{"id":52364,"date":"2021-06-14T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=52364"},"modified":"2021-06-14T08:33:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T12:33:32","slug":"diecast-347-e3-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=52364","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #347: E3 Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like I said on the show, E3 kinda snuck up on me this year. It had barely started when we recorded this podcast, but it&#8217;ll be basically over by the time this goes live. Whatever. I doubt people come to my site because my coverage is <em>timely<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br clear='all'><audio controls><source src='\/diecast\/diecast347.ogg' type='audio\/ogg'><source src='\/diecast\/diecast347.mp3' type='audio\/mpeg'>Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><div><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast347.mp3' download='diecast347.mp3'>Direct download<\/a> (MP3)<\/small><br\/><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast347.ogg' download='diecast347.ogg'>Direct download<\/a> (ogg Vorbis)<\/small><br\/><small><a href='?cat=287&feed=rss2'>Podcast RSS feed.<\/a><\/small><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hosts: <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>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast347.mp3\">Diecast347<\/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\/BOxFgsHJ74E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BOxFgsHJ74E'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Show notes:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>00:00\u00a0E3 Coverage &#8211; Ubisoft and the Cavalcade of Cringe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have a proper show-by-show breakdown of E3 later this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>07:34 Anacrusis &#8211; Left 4 Dead Writer Chet Falizek<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.back4blood.com\/en-us\">Back 4 Blood<\/a> now, I have to say Anacrusis feels like a bedroom indie project, while B4B feels like a proper mid-budget successor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>14:32 Dorf Romantik: Singleplayer hex-grid Carcassonne<\/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\/_6m9RVwO7D4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_6m9RVwO7D4'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I bought this during the show, and it won me over in a couple of minutes. I love it. <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1455840\/Dorfromantik\/\">Check it out<\/a>. I find it deeply hypnotic.<\/p>\n<p>Although, I don&#8217;t get the title. Dorf? Romantik? The author is not a native English speaker<span class='snote' title='1'>You can hear a narrated voice in the trailer above. I&#8217;m going to hazard a guess and say they sound German.<\/span> and I can&#8217;t escape the notion that something is getting lost in translation. There&#8217;s probably a joke or pun I&#8217;m not getting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20:50 Tiny Tina&#8217;s Wonderlands<\/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\/zR0ZvJtDZLk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zR0ZvJtDZLk'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Will this be a return to the best part of the Borderlands series, or will this be another disappointment like <em>Borderlands 3<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><strong>28:00 Goonswarm visits the Diecast<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.somethingawful.com\/showthread.php?threadid=3898069&#038;userid=0&#038;perpage=40&#038;pagenumber=1630#post515278123\">Here&#8217;s the link<\/a>, although I sort of use this topic as an excuse to gush about how crazy their foray into EVE Online was. This discussion is a response to <a href=\"?p=51333\">Diecast #324<\/a>, which is still one of my favorite episodes of the show.<\/p>\n<p><strong>34:23 Hackers breach Electronic Arts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/10\/tech\/electronic-arts-hack\/index.html\">Hackers breach Electronic Arts, stealing game source code and tools<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those that do not learn from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/cd-projekt-red-hack-bad-data-cyberpunk-2077\/\">incredibly recent<\/a><\/strong> history are doomed to repeat it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>46:57 Two Point Hospital is charming and silly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m discovering this game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SjrcU1gwkjc\">two years late<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>52:40 Mailbag: Survive the Hunt<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear DiceCasters,<\/p>\n<p>In the beginning of 2020, you put up an analysis of Failrace&#8217;s Survive the Hunt, with a link to Episode #12. Since then, they&#8217;ve reached 35 episodes with a few one-off spinoffs or specials.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been watching ever since your analysis. The Failrace guys have updated their rules over time, to acknowledge some imbalances and make their game &#8220;better&#8221;. In particular, they&#8217;ve changed the number of air vehicles allowed, made a rule that high-end supercars were off-limits to hunters unless the prey is caught driving in one (making taking a fast car an important choice with risk-vs.-reward elements), and had a few one-off special rules or scenarios, with the last episode involving an &#8220;Escape the country via plane&#8221; escape sequence involving a partner in a plane, as part of their 10 year anniversary of the site.<\/p>\n<p>Are you still keeping up with the series? Are there any other games you Diecasters can think of where a healthy dose of setting changes and honor system rules can create a new fun &#8220;game mode&#8221; that isn&#8217;t being captured by the gaming community at large? One of the best parts of the Survive the Hunt format is that it is &#8220;video gamer agnostic&#8221; &#8211; you don&#8217;t need to be a gamer or even know GTA5 to understand what the prey&#8217;s goal is or what might be a good or bad strategy. Are there any games out there with a similar ease of understanding that might make them particularly suited for recording and viewing or the YouTube environment?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Nick<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I never understood sports fans shouting coaching advice to their televisions until I watched this series.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;GO! Just GO. Do something unexpected! Shoot at some NPCs to make them drive crazy and throw off the hunters. Go over a jump, drive fast, steal a box truck, bail out, try to blow up some target cars, whatever! Just&#8230; do ANYTHING but sit at a fucking traffic light for three minutes, arguing with yourself over whether you should have turned right at the last intersection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fail Race is actually a cool channel and I love their antics, but the hunted guy really does need a dose of courage before the game starts. <em>Dude, we&#8217;re not here to see you win, we just want to see cool shit happen!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like I said on the show, E3 kinda snuck up on me this year. It had barely started when we recorded this podcast, but it&#8217;ll be basically over by the time this goes live. Whatever. I doubt people come to my site because my coverage is timely. Hosts: Paul, Shamus. Episode edited by Issac. 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