2:52: The Sand Table’s Irrelevance of Game Design

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH4Utjypxlg&list=PLxP2lws1RkuUwMm1XFHEMrN_Rin7O_eiZ&index=3

Anything said by anyone working at Naughty Dog is carefully composed enough that it is ultimately meaningless, so one cannot draw any real inclusions from such statements: an artist primary and only motivation in their public discourse is to promote their own commercial work, after all…

But when I can confuse the writer of The Last of Us and Uncharted, while noting their differences, it does raise certain questions...about my literacy, and Naughty Dog's authenticity.

16:28:

Or simply that they did not like the ending because that made dude a dick, and they never woulda done that themselves because they’ve lived a very sheltered life.

17:07: A Disingenuous Vision of Games Journalism

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/11/a-price-of-games-journalism/

Watergate…I mean, that’s just like leaking the script to a game in production, right?

Running over Devolver Digital without checking e-mail and article dates, because I’m a videogame journalist. Just don’t sue me for slander, please. I’m a journalist! I have rights!

Critical of its own fictional bullshit in a story that then did not yet exist…in the public domain—wait, I’d inadvertently leaked the Hotline Miami 2 script? Fuck me, no wonder it was banned in Australia.

25:00: Post-Script

I have an acrimonious relationship with the English language, journalists, the English and Americans. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, oi! oi! oi!

42:38:

I dabble in sensational journalistic incompetence.

45:36:

I share my delusions of grandeur, inspired by The Sand Table.

This week we give first impressions of Fallout 4, Witcher 3: The Heart of Stone and Lisa, (another auteur indie game).

We give our highpoints of the latest Nintendo Direct, an also talk about an Australian company that is already using VR combined with lasertag as pubic entertainment.

We quickly resolve which is the better console (Retron 5 vs. XBOne).