{"id":37909,"date":"2017-04-03T14:29:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T18:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=37909"},"modified":"2017-04-03T14:29:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T18:29:54","slug":"diecast-194-mailbag-destiny-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=37909","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #194: Mailbag, Destiny 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br clear='all'><audio controls><source src='\/diecast\/diecast194.ogg' type='audio\/ogg'><source src='\/diecast\/diecast194.mp3' type='audio\/mpeg'>Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><div><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast194.mp3' download='diecast194.mp3'>Direct download<\/a> (MP3)<\/small><br\/><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast194.ogg' download='diecast194.ogg'>Direct download<\/a> (ogg Vorbis)<\/small><br\/><small><a href='?cat=287&feed=rss2'>Podcast RSS feed.<\/a><\/small><\/div><br \/>\nHosts: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/spoilerwarning\/posts\">Josh<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/rutskarn?ty=c\">Rutskarn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/\">Shamus<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Campster\">Campster<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bayberrystudio.wordpress.com\/\">Baychel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Funny story about this episode: I noticed Baychel sounded off, but for some unfathomable reason I didn&#8217;t say anything until <strong>after<\/strong> we&#8217;d recorded the show. Once I did, she discovered her good mic had come unplugged and the system had defaulted to using her crappy webcam mic. Sad trombone.<\/p>\n<p>Show notes:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>0:01:08: Christopher and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Deal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Caveat emptor!<\/p>\n<p><strong>0:13:36: Mailbag: Story vs. Gameplay<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Diecast<\/p>\n<p>If you were about to play a standard 15-20 hour triple A game, would you rather it had an amazing story&#8230; but dreadful gameplay, or amazing gameplay and a terrible story? <\/p>\n<p>Sarah. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>0:27:28: Mailbag: Spider-Man Homecoming<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s up Dear Diecast <\/p>\n<p>Are you looking forward to the new Spider-Man movie? Apart from some personal &#8220;It&#8217;s different and therefore it&#8217;s RUINED&#8221; complaints, I&#8217;m pretty hyped to see a Spider-Man movie in Marvel Studios&#8217; hands. <\/p>\n<p>Your friendly neighborhood Christopher<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>0:46:07: Destiny 2 coming to PC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So naturally we spend this whole segment complaining about the first game. Still, I really like this trailer:<\/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\/ZJLAJVmggt0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZJLAJVmggt0'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>The Kotaku story Chris quoted is here: <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/the-messy-true-story-behind-the-making-of-destiny-1737556731\">The Messy, True Story Behind The Making Of Destiny<\/a>. And this is the quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Let&#39;s say a designer wants to go in and move a resource node two inches,&#8221; said one person familiar with the engine. &#8220;They go into the editor. First they have to load their map overnight. It takes eight hours to input their map overnight. They get [into the office] in the morning. If their importer didn&#39;t fail, they open the map. It takes about 20 minutes to open. They go in and they move that node two feet. And then they&#39;d do a 15-20 minute compile. Just to do a half-second change.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just shameful. It&#8217;s a miracle they shipped at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hosts: Josh, Rutskarn, Shamus, Campster and Baychel. Funny story about this episode: I noticed Baychel sounded off, but for some unfathomable reason I didn&#8217;t say anything until after we&#8217;d recorded the show. Once I did, she discovered her good mic had come unplugged and the system had defaulted to using her crappy webcam mic. Sad [&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":[],"class_list":["post-37909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diecast-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37909","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=37909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}