{"id":26053,"date":"2015-03-02T05:47:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T10:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26053"},"modified":"2025-09-28T21:33:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T01:33:26","slug":"diecast-95-final-fantasy-xiv-nolf-spore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26053","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #95: Final Fantasy XIV, NOLF, Spore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--remove original podcast link<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast95.mp3\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span>Direct link to this episode<\/a>.\n[diecast show=\"diecast95\"]--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/embed\/G44RiZKQ#-awwtEr9uA-KXJpvsQwVuev2nWKdBQ2rGGCM1YwdEc8!1v1c\" width=\"711\" height=\"144\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/G44RiZKQ#-awwtEr9uA-KXJpvsQwVuev2nWKdBQ2rGGCM1YwdEc8\">Download MP3 File<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/n8RDRYQY#QBm0soL8RFuLRNyx8N2udjHbrOM4VNK1OYO9ORNN7KM\">Download Ogg Vorbis File<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hosts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/\">Shamus<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gargamel\">Josh<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Campster\">Chris<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/\">Rutskarn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicemovemumbles\">Mumbles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Show notes: <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>1:00 Mumbles is playing Famo Famifam XI4.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Talking is hard. So are roman numerals. Everything is hard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7:00 Mumbles is also playing SLAMMED!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, a text-based game about wrestling. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.choiceofgames.com\/slammed\/#utm_source=cog&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_content=ourgames\">This is a real thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:00 Good Robot and Pyrodactyl<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re new, then maybe you don&#8217;t know about <a title=\"Project Good Robot Part 10: Software Engineering\" href=\"?p=20984\">Good Robot<\/a>, which is a 2D shmup kinda thing I was working on last year. If all goes well, I might have more screenshots and details later in the week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>16:00 No One Lives Forever \/ comedy games.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NOLF is trapped in <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/the-sad-story-behind-a-dead-pc-game-that-cant-come-back-1688358811\">legal limbo<\/a>. (Or would that be purgatory? I don&#8217;t know.)<\/p>\n<p>We discuss comedy games and using mechanics to tell a joke. Here is the installment of Every Frame a Painting I mentioned:<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3FOzD4Sfgag\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3FOzD4Sfgag'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>30:00 Shamus finally got around to playing Spore, and he says&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><table width='800' class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/spore_welcome.jpg' class='insetimage' width='800' alt='PLEASE GIVE US ALL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR REASONS. AND ENJOY OUR NEWSLETTER. AND AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. ARE YOU ENJOYING THIS VIDEOGAME YET?' title='PLEASE GIVE US ALL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR REASONS. AND ENJOY OUR NEWSLETTER. AND AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. ARE YOU ENJOYING THIS VIDEOGAME YET?'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;the same thing everyone else said in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>44:00 Mailbag: The evolution of camera controls.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Seems like a lot of early 3D games had trouble with camera controls. Why did it take so long for them to think of over the shoulder third person? Or am I missing something? Level design? Dynamic Transparency? Keeping the render budget down by fixing the camera to a spot? Or did I simply get unlucky and miss the early games that got it right?<\/p>\n<p>What about the ability to transition between first and third person like skyrim does? Is that just way harder than it looks?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks<br \/>\nWide and Nerdy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>50:00 Games too hard to learn?<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Diecast Cast,<\/p>\n<p>So one of the top people at EA made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/ea-exec-our-games-are-too-hard-to-learn\/1100-6425141\/\">a statement at the DICE conference that today&#8217;s games are too hard for new players to learn<\/a>. I know that Shamus has had some insights in this direction himself, but some of the game&#8217;s he&#8217;s talking about (Battlefield) have a reputation for hand-holding and being simple exercises in following directions.<\/p>\n<p>Is this just another example of the separation between the &#8220;casual&#8221; and &#8220;hardcore&#8221; players, where the people deriding these games as too easy have forgotten what it&#8217;s like to pick up a modern shooter without understanding the gameplay conventions of the genre? 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