Episode 43 – Whatcha Playin’ 08.13.12
This week the discussion focuses around death—whether it’s a game that kills you mercilessly or an examination of uncertainty, AJBS explores one of gaming’s most enduring topics in this week’s Whatcha Playin’.
Rich examines his own mortality with XBLA’s Spelunky, comparing it to rougelikes of yesteryear; Steve tackles Spec Ops: the Line‘s take on Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness while Matt plays the App store’s iOS RPG puzzler, 10000000.
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Featuring music by I Fight Dragons
Oh, you guys said in the first “Watcha Playin’” episode that you wanted feedback on the style and type of these episodes.
So, … I like them… Don’t really know what more to say.
If you want continue with these, they are informative, easily digested and really funny. Or, well, atleast, on of you is really funny ( it’s really his voice that i like, but that might just be because I’m a audible oriented person ), you other a healthily amusing in your own rights.
Well, the thing a wanted to say was, … or is, is that: Continue, your podcast is great, I love your work, and if you have a problem getting a good flow reading this due to all the commas, that’s just how I write… sorry.
Eh…yeah, so, thumbs up!
- A general fan… Your fan.
Thanks for the comment. We have some plans coming up in the future as well so stay tuned. We are pretty excited about them.