{"id":25726,"date":"2015-01-19T05:05:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T10:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25726"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T18:21:22","slug":"diecast-89-2014-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25726","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #89: 2014 Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDIT: Comments are open again. I have no idea how I managed to disable them by accident.<\/p>\n<p>I know we&#8217;ve spent most of January talking about 2014. Well, we&#8217;re not going to stop now. At least this time you&#8217;ll get to hear what Mumbles thinks. Also, watch for spoilers. (Check the show notes to see where they are.)<\/p>\n<p><!--remove original podcast link<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast89.mp3\">Direct link to this episode<\/a>.\n[diecast show=\"diecast89\"]--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/embed\/34IQ3TTQ#LIbIzZK2lID_wRPxVgzThn-wz5rn8IhJINFmDvpHf2Q!1v1c\" width=\"711\" height=\"144\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/34IQ3TTQ#LIbIzZK2lID_wRPxVgzThn-wz5rn8IhJINFmDvpHf2Q\">Download MP3 File<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/P9AzSKwB#TFEwVH1FuqUpmhm-ZFD9PGPej_anzyM8dtLL4uK-DJU\">Download Ogg Vorbis File<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hosts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/\">Shamus<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slimjim.com\/\">Josh<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Campster\">Chris<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicemovemumbles\">Mumbles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Show notes:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>3:00 Everyone has a different opinion on what games were &#8220;important&#8221; last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>14:00 A lot of people spent 2014 playing games from 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>18:00 Let&#8217;s talk about AI for a bit!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>22:00 MMOs in 2014: Firefall, Wildstar, ESO, Destiny, The Crew<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also don&#8217;t miss where Shamus goes on old man tirade about Destiny.<\/p>\n<p><strong>38:00 Broken games and incomplete stories in 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We kind of spoil the end of Destiny, although since there&#8217;s no buildup, payoff, or resolution and it&#8217;s totally incoherent, so I don&#8217;t know if you can say we actually &#8220;spoil&#8221; it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>44:00 Dragon Age Inquisition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SPOILERS NO FOR REAL BE CAREFUL.<\/p>\n<p>Also spoilers for WATCH_DOGS.<\/p>\n<p>Also Dark Souls 2.<\/p>\n<p>Also Bioshock Infinite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDIT: Comments are open again. I have no idea how I managed to disable them by accident. I know we&#8217;ve spent most of January talking about 2014. Well, we&#8217;re not going to stop now. At least this time you&#8217;ll get to hear what Mumbles thinks. Also, watch for spoilers. (Check the show notes to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287],"tags":[289,437,456,61,50,404,367],"class_list":["post-25726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diecast-2","tag-bioshock-infinite","tag-destiny","tag-dragon-age","tag-eve","tag-thief","tag-watch_dogs","tag-wildstar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25726"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59464,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25726\/revisions\/59464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}