Blizzard Watch Podcast 299 Uncut: Sire Denathrius' days are numbered
Added 2020-12-23 18:08:31 +0000 UTCHi there, Patrons! Here's this week's pre-show and episode of the Blizzard Watch podcast, uncut.
This week, Matt Rossi and Joe Perez discuss recent Blizzard news including the Mythic race to be first to complete the Castle Nathria raid, the new item system coming to Diablo 4, and the alpha test kick off for Diablo Immortal.
If you'd like to download to your favorite device and listen to it later, you can head over to SoundCloud and nab it from there.
Thanks for listening!
Comments
The Richard Garriott game was Tabula Rasa. Thanks for answering my question regarding agency! I should have worded it better, though, since I was talking about character agency rather than player agency. The disconnect in the Kyrian campaign is about the writers choosing to have our close Kyrian friend, who we've adventured with and are in the process of taking a soul to Oribos with, completely ignorant of the Arbiter being out of commission and souls going straight to the Maw. Our character was totally silent about an extremely important and relevant fact despite many opportunities to share it. It's not about the player making a choice to say something or not, but rather that if our characters can only fight and are otherwise uncommunicative and unresponsive, it might not be worth having our characters appear more present in the narrative. Speaking of Final Fantasy 14, in the base game there's an awful lot of cutscenes where your character stands there motionless, watching someone run off or open a cursed urn, etc, and then dealing with the consequences in subsequent quests. It feels *so* weird and awkward for our characters to stand there like mannequins instead of saying or doing anything.
Tom Bulmer
2020-12-24 00:33:38 +0000 UTC
