Dark Souls, Ray Tracing, LotR MMO, Nature of Middle-earth - with Pawnce and Voice of Geekdom - Of Games & Rings #1

This is the 1st episode of my new podcast, called Of Games & Rings (OGaR). My guests are the Twitch Streamer Pawnce and Voice of Geekdom (also a Tolkien lore YouTuber and former games developer). We talk about Amazon's Lord of the Rings MMO, ray tracing, Dark Souls, Knights of the Old Republic, D&D, rollback netcode in Guilty Gear Strive, but also the Nature of Middle-earth book. 

Sound quality can probably still be improved, I edited some awkward silences out, but left some in too. I still have much to learn. I hope you enjoy it though.

It's also on YouTube

► Time Codes:
0:00 - Introduction
4:00 - Ray Tracing & getting GPUs
19:02 - Cyberpunk 2077 & hype
26:20 - CD Projekt ransomware attack
31:14 - Ori Director criticises over-hyping games
36:05 - Games that turned out surprisingly good (Shadow of Mordor)
37:38 - Lord of the Ring Online & MMOs
39:32 - Why Elves like Trees & some off-topic (degrees, jobs)
44:26 - MMORPGs
48:12 - Amazon's LotR MMO, New World
58:00 - Cloud Gaming (Stadia, GeForce Now)
1:05:37 - Back to the LotR MMO
1:07:24 - Film & merchandise rights situation for LotR and Hobbit
1:13:13 -  Mysterious player wins Street Fighter V tournament & donates price money to charity
1:19:43 - New Dungeons & Dragons RPG in development, Baldur's Gate, Planescape Torment
1:30:00 - Hardware issues for Controllers of PS5, Xbox Series and Switch
1:37:00 -  What consoles did we play, PS1 or N64? Final Fantasy VI and VII
1:41:12 - Dark Souls II & Souls
1:51:03 - Games that changed the industry
1:52:02 - League of Legends
1:54:40 - Back to Dark Souls II
1:55:37 - Dan had a disconnect, we talk about internet problems
1:56:44 - Games that will be remembered (Minecraft) and back to Dark Souls II
2:08:10 - Gamers like to be frustrated according to study
2:09:36 - Ninja Gaiden
2:12:19 - More Souls Talk
2:17:08 - The Happy Hob incident (Tolkien references in Dark Souls?)
2:20:35 - Knights of the Old Republic (2003) & other Star Wars Games
2:37:17 - Rollback Netcode & Guilty Gear Strive
2:45:30 - The Nature of Middle-earth
3:05:01 - Shout-outs & Outro

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