Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we complete our series on Dark Souls, and so we turn to our takeaways and discuss our final hours with the game. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary.
Sections played:
Brett finished
Issues covered: the podcast mirrors the game, feeling like you have godlike powers in New Game+, spending hours on farming different resources, putting the pieces together, enjoying mysteries and putting the clues together, what you take from Dark Souls as an imitator, examining a space and trying to figure out where you can go, senses of accomplishment and discovery as opposed to the checklist, where the studio goes from here, attribute changes in the sequel, miracles and their mechanics, the flexibility of having options, seeking out the things I hadn't found, poor Solaire, feeling of coming full circle, memorable fights and world connections, "butt exposion!", smaller memorable moments, the snoring of Frampt, the inadequacy of the camera in tight spaces, keeping from going on tilt, teaching patience and observation, antithetical game design, a game of secrets, having little guidance, the impossible balance of this game for multiple classes, the knowledge you gain along the way, controlling ambience and tone, the vague pieces of history, Brett's Book Recommendation, character and player knowledge, leaning on archetypes, the weird afterlife metaphor, Star Wars as arsenic, how far do you go to explain a thing, finding your line per game.
Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Kingdom Hearts, Sherlock Holmes, Day of the Tentacle, Bloodborne, Sekiro, Elden Ring, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Tomb Raider (1996), Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven, Practice/NYU, Rob Daviau, Morrowind, Skyrim, Demons's Souls, King's Field, GTA III, Wolfenstein, Mario (series), Artimage, Platinum Games, Shadow of the Colossus, Ico, Dungeons & Dragons, Mass Effect, Star Wars, Keza MacDonald, Jason Killingsworth, Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice, Dan Hunter, Jedi: Fallen Order, JJ Abrams, Half-Life, Neverwinter Nights, Legend of Zelda (series), Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia.
Next time:
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DGC Ep 137: Interview with Lulu LaMer
DGC Ep 136: Interview with Randy Smith and Greg LoPiccolo
DGC Ep 135: Thief (part four)
DGC Ep 134: Thief (part three)
DGC Ep 133: Bonus Interview with SotTR Lead Writer Jill Murray
DGC Ep 132: Thief (part two)
DGC Ep 131: Thief (part one)
DGC Ep 130: Shadow of the Tomb Raider Bonus
DGC Ep 129: Tomb Raider (part four)
DGC Ep 128a: Flösser Interview Revisit
DGC Ep 128: Tomb Raider (part three)
DGC Ep 127: Tomb Raider (part two)
DGC Ep 126: Tomb Raider (part one)
DGC Ep 125: Prey Bonus
DGC Ep 124: Deus Ex (part five)
DGC Ep 123: Deus Ex (part four)
DGC Ep 122: Deus Ex (part three)
DGC Ep 121: Deus Ex (part two)
DGC Ep 120: Deus Ex (part one)
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