380: Floppy Shark

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2017

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Our Video Game Club is back in action as we play two short artsy-fartsy narrative games. “What Remains of Edith Finch” is a game about a young woman returning home to the Pacific Northwest and exploring the mysteries left behind by her family—which sounds an awful lot like other games we’ve played, but it’s very different! We also played “Tacoma”, by the developers of “Gone Home”, which (despite its title) is not set in the Pacific Northwest but in outer space. Both games have interesting approaches to immersive storytelling, and they’re both worth playing.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable T-shirts are back. You have to order by December 3rd, 2017. They should arrive in the U.S. in time for Christmas. Choose from Skeletor, the TPK Dragon, the robot, the random Trek spaceship, the classic Incomparable Zeppelin. And there's also a defocused shirt. Go to the incomparable.com
0:22.4	slash shirt for more details.
0:27.0	The Incomparable, number 380, November 2017.
0:37.2	Welcome back everybody to The Uncomparable.
0:39.0	I am your host, Jason Snell.
0:40.1	We're here with another edition of our video game club, which is basically the only chance I get to play video games, is when they're assigned to me.
0:47.8	And then I have to do them.
0:49.3	I have to play.
0:50.7	Dear family, my family, who wants to do things with me, I can't.
0:53.7	Not today, for I must play
0:55.6	video games for the incomparable. The games I played are what remains of Edith Finch, which is from
1:03.9	Giant Sparrow, and Tacoma from the makers of Gone Home, Fulbright.
1:16.2	Joining me to talk about video games, of course, John Syracusa is here because how could he not be?
1:16.6	Hello.
1:19.7	Just going to start at the beginning, Jason, with the house.
1:21.6	Hmm, fair enough.
1:28.5	And a freelancer who's just docked with the station and is going to be discussing video games with us.
1:29.1	Brian Hamilton.
1:29.4	Hello.
1:30.6	Hello.
1:31.1	I, I promise to not talk in the mini voice the rest of the game.
1:33.4	Okay.
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