{"id":50451,"date":"2020-07-27T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=50451"},"modified":"2020-07-27T09:50:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T13:50:23","slug":"diecast-310-eastshade-with-soldierhawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=50451","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #310: Eastshade with SoldierHawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been about six months since the <a href=\"?p=49013\">last time<\/a> we had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/SoldierHawke\/videos\">SoldierHawke<\/a> on the show. So she&#8217;s back to talk about Eastshade. <\/p>\n<p><br clear='all'><audio controls><source src='\/diecast\/diecast310.ogg' type='audio\/ogg'><source src='\/diecast\/diecast310.mp3' type='audio\/mpeg'>Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><div><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast310.mp3' download='diecast310.mp3'>Direct download<\/a> (MP3)<\/small><br\/><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast310.ogg' download='diecast310.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.youtube.com\/c\/SoldierHawke\/videos\">SoldierHawke<\/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\/diecast310.mp3\">Diecast310<\/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\/BGN59H-Z420\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BGN59H-Z420'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>00:00 Intro \/ Video editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the curious, the free video editor I talked about in this segment is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackmagicdesign.com\/products\/davinciresolve\/\">Davinci Resolve<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>03:00 Eastshade<\/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\/mYslaGEMs4o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mYslaGEMs4o'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>24:54 Red Dead Redemption 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Neither of us said so, but we both talk about how upsetting Grand Theft Auto V can be. I&#8217;m betting we were both talking about <a href=\"?p=43602\">this bit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>30:40 Beyond Blue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d find this game fan, but it LOOKS amazing.<\/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\/pOAWBCXpo6k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pOAWBCXpo6k'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>36:14 Mailbag: Characters!<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Shamus and Soldierhawke,<\/p>\n<p>The recent release of Beyond a Steel Sky &#8211; a sequel 26 years in the making &#8211; has got me wondering if either of you are partial to the adventure game. For me the best thing about the genre is the characters: over the years I&#8217;ve really treasured getting to &#8216;meet&#8217; the likes of George Stobbart and Nico Collard, Phoenix Wright and Maya Fey, and of course Guybrush Threepwood and Elaine Marley. So my two part question is firstly to wonder whether you have any favourites you&#8217;d like to discuss, and more broadly, how important you think good characters are to a game and whether you think the industry is getting it right at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Yours<\/p>\n<p>Asdasd<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>46:41 Mailbag: Black Mesa<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi!<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019ve finished Black Mesa earlier this year, and I\u2019ve noticed one thing about it. It\u2019s a great expansion on the original ideas, and in some ways switched the closer to original Unreal, instead of Half-Life. But one thing that stood up, is that almost every challenge or puzzle was repeated three times in increasing difficulty. I don\u2019t mind usage of the rule of three, but its repeated usage started to seem very artificial. So I wonder, if any of you noticed it, and what alternatives to the rule of three you can think of?<\/p>\n<p>Best regards, DeadlyDark<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>53:52 Mailbag: Eastshade<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Diecast-caster-ers,<\/p>\n<p>(This is primarily for SoldierHawke, unless Shamus has played Eastshade by now.) When I played Eastshade last year, I felt like a good term to describe it would be &#8220;unevenly developed&#8221;. What one thing would you most like to have seen developed further, either in the game or in a hypothetical sequel? Or conversely, what underdeveloped thing should&#8217;ve been scrapped? This could be mechanically or story related.<\/p>\n<p>As an example, on my part, I feel like the unique tea that lets you see hidden objects, but was only used in a single quest, was underused and could&#8217;ve been dropped without much loss. On the other hand, I&#8217;d love to see a game expand on the painting mechanics; for instance, historically pigments have been a HUGE consideration for painters before the appearance of cheap, reliably-consistent, light-fast synthetic pigments in the modern era. (For example, in the Renaissance, the high-quality ultramarine blue, made from ground-up lapis-lazuli, was literally worth more than its weight in gold; now we can synthesize it and it&#8217;s one of the cheaper pigments out there [though it remains just as good!].) Anway, what are your thoughts on this?<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nDaniel &#8220;Philadelphus&#8221; Berke<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been about six months since the last time we had SoldierHawke on the show. So she&#8217;s back to talk about Eastshade. Hosts: SoldierHawke, Shamus. Episode edited by Issac. 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