{"id":20926,"date":"2013-09-03T07:30:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20926"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:35:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:35:02","slug":"diecast-28-papers-please-saints-row-sim-city-on-mac-focus-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20926","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #28: Papers Please, Saints Row, Sim City on Mac, Focus Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an hour and a half of five people talking about videogames. We got together and realized that one of the big problems in the world is that people don&#8217;t spend enough time talking about videogames. So we went beyond the call of duty and gave you an extra half an hour.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re welcome.<\/p>\n<p><!--remove original podcast link<audio controls height='50' width='300'><source src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast28.mp3' type='audio\/mpeg' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><source src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast28.ogg' type='audio\/ogg' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><embed height='50' width='300' src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast28.mp3' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><\/audio><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast28.mp3'>Direct download<\/a> (MP3)<\/small><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast28.ogg'>Direct download<\/a> (ogg Vorbis)<\/small><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/mbafford-static.s3.amazonaws.com\/diecast.xml'>Podcast RSS feed.<\/a><\/small><br \/>--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/embed\/S4RDwBJL#efs-2Y4Sr-7ef81ea3DdFUWtwTOmKGU_d_W1l4aj8bE!1v1c\" width=\"711\" height=\"144\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/S4RDwBJL#efs-2Y4Sr-7ef81ea3DdFUWtwTOmKGU_d_W1l4aj8bE\">Download MP3 File<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/P8pmjYiQ#TJdgDPU1d071HAF37VDw8Psw4MQ3uzkL2_IxFkZSrnE\">Download Ogg Vorbis File<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hosts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/\">Rutskarn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheBerserker\">Josh<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.errantsignal.com\/blog\/\">Chris<\/a>, <a title=\"Digital Mumbles\" href=\"http:\/\/digitalmumbles.com\/\">Mumbles<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\">Shamus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Show notes:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>02:00 What&#8217;s the Happy-haps?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Josh is playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_QP5X6fcukM\">Papers, Please<\/a>. And as a reminder, later today he&#8217;ll be playing <em>Rome II, Complete and Absolute War<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Mumbles left Guild Wars 2 for the Old Republic. She&#8217;s also playing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themightyquest.com\/en\">Quest for Epic Loot<\/a>, but it&#8217;s in closed beta and she can&#8217;t talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>Chris is playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8LYfCs5bfyI\">Saint&#8217;s Row IV<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/infinity.disney.com\/?cmp=KNC|INFINITY|Pre-Order|GGL|G_Media-Ad||Media-Ads-Toy-Box-Trailer||Disney-Infinity-Exact|WDPR-Global-Media|||\">Disney Infinity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shamus has been playing <em>Papers, Please<\/em> and <em>Saints Row IV<\/em>. During this segment Chris mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidsgallant.com\/igtced.html\">I get this call Every Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rutskarn is playing Gone Home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>00:37:00 A talk about game duration vs. the pricetag of the game.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Shamus tells a long rambling story about how game prices relate to the airplane ride he took as a kid.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>41:00 Rustkarn talks about Crusader Kings II<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>45:00 Sim City Online has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/427268\/launch-issues-blight-simcity-release-on-mac\/\">troubled launch on Macs<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It really is amazing how this game can continue to find new ways to fail.<\/p>\n<p><strong>51:00 Mumbles talks about Dragon Age 3<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1:00:00 Somewhere around this point we segue into talking about focus testing and the way it (should) shape games.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We compare the changes made to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BYowhad_1mw\">Overstrike<\/a> to the changes made in Portal 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an hour and a half of five people talking about videogames. 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