117: The Director Of Divinity: Original Sin 2

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🗓️ 8 February 2018

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Kirk and Jason talk about The Leftovers and Nintendo Labo before moving into the controversial news of the week (18:37), including the shocking bombshell that that's actually Toad's head. Then, Larian CEO Swen Vincke joins the show (36:53) to talk about his incredible new role-playing game, Divinity: Original Sin 2. He talks about what it was like to develop the game, how they find bugs, and what his favorite quests are. Then, Kirk and Jason talk Rise of the Tomb Raider and Monster Hunter: World (1:07:17). 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 Split Screen, the only video game podcast with absolutely no grind.
0:13.9	It's February 8th, 2018, and we've got a supersized show for you today.
0:17.7	First, Jason tells me what it was like to use the Nintendo Labo, and I share an interesting musical discovery I made. Then we hit the news of the week, including criminal
0:24.2	charges against a Counterstrike co-creator, a sub-autica dev fired for hateful comments, and
0:28.8	Nintendo confirming a horrifying fact about Toad. We're then joined by Larry and Sven Vinkie
0:33.6	to talk about his studio's superlative role-playing game Divinity Original Sin 2,
0:41.8	before closing out with talk of Rise of the Tomb Raider, PC refresh rates, and Monster Hunter World. We've got a lot of ground to cover, so let's get to it.
1:00.5	Welcome back to Kataku Split Screen. My name is Kirk Hamilton. I'm editor at large at kataku.com, joined from New York City by Kataku News editor Jason Schreier. Hello. Good afternoon, Jason.
1:05.5	Hello, Kirk. I am hanging out here in Portland. It's really sunny. I'm just going to tell you this.
1:11.6	It is like 65 degrees here or something.
1:14.9	The whole West Coast is just having the weirdest weather right now.
1:17.3	How's the weather in New York?
1:18.2	I don't care about the weather.
1:19.2	Let's talk about our exciting announcement.
1:21.0	You know what?
1:21.5	I care.
1:22.0	I care about the weather.
1:22.8	I also haven't, but we do have an exciting announcement. Before that, though, I have another thing I want to ask you about. And that was, how was the food at your Super Bowl party?
1:30.8	It was delicious.
1:32.0	Well, we'll get to that.
1:33.0	I'm very eager to make this announcement, and then I will talk about the Super Bowl.
1:36.5	Jason is impatient people.
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