman abilities, MEC troopers that are essentially walking tanks, and probably a couple of psionics that can dominate even an Ethereal at times. The "you came to the WRONG planet, you alien bastards" feeling is very strong.

We have found the second third fourth fifth remaining Alpha Protocol fan remaining on GWJ. And my understanding is that the developers who were at Obsidian at the time the game was made hated the development cycle so much that even if the first ended up being a commercial success they wanted nothing to do with a sequel.

... add me to the Alpha Protocol fanclub!

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Felix Threepaper wrote:

... add me to the Alpha Protocol fanclub!

Hello friend!

Sad to hear that Obsidian didn’t dig the dev cycle of AP. That’s always a big downer for me.

EbonyPegasus wrote:

I like the idea of the topic about games that we can't enjoy, but want to. For me, its anything that has creatures jumping at my face to latch on. It has eliminated all Half-life games for me. Alien vs. Predator traumatized me as a youth and I can never go back.

I am normally this way with anything involving the sea/ocean/being underwater. When games allow me to have the freedom of movement I experience on land, or a BETTER freedom of movement than I am normally used to, I feel powerful and overcome that feel. That being said, not many games do that for me. Maneater comes close, but the controls are a little too jerky for me sometimes.

Also, every time I see the header picture for this post, I keep thinking:

In soviet Russia, shark jumps YOU!

...I'll show myself out