Episode 013 What We Learned From Being Young on the Internet

This episode covers a lot of discussion about our early engagement with the Chatrooms and the Internet when it and we were young. Chase and Stu learned a lot of how to engage with the internet through gaming and we choose to dive into these topics. Catfishing comes up. We also get some great emails from Brandon and Jonathan.

 

Games discussed in this episode:

 

TA Kingdoms for PC

Dark Souls Games for every Console

Diablo for PC / PS 1

Magic the Gathering Collectable Card Game

Starwars Battlefront 2 for many platforms

South Park: The Fractured But Whole for many platforms

Merge Dragons! for mobile

MoBAs of all kinds and why we don't play them

SMITE for PC

The Room 1 and 2 for PC

Pokemon Sun for 3DS/2DS

Super Mario Odyssy for Nintendo Switch

Rayman Legends for Nintendo Switch

 

Items discussed in What we learned this week:

 

Discussions on WayPoint Radio about learning in gaming, and the point of playing games being to learn something new.

https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/bj73y5/waypoint-radio-adam-conover

 

Dicussion on DLC Podcast and sales numbers for Nintendo for September and October 2017.

http://5by5.tv/dlc/207

 

What we Learned from You Discussion:

 

Brandon Saxton from Jedi Counsel Podcast writes in about the ethics and impact of gambling mechanics in games (specifically focusing on lootbox culture).

 

Jonathan writes in and asks what games we have played or avoided playing due to difficulty curves and Chase butchers reading his email.

 

Shout Outs!

 

GDC Video on Diablo development and history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VscdPA6sUkc

 

Mr. Bitter Tongue on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI3GAJaOTL1BoipG41OmfyA

 

Jedi Counsel Podcast!
https://jedi-counsel.com/podcast-episodes/

 

Logged off Podcast

https://loggedoff.simplecast.fm/