Nov 29, 2016
In this episode Pete, Billy, and Gino discuss Never Alone. We cover most of Never Alone's gameplay systems early on and quickly move onto its interesting cultural significance. We also discuss what it means for a game to be as much a documentary as it is a game and why a documentarian might choose to make a game instead...
Nov 21, 2016
In our third episode of our continuing series of podcasts on FFIX Gino, Pete, Billy, and Chris "ZombiePie" -REDACTED- discuss disc 3 of FFIX. We start out by taking everyone's temperature and admonishing Billy's crippling case of the grinds. Afterwards, we discuss every major plot point on disc 3 including...
Nov 15, 2016
In this episode Billy, Pete, and Gino discuss Thumper and the many elegant ways it teaches and utilizes it's mechanics. We discuss how the game slowly builds up it's hand-full of rhythm mechanics alongside it's slowly increasing tempo both to it's benefit and detriment. Pete also leads a discussion of cosmic horror and...
Nov 8, 2016
In this episode, the Deep Listens crew discuss their experiences with role-playing games and how the two central schools of video game roleplaying, Western RPGs and Japanese RPGs, differ. We discuss the various games we've played from each RPG school and try to extrapolate out what makes those two styles of RPG feel...