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Triple Click

Can A Game Be Good When It Makes You Feel Bad?

Triple Click

Maximum Fun

Kirk Hamilton, Society & Culture, Technology, Arts, Jason Schreier, Maddy Myers, Video Games

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Kirk, Jason, and Maddy open up the mailbag to answer some of YOUR burning questions. Do we ever return to side quests after beating a game? Can a game succeed while making you feel bad for playing it? And what kind of impact did the pandemic have on video game endings? Plus: Video game novels!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Once you've beaten a game's final mission, it can be hard to go back and polish off

0:07.5

side quests, kind of like grabbing some more salad after you've already had dessert.

0:13.1

Welcome to Triple Click, where we bring the games to you.

0:15.5

Max Fun Drive, 2023, is underway and we're answering a bunch of your burning questions

0:19.1

on topics like choice or the lack thereof in games like The Last of Us, sticking with

0:23.0

the games we've beaten and what a Triple Click should do in a game.

0:26.3

Let's go.

0:27.3

I'm Kirk Hamilton.

0:31.3

I'm Maddie Myers.

0:32.6

And I'm Jason Shire.

0:33.6

Hello.

0:34.6

Hello there.

0:35.6

Hello.

0:36.6

Hello my friends.

0:37.6

Welcome back.

0:38.6

We are.

0:39.6

We are currently.

0:40.6

Kirk and I are currently, as you hear this, we are in San Francisco at the Game Developers

0:44.8

conference.

0:45.8

Right.

0:46.8

As you hear this, but not as we record this, so there's a lot of temporal conceptual stuff

0:50.8

going on.

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