Sean “Elysium” Sands is back and he has quite a backlog of games to cover, but he pears it down to just a few. He has been putting some time into Star Trek Online, and after not completely feeling it at first, he has come around to enjoying the game. Elysium also touches on Everquest 2 and Titan Quest before the group moves on to Heavy Rain. Shawn and Julian praise the game for its use of contextual and subtle control prompts within scenes.
The topic of the week is tension in games and there are many different ideas explored here. Having a sense of consequence is an important factor for the guys with the opening sinking boat scene from the original Modern Warfare cited as a successful approach. Sound and pacing also come up as key factors.
Emails and contest announcements finish the regular show, but stay tuned for a 40 minute, spoiler-filled Heavy Rain discussion at the end.
Covered games and topics: Star Trek Online, Heavy Rain, tension in games, emails, Heavy Rain spoiler section
This week Shawn, Julian and Elysium hold down the fort and talk about building tension in games, Heavy Rain and quite a lot more. Later in the show we do a 40 minute Heavy Rain spoiler section! It’s the very last segment, so if you’d like to avoid spoilers it will be easy to skip.
Runtime – 1:46:59
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