102: Assassin's Creed Origins, NeoGAF

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🗓️ 26 October 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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This week the Splitscreen Boyz are talking about Kirk's five-day marathon of Assassin's Creed Origins, a new game about climbing pyramids. Then (31:15) they dig into Animal Crossing mobile, Kinect dying for good, and the implosion of everybody's favorite gaming forum, NeoGAF. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Kitaku's Split Screen, the only video game podcast entombed in the Giza Pyramid Complex.
0:14.4	It's October 26 to 2017, just one day before video game Bacalypse 17 descends upon us.
0:20.3	Today, Jason and I start off talking about
0:21.9	Assassin's Creed Origins, which I played through over the weekend while reviewing it for Kitaku.
0:26.0	We talk about the good and bad of the game from its new RPG-style leveling to its
0:29.9	beautifully realized historical location. Then we get into the news of the week with an Animal Crossing
0:34.4	game coming to phones, connect finally dying its one in true death,
0:38.1	and the implosion of the popular video game forum Neogaf after allegations of sexual
0:41.9	misconduct against its owner. There's a lot to talk about, so let's get to it.
1:00.6	And we are back for another episode of Kataku split screen. My name is Kirk Hamilton. I am editor at large at kataku.com, and I am joined as ever by Jason Schreier News Editor at Kotaku. Hello, Jason.
1:07.7	How's it going? Hello, Kirk. I am doing well.
1:11.2	How are you?
1:12.2	Are you, have you emerged from the catacombs of Egypt with your sanity intact?
1:17.0	Mostly, mostly.
1:17.9	I've been frantically writing, well, not frantically, but I've been working very
1:21.3	hard.
1:21.6	I've been nose to the grindstone writing my Assassin's Creed Origins Review, which will go up
1:27.1	right around the time that this
1:28.7	podcast episode goes up.
1:30.7	Probably a few hours afterwards, yeah, because we go up pretty early in the morning.
1:34.5	Yeah, so it, you know, it's a, it's a lot.
1:38.3	It's a lot to play a lot of a video game in a very short period of time and write about it,
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