<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n“I can’t believe you would do Mass Effect 2 while overlooking [obviously superior game]!”<\/p>\n
Sigh.<\/p>\n
I wish I could impart just how insane difficult it is to choose a game. There are four of us now. All four of us have different games that interest us. (Which is good.) And we have to do a game that Josh has played. We do not want to run a show where the player doesn’t know where he’s going and other players are shouting directions to him on a five-second delay. “Over there! On your left! No, your… where you were a second ago. Yeah. That switch. Okay, now we go back to the other room….” No. You could do a show where everyone<\/em> goes in cold, or where some of the commentators go in cold, but having a blind pilot and three backseat drivers is a recipe for disaster and frustration.<\/p>\n Has Josh played it? If not, have the rest of us also not played it? Does Josh own the game or is he willing to buy it? Does it work with our exotic setup? Is it going to appeal to viewers? Do we all have something to say about it? Bonus points if we can find some conflicting opinions in the group. (Having everyone love it or hate it is too boring unless they REALLY love it or hate it.) Then there’s this odd calculus about how long a series should last. The more important and relevant the game (and good luck quantifying that) the more time we’re willing to spend on it. I have a lot I’d be willing to say about Doom 3, but I wouldn’t want us to spend ten weeks on it. On the other hand, spending ten weeks on a recent game sounds reasonable. This sliding scale works a little differently for every member of the team. Some games fall below that relevance \/ length threshold for some of us, and not others.<\/p>\n So, it’s complicated, is what I’m saying. We got together last Saturday expecting to tackle KOTOR, only to have that fall through. We spent twice as much time debating what game to play than we did recording the episodes. In the end, we came back to Mass Effect 2. It was a safe choice, Josh owned it, it was installed and ready to go, and we knew it would work.<\/p>\n The team will be the same as the BioShock team: Josh playing. Rutskarn, Mumbles, and myself commenting. And as the image above indicates, we’re playing fem Shepard this time around. All hail Jennifer Hale! (The real<\/em> Shepard! The EA box art is a LIE!)<\/p>\n We actually has a lot of fun with the first recording, once the committee reached a decision. I think this series will go well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “I can’t believe you would do Mass Effect 2 while overlooking [obviously superior game]!” Sigh. I wish I could impart just how insane difficult it is to choose a game. There are four of us now. All four of us have different games that interest us. (Which is good.) And we have to do a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721","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=9721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}