{"id":54277,"date":"2022-05-02T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=54277"},"modified":"2022-05-01T13:19:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T17:19:08","slug":"diecast-379-the-hyper-batman-ultra-deluxe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=54277","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #379: The Hyper Batman Ultra Deluxe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why Paul and I get such joy out of dunking on No Man&#8217;s Sky. The game received over a dozen major updates since it was released six years ago. You&#8217;d think that, &#8220;Oh wow. The new content is awful and doesn&#8217;t address the core problems with the game!&#8221; would get old. But I guess not. I will never forgive this game for the way it spurned  its own potential to give us a game about inventory sorting and bar-filling.<\/p>\n<p><br clear='all'><audio controls><source src='\/diecast\/diecast379.ogg' type='audio\/ogg'><source src='\/diecast\/diecast379.mp3' type='audio\/mpeg'>Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><div><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast379.mp3' download='diecast379.mp3'>Direct download<\/a> (MP3)<\/small><br\/><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast379.ogg' download='diecast379.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\/diecast379.mp3\">Diecast379<\/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\/C7f7JEUGxIs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C7f7JEUGxIs'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Show notes:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>01:26 Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is this game an expansion, a sequel, a re-release, a remake, or a spinoff? According to the Narrator, &#8220;Possibly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>06:30 NMS:Outlaws<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost heroic how far the game designer is willing to go in pursuit of doing the wrongest thing possible. <\/p>\n<p><strong>27:48 The Batman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bruce Wayne and The No Good Very Bad Town. <\/p>\n<p>Like I said on the show: I prefer my heroes to be more heroic than this, but I still really enjoyed this one for the wonderful art design. The Christian Bale Batman movies were always so preoccupied with &#8220;realism&#8221; that they never really captured my imagination. But this dirty, twisted version of Gotham was captivating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>38:03 HyperRogue<\/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\/xAFrKKApHTY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xAFrKKApHTY'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>40:10 Dorfromantik<\/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\/aHzaY6TLKik\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aHzaY6TLKik'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>45:00 The Universim<\/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\/mrJJ1qALr6A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mrJJ1qALr6A'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>48:06 Mailbag: Relationships with games<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Diecast&#8230; I mean, hi.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed that I tend to have adversarial relations with games. Meaning that I usually put a higher difficulty (for some reason) and when the game gives an unfair challenge I get &#8220;oh, you want to play unfair? All right I&#8217;ll play unfair too&#8221; and start cooking up exploits or some cheap tactics within game rulesets. So it&#8217;ll become a battle of who can outcheat each other at this point as two bitter rivals. So what&#8217;s your relationships with games tend to be?<\/p>\n<p>Best regards, DeadlyDark<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>55:01 Mailbag: Good habits<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Diecast,<\/p>\n<p>I hope this early spring finds you in good humour.<\/p>\n<p>I recently started my umpteenth playthrough of Neverwinter Nights 2 and noticed I have gained a new habit and lost an old habit.<br \/>\nLike most of us do in our daily life, I have started to close doors behind me in game.<br \/>\nThere is no practical purpose for it, I just found myself doing so.<br \/>\nI have also stopped rifling through cupboards, desks, and so on for small change like the average video game protagonist.<\/p>\n<p>Do you guys have any habits you brought to video games from real life? Closing doors, keeping things organised, and so on?<br \/>\nDo you usually rifle through drawers and closets for random loot?<\/p>\n<p>Wishing you all the best.<\/p>\n<p>Vale,<\/p>\n<p>-Tim<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>59:16 Mailbag: Bonus Bugs<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi Diecast,<\/p>\n<p>Do you recall some bugs and glitches that were so funny\/awesome that they made the game better for you?<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nDarek<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why Paul and I get such joy out of dunking on No Man&#8217;s Sky. The game received over a dozen major updates since it was released six years ago. You&#8217;d think that, &#8220;Oh wow. The new content is awful and doesn&#8217;t address the core problems with the game!&#8221; would get old. 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