{"id":48539,"date":"2019-11-18T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=48539"},"modified":"2019-11-17T23:10:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T04:10:14","slug":"diecast-279-hyper-light-drifter-superliminal-mailbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=48539","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #279: Hyper Light Drifter, Superliminal, Mailbag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I notice I get a lot of emails from people just AFTER recording the show. At first I thought this was a fluke, but now I&#8217;m wondering if they&#8217;re trying to send in their questions just before the show, but they misjudge the timing. For the curious, our recording session happens sometime on Saturday night \/ evening, East Coast time. <\/p>\n<p>I do try to put questions in the order that I receive them, but it&#8217;s also true that last-minute emails are fresher in my mind when we do the show. That&#8217;s not advice, that&#8217;s just an observation.<\/p>\n<p><br clear='all'><audio controls><source src='\/diecast\/diecast279.ogg' type='audio\/ogg'><source src='\/diecast\/diecast279.mp3' type='audio\/mpeg'>Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><div><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast279.mp3' download='diecast279.mp3'>Direct download<\/a> (MP3)<\/small><br\/><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast279.ogg' download='diecast279.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=\"http:\/\/www.peripheralarbor.com\/\">Paul<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/\">Shamus<\/a>. Episode edited by <a href=\"http:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/profiles\/76561198087035658\/\">Issac<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast279.mp3\">Diecast279<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Show notes:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>00:45 Hyper Light Drifter and Ghibli Influence<\/strong><\/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\/nWufEJ1Ava0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nWufEJ1Ava0'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>12:27 Thimen24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/thimen24\">the 24\/7 Twitch Steam<\/a> where you can watch the adventure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>22:18 Dead Graphics Card<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Press [F] to pay for a respec.<\/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\/6QtrXBle5uU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6QtrXBle5uU'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>35:03 Superliminal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please note that we&#8217;re talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epicgames.com\/store\/en-US\/product\/superliminal\/home\">the videogame<\/a>, not the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hKqprJwWH4M\">Deadmau5 track<\/a>.<\/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\/_SX8XMwMw6Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_SX8XMwMw6Y'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>44:21 Mailbag: Golden Oldies<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Diecast,<\/p>\n<p>I was reading Programming Vexations part 9 and got to thinking. In the movies there are classics that are considered to be must-watch films like The Lord of the Rings, The Lion King, Citizen Kane, and so on.<br \/>\nAre there older games (let&#8217;s say at least 15 years old) that you would consider to be must-play games?<br \/>\nI&#8217;d say something like Super Metroid or Ultima Underworld 2 would be a definite contender.<\/p>\n<p>Vale,<\/p>\n<p>-Tim<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>50:11 Mailbag: &#8220;Nothing to Do&#8221; games.<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Diecast;<\/p>\n<p>we&#8217;ve all seen the phenomenon of the steam review that sits at hundreds of hours played, with a thumbs down and a &#8216;nothing to do&#8217; comment; you can&#8217;t really reason with that line of thought but at the same time we&#8217;ve all probably felt that way about a certain game at some point even if it&#8217;s provided us with 10 times the length\/value of other games. Do you feel this is due to these games not really having an ending? When I&#8217;m done with my Skyrim playthrough, I can&#8217;t actually end it &#8211; I just have to park my Dragonborn on her backside at home and just assume she retired. I&#8217;m really enjoying Destiny 2 but if I get bored of it, I can&#8217;t actually END the game &#8211; I just have to leave my Titan hanging forever in orbit, waiting for the next mission. <\/p>\n<p>Do you feel the lack of a proper diegetic ending to a game leads to this kind of feeling of running out of things to do? or are the 1000+ hour review thumbs down people just kinda nuts?<\/p>\n<p>many thanks,<br \/>\nJames Stanfield<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>55:06 Mailbag: Disco Elysium<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hello, W\u00fcrfel-Werfer!<\/p>\n<p>Have any of you played Disco Elysium? If so, what are your thoughts? For me, it transformed what a CRPG could be &#8211; allbeit it one needs to have a certain capacity to endure walls of text to appreciate it. And it being a film noir\/alternate reality\/&#8221;disco-punk&#8221;(?) game, I thought it should be right up shamous&#8217; alley.<\/p>\n<p>Also, in case my first question does give you much to talk about: It shares a few things with The Outer Worlds &#8211; namely a &#8220;short&#8221; game length (25-40 hours instead of 100+) and both tackle &#8220;class conflict&#8221; as a central theme.<br \/>\nAs a full time employed dad of two daughters, I for one welcome deep RPGs that I can actually finish in a reasonable time frame.<br \/>\nAnd I do think that game stories can be political, which both games definitely are &#8211; no matter if I agree or disagree with the points the story writers want to make!<\/p>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s about it, you can keep any typo or grammatical error, since english is not my native language. Regards from Autumnly Austria,<\/p>\n<p>ColeusRattus<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>55:53 Mailbag: Replaying Old Games<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Diecast,<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the biggest surprise you&#8217;ve ever had when going back to a game you last played ten or twenty years ago? I don&#8217;t mean &#8220;Wow, this totally holds up&#8221; or &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe I ever liked this garbage&#8221; but reactions you wouldn&#8217;t have expected going in. Lately I&#8217;ve had realizations like &#8220;Insanaquarium was kind of the first Cookie Clicker-ish idle game&#8221; and &#8220;Planescape has custom descriptions for each of the nameless zombies in the starting area so that they&#8217;re not all the same. People just don&#8217;t do that any more!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ninety-Three<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>58:49 Mailbag: Content Creation<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Diecast,<\/p>\n<p>When you make stuff for Twenty Sided, how much do you try to gauge audience response and use it to guide your content (&#8220;I see I get 50% more traffic on weeks where I talk about Shoot Guy, I should do more FPS content&#8221;) vs how much do you just make whatever is on your mind and hope that there&#8217;s an audience for it?<\/p>\n<p>Ninety-Three<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>1:10:18 Mailbag: Upcoming System Shocks <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hello Diecasters<\/p>\n<p>Today I got a new Backer Update for Nightdives System Shock Reboot. It looks good, it looks back on track.<br \/>\nLast time you talked about it in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=42690\">Diecast 209<\/a> after you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=42010\">Dumbed the project down<\/a>. Now 18 month later, what are your thoughts?<br \/>\nAnd there are still no news on Othersides System Shock 3. Is no news good news or bad news &#8211; given the fact that Underworld Ascendant was released much too soon?<\/p>\n<p>Regards<\/p>\n<p>Lars<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I notice I get a lot of emails from people just AFTER recording the show. At first I thought this was a fluke, but now I&#8217;m wondering if they&#8217;re trying to send in their questions just before the show, but they misjudge the timing. 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